JURGAN - Yes, the best you can say about the episode (as has been mentioned before) is that Goliath going after the guy after hearing his name repeated so often is believable, given the effect it had on the viewers. :)

I still suspect that a lot of the problems with "The Goliath Chronicles" might have come from the new production team thinking of the gargoyles as if they were the X-Men, without being aware of the differences (such as the gargoyles aren't a sub-section of the human race like the mutants in Marvel, but a different species) - though some of the plotholes would be there even if you replaced the gargoyles with the X-Men and the Quarrymen with the Friends of Humanity.

And that is an interesting notion about how Owen being knocked unconscious got into "Ransom", which I hadn't considered before. Though, if that's how it happened, it's a pity the new production team didn't listen to Greg about Fox as well.
Todd Jensen
posted @ Wed, Oct 16, 2019 2:41:44 pm EDT from 148.167.132.250

Yeah, that's the most obvious Weisman addition. Another one that sticks out to me is having Owen get knocked out during the kidnapping of Alex, so that Puck wouldn't be able to resolve the whole plot. I'd bet money the first draft didn't have that and Greg had to remind them of Owen's connection to Alex.

I've always maintained that To Serve Mankind is the worst TGC episode. Most of the others are only really bad if you're invested in the Gargoyles mythos. If someone new to the series watched Ransom or Runaways, they'd probably say "it was okay. Had some fun stuff in it." But I can't imagine anyone watching "EGON PAX EGON PAX EGON PAX EGON PAX" without bursting out laughing.
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posted @ Wed, Oct 16, 2019 11:45:36 am EDT from 174.28.59.13

MATTHEW - You're not missing much, I fear; it might be one of those rare occasions where forgetfulness is a good thing.
Todd Jensen
posted @ Tue, Oct 15, 2019 11:27:04 pm EDT from 68.231.65.221

To be honest what episodes of the Goliath Chronicles I did watch kind of faded away from memory.
Matthew
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posted @ Tue, Oct 15, 2019 11:23:17 pm EDT from 73.158.223.17

BISHANSKY - It certainly qualifies for that. Some of the other episodes in "The Goliath Chronicles" seem to owe their problems simply to the new production team being not that familiar with the series, but the plotholes in "Angels in the Night" (like the villain being completely ignorant of someone else tinkering with his death trap or, after putting so much effort into painting the remaining two members of the heroes' team as criminals so that they'll be taken away by the authorities, attacking the passenger train those authorities are using to convey their prisoners to prison, having apparently completely lost the concern about his public image that he was showing in that "frame-up scene") would be glaring in any setting. (I still wonder whether Castaway's attack on the passenger train was thrown in after Greg Weisman talked the new production team out of the "gargoyles abandon New York" ending, as a frantic replacement, with a tone of "We've got to come up with something else before the deadline, so we don't have time to look over how believable it is.")

I took another look at the Gargoyles Season Two Volume Two DVD at the library today, and noted that the blurb on the back cover called the gargoyles "Gotham's guardians". Well, Gotham is an old nickname for New York, but it still suggests a different nocturnal defender (and evokes the production team's fears of "Gargoyles" being seen as a rip-off of "Batman: TAS"). Maybe they chose it for the alliteration; I can't think of a similar description with "New York" for the place name, and the only one I could think of for "Manhattan" was "Manhattan's monsters", which sounds far more appropriate for one of Castaway's propaganda speeches.
Todd Jensen
posted @ Mon, Oct 14, 2019 8:20:42 pm EDT from 68.231.65.221

I still like mine. Worst episode of the series


https://gargwiki.net/Angels_In_the_Night_(review)
Greg Bishansky
posted @ Mon, Oct 14, 2019 1:25:56 pm EDT from 174.199.14.112

Third.

I recently reread Juan F. Lara's review of "Angels in the Night" at the Gargoyles Fans Website, and noticed this quote from Elisa, when she's responding with horror to the apparent deaths of Goliath, Hudson, and the trio.

"I keep trying to tell myself it's all a bad dream. That it'll go away once I wake up."

I couldn't help thinking that it read like an unwitting G-rated double entendre on the "Goliath Chronicles".

(I've been reraading the reviews I wrote of the first two seasons over at the Gargoyles Fans Website as well - I'll confess that one of my chief responses to them was a wish I could revise them, since the style felt too wordy or bland in places. Not to mention that some of the "episode trivia" needs revising, since I wrote it before the "Clan-Building" comics came out.)
Todd Jensen
posted @ Mon, Oct 14, 2019 8:56:03 am EDT from 68.231.65.221

I'll second that.
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posted @ Mon, Oct 14, 2019 8:48:20 am EDT from 104.129.204.75

First?
Algae
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posted @ Mon, Oct 14, 2019 4:24:21 am EDT from 78.152.226.233