Over The Garden Wall - DVD

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Stalking the main cast is the Beast ( Samuel Ramey), an ancient creature who leads lost souls astray until they lose their hope and willpower and turn into "Edelwood trees". Meanwhile, the Beast reminds the Woodsman that the flame inside his lantern contains his daughter's soul, and that he must cut down Edelwood trees so the fire can keep her alive. At the graveyard, the group is telling ghost stories when Greg tries to cause a distraction for Wirt.

While not discounting its storytelling, music, and production design, he felt that production skimped on animation; he was still looking forward to the series. With the help of a shadowy Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, they travel through the foggy land in hope of finding a way home.Meanwhile, Greg and some of his new-found animal friends are chased by a gorilla and they hide in the school. If you are in Australia or New Zealand (DVD Region 4), note that almost all DVDs distributed in the UK by the BBC and 2entertain are encoded for both Region 2 and Region 4.

Taking place before the events of the first episode, on Halloween, Wirt has just finished making an audio cassette tape for his crush, Sara.In The New York Times, Mike Hale also felt the writing was sometimes weak and the stories "perilously thin", but concluded that McHale developed an environment worth visiting. His passions include playing the clarinet and writing poetry, [6] but he usually keeps these private out of fear of being mocked. After being freed, the brothers decide to follow Beatrice to Adelaide of the Pasture, a witch who she claims can help them get home. In Over The Garden Wall, a working class couple ( Jimmy James and Norman Evans) are planning to give their only daughter and their new GI son-in-law a right Northern welcome.

The brothers and Greg's frog sail down a lake, where they hear the Beast's singing, and Greg remains hopeful while Wirt has given up. Wirt and Beatrice come across a school full of animal students being taught by a human teacher, Miss Langtree. Greg starts telling everyone about the events they had experienced, and his frog's stomach glows with the magic bell still inside. They travel to a town of dancing vegetable people, unknowingly bringing crows and other dangerous animals along with them, but they manage to escape while John Crops finds a lover.

The series' art was inspired by a variety of sources, including the 1890s McLoughlin Brothers board game Game of Frog Pond, [16] illustrations by Gustave Doré for Cervantes's Don Quixote, [17] old illustrations for the Hans Christian Andersen story " The Tinderbox", [18] the Cheshire Cat illustration by John Tenniel from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, [19] and the " Dogville Comedies" short films. Early drafts of episodes from the show's pitch bible included a skinless witch character and a villain who carves dice from the bones of kidnapped children, as well a running plot throughout four episodes in which Wirt and Gregory are transformed into animals (Gregory being a duck and Wirt being "either a bear or a dog . The series centers on two half-brothers who travel across a mysterious forest to find their way home, encountering a variety of strange and fantastical things on their journey.

After leaving Lorna and Auntie Whispers, Wirt begins to lose hope of ever leaving the Unknown, which pleases the Beast who is watching from afar. At the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International, a preview of the show was screened along with various panels for other shows on the network. Wirt is tempted to accept this offer, but he realizes that the flame within the lantern is actually the Beast's own source of life. Greg cheers everyone up by adding molasses to the potatoes that they're having for lunch, interrupted by Miss Langtree's benefactor father. Wirt meets up with Sara at the party, who invites him to go to the graveyard with her and her friends.Songs from the series include "Into the Unknown", its title song, composed by Patrick McHale and sung by Jack Jones; "A Courting Song", composed by the Petrojvic Blasting Company and performed by Frank Fairfield; and "Come Wayward Souls", sung by Samuel Ramey as the Beast. Over The Garden Wall put the two comic geniuses together as a one of the funniest fictional husband and wife teams to grace a British screen and inspired Les Dawson's famous female impersonation. When they arrive at their destination, Beatrice, who had been acting strangely throughout the ferry ride, tries to convince them to stay in the Unknown and not to visit Adelaide. The DVD features all ten episodes of the show, commentaries, the original pilot, alternate title cards, and deleted animatics. After creating a pilot episode, Tome of the Unknown: Harvest Melody, McHale and the network settled upon the miniseries format for the ensuing series, as McHale felt that it would lead to "something that felt higher quality than what we could do with a regular series".