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On 2017-5-13 at 0:56 PM, methodwriter85 said:
It's not THAT impossible. I know a girl from high school who got with her boyfriend in 11th grade, but they didn't have their first kid until they were about 28 or so.
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.
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On 2017-5-18 at 0:03 PM, iMonrey said:
Ok, I was a bit confused when Sy called Nikki and told her Emmit's wife saw the tape, because it almost seemed like maybe they were working together? Like they were colluding to use Ray against Emmit for their own purposes. Anyone else get that impression? How did Sy even have her phone number? I was like "Oh, shit, she's in cahoots with Sy."
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.
On 2017-5-18 at 2:31 PM, Eulipian 5k said:The thing that is curious is that we began the season with Stussy Lots having $1 million in assets ready to write a check to Varga. So why is Sy so desperate to drum up cash with Nikki or Mme Goldfarb?
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.
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10 hours ago, knaankos said:
I thought for sure Nikki was dead. It's surprising that they didn't touch her face at all. Did they intentionally leave her alive or was it a mistake?
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.
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13 hours ago, Primal Slayer said:
Rheas plot would've been so much better and interesting if she were interested in corrupting Kara against humans and having her mate with Mon-El. Why would you care about a Daxam/Human baby when you could have a Daxam/Kryptonian baby? It would give you better genetics!
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.
13 hours ago, quarks said:Rhea said something or other about needing a human/Daxam hybrid now that the Daxams were ruling the world, which whatever, but that still doesn't explain why she needed a marriage ceremony, or why the marriage ceremony couldn't have waited a few more weeks until the Daxams were further along with the conquest.
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.
9 hours ago, Perfect Xero said:So, President Wonder Woman was flying a 747 straight at a fleet of alien war ships and mouthing off about it to the alien leader, getting her staff, crew, and support pilots killed. That's ... not the sort of thing that would make me glad that I voted for someone.
On the other hand, now we can guess why Durla fell so fast. Not the best tactical minds around those Durlans.
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On 2017-5-12 at 2:47 PM, Wouldofshouldof said:
I'm enjoying the season, and I love Ewan McGregor (he's my hall pass). I just have one problem with the plot. Why on earth couldn't Emmit and Sy have gone to the authorities as soon as Vargas showed up and explained what was going on? At that point there wasn't any wrongdoing on the part of Stussy Lots. I get it, we just have to overlook that to move the story along, but DUH.
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.
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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.
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The first actual trailer is out:
I must say, this is looking pretty good.
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20 hours ago, johntfs said:
What, like, "Yeah, I touched a magic thingie that made me blonder, taller and younger. Yay me."
Pretty much.
If there ever was a show were that line wouldn't be out of place, it's this one.
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What I wonder is if the recasting will be acknowledged in-universe.
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1 hour ago, andromeda331 said:
No, Nicole Noone aka Sonya Walger was is last and well only guardian in the movies. The others Gabrielle Anwar and Stana Katic weren't really
guardians Gabrielle played an archaeologist and Stana was a vampire. So this would be a previously unknown guardian.But the EW article says that Rachel is playing Nicole Noone. So it's just a recast of the previous character, then.
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2 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:
Never too early for a casting news, right? John Noble will guest in the season 4 premiere, while Rachel Nichols will have a recurring role as (spoilers to be safe)
One of the ones from the TV movies or a previously unknown one?
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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?
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15 hours ago, Snookums said:
FP may not have shot Jason but he knew enough to set up a presumably hidden camera and record who did, then recover the video; how did he know to do that? His coverups, like the burning of the car, only led on the various sleuthing parties instead of distracting or confounding them, was that on purpose?
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".
QuoteAnd speaking of the drugs, are all the investors/board members in the maple syrup business in on this? If not, why are they so Court of Owls over who's running the company? It's maple syrup. Go invest in an app or something and expand beyond this town.
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.
QuoteMe too. Third cousins is really not a big deal, genetically or otherwise. Betty's dad's seething hatred seems out of proportion even for the whole "your great great grandpappy done mine in" scenario, let alone that. The Hatfields and McCoys would be "dude, dial it back" at this point.
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?
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10 hours ago, The Crazed Spruce said:
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.
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On 2017-4-13 at 9:25 PM, ybrik said:
Don't mind Veronica and Archie kissing this ep. They have been kind of dancing around this since the first ep. Also did like it seemed like the show was making it clear that kissing was as far as they went.
On 2017-4-13 at 9:31 PM, SeanC said:Actually, on that point, it's interesting that for a show that opened with Archie banging his teacher and features things like a running gag about incest, the teen/teen relationships have been fairly chaste, on the whole. Plenty of shows would have had Archie and Veronica have sex if they'd started making out in similar circumstances.
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?
On 2017-4-18 at 8:38 AM, NutmegsDad said:One thing that has bothered me since this episode.
Since Cheryl had a hand in Chuck's downfall from the team through #hashtagjustice, and since Cheryl knew what Chuck and the other players were doing, why would Chuck and Cheryl team up with each other to bring out the secrets at the party?
