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Alan Smithee posted:Also what was that form the shapeshifter took when it got the book sometime after the gnome? It kinda looked like Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy The Hide-Behind from one of the Dipper shorts.
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There are a lot of things that impress me about this show, but two in particular stand out to me. The first is continuity. Almost every other cartoon show seems to be scared shitless of building a continuing narrative, for fear that viewers watching an episode. Adventure Time sort of does it, but even then it's more a theming continuity than a narrative one. But in GF everything, even the episodes that don't advance the main mistery plot, has an impact on the storyline and isn't conveniently forgotten in the next episode; which is something that always bugs me to no end. The other one, as people have already pointed out, is how dark the show can get. We've had a secondary but beloved character turned into a zombie! Whenever I see Mickey Mouse at the end of the credits, I'm always slightly weirded out by the thought that Disney, the company that built an empire on the foundations of being kids friendly, is producing something like this.
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I like how they keep teasing the monocle bookmark on Dipper's journal, but he's yet to look at the journal with it.
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The_Doctor posted:I like how they keep teasing the monocle bookmark on Dipper's journal, but he's yet to look at the journal with it. 
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The_Doctor posted:I like how they keep teasing the monocle bookmark on Dipper's journal, but he's yet to look at the journal with it. I assume it's just a mini-magnifying glass, nothing too special. Just flair. Also, with the invisible-ink reveal, I doubt there'd be another one. But, on the other hand, it's Gravity Falls. So... fakeedit: Has anyone mentioned that Mark Hamill voiced the man that the shape-shifter first impersonated? Cause that was awesome.
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El Tortuga posted:I assume it's just a mini-magnifying glass, nothing too special. Just flair. Also, with the invisible-ink reveal, I doubt there'd be another one. When Dipper was wondering aloud about if there were any way to read the rest of the journal, and the monocle was just swinging away there, I thought the writers were being facetious. When it turned out to be the blacklights my face was pretty much 
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I vaguely recall him looking through the monocle when he got the journal. But now that he's found out about the invisible ink, I wouldn't be surprised if a combination of a blacklight and the monocle would reveal something extra.
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The Gravity Falls team has an official blog http://gravi-teamfalls.tumblr.com/
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Scrub Lover posted:The Gravity Falls team has an official blog quote:For ages now I have lurked in anonymity, hiding in the shadows of the internet, watching as you’ve GIF’ed our shows jokes and shipped our shows characters and done unspeakable things to my dear Pines Twins. You…you’ve got some issues Tumblr. We’re all worried about you. There's something to be said about seeing porn of the underage characters you've created and still manage to joke about it. paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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paradoxGentleman posted:There's something to be said about seeing porn of the underage characters you've created and still manage to joke about it. You either laugh, or you suffer a total nervous break, I figure.
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Alan Smithee posted:We can't all be Bill Watterson "People are drawing Calving and Hobbes... kissing each other?" "Well that and... other things. It's on Tumblr" "Tumbl... like a tumble weed?" "No it's a website" "A web... what? Sight? Like a web that has eyes or" "No you know, like on the internet" "The inter... huh?"
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It's cool they are going to run a blog, I like learning behind-the-scenes stuff of shows I love.paradoxGentleman posted:There's something to be said about seeing porn of the underage characters you've created BASED ON YOURSELF AND YOUR SISTER and still manage to joke about it. Completed it 
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Boy, if that blood was red instead of green, that would of been the goriest episode of any cartoon I'd of seen that wasn't on adultswim. Crazy what a color swap can do to take your mind off the dismemberment.
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Boy, if that blood was red instead of green, that would of been the goriest episode of any cartoon I'd of seen that wasn't on adultswim. Watch Samurai Jack. Replace all of the black robot fluids with red fluids (maybe blood colored). Be amazed at the gore.
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paradoxGentleman posted:There's something to be said about seeing porn of the underage characters you've created and still manage to joke about it. Alex Hirsch is not Bill Watterson, I think he went into this with eyes open, and knew exactly what sort of awful things the internet would do. Edit: His original vision:  (Do not steal) counterfeitsaint fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Daedalus1134 posted:I made a thing. Contains plot spoilers for S2E1 if you haven't seen it yet. I don't think this got enough love, good show.
