At least that is also the case on Gilmore Girls.

It's pretty common that a child of immigrants understands their parents' language, but doesn't speak it. English is what the child speaks at school, sees on TV. I have a foreign-language teacher who said that she has to constantly remind her son to speak in her language when he responds to her in English so that he…

I agree completely that it's not all nature or nurture. Of course a billion factors determine how a person is. I just think that this particular narrative raises that question.

Peyton justified it to herself that she thought that Blaine was brave for informing on Mr. Boss. That makes little sense to me. It seems like a prosecutor would be well versed on the ways that people manipulate for their own self-preservation and gains. Blaine seems sociopathic and I would think that Peyton would…

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Yes it's kind of just unnatural—like that Cheryl sees herself as a villain in a piece of fiction rather than being a person in a life. But that's cool anyway. I like that kind of campiness really.

definitely!

Not reading it as weird. Thanks for finding those!

To me there is something very off about Petsch's performance because of the very clipped rhythm in her speech.

Logos are one thing, but often car product placements have characters talking about car features. Yikes.

Could you give an example of the mouth thing? Not sure what you're referring to.

I know Jughead has the burden of walking on egg shells and attempting to anticipate his dad's reaction to things at all times.

It was a Veronica Mars plot too!

Ohh! That's awesome. And would be another tie to Twin Peaks as Laura Palmer has an identical cousin.

I think it's purpose is really just to give the show Film Noir elements.

Yes, it was a key element making the show Film Noir.

I hear you, but that's not a romantic kiss, it was a stunt Veronica prefaced with "don't freak out." I think it's realistic that a kiss would be more timid when feelings are involved. And that Jughead didn't know how she would react.

I think that it seemed realistic for two people who seem inexperienced (unlike Archie or Veronica we have no evidence that Betty or Jughead have had any romantic experience with anyone) and are both feeling extremely vulnerable. Betty is vulnerable because she's in crisis and Jughead is because he's making a…

I didn't feel that Jughead was disappointed by her reaction. I think that he seemed amused/charmed by it. I think that he knows about and delights in her tenacity and stubbornness and was happy to see those qualities even at an unexpected time.

I agree that the timing was right, but for different reason. I think it makes perfect sense that when people feel completely unmoored that they reach for safety/comfort in connection with another person. Both Betty and Jughead have reasons to feel afloat that have them grasping for one another.