It’s probably the episode I enjoy most art-wise as well and the one that actually reminds me of fall the most. This episode holds my favorite song from the show, “Pottsfield CM”. My favorite episode is the second episode of the series, titled “Hard Times at the Huskin’ Bee”, where the boys and Beatrice stumble upon the town of Pottsfield, a harvest town filled with what we assume are people dressed in costumes with pumpkin heads. The group adventures through The Unknown, avoiding The Beast, a fabled horrible creature trying to lead the kids astray.Įach episode follows the group on a different part of their journey. They meet a bluebird named Beatrice who promises to take them to Adelaide of the Woods to allow them to get home.
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The story follows two brothers, Wirt (voiced by Elijah Wood) and Greg (voiced by Collin Dean), along with their unnamed frog, who find themselves stuck in The Unknown, a place full of mystery and fantasy outside of their own knowledge. There’s a reason why I come back to this show over and over again. There are also small subtle hints that you pick up on when re-watching the series. It keeps you enthralled in the story the whole time, and the soundtrack deserves its own separate section later on. I honestly think that’s just how you have to do it. When I first watched the show, I finished it in one night.
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The entire series contains only 10 episodes, making the total run time only around two hours. The latter part of this article will contain very mild spoilers, so read at your own risk. It’s filled with beautiful fall scenery, a gorgeous art style, and just the right amount of morbidity to make you question if it really is for kids. This is a show I constantly fall back into over and over again and I consider it one of the best shows of all time. One of my favorite things to do every year in fall is watch Over the Garden Wall, a mini-series that was aired on Cartoon Network in 2014. And this time you could have the villain be their fears, either personified as a malevolent being or as force that constantly gets them into danger and tries to split them up.We've officially passed the first day of autumn, and it’s time to start getting into the season.
Have all the beasts be replaced by ones from stories of European/Slavic origin and make the ending of "what is the unknown" and "are they actually dead?" Much more ambiguous. You could have the arcing question of "will they make it back" replaced with "do they want to make it back", given that all three of them were running from situations that would pretty much have them all killed.
Maybe you have a french solider from WW1 barely old enough to be called a man (who'd hidden in the unknown because he'd just watched his squad be killed in a gas attack), a Russian Jew from the mid 1800s (who'd fallen into the unknown running from one of the pogroms), and, going with the "main character being from a much later time period" idea, the main character is an east German from the 1980s who'd slipped into the unknown running from the Stasi.
What about if a second season focused more on the "people from different time periods" aspect? And where while all the main characters are young (maybe like 16-17-18), they're all from different time periods and different places (within say, Europe this time) where the events around them forced them to take refuge in the woods leading to the unknown.