The thing that scares me about pine trees and their connection to fire is how Bill does NOT want “Pine Tree” Dipper getting to Mabel. He knows Dipper is still alive because Teeth and 8-Ball told him that they couldn’t catch and eat him. “Pine Tree got away before we could eat him. Are you worried he might cause some trouble?” “Yeah, trouble with Mabel’s bubble?!”

Then once Bill finds out Gideon let Dipper get away with the key, AND sees the chains are off of Mabel’s prison… Yikes.

I’m just REALLY concerned for how we haven’t seen much of the symbolism connected to Dipper come into play compared to Mabel’s in the latest episodes. (Woodpecker symbolism was much more evident prior to these episodes though). Unless we take it in a more symbolic way and say that the going too far with “fire of knowledge” was Dipper’s downfall?

Could the whole burning of pine trees just be symbolic? I don’t know…. With how FURIOUS Bill can get when he has a potentially threatened/broken deal, plus the fact that he has no more use for Dipper and is fine with disposing of him (but not Mabel)…

The pose that the Shapeshifter makes when warning Dipper of his “last form he’ll ever take” seems like a pose that can show up again while Dipper’s getting seriously hurt, and by something like fire, probably.

There’s also this statement. And Bill riddling us on which Pines will survive. Considering how much value Bill holds for Mabel, maybe even after she escapes her bubble prison, ummm….

“At least one of them [Mabel puppet] survived” ?!!



Even if the rest of the family doesn’t outright die and is instead turned to stone or gold or whatever like other characters (and like Ford currently is), it’s still a pretty scary possibility during this Weirdmageddon arc.

Still, if we take another instance of fire symbolism meaning transformation, then that could tie into Shapeshifter warning and that, if Dipper is burning while in that pose, it’s not actually fatal burning? It’s something else? Something like a symbolic, or a literal transformation into… Who knows?

And will we find out the purpose/importance of Dipper’s birthmark?

There’s a LOT to wonder about now that I’m looking back into these symbolic connections that have come true with Mabel so far…