You mentioned once that you wanted to have Puck break the fourth wall, but the rest of the production team objected to it. Though that made sense when I thought about it without going too deeply into hypotheticals, I suspect that things would have not gone well for Avalon if Oberon *had* spirited Alex away (no way would his parents have accepted that), and Avalon would be sparing itself and its lord and master a lot of potential trouble in thwarting him. One feature of Goliath's pondering the possibility that Avalon sent him to Manhattan to stop Oberon from taking Alex away if his speculation was correct, that means that Avalon was, in a way, going against its lord and master. Goliath's homecoming makes a lovely contrast with "Future Tense", as he warmly embraces the overjoyed Brooklyn and Lexington (the two members of the clan who'd been bitter towards his late return in "Future Tense") and Hudson says "I knew you hadn't abandoned us." (While Broadway hugs Elisa, tying in with his being the closest to her among the trio, ever since "Deadly Force".) (And there's that bit, also, in your "Gargoyles 2198" piece, about the Lexington-Xanatos Corporation.) And then I thought of LeXington, who isn't one of the family, but who's close to Alex, and who became Xanatos's secret successor in "Future Tense". The letter X is prominent among the Xanatoses: Xanatos, FoX, and AleXander. A few new things I noticed about it.Ī minor detail, but which I find touching: when Renard learns about Anastasia's remarriage, he sadly clasps her hand. Rewatched "The Gathering" (both episodes) on DVD today. Oh, and I counted the number of "claw-mark transitions" in the entire two seasons during this review - 28 in all. (Brooklyn's "And so it begins" remark does also support the feeling that the story could continue past this spot.) But it certainly makes a good season finale. Except there's a big loose end with the gargoyles' existence being made public, and most of the New Yorkers aren't too happy about it.
#Legend of the seeker season 2 episode 20 part 1 series#
This story really does seem like a good conclusion for the series in so many ways - the gargoyles are back in the castle again, their war with Xanatos is (seemingly) over, they'd defeated Demona's big scheme to wipe out humanity, Elisa finally admitted her feelings for Goliath and even kissed him. Jon Canmore's cry about the gargoyles when he's facing Jason at the end, "They killed dad!", struck me as a sign of how (even before shooting Jason) he was losing it it was Demona who killed Charles Canmore, none of the Manhattan clan were even present at the event, and Jon was there so he knows it.īroadway shows how much his attitude towards reading has changed since the start of "A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time" when he's talking to Angela about how great the castle library is (and we'll see them there together in "The Journey"). Lexington and Brooklyn's shared uneasy glances when they return to the clock tower with Goliath near the end of Part Two seemed all the stronger when I realized "the audience knows that Robyn and Jon survived Goliath's fight with them, but Lex and Brooklyn don't - from their perspective, Goliath had apparently killed those two." The trio's clash with Demona in Part One seems the last "trio action" in the series they're increasingly split up (or else acting with the rest of the clan present) after this. It reminded me of his use of just "lads" for the younger gargoyles in "Possession" that I mentioned in my post on it - apparently he's getting more adjusted now to Angela's presence in the clan. Hudson greets the returning gargoyles as "lads" - then quickly adding in "And lassie, of course", for Angela. Goliath and Elisa are actually openly speaking to each other and even sharing a brief embrace on board the passenger train, just after foiling the robbery fortunately, the passengers apparently didn't notice that. To top it, you'd have to go back to 994 and the Wyvern Massacre.Ī few things that struck me this time around: None of the gargoyles' other adversaries in modern times have been able to inflict that much damage on them.
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The former was partly undone by the gargoyles getting their old home (the castle) back by the end of the episode, but not the latter - now the gargoyles are facing an alarmed public (even though they're safe at the end - for the moment). They blew up the clock tower, destroying the gargoyles' home, and then exposed them to the public. (Well, the Disney Afternoon finale/Season Two finale.)Īnd it struck me that the Hunters were the most dangerous opponents that the gargoyles faced in modern times, judging by results. I've mentioned before spotting a lot of mentions of hunting, usually applied to humans going after gargoyles with hostile intent, and it struck me that this made it appropriate that the Hunters would be the gargoyles' adversaries in the finale. Rewatched "Hunter's Moon" yesterday (Sunday) on DVD - all three parts.