Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan
I have a Twitter thread here going over some of the unused episode ideas from the leaked pitch bible for the show: https://x.com/forever_gf618/status/1784064999687700612?s=46&t=7YT7yMPCw2VMMwQUxWj5_A
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only if you're signed in to twitter
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I’ll just post the images
An extra sketch from the pitch too:
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Apr 27th 2024 at 11:13:36 AM
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
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Mabel is possessed by an 80 year old ghost is like eww but it was likely used when that ghost turned her around and used her like a puppet
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When I saw the title "Periodic Mabel", I thought for a second it was going in a very different direction.
Bummed we didn't get a time loop episode, but glad we avoided the "gypsy curse" stereotype.
"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool" - Haruhara Haruko
It looks like two, if not three or four, of those episode pitches were reworked into actual episodes.
"Thtupid Thursday" sounds like it would've been fun.
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the funniest thing is there's not a single mention of Bill,its like this whole other show
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To be fair, Bill didn't even make his first appearance until near the end of the first season.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Apparently, Bill wasn't originally meant to be the main villain of the series. From what I've heard, he was a more harmless trickster character who messed with Dipper by giving him mysterious sounding, but ultimately meaningless misinformation (hence his whole "Buy Gold" spiel in his first appearance).
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It's interesting for sure considering how the late additions of Bill into the plot actually felt natural. (Though I did see Bill's early characterization as having remnants of what seemed to be a mor neutral trollish role)
Seems like Bill was meant to be more like Q from Star Trek in that regards
"Bingo! If two species hate each other, they will wipe each other out on their own."
I am curious if the show had a concrete final boss before Bill took up the role. Could it have been Stanford? Quentin?
McGucket?
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The final boss would probably be little Gideon in that huge mech of his I think
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...Honestly, bullet dodged.
I like Gideon as an antagonist, believe me, but a Final Boss? I dunno, maybe Alex Hirsch could have pulled it off? But with what we have of Bill Cipher... he basically ended things off as perfectly as you could ever hope for with a show like this.
Robin: Don't ever ask me to dock with you again. Serious...
Going by the show's What Could Have Been page, the original Big Bad was going to be a cryptid of some kind.
The sleepiest good boi
The fact that the story was not 100% plotted out in advance is still rather surprising to me given how tightly it manages to come across when watching. With all the plot points that add up and come together so smoothly you'd never realize most of them were just thrown together as the show went along.
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Yeah, a lot of stuff just kind of ended up working out really smoothly. I guess the one big thing they had was the identity of the author, which was still at least something as the main mystery of the show, though.
"Let’s see who’s stronger: someone that has something to protect, or someone that has nothing to lose."
I don’t think Ford is that callous. He’d rescue Stan, though I’m sure he’d try to figure out a way to stop Bill first. Maybe build that energy rifle, maybe try to invoke the zodiac.