[ SECRET POST #2177 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2177 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

16. http://i.imgur.com/Expbr.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Me too. I used to read on the myths after each episode, especially if they were something I'd never heard about. On a related note, I'm still weeping inside that Disney hasn't released the second half of the Season 2 DVD.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still weeping inside that Disney hasn't released the second half of the Season 2 DVD

This soooo much! At least let it be on of those produce on demand things!

I also want Kim Possible on DVD. That was a popular show and reasonably recent so why no series collection?

[insanenoodlyguy]

It used all of those so well. I had a similar interest myself, though I'd half been into Arthur already.

[(Anonymous)]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES GARGOYLES <3

[mekkio]

Still one of my favorite versions of Puck. Bonus: Played by Data!

[honestys_easy]

COSIGNED, OP. I loved how they intertwined Shakespeare with Arthurian legend and other mythologies. Especially when Elisa and Goliath traveled to the lands of Elisa's heritages and they incorporated African and Native American mythologies in the story, too. I remember watching Gargoyles with my mom, who loved the show for the very same reason (as well as the characters who were equally awesome!)

[rbhudson]

Nothing wrong with that, OP <3

[(Anonymous)]

That's awesome and Gargoyles rules.

[tinfoil_hats]

Remind me to come back here when LJ gets off maintenance, because I have a link in my LJ to a page where Disney released the entire series for free download and this secret is the perfect place to share it.

Also: YES. Gargoyles did a great job portraying a lot of cool myths and legends from various cultures, while adding their own mythos to tie it all together. Plus, it was a frickin' cool show anyway, and touched on and dealt with a lot of fairly mature concepts considering it was a Disney cartoon.

/90s child

[(Anonymous)]

LJ's working for me at this very second. (But maybe not the next one!) Link please!

[tinfoil_hats]

I guess it's more "watch online" than "download", my bad, but here you go!

[forgottenjester]

Ahaha, funny story. In my adaptations of Shakespeare class we watched their episode based on Othello and then debated whether it was an adaptation or just influenced by the work.

So yeah, rock it, OP.

[caffeine_buzz]

Ditto. My grandmother had this huge book of Shakespeare plays and after the first Macbeth episode I begged her to let me borrow it so I could read the play. By high school I was pretty much the only kid in class who got super excited when we started reading Shakespeare.

[thelonebamf]

I loved Gargoyles so much when I was younger, and after revisiting the episodes after over a decade I was pleasantly surprised at how well it has held up. I've made a point of recommending it to my friends who were a little too young to have been in the target audience when it was on.

I didn't realize how fond I was of it until a friend told me he already knew that I thought he should watch the show and that I bring it up a lot as an example of a what "a kid's show can and should be". I hadn't thought of it that way, but he was exactly right. Much like Batman: The Animated series, Gargoyles showed that a "kid's cartoon" could handle mature themes and concepts and still be very entertaining for a young audience. The mythologies and literature that was melded in to the plot was a great example of that.

So... yes. Agreed, OP. Agreed.

[truxillogical]

Aw man, Batman and Gargoyles. We really did grow up in a great time for cartoons.

I mean, I think it's cool that there are a bunch of cartoons doing a kind of surreal thing (post modern? Whatever) and telling stories in a different way, but...

I really wish there were a few more shows with the kind of gravitas that Gargoyles and the DCAU brought to the game. It's my motto by now that stories influence who we are as people, and growing up with the kind of stories those shows told, slipped in between action scenes and hijinks, really helped me as a kid. Heck, maybe even as an adult.

[eaten_by_bears]

Aw, there's no shame in that. That's how myths get passed down. They get retold and reinterpreted and handed down to another generation. I think Gargoyles is an awesome first step down that road.

[truxillogical]

It made The Scottish Play really confusing for me when I finally read it in class and realized that no, he wasn't a poor, misunderstood guy who's king/cousin secretly hated him, he was just a jerk who broke the laws of hospitality and killed a dude because his wife--who was NOT a sweet and loving woman--had a pretty good plan.

But yeah. Gargoyles was an excellent show and a good introduction to a lot of fantastic things for me.


Nowhere near on that level of epic wonderfulness, but in a similar vein, I hope the current My Little Pony show inspires some little girls to read up on mythological monsters from different cultures.

[dragonsong12.livejournal.com]

Random bit of trivia!
According to Greg Weisman, MacBeth's wife was not "Lady MacBeth" in the Gargoyles version. It was Demona who represented the Lady MacBeth of the play.

....I only mention because that bugged me for a long time, too, haha!

[truxillogical]

That...makes so much more sense and I feel like an idiot for not seeing it before now.

Then again, I was out of college before thinking, "Huh, with a protagonist named Goliath, they really should have an antagonist named...wait a minute."