The deal Dipper made with Bill Cipher in “Sock Opera” was meaningless, because the laptop’s data erasure wasn’t real. I believe it was a trap created by Bill within the mindscape to trick Dipper into agreeing to a deal.
Some devices have a setting that will erase data after a certain number of failed password attempts, and it’s reasonable to suspect that Fiddleford and Stanford wouldn’t have allowed someone like Dipper to spend days inputting dozens of failed password attempts before initiating the data erase. If the laptop had that safety measure, it would have kicked in long before then, assuming an approximate 10 attempt maximum similar to an Apple device.
The whole point of this feature is to prevent sensitive information from getting into the wrong hands, but the way it’s done is ridiculous, especially coming from two very intelligent people like Fiddleford and Stanford. It allowed an unauthorized individual dozens of attempts and then provided a 5 minute window for one more try.
A bit too convenient, unless there happens to be a dream demon around who has already expressed interest in making a deal.
Then there are the two scenes featuring Dipper and Bill which share several similarities: Dipper is alone with the laptop, he yawns and shuts his eyes, something out of the norm occurs (the moon turning into Bill’s eye and the data erase alert), and then the scenery goes gray as Bill materializes.
One of the most important things to remember is that Bill Cipher cannot materialize in the physical world. Gideon was put into a dream-like state after summoning him, the gang only saw Bill after entering Stan’s mind, and we see Dipper wake up screaming after his conversation with Bill, confirming that they were inside the mindscape.
This means that at some point during the data erase scene, Dipper was asleep. It’s confirmed by Mable during the puppet show fight with Bipper that he was sleep deprived, so it could easily have occurred with the same transition as before: he yawned and shut his eyes.
If Dipper fell asleep during this brief moment like he did before, then the alert warning him of the impending data erase could be a simple manipulation of the mindscape by Bill Cipher. In which case, the threat of losing important information didn’t exist, and Dipper’s body was possessed by Bill for no actual reason.
In conclusion, the design of the data erase program was unrealistic, as it allowed far too much leeway to the person attempting to hack the computer, and the similarities between the two scenes where Dipper speaks to Bill, coupled by the fact that Dipper had to have been asleep in both, creates reasonable belief that he was asleep when the data erase warning occurred. If so, then it probably wasn’t real to begin with, which means Bill invented the threat to push Dipper into a corner and force him into making a deal.
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