>>104565303>It was fine for the pen pal segment, but the moment it drops the mystery of how the wall works and the pen pal angle I dropped it too. The premise wasn't enough for me to overlook the character problems. Up until Beatrice comes into the "real" world I though their characterizations were at least alright.Yeah I thought so too, they weren't perfect but at least it felt as them, as the story progress it feels even disconnected of some kind of main plot, it has tender moments but the lack of fantastic elements and a real progress for the characters really killed it to me, instead of people discovering that they have to be better we have two characters whom simply accept that they are just like that.
>Wirt looking for his father is a strange thing, at least to me. Did McHale say something about his dad being missing or anything like that?It's never mentioned directly but in For Sara his relationship with his father is hinted one or two times, It seems like his father is dead instead of divorced as some people think and they used to be very closer, Wirt inherited his tape recorder of him and we can hear a record of his father with a baby Wirt. Then I read Pinocchio with him shouting "Papa, wait for me daddy I'm going with you!" and I thought maybe Wirt's father is in the unknown who knows. (The Unknown is represented by the ocean in OTGW)
I was thinking in something about that old train, a dove machinist. a Christmas like setting, a nutcracker symbolism, a flashback of a young Wirt saying "I wanna to be like my dad when I grow up", a 18 years old Wirt who has finished the school and he doesn't know what he wants of his life, a battle between fantasy and reality for the love of the father represented by Wirt and a living doll like a child Wirt made with Edelwood, a fisherman like villain who use different kind of bait to attract people to their demise (money, love, whatever you want or need). And a romance between Wirt and his dear-
