Do people want more Over the Garden Wall stuff on this channel? I know asking you in a OTGW video is going to skew the data, but 2024 is the 10 year anniversary so maybe I'd dip into this one more time...?
A ten year anniversary video would be amazing. I love your paradise lost link to Greg. I’d never heard that and I think it pairs beautifully with the Dante’s Inferno parallels
@@saraha.9837 I've got a few half-formed ideas that could turn into another video, but I'll have to see if any of them can really stand on there own. Hopefully we'll see it some more next year!
I’m so happy that there is still an active fandom for over the garden wall in 2024 . The first time I watched this show was only a year ago but it has become one of my favorites for sure , I love to see people talking about it like this (:
I think it’s becoming like Nightmare Before Christmas in that it’s a highly aesthetic, seasonal story that people keep coming back to at least once a year. It’s been one of my favorites since I saw it.
the quote from welcome to night vale that shook me to my core: "Are you living a life that is safe from harm? No, of course not. But that is not the right question. The question is, are you living a life that is *worth* the harm?"
i definitely appreciated it! it was a silly way to present how a central theme of the show (that i didn't even pick up on) pops up in each episode. it's so nice to see creators who really care about their content and make it fun for both themselves and their viewers :D keep it up!!
this was THE video i had searched for far and wide across an seemingly endless sea of youtube videos. you explained his character arc, his flaws and how he overcame them, alongside clips of the show to show it, so so well. i tend to be media illiterate in certain cases, ill admit, and thats why these videos mean so much to me. i saw myself taking a liking to wirt and relating, but i couldnt quite point down why exactly. his cynicism and quick tendency to give up and lose hope, his defensiveness in fear of getting hurt by daring to be vulnerable, believing the lie so many do that by not opening yourself up to others, you'll be protected against any type of pain. though it is that loneliness and feeling of being lost, not having anything going for you, wandering without any aim, is what brings the most painful hurt of all. a slow walk to your death, never having made a chance to the world or the persons around you, just like being a ghost. passing through life. I thank you greatly for this absolute masterpiece of a video, i also like the theory of each episode conveying a type of love. till know ive heard mostly only about the purgatory refrences from dante, which i absolutely adore, though it is nice seeing a different take on this exquisite show. alright that is a lot of text ill go watch the 11 remaining minutes now.
Thank you! For me, I really liked "Over the Garden Wall", and I just wanted to make a video about it. Then the more I watched it and the more I wrote about it, the video almost became like a therapy session for me. I was able to kinda put Wirt's problems in context, and started to find I was giving myself advice while writing about him. I'm really glad other people are getting a lot out of this video too!
I watched a vid with over 500k views yet the analysis of that one is meh (compared to this), so unorganized and hard to follow, the creator didn't even bother matching the clips shown to what he is saying, it's just a confusing voice-over with repeated shots of the same few scenes. This deserves more recognition.
Thank you! Unfortunately the amount of effort it takes to put out good work like this doesn't translate into views as well as churning things out regularly. Whoever's 500k video you're referring to, may have started out like this and was worn down into compromise by the algorithm, or forced to cut corners by the deadline for their sponsors if they had any. After years on the platform, I'm still trying to figure out how to speed things up without losing quality.
Thank you for uploading this! I loved the original series you posted and have rewatched it a bunch, but the bumpers -understandable as they are - always break up the flow. This is great, a fantastic analysis and great presentation! Thank you!
