#creating a stepford riverdale of sorts

[thetaoofbetty]

hi :) i have seen so much negativity in the fandom and bughead’s loosing hope and saying that they will delete bh scenes, personally i don’t think so but i know that you are usually more informed, so what would you say? and what do you think we should expect? i don’t want *a to happen again, it’s embarrassing at this point for the writers and characters. (hope i don’t bother you whit this, just wanted to know your opinion in case)

okay, this is the only theorizing ask i will answer because it's redundant for me to repeat myself 100 times (and you're not bothering me, doll).

first, i think people hoping that bughead is back at the end of the season has turned into expectation for it. also a disclaimer: i've seen and heard the twitter stans lose their shit every time anything happens, it's exhausting. a lot of them have turned shipping into a competition instead of just enjoying the thing they love.

also please remember that we have no context for anything floating around. stuff without context means nothing. including summaries, stills, and spoilers.

that being said, i feel like the special event episodes could be an extension of s5? we know that the tbk isn't resolved by 5x19 and we know that there's an explosion at pop's. what else do we know?

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there's enough carbon monoxide in the mines that have palladium to cause hallucinations

tabitha installed a gas pump at pop's

alice is fantasizing about a perfect world in the musical

roberto said that s6 will have riverdale find itself in the fight of good and evil and that long-running relationships maybe find themselves on opposite sides (there's really only a handful of long-running relationships on the show so it seems pretty obvious who that would be)

cheryl is supposed to be a reincarnated witch (we don't know how or why this happens, just that the tape exists and mads said cheryl would be changing or something like that)

the first 5 episodes of s6 is supposed to be special in some way

*insert stuff i forgot*

so where does that leave us? with no real clue about what's actually going to happen, tbh. okay, with what roberto said about s6, i'm really not sure i'd be rooting for my ship to be together at the start. he called it mythic, epic, and romantic and the implication that the long-running ships would be on opposite sides, it sounds like we're going to get where we're going (bugvarchoni) but it's not going to be by the end of this season.

this is all guessing, tbh. we don't actually know how any of the above fits anywhere but roberto is talking like something hinky is going to go on. the pic of cole and that fake dead deer reinforces the idea that all is not right in the land of riverdale in s6.

my vote is that there's a pretty big possibility that something weird is going on and some stuff that the characters have said to each other over this last season are things i'm going to remember while we're all waiting.

also...my kingdom for people to remember that every time they freaked out, it was pretty much over nothing in the end and context means everything.

#besos! #anonymous #riverdale spoilers #riverdale speculation #i already put in my vote for cheryl doing some weird spell and it backfiring #creating a stepford riverdale of sorts #where it's all perfect looking #but it's really not #since that what the town sort of presented itself as in s1 #because riverdale just goes in circles #betty and jughead #archie and veronica #cheryl and toni #it always comes back to them

[bettycooperoutfitwatch]

3x04 Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club

I love this episode, but it’s explicitly one in which Betty is merely an observer. I sort of don’t know how to handle it in the context of this project. 

Let’s explore what Betty has going on, and then we’ll take a glance at Young Alice. There’s a lot of paralleling of our two generations in this episode, so there’s some relevance to this. 

(Me when I heard they were making this episode.)

(Big mood)

This outfit is...so great. These cropped navy pinstripe pants are just so different from anything we’ve seen Betty in before, and paired with a mustard yellow & navy ribbed ringer tee? Navy slip-on Keds? It’s so fucking jaunty. Love the v-cut on the hem of the pants.

This is also quite a lot of fun, even if the length of the wide-leg overalls slightly annoys me. My youth was full of ratty-hem jeans because we wore our bootcut jeans long—ratty hems are what happens when they’re constantly dragging on the ground—but ripped jeans aren’t in Betty’s wheelhouse (at least, not yet...)

We first saw this pink leather jacket in 303. 

You know whose wheelhouse ripped jeans are in? Alice Smith.

Let’s dive into a special edition of Alice Smith Outfit Watch. 

