User blog comment:Dereviewer/Impatience/@comment-26863672-20151021202923/@comment-26863672-20151121061726

(Wow I suck. I swear the tab to this blog has just been sitting on my browser window staring at me in guilt for the past few weeks. But hey! I'm getting it out before Part 2 airs, so I'll take it as a win. XD)

(Trying to go in order. Note some of my opinions have probably seemed to change in these past 2 weeks.)

1. For one thing, wasn't it the gigantic Gompers that destroyed the prison? And even if they do rebuild the prison, I highly doubt they'll put Gideon (and his close prison buddies) back in it. Things don't just go back to normal after things like Weirdmageddon. Things are looked at from bigger perspectives and compared to something like mass murder and panic on apopcalyptic levels, their crimes won't seem as bad. Plus, if Gideon follows through and stays on the side of right, he and his henchmen will be seen more as heroes/just good in general, and they wouldn't go back to prison for that. (Also, what other prisoners would ever let themselves be taken back to prison after an event like this? Most are either dead/mutated somehow from the event, have run away, or are one of Gideon's henchmen.)

2. It's definitely a unique fic! Interesting and sounds pretty good for a self-insert story (which I don't read too many of since most aren't that good, but yours seems to be an exception). :) But don't worry about it being ruined, bc it's not based off a new episode. That's why it's called "fan-fiction:" It's fanmade, and fictitious to both the show's reality and ours. But it shouldn't be ruined. But it sounds good to me.

3. I agree with all you said at the beginning of that big paragraph (and the reasoning is within all my other previous comments about this topic). *Jumps to bottom of big paragraph* I agree. In all actuality, Mabel is a bad matchmaker (her heart's in the right place, but...)(although she was successful with Stan and Lazy Susan; it was Stan who "ran out" on that one). And while she didn't have the right to get mad at Dipper when she didn't consider his feelings in the first place, to be honest, I can believe it. I kind of just had a flashback moment to when I was twelve (and younger/older than that even), and I'm able to see things through Mabel's and the girls' eyes. When I was that age, I had school crushes on boys a lot, and, hard as it is to personally believe now, I was rather forward for someone like me. I would pass notes to my crush, asking if he liked me, and the answer was always no. It was very upsetting, and looking back, I'm sure I had been upset over it and thought mean things about him (even though he did nothing wrong). In retrospect, I can see where I had been pushy, and that no one had any life experience then (and that girls mature faster than boys). But I get where the GF girls are coming from; there's something exciting about pursuing a crush at that age, and bonding with friends over it through its good and bad, and hating the common enemy (the boy). Trust me, I'm still on Dipper's side and think the girls are at blame, but I get the girls' side too. They can't help it at that age. (I gotta say though, it's nice to be in my early twenties now and know if I'm being a jerk. Or someone else is.) XD

Oh, no. Dipper's definitely not a failure. I was really proud of him throughout that episode. Dare I say it? Our Little Dipper's becoming a Big Dipper. (*high fives self for astronomy joke*) XD It was cool/good to see him like this though, and his bonding with Stan was perfectly written.

And now there's the new fact of the finale coming up. :(