Oh the end screens? Yeah, glad to have it all in one place now. I always kinda wanted it to be all one video, but I couldn't finish it in time last year. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for this video. I had once watched this show but did not see the deeper parts of it or its characters and for years thought nothing of it. Then your video was in my recomended section and thought why not? I like when people analize shows, I like their thought process. What I want to say is that this video taught me a lot, not only about how the story was constructed or deepner nuances - but it taught me a lot about myself. When you were talking about Wirt I felt like you were talking about me. How hating myself hurt others, how my disbelief that I can be loved makes me blind to the people who try to be apart of my world. How by being in isolation I am not letting myself have the life I want to have and by trying and loving people I have nothing to lose. Good things come with risk and to take it I have to not be scared of making my choices, of taking a renponsibility of my risk which will cause its consequences. But all of this is always worthwhile, I will learn, I will grow, I will love and be loved in return. Thank you for making this, just wanted to let you to know how your actions have caused a positve, big change in my perspective/my life. Thank you again and whoever is reading this, I hope you will grow to love and to be loved as well :) Let's take risk and let's finally lead the life we want. I wish all of you this. ❤
Thank you for sharing this! I had a similar response to this while making the video. Really spending time with Wirt for all of those hours and, in essence, giving him the advice I should be giving myself, was a transformative experience for me. Over the Garden Wall was a real positive for my mental health and I'm happy to see my video has helped others too! Strangely, well-written fiction is often more persuasive than objective facts for helping to change someone's outlook.
@@Storyograph Perhaps it is because we are shown a full picture of it? Of those objective facts I mean, those wise truths. A main character of the story starts flawed and unware but is confrontred with them, those flaws through time of the story. We are on sidelines as the reader so it is easier to see the bigger picture of where the story is going or why it is going this way. So we can analise, reflect or even see each other in that character and understand each other more. We experience with them but also at the same we do not. We are not told the wise truths, the objective facts but shown through the actions of the story. Action is after all the greatest teacher. To experience the wisdom, not to collect it and not understand it. Also (sorry if it sounds weird, I am taking a risk here xD!) but thank you for existing, thank you that you are so observative and reflective and also chose to share those reflections to the world. I am taking this path of my own, of sharing my reflections through stories and I am scared that people won't undestand them or hate me for it. Silly I know, everyone will look at them diffrently but still it something I need to overcome. But maybe this video is a sign that good things could come out of me also sharing myself to the world. Thank you again!
this has to be my fave video essay of all time! It's so clever and well - structured!! I loved both the commentary on types of love and wirt's development as a character! And the jokes too! It took me some time to watch it whole through due to its length but it was so worth it
Thank you! This series has always had a special place in my heart and your interpretation actually makes a lot of sense...now I appreciate it even more. Wish you a life full of every form of love.
Yeah, it would be nice if I got more views. But I can't seen to get videos out fast enough to gain momentum with the algorithm. It takes a while to make one of these. Maybe someday
This show had me WEEPING the first time i watched it and you only heightened that. It truly is better to have loved than not to have loved at all (my favorite frog name might have been kitty, though i loved them all LMAO)
first off, this video was amazing, and super fascinating, I’ve watched so many retrospectives of this show but I think this is the first time the backbone of the different types of love was applied. I adore this perspective. Like a lot of folks, this show has become a yearly tradition, it’s such a great comfort show for me and I love the characters and world and themes dearly, and from watching other retrospectives on it for years, it’s always fun to cross reference the points made by so many different ppl, with so many different backgrounds and views. I’m glad to say that this one will join that pantheon! one thing that they tend to all have in common for obvious reasons is Wirt and his characterization. Over the years and over the many other takes I’ve seen, it has always astounded me just how similar Wirt and I actually are, especially in the beginning of his arc; risk avoidant, people avoidant, self isolating, self doubting, self sabotaging, and probably a smidge of not taking responsibility for things for good measure. Throughout this video and listening to it, I had moments where I kept smiling and shaking my head in a very knowing way, like “yeaaaaaaaaaah,,,, that sounds like me” hahahaha. And while he’s not an entirely new person at the end, the fact that a change occurred at all and he gave himself a chance to be vulnerable and to truly live is very admirable. I’d like to think im a lot better than I was a couple years ago, but I have my moments often and I know for sure that I still have work to do, seeing a character so similar to myself and making the changes necessary is just super nice. anyways, thank you for making one of my new favorite videos ☺️
I love seeing comments like this! When I was writing the script for this video, there were times I thought to myself "Is that really in the show, or am I just projecting?" Then I realized that if I'm feeling this, maybe other people will too. Weirdly, my life outlook has gotten a lot more positive since spending the several months making this, in a way, teaching Wirt that he's more than he thinks he is. I owe a lot to "Over the Garden Wall"
@@Storyograph hahahahaha yup that exactly how I felt ! and I feel that thats genuinely so cool when you can deeply resonate with a character or a piece of art fiction or not. And I’m so glad things have changed for the better for you! It seems like it would be such a peaceful but beneficial thing to do! Not only can you interact with something you love, but also do some internal work and come out the other side a bit better than how you came in ! I think it’s super helpful to have that outsider view of a character or person who you share traits with, I think it helps you see how nonsensical the characters actions are (as well as your own). And while our circumstances are vastly different than Wirt’s were, we can still kinda cherry pick and apply the things that can help with our own circumstances. this show is such a gift and can mean so much to many ppl, I’m so glad I and others got to see it, and understand and appreciated it the more we grow up and see different perspectives on it as well
Not too much, I added some stuff about Beatrice’s character arc, changed the music around a little bit because I felt like their were better tracks to use for certain scenes, and I cut out the end screens and revoiced a little bit. (Then there were a few tweeks due to new copyright claims, which was weird because the old videos didn't get claimed)
At least for now! I know I say this every time I'm back, but I'd really like to get more than two videos up a year. I've got a few ideas cooking up for next year and I just hope I can get most of them done!
