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I was not expecting full Evil Dead 2 Animal head blood fountains or the direct implication of working people to death.

Am am beyond pleased that they reverted all those annoying tropes from season 1.
Here's to them keeping up the quality.

>>233274
Or rather, subvert.

That was good watchin'. And Pacifica actually got some more depth to her, whodathunkit.

It seems the message can't be decoded via usual means.

>A plot is about Pacifica and... Dipper
Unexpected! Makes sense though; they're trying to make her more than "Mabel's rival" so it's good idea to have significant interaction with other characters.

>>233270
Don't forget the fucking axe through the skull!

I kind of thought it was weird that some episodes of Gumball were still Y7, but when I found out Gravity Falls was all Y7 I was in disbelief. I think Disney Channel/XD probably just has some arbitrary "everything is below TV-PG" rule that's stayed around even as they've gotten more lenient on the actual content they'll allow.

>>233285
I knew it.

Also, holy crap, that book that came out in October is loaded with stuff about this season that hadn't aired yet.

http://gravityfalls.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_cryptograms

>THE MAYOR OF GRAVITY FALLS IS NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD
>BUD GLEEFUL WANTS TO RUN FOR MAYOR
>MCGUCKET HAS SEEN TERRIBLE THINGS
>GRENDA WILL MARRY RICH

>>233288
>http://www.themysteryofgravityfalls.com/countdown/
//youtube.com/watch?v=6ssaV2zuKVI

>>233293
Okay, nevermind. It's:
DON'T COPY
THAT FLOPPY

>>233333
Pretty impressive way of explaining her and they did a nice job of showing that she was also ignorant of her families past, I hope they use her more, particularly in mysteries involving the north wests.

Still wondering on the lamas tho.

>>233334
I'd like her to start turning selfless and attempting to fix the famliy name. Doing a few community social things and such.

Maybe her father making a deal to bring her back in line and not let the family fall from grace.

>>233333
Interesting supporting cast member. Don't like her as much as Dipper, Mabel, Soos and Stan but she's on the same level as Wendy or Robbie or Mabel's friends.

>>233333
I like how this season seems to be taking the stance that the two not-evil-but-jerks antagonists, Pacifica and Robbie, have more going on than just being bad people.

>>233461
//youtube.com/watch?v=Xaq0t9OQOd8

>>233494

And for the lazy: //youtube.com/watch?v=XR_Dav3BJ5A

Now I normally don't give a shit about shipping but that last episode makes me want to see Dipper and Pacifica pair up.

>>233629
I think it's the whole "start as enemies" thing. Normally it's cliched but when you aren't expecting it to turn romantic I guess it can actually work pretty well. They didn't beat us over the head with it either, which is refreshing.

Now that Robbie and Pacifica have turned more friendly I wonder if we'll see a new side to Gideon or if he'll stay a complete asshole.

>>233634
>I wonder if we'll see a new side to Gideon or if he'll stay a complete asshole.

Nah, even in the first season Robbie and Pacifica were just jerks. Gideon has been a blatant, raging sociopath since the first time we saw him.

I kind of wonder whether some of the previously good characters we've had since the start are going to be hinted to be kind of evil in order to balance things out... which might be what they're indicating with the promos for the next episode, but we'll have to see.

>>233648
Calling Stan "good" is honestly kind of a stretch. He's probably Neutral at best.

>>233648
>I kind of wonder whether some of the previously good characters we've had since the start are going to be hinted to be kind of evil in order to balance things out

Technically the Blind Eye Society was something like that already, though most of its members were neutral or hadn't interacted much with the main characters.

>>233649
At the same time, as sketchy and almost-definitely illegal as whatever he's doing is, I'm sure it's not completely evil either.

>>233650

Ehh, him being evil depends on whether you think this is canon or not.
//youtube.com/watch?v=3Qnt57qF_Gw

https://mega.co.nz/#!4JlQFRgL!19GfisxpYyXtt8na_y2qtvxvE62xIYX6TmpX8mPeiTQ

Wow.

So.

That happened.

Really good as far a big mid-season episodes. Answer just as many questions as you ask.

As I'd expected, "Stan" is a liar, but not totally evil. But WOW, is a liar.

Now I wonder if Stan is the author's real name and our guy's his brother, or if he's some entirely unrelated dude. Either one begs the question of why the rest of their family would never mention him being mistaken for dead.

