After the convergence between the science of a palladium bomb and the magic of an ancient spell cracked the Multiverse open and gave Archie and the pals superpowers so they could defeat an interdimensional warlock, the gang had to reset the timeline back to the 1950s to prevent a comet from destroying the world. After making the past more progressive through the power of sex, poetry and comic books, Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead had a foursome, went their separated ways, lived unremarkable but fulfilling lives, died and reunited in their own personal heaven modeled after Pop's shop to be sexy teenagers for all eternity.
>support for ai +.01
Not every thread is shilling, you useless cynical fuck. Sometimes people actually like things.
But did Archie choose Betty or Veronica?
The four of them dated as a polyamorous quad for all of Senior Year, but then they graduated and never really reunited
Archie married some random woman
Betty never got married but she adopted a daughter
Not sure if Jughead or Veronica ever had long term partners
What about the hot redhead?
Lived happily ever after with her black girlfriend.
Ill be honest you guys are probably lying but Riverdale is such a dogshit bonkers show that Ill accept it. I thought it ended years ago
It's bonkers. Anything can happen. I can believe this would happen
It was fucking real
Also jughead is god? What
No. He was already dead, so he was an angel welcoming Betty (the last of the gang to die) into heaven.
You're wrong. The one in Pops is the normal Jughead who died. But narrator Jughead is an actual angel.
It would have been better if that Jughead changed into Tabitha at the very end when no one was watching.
Isn't narrator Jughead the one from Rivervale?
They’re not lying. It really is all ol true. I saw this whole season and the finally.
Yes it's 100% real. Well technically Betty and Veronica dated each other and both of the boys. It doesn't seem like Jughead and Archie ever did anything together.
Archie and Reggie canonically Eiffel-towered the town whore to stave off their homolust for each other. We can never know for certain.
Poor Reggie wasn't invited to the year long orgy
That’s was the second funniest part of the episode after Archie’s poem.
>Archie's poetry is literally a 1950s freestyle diss track
It's canon? Which episode?
The one where they rent out Veronica's movie theater to watch porn and Betty finds out her sister is a burlesque star.
Neither. He moved to California, married and had kids with a girl he met there, while Betty and Veronica never married. Betty adopted a daughter, Veronica never had kids.
that sounds absolutely terrible
I believe it.
this sound sooooooooooo marvel cinematic universe
Rent free
Here's everybody's fates
>Archie moved to California, married and had kids. Worked his entire life as a construction worker and amateur writer.
>Betty moved to New York and became a famous author and magazine editor. Never married, but adopted a daughter.
>Veronica moved to Los Angeles and became a Hollywood producer. Never married or had kids.
>Jughead founded his own comic book publisher. Never married or had kids.
>Cheryl became a painter and her girlfriend Toni became an activist. They adopted a son and lived together their entire lives.
>Kevin became a theater director and his boyfriend Clay became a literature professor. They lived together their entire lives, but never had kids.
>Reggie became a pro basketball player, then retired, moved back to Riverdale, opened a car dealership and coached the high school basketball team. He got married and had two sons.
>Fangs became a successful musician, then died a year later in a bus crash, but the royalties from his songs set his girlfriend Midge and their daughter for life.
>Cheryl's twin brother Julian died in Vietnam at age 28.
>Betty's mother Alice divorced her cheating husband, became a flight attendant, safely landed a plane after the pilot had a heart attack mid-flight, married a rich passenger and spend the rest of her live traveling the world.
>Betty's sister Polly married a banker, had twins and retired from being a burlesque dancer.
>Archie's mother Mary bought the dress shop where she worked, fell in love with a woman and they lived together the rest of their lives.
>Archie's uncle Frank and Kevin's father Tom went gay for each other and lived together until were raped and murdered by a hustler they picked up on the side of the road.
That about covers it.
This seems like an unrealistic amount of people being gay. Makes it look like 30% of the population is gay rather than the actual 5%.
Its also odd how many of them never had children.
wasn't Betty's dad a serial killer
Not after they reset the timeline. In the new continuity he was just a jerk and a cheater (and Ethel's biological father).
what the hell happened to this show
After the controversy died down when season 1 ended people stopped caring about ans the writers just went nuts because they were getting paid either way.
At some point the writers and showrunners decided to destroy the concept of a teen drama parody by creating a teen drama so outlandish it was impossible for any parody to live up to it.
