TMC
11-10-2022, 10:04 PM
https://www.looper.com/1095127/riverdale-plot-holes-we-still-cant-explain/
BY SARA CENTURY/NOV. 10, 2022 8:28 AM UTC
Demanding deadlines and the need to juggle several plots at once haven't made serial writing any easier, particularly in the fast-paced realm of TV. Still, when it comes to storylines that just get dropped on occasion, never to be mentioned again, few ongoing series have accumulated the sheer number that "Riverdale" has. Naturally, a mistake here and there is to be expected in this wild Archie Comics-meets-"Twin Peaks" adaptation, but there are moments when a simple plot hole on "Riverdale" widens into a plot grand canyon.
With its seventh and final season around the corner, "Riverdale" (https://www.looper.com/891435/riverdale-season-7-what-we-know-so-far/) is all but guaranteed to revisit at least a couple of these along the way, but due to the lightning-quick plot developments of the show's more recent seasons, some of these already feel like the distant past, back in the halcyon days before the sixth season's Rivervale parallel universe, "Sabrina" crossovers, Archie multiverses, and Cheryl Blossom going full Dark Phoenix for a little while there. Yet a big part of the fun of "Riverdale" is its wild, off-the-rails way of pulling us through major pop culture references and tropes, which is why it's no surprise whatsoever that there's a dropped thread or two (dozen) over its run. Wondering what became of them is just as entertaining as any other part of the show, so let's get into it.
BY SARA CENTURY/NOV. 10, 2022 8:28 AM UTC
Demanding deadlines and the need to juggle several plots at once haven't made serial writing any easier, particularly in the fast-paced realm of TV. Still, when it comes to storylines that just get dropped on occasion, never to be mentioned again, few ongoing series have accumulated the sheer number that "Riverdale" has. Naturally, a mistake here and there is to be expected in this wild Archie Comics-meets-"Twin Peaks" adaptation, but there are moments when a simple plot hole on "Riverdale" widens into a plot grand canyon.
With its seventh and final season around the corner, "Riverdale" (https://www.looper.com/891435/riverdale-season-7-what-we-know-so-far/) is all but guaranteed to revisit at least a couple of these along the way, but due to the lightning-quick plot developments of the show's more recent seasons, some of these already feel like the distant past, back in the halcyon days before the sixth season's Rivervale parallel universe, "Sabrina" crossovers, Archie multiverses, and Cheryl Blossom going full Dark Phoenix for a little while there. Yet a big part of the fun of "Riverdale" is its wild, off-the-rails way of pulling us through major pop culture references and tropes, which is why it's no surprise whatsoever that there's a dropped thread or two (dozen) over its run. Wondering what became of them is just as entertaining as any other part of the show, so let's get into it.