I love OTGW so much, and everytime I see a video like this, I fall deeper in love with it. This video is outstanding, thank you so much for this insightful analysis. I LOVE (see what I did there?) you for it!
Thank you! It’s funny how I came to notice it. I was trying to find the theme and kept seeing all of these love stories I had to cut from my script because they weren’t relevant. Then after a while it hit me: that’s the theme!
37:35 one of my biggest pet peeves in media is when a character just picks up an instrument and plays it like an intermediate to advanced player. I'm a bassoonist and it is NOT simple to learn, the fact that he can pick it up and just start playing is something so dumb, even if you are naturally talented or play something like the clarinet. They aren't similar at all.
Do people want more Over the Garden Wall stuff on this channel? I know asking you in a OTGW video is going to skew the data, but 2024 is the 10 year anniversary so maybe I'd dip into this one more time...?
I want video essays about things that spark interest for you, and become deeper and richer during research and writing
@@skepular Great answer! Luckily that's what I want too!
A ten year anniversary video would be amazing. I love your paradise lost link to Greg. I’d never heard that and I think it pairs beautifully with the Dante’s Inferno parallels
@@saraha.9837 I've got a few half-formed ideas that could turn into another video, but I'll have to see if any of them can really stand on there own. Hopefully we'll see it some more next year!
Would love to see the Greg video! I'm really enjoying your analysis.
I’m so happy that there is still an active fandom for over the garden wall in 2024 . The first time I watched this show was only a year ago but it has become one of my favorites for sure , I love to see people talking about it like this (:
I think it’s becoming like Nightmare Before Christmas in that it’s a highly aesthetic, seasonal story that people keep coming back to at least once a year. It’s been one of my favorites since I saw it.
My favorite frog name was Wirt. Greg's cute way of showing affection to his brother.
the quote from welcome to night vale that shook me to my core: "Are you living a life that is safe from harm? No, of course not. But that is not the right question. The question is, are you living a life that is *worth* the harm?"
Nice! I also like "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"
One of the best nightvale quotes!
It makes me uncomfortable how much I relate to Wirt in the contex of this video…lol
I think Wirt's character arc is a good lesson for a lot of us
I thought the same thing 😅
Same
also the "maybe people arent as bad as you think" bits gradually getting more extravagant made me laugh so hard
Its always nice to see those little things I put in to amuse myself are appreciated by others!
i definitely appreciated it! it was a silly way to present how a central theme of the show (that i didn't even pick up on) pops up in each episode.
it's so nice to see creators who really care about their content and make it fun for both themselves and their viewers :D keep it up!!