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.
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On 2017-4-7 at 2:52 PM, Mabinogia said:
I've never seen so many redheads in one place. Are members of the board actually Blossoms as well? Like Clifford Blossom's siblings or cousins? But then, he married a redhead so maybe they are her siblings? It just seems odd the board member they focused on was also a redhead as that hair color is not predominant. I don't think I've met as many redheads in my entire life as I've seen in one episode of this show. lol
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.
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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.
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20 hours ago, Lady Calypso said:
Well, Cheryl wasn't lying about them going on a boat ride. Now, there's quite a bit of information that I'm forgetting from this first season, but I do remember that Cheryl admitted that she knew that Jason was running away and was going to fake his death, so he asked his sister to help him do it. They were going to say that he drowned, while Cheryl would know that he got out of town (I can't remember if she knew he was running away with Polly; I think she did).
So basically timeline goes like this:
- July 3rd (day before): Clifford/Jason get into a fight. Presumably, that's when Clifford decides that he's done with his son and decides to kill him or at least to take care of him.
- July 4th: Cheryl/Jason go on the boat ride, Jason pretends to drown and he takes off toward the getaway car, where he was going to meet up with Polly. Cheryl goes along with the plan by jumping in the water and that's when Doiley found her at the shore.
- Before Jason can get to the getaway car, he's kidnapped (FP says he kidnapped Jason, but the evidence points more toward Mustang doing it under Clifford's orders). He's taken to the basement of the Wyrm and kept there for a week until he's finally killed by his own father.
Why a week, though, I have no idea. The unclear part is why Clifford didn't just shoot him on July 4th. We don't know why Mustang was yelling at Jason while he was tied up or what he was saying to him. Presumably, Jason found his father's maple syrup and drugs business and confronted him and maybe threatened to go to the police. But that question hasn't been answered yet. Clifford's dead now too, so who knows if the answer is going to be in the finale or if it will carry into next season.
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.
3 hours ago, starri said:Lying to the police isn't a crime. And even if it was, it's not perjury because he wasn't under oath.
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...
QuoteA sworn declaration (also called a sworn statement or a statement under penalty of perjury) is a document that recites facts pertinent to a legal proceeding. It is very similar to an affidavit, but unlike an affidavit, it is not witnessed and sealed by an official such as a notary public. Instead, the person making the declaration signs a separate endorsement paragraph at the end of the document, stating that the declaration is made under penalty of perjury.
This would seem to fit FP's situation. If his confession was a sworn declaration, lying in it could land him charges of perjury.
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On 2017-5-6 at 7:06 AM, cardigirl said:
Interesting. Maybe, even though he had produced movies, he was also an opportunist (like Nikki) and a bad man who took advantage of Ennis.
OR. The waitress didn't tell Gloria the true story....
still enjoyed the episode.
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.
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1 hour ago, Affogato said:
The board thinks Cheryl is unsuitable as the heir to the business and Cliff hoped that Archie standing next to her, presumably the one making the decisions, would make things more palatable.
I wonder if this is just paternalistic or if Cheryl still has hidden veins of craziness to expose.
You're assuming the Blossoms' business has stockholders and a board. It seems more likely that the company is wholly owned by the family.
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7 minutes ago, morakot said:
Who put the recording of Jason's murder on the thumbdrive? How did the thumbdrive get into Jason's pocket (and then into the lining)? Are we to assume that Joaquin or FP decided to put the jacket on and then put the thumb drive into the pocket while clearing up the murder? Why? Why not wear their own jackets and put the thumb drive into those pockets? Was there no concern when they lost track of the incriminating thumb drive that held their blackmail material when it got lost from the pocket of the victim's jacket? It makes NO sense that a random thumb drive in Jason's jacket would hold clues to his murder.
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.
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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.
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26 minutes ago, maxineofarc said:
Hoo boy, do I still have some questions though. About the nature of the Blossoms' business, exactly why Cliff shot Jason (and then happily participated in reviling Cheryl for it), why do we assume Joaquin is telling the truth, why doesn't Jughead's mother want him, how did the Serpents get to be so progressive...
I expect that while this episode revealed the "who", the season finale will wrap up the "why".
54 minutes ago, Snarkette said:The show still hasn't explained how Archie is a Blossom yet. I am still waiting to get the background of why he was featured so prominently in all those photos when the board visited. However, we now know that maple syrup runs in the veins of not just Cheryl, but also Polly and Betty.
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.
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5 hours ago, UsernameFatigue said:
Though of course this is a fictional show, and the writers can and do make up anything they want, I thought it was a stretch that no one would have known that the Coopers were once Blossoms. It wasn't that long ago, and it isn't that big of a town. It isn't like one family moved away. They are all been there living in the same town, with the successive generations all knowing each other. I am sure there are many in the town that knew, and find it hard to believe this was kept a secret from Betty/Cheryl's generation.
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.
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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.