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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Between those mobsters, the preppy psychopaths and the Blossoms. this episode went all in on the murders.

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
I know this is mostly due to covid fuckery and this was planned as a finale, but I still feel this is a weird midseason episode. I am intrigued what happens next week.

Is it just me, or has the insulation been a bit rough on Spruce? His face looked really pudgy. But maybe that's just the lack of hat, making his hair to puffy.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

A World War 2 that was apparently fought on an American football fan.

The gently caress is this show.

In the Archie universe, the only way to bring American Freedom to the world is to plaster the conquered nations with football fields. On this show, that might actually happen.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
He got really emotional about light vandalism, considering he basically ignored the fact that a dog was mauling a person in the previous scene.
"Who would ever do something so evil to a bus stop? How can busses stop there if the stop is broken? People new this bench to sit!"

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Archie is a giant rear end in a top hat. "I don't like the unsavory sort of people on my rental property, so I will convince the local sheriff and a FBI agent to do an extra-legal raid on them. Let's beat them up, I am 100% sure we will find drugs there, even though I have been proven wrong before. I am the noble paladin of righteousness. Together we will return this town to the utopia it was before I was old enough to perceive its flaws. Let's make Riverdale great again!"

Seriously, the show did basically nothing to convince me that he had any real reason to suspect a drug stash, other than his personal sense of vendetta.
I know this universe bends to his whims, but I am still not quite convinced that those drugs weren't just planted. Well, I guess it would be a bit hard to plant a whole lab in the bath room. It turns out they never entered that room. That stuff was there all along and belonged to Archies mother.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Feb 18, 2021

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

The Lobotomy Kid posted:

Riverdale will be cleansed by free charter schools and extrajudicial violence. I feel like this series takes place in the same universe as the Yakuza games.

Huh, this comparison is actually incredibly appropriate.
Random swings between ultra-violent crime drama, weird sidequests and ridiculously mundane events. A main character who is incredibly passionate about the later and keeps committing crimes in the name of justice. Outside of that he's a bit of a cardboard. Random bursts of songs. Nobody ever learning any sort of lesson, from all of this nonsense...

I want Archie to really get into pocket racing now and if it doesn't happen, it's your fault! Also, turn Regie into Majima.


Archie is on the way to confront the human traffickers, who captured his mother. Just before he arrives, he stumbles over a circus troupe in dismay, because their bear wrestler is out sick. Naturally, they convince him to pitch in for a few shows on their state tour. During this time, he finds out that the circus is actually a front for a group of anarchists, who go from place to place to steal nuclear codes. After they have a passionate fight about it, he convinces them, that their real joy was in performing all along, so they promise to focus on entertainment from now on. Archie looks for something else to do, but figures that the main plot is a bit to far away now. Hey this kid needs help with his trading card collection!
Thanks for reading my fan fiction, I guess.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Feb 19, 2021

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

joebuddah posted:

Also did they say before this episode that Riverdale was so close to NYC.

Nah, it's a migrating landscape. And now that it is no longer bound by the constrains of being a town, it's free to move where it pleases.
The show isn't really big into that concept of consistency, or logical world building.
Case in point: According to his tombstone, Fred Andrews died 2019, which is 7 year before the current year of 2020. I guess those seven years happened during the 2020 time dilation. By the end of next weeks episode everyone will be in their forties.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Feb 21, 2021

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Comrade Fakename posted:

You literally fist-fight a wild bear in Yakuza 5, though you’re not playing as Kiryu when you do it.

Kiryu did fight bears. For example, there's one in Yakuza 0.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Shoehead posted:

Did Kiryu fight or catch a shark?

I never seem to have enough time to play Yakuza :(

Yeah, I guess. There's a small fishing game in 0. A great white is a potential catch.
It's a great game by the way. But not quite as great as Like a Dragon, which is the only if he Yakuza I played.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

GreenNight posted:

You know it’s Hirem.

