It needed 3 seasons. More importantly, we NEED a direct sequel series.
no we don't. The big mystery behind gravity falls (the journal and Bill) are both over. Everyone's friends and there's no conflict or mystery anymore. There's nothing left to do.
Alex dicksuckers will come at you with the cope "but if it had another season it would end up just like the Simpsons!!!" ignoring the fact that season 2 was rushed as hell because the hack manlet couldn't handle working on the cartoon and wanted to quit before even making season 2.
>>143359014>there's no conflict or mystery anymore.So make new ones?
>>143358942gravity falls was done by mid s2 and continuously shat the bed until the finale
>>143358942David Benioff and DB Weiss effect. Creator(s) get too big for their own britches, and start getting offered better deals, so they quickly abandon and try to wrap up what propelled them to stardom in the first place, only to fuck it up so badly it gets all their planned works shitcanned and leaves them in an awkward spot.
>>143359403What exactly did Alex get offered? He's never worked on anything else except as a VA or a script doctor. He's been pretty forward with the fact that he and a lot of his coworkers had never worked on a show before and were so overwhelmed by it that S2 almost didn't happen.
>>143359423He was offered a multi-million dollar deal by Netflix to develop a cartoon.Alex, of course, ended up developing zero, and there were grumblings that his involvement in Inside Job actively hurt the series.
>>143358942It needed Bill to not be such a big jobber.
>>143359207>give me the lowest quality garbage imaginable Why are you so afraid of letting a good thing lie?
>>143358942Nah, its run time was perfect and it ended on a high note. I do kinda wish we got post Gravity Falls series about the Stan brothers going on cool adventures on the Stan-O'-War 2
>Pacifica and Wendy are all in relationships with other people (a girl in Wendy's case, guaranteed)>Dipper self inserters commit mass suicide
>Even though Grunkle Stan seems like a doddering nutjob, he is actually the sworn protector of the town- his Mystery Shack is not just a business but an outpost to guard from threats, as well as a hokey front to make all of the magic of the town seem like a hoax. As it turns out though, Stan is getting up in his years and has brought Dipper & Mabel in as potential replacements to run the shack and protect the town. Of course, he can’t just outright tell them this- their little minds would be blown, and they’re not mature enough to handle it. He knows the only way to understand the importance of the town is to experience it for yourself. He plays the sarcastic old fool around them, secretly hoping that they rise to the occasion and are ready when the time comes to reveal everything. (Which, if it ever happens, would either be in the last episode, or the movie) was this a better story than "Stan has a creepy genius twin brother who wants to take Dipper alone on a boat to an island owned by one of Hirsch's buddies whose involvement in this show now requires it to have extensive redubbing?"
>>143360020Stop it, STOP IT.Every time something comes out that makes Alex look like even more of a hack, his height and hairline shrinks another inch.
Prototype Wendy was... different.
>>143360056...Is that favoring the concept or no?
>>143360089Favoring, since it feels like it meshes up with what the ending was originally trying to bring (Dipper continuing on the documenting of mystery) than the wet fart "lol go back to school kid" we got. Plus Stanford was really kind of lame.
>>143358942>It needed 3 seasons.No. Because Disney decided each season had to be 20 episodes, and season 1 ended with the reveal that Stan had the missing journal. There was no way to have 40 episodes after that without fucking up the pacing and killing the sense of suspense. We needed 5-10 more eps, not another 20.Ford showing up and all the reveals of "Not What He Seems" happened in ep 11 of Season 2, halfway through season 2. Pretty ideal, really. 10 eps of us guessing wtf was going on with Stan before we got our answer. Now after that it would've been DAMN SWEET to get some extra eps. If we could've had 15-20 whole eps AFTER Ford showed up, well, that would've been fantastic. That would've been the Golden Perfect. Give us a chance to wrap up some loose ends, touch on some of those extra ideas. But having 20 eps between "Stan has the third Journal" and Ford showing up would've fucked up the pacing, stretching out the whole "what's Stan's deal?" thing too much. And if you instead kept Ford showing up in S2E11, that would mean 30 eps of Ford puttering around in the background, severely letting the air out of the whole "Impending Doom" thing that needed to be going on.There just wasn't a way to add another 20 eps without fucking up the pacing, not after Gideon Rises was finalized. Maybe if Hirsch had been told on day one "You'll have 60 episodes" it could've been done well, he could've spaced out the big events ideally. But that's not how it happened. He made a reasonable call based on the two options available: either leave some stuff on the cutting room floor or stretch it out to the point where it lost its punch.
>>143358942>More importantly, we NEED a direct sequel series.No, the ideal place to go would be to give Hirsch the thing he actually asked for: a Gravity Falls video game that he can tell a story with.
>>143360020No, this sounds boring
>>143358942No
>>143358942no
