Gravity Falls

Honestly, my question is how Mc Gucket's timer started before Stan's did.

I don't watch Rick and Morty but I expect to hear all about it on Vinesauce. I might watch it sometime, actually. I keep hearing great things about it.

I'd highly reccomend it.

I was just wondering what information Bill was trying to keep out of Dipper's hands.

McGucket is already dead.

Oh god

Did Kenshiro fight him?

edited 26th Jul '15 6:28:33 PM by ScottPilgrim2013

That might be interesting. Especially if what Ford's keeping secret is actively dangerous, killing off Mc Gucket would keep it secret.

Do you think he could've died in NWHS?

Simone in such poor physical condition could have just dyed in the fall. If that happens I suppose I won't be spending the rest of the season wondering about who dies.

That's what I thought.

For what it's worth, I suspect Lazy Susan is still alive.

...but it wasn't finished yet.

The countdown started when Stan fired up the Universe Portal in the season two premiere, but he needed to steal the radioactive materials in the security footage of NWHS to get it to activate. Why was the countdown going if Stan still needed to steal materials to make it work?

So we are only a week away from a new episode and we've got a new promo to show for it.

Not much new, but it there. I'll have to see a about a better quality upload later.

... odd. We HEAR Weird Al in the promo, but his character is still off-screen!

"I'm not here to play games!"

Right, Weird Al confirmed for Evil Character?

I read somewhere that he'd be voicing the wizard seen briefly in the SDCC trailer.

Are we not addressing Tobias Drake's point? Magic L Aaaaaptop!!!

I was thinking the process to activate the portal had already activated, Stan simply hadn't turned the countdown timer on yet.

I think it just was a really long load-up time. He just needed the fuel to actively keep it going. You know, like a navigator of telling you you'll reach your destination in time X, but if you forget to refuel on the way you'll only get halfway there.

Better quality promo is up now.

So I'm up to the Fighting Game episode. Which was mind-boggingly awesome. The characters have really grown on me, and I think the show has actually improved, in terms of relying less on Out of Character throwaway gags. Do we have a trope for reverse-Flanderization? When characters start off as broad, stilted, artificial, cartaanish, cardboard joke engines, only to become more nuanced and real-person-like as the story progresses?

Isn't that just character development?

Also, Stan's behavior in the second episode (when he wants to go fishing with the kids so badly) is retroactively given more depth later on, so it's possible the writers had it all planned this way from the start. The characters weren't two-dimensional, the audience was just missing crucial information about them.

edited 29th Jul '15 2:05:04 PM by spashthebandragon

Well, no, it would be a subtrope. Character Development simply means the character changes over time, for better or for worse. It doesn't specify whether it's a shift in morality, or a refinement of taste, or any other possible dimension. Flanderization is also Character Development.

Their behaviour towards him that episode seems to me to be uncharacteristically callous, but I'll hold off judgment until I finish the show.

edited 29th Jul '15 2:07:10 PM by TheHandle

The closest you get to what you are talking about is Hidden Depths and that probably isn't correct.