Also, haha, I never noticed how many fingers the hand has on this book. It is a big hint to the author, and I am kind of amazed it never stood out for me. What is happening here? Come one, come all, to the mattress prince's kingdom of savings! - Take me with you. As the series was winding down, my kids and I often debated, who watched Gravity Falls first, them or my husband and I? By the time of the series finale aired, we all agreed that it did not matter. For us, all that mattered was that we were watching and enjoying the last episode together. We could not ignore the disappointment we felt that there were no new episodes on the horizon.

Thus, it should not be surprising that Gravity Falls: Journal 3 serves as a GREAT companion piece to the show! Initially, when I opened the journal, I went through it while watching a Gravity Falls marathon. I spent a lot of time oohing and aahing about the fact that what I saw on tv was in direct correlation with what I had in my hands. Once I got over my excitement, which I admit was more than that of my 9 year old, I began to actually read the journal. Admiring the illustrations and skimming through the journal took second and third place, respectfully, to reading and appreciating the life lessons embedded throughout the work. Uh Thanks? Better safe than sorry! Mable, now that we've gotten to know each other, there's There's something I should tell you.

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Gravity Falls: Journal 3 helps explain pretty much every weird thing you have and will ever see. The 3rd Journal is a fictional book and falls under mystery and fantasy. I personally enjoy this story of pure weirdness. Gravity Falls - SDCC 2015 - Full Panel. YouTube. TheMysteryofGF (July 10, 2015). Retrieved on November 18, 2015.

Daisies? You scallywag! Is my sister really dating a zombie, or am I just going nuts? It's a dilemma, to be sure. Look, kid, the whole "monsters in the forest" thing is just local legend drummed up by guys like me to sell merch to guys like that. This book does add a bunch to the show - especially the part before dipper adds a whole new layer of things that just weren't explored in the show. When we get to the part where dipper starts writing in the journal its pretty interesting to see all the unexplored episode ideas (because that's what it is, it very much feels like this book came to being because Hirsch had some episode ideas he didn't get to explore in video format - which is understandable, he's said from the start the show had a finite number of episodes).The setting of the book is important because only Gravity Falls can have such weirdness in its boundaries. The narrator is reliable because he is the character in the story and this is his journal entries. A theme that recurs throughout the book is that weirdness is in the world for a reason. This theme can be seen when Ford talks to Dipper about how them being in Gravity Falls was similar to a destiny. Ford motivation is to find his purpose in life and find out where something weird like him belongs. While I appreciated the sections Dipper and Mabel added (as it tied in with the show where Dipper was in possession of the book), I really read this book for Ford Pines. He's a brilliant, sometimes oblivious man, who means well but doesn't quite get there. His words are often as eloquent as his handwriting, and his witty quips that fill in the notes of the book never failed to make me smile. Every crossed out section referring to his brother made my heart ache, and we finally got to see his relationship with Fiddleford in depth.