But physically, they only come up to the adults’ waists. They’re interested in growing up, in science, in attraction, and in saving the world. The more you watch Gravity Falls, the more you realize the show uses that dissonance artfully to express the fact that the twins and their young teenage friends are in a state of metamorphosis.Throughout the show, Dipper, Mabel, Grenda, Candy, and Pacifica act like teens - indeed, their wisdom and maturity sometimes surpasses that of the adults around them.
Dipper and Mabel are drawn tiny, and yet anyone who’s seen this show will wax poetic about their deep development, both personally and in relation to the characters around them. It’s a brilliant coming-of-age story, and I felt it still had a lot to teach me as a 21-year-old saying goodbye to the summer.Īs I was watching the now-familiar plot unfold, something struck me that I had never really noticed before: the huge disparity between the protagonists’ characterization and their miniature, childish character designs. In between hectic packing and frantically trying to re-learn everything I’d forgotten over the summer (a lot, as it turns out), I decided to treat myself by re-watching Gravity Falls. Just like Mabel, Dipper and other students the world over, this year, when the end of August rolled around, I was bracing myself to head back to school. In real life and on the show, when September starts, time’s up. If Gravity Falls is about anything, it’s about change.
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