Todd Jensen writes...

This is another "rambling" response, to your "Awakening: Part Four" ramble.

I actually saw an "edited-together" movie version of "Awakening" (taken from the television version rather than the video, evidently, since the eggs were included in it)on television on Saturday afternoon twice here in St. Louis, once in 1998 and once in 1999, where when Elisa was trapped in the boathouse, she did indeed appear to say (according to the closed captioning) "d-mn", and that did startle me. But I hadn't seriously thought that you'd have had her say that word in the series, so I can easily accept your explanation that it's just a grunt that got misunderstood.

The first time that I saw that episode, I had to miss Act Three so I didn't get to see Demona's explanation of how she survived through the centuries (which, we later on discover, turns out to be a lie - actually, Demona's actions in "Awakening" following that indicate that she HAD to be lying about being trapped in stone sleep, given how much more incredibly bitter she'd become about humans, something that would have to come about through waking experience, surely).

Hadn't even noticed the similarity between the dog Elisa uses as a decoy in Central Park and the one on the dog food commercial that Hudson and Bronx were watching (I wonder if Bronx would ever eat dog food, BTW). Thanks for sharing that with us - and the bit about Vinnie's cameo in "Awakening Part Four", too.

One particular scene that I liked in that episode: the one where, after the gargoyles have all glided off for the Cyberbiotics raid, we see Xanatos standing alone by the window, waiting. That was, I thought, a particularly great shot of him.