User blog:CaveJohnson/Not what he seems

Ok, i'm pretty sure it's ok for me to post this blog as long as I give a fair warning, if not go ahead and take it down admins.

Anwyay, for those who haven't seen it, this blog contains spoilers for the new episode 'Not what he seems' and they are REALLY big spoilers, so if you don't want some of the most epic things spoiled for you, I recommend not reading this if you've seen it.

(Also, this is long, bewarb.)

It's been a while since my last theory blog, and I realize I don't get on the chat much anymore.

(Largely because i'm busy writing MLP FIM fanfics, as well writing my own original series, and drawing characters for it.)

So the first thing I wanna talk about, is the biggest reveal of all, actually hold up..

the TWO biggest reveals of all, after 'Stanley' wasn't officially canon until today!

And he's the Author? BWAHAHA! I knew it!

(...No I didn't really, but I did consider him a suspect.)

While I admit part of me hoped 'Stanley' wasn't a real thing, in that he was a tad bit cliche, (just liked I hoped Stan didn't have Journal 1) The way they handled it made me completely forget how cliche it was, just like with Journal 1.

I mean I flipped FREAKED,

I practically squeeled like a little girl as soon as he walked through that portal.

And he has six fingers on BOTH hands?..

That feels contradictory to something.. but eh, whatever.

However there is one thing...

I'm not sure his name is Stanley. (Despite that being one of the biggest pieces of evidence previously)

In fact.. i'm not sure Stan's name is even Stanford, after all the real 'Stan Pines' died.

Some are probably saying that it was probably Stanley who supposedly died in that car crash, since it only said 'Stan Pines' however I have a few problems with that.

The whole reason people believe his name is Stanley is because of that license plate, but if 'Stanley' had died in that car crash, why would Stan now be driving Stanley's car?

So from this I believe we might can conclude neither of them are 'Stan Pines' and that they are not related to Dipper and Mabel in anyway. in fact, the reasoning behind the license palte might be because Stan is going under a false name, and doesn't really remember/care whether his name is Stanley or Stanford.

True that disproves the whole 'Twins are hereditary' thing, but it's still not impossible for Stan, or...whoever he really is, to have his own twin.

However his name might really be Stan, there are some counter points to this theory.

For instance he was selling 'Stan Vacs' when he was noticably younger than the 'Grifter' seen in those pictures, why would he have called them 'Stan Vacs' if they weren't a pun on his own name?

Also, Stan said he did all this for 'This family'

implying he WAS truly related to them.

So here's another theory.

the 'El Diablo' really does, and always has, belonged to the Stan we know,

but in memory of his brother Stanley, he has been using his license plate on his car, as the license plate somehow survived the car crash.

That seems reasonable enough.

However this brings me to the next point.

How could Stanley be dead? was his death faked? I mean we saw him at the end of Not what he seems!

I have a theory, although i'm not sure how much sense it makes given Stanley looked like he had been somewhere a while, what with the outfit that looked like he was dressed for flipping war!

Here's the theory.

Stanley was dead, and the portal brought him back to life.

This would make sense with the statemenet 'Everything will change' I mean with the revelation someone could be brought back to life, I could see how things would change!

However given we've already seen Ghosts, I question whether or not the world of Gravity Falls even has an after life, even if it does, it seems like one can simply stay within the mortal realm at will.

So my assumption is Stanley faked his death, for whatever reason.

it said something was cut, that caused the vehicle to crash.

That made the police suspect foul play, what if it wasn't foul play?

What if they were cut to stage an accident by Stanley or Stanford?

I mean what villain do we have that would do that? Bill doesn't seem the type to do that..

I mean he'd probably give them a crazier death. xD Gideon's too young, Pacifica and Robbie are also too young, and they're... good now?

My brother suggested Blind Ivan, but if he was against them, why would he end up in charge of McGucket's secret society?

Ok so here's my idea.

Stanley, Stanford, and McGucket create the portal with the help of Bill.

Stanley jumps in to test it, however it turns out it's unstable, and the longer it's open, the more damage is done to the world.

Stanley tells Stan to shut off the portal with him on the other side, as there's no time.

Stanford refuses, but McGucket turns it off in his stead.

Stan says he's going to open the portal again.

McGucket takes the journals, but drops Journal 1, erases the memory of the machine from Stanford, as well as the memory from himself, creating the Society of the Blind Eye.

He then hides Journal 2 and 3.

Stan visits his hideout consistently to try and figure out a way to operate the portal,

while he doesn't succeed at that, he does figure a way to stabilize it, (sort of) so that if it does open, it won't blow up the entire universe.

Then we have the events of the series.

(I also think Stanley is many years younger than Stan now, due to time in the universe he was teleported to, running differently than the Gravity Falls Universe, this would explain his still brown hair.)

So what do you guys think? do you think this is plausible? if not what do you think happened? Let me know in the comments below.