Joaquin, a gay Latino teenager, was introduced in season 1 as bad boy to Kevin’s good boy. Very wonderfully pairing. Joaquin is then out of the picture.
Joaquin is brought back this season. He’s in jail.
Okay. I can live with that. What’s happens next?
Is presented as an atagonistic force to straight male protagonist Archie.
Okay….. I would have went a different path. But okay. What happen’s next?
Becomes a supporting character to straight male protagonist Archie.
Seems interesting. Nothing major. But it’s good to see him have seen and isn’t used as an antagonistic force. What happens next?
They have Joaquin kiss striaght male protagonist Archie.
Because, we all love a gay guy who doesn’t know his boundaries and sexually assaults put-upon straight male protagonist. What are they doing here? Is Archie gonna be gay for the stay? Nothing is good coming from this. It’s not okay. I’m concerned. What happens next?
They have him betray straight male character and stab him. The kiss before being a judas kiss, which makes it even worse. Judas Kiss is one of the most homophobic iconography of our media in society.
I am pissed. But let’s see this through. What happens next?
Joaquinn escapes. Is found by Kevin. The prospect of them uniting and being together is a possibility. They have my attention. I can forgive the bullshit.
What happens next?
Straight male secondary protagonist Jughead and his Striaght male background characters go out looking for Joaquinn. They find him. They threaten him and hold a knife to him.
They don’t hurt him but okay. Let’s see what happens next. I want him to get back to Kevin. What happens next?
He’s dead.
These bastards really brought back a gay character just to have him be: a coward, a traitor, an attempted murderer, and dead.
They killed off a Gay Latino teenager, who was A. poor B. an outcast C. Reunited with his past lover
AND OFF FUCKING SCREEN. Not even the dignity to see him fight to survive.
This can’t get any worst right? WRONG
They don’t even have Kevin know he’s dead. Nobody fucking mourns his death. It’s he’s dead and that’s that. Straight male secondary protagonist Jughead tells straight male protagonist Archie about his death like he was telling what time it is.
Complete disregard for the character.
Complete lack of sensitivity for the death of Gay Latino Teenager that was portrayed as troubled and disenfranchise.
Compete disregard for the fans and viewers.
Complete and utter nonsense. CW fire your writers. This was senseless and meaningless death.
I’m so tired of this shit. They better get into that writers room and bring back alive. The show has shit writing anyway. It can be done. I’m not dealing with this shit.
This post confirms all I know Riverdale was all about in the first damn place:
I mean… You get what you paid for. That’s the show you chose to watch, just, when haven’t they had some toxic shit in there? Like…
It’s like the Voltron fandom all over again. Choose better media gays and women.
This post was so much better than the movie The Las Airbender
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