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[RERUN] Gargoyles (Gettin’ medieval for the kids)

[All images are owned by Disney. Please don’t sue me]

(Thanks to Jan Schmelter)

(If you would like to see the wall of text that was the original review, you may do so here)

In the 90s, before there were a ton of cable stations devoted to cartoons and kids’ fare (The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon were it) and you could still watch a ton of cartoons between the time that kids would be coming home from school and the time parents came home from work (every TV station not affiliated with the “Big Three” (Fox was not yet the major network it is now, and its stations were often regarded as “independents” that happened to have Fox programming a few nights a week) had this format in the afternoon)

(Thanks to DuckTales Wiki)

In 1990, Disney decided to get in on this action with The Disney Afternoon, a two-hour block of cartoons using series previously aired on the Disney Channel, with such well-regarded shows as Duck Tales, Chip & Dale’s Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, and Goof Troop.

Then in 1994, Disney took a serious risk with its block. Instead of the kid-friendly mild adventure (and outright comedy) reruns, they premiered a show with a much darker (though still kid-friendly) tone that included characters being wounded and (gasp) killed! Needless to say, this got the immediate attention of my college-age friends and myself!

The cartoon is about a group of gargoyles (hence the series’s title) from the 10th century who, despite a symbiotic relationship with Celtic nobility (they defended the nobles’ castle at night and the humans protected them during the day when they were stone and helpless), were feared and shunned by the very humans they helped protect (almost sounds like a metaphor for racial tensions, much like the mutants in X-Men)

The clan of Gargoyles (well, the ones who the series centers on) consists of 7 warriors

...led by Goliath, the only one of them with a name (voiced by Kieth David who went on to voice Captain Anderson in the Mass Effect video game franchise)

...along with his mate (voiced by Marina Sirtis…we’ll get to her in a moment)

...his mentor (voiced by Ed Asner, who played Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show)

...three younger warriors

...and a gargoyle-dog (dog-goyle?)

There are others, but as you’ll see they’re not that important.

When their main ally among the humans betrayed them, (though, to be fair, he was actually betraying the nobles. He assumed the invaders would leave the gargoyles alone after they won. WRONG! The invaders smashed the majority of the gargoyles while they were stone, killing them in a way that was technically kid-friendly) and the nobles blamed them for their defeat (Why? The invaders attacked during the day!) The court mage (who is known as the Magus) cursed the gargoyles to remain stone forever “until the castle rises above the clouds”. What dicks!

Fortunately, the nobles realized who really betrayed them, but unfortunately the mage could not undo the spell, so they took it upon themselves to care for the unborn gargoyle eggs as they fled (This will become important later)

Fast forward about a thousand years, when billionaire industrialist David Xanatos (voiced by Jonathan Frakes…I swear I will address this!) has the castle carefully taken down and reconstructed (making sure to use every piece) atop his skyscraper. Sure enough, this meets the conditions of the spell and the gargoyles awaken at dusk. Goliath discovers his mate was not demolished by the invaders, but was somehow still alive (after a millennium? Given Goliath’s mentor is old, they are obviously not immortal!) and told Xanatos about the spell.

As thanks, Goliath agrees to work with Xanatos, until it’s obvious that Xanatos isn’t exactly on the side of the angels.

Nor, apparently, is Goliath’s mate, who had grown more cold and ruthless (and has developed a hatred of humans) in the past thousand years (again, how? I mean, it is sorta-kinda explained in later episodes, but for now it’s a mystery). Eventually, the pair turn on the gargoyles.

(Thanks to Tooth)

About this time, Goliath meets...

...(and accidentally nearly kills) an NYPD detective named Elisa Maza.

Elisa becomes a fierce ally to the Gargoyles, eventually helping them find a new home since living over Xanatos’s roof could be hazardous to their health (and sorta-kinda becoming a mate to Goliath? Well, at least a romantic interest in a “will they/won’t they/is the biology even possible?!” kind of way)

Elisa is also inadvertently responsible for naming the rest if the Gargoyles. When she asked Goliath’s mentor what his name was, he was exasperated that humans needed to name everything, and asked if a nearby river had a name too. She replied it was the Hudson. He then threw his hands up and declared that he, too, might as well be called the Hudson, which led to the rest of the clan to choose their own names...

(Thanks to Chris bentley)

OK, time to address the Enterprise in the room. A lot of actors affiliated with Star Trek gave their voices to the series (the fact that Sirtis and Frakes played villains when so many associated them with the crew of the Enterprise-D was surreal at the very least) Every chapter in the Trek mythos to date was represented, with TNG being the most heavy.

