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Pick posted:I am so, so grateful to have a show that had a real ending. This really can't be stressed enough. The vast majority of kid's shows either get two episodes notice and have to cobble together an ending on the fly or just sort of stop. I'm really glad Hirch got a whole season to wrap up all of his loose ends. Say Nothing posted:
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pksage posted:Alex Hirsch intentionally did a lot of red herrings, both in-show and out-of-show. Poor Gompers, so forgotten that he didn't even get to show up in the ending.
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pksage posted:Alex Hirsch intentionally did a lot of red herrings, both in-show and out-of-show. One of the most notable probably being the fake leaked image. 
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Sleeveless posted:Poor Gompers, so forgotten that he didn't even get to show up in the ending. He DID get to stomp around weirdmaggedon as a giant
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Octorok posted:Was this ever addressed? pksage posted:Alex Hirsch intentionally did a lot of red herrings, both in-show and out-of-show. I hope this was one of those things they intended to write about but never did because of the shortened seasons/time constraints rather than a red herring. He clearly made the wheel and all these little easter eggs for people to find and get all  over, but he never seemed too clear himself on what any of it actually meant. If it were an intentional red herring though it seems like they'd be punishing the kind of people they're catering to.
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I still have to wonder if he didn't change a few things after that imagine leaked, or if he planned it like this from the beginning. Originally he could have had McGucket have six fingers, and he could have written the journals while working with Ford. That would make the wheel a lot tidier with McGucket being the six fingered hand and Ford being the glasses. That weird contraption Dipper originally found the Journal in, and to some degree even the entire hidden bunker seemed more McGucket than Ford. Why would Ford build an entire second base/lab in the woods, and apparently spend time sciencing there as well as the shack? McGucket going into the portal, seeing Bill, then freaking out and leaving/getting fired, and moving into a doomsday bunker stocked with food and starting experiments to try and counter what Ford was doing seems plausible. Or it could be that Hirsch is the greatest troll ever and planned this out from the beginning. Either seem possible to me.
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With soos it feels like they set up a bunch of mystery stuff for him in the episodes that would have been written before the first episode was filmed I think the second they gave him a voice and did him on the show they all went "nope" and ditched him being some big mystery thing.
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BillmasterCozb posted:I dunno, McGucket seemed to be a handyman..or just, a handy man Actually this makes a whole lot more sense. He knew (and forgot) the entire mystery of the author among other things.
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Octorok posted:Actually this makes a whole lot more sense. He knew (and forgot) the entire mystery of the author among other things. I think it makes sense now, but soos was THE QUESTION MARK and it feels a lot like they originally thought of him then immediately dropped the idea of him being a mystery. McGucket also seems really different in the first episode he was in having a kid and all.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I think it makes sense now, but soos was THE QUESTION MARK and it feels a lot like they originally thought of him then immediately dropped the idea of him being a mystery. McGucket also seems really different in the first episode he was in having a kid and all. Yeah that was a really good misdirection with handyman. Soos was a little off in the first episode too, but that's common in pilots.
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Or it could have been a real clue! Because in the end, wasn't it the "hand"-y man who knew more than we thought? 
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I think it makes sense now, but soos was THE QUESTION MARK and it feels a lot like they originally thought of him then immediately dropped the idea of him being a mystery. McGucket also seems really different in the first episode he was in having a kid and all. Also can I say just how  it was that McGucket and his son made up and were hanging out together in the credits? Good on them.
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Soos was one of the best "funny idiot" characters ever made. The show made it clear that he was dim and made jokes at his expenses, but he also had plenty of qualities and was not one dimensional.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Soos was one of the best "funny idiot" characters ever made. The show made it clear that he was dim and made jokes at his expenses, but he also had plenty of qualities and was not one dimensional. Yeah, and also they gave him a girlfriend who would realistically be interested in him.
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Pick posted:Yeah, and also they gave him a girlfriend who would realistically be interested in him. And also Melody!
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Who was knowledgeable enough about Animes to start schooling McGucket?! Exactly.
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I liked the way they portrayed McGucket's backstory as he keeps erasing his worst traumas. When you remove your worst moment, the second worst moment becomes the new worst and if that keeps up, then by the end of the week your worst day is the day you were late for work one time, and you don't see the problem is removing that too. He went from seeing Bill Cypher's dimension, to a bad car accident, and then eventually brain damage so severe he wasn't even fully aware of what he was doing with that memory gun, only briefly wondering if there would have been side effects way too late to do anything about them. I thought that whole flashback tape was pretty heart-wrenching.
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I'm pretty sure "The handyman knows more than you think," comes from the kids' book that came out between seasons. It gave several spoilers for second season shows, like the mayor dying, and a few that went nowhere, like "The gnomes have a view of Northwest Manor," suggesting there was a dropped episode where they were going to try to kidnap Pacifica for their queen. Soos having a secret was probably also a dropped second season episode.
