Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future, Gallifrey Gals Get Gruncled! S2Ep17
Added 2022-05-27 17:01:04 +0000 UTCSummer in Gravity Falls is coming to its end, secrets are being revealed and Paula and Katrina are coming close to the end of this journey!
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PAULA DEMING
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You can just skip ahead ?
Rime Pendragon
2023-09-03 19:55:50 +0000 UTCAgreed with this! Ford has his own shit to deal with, and I think Paula and Katrina are correct -- he's projecting. But it's not out of a place of malice, of course; he's just struggling. And to be further fair to him -- he *was* on the run in dangerous dimensions for 30 years, that's going to affect a guy, and he's only been back in his home world for a few weeks. That entire time has been spent under the pressure of protecting the Rift and knowing Bill Cipher is still waiting to strike. Guy has not had enough time to re-acclimate to being home, let alone to process all of his shit. He's trying... but he's trying in a flawed way, at this point. He still has stuff to overcome. (Also, I realize that thanks to JKS's voice work, Ford does sound kind of stern and grumpy sometimes, but man, how soon they forget DD&MD! That episode was meant to show us that no matter how Ford sounds, he has a fun, silly side as well. He's not "all grumpy all the time". But, again, he's dealing with this tremendous pressure right now, with the Rift and the looming threat of Bill. And one of Ford's flaws, that he needs to work on, is *trusting other people* and asking for help. He's even been trying! Unfortunately, in the few weeks he's been back, he has only made progress in trusting Dipper -- and to a lesser extent, Mabel (remember him entrusting her with the unicorn mission, giving her one of his Journals and a weapon; even if he thought it was unlikely she'd succeed, that was because of his bad experience with the unicorns, not lack of faith in Mabel). Stan is definitely "going through some stuff", as this intro said. But Ford has been speed-running a whole lot of personal development in very little time. Making up for a lost 30 years, I guess you could say. He's very definitely in the wrong here! But yeah, I think the show also wants folks to understand why, that he's sad and lonely, and paranoid and frightened. He's trying to get better; it's just that, what we see in this ep wasn't the right way to do it.
Eregyrn
2022-05-29 16:57:28 +0000 UTC(To be fair, if Dipper stayed in Gravity Falls, he'd still be able to socialize with Wendy and her friends, and even Candy and Grenda and so on. Those folks would all still be there and presumably Dipper would not be adventuring with Ford 24/7. He would get SOME socialization. However, I overall agree that this just wasn't the right thing for Dipper to do. And I even think it would not have been the right idea, even if Mabel had been invited to stay as well -- which is a suggestion fans have made sometimes over the years.)
Eregyrn
2022-05-29 16:48:28 +0000 UTCApart from everything else, I kind of love the fact that because of all of the heavy, very gripping emotional stuff at the end... you almost forget HOW MUCH incredible stuff happens in this episode. ALIENS! A UFO under Gravity Falls! Ford getting captured and ALMOST sent off to a distant prison planet! Dipper being an absolutely badass and figuring out how to save him! But by the end of the ep, all you can think about is the personal conflicts and of course, Bill and THAT ENDING. And I do not mean that as any kind of criticism, I think that's the amazing thing about this episode. Alex Hirsch once said (long before the series was over) that he didn't want to do an aliens plotline (even though we've seen UFOs in one of the polaroids in the title sequence since the very start, for the X-Files aesthetic), because in his view, once a show (like this) does aliens, there's just about nowhere else to go that's bigger. So of course he saved it for the last 'normal' episode, right before the finale "movie" (which is really what the last eps are). And he STILL found a way to make it feel like the revelation of aliens in Gravity Falls is cool, but overshadowed by the rest of the ep's revelations. Now that's some writing! And in a way, I think this ep is a metaphor for the series itself. The plotline, the introduction of aliens, is very cool and shocking and exciting. But what REALLY captures people's attention and hooks them is the characters and their relationships, and the conflicts that arise from that. And that lines up with what Alex Hirsch said he intended for this show. The plot stuff, the mysteries, they're stuff that happens -- but the show is ABOUT the characters and their growth. (At this point, about *all four* Pines and what they're all going through, what they all need to confront and the growth they need, and the question is, will they get through it, will they succeed or fail.) Bring on the end! Let's find out! :)
Eregyrn
2022-05-29 16:46:25 +0000 UTCGlad to see someone else mentioned it! Homeschooling is perfectly legal! (If you set it up legally of course.) Don't get me wrong -- I'm in the camp that while this offer sort of makes sense, it's the wrong thing for Dipper to do. Dipper DOES need to grow up on his own, and he needs to socialize with other people. I *adore* Ford, he's my favorite character in GF -- but he's absolutely projecting here, and this isn't the right direction. (But, it's also sort of hard to view this development as anything other than a step on the way to the end, I guess? This is the introduced conflict -- the TEMPTATION for Dipper and Mabel to go the way that Stan and Ford did. The real question is, what WILL happen? Will they go that way? Or will they avoid that fate, because they are NOT Stan and Ford? This is the endgame, so of course we have to have a question like this.)