this was THE video i had searched for far and wide across an seemingly endless sea of youtube videos. you explained his character arc, his flaws and how he overcame them, alongside clips of the show to show it, so so well. i tend to be media illiterate in certain cases, ill admit, and thats why these videos mean so much to me. i saw myself taking a liking to wirt and relating, but i couldnt quite point down why exactly. his cynicism and quick tendency to give up and lose hope, his defensiveness in fear of getting hurt by daring to be vulnerable, believing the lie so many do that by not opening yourself up to others, you'll be protected against any type of pain. though it is that loneliness and feeling of being lost, not having anything going for you, wandering without any aim, is what brings the most painful hurt of all. a slow walk to your death, never having made a chance to the world or the persons around you, just like being a ghost. passing through life. I thank you greatly for this absolute masterpiece of a video, i also like the theory of each episode conveying a type of love. till know ive heard mostly only about the purgatory refrences from dante, which i absolutely adore, though it is nice seeing a different take on this exquisite show. alright that is a lot of text ill go watch the 11 remaining minutes now.
Thank you! For me, I really liked "Over the Garden Wall", and I just wanted to make a video about it. Then the more I watched it and the more I wrote about it, the video almost became like a therapy session for me. I was able to kinda put Wirt's problems in context, and started to find I was giving myself advice while writing about him. I'm really glad other people are getting a lot out of this video too!
I just watched this show with my gf. Been watching it every year. She watched it for thr first time. She loves the show
You both have good taste - It's a great show! And thanks for checking out the premiere!
@@Storyograph i've been following your channel for a while nao. Of course. I watched your multiple vids om otgw
@@fx3176 Nice! It's a small channel so it's great to see a few people keeping up when I post my stuff!
I watched a vid with over 500k views yet the analysis of that one is meh (compared to this), so unorganized and hard to follow, the creator didn't even bother matching the clips shown to what he is saying, it's just a confusing voice-over with repeated shots of the same few scenes. This deserves more recognition.
Thank you! Unfortunately the amount of effort it takes to put out good work like this doesn't translate into views as well as churning things out regularly. Whoever's 500k video you're referring to, may have started out like this and was worn down into compromise by the algorithm, or forced to cut corners by the deadline for their sponsors if they had any. After years on the platform, I'm still trying to figure out how to speed things up without losing quality.
Watching this as a Greek person makes it even better
favorite frog name: Dr. Cucumber
awesome show, awesome video. i was even crying a bit :D
And it shet a lot of light into the unkown
Aw nice! So glad you liked it! Dr. Cucumber is a great frog name. Especially since frogs have that vaguely cucumberative appearance
jason thunderberger. thats my favorite one since all greg wanted was his brother to help come up with a name aswell. and its a silly name
Thank you for uploading this! I loved the original series you posted and have rewatched it a bunch, but the bumpers -understandable as they are - always break up the flow. This is great, a fantastic analysis and great presentation! Thank you!
Oh the end screens? Yeah, glad to have it all in one place now. I always kinda wanted it to be all one video, but I couldn't finish it in time last year. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for this video. I had once watched this show but did not see the deeper parts of it or its characters and for years thought nothing of it.
Then your video was in my recomended section and thought why not? I like when people analize shows, I like their thought process. What I want to say is that this video taught me a lot, not only about how the story was constructed or deepner nuances - but it taught me a lot about myself. When you were talking about Wirt I felt like you were talking about me. How hating myself hurt others, how my disbelief that I can be loved makes me blind to the people who try to be apart of my world. How by being in isolation I am not letting myself have the life I want to have and by trying and loving people I have nothing to lose. Good things come with risk and to take it I have to not be scared of making my choices, of taking a renponsibility of my risk which will cause its consequences. But all of this is always worthwhile, I will learn, I will grow, I will love and be loved in return.
Thank you for making this, just wanted to let you to know how your actions have caused a positve, big change in my perspective/my life.
Thank you again and whoever is reading this, I hope you will grow to love and to be loved as well :)
Let's take risk and let's finally lead the life we want. I wish all of you this. ❤
Thank you for sharing this! I had a similar response to this while making the video. Really spending time with Wirt for all of those hours and, in essence, giving him the advice I should be giving myself, was a transformative experience for me. Over the Garden Wall was a real positive for my mental health and I'm happy to see my video has helped others too! Strangely, well-written fiction is often more persuasive than objective facts for helping to change someone's outlook.
