User blog:DamiedeterJR/Plothole in A Tale of Two Stans

Hi guys! (Do people still say "Hi guys!" on blogs anymore? I haven't made a blog for a long while) Anyway, after watching A Tale of Two Stans for a 2nd time (I've watched it at least 5 times, but I thought of this after the 2nd time of watching the episode), I actually realized a plothole near the end of the episode (DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN). Now you might be thinking "What?! How is there a plothole?" Well, hopefully you'll understand when I'm done explaining.

After Ford disappears into the portal, Stan looks in Journal 1 and at the back of the book, it said "Continue to Journal 2". Now if that is the message at the back of Journal 1, then it's probably the same on the back of Journal 2 (except replace 2 with 3), right? Well, remember back in Gideon Rises, Gideon didn't know that there were 3 journals and he also had Journal 2, (here's the plothole moment) but if the back of Journal 2 had a similar message like Journal 1, then how did Gideon not know that there was a 3rd journal?

Now, you're probably right away thinking of possible situations of why this is the case, but I already have 3 possibilities that came to my mind to how could Gideon not know about Journal 3:

1. There's no message on the back of Journal 2 that says "Continue to Journal 3" (it would probably make sense since maybe Ford forgot to put "Continue to Journal 3" on the back cover of Journal 2)

2. Gideon completely ignored the back of the Journal (or he's just stupid)

3. Gideon didn't read the entire Journal from the front to back cover (which, if he had the journal for about a couple of years prior to the year that Gravity Falls takes place in, this wouldn't make sense)

I hope you understand this plothole, but don't worry, not only is it not a big plothole, but it also doesn't take away the greatness of the episode. So, what do you guys think?