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My sister made a good point against a character death because there is literally NO TIME in the episode to deal with the fallout of that… Children will be traumatized if one of their favorite characters just dies with no closure or anything.
That’s a really good point.
I mean, I’m the first to start worrying and speculating, but given the time restraints on the finale alone, and the fact that killing a member of the family would be so monumental (and not fit in with the whole ‘surreal feel of summer’ that seems to be central to the shows theme) I DON’T think they’re going to kill anyone. Permanently. Probably.
*knocks on wood just in case*
Yup. Also it’s just poor storytelling. Imagine if in the very last episode in the last ten minutes, a beloved character dies in a goofy Disney cartoon? Lol remember that entire lesson about family sticking together but then one of them just up and dies… bye kids hope you had a great summer!
Okay guys look LOOK I hate to be Ms. Poops On Parade here, I don’t want Stan to die and I really really hope you’re right, but:
1) Someone is going to die. Alex Hirsch said there’s be a character death in season 2. And I think only deep, profound denial can really make me believe it’s Big Henry or Mayor Befuffleflumpter, his exact words were “at least one character will not survive Season 2. Buckle up.” So it’s almost certainly going to be a character with some degree of significance. That doesn’t mean it will be Stan or a member of the Pines family, but it’s probably going to be someone the audience cares about to some degree.
2) I don’t think I agree that it’d necessarily be bad storytelling, or out of sync with the tone of the show or the theme of family sticking together. The reason there are so many Stan death theories is that his death has been foreshadowed A LOT, not just with visual symbolism like images of him catching fire, but with character development–Stan has shown time and time again that he cares very little for his own safety when his family is on the line. We know he’s willing to sacrifice himself and that despite all he’s done he still has something to prove. He’s also been a fairly morbid character from the start.
Sometimes killing a beloved character is great storytelling. I grew up on Don Bluth movies like The Secret of NIMH and The Land Before Time, and both of those movies kill off a mentor-like figure in an incredibly memorable moment. You could pick apart why it’s different in those movies than it would be in Gravity Falls, but ultimately I don’t think it’s beyond the GF writers’ ability to make it a well done, dramatic, emotional moment that suits the show’s larger narrative. Closure can happen in just a few scenes, after all.
Right now, Stan’s prospects don’t seem very happy. He’s spent most of his life trying to reconnect with a brother who now wants nothing to do with him. At the end of the summer he’s going to lose his home, the business he’s devoted 30 years to, and his identity. There’s a good chance that means he’ll lose contact with his family as well.
Ford told Stan he wanted his house and his name back. Well, if Stan died he’d get his house and name back in the most bitter way possible. He’d be made to realize that he had his priorities backwards, that he should have reconnected with his brother when he had the chance. The Stans would serve as a negative example for the twins, (as they have done since ATOTS.)
And if Stan dies heroically saving the world from Bill, well…we all know Stan feels he has something to prove. He’s proven himself to be a hero already to the town, the twins…to pretty much everybody except the one person who he most feels the need to prove himself to, the one person he believes he’s been trying to catch up to all his life. Maybe it would take something as drastic and dramatic as dying to stop Bill to make Ford see that Stan’s love for his family is what makes him a hero.
Now I’m not saying that any of this means that Stan is going to die. Just that I don’t think it would necessarily be bad storytelling or out of sync with the show in general if he did.
Besides. If you think Alex Hirsch has a problem with traumatizing children…
Well, I’ve got a couple of Stan-Vacs to sell you.
Thank you for this. I’m always so confused when people say Stan dying would be “bad story telling” I don’t see how that’s bad story telling. Frankly I think it’s good story telling. Isn’t foreshadowing a very important part of good story telling? And Stan’s death has certainly been foreshadowed. The only thing that gives me hope for Stan is the whole “there’s not enough time” thing. But even that shouldn’t give me confidence, after I wasn’t sure if there was enough time in season two to finish the story, but yet, they made it work and were able to finish the story in two seasons. The writers know they’re doing, whatever they want to happen, they will make it work.
