Just Some Theories About Gravity Falls

Hi! Welcome to a Gravity Falls blog with some occasional Amphibia and Toh stuff! My inbox is always open to your asks and opinions! The link below has pretty much everything important in this page! https://agftheorist.tumblr.com/post/660151773955293184/list-of-contents

[agftheorist]

You can't spell "Happiness" without "Pines"

[batovskaa]

OKAY SO HERE ARE RANDOM HAMILTON THE MUSICAL FACTS NO ONE ASKED FOR

• After Maria mentions she is "helpless" in Say No To This, Eliza doesn't mention it for the rest of the play

• In That Would Be Enough, Eliza says: "I wrote to the general a month ago". In Stay Alive we can see her writing the letter

• In Take A Break, when Angelica and Eliza reunite and say each other's names there is a slight pause for "and Peggy"

• In Stay Alive (reprise), Phillip says to Eliza "Mom, I'm sorry for forgetting what you taught me" because Eliza taught him how to count to 10 in Take A Break and he thought that mr. Eaker counted to 10 even though he didn't

• Phillip had trouble with number 7 in Take A Break, got shot at number 7 and died at Sept-7 (guess it wasn't exactly his lucky number)

• Burr always repeats that he's willing to wait for it and Alexander always repeats that he's not throwing away his shot, but in The World Was Wide Enough, Burr doesn't wait for it and shoots Alexander and Alexander throws away his shot by aiming his pistol at the sky

• In Hurricane, Alexander says: "I couldn't seem to die" and the backing vocals/ensemble say: "Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.." because Burr is going to shoot him in 9 songs

• If we count all of the songs in Hamilton + Lauren's interlude, there is exactly 47 songs. 47 is also the age Alexander Hamilton died at

• In Best Of Wives And Best Of Women both Alexander and Eliza say exactly 37 words, which is also how many songs they were married for in the musical

• In Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story when Eliza says: "I speak out against slavery," Washington makes a surprised face behind her because he owned around 120 slaves

• In What'd I miss when Jefferson gets the letter from Washington he says: "Sally, be a lamb, darlin' won't you open it," reffering to a slave of his

[wuli-nobusy]

Not throwing away your shot

[genderqueerpond]

the actual (official) difference between a therapist and a psychiatrist is that a psychiatrist is focused on prescribing medication and a therapist doesn't do that

so like. I don't think Moffat meant to do this necessarily, but Amy Pond saying she's been through four psychiatrists suggests not just talk therapy, but that she's been medicated against the Doctor

it suggests not just a quirky troubled kid, but that she's been diagnosed as delusional, probably psychotic, medical records capital C Crazy person.

it means she's been told for years that she can't trust her perceptions, that her experience of reality isn't trustworthy, that she needs fixing for it.

and they have tried to fix her. they've put her on medications and taken her off them. they've messed with her brain and her body and the way her mind works, ping ponged her actual brain chemistry around until she learned to shut up, all in the name of making her believe what they believe.

no wonder she doesn't believe in him when he finally comes back.

[tenmartha]

Please write that Amy’s choice essay

amy's choice is an elevenamy episode masquerading as an amyrory episode and in this essay i WILL be addressing that.

the whole concept of the episode is deeply interesting to me. this is one of the first instances of amy actually not really having a choice at all. at this point, halfway through season, we've decently established amy and the doctor's relationship, and the hints we've gotten of rory have been. uhm. crazy.

rory is introduced to us as amy's bumbling boyfriend, who, while well meaning, is ultimately not someone that is seriously compatible with amy. amy has experienced some childhood trauma (her parents were eaten by a fucking crack in spacetime and then the only guy she could sort of trust disappeared on her for 12 years. yeesh) that has stunted her emotional growth and leaves her in a state of sort of perpetual adolescence. rory is a band-aid to the solution. rory is representative of someone that amy could have wanted to be with if she didn't carry this trauma. but that's not what happened to her.

