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now i gotta follow up with my fave production ever hands down timestamped for your convenience

👆 look at the breathing technique and checking up on the conductor it's so sexy 😭

this finale is straight up goosebumps things do not end well for Don Giovanni 👇

Profiles in Villainy

The Beast

A veritable personification of the unknown, The Beast roams the forest, ruling over darkened spaces with vast and dangerous powers.  He possesses a lantern that he must keep lit at all times so to sustain his life.  Yet the only fuel that this lantern will accept is the oil extracted from the rare Edelwood tree. 

The Beast seeks out victims, those brave or foolish souls who venture into his woods.  He does all in his power to cause these victims to lose all hope.  Once said victim has lost hope and fully gives in to despair, this enables The Beast to transform them into an Edelwood tree; trees that he can then cut down and use to fuel his lantern.  In other words, The Beast subsists on lost hope and he will do all in his power instill despair into those he encounters.  

As manipulative as he is mysterious, The Beast is indifferent to the pain and suffering caused by his actions. He is quite well-spoken and will attempt to lull his victims into a false sense of security, accomplished by feigning concern. He is a master of deception, knowing exactly what to say to get people under his power. 

When the brothers, Wirt and Gregory, ventured into the forests, The Beast set his sights on the two lads.  Gregory was naive and impressionable and almost succumbed to The Beast’s manipulation; whilst Writ was much more dour and sensible as well as highly suspicious of the villain.  

It is likely the brothers would have perished at the hands of The Beast had they not been rescued by The Huntsman.  This Huntsman saved Wirt and Gregory and extinguished The Beast’s flame, seeming destroying the creature once and for all.  

The Over The Garden Wall 10th Anniversary stop motion short by Aardman & Patrick McHale premieres today on Cartoon Network's YouTube channel & social media!!!

HAPPY 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OVER THE GARDEN WALL!!!