Riverdale has croaked full meta.( And not in the Facebook way .)
The many worlds of Archie Comics collided into an action-packed chapter on Riverdale Season 6 Episode 5. Cameos, Riverdale citations, and milkshakes were just some of the plows to aim off “Rivervale’s” five-part event series.
This assembly also recognized a milestone for the line by hitting its 100 th incident. But did the landmark hour live up to the hype?
This 100 th assembly was almost like a love letter to fans.
“Chapter One Hundred: The Jughead Paradox” was a treasure trove of callbacks and cameos. For any longstanding follower of Riverdale, you could pinpoint the many references to past patches that will bring on all the nostalgia.
And if you’re an Archie Comics devotee, we were finally considered to the ‘5 0’s aesthetic again. We hadn’t seen this set-up surprise since Riverdale Season 1 Episode 7; it was sorely missed and long overdue.
Riverdale affirmed its craziness and dove in head-first to give us even more outlandish patches. And this time, Riverdale felt like it was in on the joke, playing off of all the shipping, the soap opera stories, and its darker crime noir style.
We are still will be possible to unpack the streak, laugh, and think, “Oh yeah, that did happen.”
The biggest hurdle with a meta-inspired episode is the mantles involved. The storey should be easy to explain and have all the elements make sense to the viewer.
The more scientific coming was taken from The Twilight Zone, so there were a lot of latitude nature gossips going on.( Think the multiverses from DC and Marvel .)
Veronica: Alright, let’s do it. Let’s makeout and save the universe. One thing: can we make it during the wedding? I’m not really in the mood.Jughead: Yeah, I “ve learned that”. Same .[ Veronica sucks a glass] Veronica: Here’s to “Vughead” becoming canon.
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Riverdale did an alright activity of illustrating the high-level issue that was going on, but the dialogue could’ve used some employ where reference is got into the anomalies and how they could save Riverdale/ Rivervale. The countless blankets were mystifying at times, and if I didn’t have an understanding of multiverses, I would’ve gone lost.
And the the purpose of explaining the bleeding loops and cracking Riverdale from Rivervale didn’t help the confusion. A bit more finessing of the dialogue could’ve smoothened out these bumps.
Though, the visual invokes were top-notch!
Whenever a target needed to be made about the time loop, a merriment surprise or callback would show us that something bad was going on. They could be big scene-changers or subtle easter eggs to the past.
Jughead: Wedding? Who’s getting married? Cheryl: Awkward! Archie: Jug, Betty and I are getting married this weekend. You’re my best man.
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I enjoyed cites because Riverdale said so much without uttering a word.
Some of the best callbacks included Jughead entering Rivervale High to relive Riverdale Season 1 Episode 1 in the hallways or whenever someone read from the comics to discuss a storyline from a past section. The signs were so referential and well understood their own backstory.
Plus, the nods hit all the right funny and feeling records.( My heart hurt examine Fred Andrews/ Luke Perry return as a flashback. He will always be missed .)
The cleverest sign was the return of the original Reggie( giving full play to Ross Butler ). That construction was a chef’s kiss time and top slapstick!
Both Reggies might’ve been different in certain areas, but they were the same in their hotheadedness and ego.
If exclusively they had talked things out, they would’ve spared themselves dying in a dual. Veronica fully wanted to be in a relationship with both of them; it could’ve worked out to their advantage, like end what they demanded for their future.
At this spot, I side with Charles Melton as “Reggie Prime.” Ross’ version was only in a few sections during Riverdale Season 1, so the prize explanation goes to the majority factor.
The absurdity refute was an interesting action to hold Rivervale into Riverdale and answer a long-burning question about the succession. For instance, since Jughead has been narrating the sequence, were these escapades basically periods in his work?
Having the contradiction clarify that he is the writer and the narrator glints a new light on everything that happened before.
These are just narrations that Jughead is creating to push the plot further. He is narrating the events to come because he wrote them himself.
It’s a canny change on what we would’ve expected. It exclusively toiled because of Rivervale, but it’s an answer nonetheless.
And the same leads for the anomalies that reformed up the universes. Like the multiverses, the smaller differences had the biggest impacts on how things were run.
I liked the swoop into chaos as more anomalies sounded up.
Jughead: Ben? You’re Ben Button? Ben: Of track, I am. Who else would I be? Jughead: Ben, you died! You jump-start out of a opening when you relinquished yourself to the Gargoyle King.Ben: No, you’re thinking of that buster from Stonewall Prep.Jughead: Mr. Chipping, yeah. No , no! You did it first.Ben: Maybe you hallucinated it?
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Through all the chaos, all the new converts added to the feeling of not knowing what was going on. However, this approach helped in a good way. The style required us not to know what we believed.
Things like Jason Blossom being alive and dead built us question the true reality in Rivervale. And as more absurdities happened, it heightened the threat level of needing to solve the problem. It felt like a serious threat that wasn’t completely clear.
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Dilton Doily and Archie were both unexpected and made a lot of ability as the primary villains.
We didn’t know much about Dilton during his time on Riverdale; he ever represented a child background persona before he was dead. But, this academic Dilton in Rivervale seemed more lowered to do whatever it took to get what he wanted. He required that investigate discovery bad!
How did he not realize a “collapsing universe” would lead to his death?
If the ideology proved right, he would die. No one would ever learn about his uncovering in the first place. His evil plan had a lot of flaws.
In Archie’s contingency, let’s call this the return of “Reckless Archie.”
Don’t get me wrong, I understand and feel for him for hoping the demise speculation would be right.
Though, killing people to stillness them wasn’t the answer, especially since he proved that anyone he killed would return from the dead anyway.
Archie: I’m not a rascal, Jug. No one bides dead now. Cheryl and Ronnie will be back. All the people we’ve lost. Everyone comes back to life in this universe.Jughead: Everyone comes back. Is this about your daddy? Archie: Don’t you get onto? He’s coming home. He has to. He would never miss my marry, extremely not to Betty. He adoration Betty.
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I was stunned when he killed the Jughead clone and Cheryl. However, that feeling went away fast once it became clear everyone would resurrect again. We only learned deep down inside of him that Archie has the ability to kill people.
Also, that he’s cleverer than he gives on. He deduced everything about the inconsistencies and how to work them to his advantage without anyone’s help. We might be sleeping on Archie; his bad decisions have massed our judgments.
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I didn’t like the first four Rivervale chapters’ retconning being a dream. It seemed clumsy, like the writers wanted to wash away the story to start fresh.
If Rivervale Jughead is the writer creating the narration, why would he have Riverdale Jughead lose his hearing in the explosion? It felt cruel to do that to yourself, even a similarity cosmo form of you.
Ben Button must have magical capabilities at this extent. He always seems to know something we don’t.
Jason Blossom finally spoke!
Now, over to you, Riverdale fans.
What did you think of “Chapter One Hundred: The Jughead Paradox”?
Who was your favorite cameo? Will we ever hear about Rivervale again? Is Jughead’s hearing completely disappeared?
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