the major appearances that rory has had when we start amy's choice is the eleventh hour where amy does not want to admit they have a serious relationship (she calls them just friends still. idk if this is in general, or just in front of the doctor, but she does not want to be perceived as in a relationship with rory. lmao) and then at the end we see amy actively using the doctor to run away from her obligations to rory. then she cheats on him with the doctor in flesh and stone. and then they meet up again in vampires in venice where amy basically avoids making a choice by dragging rory into the tardis, even when rory himself expects that they will just go on a break or something. i would argue that this in and of itself is amy not choosing rory. she is not ready for marriage. she still wants to explore herself and who she could become if she doesn't settle down.

amy's choice starts off with amy and rory in domestic bliss with amy barefoot and pregnant. the show makes a deliberate choice to frame being a wife and mother as the only thing amy will be if she chooses this life. there are plenty of women who find enjoyment in being a mother and women who continue to have rich lives in addition to being a mother. but amy doesn't get this. being a wife is a cage to her. it will only trap her.

then, when they flash back into the tardis, the doctor describes this vision as a terrible nightmare and even hugs amy to reassure himself that that won't happen to her. (elevenamy crumbs. as we know, eleven and amy are one entity, so we can assume they have similar views on the matter). then we meet the dream lord who we know is the manifestation of a dark part of the doctor's subconscious. and he sets up this entire game of choosing. the fact that dream lord knows this is the sensitive spot to poke shows that the doctor is aware that amy has feelings for him that are actively stopping her from fully committing to rory. (and the dream lord knows about amy's sex dreams. which could mean nothing.)

amy and rory have a conversation in the fake tardis world where rory wants the leadworth life to be real and amy can't fathom ever "giving up all this" (traveling + the doctor). she also says she never wants to grow up. when she is blatantly asked by rory if she still wants to get married, she says "someday" which is another nonchoice! she wants to keep both these men in her back pocket and avoids doing anything that will lock her into a choice, lest she regrets it later.

the main part of the episode that people point to as "amy choosing rory" is when he dies in fake leadworth. when he turns to dust, amy demands that the doctor fix it, and when he can't, she says this must be the dream and insists on elevenamy joint suicide. what i find interesting about this is that amy has "chosen" rory in a way that still leads her back to the doctor. she says she can't exist in a world without rory, so the one where they're still traveling with the doctor must be the real world. i also think this is another example of amy being strong armed into a choice. rory is clearly very important to amy, but i don't think that means he's whats best for her, or that his values align with hers. amy not wanting rory dead does not fix their incompatibility.

amy insisting that the doctor fix it and saying "whats the point of you" when he can't is also deeply interesting to me. amy is so aware of the doctor's otherworldliness. she turns him into a god in many ways and i think she almost has to view him like that. he's never allowed to be flawed. he saved her when she was a kid and he came back for her and he took her to see the stars. amy literally views the doctor as a panacea. in any situation, the doctor has an obligation to save her. in this instance, it's stopping rory from dying, but in most of their relationship, the doctor is saving her from having to marry rory.

i don't think amy ever fully chooses rory. she's never put into a situation where rory explicitly (and without the threat of death) asks her to leave the doctor for him. (i think he doesn't ask this because he knows amy won't choose him.) rory comes along with her and the doctor because amy is not capable of making a choice.

(TATM is...interesting. once again amy is forced into a choice by the narrative; if the weeping angel wasn't there, amy would not have left the doctor on her own volition. i also think the narrative itself guilts her into choosing rory, but we can talk about TATM somewhere else. this is getting long.)

and if this whole episode is a metaphor for amy choosing between rory or the doctor, what does it mean that it's revealed that both the realities are false? that there was never a choice? it's about the lack of choice and agency that amy has. it never mattered what she actually wants, because she will not be allowed to make a choice. everything will happen around her, or the doctor and rory will make choices for her, but amy doesn't actually get to choose. this episode is ostensibly about her choosing rory or the doctor and she does choose the doctor. it ends the exact same way it started, with amy continuing to travel with the doctor (and rory on their heels), because amy doesn't get to choose. the plot moves along and takes her with it, not the other way around.