@@Storyograph Perhaps it is because we are shown a full picture of it? Of those objective facts I mean, those wise truths. A main character of the story starts flawed and unware but is confrontred with them, those flaws through time of the story.
We are on sidelines as the reader so it is easier to see the bigger picture of where the story is going or why it is going this way. So we can analise, reflect or even see each other in that character and understand each other more.
We experience with them but also at the same we do not.
We are not told the wise truths, the objective facts but shown through the actions of the story. Action is after all the greatest teacher. To experience the wisdom, not to collect it and not understand it.
Also (sorry if it sounds weird, I am taking a risk here xD!) but thank you for existing, thank you that you are so observative and reflective and also chose to share those reflections to the world.
I am taking this path of my own, of sharing my reflections through stories and I am scared that people won't undestand them or hate me for it. Silly I know, everyone will look at them diffrently but still it something I need to overcome.
But maybe this video is a sign that good things could come out of me also sharing myself to the world.
Thank you again!
this has to be my fave video essay of all time! It's so clever and well - structured!! I loved both the commentary on types of love and wirt's development as a character! And the jokes too! It took me some time to watch it whole through due to its length but it was so worth it
Oh wow! Thank you so much! It took a while to make this one so I'm so glad its been received so well!
This TH-cam video is gonna be a required viewing every fall 🙏
Well I didn’t expect this video to fundamentally change me
I come back to this every once in a while, this is such an amazing essay. 10/10, Keep making quality content Storygraph.
Thank you! That's so great to hear!
Thank you for this. genuinely. legit cried over some parts. and still doing so as I type.
Thank you! It's great to know this video has been so moving for people! It really shows just how well-made Over the Garden Wall is.
Thank you! This series has always had a special place in my heart and your interpretation actually makes a lot of sense...now I appreciate it even more.
Wish you a life full of every form of love.
Thank you! You too! It really is a beautiful show on so many levels
Great Video, It's a shame that this video and your channel, doesn't have enough views/subscribers.
Yeah, it would be nice if I got more views. But I can't seen to get videos out fast enough to gain momentum with the algorithm. It takes a while to make one of these. Maybe someday
What an incredible summarization! So eloquent and perfectly laid out. Thank you!
This show had me WEEPING the first time i watched it and you only heightened that. It truly is better to have loved than not to have loved at all (my favorite frog name might have been kitty, though i loved them all LMAO)
I watch it every year before Thanksgiving
It's a great tradition!
Insanely well done video. Your analysis of the show feels original than all the other analysis videos I've seen, but in a very good way :)
first off, this video was amazing, and super fascinating, I’ve watched so many retrospectives of this show but I think this is the first time the backbone of the different types of love was applied. I adore this perspective.
Like a lot of folks, this show has become a yearly tradition, it’s such a great comfort show for me and I love the characters and world and themes dearly, and from watching other retrospectives on it for years, it’s always fun to cross reference the points made by so many different ppl, with so many different backgrounds and views. I’m glad to say that this one will join that pantheon!
one thing that they tend to all have in common for obvious reasons is Wirt and his characterization. Over the years and over the many other takes I’ve seen, it has always astounded me just how similar Wirt and I actually are, especially in the beginning of his arc; risk avoidant, people avoidant, self isolating, self doubting, self sabotaging, and probably a smidge of not taking responsibility for things for good measure. Throughout this video and listening to it, I had moments where I kept smiling and shaking my head in a very knowing way, like “yeaaaaaaaaaah,,,, that sounds like me” hahahaha. And while he’s not an entirely new person at the end, the fact that a change occurred at all and he gave himself a chance to be vulnerable and to truly live is very admirable. I’d like to think im a lot better than I was a couple years ago, but I have my moments often and I know for sure that I still have work to do, seeing a character so similar to myself and making the changes necessary is just super nice.
anyways, thank you for making one of my new favorite videos ☺️
I love seeing comments like this! When I was writing the script for this video, there were times I thought to myself "Is that really in the show, or am I just projecting?" Then I realized that if I'm feeling this, maybe other people will too. Weirdly, my life outlook has gotten a lot more positive since spending the several months making this, in a way, teaching Wirt that he's more than he thinks he is. I owe a lot to "Over the Garden Wall"
@@Storyograph hahahahaha yup that exactly how I felt ! and I feel that thats genuinely so cool when you can deeply resonate with a character or a piece of art fiction or not. And I’m so glad things have changed for the better for you! It seems like it would be such a peaceful but beneficial thing to do! Not only can you interact with something you love, but also do some internal work and come out the other side a bit better than how you came in !