>>233706
Looking at a high-resolution pic closely, it appears they both have the regular number of fingers, which implies the Author grew his sixth at a later point in life.

>>233710
I was thinking reverse Bioshock Infinite, portal closes as hands touch, one loses a finger and one gains.

Cloud also be an animation mistake.

>>233711
Well this guy has them on both. Even in high-res, it's so small that it could plausible be five or six fingers.

Also: shit, I just remember a really good theory people have had for a while which goes with the question I just asked i>>233710
n.

Read the newspaper headline closely: It says "Stan Pines Dead". The Stan we know is named Stanford, but his license plate, which was this key for the credit cryptogram this episode, is STNLYMBL (Stanley Mobile).

Stanley is the Author, who faked his death (or had it faked after he disappeared). Stanford is the Stan Pines we've known, and that is his real name. Mabel was right, that was part WAS a misunderstanding!

Those anti-gravity shots where gorgeous.

//youtube.com/watch?v=vAdg7r8FxCE

Just marathoned the show a whim.

It was great.

I originally wanted to hold off until it was all over so I wouldn't have to wait between episodes.

That was 3 years ago. Then I heard about the next episode premiering in the far-off month of June and I was like, welp, that's it, just gonna watch my backlog.

Now that I'm on the wait train with the rest of you, I would like to know how to crack the codes hidden in the show. Join in the decoder ring fun. How would I go about doing that?

>>234133
>, I would like to know how to crack the codes hidden in the show. Join in the decoder ring fun. How would I go about doing that?

The show's wikia has a pretty good page on that. It's not just listing the solutions, rather it explains the kinds of codes used (Atbash, substitution, etc.) and the how to decode them.

http://gravityfalls.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_cryptograms

>>234160
Event that lead him to needing to bring his brother back?

>>234189
I was just thinking of this.

Dipper and Mabel seem amazingly apathetic (and irresponsible) to people they don't know. I guess it's to be expected, considering how much of Stan's shady behavior they put up with.

In retrospect, the ending to the Halloween episode seems only slightly exaggerated from the rest of the show.

Apparently, Hirsch is doing a Reddit AMA April 1st... in-character as Bill.

And here it is, already in progress (and started at 2 AM EST):

http://www.reddit.com/user/_BILLCIPHER

So, I was dicking around in FL Studio after getting struck with a dumb idea, and came up with this.

//youtube.com/watch?v=XUUZ3JfSS3A

Gonna try blending the main theme with some other songs.

>>234624
I wasn't really buying any of it until they pointed out how well it would work with Mabel's name at the end.

>>234624
>>234625
Everything between "anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over" and "[M]abel" seems too convoluted, but just the rest is pretty compelling.

>>234653
This is not your Generals.

hey guys, gravity falls is really near to the end ?

>>234708
No? It's halfway through its second season and I believe a third season is planned?

>>234710
Hersh planned for three originally one for each month of summer. But he's now thinking about "Two seasons and a movie" to tie it all up according to the 2013 AMA. But seeing as its a good draw I'd say three seasons is more likely.

Gravity Falls - Pilot Demo Reel

//youtube.com/watch?v=1vptNpkysBQ

Now we have a date, a title, and a voice.

http://themysteryofgravityfalls.tumblr.com/post/121358535474/its-finally-here-the-return-of-gravity-falls
http://themysteryofgravityfalls.tumblr.com/post/121360044104/get-me-pictures-of-spider-man-j-k-simmons-will

I'm glad this episodes and the last were far apart enough that the title wouldn't be on display before "Not What He Seems" aired.

https://youtu.be/xGUelGJmKQA

Also, we won't need to wait six months for the two episodes after the next one.

https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/619232861309132800

>Disney XD’s Gravity Falls midseason debut has clocked that network’s biggest audience to date for a regular series telecast, in Live + 3 ratings. The episode that premiered last Monday averaged 2.319 million viewers. It also logged a network best among kids 2-11 (1.036 million/2.6 rating), boys 2-11 (686,000/3.4 rating).

>Overall, Gravity Falls now accounts for Disney XD’s Top 7 regular animated series telecasts of all time in kids 6-11, the Top 4 in boys 6-11 and Top 5 in kids 2-11.

