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Shimrra Jamaane posted:For anyone with morbid curiosity Riverdale premiers tonight on the CW. Most of the advance reviews have been pretty good. Everything I've heard leads me to believe it will be a fun show.
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X-O posted:Most of the advance reviews have been pretty good. Everything I've heard leads me to believe it will be a fun show. I'm getting Twin Peaks vibes from it. Which is good.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:For anyone with morbid curiosity Riverdale premiers tonight on the CW. Since I am a glutton for punishment and am curious about the "Afterlife with Archie" writers pulling this off or not, I'm going to watch this.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:For anyone with morbid curiosity Riverdale premiers tonight on the CW. I wish I got local channels, so I didn't have to wait until tomorrow to watch this on the CW app, but I am incredibly curious to see how they even attempt to make this work.
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Jan 27, 2017 04:22
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I liked it. Definitely felt they were taking a lot of cues from Afterlife with Archie. Was Jughead only at the end? Seemed weird the only time I remember him was alone with Archie.
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Yep. I really liked Riverdale. My gateway to Archie was the Afterlife series written by the showrunner of this show and it feels a lot like that. You know except for the whole zombie thing. I recently caught up on the new Archie series, having never read anything other than Afterlife, and I enjoyed it. Felt to me like they nailed the characters, even if I'm somewhat new to them anyway. I was worried they were going to make Veronica out to be the antagonist of the series for some reason but I'm happy that's not what's happening at all.
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Jan 27, 2017 05:04
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Archie is so weird to me because I only ever encountered it in those big jumbo books other people inexplicably had in their bathrooms. So when I hear "that comic literally everyone has in their bathroom but never reads is getting a dark gritty tv show" I was pretty shocked.
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Zaggitz posted:Archie is so weird to me because I only ever encountered it in those big jumbo books other people inexplicably had in their bathrooms. So when I hear "that comic literally everyone has in their bathroom but never reads is getting a dark gritty tv show" I was pretty shocked. At one point they were trying to make it into a movie and the demands movie studio people had was even weirder than a gritty small-town murder. quote:Riverdale originally was pitched as a movie, he said, and they thought they had a deal, until one exec, who he declined to name, called a meeting and strongly urged them to add time travel, or portals because “portals are huge,” or cast Louis CK as Archie – which even Aguirre-Sacasa said left him “gobsmacked.”
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Jan 27, 2017 16:20
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Should have made the dead body Archie just to gently caress with everyone. A show like this is either going to be good solid TV or a total dumpster fire. I'm okay either way, to be honest.
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I don't know anything about Archie comics except the main guy is a ginger and there's a guy named Jughead.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Should have made the dead body Archie just to gently caress with everyone. I'm hoping it will be like Gotham, and be both.
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Jan 27, 2017 17:54
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Was really hoping Veronica was going to make out with Cheryl after making out with Bettie.  Also, Moose doesn't want to kiss because he's a power bottom.
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Jan 27, 2017 19:06
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sector_corrector posted:I'm hoping it will be like Gotham, and be both. 
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Jan 27, 2017 19:52
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The only thing that shocks me about the Archie TV show is that every episode doesn't have a Josie and the Pussycats song that they're selling on iTunes. Or does it? I haven't actually watched. Although I probably will when Sabrina the Teenage Witch shows up. But seriously, we've had a Sabrina TV show and a Josie movie so why are we so shocked that they finally got around to an Archie show? They had to get around to it eventually.
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STAC Goat posted:The only thing that shocks me about the Archie TV show is that every episode doesn't have a Josie and the Pussycats song that they're selling on iTunes. The comic doesn't seem like it would support a series, which I guess is why they went... well, I've only seen the preview, so I can't really comment, but why they did whatever you'd call what they did.
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Jan 27, 2017 20:00
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A few of the Archie comics go that way. Hell, Life with Archie has him being killed taking a bullet to save someone's life.
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Jan 27, 2017 20:08
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STAC Goat posted:The only thing that shocks me about the Archie TV show is that every episode doesn't have a Josie and the Pussycats song that they're selling on iTunes. I would be all over that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQY6tLMdL0
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lelandjs posted:The comic doesn't seem like it would support a series, which I guess is why they went... well, I've only seen the preview, so I can't really comment, but why they did whatever you'd call what they did. I mean, its just a comic book about teenagers in love triangles. Its the rough basis for half of CW's shows historically. Really, its the perfect marriage between CW's two favorite things - Comics and Teen Melodrama. Jughead should be CW's spirit animal. I assume. I also have never watched the show nor read the comic.
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The only Archie knowledge I had was from my grandmother giving me a few books to read when I stayed over at her house when I was a kid, so I don't have many memories about it anymore except the broad strokes. Still, I wouldn't watch this show if it wasn't Archie, because I really appreciate how the people at Archie Comics allow their IP to be transformed in strange directions. The first episode didn't really grab me, but I'll give it a few more because I want to see how weird they're willing to get, especially if the rumors about a Halloween episode with Sabrina are true, though I don't know if "actual magic" will be involved.