(also dying in a fiery car crash w someone (on purpose) is the most romantic thing in the universe argue with the wall)

[piniatafullofblood]

my roman empire is the way no companion ever tells them no. it’s icarus rewritten. Not one of them had a safe introduction to the doctor. their lives or their families lives are risked. it’s the most terrifying experience of their life. but the box is bigger on the inside, and that’s incomprehensible, and the humans will always reach towards the sun in an effort to hold it

. everyone who’s seen the show will always wish that they were the one he would pick because at the end of the day we want to see more. the promise of more, of sights we’ve never seen and worlds we’ve never visited is a thought well enough to make any human sacrifice their life. the companions were doomed from the beginning, and i think they knew it.

[grabbyfr]

Melody Pond, Amy’s baby.

[theluckyfangirl]

Somewhere aboard the TARDIS, there’s a book that every companion has added to over time. It filled with the tips, tricks, and little secrets you need to travel with the Doctor. If the TARDIS likes you enough it may just appear in your room.

It contains helpful guides such as:

- how to get alien slime (and various other substances out of your hair)

- how to check foods are not only edible but taste nice (don’t trust the doctor)

- the top 10 items you should always have on your person

- good lies to tell when caught somewhere your not supposed to be

- how to sleep in a jail cell 101

[my-ny]

Doctor Who + text posts

[expectiations]

[blasphemy-no-repentance]

[the-evil-skull]

Crazy btw how all of the eleventh doctors companions are people who are already dead to him. Amy and Rory have been dead for decades in New York by the time he ever meets them. Clara he watched die twice. Even River Song, not a companion but his own wife, he watched die before he ever knew her. Clara's right, they're all ghosts to him

[mildlyinterestedcreature]

[the-evil-skull]

It's the way the first time he met River Song she knew everything about him, and he watched her die. It's the way the first time she met the Doctor he knew everything about her, and then she had to kill him. Its the way her whole life was broken because of him and she loves him. Its the way she killed herself in front of him and he forgives her. Its the way she killed him and he forgives her. She's always forgiven

[giphit]

dude whatever you think about moffat's ability when it comes to showrunning or crafting a concrete narrative, there is no doubt that he is the absolute best at creating crazy cool sci-fi concepts for doctor who.

like...

healing nanobots that pick up a damaged child looking for his mother as the template, proceeding to spread that template to any human they come into contact with

a spaceship that has weird inconsistent time windows into pre revolutionary france

statues that only move when you're not looking. when they touch you, you get transported back in time so that they can leech off of your life energy that, now in the current time, is fully depleted

not just the vashta nerada which are terrifying but also in the library episodes is a concept where a character's communicator, which works via neural link, creates echoes of the character's personality and voice that you can hear for a period after they die(the scene where they first show this is still one of the most heartbreaking and messed up concepts i've seen in the show)

heaven sent

a super huge colony spaceship whose time is dilated by a black hole, causing top of the ship to move slower in time than the bottom of the ship leading to the bottom levels of the ship having lived multiple generations in what would be hours for the top of the ship

river song's entire life

and most recently, a hotel that creates time windows into hotel rooms from various periods across time, allowing residents to pick and choose any time period to stay in as a tourist

there are a lot more but these are the personal highlights for me.

the man is also just generally a genius at using time travel to tell stories.

[windy-wooshes]

Rewatching Silence in the Library and crashing the fuck out. How is this episode everything. How is it River’s intro and River’s death and the most beautiful episode ever and the coolest episode ever and the scariest episode ever and who turned out the lights? and the best episode ever AND there’s even Donna.

[avemakuta]

So, the Silence was able to turn Melody Pond into a time lady due to the fact that she was conceived in the TARDIS, and then they raised her to be an assassin. But also, the TARDIS she was conceived in was partially possessed by a giant omnicidal space dog.

This probably isn't true, but it would be really funny if some of Sutehk got into her, and her assassin training was actually teaching her to be LESS trigger-happy. Like, her first word were "I SHALL BRING DESTRUCTION AND DEATH TO ALL LIVING THINGS" and the Silence had to be like "no, sweetie, just the Doctor."