Name: Is Over The Garden Wall About Having Faith? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
Uploaded: 2015-09-25T14:38:27.000Z
Duration: 12 min 41 s
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is about having faith in the face of the impossible.

the woods for the last month, "Over the Garden Wall"

is a 10-episode Cartoon Network miniseries

created by "Adventure Time's" creative director Patrick

In an "Adventure Time" meets "Grimm Fairy Tales" meets

Miyazaki meets Mark Twain meets [EXPLOSION NOISE] style,

"Over the Garden Wall" follows brothers Wirt and Greg,

Beatrice, a talking bluebird; and their frog-- variously

named Kitty, George Washington, doctor, Mr. President,

a rural, mysterious, Americana-infused landscape

called the Unknown as the boys try to find their way home.

universal critical praise, "Over the Garden Wall"

is also the most requested "Idea Channel"

episode topic in recent history by a long shot.

Thematically, "OTGW" has a lot in common with our episode

Endicott is afraid of a ghost, Miss Langtree of a gorilla

The Woodsman is afraid of losing his daughter,

The main antagonist, the Beast, a baritone-voiced, horned black

an undiluted personification of the fear that

And as a matter of fact, when the Woodsman

warns Wirt and Greg to beware the Unknown,

it's not super clear if he means the place, the Beast,

or the general concept of that which is not known.

As it turns out, their respective reflexes

in the face of the Unknown, in each of its forms,

But it also sets up a tension between them.

is a bit more resigned to stuff being hopeless or unlikely.

So take out your headphones or turn down your volume

That is, until he is shown how his lack of faith

"TV Tropes" casts Wirt and Greg as the cynic and optimistic

as well, Soren Kierkegaard's knights of resignation

in "Fear and Trembling," a dialectical lyric

about what it means to have and act upon faith.

Inspired by the biblical story of Abraham,

who is commanded by God to kill his son, Isaac.

Abraham has faith in God, so he does as he's told.

But just before he's about to kill Isaac,

He would kill his own son at the word of God.

Kierkegaard had a hard time imagining himself

would pardon him, stay his hand, or bring his son back

I don't know, having that kind of faith is not easy.

They act on quote, "The strength of the absurd."

doesn't have to be holy intervention either.

Kierkegaard writes about a young lover pining after a princess.

And if that young lover were a knight of faith,

he might realize the absurdity of their union,

but believes it possible somehow, perhaps

through the will of some divine force nonetheless.

We could be talking about all kinds of inscrutable stuff--

god, luck, chance, destiny, the free market, who knows?

A knight of infinite resignation, on the other hand,

No princess, no hope, no one to drive with him

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