Upcoming Review: Gravity Falls - Season 1

[walrusthief]

Anyone else kinda miffed that he didn't so much as mention the secret codes and ciphers, reversed audio and easter eggs? I kept waiting for him to bring it up, down to the last five minutes of the last review, but he just didn't.

This is seriously the best part of the show, and the part that made me keep watching. It's a show about mystery, and he didn't even touch on the big mysteries! Not even the title sequence! What the box??

[SpacePaladin]

I pretty much lost all respect for their other Grunkle (grandpa?)

Dipper and Mable's grandfather is a guy named Shermie.

It's unknown if he's the younger brother, or an older brother (we see Stan's mom holding a baby in a flashback, but IIRC, the timeline would make Shermie and his son would have been really young when they had kids, possibly making the baby we see in A Tale of Two Stans Shermie's kid rather than Shermie himself).

Also, re: the Sheriff and Deputy relationship... there's something in the finale that answers that question.

[Deledrius]

I do not want to spoil anything, but it is clear from the lack of development of one KEY CHARACTER in the second half of season 2, that there was supposed to be a lot more set up and development.

It makes me sad that I did not get another 20 episodes sprinkled in and fleshing out season 2 into a full season 2 and 3, but I do love what I got.

Absolutely. There are several elements at the halfway mark that really strike me as meant to be explored more in a full second season, with a third season taking up the final arc at a more natural pace.

I just wish they'd picked a better animation style. The blob with spaghetti arms art style just detracts too much from the story's presentation to make it an enjoyable experience.

I don't really get that sense from this show (there are so many worse examples out there, even from Disney of all studios... the "retro" Mickey cartoons are disgusting) but I can see how one might see it that way. I think the backgrounds are gorgeous though, and they only get better in Season 2.

[SuccubusYuri]

Anyone else kinda miffed that he didn't so much as mention the secret codes and ciphers, reversed audio and easter eggs? I kept waiting for him to bring it up, down to the last five minutes of the last review, but he just didn't.

This is seriously the best part of the show, and the part that made me keep watching. It's a show about mystery, and he didn't even touch on the big mysteries! Not even the title sequence! What the box??

Well, for one, Chuck, as a stylistic thing, tends to not really embellish on those things unless he KNOWS the answer, or if he knows there isn't one, and judging by some omissions and interpretations he floats, I think it's a fairly safe bet he hasn't seen Season 2 yet.

But more importantly I think Chuck is just, generally, the wrong reviewer for that kind of thing. I mean we are talking about the guy who did a ME2 review without really touching on the gameplay. I would see the ciphers and backwords-dialogue as in the same sphere as gameplay is to a game's story. Fun, rewarding even, but ultimately unnecessary for the narrative. That and it's a lot of extra work for him to work it out on his own, and if wants to give this an honest blind reading looking them up would spoil the hell out of the show.

I know it's still a kid's show, but I was disappointed with the season one finale's reliance on the idea that physical possession of a deed somehow transfers ownership.

There is actually a pretty good Fridge Logic to that one (or, you can view it as part of the foreshadowing), the idea that Stan CAN'T contest the deed in court.