#anyways my nostalgia show is overrr

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the gravity falls finale was cute. it did feel... not rushed, but that they had individual lines dedicated to important points in the series that definitely couldve been touched upon more, so that was a little disappointing.

things like stan and ford's relationship probably being officially brought up and "resolved" in the same ep, stan apparently never found soos important enough to consider his feelings abt him or the shack, the show flat out never saw ford's (and by extension, dipper's) paranoia as a serious enough of a topic to deal with, things like that. the finale also felt a little strange when these hyped up symbols that related to characters were often characters that were pure jokes.

for a series as a whole, s2 was much better than 1, but still felt weird at times. rewatching season 1 as an adult somehow felt nostalgic for all the times i saw it on tv, but i was also baffled. like is alex hirsch capable of anything other than making fun of women, black people, fat people, and more. s1's constant bigoted and mean spirited jokes made it feel really off compared to s2. s2 tried to show certain characters are important or that you should care about them, but it was hard to do when s1 just showed them as a crazy homeless man, lazy fat fuck up, annoying pathetic teenager. it reminds me of adventure time where the beginning is absolutely silly, but way later, u do care abt the characters/whats going on.

i think gravity falls just should've got more time. im not saying more eps bc i like it sooo much, but because of how s1 seems to not care abt things (beyond the twins) and then s2 suddenly is a bit more serious. i think there shouldve been more room to breathe because of ford's introduction. Not What He Seems is definitely my favorite episode, a highlight of the series, but it happens halfway into s2, where half of s1 was Summerween to Boss Mabel, the show not even really hinting at anything serious at that point. the 2nd part of s1 shows gideon as an antagonist, and introduces Bill Cipher, the final villain, but the first part of s2 deals with stan trying to bring back ford. it puts way too much suspicion into teasing him as a possible villain, only for the 2nd part of s2 to seem like its wrapping up the series. the show instead then definitely shouldve dedicated the 2nd part to ford, as well as ford and stan's relationship.

as i said, the finale felt like it had a ton of individual lines that felt like they were supposed to cover entire conflicts, concerns, etc., which made it feel kind of lackluster, also having little bits in the credits to kind of imply things were happening when they werent really shown in the actual show (ford and mabel's apparent relationship). after ford shows up, stan warns ford to stay away from the kids, but the next ep creates a parallel of dipper-ford, to which stan kind of just accepts, and it seems stan has little concerns abt what he just warned him about. i think the last part of s2 couldve pressed their sibling dynamic a bit more (or at all, since the show pretty much only acknowledged it in the finale) and maybe even paralleled mabel and dipper, since their conflict also only really happened just before the finale. i think a third season couldve been gearing toward the end while giving more of a reason to care abt the characters. it was also weird s2 had any filler-type feeling episodes at all when it also didnt have time to focus on most important points. i just think gf was a show that had a cool sibling focused theme through the supernatural, the final developments of the most important aspect was a little underwhelming.

#personal #adventure time's F&C finale aired recently and everyone was disappointed w that and i feel like its not quite as bad #but they both do have an underwhelming feel? #gf thru dedicating major plot points to one liners the characters come upon and F&C... makes strange choices #anyways my nostalgia show is overrr #debating watching black sails or iwtw next