Hiram was a Mothman alien several decades ago?

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

pressedbunny posted:

All I know about Hiram is he loves the great taste and iconic crunch of classic nacho cheese Doritos™.


Actually, I have a question about his plan: he already owns/owned most of Riverdale, right? That was the driving force behind nearly every plot of the last two seasons or so. If you already own a town, why shutter it to try to start a new town a few miles away? Why not just make the town you already own better? He could still price it out of the market for the locals, while surely saving a substantial amount from not having to, y'know, build a whole new town.

That seems sort of realistic to me. He just knows how to run a town like a business.
He's the sort of CEO who runs a business into the ground and migrates to the competition before it goes belly up.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Riverdale season 5. I preserved the mothman in maple syrup.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Shoehead posted:

Reggie I know you're working with Veronica's dad to ruin our town and kind of our lives but we have odd numbers at our key party so I guess you can come

Honestly, he was one of the only ones who gave it a fair chance and tried something new. I don't know what Veronica and Chad were expecting to happen.
Chad is the worst part of this season. They have such a bad dynamic and I have no clue why anyone decided that this would be Veronica's storyline this season.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Mar 21, 2021

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
This is a great trailer.

Can anyone remind me what happened in the previous part? I don't really remember a lot. They are sort of older now and Veronica married the platonic ideal of a Chadwick. The rest is sort of vague in my memory. Archie became a firefighter. Betty is in the FBI and Jughead really sucks at his writing career.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

GreenNight posted:

I don't think Chad is dead. She said she shot him but didnt say she killed him.

She told Hiram that he can visit the local mortician to see how that worked out. Unless Dr Curtle is now also the only doctor in all of Riverdale.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

crepeface posted:

this video came across my feed and it reminded me on this batshit series that i stopped watching a few seasons ago. i'm assume the show is still insane?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ-FRSXypUE

No, everyone has grown up and mellowed down. It's now about them living in the suburbs and having to deal with the parent teacher association and the strains of divorce, while teaching football to a bunch of wayward kids and finding their true faith.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

punk rebel ecks posted:

I watched this earlier and it really turned me off from the show. It seems to just be a bunch of random poo poo with no explanation or rhythm.

I'm mean it's a compilation of weird plot points without context. That's not really a fair overview.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

GreenNight posted:

Yeah but when is Kevin ever gonna be happy.

He had his chances and squandered them.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Shoehead posted:

Kevin can wait

Kevin can gently caress himself!
(Kevin is alright, but that's a genuinely great show, so I had to plug it.)

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

GreenNight posted:

What about the Broadway tickets jobless Betty purchased? Asking the real questions.

Is the idea, of living pay check to pay check so ingrained into American culture, that this is inconceivable?
If that ticket helps Alice out of her house and makes her stop buying pianos on Amazon, it's a good investment.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

pressedbunny posted:

Kevin won Teacher Of The Year a few episodes back (don't question who awarded him that)

He has to teach like 6 classes at the same time, to pick up the slack after all.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
I forgot, who was the guy Hiram killed on cam?

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Yeah, that sounds like Cheryl, alright.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
I think the first seams of the façade of sanity show up when the show establishes that Dilton Dooley is a doomsday prepper in season 1. Honestly, he was on the right track there. I guess it went crazy in season 2 when Hiram came to town and met his eternal crimson nemesis.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Your daughter is hilarious.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Make no mistake. This show is often entertaining , but at no point was it ever good or well written.
Some of the actors are doing a good job dealing with the script. Lili Reinhart is good at facial expressions.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Why is the next season only a month away? This is some weird production cycle.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

pressedbunny posted:

Even though her involvement was already given away, I have to admit it still gave me a small happy shock to see Sabrina there.

Granted it's easy to cut together a couple of batshit minutes from what will actually be many hours of television, but even so, that is an impressive and promising amount of bullshit.

