Talk:Geraldine Grundy/@comment-35845278-20180611082739

It's weird, but when Riverdale first aired, there wasn't any huge backlash over the student - teacher relationship, I think I read somewhere the producers had different plans for this character at first, which were apparently changed. No one seemed very scandalised after the first episode aired at least:

https://www.reddit.com/r/riverdale/comments/5qd04x/s01e01_the_rivers_edge_episode_discussion/

I think Archie just had serious mommy issues after his mother left town for years, and he may have felt I don't know a female teacher could that fill that void somehow? The real reason I think most people didn't like it is b/c CW is a show geared towards teen girls to women in their 30s, there are male fans ofc, but much more female viewers. Even if Archie were older, it's just next to impossible for young women to personally relate to a young guy in a relationship with a teacher. There was that Adam Sandler film came out 6 years ago, made like $40 million at the box office, "That's My Boy" and it was about this boy with his teacher, but there didn't seem to be any huge public outrage.

In the end, though, I think, I remember Jughead's quote near the end of the the 3rd episode best sums this up: "We crave absolutes. They comfort us, but life is infinitely more complex than that." The real world isn't exactly like what we read in the news or watch in a TV show, but somewhere in between.