>Gravity Falls ranked as the No. 1 program in its Monday 8:30 PM time period in all of television, across all kids and boys 2-11, 6-11 and 6-14 demographics. It was cable TV’s No. 1 scripted telecast in total viewers. ...

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/ratings-topper.html

>>237329
Excellent!

Now greenlight season 3 you jammy fucks.

//youtube.com/watch?v=qdbCNXMRHmo

I haven't seen Hiatus kill enthusiasm like this since Berserk.

New episode btw.

>>237764
The first one was TWO YEARS..its damned hard to track a film that vanishes for YEARS. Phineas and Ferb had hellish spots like that as well.

I'm glad we didn't know summer was almost over until this episode, because that would have made it a lot more obvious where the episode was going to end.

Man, they got a lot to run back with Mabel.

>>239928
Yep, just put the Disney logo right in the corner there. Nothing wrong with this picture.

Do we know how many parts Weirdmegeddon is gonna be?

>>239921
>Give yourself a cookie.
Nice timing! I just made some earlier tonight.

>>239933
>It's his agonizing muffled screams and writhing in abominable agony that really make the scene.
It actually came off even worse to me on first viewing: I though he was choking on the eyeball.

But Bill wouldn't do that; he's probably even keeping Preston from dying of thirst/hunger. Full resurrection of the dead is probably one of the few things he can't do, and you can't torture dead people. Bill's basically AM at this point, except he's really enjoying himself.

>>239936
I just assumed there were 20 episodes like last season. I almost wish I hadn't seen this, because expecting things to end an episode early would have really thrown me off.

Man this episode was epic. Bill is truly terrifying despite being all fun and games. Still wondering though, what prevented him from taking physical form before? Did he need the rift for that? It was creepy that even his hat seems to be a part of his body, bones and all.

>>239936

Woooow. Whoever noticed that, they are really obsessed with the show.

>>239948
Bill despite appearing in the physical universe was not ever actually in it, he was using visions, possessions and image projections to broadcast himself into our dimension.

Existing in a realm with no physical matter he couldn't take physical form, once in a physical realm by mere virtue of existing he took form.

I feel like an idiot for taking so long to get why Bill put Mabel in that sphere: it's probably the "time bubble" he, as Blendin, said she could stay in. A deal's a deal, after all.

I wonder if it'll be real enough to Mabel that she has to be convinced to leave, or if Bill made it as phony as possible.

http://blogs.disney.com/insider/2015/10/27/exclusive-gravity-falls-creator-alex-hirsch-on-weirdmageddon-part-1/?cmp=smc%7C265541802
>We have nearly 30 minutes of just [Louie C.K.] improvising different ways a monster could beg someone to get into his mouth.

>>239971
>Bill despite appearing in the physical universe was not ever actually in it, he was using visions, possessions and image projections to broadcast himself into our dimension.
Because, while he has immense control over the dream world he's from, he could could only affect the physical world through people's dreams.

The whole point of teaching Ford how to make the portal was because it would make the two dimensions start merging (or destabilize the boundary enough for Bill to make them merge). Stan reactivating the portal tore open the rift which Ford contained in the bubble. The wider the rift gets, the more the dream dimension bleeds into the physical, giving Bill more power over it. He seems to only have control over Gravity Falls now, but he'll eventually control the rest of Earth--if it doesn't destroy the whole universe first.

>Existing in a realm with no physical matter he couldn't take physical form, once in a physical realm by mere virtue of existing he took form.
Hence why his appearance changed from purely two-dimensional to a triangular plate that has depth, and thus volume.

>>239975
>It's strange, as he could still influence the physical world, like removing all the teeth of a deer, remember?
That was probably just an illusion (or just a mistake because it was written before the rules for this were laid out). At the very least, his influence was very limited.

>>239976
She's a Cacodemon on a women body and I love the idea.

Will Bill pop in right when Dipper goes for Mable and drop bomb. Cause enough of a delay that whatever plan they had for her is completed.

>>239948
There are so many hidden details in Gravity Falls.
http://gravityfalls.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_cryptograms

Can't wait for the next episode.

>>240010

Nice work! And yeah, her head does look like a cacodemon's.

Gravity Falls has two episodes left.

As in, the last two episodes ever.

http://shmalexsmirsch.tumblr.com/post/133619326491/goodbye-gravity-falls

>>240598
Guess they wanted to keep it a secret until Weirdmaggedon started.