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lelandjs posted:The comic doesn't seem like it would support a series, which I guess is why they went... well, I've only seen the preview, so I can't really comment, but why they did whatever you'd call what they did. TV shows have been based on a whole lot less than "goofy high school boy has to choose between the girl next door and the rich heiress while navigating the trials and tribulations of high school." I loved Archie as a kid, and have a few of the 40s-60s collections, which are terrific. It's a bit sad to me that they had to go so dark when the original property was so light and fun for so many years, but  this is the way of things these days. It's not like Spider-Man and Batman weren't goofy for many years too.Just seems like a bit of a shame that it couldn't be a fun, feel-good, comedic show. And a period piece, since Riverdale felt like it was still in the 50s up until the recent reboot. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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feedmyleg posted:TV shows have been based on a whole lot less than "goofy high school boy has to choose between the girl next door and the rich heiress while navigating the trials and tribulations of high school." Ah but this is the age of peak TV, where everything must be a dark grimfest. Also I feel like, given the current political climate, a show that harkens back to the good ol' days of the 50s where women and foreigners knew their place might be slightly too on the nose. [Edit: Make Riverdale Great Again]
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lelandjs posted:Ah but this is the age of peak TV, where everything must be a dark grimfest. Isn't Archie reasonably progressive? I wouldn't know, though. I just got that impression somewhere.
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Snak posted:Isn't Archie reasonably progressive? I think I heard they added some gay stuff in the later years in a desperate attempt to remain relevant, but all I personally know of Archie is that tv has made fun of it for being boring 50s ned flanders-style fare.
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Snak posted:Isn't Archie reasonably progressive? Short answer is "yes, but only recently". A show like the poster above described (a throwback to the 50's) would suffer issues like a lack of people of color/women with agency (for literally decades Betty and Veronica's sole character trait was being in love with Archie, and while I'm sure there are black/latinx/asian characters in the comics now there certainly weren't any to begin with, Valerie for instance got added in the... 60's, I think). And if a show that took place in the 50s added those elements it would (unfortunately) ring false. There's simply no way to win with a light-hearted show based on the original run Archie comics. [Edit: well I guess there's the subversive angle pointing out how horrible things were for women/POC but it would be hard to balance with a light-hearted tone] asecondduck fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Josh Lyman posted:I don't know anything about Archie comics except the main guy is a ginger and there's a guy named Jughead. Really, that and the fact that there are two hot girls constantly battling for his jock are all you need to know.
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Mallrats told me everything I need to know about Archie.
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GreenNight posted:Mallrats told me everything I need to know about Archie. I think you mean Chasing Amy.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jbDprab-4
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Braindead is one of the best shows from 2016 that I probably never would have heard of were it not streaming here. Shame it got cancelled but I feel like it could have worked just as well without the alien bug plot.
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I watched Riverdale. Sigh. Probably gonna watch a few more episodes before I decide it's not for me.
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Medullah posted:I think you mean Chasing Amy. Yep, you're correct.
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And Terminator: Genisys is better than Terminator 3. Where can I watch Dark Archie? Is it on Hulu?
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Snak posted:And Terminator: Genisys is better than Terminator 3. CW App Also tonight's Sleepy Hollow is the John Noble episode.
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http://www.cwtv.com/shows/riverdale
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muscles like this! posted:CW App Ah, so not on ps4 then. Shame.
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Canada (and most non-US countries I think) gets Riverdale on Netflix the day after the episode airs. US is going to get it a week after the season finale.
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If anyone else is watching Emerald City, they just went meta. Dorothy, in disguise because PLOT REASONS, delays her escape from the titular town and follows some stairs up... and then into the living chambers of the Wizard himself. All this time, we're listening to the closing music montage, which in this case was Pink Floyd's "Time." She finds a room full of Earth stuff, and there's a personal cassette player hooked up to some speakers. She picks it up and presses a button, and the song stops, getting the Wiz's attention. She says it's Pink Floyd, and the rest of the scene happens. Yes. In a version of the Wizard of Oz, they put in a bit of Dark Side of the Moon. I see what you did there, writers.
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Snak posted:And Terminator: Genisys is better than Terminator 3. I liked American Horror Story Hotel. Not all of the storylines were always interesting, and it needed two endings because it couldn't tie eveything together at the end, but it was overall enjoyable. I think I missed the explanation for the chicken skin drill dick demon, so that was weird
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Riverdale seems fun and is visually really good. Someone should make a proper thread.
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MorgaineDax posted:Canada (and most non-US countries I think) gets Riverdale on Netflix the day after the episode airs. US is going to get it a week after the season finale. Orrrr you can go to cwtv.com or use the cw app and watch it for free.
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