That was before the timeline was rebooted to the 50s
Weird how the writers went out of their way to give Alice, who was consistently terrible mother and terrible person on all timelines, a perfect happy ending while a bunch of likeable characters just die tragically for no reason even in this new "nicer" timeline
Why so many gays
The premise of this season was that the characters were reverted to the 50s so they could reshape society to avoid the present being as dark as it was, but to the writers that just meant making it cool for everyone to experiment with homosexuality in highschool.
There's no way they'd actually have two gay guys get murdered, "queer" characters are not allowed to die.
They were homophobic before suddenly coming out last episode so it cancels out
They gay old men so it’s okay. Their son and his gay boyfriend lived long and happy lives.
>They adopted a son
Shit.
The only two couples that stayed together after the timeline reset were the lesbian ones. Of the new couples, the only one that stayed together after highschool was the gay one. The one character that was queer in the original timeline but straight in the 50s died on a bus crash for no reason. Make of that what you will.
He committed treason by being in a heterosexual relationship, that is the cardinal sin of the lgbt types. They love to portray straights going gay but despise and scream about gays going straight, which is actually very common for the women.
Fangs wasn't even full gay, he was bisexual.
It is amusing how that list is the usual checklist for woke endings until you get to last one "Oh and these two guys that we turned gay were raped and murdered"
Probably hated the characters so they imtentionally killed them off in a gruesome fate. Kinda fridged them!
>The one character that was queer in the original timeline but straight in the 50s died on a bus crash for no reason. Make of that what you will.
I think Fangs was always bisexual. He dated Midge before she died in the first timeline and only got together with Kevin after they both were in a cult
And they broke up years later and Fangs got together with Toni who had his son
What about Moose?
>Reggie became a pro basketball player, then retired, moved back to Riverdale, opened a car dealership and coached the high school basketball team. He got married and had two sons.
based reggie and his actor
Always works when you can sync with your Character
>All that gay
Hollywood truly lives in its own world.
>being surprised that a top-3 campy teen dramafest is full of gay sideshows
>Friendly reminder Sonic comics died for this.
What is the significance of Archie being the only one of the core four to marry and have kids?
The others were more focused on their careers and making a difference in society. Archie was always the simple guy.
Betty, Jughead, and even Veronica all have siblings that can keep their family line going by blood. Archie was always an only child.
>even Veronica
All evidence points to Hermosa being deleted from existence, just like Jason.
Hiriam was shown to have affairs even in the new timeline, so I believe she’s still in existence.
Jason and Julian was just trading one dead-in-the-womb triplet for another.
But now I’m curious if Hal was Ethyl’s biological father in the original timeline too.
Archie was always the most 'family man' out of the four of them. It's not surprising that Veronica and Jughead wouldn't have kids, Betty could go either way
>character which main (or more like only) feauture is being a bimbo boy lover
>hurr durr let's make gay, totally i character
kinda sad that zoomers will see the carpet muncher one as the real version of the character, kinda like is happening with harley quinn now
>kinda sad that zoomers will see the carpet muncher one as the real version of the character, kinda like is happening with harley quinn now
Cheryl Blossom was hardly a character in the actual comics. It is only after the TV show that the comics have started featuring Cheryl more. Before the Riverdale show, Cheryl Blossom was an E-lister in the Archie Universe AT BEST, below the recognition level even of characters like Moose, Reggie and Midge. It is only after CW's Riverdale that Cheryl started getting more focus in the comics and became one of the official lead characters.
>heryl Blossom was an E-lister in the Archie Universe AT BEST
Cheryl has had multiple digests. At worst she's a C-lister, the new characters they brought in a few years ago and midge/moose/dillon are actual E-listers
Wrong. Cheryl had a character in the late 90s and early 2000s. Even had her own comic run
>Cheryl Blossom was hardly a character in the actual comics.
So it's okay to completely rewrite a side character because you think nobody will remember. People are just going to look back at this era as something embarrassing to retcon.
>So it's okay to completely rewrite a side character because you think nobody will remember
Yes, stop pretending as if you cared you astronomical homosexual
It’s tough to support the writers’ strike when canon and retarded head canon are indistinguishable.
Sounds like these parody comics.
And the end!
What did I just read?
Exactly. A Archy parody. Reminds me of Riverdale in comparison to the comics.
