Why Over the Garden Wall is GENIUS Storytelling

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  @FiveDollarFilms · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @chocovampire · 3 years ago

  In regards to episode 7 and Auntie Whispers warning them about her sister, I think that since we already know Adelaide is evil, her warning statement hits even harder. This initially terrifying woman ends up being more concerned for their safety than Beatrice who Wirt grew to trust, cementing her betrayal and the hopelessness of their scenario even further into Wirt's head. It's like another punch to the gut for Wirt who's confidence is already waning, leading into him giving up completely. You can see this on his face when he reacts.

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  @walterwalden1587 · 1 year ago

  I love how jason funderberker is built up to be this confident jock-like character. This makes the audience think that wirts worries are warranted but in reality funderberker is a total weirdo with basically no shot of getting with Sarah. &nbsp;<br><br> It&apos;s only wirt that&apos;s holding himself back and really enforces his anxiety ridden &apos;better than nothing&apos; mentality to the audience.

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  @marshadirocca2550 · 3 years ago

  I actually like how auntie whispers warns about Adelaide after they’ve met. It’s like a bittersweet moment, an ‘if only I knew earlier’ moment, but not only that, the sweet innocent looking bird wirt chose to trust betrays him, but the evil sounding witchy one is the one who actually cares. And I love how they sum up this whole lesson by Greg saying hey it just goes to show you stuff. They don’t fully say ‘lol YOU THOUGHT’ but they do imply that they wanted you to realise that things aren’t always what they seem &nbsp;- which is the lesson that is seen in every episode

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  @zoetomase · 3 years ago

  I don&apos;t think this was mentioned, so if it&apos;s was I&apos;m sorry my memory is awful, but I love the detail of how it slowly begins to get colder and how it seems to change seasons. Obviously, the boys didn&apos;t spend months in the lake as they would have drowned but I always felt the snow represented how they all slowly getting colder and closer to death.

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  @leonfire99 · 3 years ago

  We just going to skip over how Beatrice was trying to get them kicked off the boat throughout the episode because by that point she&apos;d fully decided she didn&apos;t want to bring them to adalaide.

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  @MoonDoveByte · 2 years ago

  I haven&apos;t seen anyone mention it, but it&apos;s another reason why I absolutely LOVE how perfectly tied together this show is. After the opening of each episode you can actually hear the train&apos;s horns in the background. Obviously alluding to the fact that the brothers were drowning in the river after dodging said train<br><br>I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH ISTG

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  @1112-m6p · 3 years ago

  In many cultures people used to believe cats guide people to the afterlife or that cats are able to interact with both the living and dead. Maybe that&apos;s why it&apos;s a cat.

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  @catserver8577 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m working on a thread in my head that just as the children stumbled upon the harvest festival, which would be them arriving to soon for their deaths, also the loss of the pennies is a play on the &quot;don&apos;t pay the ferryman until he gets you to the other side&quot;, which is why they place two pennies on the eyes of the dead in some funereal ceremonies. They again come upon a way to the &quot;other side&quot; before their times. Sorry for the run on sentence, it&apos;s kind of how it sounds in my head.

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  @TheYit1 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Details of note:<br><br>Beatrice is the name of Dante’s guide through purgatory and heaven the the Divine Comedy. <br>Enoch the patriarch is tasked with watching over the dead in the Old Testament. <br>No person other than Greg eats until the last episode when Wirt eats dirt. <br>Greg rings the bell inside the frog in the hospital after they return.<br>Wirt and Greg need two pennies to take the ferry across the river to the pasture, just like the dead in Greek mythology.

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  @Dreadmonkey1 · 3 years ago

  For reference to some of the slightly odd voice acting of Auntie Whispers, she&apos;s voiced by none other than Tim Curry... right after he had a rather hefty stroke. Seriously this was like the first thing he did after nearly dying. It sounds like he&apos;s doing better (he&apos;s done some other stuff since), but this was what he could do at the time for this character

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  @SilyaBeeodess · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ve seen some discussions of the queen being the Beast in disguise, and the more I rewatch the episode the more accurate that seems to be for a few reasons. First is the audio and visual clues. The queen&apos;s pattern of speech matches the Beast&apos;s: Both speak in the same, luring tone. Then, when Greg is talking to her, we get this creepy camera shot looking up at her face, almost as if she&apos;s looming over us as the audience, which gives an eerie vibe despite the brighter colors and her gentle features. Secondly, when Greg first enters Cloud City, we see a black turtle travelling beside him with the rest of the animals that welcome him in, which we already suspect to be tied to the Beast or at least the darker aspects of the Unknown. Lastly and most glaring is the line, &quot;Anything is possible if you set your mind to it.&quot; Greg said these words to the queen, and the Beast later throws these same words at Greg in the last episode of the show when forcing him to run impossible tasks. <br>I think this reflects a lot not just on Greg&apos;s innocence and the Beast&apos;s deception as characters, but also fits with the idea of the Beast standing in as a Devil figure. Most see the Devil as a man with horns and a pitchfork while, Biblically, he&apos;s described as having been one of the most beautiful of God&apos;s angels, compared to a morning star. Evil can take a seemingly beautiful form to decieve, and that seems to be what the Beast was doing.

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