I watch a lot of cartoons, I watch a lot of TV in general, and I can honestly say that taking into account every single show on TV right now, none of them get me as emotionally invested as Gravity Falls. In this episode we get a lot of emotional pay off, it's nearly the end of summer and Dipper & Mabel's 13th birthday is coming up, so while Mabel is busy setting everything up for their party, Dipper goes out with Grunkle Ford on an important mission to, you know, prevent the end of the world. So while Dipper is having the best day of his life by saving the world, Mabel is having the worst day of her life because she's learning all about the horrors of teenhood *shudders*. In the end, Dipper decides to stay in Gravity Falls, Mabel heartbroken runs away and accidentally makes a deal with Bill Cipher and causes the end of the world as we know it, just like they always sung about!I remember a while ago when i was looking into the behind the scenes of the show Alex Hirsh the creator said that the key to writing Dipper & Mabel is to remember that they like each other. Thing is that's actually quite a rare occurrence in cartoons where the siblings actually get along perfectly and i can see why he felt the need to tell his writing staff that. Dipper and Mabel may be opposites in a lot of ways but in the end they're always there for each other and they wouldn't change the other for the world. Which is why several episodes ago when they foreshadowed to their relationship being strained my mind instantly went "Nooooo!" and that's exactly what happened here. When Mabel was crying her eyes out at the thought of Dipper leaving and him not even telling her, i had my face in my hands just shaking my head in disbelief, I couldn't bare to see these two go through something so heart wrenching. Fact is, i'm kind of closed off when it comes to a lot of media, despite my love of television it actually takes quite a lot to get an emotional reaction out of me. So when it was all said and done and i was reflecting on it, i was so proud of this show to be able to still get that kind of response from me even after all this time. With that being said i don't blame Mabel for what she did in the end, she didn't know what the reality orb thing was, she didn't know it was Bill Cipher, she was distraught and she's a kid! I also don't blame Dipper because this all fits well with his character arc, he went from the wannabee adventure seeker to an actual adventure seeker and even got a fair few badass moments in this episode.
Yet despite all of this heavy on set drama and a lot of scarily accurate truths about high school (To all kids watching Gravity Falls, cherish every second of your childhood, it's all downhill from there) they still get a lot of good jokes in the episode, my personal favourite being Mabel having such a magnetic personality she became pen pals with the pizza man within the span of 60 seconds. Because that's why this show is magnificent, the great mystery and drama isn't all it has to offer, the jokes are constant and hilarious. I have a saying, the best drama is a good comedy, because we've laughed for so long and so hard at this show when it gets dramatic, we care about it. People think the key to a good drama is being as dark and serious as possible when it's the complete opposite, the people we laugh the hardest with are the people we cry the hardest with, this show gets that as does every other great show out there.
Then there's the animation. This is why I assume the show takes so long to get a new episode out because they want their show looking the best that it can be. They don't cut corners and try to create some dynamic, exhilarating and most of all beautiful set pieces. The highlights for me were the spaceship flight sequence and pretty much the final five minutes of being pure beauty.
This episode was great, the emotions were riding high, the jokes were great and i cannot fucking wait for the next episode. I'm giving this episode a 9/10.
-Danny
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