![]() On the one hand, it’s true that crushes, particularly at a young age, are selfish affairs. It’s interesting that the best moments to come out of Dipper’s crush are often the ones that have nothing to do with Wendy at all, something which says as much about the writing as it does Dipper himself. Really, it’s just my way of trying to avoid the fact that this is another crush episode, meaning we’re well into the spiral where a few weeks from now I will hate absolutely everything (“Fight Fighters” being what I’d firmly call the nadir of this arc). But those are nitpicks and thematic hiccups, the kind of thing that are pretty well inevitable when looking at an evolving series in retrospect. They’re celebrations on multiple levels, with a sense of thematic scope that this episode just can’t measure up to (besides, I suppose, introducing three new recurring cast members).Īnd, of course, there’s the fact that even at this point in the series, it’s quite clear that Grunkle Stan has secrets he guards quite closely … so maybe letting a bunch of strangers inside the house proper is a little bit of a risk. Parties, you see, are major bookends of the second season, serving to mark two pretty world changing events. This, I suspect, is why we have the inclusion of the fairly generic concept of A Dance into the weird getaway of Gravity Falls, a setup that winds up feeling a little odd in retrospect. Here’s something of an oddity, readers: while the script for this episode was hammered out by three writers we’ve seen before (Rianda, McKeon, and Hirsch), the story concept actually came from one-time contributor Mitch Larson.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |