Gargoyles: Awakening Part 1- Episode Review Continued

Stone by day, warriors by night… Welcome back to…THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE BEST SERIES EVER! If you missed the first half of my totally biased review, check out part 1 of Awakening part 1. Ready for part 2?

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Gargoyles: Awakening Part 1- Episode Review

IT’S THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE BEST SERIES EVER! This will be a biased review, you say? Of course it will be, Captain Obvious. Aren’t all reviews? We’re going beat by beat, focusing on the villains.

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The Most Active Gargoyles Fan Groups Online

We are defenders of the night. We are gargoyles!

What’s better than watching our favorite shows or reading our favorite books? Hanging out with fellow fans!

Growing up in the 1990s and 2000s, I’ve been a part of many a fan group for many a series. While the group concept isn’t as strong now as it was in the days of list-serve Yahoo groups, LiveJournal, and forums, it’s still around in other forms.

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Best of Gargoyles Fan Art: Villains

We are defenders of the night. We are gargoyles!

While the Disney’s Gargoyles series may be complete, it lives on in fan art. Don’t worry, I did the research for you, hunting down some of the best villain/antagonist fan art from Gargoyles. Sadly, there isn’t nearly as much art featuring our favorite baddies as there is of the heroes. What else is new, eh?

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Announcing the Villains of Disney’s Gargoyles

We are defenders of the night. We are gargoyles!

What was the most groundbreaking American animated series since Steamboat Mickey? Another Disney classic: GARGOYLES! I may be biased, as it’s my favorite series of all time, even now that I’m an adult. In fact, it’s even better now…

Gargoyles’ villains are dynamic. Antagonists in Gargoyles change throughout the series, and not just because sometimes they work with one another and sometimes against. One villain lost a signature part of her nature. One of the main antagonists even got married (to another antag) and had a son.

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Fantasy’s Reality Check: Carnival Villains

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The carnival is all about thrilling the senses. Tastes, sounds, and sights wash over you as you walk down the lanes. Right now you’re probably remembering what that soggy fried Snickers tasted like, what that carny called to make you drop $10 on a stuffed animal, and how gaudy but intriguing and exciting everything looked.

All those thrills are a facade, albeit one we happily accept. Hey, it’s fun! We can rationalize spending big on “cheap” thrills and eating garbage. It’s the fair. It’s the carnival. It only comes once a year. It’s all fluff, but we know it, so we’re willing to go along for the ride.

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Humbug! Normal isn’t normal in the X Files

"Nature abhors normality." - Dr Blockhead

Imagine going through your whole life looking like him!

Depending on the context and inflection, that statement can mean two very different things. At its heart is a question: What is normal? In the X Files episode Humbug (S2:E20), Mulder and Scully find themselves on the other side of normal.

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Something Wicked This Way Comes: What’s your desire?

By the pricking of my thumbs...

What’s your deepest desire? Would you trade your soul for it?

When Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show rolls into town at 3 am, its mysterious leader Mr. Dark will force the locals to answer. Two 13 year olds named Will and Jim learn that getting what you want has a cost when…Something Wicked This Way Comes.

What can this tale of darkness, danger, and despair show us about succeeding in life? Let’s take a walk through the carnival and see.

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Villain Matrix Stats: Puck – Gargoyles

Shakespeare called Puck “that merry wanderer of the night,” but this fae is far more than that. Though the”shrewd and knavish sprite” was court jester for Lord Oberon, lord of the fae, Puck also acted as Oberon’s servant in the mortal world outside Avalon. Puck is among the most powerful and versatile of the Children of Oberon.

When Oberon exiled the fae from Avalon in order to teach them humility, Puck passed the time by interacting with the humans. But he didn’t become truly interested in them until he saw Queen Titania, Oberon’s wife, marry scientist and businessman Halcyon Renard. What was so fascinating about these mortals? He had to know. So he had the brilliant idea to play a part he’d never played before: the straight man. He chose a character nearly the exact opposite of his personality: Preston Vogel. Renard’s personal assistant and “the most wooden man on the face of the planet.” The new character? Owen Burnett.

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