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There's only two more episodes left of the best show on television.
Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch has announced that Season 2 will be the final season of Disney XD's highest-rated show, and a small part of me has died inside.
“Gravity Falls was never meant to be a series that goes on and on forever,” writes Hirsch. “It’s meant to be an exploration of the experience of summer, and in a larger sense a story about childhood itself. The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious—and why you should cherish it while it lasts.”
And cherish it we have. It's been far and away our family's favorite show on TV lately (even as we watch other great stuff like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: Rebels together.)
It's been our own sort of summer show, too, since we only started it at the beginning of this summer (and binged) and now, as the first snow falls here in the mountains, our adventures with Mabel and Dipper, Grunkle Stan and Soos, Wendy and all the rest of these phenomenal characters are drawing to a close.
**sniff**
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Hirsh notes that he designed Gravity Falls to be a story with a beginning, middle and end about one, finite summer. This isn't a cancellation, it's a choice, and one that Hirsch has known about for a long time.
"There are so many shows that go on endlessly until they lose their original spark," he writes, "or mysteries that are cancelled before they ever get a chance to payoff."
Hirsch "wanted Gravity Falls to have a mystery that had a real answer, an adventure that had a real climax, and an ending that had a real conclusion for the characters I care so much about."
I want that, too, Alex. I really do. I just also want a second summer with a slightly older set of twins and a new set of mysteries and adventures and hilarious Grunkle Stan capers and wacky Sooscepades.
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How about this: A Grunkle Stan spin-off? Or...a mini-series starring Stan and Soos embarking on a nutty road-trip!
Yeah, I know I'm grasping here. I'm just...sad.
Ah well. Gravity Falls is one of those rare shows that's truly great, and one that I'm sure I will watch over many, many times. I can't wait to see what happens in the final two episodes. When and if they actually finally air. (Seriously this Weirdmageddon cliff-hanger is starting to hurt.)
Thankfully, the last episode is a double, so that's almost like getting three more episodes. That counts for something.
