Jesus, this was depressing. After seven years, Riverdale comes to an end. And I can absolutely guarantee that nobody ever expected it to end like this. That being said, while this is not the ending I would have chosen, I also can't say I dislike this ending. We watched these character going through year after year of hell and the fact that most of them have a good life and there is a happy-ish ending to this...well, I'm content with it. Riverdale, for me, probably will be the first four seasons, but I don't hate this ending.
Anyway, we start with an Eight Six year old Betty who's learned Jughead has passed away. Betty is now the last of the gang to survive. Betty wants to visit Riverdale one last time and her granddaughter promises to take her there the next day. That night Betty is visited by Angel/Writer Jughead who takes her back to the last day of high school so she can see her friends one last time. During these moments we find out what happened to all of the characters. And I'm just going to go through this real quick.
Ms. Andrews will fall in love with a woman who will live in the with Ms. Andrews until she passes away. Polly will end up having her twins (Juniper and Dagwood). Alice will eventually divorce Hal (I think, my cable screwed up and I missed part of this), become a flight attendant, and marry someone else.
During junior year of high school, Fangs records a hit single and is able to convince Midge's parents to let him marry her. Their happiness is short lived as, not long after high school, Fangs goes out on tour and is killed in a bus accident. Midge and her daughter will live off the royalties of Fang's two songs (right).
Pop's apparently dies before the kids graduate high school. That's the grave Betty is visiting.
The writers clearly are choosing violence here.
Clay and Kevin move to Harlem together. Clay becomes a professor at Columbia (I think) and Kevin opens his own off Broadway production. Kevin will die of old age in his sleep and Clay will pass away a few weeks later sitting on a park bench.
Cheryl and Toni move west and live a more bohemian life. They have a son named Dale (after Riverdale). They will live a long and happy life together.
Reggie will go on to play basketball for the Lakers and then become the coach at Riverdale High. He has two sons who will run the Mantle used car lot. Reggie was buried in Duck Creek.
As for the core four, well they all decide during senior year to all just date each other. Yup. Well, maybe, as we never see anything happen between Archie and Jughead. After high school....
Veronica moves back to LA and becomes a big movie mogul. I don't think it's directly said, but it seems like she was the first of the four to go. I does seem like Betty, at least, looses touch with her over time.
I'm not going to go into the last Barchie scene. While I didn't particularly like that couple, what the writers did in that scene was nothing short of sadistic to those fans. But one could argue that same was done to Bughead and Varchie fans in season four. Anyway, Archie will go out west and find a woman that he decides to settle down with. He lives a long, good life with her and, when he dies, he's buried next to his father.
Jughead will create Jughead's Madhouse Magazine (Mad Magazine) and had a successful life as a writer/editor. He never marries.
Betty also creates her own magazine. (And late '60s/early '70s Betty's look is my favorite Betty look). Betty never married, but she did adopt a daughter. Which she considers her legacy, her family.
Anyway, Angel/Writer Jughead takes Betty back to the present. The next day, Betty's granddaughter takes her to Riverdale. As they pull into Pop's parking lot, the building is for sale, she discovers Betty has died.
But then young Betty steps out of a car as she has been transported to an functioning Pop's Restaurant. Jason is at the door (yep, the actor is back). And everyone is there (well, of the cast that still worked on the show). And as the story ends, Betty joins the other three at the table and in the Hereafter.
Like I said, not the way I imaged the show would ever end. Not the way I would have ended it. Still, it was a very bitter sweet ending. I shed some tears and, yeah, part of me is sad to see it end.
Of course, that part of me will soon be knocked unconscious by my sanity....
things that have happened in the first two episodes of season 6 of riverdale
-toni and fangs were fully ready to leave their baby in the woods for a full night to cure his colic by exposure
-cheryl has an army of girlscouts living with her full time now I guess and dresses them up in uniforms
-she takes all of these minors along to tell archie that she owns the concept of maple trees and he can't plant any in places that are not her property
-veronica literally asks reggie to fuck her on a bed of money like she's scrooge mcduck
-jughead moves in with tabitha despite them having not even really dated and him being a just recovered alcoholic and her having recurring fantasies of murdering him with a hammer
-a second female teacher from riverdale high is revealed to have been a pedophile
-toni straight up murders someone in the prologue of an episode and there are zero consequences? she tells her therapist about it?
