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Anonymous writes...
Is there any chance that the gargoyles show will be brought back onto the air? I know that the ratings for the Goliath Chronicles was less than satisfactory but that was mostly due to bad animation, lack of story continuity and bad sound FX. I am sure that if you brought things back up to the level it was in the first two seasons the ratings will return to their normal spectacular level.
Greg responds...
I hate to say this, particularly since I've said it before, but the ratings on GARGOYLES were never spectacular. NEVER. They were better than GOLIATH CHRONICLES (relatively), and good enough to chalk the show up as a hit. But it was a single. Not a home run. Not even a double. We regularly got trounced by Power Rangers.
Again, the best shot for new episodes for the show is the live-action feature film currently in development at Touchstone. If that movie gets made it might reawaken interest in the show, particularly if fandom has kept the flame alive.
Anonymous writes...
More questions: 1) Did the Weird Sisters have some sort of master plan, or
were they really only motivated by revenge? 2) Is the Magus really dead or just in a deep sleep like Arthur? 3) Who created the Phoenix Gate?
4) Will the movie fit into the continuity of the show, or will it be separate? 5) Are Bronx and Boudicca related? 6) In your chat room session at S8 on Feb. 6, you said there were gargoyles on New Olympus. I take it this is one of the clans you gave clues about in your previous set of answered questions, right? 7) Were there any further plans for the other Mazas (Beth, Peter, or Diane)? 8) I previously asked who the mysterious "fifth member" of the Ultra-Pack was. Several people in the comment room here at S8 have thought up some ideas, so I thought I'd run them by you and ask if any of these are the "fifth member;" Delilah, Fang, or Thailog? I also thought of the "fifth member" being Coldsteel (I got the idea from Matthew Drover's question). Are any of these right? Thanks again for giving us this opportunity!
Greg responds...
1. I'm sure I've answered this one -- in detail. But, sigh, the answer is BOTH. Why do you assume these things are mutually exclusive?
2. Dead.
3. I did.
4. Quite separate, I'd guess.
5. No. Well, they may be distant cousins, I suppose, but that's it.
6. Did I give that away? Another sigh. Well, yeah. When the old Olympians decided to retire from the human world and set up shop on New Olympus, they invited the Olympian clan of Gargoyles to join them. Some did. Some did not. The descendents of the gargoyles who did go with them still live with the descendents of those old Olympians.
7. Yes.
8. No. It's a new character. You can't guess it, unless you're psychic.
9. North Dakota.
Anonymous writes...
I'm realy curious about wat you think are the best episodes of Gargoyles.
And, looking back, which episodes do you think should have been done differently or maybe even not at all ?
Greg responds...
There are no episodes that I wish I hadn't done. There were reasons, short- and long-term for every single one. Some episodes don't look very good, and I think the bad animation hurt everyone's overall impression of those episodes' stories. I obviously wish we had brilliant animation on every episode.
Of couse, some episodes were better written than others, but on the page they were all decent scripts. Sometimes we intentionally made unusual change of pace story choices to shake things up. "The Mirror," "Future Tense," "Avalon, Part II," "Night of the Panther," "Vendettas" and "Revelations" are a few examples of this. It's for you all to decide how successful we were.
But I'm very proud of all the stories we told and fairly proud of how all the episodes turned out, given the various constraints (mostly time constraints) that we were under.
There was some great material that didn't get into some episodes because I'm pretty notorious for delivering long scripts. None of it was essential, but some of it was great stuff that I wish you guys could have seen.
There were two story beats I missed until too late, and it really drives me crazy, even today. One was in "The Hound of Ulster". Cu Chullain's armor and bones should have been in the chamber where Banshee imprisoned Elisa, Goliath and Angela. The other was in "Grief". I should have let Coyote kill Elisa, Goliath, Angela and Bronx in the mastaba. If I had been paying attention, I would have noticed that with Anubis imprisoned, the heroes could not die. It would have been much more effective and would have tied in cleaner with the story than what we did do. A horrible missed opportunity. Oh, well.
As to my favorites, well it's hard. My single favorite episode is "The Mirror". Great animation, a great premise, a great story, great character work and....IT'S FUNNY. I'm proud of that, because I got some flack from people who didn't get it in script. They thought it was too complicated.
But the conceit played clear and well on screen, and the jokes still play great.
After "The Mirror", I immediately think of our multi-parters. "Awakening" got it all started and has some gorgeous stuff in there. "City of Stone" really expanded our whole universe and has some of our most honest emotions in it. Plus the Scotish History and Shakespeare and the whole stone human premise stuff is all great as far as I'm concerned. "Avalon" is more rocky, but I'm fond of it. "The Gathering" was hell to produce but had these great revelations in there. Titania's so good at the end there it still makes me smile. And "Hunter's Moon" really tied everything up wonderfully, with great animation, a powerful story, some terrific character work and an ending that left us open to do more, but could still be viewed as the end of a novel.