Eregyrn
2022-05-29 16:38:29 +0000 UTCAnd his social development? Dipper really needs to grow up with kids his own age, not keeping hanging out with just 70' year olds as his only friends.
Mark Ten
2022-05-29 03:11:33 +0000 UTCKatrina really reminds me of Death from The Sandman this episode.
Ka Man Chan
2022-05-28 11:00:19 +0000 UTCThere are game-makers in McMinnville? Home of the Spruce Goose???
Firefly24601
2022-05-27 21:32:06 +0000 UTCBefore I saw it, I was strangely ambivalent about the new Batman movie, but I ended up liking what they did. Aside from Batman-related stuff, I don't see DC as being particularly "dark," so it was weird to hear Katrina characterize them that way. I mean, I guess Zack Snyder's take on the material is also on the darker side. Speaking of, I was surprised by how much I loved his four hour cut of Justice League (and what a radical departure it was from the theatrical version). I was bummed when Warner Bros shot down hopes of a sequel immediately after its release. I've compared that decision to being like if TNG had gotten the axe after season 3, right as it was getting good. I don't have anything against Marvel and the endless barrage of movies they crank out like widgets on a factory assembly line, but I'm way more of a DC person, and as someone who grew up with Superman and Batman, et al, and who only had the dimmest idea of who Iron Man or Dr. Strange were, I can't deny that it does pain me a little to see DC repeatedly fumbling at the box office and/or getting eclipsed by Marvel. I wish I could think of a better analogy, I view it as sort of being like if Looney Tunes got surpassed in popularity by Terrytoons. Sorry, I feel like I'm rambling, but if you can go on for ten minutes about comic book movies, I guess I shouldn't feel too self-conscious about devoting a few sentences to that subject as well.
David Bishop
2022-05-27 21:08:42 +0000 UTCPaula liked a superhero movie?! DC is at it's best in the DC Animated Universe and there are a number of movies featuring Robin. Pretty dark stuff sometimes.
Josh G
2022-05-27 21:06:24 +0000 UTCInvincible is a good superhero show that might entertain pula
Terry Carr
2022-05-27 19:44:00 +0000 UTCyeah since it's over and it has a easter egg
Terry Carr
2022-05-27 19:41:11 +0000 UTCYou guys should react to Amphibia after Gravity Falls.
Adam Brown
2022-05-27 18:37:06 +0000 UTCI agree that there's nothing wrong with Dipper wanting to take the apprenticeship. I wouldn't even say it's selfish. But I do think that Ford, being the adult that he is, should know that it's not fair to describe Mabel as "holding Dipper back." And you'd think that since his own relationship with his brother went so badly, that he would maybe tell Dipper to cherish that relationship for as long as he can. But it is a gray area, that's why it's so good! :)
Tmatts
2022-05-27 18:20:55 +0000 UTCSad skinny boys, eh? Thanks for sharing that. Anyway, shipping 'Dipcifica' - thats why fan fiction exists. Let's go easy on Ford, he was really talking about Home Schooling Dipper which is legal if his parents agree. And Ford lived alone in the woods for 20 years and spend 30 years in other dimensions away from the human race. He really is pretty clueless about people and kids. Dipper is the first person, first member of his family he's tried to reach out to. Yes, Ford is selfish... but he is also kind of sad and he's not really coming from a bad place.
Mark Ten
2022-05-27 18:10:18 +0000 UTCFord would be homeschooling Dipper, that's why he mentioned the PhD and that his parents would be ecstatic about it. Paula was not having the school nonsense lol. Also while it is definitely not black and white, you guys are ignoring the other side of it so I'm going to play devils advocate. What ford is offering Dipper is literally right up his alley, investigative reporter type stuff, an internship more perfectly cultivated for his interests would be impossible to find. It would be selfish of Mable to tell him he can't do that because she would be lonely. Before I get yelled at, I fully understand the selfishness from the other side as well, I'm just taking this stance to show it's a grey area, Stanley and Stanford university situation was similar, though they were 4 years older so not as painful a separation.
DougRaw
2022-05-27 17:53:33 +0000 UTCMaybe it was just my mood today.. but I was a little anxious to get to the episode part already and not at all in the mood for a 13 minute review of "the Batman" - Good, you chose the wrong episode to keep us waiting in suspense for!
Ashtara Levin
2022-05-27 17:47:59 +0000 UTCOh boy! Here we go! I basically consider this episode the beginning of the finale. This is going to be a wild ride!!! :)
Tmatts
2022-05-27 17:03:38 +0000 UTC
