>>97721575Candy was too underdeveloped as a character. Even Grenda ended up being more prominent than her. They had a vague hint of a common interest, the Pokemon parody thing they mentioned in that shitty Gravity Falls video game, but that barely counts. It couldve worked, hell it could have been EASY if Virgin Hirsch could make one memorial scene or joke with her. But he failed, just like his FOX pilot.
Virgin Hirsch failed at making any of his ships likable, with the exception of stumbling through blind luck with the Pacifica mystery episode, and even then he fucked up in the long term.
Chad Hartman took Tootie, a similar annoying nerd girl archetype, and made it the most popular FOP ship, even with a similar Pedro-bait rich girl redemption ship competing against it, simply because he made her sympathetic, funny, likable, and had chemistry with the MC, something Virgin Hirsch couldnt do because he wanted his self insert to be the ideal soyfun numale to the point where Dipper was driven by an unbelievable rigid moral code rather than hormones like a sane 12 yr old boy wpuld be.
