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My theory:

Clifford hung his own twin brother, Claudius.

The cops were after Cliff. He staged his own suicide by using his twin.

Cheryl’s dad is posing as her uncle.

Cliff killed his brother. And is now pretending to be his brother.

Also, Penelope is totally aware about the entire thing.

While I really love the show, I noticed a few things that are very bad written. The Black Hood plot would have been enough for one season, but here we go.

1. The Black Hood: The presented solution makes no sense. Plus they opened another subplot concerning Nana Rose and the town folks murdering someone which - up until now - stays unmentioned. I still hope that the Black Hood was hired by the Lodges to ‘prepare’ the good people of Riverdale for their prison project.

2. The lynching of an innocent: Shortly presented, now unmentioned. Doesn’t make sense. It’s part of the whole civil war subplot, which also is unfinished by now.

3. Killing of the Serpent tribe by the Blossoms: Shortly mentioned, now forgotten. Cheryl changed because of that, and Jughead changed, too, but that’s it.

4. Cheryl stalking Josie: 2 or 3 episodes of stalking, now just shortly mentioned by Penelope. Maybe they use it in the future.

5. Cheryl hating the Southsiders: You could expect a battle between the southsiders and the cheerleaders, but it also was just for one episode.

6. Cheryl loving Toni: While I really love that subplot, it’s a little strange if you count in point 6. From “I hate you” to “I love you” in a very short time. In over 20 episodes this could have been solved much smoother.

7. Cheryl at the Sister’s: This could have been a huge thing, stretching over 5 or 6 episodes, but was just good for one cliffhanger. This is just bad writing you would expect in a MacGyver 2 Episode plot in the 1990s (I am a fan of the original MacGyver show, but that’s just how it is).

8. Random people popping up every now and then: Just take Nick. Could have been an excellent plot, but was withdrawn quickly.

9. A musical episode: Just why? I know that Aguirre-Saccasa wrote the MGM Carrie remake and that is all nice, but I am very thrilled to see how this would not fit into the story. Maybe I am wrong and they have a great connection in mind how that will develop the show.

10. The Pussycats: If someone has seen them, call 911.

11. Penny Peabody: Again… great character. Imagine the possibilities.

And now for the things I appreciate:

1. Archie joining the Lodges: Naive Archie is so in love with Veronica that he abandons hos hobbies, joins the mafia and starts to fight against his parents and his best friend. This is a classic. Bad influence, madly in love. Great.

2. Everything Penelope: She’s a bad person. Even tough I really love her she is so evil. Plotting to get rid of Nana Rose and Cheryl, whoring around, has possibly killed her husband.

3. Betty joining the Serpents and acting strange: See 1: Someone is under the influence, tries to fit in, tries to emancipate herself, exploring her dark side.

4. Betty & Archie and the burying scene: A classic, too. Very dark, but too soon.

5. Alice killing that white-trash-guy: So many possibilities.

And now some hopes for the future and how they can save the season and show in general:

1. Black Hood was hired by Hiram to scare the good people of Riverdale so they agree to build a jail.

2. The Black Hood is still out there and the janitor was just some lunatic copycat.  Maybe it is Betty’s brothers or someone we don’t expect.

3. The musical episode is a metaphor that gives us some insight in the dark secrets of Riverdale.

-> In a nutshell they should focus on one or two strong plots in season 3 and stay with them. Don’t hesitate to let bad things happen to beloved characters. Season 2′s expected main plot was The Black Hood mystery - but it only lasted 12 or 13 episodes. That shouldn’t happen again.

Also I would add that FP is most probably Chic's father.

Is it international viewers who are just finding this out? Or Americans too?

The comic has been around for nearly 80 years, and contains an entire universe that includes “Josie and the Pussycats” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”. The series ran for many decades as just the comedic journey of some typical All-American teenagers in a small town. Silly little love triangles, fights between rival football teams and loads of punny names for common items and brands. And they still use that today in the TV show, like when they refer to Veronica’s American Express credit card as “American Excess”.

The series got a major overhaul this century and started to more resemble the tv series we see now. The show creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was (is I think) actually the Chief Creative Officer for the comics and played a huge part in the massive changes that took place in the books.

I definitely encourage you to read up a bit about the history of the comic books! It actually makes the show way more enjoyable cause there are little Easter eggs throughout.

At first I was like “what it’s not that weird” and then I wrote it down

Mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix neuf

(tr: A thousand nine hundred four-twenty-ten nine)

yeah okay yEAH OKAY OKAY YEAH

Marlene has said that she got the idea of Alex Drake at the beginning of season 5. Marlene told Troian (and Keegan) that she has this idea, but she’s not sure if Freeform will allow it. And it wasn’t until she wrote 620 that Freeform finally green-lit her Alex Drake idea. That’s why we never heard the initials AD in the show until 620 - Alex Drake was still just an idea during 611 to 619.

And that’s why Alex’s story was so totally irrelevant to all seasons prior to 6B: AD’s story was a result of extending the show beyond the original 5 seasons she had planned. It was a treat. “Oh you like the show so much? I’ll make up one more story for you”. To quote Troian, it just had to be a genesis story. The plan was to end the show at Charlotte’s reveal but the show’s popularity made Marlene have to think on her feet and come up with a story to CONTINUE from Charlotte’s story.

Basically, I was so disappointed with the finale that I decided to redo it my way. Different timeline, different plot, and different A.D. And if you guys are particularly attached to any of the couples, this might not be the one for you. Two out of four of the main endgames are definitely not ending up together, and I’m undecided on the other two.

It’s also OC-centric, the second story of mine to feature Viola, Mona’s headstrong, sarcastic, stubborn younger sister. It’s not necessary to understand the plot of this one, but my initial story about her, Sister, Sister, can be found here.