like honestly I would mention the ritual sacrifice of archie but of all those things that seems the most understandable
His loyalty. He’s just such a good friend, and he even knows when to draw a line. Like he isn’t loyal to a fault like a lot of the characters are. He knows when to be loyal and when to stand up for someone. Idk correct me if I’m wrong but he gives me those vibes. Like when Jughead is being an idiot and asks for Fangs’ and Toni’s jackets? Yeah his reaction to that is so good
2. Least favorite thing about them
He can’t handle stress under pressure. Everyday I think of him and Sweetpea panicking hysterically after killing Tall Boy and Literally lose my mind laughing. I’m supposed to believe this boy’s in a gang? Lmao no.
3. Favorite quote
“Jail’s no fun, I’ll tell you that much.” I would die for this boy. He is such a baby. I can’t explain how warm this quote makes me feel.
4. Brotp
Fangs and Toni oh my GOD I love these two more than life itself. Brother/sister vibes.
5. Otp
Okay so when it comes to Fangs ships I kind of hella drool over Moose/Fangs and Fangs/Sweetpea/Jughead. Top two Fangs ships no cap
6. Notp
Kevin and Fangs. Next question
7. Unpopular opinion
I didn’t get the appeal of Swangs for a really long time. I always saw their relationship as very brotherly and it wasn’t until I shipped Fangs/Jughead and my Jugpea heart got involved and I deep dove the tags and headcannons that I actually got the ship. In the show they seemed really platonic to me idk lol. Probably because Sweetpea gets absolutely no character development lmao
8. Random headcanon
Fangs has an older brother named Talon and they makes a lot of “tooth and claw” jokes with each other about it.
9. Song I associate then with
“Lonely Boy” by the Black Keys
10. Favorite picture of them
It’s so blurry but this outfit and the way he sits makes me sob
My cherie asked me to draw a picture of Kevin Keller for Pride in Riverdale. I’ve never been quite that good with drawing the male form. So at first I said no, but she kept saying please Cheryl 🍒 please babe please. And so eventually this is what happened.
Hehe be kind, I haven’t drawn anything even remotely similar since 2012. I was dating this wonder FTM guy and I drew him and I often. Yet never in this much detail. And now to see this drawing I’m slightly awed. Next week she’d like me to draw Fangs Fogarty.
Happy week two of Pride in Riverdale my River Babes. Kevin is an such an under appreciated character, so I’m glad she pestered me.
Summer was a fun time for the residents of Riverdale. Plenty of movies at the theatre or drive-in followed by milkshakes at Pop’s, recreational camps of various sports, summer jobs, and even cheerleading camp for the town with Pep. A quiet town, only slightly less so with the happy release of students from work. Four months of freedom providing fun for all who lived in the picture perfect suburbs. That was only half the story.
The other, was the sadder side of the tracks. Rougher around the edges, the Southside of Riverdale held less fun for the summer. Trips to camps were on scholarship or carefully scrimped away money for little kids. Teenagers had the luxury of practicing adult responsibility by getting full time jobs to help make ends meet, and hang outs were late and short due to early morning work or care for siblings.
That isn’t to say that fun didn’t exist, in fact, it is argued that the fun had on the Southside made the Northside charm pale in comparison. Late night drives, or motorcycle rides, lead to fun finds out of town, and the drive in and wyrm were always bustling with Serpents. There was also the beaches on what little of Sweetwater hit this side of the tracks as well as the Quarry to consider. That was where the best bonfires and late night parties were held. It was a good way to release the stress of the work day and dream about bigger and better things. There were the spare few that were satisfied with their lot in life, however.
One of them, a curvaceous blonde with an attitude to match, was currently letting her curls swing against her face as she danced to the beat of the music around her. She stood to the right at her pool table, a drink in one hand, the cue in another. She just finished another boring as hell week house sitting for some vacationing family or another, taking care of pets and their ever particular diets, and was ready to either throw away or expand on her payday. This was on her third drink and second victory with her hustling partner, who had just finished working on her bike and deserved a well spent night out. So far, she was holding true to end of the deal and the night was still young.
