Woah. Big change. I gotta say, it’s a bold one, and I know people still want to like Louis CK, and I’m not gonna argue with you, but I think this is a positive thing. Cuz damn, dude.
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One day Stan, on the boat with his brother, just goes “Hey, waitaminute, Sixer. Couldn’t you have put ‘Bill Cipher’ in that memorywatchiggit o’ yers instead of ‘Stanley Pines’?”
And Ford goes “Oh! Well, now that you suggest that, I suppose we could have! Wow. Good thing it worked ou-AAAUGH!”
Because that’s when he went overboard.
This bothers me a bit now, so here’s why I don’t think that would have worked:
Entering “Bill Cipher” would have erased all of Stan’s memories of Bill, and left most of his mind intact. Bill himself was inside Stan’s mind, but he wasn’t a memory, so the gun wouldn’t have targeted him directly – he could have simply stepped aside and looked on from a non-burning part of Stan’s mind. (And then Stan wouldn’t have known what he was fighting against anymore…)
The point was to erase *everything*, which left Bill trapped in the not-quite-literal fire.
And since Bill in Stan’s mind was a separate entity, not a memory, hopefully he can’t be recovered like the memories. Hopefully.
That logic doesn’t necessarily work. You could also just as easily say that entering “Stan Pines” into the gun shouldn’t have erased his whole mind, rather just the parts of his memory having to do with himself. Which should have left him able to identify everyone else. Only it didn’t work that way.
One could also argue that erasing stan’s mind should have given Bill a moment to escape while the walls were collapsing around him. But it didn’t work that way either. In theory, erasing stan could have left the body a completely empty vessel for Bill to inhabit. But it didn’t work that way either.
Hell. You could argue that since Stan has gone by so many names in his life, that deleting the memory of one of then wouldn’t have been enough. It’s like chekhov’s gun almost. He’s Stanley, Stanford, and Stan just to name a few versions of him. There could have just as easily been a version of him who forgot his adult life, and thought he was a kid again.
So clearly there’s some narrativium at play. So I’m sticking with my idea. Since it’s just as plausible as any other solution that wasn’t tried.
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