AzureOwl

Considering the cavalier way Ray-as-Emmit was throwing his weight around, it's very likely there was paperwork for the withdrawal that he simply refused to fill up. I don't know how these thing work in the US, but here in Peru there are anti-money-laundering laws that mean that any withdrawal or bank transfer above a certain point requires the account's owner to fill up and sign a form. Just a couple of months ago I bought a new car. I tried to transfer the payment to the dealership, but the bank's website wouldn't let me because of the amount. That is a feature designed to get me to go physically to the bank and fill up the paperwork. If the IRS did a routine check on the transaction and the bank couldn't produce any paperwork that may have prompted a closer look. Nikki has a characteristic that most of the previous miscreants on the show lacked, and that is an abundance of charisma. Nikki is so charismatic and driven that she makes you forget she is a cold-blooded killer, which is a characteristic that she shares with some of the most beloved villain protagonists in TV.

But all of them? Alice, Hal, Fred, Mary, Hermionie and FP all went to school together and all had kids within a year of each other.

A lot of people seem to have gotten that impression. But the rest of their conversation makes it unlikely. There was nobody else listening in but they continued to be as antagonistic as ever. Sy is not interested in the cash. He wants to unload the company on the Widow Goldfarb so Varga becomes her problem. I don't think they would've even considered her offer if they didn't have the Varga problem. Which is another reason I don't think Sy and Nikki are in cahoots. Nikki's meddling is doing nothing but complicating the Varga situation even further and putting Sy's neck at risk.

If guys like Yuri want you dead, you die. They probably didn't consider her important enough to kill. If there is one thing that has become more apparent, it is that Varga and Co. have a really low opinion of women. That's why I'm inclined to think that the Widow Goldfarb will end up being Varga's undoing. He is likely to underestimate her. As for why Nikki's face wasn't touched, I can think of 2 explanations. The Doylist one is that they didn't want to have Mary. E. Winstead on bruises and cuts makeup for the rest of the season, given that Nikki being a femme fatale-wannabe and all, being "the hot one" is a big part of her character. Given the rate at which the story is moving, Nikki's face would have to remain fucked up for the remainder of the season. Things are unraveling too fast to allow a time-skip a la season 1. The Watsonian explanation is that Yuri is a habitual domestic abuser, so brutalizing women while leaving the face untouched must be so ingrained in him that he does it without thinking. Remember that the very first thing we learned about him, even before he appeared in the flesh, was that he strangled his girlfriend back in East Germany. As I understand it, guys like that don't go from 0 to murder just like that. There must have been some domestic abuse in the middle.

I think two reasons explain this. First, Rhea is thinking in monarchical terms and thinks a Daxam/Human baby will give her "legitimacy". Second, Rhea is really racist against Kryptonians. My impression is that the weddings only function was to legitimize the baby that I have no doubt is already cooking in a uterine replicator somewhere on the ship. Maybe Rhea's position as queen with the other Daxamites is shakier than we think, given the fact that with the King dead, the throne really should've gone to Mon-El, if Daxam's monarchy works like Earth's. On the other hand, now we can guess why Durla fell so fast. Not the best tactical minds around those Durlans.

The way I took it, Emmit and Sy knew from the beginning that something wasn't kosher about that loan. That's why they didn't involve the authorities from the start. The problem is that they assumed they were dealing with a loan shark, not with a money launderer. And by the time they figured out what was up, Varga had already been through their computers planting incriminating evidence.

A factor in the recasting probably has to do with the fact that a lot of attention is going to be drawn to comparing Eve and Nicole, both as guardians and romantic interests. And Rebecca Romijin is 5' 11'' (180 cm) tall, while Sonya Walger is only 5' 7'' (170 cm). There aren't enough apple boxes in the world to make up for that difference in the action and fight scenes. Rachel Nichols on the other hand is 5' 10'' (178 cm). That's just a matter of putting her in the right shoes.

The first actual trailer is out: I must say, this is looking pretty good.

Pretty much. If there ever was a show were that line wouldn't be out of place, it's this one.

What I wonder is if the recasting will be acknowledged in-universe.

But the EW article says that Rachel is playing Nicole Noone. So it's just a recast of the previous character, then.

Yeah, I put him there for simplicity's sake. Age-wise Clifford is really the odd man out in the parents' generation All the other parents seem to be not only around the same age (early 40s), but to have gone to high-school together. Clifford on the other hand could conceivably be a decade older. A problem is that in this case going by the actors' age isn't an option because they vary so widely: Marisol Nichols (1973), Mädchen Amick (1970), Skeet Ulrich (1970), Molly Ringwald (1968) Luke Perry (1966), Lochlyn Munro (1966), Barclay Hope - Clifford (1958). I was originally going to put Generation 2's birth year to circa 1970, which would put everyone on their early 30s when their children were born, which would be a nice fit... except that most of these couple got together in high-school. Would they have really waited that long to get married and start having children?

I just assumed that he had a security camera installed because that basement is where the Serpents conduct most of their dirty business and FP doesn't trust the rest of the gang not to "steal from the till". The fact that the board is a board of trustees instead of a board of directors may imply that the family fortune and ownership of the company is tied up in a trust. If the trust owns the company and the various branches of the family can only benefit from the proceeds, all their fortune may be tied up. The problem we have is that there's several decades of developments between the death of Grandpappy Blossom and the death of Jason. We don't know what else happened in between. But it certainly was big enough of a deal for Hermionie to know all about it. For example, we know that someone slit Grandfather Blossom's throat. Was that a part of the feud?

