Soundtrack and metaphor - "Forward, Oneiroi!" & "Little Black Train"

Letitia 2022-05-28 18:33:15

"Forward, Oneiroi!" can be regarded as the most metaphorical song in the whole play. The Oneiroi is the god of dreams Oneiroi, the son of the original god Necks, the goddess of the night, in Greek mythology. In the Odyssey, it is said that the gate of the horns in the dream caused by the dream-making Daimon symbolizes reality, while the gate of ivory is the opposite. It just so happens that there is ivory decoration above the door that Greg smashed in his dream, suggesting that everything he saw in his dream was false.

The sentence (Anything is possible if you set your mind to it) that Greg and Queen of the Clouds reached before the agreement was later repeated by Beast in its original form. It is guessed that the queen is most likely Beast posing. In this unreal dream, trick Greg into leaving Wirt and let him be turned into edelweiss by Beast. If the devil always hopes to tarnish the pure and beautiful heart, if Greg abandons Wirt and goes home safely, it would be in line with the devil's tricks. Unexpectedly, Greg voluntarily swaps with Wirt. Although everyone seems happy at the end, in fact Greg may have sacrificed. In the end, it was just a beautiful but illusory dream for Wirt.

The song mentions Cherubs, the wise angel, at the beginning, and ends with Amen, which is like a hymn for Greg.

Chapter 9 goes back to how Greg and Wirt entered the "mysterious forest" (this is the Mandarin name of the translation version of Taiwan’s CN Cartoon Channel, Wirt translated as Oute, and Greg is called Xiao Lei). The two jumped off the cemetery wall in order to escape The galloping train rolled off the landslide and fell into the pond. Interspersed with the sound of siren and the crash of railroad tracks, you can vaguely hear the only non-original soundtrack of the play, or semi-original. The soft voice resembles the Little Black Train sung by American folk pioneer Woody Guthrie. However, the cover version used in the play should be a re-creation, and the lyrics that are slightly different from the original song are quite interesting.
"There's an old black train a-comin' scraping'long the iron. You don't need no ticket, boy. It'll take you in it's time."
Is there a sense of destiny of "there is this life and no afterlife". There was also a version of The Carter Family in the early stage of this ballad, and they had another song called Over the Garden Wall.

Netizens ridiculed many clues about the show that the creator’s creation and drugs are inseparable In the memory of the Beat generation and hippie culture?). One of the evidences is Greg’s eyes with dilated pupils after taking LSD (note that the ratio of his pupils to the whites of his eyes is slightly larger than that of other people most of the time), the attire of the teapot (pothead means drug addict) on his head and the one beside him The frog that walks in the shadows (it is said that toad licking can cause hallucinations), and of course he has his unfettered and unrestrained optimistic character. Of course you would think that four or five-year-old children should not have this personality? But it is not always true. Recall that when you were four or five years old, there must have been things that bothered you. When you grow up, you may be forgotten, or unconsciously become an imperfect part of your character.

I hope Greg can always be Greg, and Wirt will not become the kind of adult he originally hated.

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Over the Garden Wall quotes

  • Wirt: Now, to find someplace to wait out this rain.

    Greg: [about an abandoned house] As long as it's not that old, broken down...

    Wirt: [cutting Greg off] Shhh!

    [seeing the house Greg was talking about]

    Wirt: It's perfect! C'mon Greg!

    Greg: [Wirt starts running off toward the house] Ahhh, Wirt...

  • Greg: Look, it's full of black turtles! We're turtle rich!

    Greg: [concerned] Y'know, it's kinda funny finding a basket of turtles in an abandoned house, huh?

    Wirt: Ha ha, yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...!

    Wirt: Greg, not that kind of funny.

    Greg: Huh?

    [realizing]

    Greg: Oh.