Reviews
Gravity Falls: Take Back the Falls (2016)
The greatest five year summer ever
When a show begins no one knows how it will end. We get engaged, grow to love the characters, and get excited at the announcement of a new episode. Although it's sad Gravity Falls performed a rare feat with an ENDING. So many shows just ride the tide of fans until they crash and burn on the rocks when they run out of ideas. For a show to end before it's time with so much potential wrapped up within it will keep it a lovely memory for years to come and definitely worth re-watching. With so many mysteries and almost all of them solved Gravity Falls ended with a feat nearly unmatched with both an action packed and heartbreaking finale. Some people will complain as many do but no matter what you cannot skip this episode when re-watching the series, even if you could I can't imagine wanting it.
No one could have predicted how beautiful, suspenseful, funny, and just endearing the series would be when we heard the first lines of dialogue, yet the lines are memorable, the characters funny, and the mystery still holding attention despite being solved. With each passing episode we learned more and more about the characters and how they interacted with one another and the mystery slowly built and ended with surprising and suspenseful episodes that bordered on scary and sadistic at times. The show was less concerned with being "hip and with it" and instead became its own thing that appealed to anyone of any age. What more can I express? If you haven't seen the series and are considering it just go ahead and do it? But remember that in gravity falls there is no one you can trust, not even your doubts.
Goodbye Gravity Falls.
Detentionaire (2011)
How can you go wrong with a spy Thriller edge?
Framed for the biggest prank ever Lee Ping finds himself in an impossible situation and must sneak out of detention every day to gather more clues as to who the real culprit is all while his psychotic cyborg principle hunts him down and the school is completely convinced he did it.
The show really shines in its layout of the story. Instead of just having a cliché rehashed story of every suspect didn't do it there are layers to the mystery. Each time you find an answer more are raised. Instead of going back to character development it spends a few episodes introducing the cast and just puts them into situations in a sort of "How did we get here" story.
The further along you get the more interesting things get as more and more clues are dropped. I respect how the show manages to tell you the characters are intelligent with visuals. Instead of just saying a character is smart they show them thinking logically and intelligently. The main character isn't making dumb moves. He's making very good choices on solving the mystery. There are a few awkward moments but you kind of stop minding them because the characters are fleshed out so much.
I'd at least give it a shot. Plus that awesome theme song!