hey so I finally watched Gravity Falls a show in which I've heard a lot of people talk about
for quite some time but for some reason never gave it my full attention to give it a watch
but now I have rectified that Gravity Falls is about two city-born siblings named Dipper
and Mabel who are sent to live with their great uncle or Grunkle Stan in the Pacific Northwest
town of Gravity Falls that is full of strange characters and unexplainable phenomena Grunkle
Stan owns the mystery shack A rundown yet cozy tourist attraction in which he is free to scam
and do some light casual crime Dipper finds a very strange journal in the forest and with Mabel and
Shaq employee's Wendy and Zeus they begin to get to the root of all the strange mysteries
in Gravity Falls this sequential series comes perfectly full circle with the actual heart of
the plot being planted in small seeds from the very first episode when Grunkle Stan escapes to
a hidden room behind a vending machine all of our questions aren't answered until the very
end and things that we thought we understood suddenly come to light in a whole new meaning
created by Alex Hirsch he was heavily inspired hired by conspiracism which gives the show many
extra layers of fun hidden cryptic messages and interesting new little bits that are picked
up every time you watch it Gravity Falls is so rich in atmosphere and interesting storytelling
that when you add on the Intriguing underlying Mysteries makes for a series that has everything
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Gravity Falls may just be a show unlike any other I've seen come from Disney the plot may start off
simple with both Dipper and Mabel being dropped off in Gravity Falls Oregon to spend time with
their Grunkle Stan for the summer things at first seem normal aside from some of the residents of
the small town and the Allure of the weirdness mainly thanks to Stan who owns and operates the
Mystery Shack which has really boiled down to a tourist trap to impress passer buyers
for a brief moment most often to just scam them now the voice cast is full of talent and helps
truly liven up the world the show builds with our main characters Dipper and Mabel being voiced by
Jason Ritter and Kristen Shaw Linda Cardellini voices Wendy soos Grunkle Stan and Bill Cipher
are voiced by Alex himself which is impressive because each of those characters sound wildly
different and the side characters also have some insanely goaded people behind their voices Kevin
Michael Richardson voices Sheriff blubs JK Simmons voices Stanford Pines D Bradley Baker is Waddles
John DiMaggio is manly Dan Jennifer Coolidge is lazy Susan and grade Lyle voice is an assortment
of other side characters the whole show has this constant layering of mysterious and weird
happenings that date back to so many millions of years ago going on from that to then ancient
civilizations an eighth and a half president of the United States who turns into a big cover-up
of what becomes the town of Gravity Falls which ultimately builds up into this Tangled Story one
that could bring forth the end of existence we view a lot of this through multiple generations
of the pine family from Grunkle Stan's past that leads to some major reveals for the backstory
which directly ties into the end of the series and of course our current generation with Dipper and
Mabel who help uncover and discover all of these secrets even though originally the show was meant
to be left on a cliffhanger after season one Alex was convinced into completing it and from there
needed to come up with a season of 20 episodes per Disney's request even though he was only down for
originally another 10. I am glad that he decided to fully go into the story until the end as the
end of the series felt extremely planned out from the major payoffs of the Mysteries to the little
details that you need to keep your eyes out for and remember because it makes so many things by
the end of this 40 episode Journey truly pay off I struggled to go into too much detail
as part of the reason this show works so well is your personal experience with it uncovering
the Mysteries playing into what the show gives episode to episode that's how I experienced it
and once I hit play on episode 1 I couldn't stop before I knew it I was at the end I'd experienced
this story so fast but felt so enriched by it it's creepy it's enthralling and it Blends everything I
love about sci-fi mystery thriller Blended genres from my love of shows like the X-Files it gave me
a reason to keep watching there's mysterious creatures straight out of Fiction and Fantasy
hidden underground facilities and of course a weird Journal full of notes that go into detail
about everything weird in Gravity Falls it's the research of whoever wrote it and becomes
the guide for Dipper and Mabel as we go further down what seems like a bottomless Wormhole of
the unexplainable no pun intended there's literally a bottomless pit that becomes the
whole focus of an episode and the focus of this ad break foreign Ty Falls we'll be right back
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well then I guess we're back throughout the show we learn more about these journals the original
one found has a number three on it the second is found later on that is in the possession of this
little creepster Gideon who is also responsible for our first time meeting Bill Cipher and the
deals he makes but that only teases the further understandings of the weirdness for the second
season and what we do know is that since there are two other journals with the numbers two and
three on them then there has to be another at least that contains the number one on it that
just makes sense and perhaps combining the three journals can be the source of ultimate power which
is something that Gideon wants and goes to the extremes to find there is a whole moment where
thanks to Gideon the Pines lose the Mystery Shack and have to live with Zeus at his place soos is a
kind-hearted soul and we must protect him at all costs okay and with season 1 originally going
to be the end revealing the third journal and hinting at something even more mysterious yeah
not gonna lie I would have been pretty pissed off if the show ended here because season 2 without
a doubt takes the adventures we go on to a whole other level the Mysteries start to unfold in this
beautiful cacophony of answers more questions and more doubling down on why the show works so well
