If it was a dream, nothing was real if not, maybe not. He probably went back and was too distraught to go inside, so he sat outside? Daughter came out with a lantern (not the beast's lantern).Īgain, it depends on how you interpret the ending.
It is uncertain for how long they were underwater, but people can survive for at least a couple of minutes without air. There are many ways to get around a wall. Otherwise, just let the closing of the other characters' stories be for the sake of closure for the audience. If you actually expect the other people to exist, then you could argue that they actually walked through the land between life and death-the Unknown. Maybe it's a cursed lantern, maybe that's just how "the beast's" existence works. Not sure why this matters, best answer I can think of is. What did the "Mere echoes of the string" line represent? Was Beatrice's tale true or not? Was it a dream she had, and then told her family or something?
So, some circus inspired characters like the angel in Greg'd dream and the gorilla? What's with the statues of a lot of the characters? His daughter was there the whole time, and she carried a lantern, I don't get it.Īnd then there was a fish fishing for those black turtles, was this real? I don't understand anything about what really happened with the Woodsman. Was there even a wall? They just climbed out and people were there trying to find them. If Wirt and Greg were just having a near-death dream the whole time, how do all these other people exist? Why would his soul be there in the first place? So I guess The Beast's soul was put into the lantern, and he tricked the Woodsman into thinking it was his daughter for years. I'm gonna try to list out all the questions I can blurt out right now, might add on later.
I have just finished the series for the first time, and boy can I say at the very least that my mind has been blown.