>>90930979Mabel was a badly written character though. The problem is the show treats Dipper and Mabel like two sides of a coin, to foil main characters with intertwining arcs.
But in reality it was more like Dipper was the main character and Mabel was a comedy relief that occasionally but rarely contribute much. She had no real arc and learned nothing from her experience. Add the fact that the narrative was focused on Dippers arc to shift towards her point of view without any hard justifiable reason and it makes her out to look more selfish then anything.
What Mabel and the whole show needed was one more season. Maybe have the season finale be about Ford trying to take Dippers wing and pushing away Mabel, and focus the season more on HER pointview rather then Dipper's. Focus more of her going the her own adventures alone to build up her loneliness and growing disdain of her brother and make Ford and Dipper the B-plots. Let her grow as an actual character. Make her hangout more with Wendy maybe since many complain she also had very little to do in the show.