In Which we talk about Over The Garden Wall once Again!

Hello my friend, dear reader of this post, visitor of the Divagation Store! How are you? I wish you the best! How is the weather? Here, it is spring only on name, we have roses all year round... it is in fact early Summer, alas. I love my winter, and I miss it greatly already. Today is the last day of September for this 2022, I should write a wrap up on it... well, instead, because of a great conversation I had with a friend on discord yesterday, I will be talking about Over the Garden Wall! That remarkable show! I will leave the remarks for the end of September for another date, I hope tomorrow, though I can never promise, alas once again. I believe you will like this one, and I can't wait to begin, so let's jump to it!

I have written on Over the Garden Wall in the past here on the blog, I believe so, it has been a while since I properly mentioned it here, though, fun how the divagation store goes, each season, as much as I love all the products, they tend to change, in the shelves of my mind. That show, it is a fantastic one, that bring us from Fall to Winter, and if you don't have those seasons, it approaches you to it as much as it can, till you can feel it, in the sorry heat of summer. It had the rare achievement of becoming a fairy tale, a folk story like the ones that were collected and transferred into books that made them so celebrated, around the 18th-19th century. It takes us on a mythical journey, on the fringes of life, makes the bridge between pop and classical. I am still to see any other show do as good of a work, and my hopes to see it are not high at all. The main character, that is Wirt, a well cultivated young man, that appreciates poetry, is aware of the difference between french Rococo Style (my favorite style) and the tendency of Georgian Fashion (also a style I appreciate), and anyone with that level of culture is to be aknowledged by me, anyway, Wirt has to be confronted with that journey for meaning we all take on that time of life, one that can lead us even to nihilism, to apathy, one that has plagued many since the Romantic era, leading so many brilliant men into death, here in the show represented by the beast of the unknown, that it indeed is. He is far from a nihilistic soul, but because of the betrayal he suffers from Beatrice, he is dangerously led to there. In the end, it was the naivete and lack of experience of his younger brother, Gregory, that lead to apathy and Nihilism, also, but before everything was lost, Wirt, definitely defeating those bad shades of a dying soul, recovering the joie de vivre, saves the day, not by defeating the beast, but by showing his realisations and the way to do it to the one that could indeed defeat the void: the woodsman, the character that takes care of the void in the story. It is only natural that a show born from the idea of the young, of what is beyond the wall in the backyard, lead us to such reflections. And I only talked about Wirt, the hero of the story, that is not to be understood the characters around are not worthy of mentioning, far from it! Beatrice, Gregory, the Beast of the void, the woodsman, and every one of the other ones that appear on each episode, those are amazing, too! But just talking on Wirt's journey.. I wasn't expecting to fill a blog post just with my remarks on Wirt, and yet here we are! And I am very happy to be here!

I believe this would be a point to wrap up the post! And I hope I may write the wrap up of September afterwards, as soon as I can... thank you for being here, dear reader of this post, and I wish you the best!!!!! See you again real real soon, I hope...