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I thought I was the only person that that bothered.
Archie comics tv show Riverdale .... why
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Shit you must be rubbing off on me.
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I would recommend a good hazmat scrubbing.
And a good course of antibiotics. 
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From EW:
Is Riverdale pulling a page out of The Walking Dead’s handbook? A prevailing theory has emerged that The CW drama may be adapting a post-apocalyptic story straight from the Archie comics spin-off Afterlife with Archie, in which a zombie horde decimates the town. Seriously.
Stay with us for a moment: In the 2013 comics, Jughead pleads with Sabrina Spellman (of Sabrina the Teenage Witch fame) to help bring his pooch back to life after it’s hit by a car. But she accidentally turns Hot Dog into a zombie that bites Jughead, thus starting a zombie plague.
So, what are the hints for this story potentially coming to life on the small screen? Before his death in the series premiere, Jason Blossom (Trevor Stines) traveled to the Greendale side of the river — that’s the hometown of Sabrina, who has the potential to appear on the show — and was later found with a gunshot wound to the head. (You know, how you kill a zombie…) Meanwhile, his sister Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) had a vision of an undead Jason earlier this season.
Oh, and there’s also the tiny detail that Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa actually wrote Afterlife with Archie. “There’s a chance that happens,” says Aguirre-Sacasa, who admits Easter eggs were intentionally included this season. In fact, he reveals that an Afterlife take was among the pitches when first developing the show, with Riverdale then more in the vein of Buffy than Dawson’s Creek. “Ultimately we ended up starting with a more grounded, less supernatural version because we thought we could always go there, but if we started there, it would be hard to take that away.”
For what it’s worth, Aguirre-Sacasa promises a character from the Archie mythos with a darker origin will appear in the finale, which may have implications for the sophomore season. “Afterlife or not, there will definitely be a big genre element to season 2,” he says. “It’s going to make people go, ‘They’re not really doing that, are they?’” Yes, yes they are. But will they really do zombies?
Is Riverdale pulling a page out of The Walking Dead’s handbook? A prevailing theory has emerged that The CW drama may be adapting a post-apocalyptic story straight from the Archie comics spin-off Afterlife with Archie, in which a zombie horde decimates the town. Seriously.
Stay with us for a moment: In the 2013 comics, Jughead pleads with Sabrina Spellman (of Sabrina the Teenage Witch fame) to help bring his pooch back to life after it’s hit by a car. But she accidentally turns Hot Dog into a zombie that bites Jughead, thus starting a zombie plague.
So, what are the hints for this story potentially coming to life on the small screen? Before his death in the series premiere, Jason Blossom (Trevor Stines) traveled to the Greendale side of the river — that’s the hometown of Sabrina, who has the potential to appear on the show — and was later found with a gunshot wound to the head. (You know, how you kill a zombie…) Meanwhile, his sister Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) had a vision of an undead Jason earlier this season.
Oh, and there’s also the tiny detail that Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa actually wrote Afterlife with Archie. “There’s a chance that happens,” says Aguirre-Sacasa, who admits Easter eggs were intentionally included this season. In fact, he reveals that an Afterlife take was among the pitches when first developing the show, with Riverdale then more in the vein of Buffy than Dawson’s Creek. “Ultimately we ended up starting with a more grounded, less supernatural version because we thought we could always go there, but if we started there, it would be hard to take that away.”
For what it’s worth, Aguirre-Sacasa promises a character from the Archie mythos with a darker origin will appear in the finale, which may have implications for the sophomore season. “Afterlife or not, there will definitely be a big genre element to season 2,” he says. “It’s going to make people go, ‘They’re not really doing that, are they?’” Yes, yes they are. But will they really do zombies?
Ugh. Don't mess with something that works.
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It would be interesting to see and I would love to see it, just for the fact of, ya know, would be cool to see them attempt it. But I can't imagine it actually being a good thing for the show. Seems it would alienate a lot of people. But it would be ballsy AF to do it.