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Finally watched those last two episodes after forgetting about them on my DVR for a while. Sad to see this show go already but it was a satisfying ending at least. lol
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If anyone wants to watch Weirdmageddon as a 2 hour movie, you have the chance next Monday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXOEDAwnqpE
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There were probably a fair number of dropped ideas as Hirsch recalibrated from his original plan of three seasons down to two. And I, for one (along with some grade-schoolers and actual adults that I know) would read the hell out of a Gravity Falls comic-book series that filled in those gaps. (And introduced new material.) Someone with Twatter, please tweet this at Alex and make it happen.
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Chicken Butt posted:There were probably a fair number of dropped ideas as Hirsch recalibrated from his original plan of three seasons down to two. And I, for one (along with some grade-schoolers and actual adults that I know) would read the hell out of a Gravity Falls comic-book series that filled in those gaps. (And introduced new material.) Someone with Twatter, please tweet this at Alex and make it happen. The Journal 3 release will probably fill things in.
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Chicken Butt posted:There were probably a fair number of dropped ideas as Hirsch recalibrated from his original plan of three seasons down to two. And I, for one (along with some grade-schoolers and actual adults that I know) would read the hell out of a Gravity Falls comic-book series that filled in those gaps. (And introduced new material.) Someone with Twatter, please tweet this at Alex and make it happen. A really obvious one was a dropped Pacifica arc. Her season 2 episodes felt more like the start of character development, not the end of it.
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I'd say the most obvious was Robbie, who never really did anything.
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Yeah if I could ever go to one of them fancy conventions where creators talk about stuff and the audience can ask questions, "what stuff did you have planned for other episodes before you hit burnout?" would be a question I would like answered. (though I guess with the show now complete, there won't really be any GF panels at cons anymore)
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Mokinokaro posted:A really obvious one was a dropped Pacifica arc. Her season 2 episodes felt more like the start of character development, not the end of it. But he already knew when he started on season 2 that it would be the last one
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Pick posted:I'd say the most obvious was Robbie, who never really did anything. I feel like the episode where he got busted using mind control music to date-rape Wendy and she broke up with him was a natural conclusion to his arc. He functioned mostly as a foil to Dipper's romantic interest in Wendy and since they (wisely) dropped that after the first season he just didn't really have much of a purpose anymore.
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The_Doctor posted:Have they found the statue yet? Waiting on more clues from Hirsch right now. If there's any more clues in the last episode I don't think anyone is still looking
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Wait, are people actually out there searching for the Bill statue in the backwoods of Oregon? Are we going to hear a news story about a camper that got eaten by wolves in pursuit of a statue of a cartoon triangle?
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CuwiKhons posted:Wait, are people actually out there searching for the Bill statue in the backwoods of Oregon? Are we going to hear a news story about a camper that got eaten by wolves in pursuit of a statue of a cartoon triangle? The answer to both of these questions is yes of course.
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CuwiKhons posted:Wait, are people actually out there searching for the Bill statue in the backwoods of Oregon? Are we going to hear a news story about a camper that got eaten by wolves in pursuit of a statue of a cartoon triangle? I think it's the same folks who were looking for the lost Day With Spongebob movie, but I can't be certain.
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Rarity posted:Rewatching the series and in the second episode there's a magazine with an advert for Gideon on the back Now track how many times an effigy of Grunkle Stan is melted and/or burned over the course of the series.
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I found this pretty funy fan animation: Bill Cypher orders a pizza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3Jm55Abl8
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I finally watched the Finale after putting it off for like a month. I was worried that watching it would make me feel a little depressed, but it actually felt really uplifting and satisfying seeing it end. Goodbye Gravity Falls, you were a good show. 
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Just watched the whole series. Great show! I think my favorite character was Hectorgon. That guy. What a card!  Bill Cipher now has a firm spot near the top of my all-time favorite villains list. That triangle has style, man. I can agree with some others in that I wish there had been more time for them to flesh out characters like Pacifica and Robbie but in the end, they did what they needed to do, and the show went out on a high note. I'd rather a show end too soon than too late. All the main characters were fantastic and ended in the perfect place. For my money, this show might be the best I've ever seen at capturing how great, and terrible, and loving scary it is to grow up. Ending it with the scrapbook credits was a perfect note to go out on. Memories make us who we are, you know? That's why I wasn't upset when Grunkle Stan got his memory back. We knew it was possible because it happened to McGucket, so Stan getting his memory jogged by Mabel's scrapbook (rather than anything Ford did) just reaffirms how much these loving kids mean to him now. So yeah, thanks for the great summer, Gravity Falls. We'll always have the memories.
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There's another Between the Pines special on March 26. More secrets revealed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esP6_YUvT5c
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Mraagvpeine posted:There's another Between the Pines special on March 26. More secrets revealed. Wellp: https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/710532754463522816 https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/710533392954032128 https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/710533666045202432 https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/710533810396377088
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