Gravity Falls is back! Finally! And it's back on an actual schedule of a new episode every 2 weeks. In this episode we see the return of Stan's brother, Stanford, and the Stan we know is actually Stanley, with so many questions needing answered, the two give us their backstory from when they were kids, to when they had a huge falling out to the origin of the journals and eventually how Ford came to be stuck in an alternate dimension. On one hand, i may have set myself some impossible standards for this episode, after such an amazing cliffhanger episode followed by months of waiting, i was super excited to see what answers we would get, while the episode works well, it just feels...underwhelming. I expected something new and different but this is the type of story that i've seen done a dozen times before, it's still done well here, but even so, i wanted something more original. Event that I could probably forgive if the episode was funnier but i didn't find myself laughing all too much, which is a shame because Gravity Falls is one of the funniest shows on television.J.K. Simmons as Ford is excellent, i love Simmons as an actor and the fact that he is now a recurring character on one of my favourite shows is awesome. I will say i am glad Ford is sticking around, we still have plenty of questions and mysteries that need to be solved, the new equilibrium established with his presence is going to have a massive effect on the story from here on out, it also sets up a possible future rift between Dipper and Mabel, where she is worried that the two of them might end up like Stan and Ford, liking each other as kids but hating each other as adults. But apart from that, I sadly don't have that much to talk about, there wasn't anything in the episode that was bad, but there also wasn't that much that was great about it. I probably just set my expectations so high that they wouldn't be able to meet them, but i just wanted something more. I'm giving Tale of Two Stans a 7/10.
-Danny
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