That explains it then. For the maple syrup industry to have kicked into high gear enough to merit founding the town, the trees had to have been planted decades earlier. But this still leaves our generational count a little wobbly. By my estimate that would leave the chronology looking something like this: Circa 1890 ----> Generation 1 (Grandfather Blossom and Granpappy "Cooper") is born. Circa 1917 ----> The first maple trees are planted in the Sweetwater river basin. Circa 1935 ----> Generation 2 (Clifford's father, Nana Rose, Hal's father) is born. 1942 ----------> Riverdale is founded. Grandpappy "Cooper" dies*. His children change their surname to Cooper. Circa 1975 ----> Generation 3 (Clifford, Hal, the rest of the parents) is born. Post 2000 -----> Generation 4 (Jason & Cheryl, Betty, Polly) is born. For this to work, Generations 1 and 2 would have to have been in their early to mid 40s when their children were born. How plausible is that? * I'm assuming that the murder happened around the same time the town was founded because of the payments from the Blossoms to Lodge Industries dating to that period as well.

Personally I would prefer it if the show acknowledged that the space between "kissing" and "full-on coitus" actually covers quite a lot. If I had to guess I'd say Archie and Veronica did a lot more than just kissing without going all the way out to sex. Since I'm not from the US I'm not familiar with what the baseball metaphors entail, so please forgive me if I'm misusing them, but for the sake of argument couldn't the have made it to second or third base? It seems that Chuck holds a particular enmity towards Betty in particular, which is perfectly understandable considering she was the one who was a hair's breadth away from boiling him alive. Also, from Chick's point of view, Betty was the ringleader of the whole thing.

I think it was interesting that they're members of a board of trustees, rather than a simple board of directors. I know is very thin evidence to go on, but it could be that ownership of the Blossom maple syrup business is tied up in a family trust set up by Grandfather Blossom. That would mean that the Thornhill Blossoms only get to run the company and benefit from it's profits, but don't actually own the stock. That would also account for the board being able to remove Clifford from control of the company that easily. It would also explain why the other trustees seem to also be Blossoms.

I was rewatching the second half of the season during the weekend, and I’m left with some questions about the town’s history. We have been told that Riverdale was founded 75 years ago. We are also told that the town was founded on the maple syrup industry. This means that the murder of Grandpappy Cooper had to have taken place less than 75 years pre-S1. Now, the 75 year figure is a good match for the number of generations involved. All the parents are supposed to be in their early to mid-40s. That would’ place their parents birth between 65 and 70 years pre-S1, which is right around the time of Grandpappy Cooper’s death and would make him and his brother young men at the time. The 75 year figure also pops up in relation to the payments that the Blossoms have been giving to the Lodges which go that far back, which probably has something to do with the incident where Grandpappy Cooper died. And yet during the tapping ceremony in episode 9, Clifford says that Grandfather Blossom planted the first maple trees 100 years ago. How does that fit with everything else? For Grandfather Blossom to have planted the trees a century ago, leaves a 25 year gap between the start of the business and the founding of the town. It also creates issues with everyone’s age. If Grandfather Blossom was already a grown man starting a business 100 years ago, then he would’ve been in his 50s when Riverdale was founded and their kids at least teenagers.

We don't know when Mustang (and I agree it must've been Mustang) caught up with Jason. Just because the getaway car was still in its hiding place doesn't mean that Jason didn't made it there. Remember that he was supposed to meet with Polly. When she didn't show up the entire plan must've gone off the rails. Presumably Jason would've gone back looking for her while at the same time trying having to avoid anyone in town seeing him. This could've gone on for days. It must've been at some point during this search that Mustang caught up with him. The fact that the Serpents never found the getaway car could explain why they were beating up Jason... to get him to reveal the location of the car and the drugs. If FP gave a formal confession in sworn statement wouldn't that be considered perjury? I am no lawyer, but going by the definition in Wikipedia... This would seem to fit FP's situation. If his confession was a sworn declaration, lying in it could land him charges of perjury.

I think it more likely that Zimmerman was a real producer but he only ever made shitty no-budget movies that made no money. Which is why he needed to con people like Tad. And really, Tad had nothing to go to the police with. So far as Zimmerman could prove he was working on the movie, the fact that said movie never materialized was not proof of fraud. If every producer from a movie that never got made was prosecuted for fraud by his investors half of Hollywood would be in jail.

You're assuming the Blossoms' business has stockholders and a board. It seems more likely that the company is wholly owned by the family.

FP apparently had a secret camera installed in that basement. The first foreshadowing that there was even a camera was was a shot of FP looking up directly at it during the flashback in Joaquin's story. So presumably FP decided to keep the jacket and the thumbdrive together, so as to better keep track of both and then assumed it fell off when it slipped into the lining.

I just checked, and apparently the degree of consanguinity between Jason and Polly is so far apart that they could even get married in the Catholic Church. I'm assuming the Coopers at least are Catholics considering they put Molly in what was basically a convent, so there's a good chance the Blossoms are as well.

I expect that while this episode revealed the "who", the season finale will wrap up the "why". The thing is (and this runs into the incest question) in a town as small as Riverdale is supposed to be, it should not be rare for most people to be related to one degree or another. there are only so many people in town so unless Riverdale gets regular infusion of new people regularly, half the people in that place ought to be 3rd, 4th or 5th cousins at least. Unless both branches of the Blossoms have only been having sons until the present generation, there also ought to be some daughters who married into other families in town. Archie's mother may very well be Clifford's and Hal's third or fourth cousin as well.

Them not knowing about the relationship is not that far fetched. Given that the change took place 70+ years ago. And remember, the kids didn't even know about the feud, which was common knowledge in Hermionie's generation.