on the CW.Percival didn't make it easy for the Riverdale crew. Aguirre-Sacasa says these episodes have opened the door for the writers to lean even further into the horror genre and “let the supernatural creep in a little bit more,” and right now the character of Archie seems the most rife with possibility in that area. Since this arc will progress stories into the later episodes of the season, when things are back in the usual setting of Riverdale, it’s hard to imagine he’ll stay dead for long. In Rivervale, though, Archie is really dead, he continues.Īt least for now. “Archie is not in a coma because of the bomb,” Aguirre-Sacasa confirms of the Riverdale world, referencing Hiram’s (Mark Consuelos) act of aggression against the hero at the end of Season 5. But Aguirre-Sacasa says that was because Jughead knew “he’s going to sacrifice Archie and asking for forgiveness before the sacrifice,” not that what was said was something an unconscious Archie in the Riverdale world was bleeding into Rivervale. “The tone is more ‘Riverdale’ than ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,’ but it’s definitely more out there than we have been on ‘Riverdale,’ as hard as that is to imagine,” Aguirre-Sacasa says of the episodes.įor the audience that wants to figure out exactly what is going on and why, Aguirre-Sacasa says they have embedded clues in both “dialogue and the background of the visual world.” One season premiere element that may have seemed to have a double meaning was when Jughead got sentimental with Archie during the pancake-eating contest. Witch Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) reprises her “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” role during this arc, as well. The five-episode Rivervale arc will continue some of the dangerous threads of Season 5, including the Trash Bag Killer and Abigail’s (also Petsch) curse, Aguirre-Sacasa says. There are “huge levels of danger” in Rivervale, Aguirre-Sacasa continues, noting that Archie is only the first casualty. Everyone gets to be the darkest version of themselves in Rivervale, which is fun,” Aguirre-Sacasa says. Like for instance, in 602 you’ll see a different sides of Veronica and Reggie, you’ll see a different side to Tabitha and Jughead. As it was, even in Rivervale eyebrows were raised, but we allowed ourselves to push characters a little bit further and go a little bit more extreme. “I think if we had proposed everyone in Riverdale getting together to sacrifice Archie for their personal gains, eyebrows might have been raised. Veronica (Camila Mendes) and Reggie (Charles Melton) wanted to open a casino, and Rivervale allows them to explore that opportunity. Jughead and Tabitha (Erinn Westbrook) moved in together in Rivervale, following the natural progression of the relationship they had at the end of Season 5, for example. But because storylines had to carry over from Season 5 and through the rest of Season 6, this was not a chance to completely reboot who people were or what they wanted - or even put them in brand-new romantic pairings. In doing so, the beloved characters “would be allowed to do things that they might not be allowed to do in Riverdale” - hence Archie’s loved ones like Betty and Jughead agreeing to sacrifice him. What fans were asking, he clarifies, is, “‘When is “Riverdale” going to go full-horror, full-supernatural?’ That’s always a big decision and a big swing, but it felt like, ‘Oh well, this could be the time to do it.'” The idea was, ‘Let’s swing for the fences, let’s do something that fans have been asking for,'” Aguirre-Sacasa explains. It is very much continuing, in a strange way, all of the episodes from the end of Season 5. “I’s very much in-continuity, so we’re not picking up in 606 as we would before it.
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