What next? There are some obvious choices. Although I think it's interesting that the first ones that my mind goes to tend to be the ones that had the best animation. "High Noon," "Future Tense" and "M.I.A." for example, though all also have other reasons why I like them so much. M.I.A.
has Douglas Bader in it and was sort of written for my father. Bader was/is a real hero to my dad. My whole family went with Sir Douglas and his wife to Disneyland once when I was a kid.
"Deadly Force" was probably our most important story. A very powerful episode. "A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time" was another powerful one, but it suffered from having mediocre animation.
I have a personal fondness for "Vendettas" and "The Journey". I like Vinnie a lot more than most of you. Plus I voice directed Vendettas and personally wrote the script for Journey, so I'm even less objective about those two than I am about the rest. Still, I do believe that if either episode had had the kind of animation that "The Mirror" had you'd all like them a lot, lot more.
"Vendettas" in particular depended on comic timing that the animators didn't give us. I also tell myself that Journey would have been better if I had produced it. At least, I wouldn't have messed with my script, reordering scenes and making dumb errors like having Goliath glide off at the end of the episode after making a huge deal over the fact that his wing was injured and he couldn't glide.
How many have I listed? Twenty? Thirty? I could easily keep going.
There's something I like in every single episode. It's like choosing from one's children.
So I'll just shut up now.
Anonymous writes...
How far can a Gargoyle glide before getting tired?
Greg responds...
Depends on a lot of factors. Wind currents, etc. Basically, there's no one answer to that question. And I'm not capable of doing the math.
Anonymous writes...
Some more questions for Mr. Weisman: 1. Did you have any stories planned for "Bad Guys"? If so what would they be like besides the redemption of the main characters? Who was The Director in this series? 2. At the end of "Legion" Xanatos had successfuly downloaded the Coldstone virus and seemed to have a plan for it. How come it was never mentioned again and what was Xanatos's plan? 3. What were your plans for Jason Canmore after "Hunters Moon"? Was he going to be a continuous character or just pop up every once in awhile? 4. What were your plans for Nokarr after "Sentil"?
Was he going to be in any more episodes in the main Gargoyles Cycle or just be in the "Future Tense" series? 5. In your master plan you listed Coldsteel and Coyote together. Did this mean they were going to team up or was it just how you were listing the characters? 6. What were your plans for the four tricksters? You mentioned them in your master plan but all of them were stuck on Avalon except for Puck who was forbidden to use his magic. Would they have been allowed to leave Avalon or would their episodes have been on Avalon? Thank you for taking the time to read my questions.
Greg responds...
1. I had many stories planned. I'm not going to tell them here and now.
"The Director" was Robyn's boss -- Mr. Duval's primary nemesis, and a man after Xanatos' own heart. We did a five minute Leica Reel to try and sell the show. In the reel, the Director was voiced by William Devane, who would have also done the voice if we had gone to series.
2. We "only" had 78 episodes (and I only had 66). Not every thread was able to be serviced without the opportunity to tell more stories. Xanatos likes to acquire worthwhile things. He acquired the Eye of Odin for his collection before he even knew it had magical powers. The virus was a powerful weapon to add to his arsenal. Eventually, he would have found a use for it. Maybe he already knows what that use will be.
3. We had eight regulars, or eleven if you count Owen, Xanatos and Demona.
That doesn't count recurring characters like Fox, Matt or Morgan. Plus a huge cast of now-familiar faces. Not all the regulars got into every episode. (Even Goliath skipped out on four of them.) So by definition, Jason would only have been able to stop by occasionally. But he would have stopped by. I think Elisa still has feelings for him. She would have helped with his rehab, help him adjust to life in a wheelchair. He would have attempted to redeem his younger brother. Etc.
4. There are a lot of ifs to that question. If I had had the chance to do more GARGOYLES, but not TIMEDANCER or FUTURE TENSE, then I might have eventually moved some of my 2158 material up to the twentieth century. But, no, in my mind, Nokkar didn't resurface until 2158.
5. I think I've answered this one.
6. The other three would have left Avalon, with Oberon's permission... and a very specific purpose.
Anonymous writes...
1. How does Xanatos his exoframe? I can understand the arms and legs, but what about the way he occaisonally whips his tail, and spreads his wings and opens his laser without pressing any (viewable) buttons? 2. There was one gargoyle (bald one with half a metal breastplate) who was in Demona's scattered Scotland clan, and then later appears in the Avalon clan! Any story behind this mystery 'generic' gargoyle? 3. Is the Magus the Archmage's son? 4. Is Demona really still 'carrying a torch' for Goliath?
5. Does Oberon really banish Puck/Owen from Avalon *forever*... or does Oberon cool down after a couple of centuries?
Greg responds...
1. I don't know all the details, but he does have options scroll on his internal visor. He can activate them using internal sensors. He trained a long time to use the suit proficiently. And it's tailored to him specifically.
2. Which answer do you want? Obviously, we reused some model sheets, but it's also possible that a gargoyle who once visited or lived in Wyvern was part of Demona's gathered clan. That gargoyle mated with a female gargoyle at Wyvern, resulting in an egg that grew up looking remarkably similar to his biological father. Uh, how's that?