in the first place season one in comparison to season 2 feels like the lighter entry into this
world whereas season 2 truly holds nothing back they gave you questions and now deliver with those
answers and I think that's where I should leave a lot of what I want to go into as I appreciated the
build up a lot for everything that came with the final 20 episodes I'm not gonna lie I got pretty
obsessed with the show when I was making my way through it in fact I watched through the show a
few times while working on this video and spent a lot of time looking into how this show came to be
learned more about Alex Hirsch and all the little things that led to this show coming to be and what
has sprinkled into the show that made it special the bones of the show can be traced back to
the game that Alex used to play with his college friend in which they both were tasked with sending
each other five new and unique TV show ideas it was incredibly difficult to do so they decided
that whoever gave up first would have to write a 40-something page pilot of a show of the other
person's choosing they both were burnt out by a week so they called a truce however the last idea
that Alex had come up with was about a college student who had just gotten out of a relationship
when he decides to pack up all of his belongings and move to Gravity Falls so when the time came
to develop a new show for Disney he felt extremely drawn to this concept Disney actually approached
Alex for creating a new series after graduating from the California Institute of the Arts he was
working on shows like The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and was co-developing another Disney
series Fish Hooks Disney having seen some of his work from college reached out to him at the time
they were looking to reinvent their brand and bring in fresh new voices telling unique and
diverse stories Alex had grown up on The Simpsons and takes heavy inspiration from the shows of his
generation so when it came down to deciding on a series to create he had an idea for a show that
was a Twin Peaks meets The Simpsons kind of fusion specifically with the Simpsons he was inspired by
the idea of creating a show for everyone there is content for adults kids and everyone in between
the series actually evolves because if you watched it once while you were a kid and you watched it
later when you were older you would notice more things understand more jokes references and little
details but just in different ways the series would in theory just get better with time this is
what all really spoke to Alex and it was something that he wanted to Center the series around the
series itself is heavily inspired by his own life and family the dynamic between Dipper and Mabel
directly reflects Alex's relationship with his own twin sister Dipper's character being a bit
neurotic and skeptical whereas Mabel is wacky and doesn't seem to question much going along
with the flow wherever it took her his sister also had an obsession with pigs wore flashy and
fun sweaters and also had a different Crush every week spending a lot of their summers in a cabin
they were cut off from the internet and TV for a big chunk of time so to fill that void in they
would explore and let their imagination entertain them based off their surroundings imagining that
there were gnomes in the forest and monsters in the Lakes is what made those summer so much of an
inspiration in making Gravity Falls Alex set out to have his care characters go on adventures that
he had fantasized about as a kid Grunkle Stan was inspired by his parental grandfather Stan
who would act similarly in telling tall tales and messing around having fun with him and his sister
and the idea that there is an adult figure that is somewhat intertwined with these strange happenings
that Dipper has to unravel is also heavily rooted in his interest in conspiracism Alex was also a
huge fan of the X-Files and would always read weekly weird news and tabloids which published
fictional news that was about supernatural happenings and creatures these Inspirations are
very noticeable when we meet our favorite chaos God Bill Cipher who is voiced by Alex himself and
is given a very appropriate last name Bill is a cycloptic pyramid which borrows themes and designs
from the Eye of Providence used as a symbol for the Illuminati and is heavily associated with
Masonic symbolism I was particularly enamored as a kid with the idea of subliminal messages in the
media the idea that in the 60s they thought there were satanic messages that you could hear if you
played a record backwards I love the idea that the world was a 9 Easter egg hunt to be solved
by someone weird enough to spend their time doing it in the last few episodes of the series is when
we really start to see the chaos and cryptic messages shine through with the theme song
being remixed and containing hidden messages as well but I don't want to get too much into each
of the ways that Alex Incorporated new and fun things to unravel because that'll take away from
the fun in figuring it out for yourself that's the whole point of the show but in addition to
Alex sneaking in as much extra lore and codes to unravel he also brought the fun to the real world
in the summer of 2016 Alex threw an international treasure hunt that was called Cipher hunt the goal
was to find the real-life statues of Bill Cipher through decoding riddles in different locations
all over the world the statue was found in a park in the Oregon Forest of Reedsport but after
a property dispute involving authorities it was later permanently relocated to Piercy California
on confusion Hill which is just a perfectly named location in addition to the cipher hunt in August
of 2016 after the release of the Gravity Falls book journal 3 Gallery nuclear Us in California
hosted an art show called farewell to the falls a Gravity Falls art show contributions were made
by both Alex and the other art staff that worked on the series and some pieces were even purchased
for over a thousand dollars Alex was given the opportunity to make this series everything that
he had hoped for and that a younger him would have loved to experience well kinda in the development
of the show Alex has stated that Disney was really respectful of his artistic vision and
embraced the entire show however it was after production in the censorship notes that were
