I love the colors and values! Everything is pale but bright, and the shadows and highlights are really well placed. The scratches and disheveled look to the twins really adds tension, yet also comfort as Dipper places his arm around Mabel.



I hope they stick together as well. However, I have a terrible feeling that something serious is about to happen. Mabel looked so sad and angry in the previews. She knows summer is almost over, and that means leaving behind Grunkle Stan and Ford, Wendy, Grenda, Candy, Soos, and all she's come to love in such an emotional three months. She and Dipper are growing up; they will leave their childhood along with Gravity Falls in the end. But I don't think Mabel is as scared of that as she is of the fear of losing her brother. Her face at the end of "Tale of Two Stans" was really distressing; I think she knew what was at stake for the two of them. Dipper is spending so much time with Ford and not much time with Mabel. They haven't really hung out since Ford came out of the portal. Perhaps, in the new episode, Mabel will see that she and Dipper are growing apart. Will that alone cause a rift between this loving brother and sister, or will something even more serious happen to cause them to split up? Could Bill Cipher help influence it? I wouldn't put it past him, given his manipulative nature.



Who knows? In the end, though, I believe Dipper and Mabel will make it through this struggle that awaits them. No matter how old they'll get or what changes will come, they'll always have each other to turn to. The love they share as brother and sister is irreplaceable and, though it can be shaken, it can never be fully broken.



Here's hoping for the best in the end, for whatever comes with these final few episodes.