C'est La Vie

I DIDN’T KNOW HE PICKED VERONICA OVER BETTY!!!  How did I not know that this huge event happened?  I can’t believe they’re actually finally making Archie choose one or the other.  I wanted Archie to be with Betty initially but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that Veronica is the best choice for him. 

Archie doesn’t deserve Betty.  Betty is such a nice, sweet, kind, loving person that she deserves someone that will love her back just as hard and worship the ground that she walks on.  Archie always made Betty help him with his homework, eat her baked goods, and basically used her, while treating Veronica like a princess.  Veronica isn’t as needy as Betty and will be able to handle the indecisive, irritating but lovable and well meaning boy that Archie is.  The fact that she’s rich should also help because Archie doesn’t really have any special talents other than being the cutest red headed freckled boy ever.  It’s a good thing that he picked Veronica and it’s a good thing that she isn’t needy or insecure.  After 68 years of sharing him with another woman, a woman like Betty would always have lived in fear that Archie would leave her (or worse, cheat on her) with the more glamorous and exotic Veronica.  Veronica on the other hand is so confident of herself that she would never dream of a man cheating on her, or leaving her, and even if Archie did she would always have Reggie!  If the media pressure got too high and the relationship crumbled, Betty would have been broken, whereas Veronica would likely still come out smelling of flowers so it’s a good thing that Betty was given the heartbreaking news now rather than losing him later.  At least she has the chance to move on now, at long last!

I can’t believe they actually made him decide.  Apparently, they’ve set the new set of comics 5 years later, so all three have graduated from Riverdale High (tragic, I know!) and Archie might actually have a real job.  While it would be nice to find out what kind of job Jughead and the rest of the gang would have and in general to find out what happens to some of the most famous high school students ever, it really pains me that they’ve to me, ended the story.  It’s not like Barbie where they’ve always had a storyline for her (you DO know that her and Ken broke up right?  They’re now divorced..after 43 years of plastic perfect marriage), the Archie comics have always been set in one time period.  They weren’t supposed to grow up (!!) they were supposed to run tabs at Pops and drink milkshakes and go to dances forever!  It’s like the end of childhood!  The major selling point of the comics for me was the fact that you never really knew which girl he would end up with.  SPOILER ALERT: It’s like in Gossip Girl (the book version not the tv show) where Nate sails off into the sunset without picking either Blair or Serena…some things are just better off left to the reader to decide.

I hope Betty finds someone that will treat her right and eventually I hope she’ll move on, although 68 years is a long time to love somebody ;)  The funny or not so funny thing is how I see this exact scenario mirrored in real life.  Too often is the girl who pines and worships her love overlooked when it comes down to the guy popping The Big Question.  Guys inevitably end up choosing the one girl who delivers excitement, the one that makes their heart race rather than beat comfortably, the one that treats them like crap but makes up for it with sweet kisses when they do something right.  I’m sick of girls like Betty who place their object of affection on a pedestal and ALLOW boys like Archie to have their cake and eat it too.  Betty’s of the world allow their Archie’s to eat up the lovely dinner they give them and then eat dessert elsewhere.  Yes, Veronica let Archie be with Betty as well, but she never bowed down and did things for Archie that didn’t require more effort than a swipe of a credit card.  Plus, she went on dates with Reggie at the same time, so it’s not like she was really ever on the losing end of the stick.  I mean, the fault is not with Archie, it would be with Betty.  Why wouldn’t a guy want the best of both worlds? 

Anyway, now that I’ve gotten over the shock of my favourite childhood love triangle cease to be a triangle anymore I just have one more thing to say:  Veronica Lodge, I really expected you to have a better wedding dress!  What the hey is that?…If they were all gung ho on the being real and ruining the fantasy world they were living in thing they could have at least put some more thought into her wedding dress.  Even Heidi’s (The Hills) dress was nicer.