#1. The Lovers Meet
#2. The First Kiss/First Intimate Moment
#3. The Confession of Love
#4. The Lovers Break Up
#5. The Proof of Love
#6. The Lovers Reunite
Currently, Jabitha is between stages 4 and 5.
#1. The Lovers Meet: the lovers meet for the first time. This scene is sometimes referred to as the “meet-cute.” It’s almost always the inciting incident of their story.
For Jabitha, it's 5x05 when Jughead needs a job and asks Tabitha to be a waiter and she says no.
Their "meet-cute" is when Tabitha covers for Jughead when two debt collectors look for him. She then offers him the waiter job and agrees to call the debt collectors to tell them that he’ll be paying them back with his earnings from the diner.
#2. The First Kiss/First Intimate Moment: The point of this stage is to show the couple moving closer to a sense of intimacy and romance.
Funny enough, for Jabitha this wasn't their kiss. This was during 5x08 when Tabitha took care of a drunken Jughead after Cheryl's key party.
#3. The Confession of Love: This doesn’t necessarily mean one of the characters has to say “I love you” to the other, but it DOES have to be made known that one (or both) of their feelings are no longer platonic.
Jabitha crosses that bridge in 5x10 when they kiss in the diner.
#4. The Lovers Break Up: The next stage is where the characters break up or separate. For long-running romances or will-they-won't-they, this may happen a few times.
So far, Jabitha has two. The first is 5x10 right after their kiss Jughead tells her about Betty and they cool it
The second is from 5x11 when Jughead leaves Riverdale to go back to New York, but leaves Tabitha a voicemail to say goodbye.
#5. Proof of Love: This is THE MOST important scene in a romantic story. It’s the big, climactic moment where one character must sacrifice something for the other's happiness - even if it means they may not be together in the end.
This is the next step in Jabitha's story.
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The Six Stages of Romance for Barchie S5 (So Far!)
Reminder that six stages are:
#1. The Lovers Meet
#2. The First Kiss/First Intimate Moment
#3. The Confession of Love
#4. The Lovers Break Up
#5. The Proof of Love
#6. The Lovers Reunite
Before we start, I'm focusing on S5 for this thread because even though Barchie has the longest friendship in canon, the time skip acted as a reset for every romantic relationship.
There's def threads that folks can do for S1-S4 and S4 went through Stages 1-5 in two epsiodes.
#1. The Lovers Meet: Not every Lovers Meet scene is a meet-cute like what I described in my Jabitha breakdown. Sometimes it's the Lovers Meet Again if they already knew the other.
For Barchie, they hit this stage when Archie called Betty first to come back to Riverdale in 5x04.
Here's my analysis that the Barchie Bump is real and anyone who says that Barchie brings in fewer views than Bugvarchie isn't looking at the data. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1426073…
Here's the rub: Even if those on Twitter want to ignore the rating changes and push these false claims, TV Execs don't and they're the ones who make the calls and work with crews and showrunners.
The low numbers are hurting this show.
Riverdale scored early renewal in Feb. By July CW announced only 5 eps as a "mini-series" and had its DAY AND TIME MOVED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 5 YEARS.
The episodes where Barchie were featured and heavily promoted (5x05-5x07) did on average 5% better than the episodes with Bughead (5x02-5x03) and 10% better than those with Varchie (5x08-5x11).
Bughead and Varchie were both together in 5x01, however that .62 number is a bit misleading and inflated as it was the premiere after a year-long hiatus.
Even then, 5x05 (Barchie shower sex scene) and 5x06 (Barchie car sex scene) still came close with .58 and .57.
Comparatively, 5x11 was promoted and hyped as a Varchie and Bughead episode given the plot pf Jughead's disappearance and Veronica/Archie catching criminals
It was the lowest rated epsiode with .44 - and that's after a 5 month hiatus.
This is about the Citizen Lodge episode - makes sense considering it's going to be entirely a flashback with the cast playing their parents + Mark's kid playing young Hiram.
I know a lot of people don't care about Hiram, but I'm excited for next week - especially after rewatching the start of the time jump.
Everyone always complains about Riverdale "not having a sensible plot" - but this season DOES have a plot that makes sense!
Hiram is destroying Riverdale, and everyone thinks it's for the Sodale Project. It's not JUST that (as Reggie says in 5x07) - it's because there's palladium under the town.
Hiram thought the prison that replaced Southside High was it. Now there's some under the Blossom's estate.
Archie would never call Betty a bitch because he's a himbo and he knows the ghost of Fred Andrews himself would rise from the grave to beat his ass for even THINKING it
If Archie called Betty a bitch he would burst into tears afterwards
If Archie called Betty a bitch, Mary and her girlfriend would descend from the ceiling and take him out.