The conservative response to woke Archie.
This is some good stuff, a few notches less crazy than riverdale, but feels in the same vein of debauchery. Thanks for the storytime!
Yeah, it seems Riverdale is much more like a parody of the original Archie.
I expect cole popping up here or at Cinemaphile later to call out the homosexualry this show had because the producers and writers were flamboyant homosexuals.
MAD magazine, I'm pretty sure.
He can’t even do that. Because Jughead’s epilogue was being the creator of a “Mad Magazine.”
that sucked
Isn't this an Archie adaptation? What the fuck is any of this
It goes places
It's so crazy that it would be actual kino if the writing didn't fail to live up to the premise.
It's like the idea guy is give 120% everyone else is going like 80% at best
Well, you know,
>After the convergence between the science of a palladium bomb and the magic of an ancient spell cracked the Multiverse open and gave Archie and the pals superpowers so they could defeat an interdimensional warlock
Is something that almost fits with old Archie comics. Sabrina had the magic and Archie and friends did have superhero personas of dubious canon. It probably wouldn't have been a bomb, but I'm pretty sure there was a nerd character in the comics that could build robots and shit.
So up until this point it could work.
In the comics, Dilton crossed timelines and discovered the multiverse. He used this to recruit himself and both Adult Archies to his cause, but then both Archies died protecting their gay friend Kevin from a hate crime.
Wtf
Based on this summary, I can’t tell if the writers legitimately just didn’t give a shit anymore or if they actually thought this was good storytelling. The idea that every character is sexually fluid, a disproportionate number of LGBTQ characters, changing 1950s America with the power of modern progressivism, it just checks so many boxes that it almost feels like a parody of modern fiction. I don’t know, maybe it feels more sincere when you actually watch it. Regardless, I hope that the show ending frees up the show-runner. Mostly because I really want the Afterlife with Archie and Chilling Adventures comics to come back.
>After making the past more progressive through the power of sex, poetry and comic books, Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead had a foursome, went their separated ways, lived unremarkable but fulfilling lives, died and reunited in their own personal heaven modeled after Pop's shop to be sexy teenagers for all eternity.
I know everything before this was true, so if guess this is true, too? Fucking wild.
After this, how is Archie expected to stay in business? I remember they used to put out some edgy Archie comics but that seemed to have died down years ago while this show was going on.
Those digests they put out in grocery stores has always sustained them.
Sonic was the big shot easy money.
So they probably aren't going anywhere as unlike the big two they aren't desperate to expand their operations and have a lot of market coverage to meet their costs.
The TV show made them big money, enough to basically buy them another decade or two.
They rebooted the comic back to the old continuity around issue #600 and they are still putting out digests and their darker/edgier books.
>They rebooted the comic back to the old continuity around issue #600
The continuity that had Archie die at the end?
No, the OG silly classic Archie continuity; they retired the original Archie canon (not making any new stories but keeping the reprint digests going) right before the TV show launched and paid out the ass to get major comic talent like Mark Waid, Adam Hughes, etc to write new "mature" Archie shit in the same tone as the TV show (but with it's own canon/lore, hence shit like Nu-Archie Cheryl having a different backstory than TV Cheryl).
It was widely reported that had the TV show flopped and been canceled after one season, that Archie would have been fucked as the loss of the Sonic franchise, several years of overspending on licensed properties for crossovers, a sexual harassment lawsuit settlement, and paying big name talent to reboot Archie left the company in dire straits and they would have shut down if the show didn't turn out to be a huge hit for them.
>After the controversy died down when season 1 ended people stopped caring about ans the writers just went nuts because they were getting paid either way.
The show brought the characters to a brand new zoomer audience, and the vintage archie digests are still on sale at every super market near me. I wouldn't be surprised if these archie digests outsell Marvel and DC's biggest comics every year, considering how the Archie digests are available in the checkout aisle of every single super market and convenience store, but you can only find capeshit comics in comic book stores.
what?
Reprints of old Archie comics outsell Marvel and DC because it's more easily avaliable to the public and has been for at least 30 years
The Fiona Staples artwork was really nice.
I just watched the episode and it's actually pretty depressing. Can't say for sure about the other's since the episode is from Betty's POV, but for her at least her "long and fullfiling" life was not fullfiling at all, she just spent 70 years longing for her highschool life and regretting not keeping in touch with her exes. Even in the scene at the start with her granddaughter old Betty's room filled with nothing but highschool pictures of Archie and the others, which would be sweet if they were still together but it's just sad knowing they drifted apart right after highschool.