I think it’s super helpful to have that outsider view of a character or person who you share traits with, I think it helps you see how nonsensical the characters actions are (as well as your own). And while our circumstances are vastly different than Wirt’s were, we can still kinda cherry pick and apply the things that can help with our own circumstances. this show is such a gift and can mean so much to many ppl, I’m so glad I and others got to see it, and understand and appreciated it the more we grow up and see different perspectives on it as well
I watched it all again and it feels more complete as a single video. Did you end up changing anything?
Not too much, I added some stuff about Beatrice’s character arc, changed the music around a little bit because I felt like their were better tracks to use for certain scenes, and I cut out the end screens and revoiced a little bit. (Then there were a few tweeks due to new copyright claims, which was weird because the old videos didn't get claimed)
this is so underrated
This was a fun watch, saw it for the first time recently. Would recommend
Just twelve thousand wievs???????? You are an AMAZING storyteller!!
Thank you! But if you think I'm good you should see the show I based this video on 😉
HES RETURNED
At least for now! I know I say this every time I'm back, but I'd really like to get more than two videos up a year. I've got a few ideas cooking up for next year and I just hope I can get most of them done!
This is a really well made video with great analysis! Thank you! ❤
Now I want to watch it again, even if is not fall around here yet (we're in spring now)
Nothing wrong with watching it twice a year!
You should have way more of a following. This video is incredible.
Thank you!
Storyograph, you're the total package too!
Well, I'm no Jason Funderburker, but thank you!
It’s love ok! The answer is love!
end of video club!! loved this so so much and it made me realize i relate to wirt even more lol, thank you so much for this beautiful analysis!!
this is a 10/10 video, i love this soooooo much
Genuinely amazing.
Favourite frog name: Dr. Cucumber.
Dude this made me cry! I love this so much!
Wonderful analysis, loved it
Thank you!
I love OTGW so much, and everytime I see a video like this, I fall deeper in love with it. This video is outstanding, thank you so much for this insightful analysis. I LOVE (see what I did there?) you for it!
Thanks! I loved the show before I made this video, and after spending the time looking at all the themes, it's now one of my all-time favorites!
I GREATLY enjoyed this video, thank you
Thank you!
Damn a haven't watched ⅓ but I'm already stunned with the quality and eloquence
Thank you for the making this bro ❤❤
Thank you so much! It was a lot of fun figuring this all out and I'm so glad people are enjoying it!
This was amazing! I never noticed the themes of love in the show. Thank you for the great video essay, i thoroughly enjoyed it! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
Thank you! It’s funny how I came to notice it. I was trying to find the theme and kept seeing all of these love stories I had to cut from my script because they weren’t relevant. Then after a while it hit me: that’s the theme!
So its come to this a Storyograph clip show… Jk, good to see all of these in one video
Ha! Yeah well I’d always planned on doing this eventually. Seems like a good time.
excellent video
Thank you!
I’m working on an otgw video rn, and I can barely get my hands on footage. How do you get yours?
Great job! Been waiting for a vid like this for a while ❤
Thank you! Glad I could help!
wirt is LITERALLYYY me
37:35 one of my biggest pet peeves in media is when a character just picks up an instrument and plays it like an intermediate to advanced player. I'm a bassoonist and it is NOT simple to learn, the fact that he can pick it up and just start playing is something so dumb, even if you are naturally talented or play something like the clarinet. They aren't similar at all.
thamk you
oh my god, wirt is literally me
Squish
🤩 "promosm"
Enoch is from the Bible seems like do worship god as Enoch didn’t die he was taken up my god
Well I didn’t expect this video to fundamentally change me
Well I didn’t expect this video to fundamentally change me
I think making this video fundamentally changed me, too!