Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24597765-20150909003444/@comment-8161155-20150921211910

You make a lo of good points, but I'm gonna say that it wasn't too coincidental for Stanford to be thinking about Bill; he was setting up a machine to prevent Bill from possessing anyone, so of course he's gonna be thinking of the reason WHY he's doing that.

"Next comes Dipper's response: grabbing the rift and walking off with it. He does this cause of the dream, Stanford's glasses, his voice and his walk. Of course, it never crosses his mind that if Stanford really was Bill, that would mean breaking the rift open wasn't his true goal. If it was, Stanford/Bill would've just done it already. Also, he's suspicious of a lens glare he should've already seen from the lighting prior?"

And the thing about Dipper not acting logically: well, he was panicking.

Stanford not telling the kids about Bill before? That's just Stanford's character: he seems to think that other people are unable to handle important information. It seems that while Ford is very smart when it comes to science, he doesn't have much common sense. I didn't have a problem with that in this episode because this has been consistent with all of his appearances (It does get me pretty annoyed at Ford, though he makes up for it by being generally awesome)

This episode did have problems, though. In addition to the ones you pointed out, I was pretty confused with the Project Mentum. It "biochemically encrypts your thoughts so Bill can't read them." What? How does this stop Bill from reading them? Is the giant screen reading your thoughts aloud really necessary? Does that mean you have to be hooked up to the machine in order for it to work, in which case this is completely useless? What?