OUT NOW!!

AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEX HIRSCH!!

Join me and @fordtato as we had the once in a lifetime chance to interview the creator of Gravity Falls himself and ask our most burning questions!!

My video

Hana's video

Hana, I cannot thank you enough for all your help, support and being an incredible partner and friend on this crazy project. I hope we can have the chance to collaborate again in the future on another project. I'll never forget this experience. Getting to meet and talk to Alex Hirsch was a dream come true and one I will never, EVER forget. I hope you all enjoy what we've both created here and managed to ask him. Long Live Gravity Falls!!

Thank you again to @stephreynaart for the amazing thumbnails for our videos, @brightdrawings for the 3d Render on our teaser trailer and to Hana and their friends Rev, Lee and Reuben for making the transcript.

You can find that over here!

Saw this epic edit of that time Concorde chased an eclipse in 1973 and had to post it here.

God, this plane was too good for this shitty world!

Gravity Falls has that first factor that makes it feel so special. If I had to rank them all, GF would be first, followed by Amphibia and then TOH.

Gravity Falls was the first big cartoon I watched after Phineas and Ferb in 2015 (minus Milo Murphy's Law and Star Wars Rebels) and the one that got me hooked for being so unique and special in ways I still do not fully understand how. I think the combination of a show in the Pacific Northwest, a rarely explored region in cartoons, the characters, mystery and more was what helped. Amphibia was a close second, but Owlphibia never to me captured the same love I had for GF.

I see it as a lightning in a bottle at the right place at the right time. When I got into Gravity Falls, I was at a low point in my life where I felt like I didn't know what to do or where I was going. It gave me a sense of new purpose and passion and a deviation away from those issues. Nowadays I get more I was feeling like Mabel in Vs the Future during those times and GF really was what helped me out.

It got me through tough days, got me into a new hobby and passion, re-unlocked my love of video editing and strive to keep growing with it and more.

I am who I am today cause of Gravity Falls. Similarly, there's probably someone else out there who feels the same about Amphibia or The Owl House. It was a show that was in the right place at the right time for them and helped them get through a tough time.

It's not so much therefore a question of if Gravity Falls is better...but how much it holds itself near and dear to you? We all have a passion we love dearly and care a lot about. For me, that's Gravity Falls and aviation. For someone else it could be Amphibia and knitting or The Owl House and reading.

These shows mean something to us in our own ways. And what that means is what matters above all else.

At this point, anything from products to food made in the US should be avoided for your own health. I mean, it's like the FDA is recalling or warning about something new every 5 minutes. Yes, this normally happens a lot usually, but in a time when they're being cut funding and loosening restrictions cause of Mr. Tapeworm in brain Kennedy, it's no surprise it feels way more than usual.

Anyways, buy Canadian. Not just because Canada first, but because it quite literally is safer for you (like, Canadian milk alone is better than US milk given the restrictions we got here that the US does not which makes it safer).

I've mentioned this in another post, but sometimes Amphibia gets praise for is how it much better develops and handles its female characters. Like, Anne, Marcy and Sasha all started out flawed and in a situation that was showing the flaws in their friendship that led them to Amphibia and by the end, they all grew and left that world better than they came into it.

Comparably, Gravity Falls struggled there in examples you can see often with fan complaints; Wendy being forgotten like a middle child, Mabel's development that while better than others, still led to the issue that spawned the hate she dealt with, Pacifica getting development that began but then sorta felt like it never fully finished and then characters like Melody being introduced and then removed till the end for one reason or another.

Amphibia just felt like it did it much better and that's not surprising, given Matt Braly mentioned in an interview early on about Amphibia, that one thing he felt important for a writing team to exist for the show with the main characters being girls in high school going through a coming of age moment with their friendship, was to have female writers at the helm. As such, of the 4 writers on the show, 3 were women. And you can tell that they knew what they were doing given Anne, Marcy and Sasha all had development that was true to who they were and felt earned and real.

Alex Hirsch is a great writer and I respect him dearly. But he does struggle at times to write certain characters or his team did overall and you can see that both in the show and in later material like Lost Legends where Face It, while developing Pacifica, had a more safe and not too major risk taking story to it while Don't Dimension It just butchered it badly by having Mabel take the blame for Weirdmageddon when we all know she was not to blame fully. It just didn't feel right. Matt Braly, whatever his writing abilities may be, knew he could not do a show like Amphibia alone and so, brought on a writing team that would understand his characters better than maybe even he does in the right way.

Oh, 100%. The siblings hate each other trope in cartoons is such an overused and tiresome one. Like, yeah, siblings get on each other's nerves, but shows often treat it like they both would kill the other if left alone long enough.

Gravity Falls was a true breath of fresh air for doing that and it's something the show even gets praise for doing and even acknowledged itself.

Gravity Falls wasn't the show I'd argue that started it, but I think since then most shows I have come to like are ones that have a similar healthy and believable sibling relationship. Be it Bluey, Amphibia, Big City Greens, etc. That's not to the say the toxic sibling trope is always bad to see or that overly nice to each other siblings can't get tiring too, but for now, sibling bonds like Dipper and Mabel's are IMO, the gold standard that shows who want a similar situation with their characters should strive for. The quality of the series just gets better as a result.