Monday, November 23, 2015

The Staggering Genius of Mabel Pines: Five Reasons Why Gravity Falls is Amazing And Why It Will Be Sorely Missed



Yesterday, Alex Hirsch announced the conclusion of the Disney show Gravity Falls, to the astonishment of its strong fanbase.   The show has been a popular fixture on Disney’s XD channel for the past year and a half, and the program will conclude with its second season and the last two episodes that will tie up the Weirdmageddon cliffhanger.

Just what’s made Gravity Falls so popular?  There’s a handful of factors operating here, most of them gloriously unique – and they come together to make one heck of a show.




1 involving Mytharc: Oh, does this show have a mytharc.   Spooky book created by an unknown person?  Mythological creatures out the wazoo?  An overarching plot about an all-powerful, evil, pyramid-shaped creature?  Gravity Falls has all of that in spades.

2 Smart Kids, Who Treat The Kids In the Audience Like they’re smart enough to get it:.  And not in a sly, wink-wink aside to the adults kind of way: it’s at turns a serious portrait about two kids learning how to grow up and face adult responsibilities, and all of the heaviness that entails. 

3 Fully rounded adult characters; on a kid’s show, Even: Stan and Stanford are just as interesting as Mabel and Dipper, and the development of their sibling relationship and conflicts enchant just as much as their younger counterparts do.

4 Complex lessons For Kids That Aren't All About Hunting monsters:  Dipper and Mabel learn about honesty, how to make friends and not to judge books by their cover alongside with incantations and dark family secrets.


5 Pop Culture References: All I have to do is type the words ‘Don’t Stop Unbelieving’ and the tune’ll pop right into your head, won’t it?  

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