Bill Cipher: ONE Fatal Mistake

Gravity Falls was a great show about a weird town, but have you heard of Long Gone Gulch? It's an amazing pilot about a similarly weird town: https://youtu.be/TVgFdq9w-0w

"it's been over 4 years since mabel and dipper took that one way bus trip out of gravity falls." " 4 years " that hit me like a truck.

Who looked at the title and just thought: yeah, he made one fatal mistake, he messed with Stan's family.

I absolutely adore the idea that bill is a single personified character attribute and he’s defeated by character development, because that makes bill… a /flat/ character

The thing I honestly found creepiest about Bill is the fact that he targets Mabel at her most vulnerable to get what he wants... and still technically "delivers" on his side of the bargain.

You know its a great series when four years after its finale, people are still finding hidden meanings, secrets, and lessons

He didn’t notice how Ford suddenly lost a finger on each hand, that was his mistake

I find it kind of spine-chilling that the creator of Gravity Falls, Alex Hirsch, is the voice actor of Bill Cipher. I don’t really know how to explain it, it kind of feels like Bill was the one who created all this and knew it was gonna happen

You know something that also probably affected stan a lot. Is that when he took Fords place, everyone thought he was the one who died. I think i remember at some point stan even mentioned there wasnt even a funeral held for him after he faked his death to take over stanfords life because no one cared enough about him to do so. That part just seemed to come back to me every now and then and makes stan a much sadder character

Bro that connection between Mabel and the audience about how they both don't want their treasured things to end was pure genius.

Took shape language in character design to a new level

A little thing about Gravity Falls' episode count and yet how good it was is that it was planned out from the start to have only 40 episodes, while other shows were more open-ended starting out or were subject to corporate meddling which ruined the pace of the show. Gravity Falls is a show that was allowed to reach its full potential.

If this show didn't have to remain kid-friendly for where it's shown, Bill would've been an even more badass character. I love a villain without a tragic/reasonable backstory. He just exists. I love it

When Bill and Ford met you could already tell they were both gonna make huge mistakes, bill moved his knight to an illegal square in the game of inter dimensional chess and Ford moved his queen past the row of pawns without an opening.

I like how the reason bill almost destroyed everything is because stanly ate chips a little to close to Stanford’s motion machine

16:26 Theres that old saying of "dont fear a warrior. Fear a man who has nothing left to lose" but theres also the one that applies here. "Dont fear a man that has nothing left to lose. But one that has nothing left to lose and everything to win."

Something else I really liked about Mabel and Stan's similarities is that at both their weakest moments, each felt as though not only their best friend and anchor was potentially leaving them, but they could not follow. Neither Mabel or Stan believed either held the same importance as their sibling and as such would inevitably be forced to live in their own stagnant "bubble" forever alone. I think it's actually the hatred and acceptance of their own inability to move forward based around their own insecurities that sparks the fear in them to keep those they love too close. Afterall, a screwup or a joke is only such when they admit it to others, right?

I was literally Mabel’s age when the show ended. She turned 13 just a few months before I did. Now I’m older than Wendy and I don’t know how to feel about this

Beginning: “it’s been almost 4 years” Me progressively ages

Mabel wasn't worse than Dipper, for one thing she had no idea who she was making a deal with when she gave up the orb. I think it's unfair that people hate on her when in reality all of the characters are flawed and have to learn to grow, not just her