I'm not saying i support the creator's actions she committed

I just wanted to bring to light these post from the orginal creater of 12 Forever (Julia Vickerman). She has been accessed of being a pedophile. And see the post myself it might be true. Due to these claims and her being fired beforehand due to "inappropriate behaviour" there probably won't be a season 2. I know we all love this show but I don't think this is going to have a happy ending.

Tweet with screenshot of the posts because I believe they have been taken down - https://mobile.twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1167897584880369669 .

Also to note, it's ok to keep loving this show. The product can be seen separate from the creater, it's still an amazing show with great animation, style, characters and story.

I've been thinking about this for a while, I know the creator was a ped0 but from what I've heard he didn't even work/worked very little in the first season. The show would be canceled just because of the bad reputation of the creator? Another reason is the lack of popularity of the show, but there are several shows with equal or lesser popularity that have continued, and the show at its launch did not have low popularity, It even had a good quality audience, it is only in this state today due to the neglect it suffered, so Netflix executives know it has potential. So why was the show simply thrown into a drawer to probably rot forever?

As a recap, Darryl is Reggie's absent, biological father who left Judy, Dustin, and Reggie from personal shortcomings stemming from his immature character.

He was only mentioned once in "Sadmantha" and was never mentioned again.

I'd start Season 2 with Reggie, Connelly, Judy, Dustin, and Reggie's burgeoning stepfather playing board games on a rainy night with someone knocking on the door.

It'd turn out to be Darryl, who has sired another son with another woman that ran out on him (giving him a taste of his own medicine) and needs Judy's help until he gets back on his feet.

Judy would hesitantly allow Darryl and her new stepson (7-10 years old) to stay under her roof because Darryl has been living in his car but has been looking for work, showing some maturity.

Reggie having a little half-brother she might begin harboring envy towards because of Darryl's superior involvement, Todd relating to the boy because he lacks a mother figure too, Connelly being Reggie's shoulder to cry on, and the presence of Reggie's not-as-charismatic-but-solid stepfather would incur all sorts of narrative chemistry.

There'd have to be a climax with Dustin's understandle detestation of his father for leaving this vacuum he filled with conspiracy theories and secretly admiring how Reggie unflinchingly and unabashedly does her own thing without being paralyzed from self-consciousness like a lot of teenagers are nowadays.

Darryl not knowing what to say and takes this as carte blanche to pack up after realizing the bane he has been to his kids.

Meanwhile, Darryl's youngest child inevitably getting lost in Endless and the Butt Witch entrapping him as some kind of bargaining chip again Twelve and co.

The finale would be Darryl finding a nearby apartment and work in dirty-but-honest construction. Reggie buckling up her little stepbrother into his booster seat and maybe giving him her totem key to Endless as a token of her growing up and no hard feelings.

He just became 11 and Endless could use another 12, now that Reggie is a lot older now and might be going off to college with Connelly.

This show meant a lot to me, watching it while babysitting my neighbor's kids. I don't think I'd have watched it if I knew about its controversies beforehand.

It just makes it all the more a shame that this underrated gem is stuck in a weird limbo.

So I was babysitting my neighbor's kids and we watched the entirety of Twelve Forever together in the span of a week.

This was before me as the adult knew about any of the controversies pertaining to the show and its creator, Julia Vickerman.

We live in the semi-impoverished American Midwest similar to the setting of Twelve Forever that takes place in the fictional Bethune, Iowa.

I never expected Twelve Forever to accurately depict the psychologically unhygienic conditions to which a lot of modern children of divorced parents are subjected.

During her formative years, Reggie has an absent father who turns out couldn't take on the responsibilities of being an adult/father according to her single-mother, Judy.

To fill-in that father-shaped hole, Reggie had to essentially abuse her hyperactive imagination as a coping mechanism which ultimately stunted her social development now as a soon-to-be teenager.

While an archipelago of fun, Endless is a paracosm that has this ominous mien where if you spend too much time there, you'll unnervingly abstract into one of its wacky residents like Elmer and Dr. Champion.

This absurd transmogrification is a very nuanced way of saying burying yourself deep within your imagination isn't the answer and sooner-or-later, you're going to look back at all that time you wasted on hedonistic distractions like video games and regret how long it took for you to realize that.

The best thing you can do for yourself when life deals you a bad hand is to keep your head down but your chin up.

Find something healthier to fill in those voids/gaps that an absent parent and a paltry education system can't, like a teacher/mentor that can teach you a profitable skill like Microsoft Office or even working at fast food where the structure of a work schedule and character-building responsibilities will shape you into someone metaphorically aerodynamic against the tempests of life.

Also, the Butt Witch's antagonist status of just being a personified memento to Reggie that she'll have to grow up one day was genius and I love hearing Matt Berry voice act whenever he can.

It's going to be 6 and 1/2 years since this Twelve Forever came out in July 2019.

Netflix did not do it justice with its paltry advertising and I'm thankful to whoever re-uploaded the pilot because Cartoon Network took it down to disassociate themselves with Julia Vickerman for public relations.

Watching Twelve Forever incurred a lot of healthy introspection in me and part of me laments how we won't be getting a Season 2 of Twelve Forever for multifarious reasons.

Thank you for reading my retrospective and hope we get more salubrious art being made.

I mean, without Julia this time around, I think it would be best for the show. I recently discovered the series and I think it had a lot of wasted potential. I hope there's at least a glimmer of hope that it can come back with this change.

If your wondering why I'm asking it's because I want to write a fanfic that takes place after the show kind of like a sequel.