What do you think is coming over from the Vale based on what's already happened?
who really knows, you know?
i just think, at this point, to ignore that archie's even more obsessed than usual with his town hero antics after being sacrificed as one in the vale, while he's definitely being written as more aggressive than ever (outside of, uh, you know, his murdering arc) when they pointed the camera directly at his face while jughead said, "the battle for riverdale's soul" is sort of like, okay?? sure? that's not even adding in the way he gets about his dad.
with toni's la llorona story that started with a gang war, the current 'dale gang war and bb anthony concerns, the new drama to come with that, and add in the ancestor abigail and thomasina stuff? and i'm not even getting into the whole abigail as cheryl thing while currently chilling in riverdale right now.
veronica and reggie starting to disagree a bit, running the casino illegally again when backed into a corner? having her fight her father's legacy only to do what he would do?
the british accented devil-villian shows up in town, had a list with his fancy pen and then we get pickens with his weird faux-murder board, little notebook he's making a list in and fancy pen?
are we going to get betty's 6b version of "am i evil?" like we have since s2? my guess is likely. and hey, the tbk is still out there, let's bring him back so we can get some sort of 'vale-'dale arc. i don't know if the powers are going to transform or start being a "curse" but i can see something going sideways with hers and the guilt sets in. because what would a season of riverdale be without betty eating herself up with guilt over things that are largely out of her control?
jughead? he's a bit of a wildcard to me since he's the one who actually sacrificed himself and he's the one who figured out the whole universe issue but in the 'vale, all of his issues seemed to have been about his writing—an ability he thinks he's lost at the moment. that he's found another way to express his writing in oh, say, comics comes off pretty convenient for a possible later plot point. but we also know, per roberto, that 'vale jug's story isn't over yet.
that's not including the typewriter shaped plot from the 'vale and how all of the relationships had certain problems. some of which we might be seeing soon or already?
it's either all very, very convenient and on purpose for the overall plot with added superpowers or, as some say, this is all totally on the up and up and there's nothing to see here.
guess we'll know when we know.
