People need to take notice: the principles behind good writing hold for good TV. Proper storytelling needs to be focused, concise, and atmospheric.
Series like "Gravity Falls," "Amphibia" and "The Owl House" accomplish this to perfection. Each included detail serves a purpose, and details do matter.
In TOH we see the growth of relationships in a credible way. Even sequences that seem purely atmospheric at first help to advance the plot (the high-fives, for example, that show how Hunter is changing; or the breathing exercise that Luz teaches Willow later used to rescue Gus from his negative emotional loop).
The way the relationship between Ida and Luz evolves is amazingly told. But the highlight to me is the Amity/Luz friendship in the first season, and the Gus/Hunter in the second. They feel real, both are touching. Friendship is more than just sharing interests, it's about bonding. It's only in modern culture where romance has been split from friendship --it wasn't long when both often went together. Anyone who has read the correspondence of famous artists in the past knows how different it was.
This show also breaks new ground because it doesn't make a big deal of its diversity. That is the hallmark of future generations. We older people still live with the memory of a world where people had to fight tooth and nail just for the right of existing. Hopefully, that will change to a point where it's not the main subject any more, but just something normal and expected in the world.
Series like "Gravity Falls," "Amphibia" and "The Owl House" accomplish this to perfection. Each included detail serves a purpose, and details do matter.
In TOH we see the growth of relationships in a credible way. Even sequences that seem purely atmospheric at first help to advance the plot (the high-fives, for example, that show how Hunter is changing; or the breathing exercise that Luz teaches Willow later used to rescue Gus from his negative emotional loop).
The way the relationship between Ida and Luz evolves is amazingly told. But the highlight to me is the Amity/Luz friendship in the first season, and the Gus/Hunter in the second. They feel real, both are touching. Friendship is more than just sharing interests, it's about bonding. It's only in modern culture where romance has been split from friendship --it wasn't long when both often went together. Anyone who has read the correspondence of famous artists in the past knows how different it was.
This show also breaks new ground because it doesn't make a big deal of its diversity. That is the hallmark of future generations. We older people still live with the memory of a world where people had to fight tooth and nail just for the right of existing. Hopefully, that will change to a point where it's not the main subject any more, but just something normal and expected in the world.