(Brent Spiner voiced the fae known as Puck

…and LaVar Burton voiced a spider god), though there were voice actors from...

the original series (Nichelle Nichols voiced Elisa’s mother)

Deep Space Nine (Michael Dorn voiced an undead cyborg gargoyle (yes, the series had some weird characters) known as Coldstone)

Voyager (Kate Mulgrew played Xanatos’s lover’s mother,

...as well as Queen Titania of the fae)

…and even the movies! (Paul Winfield, who played the captain of the USS Reliant in Star Trek II, played a recurring role as blind man who befriends Hudson)

The show’s creator has said that, while he did cast Sirtis and Frakes for the roles, it was not originally his intent to fill the series with voices to please the Trekkies, but he did seem to favor Trek actors more as new characters were written.

Many sci-fi and (urban) fantasy tropes were visited, including time travel (again with the time-travel…however, I like how the series handled the concept: you aren’t altering the past by going back in time, events in the past happened as they did because your present self traveled to the past!)

The series was very well-written, especially for its time (X-Men showed that younger audiences could handle more mature content and could follow a continuing storyline…plus a series written as such could draw in an older demographic that could afford all the merchandising)

As always, let me know if there are any episodes you would like reviewed.

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SilverHawks (Thundercats IN SPAAAAAACE!!!!!!)

[All images are owned by Rankin/Bass Warner Bros-Discovery and Kenner Hasbro. Still too poor to sue]

(Thanks to Warner Bros. Entertainment)

Following the success of Thundercats’s first season, Rankin-Bass decided to do a second series. This one would be set in deep space. They brought most of the voice cast from Thundercats to do the voices for the new show.

Stop me if this sounds familiar: A group of warriors travel millions of light years from their home world. In their new home, they battle a group of semi-competent aliens led by a powerful shape-changing overlord.

The SilverHawks all became cyborgs (the tagline for the series and action figure line (because you KNOW they had to tie toys into this somehow) is “Partly metal, Partly real” Isn’t metal real? What exactly is the part that’s imaginary?) to withstand the stress of traveling millions of light years (and the ability to survive in space without any sort of pressurized suit or breathing apparatus) to their base (HawkHaven) in the Galaxy of Limbo.

The SilverHawks’ commander is known as Stargazer, who is a grizzled veteran basically counting the days until retirement. He rarely leaves HawkHaven, preferring to let the younger SilverHawks do the dangerous stuff.

Stargazer’s field commander is Quicksilver, a former special forces commander who is a skilled tactician.

Bluegrass Is second in command and the only field agent who doesn’t have underarm foils and boot jets that allow the SilverHawks to fly without a ship. However, he is the chief pilot of their ship, the Miraj.

Obviously, he fancies himself a country musician. His guitar is also a sonic weapon.

Twins Steelheart (left) and Steelwill are the powerhouses of the team and have an empathic bond.

Finally, we have the Copper Kidd, the only non-human of the team. Originating from the Planet of the Mimes, the Kidd can only speak in chirps and whistles, though he has been known to use a voice synthesizer at times.

That’s the main roster of SilverHawks (there are others, but they aren’t around for more than a handful of episodes) Now on to the group the SilverHawks traveled millions of light years to deal with: the Mob.

[NOTE: The Mob has no issue surviving in deep space without environment suits or breathable air as well. It’s almost as if the writers and/or animators had no idea how the vacuum of space works]

The leader of the Mob is Mon*Star, who escaped a penal colony at the beginning of the series (which was why Stargazer requested the SilverHawks in the first place)

When bathed in the light of the Moon*Star, his size and strength increases and he gains armor plating.

His minions include…

Every evil leader needs a toadie, and Mon*Star’s is Yes-Man (a rather appropriate name) He pretty much exists to tell Mon*Star what a great leader he is.

Hardware is the Mob’s weapon specialist and a mechanical savant when it comes to things that go bang, zap, or boom.

Melodia (the only female in the Mob) is the Mob’s answer to Bluegrass (each sold separately) and carries a combat key-tar she calls her “boom box” (Yeah, this was definitely made in the 80s)

Windhammer has the ability to control weather (even in space, where there’s no atmosphere. See my earlier comment about the animators and writers)

Mo-Lec-U-Lar is a shapeshifter that serves as the Mob’s infiltration specialist. He is able to change his structure to mimic the appearance of anyone, or even turn invisible.

Buzz-Saw is a killer robot that can use the many saw blades covering its body as projectiles.

The plots are fairly standard weekday afternoon “See how cool the show is? Tell your parents to buy the toys and have your own adventures!” fare: Mon*Star and his Mob cause trouble, and it’s up to the SilverHawks to stop them!

At the end of each episode, in lieu of a moral (because children's programming needed to have some educational value), the Copper Kidd is learning to be a pilot from Bluegrass. They never seem to do any actual flying, but Bluegrass constantly grills the Kidd about the bodies of Earth’s solar system (why? They’re in the Limbo Galaxy millions of light years from Earth!)

If you would like to see an episode reviewed, let me know!

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Laudna in Paris

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