The fact that their afterlife is being trapped in Pop's, 17 years old for the rest of eternity sounds like a nightmare to me
Archie isn't with his wife, none of them have their children, even their parents aren't around
No, the most important people in their lives are and always will be the people they knew in high school. It's horrifying
They established before that heaven or “the sweet hereafter” exists for each individual person. So that last scene in Pop’s was Betty’s heaven. The others weren’t the “real souls” of the others but the ones of Betty’s heaven.
That’s why there is a separate Jughead narrating from outside. That’s the spike of the “real” Nughead.
But Angel Jughead's narration made it sound like that was heaven for all of them
They’re all in “heaven.” But Betty’s heaven was specifically Pops. So that’s how it appears to her and the audience.
>Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead had a foursome, went their separated ways, lived unremarkable but fulfilling lives, died and reunited in their own personal heaven modeled after Pop's shop to be sexy teenagers for all eternity.
Did this actually happen?
>Did this actually happen?
Yes. We are not shown an explicit foursome but are tolf the four of them were in a quad relationship for a year and see glimpses of every combination making out except Archie and Jughead cause that would be gay.
>Yes. We are not shown an explicit foursome but are tolf the four of them were in a quad relationship for a year and see glimpses of every combination making out except Archie and Jughead cause that would be gay.
Is there a youtube video of this to prove it is real? I know that the Archie writers want every kid who watches their show to enter gay polycules, but this is too ridiculous.
>Is there a youtube video of this to prove it is real?
Can find the actual scene but here you got the one leading up to it, last 30 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWg-LjbRx3Q
Holy shit Clay is supposed to be in highschool? He looks 40 years old!
How the fuck does Jughead know the future now?
The episode is 89 year old Betty visiting the last day of High School and reliving her youth, a gift from Angel Jughead who is like a narrator for the series
Betty is the last one to die so Angel Jughead knows what happens to everyone because it's already happened, Betty just can't remember most of the details because she's so damn old
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/riverdale-producer-wild-plotlines-varchie-bughead-relationship-1235699866/
It’s on the CW app to watch now.’it won’t be on Netflix until August 31.
Just remember quad relationships are only Archie/Betty, Betty/Jughead, Archie/Veronica, Betty/Veronica, and Veronica/Jughead.
There was no Archie/Jughead
no shit, it was just two bros sharing hoes
i haven't kept up with kinodale in a few years... sad to see it go but i guess it was time
>That's not how you do CPR, Archie!
>CPR?
Alright, when are we getting more issues of Afterlife with Archie?
But... But did they ever addressed the murder cliffhanger at the end of S1?
>But... But did they ever addressed the murder cliffhanger at the end of S1?
Which one? Jason was killed by his father. The Black Hood who shot Archie's dad and then was the main serial killer for season 2 was Betty's dad, who was groomed since childhood to kill sinners.
Good riddance.
Wait, it was still around all this time? I heard rumblings that they gave Archie superpowers or something.
That was season 6. Season 7 reset everything to -950s, so no more superpowers after they saved the timeline.
Archie and Josie were good together and I'm tired of pretending they weren't.
Everyone forgets Archie was with Valeria of the Pussycats first.
His first girlfriend after Ms Grundy.
>His first girlfriend after Ms Grundy.
I skipped most of this last season, but did they ever send Grundy to jail for sleeping with high school boys?
Ethel's boyfriend at the end of her episode was the other kid who died after sleeping with Grundy wasn't he?
In the original timeline, Betty’s dad killed her soon after.
In the 1950s reset timeline, she realized Archie had a crushed on her but talked him out of it.
I think Ethyl’s boyfriend at the end of her episode, was the one who first committed suicide from playing Gryphons and Gargoyles.
https://riverdale.fandom.com/wiki/Ben_Button
I misremembered, he did also bang Grundy (and Miss Wardwell on Sabrina) but he died because of the board game
S1 Grundy got murdered by the Black Hood. Nu-Grundy didn't groom anyone.
I’ve watched all episodes of this freaking show, and I still don’t understand why Betty’s dad became the black hood. Because he had serial killer genes??
