A Message From Greg Weisman

Welcome,

My name is Greg Weisman. I was one of the creators and producer of the Gargoyles television series (which is, as you all know, the 100% property of the Walt Disney Company). Gorebash and I have set up a couple of pages here at Station Eight so that I might be able to answer your questions about the show and/or ramble on about anything vaguely Gargoyles-related that strikes my fancy.

This first page is for posting your questions. In order to protect myself legally, I won't ever be looking at each question asked, but Todd Jensen will. He'll stop by and copy any and all "appropriate" questions from the unanswered questions page into an e-mail and send them to me. The second, latest responses, is where my answers to your questions will be posted, along with my own ramblings, for that week or so. All my answers will be archived on the archives page.

Now, I was brought up to believe that there's no such thing as an inappropriate question, and basically I still think that's true, but as a creator with hopes of someday doing Gargoyles again (or another show in this genre) I do have to take precautions to protect myself. Let me try to use an example to illustrate why this is necessary. (If this is boring, feel free to skip down to the guidelines section.)

A fan once came up to me at a signing and said something like: "You should put Prospero from Shakespeare's TEMPEST into Gargoyles." My response was, "I plan to." The fan then gave me a look like I was ripping off his idea without giving him any credit. (Forget the fact that he was about the eighteenth person to make that suggestion to me.) I had created a show that had consciously included a huge majority of Shakespeare's magical characters: Macbeth, Puck, the Weird Sisters, Oberon and Titania to name a few. Logically, I'm sure you can all see that I'd eventually have gotten around to including Prospero, Caliban and Ariel as well. In fact, that was SUCH a logical next step that it independently occurred to a bunch of people. Now, I'm not saying that this particular fan would personally sue me. Heck, he may be reading this -- and I don't want to insult him -- but I can't take any chances.

When you think about it, all it takes is one viewer who believes that he or she sees something in my future work that resembles some notion or idea that he or she once waved before my eyes or ears in order for that person to have the ability to make my life quite miserable.

I've asked Todd not to edit your questions. If he even suspects that a posting violates one of the three above guidelines, I've asked him to kick out the entire posting. That means if you ask ten legit questions and toss in one notion of your own, the whole message gets kicked.

I also reserve the right not to answer any questions that I don't feel like answering, even if it isn't problematic legally. Some secrets I may just want to keep. But overall I'll try to be as forthcoming as possible, so don't hesitate to ask. One day I may be in the mood to tell you about Lexington's mate. Not today, but maybe someday.

Gore will archive everything (questions and answers) that is posted on the response page. So I may occasionally refer a frequently asked question to those archives.

Finally, I will try to stop by Ask Greg on a regular basis. But if I get into production on a new series, I may not be able to stop by quite as often. I will do my best.

As always, I really do appreciate how hard all of you are working to keep Gargoyles alive in some way, shape or form. I'm hoping that in some small measure, these question/answer/ramblings pages will help as well.

Thanks for stopping by,

Greg