Lot In Common

Chapter 22

My best friend (dimitrapasc) asked me some questions about Barchie and Vughead/Jeronica. She also suggested some possible scenes for Jughead and Veronica. These are my answers to her questions & suggestions:

(Italic: my bestie
Bold: me)

Imagine if we get a scene where Jughead and Veronica cry in each other's arms after finding out about the cheating. I would like to see it.

This would be so cute!

Betty and Archie about it, he became protect over Veronica.

The power that scene would have!

Seeing how the Barchie episode had such a high rating, do you think this will make the writers more inclined to make barchie endgame? what do you think this could mean for Jeronica? do they have a chance to be endgame now?

I’ll quickly recap. Unfortunately, the episode didn’t have really good ratings (cause, you know, crazy B*ghead shippers sabotaging and so on). However, ratings were important like..10 years ago?! By now no one really cares about them; what matters is social engagement, which revolves around how much people tweet and comment. That, of course, makes the Barchie episode a HUUUUGE success. Because it doesn’t really matter what you say, as long as you talk about it. Even enraged reactions puts money in the bank for this kind of shows.
That said, is very likely that they will still use Barchie to create drama in the show, for sure at least in the first episodes of s5. For what concerns the endgame part..that’s aleatory. RAS is known for not taking a lot of chances with this show: he has always fed the main fanbase with whatever they wanted, even at the expenses of the whole narrative. Damn, if I had my name attached to a show, I would think twice before burning my soul away on the altar of fanservice. But I guess this show has so many problematics, starting from the production and the network itself, that untangling the whole thing is almost impossible.
The only hope we have is this time jump, since it can function as a narrative-reset. Like shutting off the power and then turning it back on again. However, for how convenient this might be, it cannot work unless they go beyond this distorted fanservice logic. That’s my main concern: that even with the chance to restart everything and correcting the past mistakes..they’ll just be to afraid to do so.
For sure, however, this might be the closest we are to have Barchie and Jeronica as endgame. I think they are considering it, so this is not completely off the table. Of course, if they decide to go for Barchie, we will eventually get Jeronica. But yeah..everything depends on them making a bolder move. Unlikely, but not impossible.
Also..I think that a big part in this decision comes from whatever is happening between Lili and Cole. I usually do not address rumors between real life people, but of course I’m aware of what is going on. Are they broken up? Are they not? I really do not care. But knowing how shows usually handle this kind of stuff: if they are broken up, I’m quite sure this is the end for B*ghead. Even if they act professionally and they do not ask to be separated on the show (something that actually happened in a lot of teen drama before Riverdale), it’s very likely that the network wouldn’t pair them together for the sake of the production.
Of course, I wouldn’t dare to root for a breakup between them just to get my ship canon and I do not endorse this kind of behavior. They deserve all the respect and the support for whatever life choices they make. And on top of that, it’s not like it’s any of my business anyway. However, I thought that this point should also be taken in consideration for a realistic view of how the system around this shows usually work.

A dream scenario is a jeronica team up so Jughead can help her get rid of Hiram for good.

That would have been my go to scenario for the past three seasons, since Hiram came to the show. I don’t know..I think it just makes sense. Veronica always had this conflict with her father and Jughead always tried to take him down. For some time I deluded myself that a team-up between them would have happened for sure. I was certain about it, because it was the most logical plot. Well well well..look how that turned out.
I guess there’s still hope for the future, but idk..by now I feel like I’m chasing butterflies.