The last one is an hour long, so it'll probably have a double page-unless it was just easier to design as a 7x3 with one spot missing.

>>240601
Disney needs to get their XD shit together. Too many shows being dragged out for YEARS. Rivaling Adult Swim here.

>>240602
Adult Swim shows have huge hiatuses between seasons because they're not being produced during contract negotiations.

Gravity Falls episodes are months apart because they're trying to get better mileage in terms of ratings (both from itself and boosting other shows).

Rest of this airs next year Overall I guess its okay? It feels like this is a compressed version of what they wanted for their third season. Half the plot lines from the first part of the season just vanished (Pacifica redeeming the family name, Wendy getting more depth) and now with the climax just around the corner.

I keep thinking how about how Kill La Kill felt like it was a two season planned arc compressed into one with its pacing. And This feels very similar like they had planned for three and then Disney cut them back to two later in production.

>>240607
According to Hirsch they made the decision before they even started writing Season 2.

>>240608
One season 1 and it was a constant battle with the execs.

>>240610
Hence YEAR FOUR of a two season show. Damn Disney needs an executive overhaul like Nick did last spring. Too many managers.

I consider it an improvement over how they handled Tron and Motorcity.

>>240614
Those were both hot steaming messes. Could have worked but just bad planning.

>>240614
Late is, of course, much better than never.

>>240616
Yea they worked closer with The crew in season two production, but I still feel something is off with things, like its still part of two different seasons. Heck if it was the same channel executives as before they likely wouldn't allow the Brothers Chaps to make a bunch of silly shorts.

Also while the sun sets on this one there are a some cartoons they are working on that I think will be good.

So Show is kinda unwatchable again since Mabel has been nothing but selfish and attained zero growth over the seasons Yes or No?

>>240630
No.

>>240630
No. Besides, we have one episode left.

>>240630
I don't know how people can say this when the most recent episode was all about her growing up and facing the real world instead of using ridiculous happy escapism.

>Weirdarmageddon, Part 1
>Weirdmaggedon 2
>Weirdmaggedon III
I hope those are intentionally the official titles, not just an accident.

>>240647
The last episode is a one-hour special, i.e. two episodes in one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=CegyM58_-ZE

Hopefully, it's at least in January.

//youtube.com/watch?v=vlIxadHwMYs

February 15

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/12/31/the-gravity-falls-finale-air-date-announced/?utm_campaign=ForbesGames&utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&linkId=20021911

That's nice. Had it not had such a flaccid half season (or been doing this for years) I'd probably be into it.

Really bugs me they just passed on a good amount of plots.

>Dipper 3 and 4 live
That's a good one.
>>231517

>>241686
Most of season two's second half wasn't great, but the only real problem I had with the finale is that but they spread a continuous plot over four months.

The only irritating part to me is the complete lack of the president key being useful in basically any way.
Other than that, I have the sad.

I'm not really sure what to do with myself now.

It's very clear there was always intended to be much more and that Alex had to rush down the ending for even a hope at a satisfying conclusion and in that regard he succeeded as much as could possibly be done.

>>241691
Yea it really looked like he'd planned a three season two seasons and a movie arc. But Disney dragging their feet for as long as they have ah well.

>>241695
By all indications, the delays came because they wanted to work on the episodes more. Production only even wrapped up a few weeks ago.

Likewise, while the show was original planned as three seasons, cutting back to two was almost certainly because they didn't want to stretch the main plot out further. After the Author's appearance, the show didn't have much going intrigue-wise; can you imagine if there was a whole season like that?

>>241696
That's why I feel Ford should have come in later. His entrance was quite abrupt as all the pieces were being put together.

I know some say "mysteries were set pieces not all were meant to be explored." I get that but it just feels spotty not as solid as Twin Peaks or its Simulacrum.

Hey, so whatever happened to Morty-voiced future guy? I remember him seeing time baby die and freaking out, but was that the last time we saw him?

>>241730
Yes, he decided to run away.

Hirsch admitted that they couldn't get everything in the episode, but there's a sort of booklet coming out this summer that's supposed to cover that kind of stuff.

//youtube.com/watch?v=s3y6yGCM-Wo

I read Journal 3, and I'd definitely recommend it. Besides being plenty entertaining, it provides a really good view of Ford's character.