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OMG. Happy birthday pandora..

ITS ALMOST PANDORAS BIRTHDAY

I’ve been BEGGING for a Stan & Ford sea adventures spinoff for YEARS!!!

It would not only be a fun show to watch (with the same GF weirdness/humor), but we’d get to see the Stan twins back in action and working through the 40 years they’ve been apart! And the fact that Alex says he could write so many stories of their adventures is PERFECT for me!!

Alex Hirsch, I try not to ask a lot from you man because I trust your masterful storytelling skills plus you’re feeding the fandom so much good content right now, but this is the ONE thing that I need so badly!!

Do you think Ford will eventually realize that his ego is really a big problem?

I think he does realize it at this point, at least to a certain extent. He knows Bill played him like a pipe both pre-betrayal and even in the Fearamid when Bill was asking how to pop the bubble surrounding Gravity Falls. He definitely knows his actions led to having to erase his brother's memory at point-blank range and we see just how guilty he feels about that in Journal 3. We also know from Book of Bill that he's struggling with an immense amount of shame due to the nature of his relationship with Bill and just how far gone he was (and we do see him regressing a little bit, in the way he hid the book from his family for so long before Mabel found it).

So, yes, Ford's on the path to recovery. This isn't to say that recovery is linear (it never is), and I remember this quote from the Alex Hirsch interview a few months ago:

"Those [Stan and Ford] characters at sea- it was so rich. They're really really funny, because they both have major major blind spots. -I can kinda write stories about them as a duo forever, because you can always excuse them both getting hyped on a bad idea for their own reasons, and then you can always come up with a reason for them to disagree about it, and it's always sweet to see them come together again, because they're so full of themselves, but they are also both so damaged they desperately need each other."

They're both going to regress at some point, meaning Ford's ego is going to rear its ugly head again. Maybe with not the same catastrophic consequences like coming close to ending the world and almost becoming a god-king of your shattered dimension with your triangular boyfriend who is reenacting his own trauma with you - but Ford's going to have to deal with it. Luckily, this time he has Stan around to keep him in check.

But I do also think Ford is due for some big realizations as they prep for their trip at sea and just how deep his, as he puts it in BoB, "monomaniacal ambition" runs and just how far the blast zone of collateral damage from his actions really extended.

(Side note? Going back to the interview with Alex, the way he's talking about the adventures and Ford and Stan at sea...I don't want to get anyone's hopes up but, oh boy, does it sound like something we might get down the road, if we are all very, VERY lucky).