Over the Garden Wall: A new CN miniseries

Funny you should mention

Doug Walker is planning to vlog Over The Garden Wall! :D

edited 26th Dec '14 5:50:55 PM by kyun

He'll make you... meet your end? Some kind of metaphor for the series as a whole?

That fourth episode also had a lot of helpful information about the Beast. Then it turns out Wirt was trying to impress a girl. The black girl who likes nerdy white guys. I think Wirt needs that costume to draw attention away from his big ears.

Why does the name "Wirt" look like an acronym to me? "Writing In Regards To..."?

It's probably just a corruption of "Walt". That way it sounds like a name, even if it's not a real one.

Wirt is a variation on Wirth which is a German, Jewish name meaning "innkeeper" from the German Wirt "host".

ACCORDING TO THE INTERNET

edited 27th Dec '14 7:40:11 AM by Bocaj

I hope I'm not the only one who got into a bad habit of calling the Beast 'the shadowman.'

It might be due to his voice sounding like Keith David.

This was how the show ended, right?

Basically, yeah.

Also, I have decided to introduce my mom to Over the Garden Wall

Four episodes in and she is certainly nonplussed.

It's getting a re-airing tomorrow! Neat.

my new roommate showed them to me last night. I loved it. particularly the last few bits because holy crap, I think one of my favorite tropes ever is family members/friends making deals to save others at costs to themselves. I fully blame digimon for that.

Who is your favorite character?

Well, I decided to finish watching the series just now.

Holy cow.

I never thought the whole adventure was All Just a Dream.

And that Episode 9. Who would've thunk that it was actually a Whole Flashback Episode?

I mean, whoa.

Well, at least everything turned out okay for everyone.

I don't know if it was 'just' a dream. If you look at Jason Funderburker the frog at the end, you can see his stomach shining as Greg shakes him like the bell he ate is still there somehow.

Well, still! "Into the Unknown" and "The Unknown" really gives the whole miniseries a 180, doesn't it?

Well played, Mr. McHale. Well played.

Also, isn't Greg the sweetest?

I can't help but picture him making friends with Saoirse.

edited 4th Jan '15 5:17:03 PM by TargetmasterJoe

as potatoes and molasses

Edit: HAH!

edited 4th Jan '15 5:31:59 PM by Bocaj

Awkward.

Also, Pan-Pizza was right. I did end up thinking "Holy Crap." by the end.

edited 4th Jan '15 5:53:56 PM by TargetmasterJoe

Just watched this show again on CN, and I noticed that Quincy Endicott's name, Quincey Endicott being the rich tea merchant with the gigantic house who was in love with a ghost, is on the tombstone that Wirt hides behind in the penultimate episode "Into the Unknown."

IN THE END THEY WERE BOTH GHOSTS, probably the horse too

Parallels to Dante's Inferno

So I decided to rewatch the first episode.

Turns out that Beatrice's human form was one of the first things that we ever see in the miniseries.

O.

M.

G.

Very well played, Mr. McHale. Very well played.

Though to be fair, I kinda decided to take my sweet time watching everything thanks to college dragging me around.

I mean, it's like one of those things where they show you something or someone right at the very beginning and you think "meh, probably no one important", then when you get to the end, the thing from the very start actually becomes important. What's the name for that kind of trope?

edited 5th Jan '15 5:42:38 PM by TargetmasterJoe

Extremely subtle foreshadowing? Fridge revelation?

And yeah, I found it amazing that at the very beginning they pretty much hint a part of what's going to happen in each episode in order. And right after that we see dark shadows moving around in what sounds like water. We were basically shown EXACTLY how Wirt and Greg start walking into The Unknown. It's amazing.

Hell, not just the opening, the title card for every episode has a subtle hint at The Reveal if listen closely. It's the whistle from the train. The same goes for the Vanity Plate: it's already plenty creepy-looking but once you've seen the whole show it is much more so.

edited 6th Jan '15 2:01:56 AM by thatother1dude

Everything in a cartoon is important. Everything you see (aside from cel dirt, and that's no longer really an issue) is there absolutely on purpose. It's not like live action where a key grip might leave a Mc Donalds wrapper in a scene by mistake and no one ever catches it until people have watched it a hundred times on DVD; everything you see was put there, on purpose.