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So much of youth disappears insidiously, and this is a primary driver to the emotional storytelling of the series. It is a multifaceted theme as well: the summer has a definite end, while their childhood, for which the summer ultimately becomes shorthand, is nebulously ending throughout the series. This is a broad theme, but it makes up every aspect of the show, even early on. Gravity Falls is overwhelmingly about growing older and the importance of valuing the time one has while accepting the impermanence of everything in life. Rather than summarize the plot or explain what makes one of the most celebrated pieces of modern western animation is so good, I will instead move directly to my primary motivation in writing this thread: to opine on the overarching theme of Gravity Falls and attempt to describe why it was so valuable to me as an adult.

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Having watched all of Over the Garden Wall, itself a masterpiece that affected me deeply and likely deserved its own thread, in September, it felt natural to finally watch through the series that we had mentioned often in passing but I had never watched myself. Interestingly, while I did not go back and watch the show itself until two years later, I mentioned that I had seen parts of it and found its aesthetic compelling to the same friend I ultimately watched it with a few days later he recommended I listen to Lemon Demon's Spirit Phone, which quickly became one of my favorite albums ever.Īnyway, it is now years later and I often watch content of varying style and target demographics with that same friend. I recall seeing a fair bit of three series: Adventure Time, watching intermittently as it slowly transformed from absurdist children's slapstick to hard science fiction Regular Show, which I found embarrassingly entertaining and Gravity Falls, which even in the smallest doses of the three (it is, after all, a very short series), I found captivating in its style and emotional undertones. As such, I only caught bits and pieces of several episodes of various programs by passing through our common space at incidental times. Adults watching children's television was actually a fairly novel concept to me at the time, despite of course being deeply entrenched in the adult Nintendo community. I was living with a couple friends who went through several cartoons that autumn. Indeed, October is perhaps one of the best times to watch Gravity Falls, second only to the dog days of summer.Ī little background is in order: despite arguably being the perfect age to have watched Gravity Falls as a child (I was even 12 in the summer of 2012), I had never had any memorable exposure to it at all until my sophomore year of college. However, it is perhaps good that I have waited this long, as it is now Halloween night in my time zone, setting the mood for a somewhat spooky show.

I've meant to write a threaditorial since then, but life circumstances and my own struggle with procrastination have delayed it. Several days ago a friend and I finished watching all of Gravity Falls.

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