#tfg watches gargoyles

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Okay so here we have huge chunks of rocks falling from a skyscraper and this detective has just stood in the splash zone. While that's like, really really dumb, I think it hints at a very important quality of Elisa's.

She wants in on things. She wants in on all the secrets, all the activity. She needs to be a part of things. No matter how crazy things get, she wants to be a part of things. She wants to stand apart.

"Get back!" She tells the others who almost got crushed with her, but she remains, kneeling in danger behind a large chunk of rock as if that would protect her (it wouldn't).

Some of this instinct I think is yes, to protect and solve problems. But I absolutely do think we see time and time again how it is also selfish. She likes to be on her own, doing heroic things, involved in momentous occasions.

So when she sees scratch marks? In STONE? Consider her curiosity piqued. If something exists in this world that can do that, then by god she's going to learn what it is, not run away for fear of what that could mean about her world.

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Awakening Part I

I don't know how long I'll have tonight, but I unexpectedly don't have my usual Wednesday night plans, so lets start a little dive in!

The show starts with 5 parter, which I now look back and wonder why they would do that. It's not like I don't like the history of the Gargoyles. It's not even that I don't want them to explain this history. I'm just now of the mind that infodumping so much in the episodes meant to hook us to the rest of the series was less of a good move. Maybe it was perfect for the 90s. Maybe it's better to catch the interest of kids (I have doubts about this. This requires such an attention span! But maybe we had better attention spans back then...)

Now I wish we could have gotten to come to care for these characters where they are right now and then learned how they got to be here. I think a very abbreviated version here would have been great and to then pepper these flashbacks throughout the season. We definitely do need the story.

Honestly, it's hard to want to start this show because of this info dumping. I love so much about this show, but I get tired preparing for the slog of the infodump of these first five episodes. May mean for a slow start for me, BUT LETS GO

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Here we have a skyscraper in the middle of New York sporting a fireworks* display that isn't authorized by the city and debris falling very dangerously down to the ground. So of course who shows up?? A lone detective in her hot red car!

Ah Elisa Maza. She is one of my absolute favorite characters. I'm so glad to be returning to her. Of course back when I was a kiddo, I didn't know anything about the politics of detective work and whatnot, and I don't think this show really tries to engage with it beyond 'plausible reason for this human to be involved in the goings on of the show and how to rope our protagonists into super hero adjacent work.

For this reason, I'm probably not going to try and engage too much with that aspect. Going to largely be working work with the in-universe intents for the show so I can make any progress at all haha

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Aw man, I didn't capture it well. Goliath turned out the lights earlier to give them an advantage. This crony can only see when he's shooting, so we have this lovely horrifying moment (from his POV) where he sees Broadway coming at him as he misses his shot, and then when he next fires, just an empty line of sight; the monster disappeared. And only with his next shot does he see it again, and it's in his face, snarling and seemingly out for blood!

I also really like how Broadway only has time for the henchman firing recklessly. It furthers the narrative that Broadway's focus is on the weapons themselves, which I think is a much better target for the rage and hatred he's feeling right now. He's a good boy XDXD

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Bee may be setting up a Tumblr blog as we speak, so I might be able to needle her to post some thoughts fresh from her. In the meantime, I have a little interview post I wrote up before we were done hanging but I have to heavily edit because it was the quickest of notes I could take.

But before I do that, I still need to finish up Episode 9!

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@taraljc and @lynati

Word of God can be so fun for fandom! But I am absolutely of the mind that we get to wholeheartedly disregard it! I subscribe to this very much.

I will probably wait to intentionally expose myself to Word of God stuff until I'm done because I actually don't know much and want to re-experience the story with just the story in mind exactly for the reason of allowing myself to come to my own conclusions. I am very prone to being influenced by peripheral information and reading that into things in ways I won't realize I'm doing it.

This isn't to say I'm not open to hearing some of it. I'd already gotten to start making my own thoughts on Owen's actions in that scene, so it's not As Much an influence to hear about it.

But this is to say I will be waiting on seeking out any sort of Ask Greg type things until I'm done.

It's why it's important enough for me to put in my liveblog announcements that it has to be OK for me to be wrong about things and misremember. And oh I'm sure it'll happen! Haha

But I have been very much enjoying these additions! And if you ever add stuff and get no response from me, it may just be that I decided not to learn more so as not to be influenced by too much outside information.