Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4621306-20160220233942/@comment-8161155-20170802133340

Wow, I can't believe I didn't see this before.

I loved Gravity Falls as a whole, but I feel that the first ten episodes had a far higher quality than the others. The second half of Season 2, however, was great in its own right, even though it wasn't as good as the beginning of Season 1.

I think that the Weirdmageddon arc was extremely weak. None of the three episodes was particularly good, and all but Part 1 were actively bad. Dipper gives up his apprenticeship with Ford for no real reason except to maintain a status quo (the show's ending, too. What's the point of trying to keep a status quo of any sort?), Stan has to learn to forgive Ford in the heat of the moment, etc. etc. forced cliches.

And the way they defeat Bill is the most infuriating resolution of any show that I've seen. First, the clothes swap thing is cheating because their voices inexplicably switch, too. Second, we're supposed to put all this stock into a plan with the memory gun, which has hardly been explained to us, making the memory gun's a sort of get-out-of-jail free card to the writers, as it can work any way they want. And, the worst part, Stan getting his memory back after less than four minutes of screen time. Meaning that there was absolutely no sacrifice to defeating Bill whatsoever, even though a good portion of the episode talks about said non-sacrifice.

If that's not enough ranting to you, I defer you to my further ranting.