Who is the real villain of Over the Garden Wall? It’s the guy who’s been holding Wirt back the entire series! WIRT!
We’ll learn all about how Wirt is his own worst enemy in this flashback episode, as we venture Into the Unknown in Part 9 of Love of the Garden Wall!
This week we’re back in Wirt’s hometown, and the love word of the day is “Eros”, or Romantic Love!
“Love of the Garden Wall” is Storyograph’s weekly fall series (Tuesday October 6 – December 6, 2022) focusing on a different chapter of Over the Garden Wall each Tuesday, and a different form of love represented in the show’s themes.
Brotherly love, the love between friends, romantic love… in fact pretty much all the types of love that Ancient Greek philosophers came up with are represented in Over the Garden Wall. And each episode focuses on a different kind.
But It can be scary making yourself vulnerable to love. So Over the Garden Wall poses the question, “If love is so risky, then why do we love at all?” Well, to find the answer, come with me into the Unknown…
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0:00 – Eros: Romance
0:45 – Perfection
1:02 – Imperfection
1:50 – Self-Loathing
3:54 – Shutting Out Love
4:53 – CS Lewis Quote
5:48 – Perfect is the Enemy of Good
7:04 – End Screen
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MUSIC:
“Last Kiss Goodnight” “Comic Plodding” “Past Sadness” “Moonlight Hall” “Mistake the Getaway” “Ghostpocalypse 6: Crossing the Threshold” “Fairytale Waltz” “Lobby Time” by Kevin MacLeod
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Anyone know what Wirt’s costume is?
It probably takes place in the 80’s. All the cars look old. It’s unlikely Sara wouldn’t have a tape player, but its not impossible.
It doesn’t take place in any time exactly. Its “childhood” according to Pat McHale. That’s how he remembers it so its greatly influenced by the 1980s.
Would a boy these days even know what a tape recorder is?
I feel like when doesn't exactly matter to the real world, it's just that it's firmly our world.
It makes Wirt and Greg immediately anachronistic in the Unknown.
As for the anachronisms of their world, it could be any time in the last 40 years?
So long as kids are around and still have their own interior culture.
The dvd commentary says the real world was designed with the 70s-90s mind. As for Sara not having a tape player, there are lots of reasons why she wouldn’t. Maybe it is the 1990s and she’s already moved on to CDs? I can only say almost certainly that it’s not the 2010s
These analysis videos or whatever they are brought me back to over the garden wall.
This particular episode specifically had the scariest and saddest thing to me. Sara actually liking wirt, and the possibility of him giving up and them dying, and leaving her with that tape.
Thanks to these videos I found out there is actually a "for Sara" tape. And listening to it thinking of that context really made it hit hard at points.
I watched this film out of boredom and ended up in tears
Do you think the reason Wirt sees Funderberker as such a Chad is just because he tries? He's annoying and probably doesn't have Wirt's talents, but I could see him trying out for things Wirt wanted and getting in just because Wirt never auditioned
*spelling edit