In my "review comments" on "Hunter's Moon", I noted how it ended, in its final scene at the castle, on what went well for the gargoyles (they're back in the castle, they've made peace with Xanatos, etc.), with their being revealed to the public not mentioned. The "hunting" analogy continues even past "Hunter's Moon" with Vinnie stating that he hunted a gargoyle down, and Castaway mentioning it (both specifically use the word "hunted"). I decided to reread "Clan-Building" as well, after rewatching the first two seasons of "Gargoyles" on DVD, starting with Chapters One and Two ("The Journey)). All those people who pronounce it EYE-ling are just objectively wrong. The pronunciation of "Eiling." It's EE-ling, like an electric eel. There are probably a lot of other things, too, if I thought about it too much. But he's that smart and always armed with contingencies.Ħ. He'd never, for example, voluntarily place his brain inside the Shaggy Man.
He's got a temper, but he's pragmatic not irrational. This is a man with an agenda, but he's still (in his mind) a patriot. General Wade Eiling is often mischaracterized from my point of view. But it's important to remember that the 1960s was not that long ago to him.ĥ. It's not quite as big a deal as the kid thing. Anyone who forgets that Cap is a man out of his time. A super-hero and/or a soldier second/third.Ĥ. But if the story is about him, then everything with him is about his kids. That's not to say he can't participate in an adventure that has nothing to do with his kids. Anyone who divorces the Captain's story from the love of his children. He's tapped into the quantum flow, but if he had built up enough power from the flow to be able to generate that kind of explosion, the excess energy would have instantly transported him into the future.ģ. The idea that you can blow Cap up and his destruction releases the equivalent of an atom bomb.
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Cap is neither an empty shell full of energy as Wildfire is, nor does he have the godlike transformation/transmutation powers of Manhattan.Ģ.
The conflation of Captain Atom with either (a) Doctor Manhattan or (b) Wildfire of the LSH. This show is still teaching me stuff a quarter century later.ġ. Summary: You can make characters more compelling by giving the heroes some villainous traits and the villains some heroic traits. He can also be quite petty, or maybe it was just his cat DNA compelling him to push things off of tables.Īnyway, just a bit of disjointed praise/analysis. And then it even gets a follow-up in The Cage where Derek knocks Xanatos's desk lamp over. What did you think you were accomplishing, Goliath? Just venting, I guess. I don't know if that moments was intended to be funny, but it makes me bust out laughing every time. But my favorite is in The Edge, where he shouts at Xanatos for a while and then runs off, but not before smashing his street lamp. He gets jealous and overly protective of both Elisa and Angela at times. In Deadly Force, he looks very smug about blowing up Xanatos's fancy guns.
However, G's pettiness shows up in other ways, too. The difference is that Goliath usually keeps it under wraps, probably because he's able to admit when he's in the wrong and de-escalate. I remember a discussion once in the CR about the characters' vices, and we decided Demona and Goliath have the same one, that being vengence. For starters, he does have a thirst for revenge. You know who can be extremely petty? Goliath. On the Voices from the Eyrie podcast, you talked about how Xanatos isn't petty, and something funny occurred to me.
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