The costumes for the flashbacks in this episode are fairly authentically 90s—or so they read to me, a person who was admittedly very young for most of the decade. 

But if I could editorialize—what is odd about The Midnight Club, is that it’s a 90s-set episode with a soundtrack exclusively from the 80s. In fairness, no decade really defines itself until halfway through. This is why everyone thinks Mad Men begins in the 50s, when in fact it’s explicitly 1960—it’s just that none of the signifiers we know as “the 60s” will show up for a few years. That’s perhaps Riverdale’s excuse here; that and this episode is in part an homage to The Breakfast Club (1985). 

Still—Alice name drops Nirvana, Winona & Johnny at the top, and her wardrobe is absolutely grunge meets Like a Prayer-era Madonna meets Shelly Johnson. We could have heard a couple early 90s tunes, at minimum. They didn’t have to blow the music budget on David Bowie and Tears for Fears (altho Modern Love and Everybody Wants to Rule the World are true chunes, so at least they made good choices.)

Before we dive in, let’s take a moment to remember Southside Alice as she manifests in adulthood.

Ah yes. It’s all there. From the black leather and the sheer top to the layered jewelry and fishnets. The wardrobe team definitely worked retroactively from this to create a look for young Alice. 

These flashbacks take place over a period of weeks, if not months (altho not too long, since Alice is never visibly pregnant. Eternal caveat: it’s Riverdale, etc.) 

Young Alice wears a very limited number of items in a seemingly infinite number of combinations. She’s not wealthy. She doesn’t have the upper middle class means that Betty does (or modern day Alice does, I guess). 

Just look at that layering. Layering necklaces is an art. But true to Southside-form, young Alice layers everything, and a lot of it, all the time. It recalls season one Jughead quite a bit; he was homeless for a time, and was thus prepared for harsh realities. Stepford Wife Adult Alice always seemed oddly tolerant of Betty dating this Southside kid, in a way that perhaps made one wonder. Knowing more about her background and own history provides some enlightenment. 

These two moments take place on explicitly different days, and yet she’s wearing essentially all the same items. 

We could literally take an inventory of the items of clothing Alice owns: Serpent jacket, a black cap, ripped jeans, black tights, fishnet leggings, black & mustard flannel shirt, fingerless gloves (very John Bender), black corset, black bra, rose-print sheer crop top, black boots, 2 black belts with silver hardware, an array of jewelry (including but not limited to rings, a number of crosses & chains, a choker, earrings, some bracelets), and a black backpack. She also wears a black lace long-sleeve top and a black skirt (or are they shorts?) for Artie Andrews’s funeral. 

There’s also the coronet and robe she wears as the Sorceress. 

These JEANS. These are g r e a t. 

Admittedly, there’s some repetition in the outfits of the other members of the Midnight Club, too. For example, Penelope wears this embroidered vest a few times. 

(Foreshadowing.)

So maybe this point is entirely moot. A television wardrobe department has a budget, and they can’t blow it all on a single episode. 

After Featherhead dies, and the Midnight Club disbands, we meet Alice Smith on the road to becoming Alice Cooper—still by way of Madonna. But like, Blonde Ambition Madonna, fittingly. 

(PS Betty and Alice have the same locker.)

With a faux-Chanel blazer and a denim skirt (echoes of Betty!) There is literally no black in this outfit. Her tights are b r i g h t pink, and she’s got on shiny silver heels. She’s cut her hair and blown out the curls. 

Summary: Betty wears 2 outfits, and I could not even attempt to count Alice’s

That backpack?: EVEN HERE, YES

Best Betty outfit: mustard ringer and pinstripe pants!! 

Best Young Alice outfit: Every time I see that image of Alice sat on the floor in the circle where they’re picking their characters, I think of that one gifset that’s just like step on my neck

There’s a really lovely fanart breakdown of Betty and Alice’s outfits this ep!, too

#3x04 #s3 #riverdale #betty cooper outfit watch #betty cooper #long post #tumblr doesn't understand how US daylight savings time works?