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JethroMcB posted:I recall reading that the producers explained decision to write her out was made after focus grouping the pilot and before going to series, but I can't find a source. Ah, well, that makes sense anyway. But Dawson's Creek pulled the same move in its first season and wrote the same character out in a similar fashion. RAS lists Dawson's Creek as a key influence, so I figured two and two...
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JethroMcB posted:I recall reading that the producers explained the decision to write her out was made after focus grouping the pilot but before going to series, but I can't find a source. Apparently the worlds first good focus group.
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Speaking of behind the scene's nonsense, apparently a good chunk of the "leaked spoilers" were wrong, so I'm officially back to guessing with y'all. Hooray!
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JethroMcB posted:Not much of a thing, because much to the producers' surprise people weren't down with a child predator storyline right out of the gate. But in episode 3 Betty and Veronica set a honeypot trap in a hot tub for the captain of the football team, and Betty puts on a black bob wig and sultry lingerie. Just to be clear by "good" I meant "loving hilarious and would have been funnier if they had kept her as old lady Grundy" Troposphere posted:hell yes looking forward to sabrina resurrecting jason Just turn this show into Afterlife With Archie please.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 23:27 |
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This show really makes a competition out of finding the worst parent. In this episode Hal Cooper edges ahead again. "Ever since I forced you to have one, you were way to emotional and touchy about that subject, so I didn't want to inform you about the abortion. She has Blossom blood in her body. It needs to be purged! The Maple wars must not cease until the earth is cleansed of that plague!" That guy managed to make Alice look comparatively sympathetic. I actually feel bad for her now, she only married into this insanity and might have been a normal person at some early point. Troposphere posted:hell yes looking forward to sabrina resurrecting jason Greendale was name dropped this episode so they might go in that direction. Ever so slowly Greendale and it's inhabitants come into focus. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Apr 1, 2017 |
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Friggin yesterday's episode isn't on Canadian Netflix yet god dammit
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 02:35 |
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Hell yeah it is, I watched it 5 hours ago.
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 02:36 |
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What NETFLIX APP STOP LYING TO ME e: it showed up woohoo Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Apr 1, 2017 |
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Between the interview from Sacasa last week and the apparently magical grandma this week it looks like we're well on track to supernatural stuff coming in by the end of the season
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 04:41 |
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Alice was a character I like but I didn't expect the show to manage to get me to actively cheer for her this quickly after all the lovely stuff she has already done.
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# ? Apr 2, 2017 17:47 |
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Snooze Cruise posted:Alice was a character I like but I didn't expect the show to manage to get me to actively cheer for her this quickly after all the lovely stuff she has already done. i told you...
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# ? Apr 2, 2017 19:32 |
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i like that her streak of entering a scene by angrily saying a character's full name remains unbroken
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# ? Apr 2, 2017 19:37 |
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Archie should totally get with Cheryl.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 02:50 |
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Codependent Poster posted:Archie should totally get with Cheryl. Right now Cheryl's at the point where if she and Archie are ever in the same room together again she is going to Jodi Arias the gently caress out of him. And that is a sentence I wrote about an Archie TV show in 2017.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 03:24 |
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Codependent Poster posted:Archie should totally get with Cheryl. It's Archie. If he doesn't get with every girl, they're doing it wrong.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 08:53 |
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This show is... A Lot. It's absurd, over-the-top melodramatic, utterly insane, and also weirdly beautiful. Seriously, hats off to the cinematographer or whoever is in charge of making the pretty pictures because the pictures are, indeed, very pretty. I'm happy that Archie finally got to participate in the main plot! Even if it's just him being groomed as future Blossom breeding stock. Next week looks like it's going to be even more insane.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 14:00 |
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Unironically love how little agency Archie has
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 14:59 |
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Mameluke posted:Unironically love how little agency Archie has Same. He really is just comic book Archie transported into a CW show.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 15:40 |
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Just like how comic book Veronica is basically two different people and they've chosen to run with "unconditional super-friend" as her main characterization while shunting "petty, vain, and rich" into her backstory
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 15:44 |
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We are watching a show about how much the creator hates syrup.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 18:11 |
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I thought it was pretty funny how Val broke up with Archie saying he never included her in anything. I think we saw her like a total of 5 minutes after they got together. Pretty meta.