My sister made a good point against a character death because there is literally NO TIME in the episode to deal with the fallout of that… Children will be traumatized if one of their favorite characters just dies with no closure or anything.
That’s a really good point.
I mean, I’m the first to start worrying and speculating, but given the time restraints on the finale alone, and the fact that killing a member of the family would be so monumental (and not fit in with the whole ‘surreal feel of summer’ that seems to be central to the shows theme) I DON’T think they’re going to kill anyone. Permanently. Probably.
*knocks on wood just in case*
Yup. Also it’s just poor storytelling. Imagine if in the very last episode in the last ten minutes, a beloved character dies in a goofy Disney cartoon? Lol remember that entire lesson about family sticking together but then one of them just up and dies… bye kids hope you had a great summer!
Okay guys look LOOK I hate to be Ms. Poops On Parade here, I don’t want Stan to die and I really really hope you’re right, but:
1) Someone is going to die. Alex Hirsch said there’s be a character death in season 2. And I think only deep, profound denial can really make me believe it’s Big Henry or Mayor Befuffleflumpter, his exact words were “at least one character will not survive Season 2. Buckle up.” So it’s almost certainly going to be a character with some degree of significance. That doesn’t mean it will be Stan or a member of the Pines family, but it’s probably going to be someone the audience cares about to some degree.
2) I don’t think I agree that it’d necessarily be bad storytelling, or out of sync with the tone of the show or the theme of family sticking together. The reason there are so many Stan death theories is that his death has been foreshadowed A LOT, not just with visual symbolism like images of him catching fire, but with character development–Stan has shown time and time again that he cares very little for his own safety when his family is on the line. We know he’s willing to sacrifice himself and that despite all he’s done he still has something to prove. He’s also been a fairly morbid character from the start.
Sometimes killing a beloved character is great storytelling. I grew up on Don Bluth movies like The Secret of NIMH and The Land Before Time, and both of those movies kill off a mentor-like figure in an incredibly memorable moment. You could pick apart why it’s different in those movies than it would be in Gravity Falls, but ultimately I don’t think it’s beyond the GF writers’ ability to make it a well done, dramatic, emotional moment that suits the show’s larger narrative. Closure can happen in just a few scenes, after all.
Right now, Stan’s prospects don’t seem very happy. He’s spent most of his life trying to reconnect with a brother who now wants nothing to do with him. At the end of the summer he’s going to lose his home, the business he’s devoted 30 years to, and his identity. There’s a good chance that means he’ll lose contact with his family as well.
Ford told Stan he wanted his house and his name back. Well, if Stan died he’d get his house and name back in the most bitter way possible. He’d be made to realize that he had his priorities backwards, that he should have reconnected with his brother when he had the chance. The Stans would serve as a negative example for the twins, (as they have done since ATOTS.)
And if Stan dies heroically saving the world from Bill, well…we all know Stan feels he has something to prove. He’s proven himself to be a hero already to the town, the twins…to pretty much everybody except the one person who he most feels the need to prove himself to, the one person he believes he’s been trying to catch up to all his life. Maybe it would take something as drastic and dramatic as dying to stop Bill to make Ford see that Stan’s love for his family is what makes him a hero.
Now I’m not saying that any of this means that Stan is going to die. Just that I don’t think it would necessarily be bad storytelling or out of sync with the show in general if he did.
Besides. If you think Alex Hirsch has a problem with traumatizing children…
Well, I’ve got a couple of Stan-Vacs to sell you.
Thank you for this. I’m always so confused when people say Stan dying would be “bad story telling” I don’t see how that’s bad story telling. Frankly I think it’s good story telling. Isn’t foreshadowing a very important part of good story telling? And Stan’s death has certainly been foreshadowed. The only thing that gives me hope for Stan is the whole “there’s not enough time” thing. But even that shouldn’t give me confidence, after I wasn’t sure if there was enough time in season two to finish the story, but yet, they made it work and were able to finish the story in two seasons. The writers know they’re doing, whatever they want to happen, they will make it work.
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