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E PLURIBUS ANUS posted:Yeah that was ok, as was zombie soos and soos' "have fun sleeping tonight!" In the second episode, but that was kinda it Wow, I'm both relieved and disappointed that I'm not the only person who didn't really like the season premiere. Even though Alex Hirsch is still running the show the premiere episode felt like somebody else trying to make an episode of Gravity Falls by going through a checklist of all the things that people like about it (wacky townspeople! spooky monsters! weird celebrity guests! Mabels is so cray-cray and 80s!) and emulating it poorly. I was sold on Gravity Falls when Season 1 premiered with a bait-and-switch involving a "zombie" actually being garden gnomes, because zombies are the most boring and played-out monster in pop-culture and the fact that they didn't take the easy route and did something funny and original was incredibly endearing. Season 2 debuted with a zombie attack.  I loved how in season 1 they introduced all sorts of wacky townspeople and how they organically added to the humor on a level almost on par with classic Simpsons. In season 2 they were practically going off a checklist, naming background characters and giving them time to deliver a catchphrase before moving on to the next person to show off. The season 1 guest stars were great because they made you do a double-take at how they came out of nowhere: Larry King and Coolio as themselves? Alfred Molina as the Multibear? John Oliver as Sherlock Holmes?  Season 2 had Nick Offerman playing a gruff government agent, just like he did in Parks & Recreation, 21 Jump Street, Casa De Mi Padre, Childrens Hospital, Axe Cop, and 22 Jump Street.A lot of the jokes were rehashes of ones from last season (the fake 80s song titles, Mabel eating sugar, etc.). Even the soundtrack seems like it was all recycled musical cues from last season. The show has always been fairly uneven so I'm not jumping ship or anything, but it was really disappointing and I hope they don't pull an Adventure Time and abandon the fun and humor of the show in favor of serialized storytelling and "edgy" poo poo like violence (axe to the gut) and innuendo ("Almost as scary as Dipper's internet search history!") that appeals to the Tumblr crowd.
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I don't know who Nick Offerman is irl and please don't tell me. Also, I enjoyed the episode. (I think you are trying too hard)
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Alan Smithee posted:I completely forgot about that. Then again I only remember the freaky island head thing Freaky as it was, even it wasn't as terrifying as the alien mass suicide that resulted from their robot turning right.
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Gravity Falls fans stop ruining Gravity Falls  Chard posted:I don't know who Nick Offerman is irl and please don't tell me. Also, I enjoyed the episode. You may know him better as Nicolas Cage
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I loved how in season 1 they introduced all sorts of wacky townspeople and how they organically added to the humor on a level almost on par with classic Simpsons. In season 2 they were practically going off a checklist, naming background characters and giving them time to deliver a catchphrase before moving on to the next person to show off. It was the season premiere of a show that hadn't been on for literally a year. I'm fine with them taking a little time to remind us about everyone. It wasn't the best but it didn't take up that much of the episode overall.
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Haha, I'm rewatching The Legend of Gobblewonker. The tabloid Dipper is reading in the opening has an ad for Gideon on the back of it. I never noticed that before.
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BigRed0427 posted:Haha, I'm rewatching The Legend of Gobblewonker. The tabloid Dipper is reading in the opening has an ad for Gideon on the back of it. I never noticed that before. There's a lot of little foreshadowing bits in Gravity Falls. I'm watching back through it and noticed a picture of Robbie well before we meet him proper.
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Clockwork Rocktapus posted:There's a lot of little foreshadowing bits in Gravity Falls. I'm watching back through it and noticed a picture of Robbie well before we meet him proper. There's pictures in the opening credits of stuff that doesn't happen til nearly the end of the season. They've clearly got stuff planned in advanced, and hopefully that means they also have the endgame all or mostly figured out and are building up to it. I love Lost, but it was clear they didn't have an ending really planned til way later. Gravity Falls it feels like they actually do have the big things all planned and are building up to it. The show so far has been enough to prove that to me anyway 
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Wow, I'm both relieved and disappointed that I'm not the only person who didn't really like the season premiere. is this real
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Ignimbrite posted:Holy gently caress No kidding. Watching the first two new ones back to back was intense.
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There really is a ton of foreshadowing like that. Poolcheck is hanging out in the bar before the pool episode, Several Times posters are by Mable's bed, Bill shows a flash of Gideon's destroyed robot, etc.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Wow, I'm both relieved and disappointed that I'm not the only person who didn't really like the season premiere. 
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Lessail posted:is this real Of course it's real. Furthermore, don't you realize that The mysteries work best as external metaphors for internal struggle for Mabel/dipper, and as pure episodic set pieces
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Dammit late to the premier but catching up now!! Loved all of season 1 :3
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Sorry if this has been posted already, but I found a recording of the Comic-Com panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp3zUjQMaR8
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BigRed0427 posted:Sorry if this has been posted already, but I found a recording of the Comic-Com panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp3zUjQMaR8 I love how every year the Gravity Falls panel at Comic-Con is hijacked by more and more desperate begging from Disney to watch their new shows.
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 Wendy avatar, anyone? Needs to be shrunk a bit, but I love that expression. Say Nothing fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I love how every year the Gravity Falls panel at Comic-Con is hijacked by more and more desperate begging from Disney to watch their new shows. I dunno... I liked both of the things they showed there. The animation in the theme song for the first one looked particularly good. What I thought was funny was that the kids who got to ask questions asked way more interesting questions than any of the older people did. Like the thing about the skeletons in the mirror and Robbie? I don't even REMEMBER that scene. I did like that Alex Hirsch didn't outright pull out McGucket when asked about the other clone dippers. He basically said "yes they are still out there" and didn't really go into more detail. So it looks like they haven't melted in the rain yet. Also the boy band is still out there. Also Alex Hirsch mentioned that they are working on a real video game, but couldn't give any details about it at all. I hope he's working closely on it so it turns out good!
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I love how every year the Gravity Falls panel at Comic-Con is hijacked by more and more desperate begging from Disney to watch their new shows. I thought Star VS The forces of evil looked interesting. And for a video game, I'm hoping to a Telltale games point and click adventure.
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