Jughead would never have worked as the main hero of Archie comics.

Yeah, Jughead didn't like Veronica OR Reggie very much, but Reggie at least was male, so Jughead found him borderline acceptable.

Yes indeed, and insanity in a character is seen as a lot more "cool" and gets much more sympathy than bitchiness, especially if it's a cute white girl. We don't hold people responsible for their actions if they're crazy, after all. Betty would have to do something downright heinous to get her to the level of animosity…

Here's what you get if you search on twitter for "Josie" "Riverdale" and "bitch."
https://twitter.com/search?…

I know some of the imdb boards were a troll's paradise, but the Riverdale one wasn't.

I can't even count the number of people I've seen complaining about Josie, right from the first episode. On the old imdb boards, on facebook, on reddit, even some on tumblr and twitter. Her father issues help soften it, but they don't erase it, especially since Betty is there as a counter example of a kid who also had…

I was excited about the casting too, at first, but as it's gone on…meh. Among the teens, the black ones are the biggest raving dickhead, Chuck, that the fans all hate, and unlike Cheryl, no sob story to gain audience sympathy. The mostly bitchy girl, Josie, that most fans don't like. A cipher, Melody. Trev, who goes…

I really hope they do bring him back. I like him from the comics, and he needs a redemption arc or something. It would only help the show's diversity, which is a long way from almost there if you ask me.

Too late for Jughead to be convincingly aromantic, after he's been so into kissing Betty, but I suppose they could still make him asexual. I kind of wonder why they would bother at this point, though. Canon asexual Jughead isn't going to be as popular as Bughead, especially now that the ace community has already had…

Yes, but the writers and producers are the ones who decided that all the major town families except the Lodges, and almost all the people involved with them, would be white. They made the decision to cast all the main characters as white except Veronica, who is the most marginalized so far, and there was no reason…

Veronica's not white passing. The reactions she got when her casting was announced should confirm that for anyone. And some of the PoC characters that the writer says are ignored look like they have just as much white blood. K.J. Apa isn't half Samoan, either; he's one fourth. I do agree with most of the rest of the…

It's a fan edit. The balloon wording's been changed; you can tell by the font.

No. And what do you mean, the character wasn't "canonical" till the late 2000s?

The 50s throwback scenes were heavy handed, didn't feel like the comics and made me realize Sprouse doesn't look like Jughead at all. But I loved the girls' outfits.

Which comic had Polly 1-4 years older than Betty? She was invented by Bob Bolling for the Little Archie stories in the late 1950s and was about sixteen (in high school, going out with boys, drawn to look at least sixteen) while Betty was six or seven. No one else put her in any stories till Kathleen Webb in the 1980s,…

Mr. Lodge was always a little off, though. The very fact that he spoiled Veronica so badly suggests that.

No, the Archie company knows (because they monitor the social media) that Archie hatred has been a big thing in the fandom for a long time, so the people working on this show would also know. For whatever reason, they're fanning the flames deliberately.

She's always been about ten years older than Betty in every comic she appeared in.

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I'm afraid those links don't go anywhere. But I did find this on Wikipedia: