After multiple recommendations I've watched some episodes of this show, and parts of it are entertaining and I like the characters and creativity, and the animation is fun and enjoyable for young and old.
But honestly, I still find it disturbing that this is meant to be a show for kids, but has blood, gore, horror, creepy messages and images and dark symbolism that seems like it's trying to corrupt kids' minds. It's not scary to me, per se, in fact I like some dark stuff and mythical stuff, but in this show's case it is overdone and makes the show feel demonic and not as lovable as it could be. I'm not saying the whole show is like that, because the episodes I saw were fine, but from what I've seen some of it goes too far and crosses the line from dark and edgy to just plain satanic. For example I watched the intro to the Weirdmageddon episodes, and that blood waterfall freaked me out, and I'm an adult. A waterfall of blood, in a Disney show?!
I think that the creator of Gravity Falls Alex Hirsch is aware that most kids today are getting into more violent and aggressive video games like Call of Duty or any zombie game made for 18 or older, I think that Hirsch is aware that some kids enjoy this sort of thing because it makes them feel older. I understand what you mean about the excess nightmare fuel and this sort of thing has happened before, where they would show violent or horrifying situations but the rule of shows is that you can do what you want as long as if there\'s a happy ending or change of blood colour as shown in Into The Bunker but there have been times where Disney has acted against the show such as changing a scene in the episode The Love God because it featured an elderly woman falling in love with another woman (apparently blood rivers are ok but LGBT moments are not allowed to be shown) and there was gonna be a scene where Dipper breaks the neck of Dippy Fresh in Weirdmageddon Part 2
My other guess is that Gravity Falls wasn\'t just meant for kids alone because on YouTube there are guys in their mid twenties or early thirties who tried to figure out the mystery as well as laugh at the jokes that kids aren\'t exactly going to understand. It was originally more child friendly in the first season but the second season is where it gets more disturbing to say the least
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Weirdmageddon Part 3 Review
The final episode of series was both heart-warming and gut wrenching for the fans. The episode is about Dipper and Mabel joining forces with friends, family and former rivals to defeat Bill.
I'll start with the negatives, There were some points in the episode where they leave things unanswered such as Blendin's fate in Weirdmageddon Part 1, Dippers first name, ignored character developments and many others.
The positives are that this might have been one of the best episodes in the Gravity Falls episodes in the series and they ended the show in the best possible way. It ended on a high note in order to avoid Simpsons Syndrome (where a show goes on for so long, it loses its charm), the episode had good action and creative imagination with its scenes.
When watching the episode, you have to keep in mind that the fans gave the finale too many expectations. They wanted to know Dippers name, a shipping moment in the episode with their one true pairing and all sorts but we tend to forget. they are twelve/thirteen years old, neither twin is ready for a relationship and they needed to mature first in order to keep in theme with the Gravity Falls symbolism of childhood.
The Dipper and Pacifica (Dipcifica) shippers were particularly crushed due to their expectation of a shipping moment due to the ship tease in Mansion Mystery or Hirsch's ambiguous comments about their bond even to a point of the shippers (falsely) believing that Pacifica's signature in the final moment being a clue towards a mutual crush between the two but it's still left unanswered. If you still believe Dipcifica is gonna be a thing, Alex Hirsch said "you'll have to ask Dipper" when responding to a Dipcifica shipper on twitter, journal 3 is out this summer and since Dipper wrote in a few pages, you might get an answer to Dipcifica's fate (I want to believe its canon because of this and a final twitter photo from the artists depicting Pacifica with the main characters in a group photo but it's now pointless to believe in it, all other ships were shot down in episodes and Dipcifica will be no different to the rest, this isn't a reverse psychology attempt to tempt fate, this is fact).
A fault with the episode is that it didn't really fulfil their own expectations such as the Bill Cipher wheel which was built up from the beginning but it crashed and burned in the end. Pacifica returned to her aggressive personality but she returned to the development in the end of the episode. Robbie contributed absolutely nothing to the series and he was just essentially on the wheel because he was a prominent character in season two for one episode and an antagonist in season one.
My question now is what next?, We will find another show but it's hard to let go of Gravity Falls as well as stop dedicating our lives to it, Gravity Falls has been an amazing journey and I highly recommend watching it.