User blog comment:YazzyDream/Only 4 More Episodes Left in the Season!/@comment-3070554-20130424022831/@comment-2232235-20130424030950

Actually, Alex Hirsch has already thought ahead. He said this in an interview:



'' AH: "We have a storyline. There is a broad storyline that we’ve come up with—a beginning, middle, and end. The tentpoles of the broader, overarching mystery, the origin of magic in the town, the author of the books, what Dipper and Mabel’s role is in all of it, what Gideon’s [Thurop Van Orman] role is in all of it, Stan’s [Hirsch] secrets: We’ve actually solved all that and we solved it a little bit in the beginning of the season and toward the middle of the season, as we were finding the characters, we were able to really click into it. The broader character stories and town mythos has been mapped out." ''