Honestly, yeah, it would have solved so much. I mean I don’t say this from the point of view of “I NEEDZ MOAR, GRAVITY FALLS MUST GO ON FEREVER GAIS”, no, not at all, if they had been able to properly resolve and develop everything in two seasons I’d be completely fine with that. I love season 2B, I really do, but there’s just a lot that feels kinda rushed, you know. Ford is the big one. Ford features heavily in four episodes. FOUR! Other than that, he’s either absent or barely present in the episode. And introducing another main member of the family is a big deal. It would have been interesting to see how things could have developed between Ford and his family if it had been given more time. To see what might have happened with his relationship with Stan, his relationship with Dipper, and especially his relationship with Mabel, which has gotten barely any screentime, and now there won’t be any time for them to bond or form any kind of close relationship at all. Ford’s a really fascinating character, because he’s a likeable guy with an eccentric personality, but at the same time he’s a double edged sword, with a subtle but clear darker side. And we’ve never really gotten a good look at what his time in the portal has done to him psychologically, besides perhaps being a bit clueless in regards to social conduct, e.g. giving Mabel weapons, treating Dipper like he’s a full grown adult and not the growing, learning adolescent that he is, thinking the twins’ parents will be fine with having their thirteen year old son stay with him, etc. And yeah, there must have been so much more in development with Stan’s backstory that must have been dropped. Seems like they established Carla and her relationship with Stan to be important with the flashbacks in season one, then just haven’t had time to do anything with that, or her character (like seriously, given that she showed up in flashbacks twice in seasons one, it seems they must have been planning to do more with her). And much as I love ATOTS, it does kind of let all the emotional weight of NWHS just sort of go flaccid. Like, NWHS was virtually a season finale in terms of drama and emotional weight, and it seemed to be setting up some major stuff between Stan and the kids that just… didn’t really go anywhere. And more time could have been given to Mabel’s emotional struggle, I mean it’s clear from the end of ATOTS that she’s going through some shit, but that arc tended to be shafted in order to provide room for Dipper and Ford’s relationship, with the big exceptions being perhaps Last Mabelcorn and DAMVTF when we see her struggle more with her identity and her perception of the future. It just seems like so much could have been given a lot more room in a third season. I still love the latter half of season two, I really do, but man, there are things that just needed more space than they’ve been given, and a season three would have allowed for that.