3. No.
4. Yes and no.
5. It's not a matter of "cooling down". Having made his decision, Oberon would need to be convinced to reverse that decision. Forever is a long time, but let me put it this way: in 2158, Puck will still be living as Owen in the mortal realm.
Anonymous writes...
Hi! Could you say what happened to Finella and Tom's mother after they left with the Grimorum? Thanks!
Greg responds...
They ran into Brooklyn who helped them escape from Constantine before accidentally transporting them to the late 1970s.
Anonymous writes...
Hi Greg! I've been a fan of Gargoyles for two years and even though I may not be as educated about Gargoyles as the next guy, I still love it and want to keep it alive! I wanted to ask you this: 1) where does everyone get all this info on Gargs? That is, where does a Gargie get info about something like "TimeDancers"?? Am I completely clueless or something? Is there a web site where you can get this specific info?? 2) THE BIG ONE: did Disney really kill off Gargs? What I mean by this is are they just testing us, or have they already cancelled Gargyoles altogether???? I doubt they would do that. I can't understand why they would put Gargoyles on the line because something like the Goliath Chronciles failed.
Anywayz...thankx for informing the fans of the stuff that going on in our Gargie universe. Long Live Gargoyles!!!
Greg responds...
1) It depends what you mean. TIMEDANCER was a spin-off that I suggested to Disney that they chose not to make. It was also a single episode that I suggested to Eric Lewald for GOLIATH CHRONICLES that he also chose not to make. I've posted some tidbits about what I had in mind here on "ASK GREG" and in Gore's chatroom. Plus there's an e-mail floating around about my "Master Plan" that I once sent to someone. Ask about it in the Comment Room, and I'm sure someone can give you a link. Basically, TimeDancer is about Brooklyn's adventures in the time stream with the Phoenix Gate.
I'm also aware that there is a fanfic TimeDancer being prepared. I have nothing to do with it, and as far as I'm concerned it's not cannon. But I wish everyone who's working on it well.
2) Again, it depends what you mean. As far as I know, neither Gargoyles or The Goliath Chronicles will be on the air in the U.S. come the fall. If I hear different, I'll let you all know.
Anonymous writes...
Hello Mr. Weisman, Just a few questions for ya: 1. How exactly did Xanatos get all that money? He said it started with the coin, but that was only 40 grand if I remember correctly. What does his company do? 2. Who is your favorite character? 3. Did "Gargoyles" turn out the way you wanted it to?
How about "The Goliath Chronicles?" 4. Why does Demona have that crown?
Greg responds...
1. 20 grand. He invested it well. He built up his company, which is a conglomerate into a lot of different things, including robotics, genetics, media, construction, defense, etc.
2. I really love them all. But the show would never have existed in the form you all know if not for Goliath. He's the prism, the anchor, the beacon.
3. I'm very proud of GARGOYLES. It's far from perfect, and there are still a lot of things I'd fix if I could, but overall it's the show I wanted to produce. GOLIATH CHRONICLES is a different story. I didn't really work on that beyond story editing "The Journey". I regret that now, but I made the best decision I could make with the information I had available at the time.
4. It's not a crown. It's decorative jewelry. She thinks she looks good in it. Do you care to tell her otherwise?
Anonymous writes...
Okay, here's more questions I have: 1. I've already heard somebody ask if Alex was going to be an only child, or if he'd have brothers and sisters.
So I'd like to ask, would Broadway and Angela's son, Samson, be an only child, or would HE have a biological brother or sister? 2. For that matter, were there any plans for Demona to have another child somewhere along the way in the series so that Angela had a biological system? 3. Related to question #2: This caused a bit of a controversy a while back, among some of us fans and I'd like to ask and see if you could give us the final word.
Is Demona, after 1000 years even CAPABLE of having children anymore?
(i.e., does the Weird Sisters "immortality spell" convey true youth to Demona, or only the appearance of youth?) 4. This is something that's been bothering me for a while. In "Reawakening", in the battle at Times Square, there seemed to be hundreds of people in the place looking on. Even though the news never got around to seeing them, I would have thought that the Manhattan clan's cover would have been permanently blown at the end of the first season. Yet, by the begining of the second season, everybody seems to have forgotten everything about the Time Square fight. How could this have happened? Did the Children of Oberon cast a "forgetfulness" spell on everybody in the city, or what?
Greg responds...
1. I'm sure I've answered this. Artus and Gwenyvere are Samson's older biological siblings.
2. "A biological system"? I'm not sure what that means. As to whether Demona would have another kid, the answer is maybe.
3. Yes, she's physically capable of conceiving.
4. No spells. But not everyone got a good look at the combatants. Most were kept at a considerable distance. It was snowing. Visibility was lousy. Cars were flying. When that fire hydrant went off, it further obscured things. Matt got an eyeful, and I'm sure you know he didn't forget it for a second. A few other people probably saw something. But they had no proof. And the clan flew off.
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