>>109123115Anything can work out, if given into the hands of a competent writer, which Hirsch wasn't.
For some reason, during season 2, Candy became less of an independent character who did odd shit like attach forks to her hands, and more like Mabel, focused on chasing around boys and backstabbing her friends to get ahead. It was really jarring. On a self-accountable show, one could chalk it up to Mabel's bad influences, but that would first have Hirsch admit that Mabel was bad. Wasn't happening. Candy also had an interest in the Monstermon thing like Dipper, but this was a small and never explored part of the show. It could have been developed, but the show decided to focus on the fat hambeast girl instead to win tumblr brownie points for having the most likely and body-negative candidate win the hottest guy. Candy was left in the dust.
Then Roadside Attraction came, and Candy really just started liking Dipper out of nowhere, mainly because he displayed confidence. Setting aside that he's already done this in front of her many other times before, the ship just goes nowhere because Dipper doesn't seem to want to return the feelings, we are never really given a reason why so it just looks like he is rejecting her because either she's not as attractive or she's Mabel's friend, relatively shallow reasons. In the end, Candy is the one made to break up with Dipper for an absurd reason and Dipper apologizes to her for being dickish, it was like a poor attempt at aping a Timmy/Tootie episode from FOP, which for its credit at least did the rejected nerd girl plot right most of the time. In fact, the episode just feels really out of place and I've see nit theorized here before that Dana or Emmy forced him to do it because if it's anything white feminists hate, its WMAF.