relayed to Alex that's when the nightmare started while they were respectful of the
overarching artistic Vision they would nitpick so many small details in the most absurd ways giving
notes that were just blatantly wasting time in a satirical compilation accompanied by a dramatic
voice over and the tragic instrumental music of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata Alex reveals
just a small number of the thousands of notes and replies back and forth the video garnered
over 5 million views and showed the absurdity on full display for the internet and mainly for the
fans of the show despite all that Disney put Alex through the outcome of the show was a phenomenal
success it has won awards left and right including Primetime Emmys Annie Awards Kids Choice Awards
and Teens Choice Awards It Sports 13 wins and over 30 nominations in addition to the awards the
viewership was another thing to be celebrated it even started off with a bang as a special preview
for the series was shown after the Disney Channel original movie Let It Shine translating into the
preview being watched by 3.4 million viewers after its premiere on Disney on June 15 2012 it
continued to rack up more and more record-breaking viewership numbers even airing on Disney XD as
well starting in 2014 it averaged 1.8 million viewers per episode and one episode titled the
deep end brought in a whopping 4.5 million viewers at one point it was ranked number one on Disney XD
for all target demographics so then why did it end Summer's over take a Trippy trip to Gravity Falls
time to get pulled back into Gravity Falls well it wasn't for being canceled it just ended with
the final episode of the series airing on February 15 2016. it makes sense that it would have stopped
production after the season 2 finale because the secrets of Gravity Falls have been revealed
everything's been uncovered all the different stories in the overarching plot are planted
in the first episode in payoff in the last few so to add on to it with any further Seasons wouldn't
provide a satisfying payoff there wouldn't be a need to push further and you run the risk of
what made the other two seasons and the show as a whole so well written and special that's not
to say that we can't ever see these characters or explore the universe of gravity falls ever
again in some shape or form because while the series was airing there was also a series of
shorts that were produced all the way from 2012 to 2015 only to be picked up again in 2017 and then
again twice in 2020 different series for these shorts include Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained
Mabel's Guide to Life fixing it with Zeus old man mcgucket's conspiracy corner and Grunkle Stan
fans lost Mystery Shack interviews among many more while only a selection of these shorts
are available for streaming on Disney plus they definitely exist out there and are a great way of
revisiting the series that viewers who just want a little bit more of this world can have without
messing with the story in the timeline of the original series technically there is a way based
on theories of how the show ended for more of the story to continue and for it to work but I like to
think that with all of these theories and ideas that they work better in helping the ending be
as effective as it was leading you the viewer to carry on the mystery of what the future could hold
for this show coming to your own conclusions and ideas it's really nice having something like this
that satisfyingly ends but keeps this little spark for you to take away to keep it alive and you know
how I said that Alex was raised on The Simpsons and has made that series a source of inspiration
for a lot of his work well his character Bill Cipher actually made a guest appearance on the
episode of The Simpsons Bart's in jail where Alex actually got to voice Bill himself I can't imagine
how satisfying an exciting that must have been for him also in an interview while the series
was still being produced Alex opened up about how his dream guest for Gravity Falls would be
Jon Stewart and funny enough Stewart vocalized that he and his children were fans of the show
Gravity Falls has these incredible plot lines and Alex's dreams had come true when Stewart made an
appearance in Voice judge kitty kitty meow meow face shortstein in the 19th episode of season
2. despite its success Alex was apparently in talks with Disney about making a Gravity Falls
movie to succeed the series after its finale but Disney claimed that they didn't think the series
was big enough for a film which is honestly baffling considering all of the accolades and
oppressive viewership numbers the show had but Alex has stated he is still interested
in an interview with inverse he also shares his dream of continuing the story in a video game
format that would contain in-depth lore and a new Canon that was originally in the peripherary of
the series there is a platformer game developed by Ubisoft for the Nintendo 3DS which was released on
October 20th 2015 the game itself actually uses the same Graphics as the TV series as best as
it can which is pretty cool but in addition to this game that already exists it would be really
cool to see a more immersive and fresh game as a continuation of this series in some shape or
form there is also a plethora of books that were published some of the coolest ones include Journal
3 which is literally a recreation of the book and documents that we see in the show there are
coloring books Mad Lib books picture books and various chapter books that retell some of the
same stories of the series overall I think Gravity Falls filled in all of what I love
about Mysteries and the unknown and why I love shows like the X-Files or getting stun locked
into rabbit holes of the unanswerable questions of the universe it's full of some fun and fulfilling
setups and twists that make the two seasons we get a memorable little show while the show was
hit pretty heavily from Disney for weird and annoying changes the show still came out great
and delivered on the Promises set by the twin siblings going to visit their Grunkle in a place
filled with Mysteries and also it's kind of a Redemption story dealing in forgiveness and I
think that's quite beautiful let me know in the comments your thoughts on Gravity Falls I think
there is quite a bit of fun to discuss here thanks so much for watching like And subscribe later