GUESS WHOSE GIRLFRIEND AGREED TO MARATHON GRAVITY FALLS AS I SLOWLY BUT EXPONENTIALLY START FREAKING OUT ABOUT THE FINALE!!! MINE!!! MY GF AND I ARE MARATHONING GRAVITY FALLS SO THAT I CAN BE READY WITH EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF THE SHOW IN MY HEAD SO I CATCH EVERY CALL BACK AND FULLY APPRECIATE EVERY HEARTWARMING MOMENT I've noticed a lot of things. Like, the fact that you see Stanford Pines for like five fucking seconds in The Time Traveler's Pig. Or the fact that you get a pretty good look at Stanley's 'tattoo' before it's discussed because he wears a tank top so often. The fact that Boss Mabel, in which Stanley's harsh and uncompromising business tactics, focused on getting himself as much money as possible and dodging the law, are criticized, is actually... painful to watch, in light of Tale of Two Stans? Like. I had no reason to believe his entire attitude wasn't a joke, but he acts that way for a reason. He spent his entire life desperate to earn shreds of money after being kicked out of his house and told he couldn't come back until he Made Something of Himself. And only the same self-serving desperation has gotten him so close to saving his brother. Ouch.
I don't know how heartwarming I expect the finale to be...I'll settle for my baby and his family not dying! :)
i just found this on youtube and i'm posting it here in case anybody else in the thread, like me, thought the normal trailer went a little too fast for them to catch everything
I'm ready to put my foot in my mouth if I'm wrong, but I really don't think Gravity Falls has set itself up for major character death. It is, of course, willing to get dark (see: Stanford's PTSD nightmares, every single thing Bill Cipher does) but it almost always defuses a dark situation in a funny way (see: conclusion of both Dreamscapers and Sock Opera, how horrifying Mabel's imprisonment in an insular universe wasn't.) Most of the scary is really in the meta and the stuff they don't put on screen, and I can't see this mostly light-hearted, silly show ending in a heavy tragedy or something we couldn't get over in the time of the finale. It would break up the atmosphere and end the 'silly, tongue-in-cheek resolution' trend the show has had... always. It wouldn't be a really good writer choice out of Hirsh, that's for sure. If your baby is Stanford though, then, yeah, I could see cause for worrying. He hasn't been around as long (physically, that is), things will take a bleaker tone around him without as much resolution, and he's great at making bad choices for himself. I could see Standford dying, since the show could still pull a resolution out of that. That one's up in the air, I think.
Ford is totally my darling, hence my worries. Bill has tortured him for 30-odd years and he needs to be happy for a little while. Bill said he would have a heart attack at 92 but Bill also lies like a rug.
So...I've seen this trailer, but where are all of the collared Ford pictures coming from? Are those really canon?
They are. There is a really short flash of collared Ford in that trailer, but it's at the end of that slew of rapidly shown images from 0:10-0:14 in that video. somewhere around 0:13. It's hard to catch, but it's there.
Thanks (I think!) @littlewhitemouse & @prismaticvoid ...I know how I feel about it. :/ Billford is so canon. Note that this is not a happy dance. Oh well. *pets him* My overly sensitive owl.
I am making a happy dance for a very loose definition of the word "happy" because gosh do I ship it but not in a good way
I feel many things and most of them are resulting in cackling laughter, I guess. What in the heck are you drinking, Cipher. Is that Kool-aid?
Yeah I ship it in the sense that I think it happened and it's part of what made him the character I love. But damn. It's so painful. I don't seek it out but it ends up in all my writing of him in that it shaped who he was. He is drinking the tears of the multiverse. In WT, @the author speaks tells @Norm the Genie that Bill is made of cruelty, boredom and spite and I think that's probably true, tbh.
i think it might be time baby atoms, since he mentioned wanting to put them in his margaritas before and he did kill time baby in the first weirdmageddon ep
Heh. The pixie dust is a reference to our RPG on this site, though: "Interdimensional Theory and Practice 404: The Weirdmageddon Tango", where Bill actually turned a pixie into pixie dust and put it in his margarita. We know it was a margarita because he said so. The pixie was a player character, so I felt a little bad about it, but Ford did warn them all that he was probably the only person Bill wouldn't insta-kill for shits and giggles and to let him serve as the world's biggest distraction until they had Bill completely set up...
