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4. What is the true identity of Mr. Duval? I know he was supposed to be a friend of King Arthur's but who was he.
I don't feel like revealing that right now. Sorry. Ask me again sometime.
3. I once heard that "Avalon" was supposed to be a five-parter like "Awakening". Is this true and if so what was cut from the final version?
It's not at all true. Who'd you hear that from? "Avalon" was always supposed to be a triptych. Not one long story, but three connected stories.
What IS true is that the final script for "Avalon, Part Two" came in very long. We did have to cut some stuff for time. Nothing important. But the Archmage did walk his allies and the audience through his plans a little bit more. There was some helpful expository stuff and a few nice character bits lost, but no story points.
1. I was wondering if you had any plans for a mate for Lexington or was he going to remain alone?
2. What was going to happen to the Cold trio? Did you have any plans for them ever rejoining the
clan?
I did have plans.
Seriously, Coldsteel would have remained a threat. Coldstone & Coldfire would have eventually joined a clan. But I'm not saying which one.
1. According to Sevarius in "Metamorphosis", gargoyles have to
turn to stone by day and soak up solar energy in order to glide around at
night? So how is Demona able to glide around after what Puck did to her in
The Mirror? And how do the Guatemalan gargoyles in The Green
handle it?
2. In The Mirror, Demona says to Puck, "You serve the human; you can
serve me." Did she know that he and Owen were the same person?
1. Sevarius was hypothesizing, but he was more right than wrong. Demona's
transformation was magical. Magic compensated. Why wouldn't it work for the
Mayan gargoyles?
2. Yes.
I once saw an article in Time or Newsweek about Gargoyles. The article
concerned the popularity of Gargoyles. It said that Gargoyles merchandise
are really hot, and the show is "extraordinarily popular," I think these
are the words. Anyways, it showed a Gargoyles mug and I was suprised that
Gargoyles were so popular, since I haven't heard anyone at school or in
television talk about it much, unlike, say, Power Rangers(a horrible show).
Was it ever that popular since I heard in the comment room that Gargoyle
merchandise isn't so hot in the market.
Damn good question. Most people reading this won't like the answer, but NO,
Gargoyles were never THAT popular. We had midling success, and a core group
of extremely loyal followers, but it never made the impact that Power Rangers
made. Some merchandise did well. Some of it died. Our ratings started out
promising. Moved on to respectable. Moved to disappointing and ended up
being lousy. I wish it weren't so, and there were tons of mitigating
factors. But they don't alter the facts.
I have two questions which don't deal with the show so much as one of the
characters; Brooklyn. 1) Where did his design and concept originate from?
And 2) Why was a starring vehicle for him (Timedancer) in the plan? These
questions are merely asked out of curiosity, and a general interest in the
character.
1) Brooklyn developed overtime. He began as two characters in the show's
original comedy development. "Amp" looked more like Lexington, but had
Brooklyn's basic personality. "Lassie" (a male gargoyle who admired the
collie's heroic qualities) was an idiot-savant character. But he looked a
bit like Brooklyn. I think Bob Kline did the original designs on these
comedy characters. (They were all diminutive.) Dave Schwartz redesigned
Brooklyn, Lex and Broadway. The final models were done by Kazuyoshi Takeuchi
based on Dave's inspirational design. Frank Paur also made some minor
changes to it.
2) One answer is because the character demanded it. That is the stories of
his life seemed to exist and need to be told. On another level, I felt that
childhood friendships must evolve or die. Brooklyn, Lex and Broadway
couldn't go through life as The Three Musketeers. By sending Brooklyn away
for five minutes of Broadway's life, but forty years of Brooklyn's it would
demonstrate that although the trio would always be the best of friends, the
days of being joined at the hip were quite, quite over.
Did you ever forsee Demona actually coming to the realization that she was
largely responsible for her own misery (a la City of Stone), or was she
fated to remain self-deluded and perpetually angry?
She was fated to a lot more self-delusion, but eventually she would have had
a true epiphany. And two more great loves. (Aren't I a stinker?)
Do you have any suggestions as to how we might convince the Disney execs.
(or whoever it is we need to convince) that "Gargoyles" has a lot of good
potential and should be brought back?
I've answered that question a lot. Gore, maybe you could repost that long
message I sent you to the AskGreg Archives. You know the one where I
list the factors why the show was cancelled and explain what steps might
be taken down the line. It's been passed around a lot, but some people may
not have seen it.
The short answer to your question is to keep the flame burning and hope the
live-action movie spurs renewed interest.
What sort of things did you plan on doing with the Goliath/Elisa relationship?
Well, first of all I'd have them discuss it.
Then come to the conclusion that it was impossible.
Then I was going to send them on a Halloween double date. Goliath with
Delilah. Elisa with either Morgan or Jason (I hadn't decided). The date
would have made it clear that no matter how impossible their relationship
seemed, they would just have to find a way to make it work.
Eventually, there would have been some kind of commitment ceremony. I don't
know if you'd call it a wedding per se, but the purpose would have been clear
enough.
I know more, but that's enough for now. (Boy, this is my day to be coy.)
After mining Shakespearean lore for background and story ideas,
did you ever plan on also mining other sources just as rich, such as
Wagnerian opera, had the show continued?
I once said that given enough time and episodes, Gargoyles would have
included every legend ever. I was scoffed at. Completely scoffed at. But I
meant it.
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