It would definitely shake things up.
After what feels like forever, Riverdale officially returned to the small screen this week.
Although fans weren’t too happy with the latest twist in the CW drama, as a major character appeared to be killed off in the final moments of the episode.
Warning: spoilers for the newest episode of Riverdale, No Exit.
Fans were stunned this week when Riverdale appeared to kill off one of their main characters: Archie Andrews.
Yes, really.
After surviving every single dramatic, life-changing thing that was thrown his way – like, say, The Black Hood and that fight club when he was in prison – it appeared as if the Red Paladin died after becoming the victim of a bear attack.
The final moments of the episode saw two rangers in Archie’s cabin in Canada, checking the bloodied teenager’s pulse – and, based on their facial expressions, it didn’t look too good.
Many fans took to Twitter to fume that there was “no way” Archie could have been killed by a grizzly bear – with some reckoning it wasn’t even a grizzly that attacked him.
https://twitter.com/LSukichan/status/1085816827760922624
https://twitter.com/HLJoshy/status/1085843612242493440
https://twitter.com/iamsolsticerey/status/1085718663397814272
Hiram when he finds out a bear attack of all things killed Archie. #Riverdale pic.twitter.com/qmIGt3lcz9
— FaliceBarchie 💋 (@anchors_ahoy) January 17, 2019
youre telling me…they just killed archie…off a tv show based on the archie comics #Riverdale pic.twitter.com/APQfNwo6MI
— Caitlyn (@CaitlynVernem) January 17, 2019
No way after all of Archie’s death scares is he going to get killed off by a bear attack #Riverdale pic.twitter.com/0ehOfZGWRA
— Spring Day🌸 (@BTSParaElMundo) January 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/NawaKatta/status/1085846111858745344
It’s hard to say if Archie is really dead. On the one hand he’s the star of the of the show but other shows have killed off the main character and the show survive without them so theoretical Riverdale could go on without Archie. #Riverdale
— Kevin C. (@Kdude146) January 17, 2019
My #Riverdale theory
Someone rushed up on Archie in the woods, not a grizzly. They staged the whole thing in order to get Archie smuggled back into Riverdale without Hiram sniffing anything out. We never see the bear, and we never hear it, and Vegas is completely unscathed.
— Anthony Taylor-Bouis (@AnthonySoCal) January 17, 2019
We’re keeping our fingers crossed that this is some kind of fake out, like when F.P. walked out of the woods carrying Jughead’s body last season.
Showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa recently revealed that it was going to be a “very changed Riverdale” in the second half of season three.
He said:
“It’s been pretty breakneck pacing up through [episode] 8 and we’re doing a little bit of a time jump between the midseason finale and our premiere.
“It’s definitely a changed Riverdale. It’s almost like a town under occupation. It’s very totalitarian. It’s very lawless. And there are a lot of people who are really scared.
“It’s about our forces of good kind of coming together to face the various threats.
“That said, it’s a little bit of a slower burn when we get back. We do some more character stories. We do some more relationship stories.
“We’re even doing an episode that’s focused on the kids taking the SAT because, quarantine or not quarantine, junior year continues and the kids have to take the SATs!”
