>>81300813>>81300937Not at all. There's a lot of room for interpretation.
Personally I prefer to think of it in a very classic sense of faerie tales, where the protagonists slip away into the magical realms. If you've ever played WhiteWolf Publishing's game "Changeling: The Dreaming" this world fits it pretty well. (As does the movie Coraline, by the way.)
It's pretty easy to imagine that Wirt and Greg are in a dark faerie landscape. The show deals with common themes of struggling with growing up, responsibility, running away from your fears and facing them, courage, bravery, (youthful) silliness, and more. Another thing that is subtly in the background is the concept of banality vs glamour. (Which is a very important core concept from Changeling the Dreaming, drawn from a wide group of faerie tale stories.) Simply put: It is creativity (glamor) versus dullness/fear/emptiness (banality). Wirt struggles with keeping his natural creativity and enthusiasm for the things he likes, while facing rejection and self-confidence issues with himself.
I personally never got the impression it was the afterlife though, but I'd be happy to hear theories why you or others think that.
I love that fact that it happened on Halloween night in a cemetery, which in my opinion adds to the (Halloween) faerie tale flare.
I secretly shipped Wirt and Beatrix, along with Lorna. Man she's a topic all in herself. I do like Sarah though.