Then why did he try to rob Pops and then shoot Archie’s dad, his very neighbor and the sweetest guy in town?
Why not F.P., the guy that fucked his wife?
just by asking this question you've already put more thought into it than the writers did.
>Because he had serial killer genes?
That, and he was groomed into needing to punish sinners by his family and the Sisters of Quiet Mercy.
>why did he try to rob Pops
Misdirect.
>and then shoot Archie’s dad, his very neighbor and the sweetest guy in town?
Fred was a sinner in his eyes for committing adultery.
>Why not F.P., the guy that fucked his wife?
Hal was still a pussy at the end of the day. Failed to kill Fred, failed to kill Moose and Midge the first time around, etc.
Well he certainly killed Midge later.
Remember when Kevin's dad married Josie's mom because they dated in high school?
Unfortunately Josie and her mom didn’t live in Riverdale in the 1950s timeline.
So Kevin's dad gave into homolust because he didn't have jungle fever in the 50s timeline?
To be fair, we saw Josie’s mom peg him in the original timeline.
I need a video
It’s the episode before Hiriam announces to all the adults that the Gargoyle King is back.
I remember when Betty and Veronica went snooping around the Keller household because they thought Sheriff Keller was the Black Hood, found him working out shirtless in the basement, and the whole thing was written, shot and edited like the beginning of a weird porno.
That’s because the audience didn’t know much about Tom at the time, and he was a suspect.
This sounds so dumb. I only watched a bit of season 1 so I have no idea how it went from a Dason's Creek style soap opera to a sci-fi fantasy multiverse hopping thing.
It’s a show based on comic books. That’s why.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a spin-off from it.
Yeah well they should have called it Archie's Weird Mysteries and had supernatural stuff from the very beginning if they wanted to go that route.
They always hinted at the supernatural stuff from as early as the 2nd season with Nana Rose.
Poor Dilton didn’t get any summary despite being in the finale.
Moose wasn’t even in this last season.
I thought Cheryl’s teen protege Britta from the previous season was hot. Too bad she wasn’t in this season.
>Dilton has a crush on Betty
>Betty finally arrives at the Heaven!Pop's
>Gives every cast member a big hug
>Awkwardly pats Dilton's back and moves on
Poor fucker, friendzoned even in the Sweet Hereafter.
To be fair, they established that Dilton had the biggest cock of all the teen boys.
Seriously.
>don't believe any of the spoilers
>go through reviews of each episode
>it's all true
What the fuck? This show bounces back from batshit insane to pure kino.
It’s kino because it literally is insane.
The leader of a cult tried to escape by blasting off on a Evil Knievel/SuperDave style rocket.
The insane hilarity is the main selling point, but there is just way to much gay shit.
Which is worse for Penelope Blossom?
Being adopted just to be forced to marry your new brother upon adulthood? Then have your brother/husband kill your son?
Or being fixed by the new timeline to become a Russian spy that you’re ultimately arrested for?
Is this a shitpost
It’s all true.
Which is scary.
'member the musicals?
You know what I just remembered?
Last season when Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, Tabitha and Cheryl all got superpowers, I totally forgot that Archie’s dog got superpowers too.
What happened to him?
What happened to the Tabitha of the 50s?
Angel Tabitha said she lived a long and fulfilling life last on the 2nd to last episode.
I assumed she came back for Pops funeral their senior year and then left town.
It sad that it seems none of her descendants kept Pops’ open by the year 2023.
2023 Riverdale was a ghost town. Even the school seemed abandoned.
I believe the town is still around. They make mention of Reggie’s sons still running the car dealership there. They may have built a new school.
Remember when the U.S. government sent an assassin to kill Archie in the school bathroom, and this military-trained contract killer got his ass kicked by a teenage amateur boxer?
At least he knocked out Kevin before Archie took him down.
Was their suppose to be significance that Jughead’s hat wasn’t in the time capsule any more?
Boy what a ride.
These are a fun read, thanks.
Nice, thanks.
wish I stuck around long enough for this show to go batshit insanr
I am surprised none of the 4 leads left the show, Vampire Diaries was way better and more popular show, but the main actress still noped around season 6
They had seven seasons contracts. The show only ended because producers knew none of the leads would renew for more afterwards.
Another one i found.
Anarchie, by Jay Kinney and Paul Mavrides from Anarchy comics #2.
What a ride.