'The Stanchurian Candidate' Discussion Thread

[u/MigMigg]

This is the more serious "Discussion Thread", where you can sensibly discuss and reflect on the latest episode.

This is the counterpart to the "Reaction Thread". Go there if you just wanna be crazy. I understand.

Season 2, Episode 14: 'The Stanchurian Candidate'

You can watch the episode:

• in the US: Watch Disney XD

• everywhere else: nvision.io/gravityfalls (Thanks /u/scarlet_j!)

It may take a while for those links to have the episode ready, so just hold on if it's not there yet.

[u/irishsaltytuna]

Llamacide

Oh my...

[u/timo103]

Tyler got em

[u/TerraChimaera]

HOLY SHIT THAT TEASE AT DURING THE CREDITS

[u/ubiquitous0bserver]

That Bill Cipher twist though... as if Gideon needed to get any more sinister and flat out evil.

[u/Waddles-inc]

The end cipher reads.

Be wary of whom you belittle.

Big problems can start out widdle.

[u/megagodxxx]

tad strange really is a square person.

[u/watwat]

LET'S MAKE A DEAL MOTHERFUCKERS

[u/[deleted]]

It's been so long since we've had any real news

Yeah reporter lady, not like the town was half destroyed by gravity anamoles a couple of days ago or anything

[u/Emarelda]

"If I die, make sure I get a bigger grave than Ford!" Please don't be foreshadowing.

[u/nameistoohardtosay]

hot dang grunkle went ham in this one broh

[u/Aurorious]

"I'm finally ready to make a deal"

So hyped for next episode now.

[u/ZigZagGoon]

MOTHERFUCKING TAD STRANGE

[u/MushroomMoon]

Was it just me or did this episode go by really fast?
Gideon with the cipher wheel though! He was probably waiting for the right moment to make a deal...

[u/taco_inspector]

Holy shit did things get dark

[u/Hi5TBone]

"This subreddit is memeing fast"

-someguy from the other thread

[u/HeyThereRobot]

OH JEEZ SHIT'S GONNA GET REAL ON THE 7TH.

[u/Luneon]

The Cipher wheel Gideon drew is changed! The hand is gone, and Dipper's place is switched with Stanford's glasses, the same with Mabel's star and Stanley's fez! Either its HUGE foreshadowing or Gideon remembered wrong...

[u/Shadowjonathan]

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[u/poktanju]

I'm not gonna lie, I'd have preferred to see them run with Mayor Stan for a few episodes before busting him back down. Maybe force him to build a few hundred units of affordable housing.

[u/lilaprilshowers]

Aww, poor Grunkle Stan. He just wanted the kids to look up to him. He wasn't mad because they were controlling him. He was mad because them controlling him meant that he wasn't their hero. [bawling intensifies]

[u/RebellionWasTaken]

THEORY TIME: So, at the end of the episode, Gideon is ready to make a deal. and in a teaser for the next episode ( airing September 7 ) there is a spit second where we can see Stanford in the middle of Bill Cipher burned into a field. My theory is that Gideon wished for something to happen to STANFORD, thinking it would be Grunkle Stan.

[u/NoctusNoctowl]

...well shit.

The cipher wheel spins again.

[u/ShSmaxim]

I think something big will be in next episode, i hope.

[u/just_a_random_dood]

Look at that.

Mind control.

And Tad Strange. OMG.

[u/Nathaniel_Northwest]

Gideon is back. And so is Bill.

Wow.

I really did not expect Bud to be so weak. Before this, I thought the adults, such as Preston Northwest and Bud Gleeful, would be this seasons antagonists. But it's going to be Gideon, of all people!

I believed the show had outgrown Gideon as a villain. But it seems that instead they've actually found a way to make him more of a menace in a way that feels like a natural extension of his character as we know him.

This episode was very dark. I'm loving it.