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Mameluke posted:Just like how comic book Veronica is basically two different people and they've chosen to run with "unconditional super-friend" as her main characterization while shunting "petty, vain, and rich" into her backstory She's always been a rich bitch with a heart of gold, but I feel like pushing her more shallow and conceited side to the back burner was the best choice. If only to write around making it believable for her to be best friends with Betty and co, since in the comics they have the excuse of all growing up together.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 18:45 |
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She didn't grow up with the rest of them in the comics though. In both the classic comics and he reboot she's introduced as the new girl. I don't even think they've bothered making her friend with Betty in the reboot. This is the first version of them that actually makes sense.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 19:08 |
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Oh, really? I always assumed in the classics they all grew up together. Granted I only ever read a shitload of the digests as a kid, never anything with real continuity. But yeah, this version certainly works best at selling her and Betty as best friends, tho it felt like they did a time jump between episodes one and two where V was suddenly hella close with the core gang.
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esperterra posted:But yeah, this version certainly works best at selling her and Betty as best friends, tho it felt like they did a time jump between episodes one and two where V was suddenly hella close with the core gang. I don't feel that way at all. It seems to me there are a lot of scenes of Veronica basically forcefully interjecting herself into everyone else's business. She's a member of the core gang through force of will.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 20:24 |
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Until the reboot, there was no consistent continuity in the comics. Depending on what a writer needed, Veronica had always lived in Riverdale, or only moved into town as a teenager, or something else entirely, and nobody retconned anything to explain it away. Zelda games have better continuity than classic Archie.
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# ? Apr 8, 2017 03:29 |
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Man, the cinematography, costumes, and production design on this show are on point. The colors are spectacularly vivid, almost Technicolor in how intense they are. It's the prettiest show on TV since Hannibal ended.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Man, the cinematography, costumes, and production design on this show are on point. The colors are spectacularly vivid, almost Technicolor in how intense they are. It's the prettiest show on TV since Hannibal ended. Did you just figure out who killed Jason Blossom?
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# ? Apr 8, 2017 13:11 |
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Mameluke posted:Did you just figure out who killed Jason Blossom? I have to admit, if the Pie Maker accidentally killed Jason, then brought him back to life, and then took him away to make pies and no physical contact, that would be a really great stealth reboot.
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# ? Apr 8, 2017 14:02 |
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I love that Reggie's name was up in the middle of the suspect board.
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# ? Apr 8, 2017 20:41 |
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Subtle foreshadowing?
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# ? Apr 8, 2017 21:27 |
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Why is "maple syrup season" in November
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# ? Apr 8, 2017 23:46 |
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i'm sharing this avclub comment because yeahquote:Archie really IS the Nate Archibald or Riverdale, man-whoring his way around town and being completely clueless while his more capable best friend and the two major women in his life do all the heavy lifting.
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# ? Apr 9, 2017 00:59 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:Why is "maple syrup season" in November That's how the Blossoms got so rich LOL. Mr. Blossom posted:“Say you'll reconsider escorting my daughter to the tapping.”
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# ? Apr 9, 2017 01:46 |
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The Blossoms are like a Gothic verison of the family from Dallas if they had syrup instead of oil.
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# ? Apr 9, 2017 23:31 |
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I swear to god this better not be all Polly's Dream and Jason is in the shower
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# ? Apr 9, 2017 23:40 |
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Snooze Cruise posted:We are watching a show about how much the creator hates syrup. I like that even the Coopers buy Blossom Syrup because apparently supporting local businesses comes before grudges.
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# ? Apr 9, 2017 23:59 |
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Snooze Cruise posted:The Blossoms are like a Gothic verison of the family from Dallas if they had syrup instead of oil. The Blossoms remind me of a V. C. Andrews novel. Like, you know those twins are gonna end up locked away somewhere if Ma and Pa Syrup-Baron get their way.
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# ? Apr 10, 2017 00:31 |
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I hope the Cooper mom has a savings account cause that school paper job can't pay that well, or at all.
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GreenNight posted:I hope the Cooper mom has a savings account cause that school paper job can't pay that well, or at all. I hope that working for the school paper requires her to re-enroll as a student. "Who killed Jason Blossom" takes a backseat to the major storyline for the rest of the season: Alice Cooper's rise as the new mean girl who terrorizes Riverdale High.
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