Riverdale Season 3 Episode 9 Download Free
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Riverdale Season 3 Episode ix
"The identify and time where information technology all went wrong…"
Rest in peace, Archie Andrews.
Following a deport set on in the Canadian Hinterlands, our Cerise Paladin has finally ascended to the next level. Well, probably not, merely this episode works overtime in trying to make you think that our ginger hero (who only and then happens to be Riverdale 's biggest liability) has gone to the great big Chok'lit Shoppe in the sky. Allow's take this at face value for a 2d and imagine that the series has the cojones to kill off one of its leads in the goofiest manner possible. What would this mean for the show?
Mainly this: Killing Archie would solve the show'due south biggest problem since it premiered — i.east. what to do what a character who always seems disconnected from the main narrative fifty-fifty when he is the focus of it. Despite KJ Apa'due south groovy work on the testify, Archie has long been problematic, with his storylines (sleeping with Grundy, befriending Hiram, fighting Hiram, and and then on) constantly overshadowed past whatever way more interesting things Betty, Jughead, Veronica, etc, are upwardly to. Concluding season's journeying into vigilantism did him no favors either. Nor does the fact that Archie constantly makes bad decisions. He is the weakest link in this show, and then why not kill him? After all, the show is called Riverdale and not Archie .
Then at that place's the issue of how his loss would bear upon the other characters' storylines: Betty would have to bargain with her complicated feelings for Archie, which in turn would impact her relationship with Jughead. Veronica would experience guilty over her daliance with Reggie and also would blame her father for Archie's demise. Fred would exist grief-stricken over the expiry of non only his son, but his best friend.
The story possibilities are endless, and ones that would just enhance the quality Riverdale in the long run. Afterward the initial grief and complaints from the Varchie shippers died down, the testify would have a renewed artistic focus…and earned itself some respect from those who wrote the serial off as a lightweight CW drama.
Information technology's an interesting thing to think about, but the more than realistic option here is that the writers are using Archie'southward ursine come across and his subsequent vision as a way to hitting the reset button on the character. And I am fine with that. In his ponderous dream sequences tonight, Archie is shown killing what he views as his greatest weaknesses. Subsequently slaying the Black Hood and Hiram, he must and then face his greatest claiming past murdering his own good nature, which he does in his subconscious, and apparently pays the ultimate cost for committing such an human action. Granted, he had more than enough opportunity to walk back from this point of no return, past engaging with Betty about his long-abandoned musical aspirations or heeding Fred'due south advice nigh their being another way abode, but our Cherry-red Paladin wasn't having any of it.While I'd be shocked if his apparent expiry lasts longer than an episode, when Archie does render, he volition be a hardened, more cynical character than we accept seen before. Which is kind of a bummer as viewers have already been down the Nighttime Archie road. Only if it leads to a meliorate Archie narratively, bring it on.
All of this leads into the bigger problem with this episode, nothing that happens on Riverdale right now seems to have any lasting impact. Tonight'due south return picked up a few weeks after the quarantine was implemented, supposedly cut Riverdale off from the outside world. Merely we learn quickly through Jughead'south narration that the quarantine has now been lifted. Reggie is regularly traveling to Canada on beer runs. Jug, FP, and Fred are all back in their homes. So what exactly was Hiram'south primary plan? Wasn't he trying to isolate the town Escape From New York -like into his ain criminal empire where he could exist (Gargoyle) King? How did the cut off of the town touch its residents? How does Hiram feel at present that he has succeeded? Why did Master Weatherbee decide to turn Riverdale High into a "police state?" None of these important questions are addressed, and the fourth dimension spring merely feels lazy.
The plot murkiness spills over into other aspects of the testify. We see Pop Tate in the speakeasy, when just weeks dorsum he told Veronica how he wouldn't stand for criminal action in the business that his been his home for and then many years. For that matter, Veronica has abased her intents on keeping her business concern legit. These decisions all likely resulted from the quarantine and its immediate touch on, but nosotros don't really know this. There's a fine line between spelling things out for the audience and having contempt for viewers, and sadly this episode feels like more of the latter.
Elsewhere, the storyline of what Betty will exercise with the refugees from the Sisters of Quiet Mercy is given the most obvious wrap up possible — with the kids heading to the still mystery-shrouded Farm and the nuns existence bailed out (and likely led to their demise) by Hiram. And Jughead further proves himself to be the worst leader of the Serpents ever by irresolute the rules for Fangs merely to have it immediately blow up in his face.
Watching this episode, it felt like the writers immediately backpeddled the changes implemented in the previous episode. That's distressing given how big and weird it was. To immediately restore the condition quo feels like cheating, a move that will be downright infuriating in one case Archie is ressurected. Unless he isn't, in which case I'll have much more than to say on the matter every bit soon as I finish eating crow.
Riverdale Roundup
– Comport attacks in the Archieverse are nothing new. The weird/wonderful 1970s run of Life with Archie regularly had our heroes encountering bears. Knowing how plugged in to Archie history the Riverdale writers are, I tin can't help but feel that Archie's run in with his hairy foe is non a subtle reference to this.
– Another check in the "Archie is alive" column is Jughead's referencing of Luke Skywalker's hero'due south journeying and how Archie'southward experiences tonight shadowed some events from The Empire Strikes Back . No, seriously! Archie does indeed caput out on his own like Luke, where he encounters a bear (Wampa) and has a vision (an injured Luke seeing Ben) that will alter the form of his future.
– This is the showtime time in the series in which Evelyn Evernever has appeared and no ane has had a seizure.
– I would very much like one of those Farm t-shirts, please and thank you.
– I addressed this above, but Veronica got the cooked books she showed her begetter from Pop Tate. Hopefully she isn't dragging him into her life of inconsistency/criminal offence.
-Speaking of which, permit's hear it for Josie who tells Veronica that she wants no part of the Lodge family bullshit, headlining task or non.
– Where is Ethel? She was all about helping the refugees from the Sisters of Repose Mercy but is no where to exist establish in this episode.
– I'one thousand beingness hard on this episode, only I volition say that the Choni catburglaring stuff was fun. And we are given another simulated brand in the class of 'Glamourege' eggs.
– And then Archie's chore was "clearing trails" in the Hinterlands, right? I've watched this episode twice and his job, like several things happening in this installment, fabricated zero sense to me.
– Am I the simply one who thinks that Fangs already is a member of the Gargoyle Gang? That he joined them later on Jughead kicked him out? I foresee some betrayal in Fangs' future. And what exactly is happening between Fangs and Sweetpea?
– "We'll go, only we're keeping the jackets" – Cheryl, forever slaying, even when on the verge of becoming a meme in search of a character.
– Farewell Sisters of Quiet Mercy, I sincerely promise this is the last we encounter of your tired characters.
– This episode takes its title from the existential John-Paul Sartre play of the same name, which famously gave us the phrase "hell is other people." In this case near likely referring to Archie'south depression-hire Twin Peaks vision of those from his past.
– Finally, regarding the Veronica and Reggie buss. This is being written before the episode arrogance, so I'm not sure what the fan reaction will be. I'm guessing that it's a pretty even split between Varchie shipper outrage (2019, yous are something else!) and those happy to see Veronica moving on with the increasingly interested Reggie. Personally, I'thousand all for the Archie/Veronica relationship getting tested by something not involving Hiram. Also, if the pair are endgame, this won't matter. And allow's not forget how apace Archie was prepare to hook up with Lori Lake a few episodes ago.
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