Joke's on you, when all of that happens in the first 10 minutes.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Well, that episode was lame...

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

scourgeofthe7bees posted:

The crossover was a bit of a wet fart, but the plot of Abigail/Cheryl being a hawt & saucy witch through the ages was great! Also, the town's historical incest is quite out of hand.

Tabatha's dad had the right idea when he decided to leave this place with the intention to never look back.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
"Okay, so you think Riverdale is a parallel universe to Rivervale:" :raise: :)
"No... No I think Rivervale is a parallel universe to Riverdale. It's like the comics." :stare:

Way to sound sane, Jughead.

This show kinda crawled into it's own butt. But I love that they highlighted Regie's actor changing.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Dec 15, 2021

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Quote-Unquote posted:

Riverdale: Archie is invincible and makes poor life choices

To be fair, if I was invicible, I would make poor choices too.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Shneak posted:


Why does the town not seem to care that another serial killer has shown up?

It's been like number 10 by now. At some point that just wont make the frontpage anymore. Don't forget that Riverdale has so much murders, that the FBI felt it was necessary to put a permanent base there.

quote:

Why is Jughead manifesting more powers while Archie/Betty aren't?

Standard Arbitrary Superhero Rules.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Shoehead posted:

It's taken this long for me to remember that right before the explosion the casino was super secret, hidden in the back of Veronica's jewelers, staffed entirely by her business studies class from school and it was expressly set up to run rigged games. And now after the explosion and Rivervale it's actually fully open and not a secret but still not operating legally but they had a film crew last week for a funeral which is the exactly opposite of keeping it on the DL

You know, among all this ridiculousness, I did not even consider how stupid that is.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I reckon this show is a bit stupid sometimes.

We have this secret casino, which is explicitly illegal because we have no permits whatsoever. Let's petition to advertise it on the town sign!

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
All of the supernatural stuff is sort of mundane now. There is an office in the FBI which focuses on such stuff and a random junior agent has clearance, to know about that stuff.
"Good job. You're officially a pyrokinetic!"
You know what? Good for Cheryl I bet she will be responsible with that.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Happitoo posted:

Cheryl Blossom: Queen of the flaming bees!

I just refreshed my mind what happens in the relevant book she reads at the end. Turns out there's a new movie of that one coming out next month. Funny timing.


Also, I am sort of disappointed with Archie. If he doesn't cheat with his superpower, he can't even win a boxing match against a British rich boy who's like half his weight... Unlike Hiram, they really haven't established that guy as a physical threat before.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Apr 18, 2022

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Shoehead posted:

It's so strange to me that I've wanted this show to become explicitly supernatural in nature for like 4 seasons now, and now that it has they've managed to do it in such an incredibly boring way. Get Rivervale Jughead some caffine or something.

I'm a week behind because of Easter stuff but I'm also kind of disappointed that the Ghoulies who have been in and out of the show since I think season 3 were just all offed off screen, but not before *I THINK* letting Abigail join for like two seconds (if that's what her spikey red jacket was supposed to signify) despite Cheryl having been in TWO rival gangs

Nah, Abigail just disguised herself masterfully in order to frame them for killing Archie. It didn't work at all, since you know, Cheryl/Abigail looks kind of distinct.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

The Notorious ZSB posted:

Wait when did this show become Fate/Stay Night?

Retroactively from the beginning, by changing the timelines.

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Yeah, things have really gone in a weird direction when Cheryl has to be the voice of reason.
Fangs' story kinda sucks though. Among all the supernatural nonsense they just do a mundane custody battle with Kevin, who isn't even in the episode.

But I did like his nonchalant reaction, considering he wasn't even involved in the supernatural stuff yet:
Tony: "You can't work for that guy. He's an evil person who enslaves minds and he might be responsible for kidnapping our son!"
Fangs: "Oh yeah, Archie already warned me about that. All I need is an emotional tether. Hey, we can use our son for that."

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