Golem (episode)

"Golem" is the forty-first televised episode of the series Gargoyles, and the twenty-eighth episode of Season 2. It originally aired on December 14, 1995.

• Written & Story Edited by: Gary Sperling
• Directed by: Frank Paur

Continuity

Halcyon Renard and Preston Vogel appear for the first time since "Outfoxed". They next appear together in "The Gathering Part One", although Vogel appears on his own in "The Green".

Tomas Brod appears for the first time. He reappears in "Turf".

Tidbits

Golem is the only episode containing a flashback scene not connected to the series mythology or the lives of its characters; the flashback here is a simple dramatization of Rabbi Loew's original activation of the Golem in 16th century Prague, a simple adaptation of the original tale without any changes to accommodate Gargoyles elements into it (unlike the way that, say, "City of Stone" handled Macbeth's story). Probably the production team feared that most of the audience would not be familiar enough with the legends pertaining to the Golem and included this sequence to help fill them in - though it's also possible that it was meant to pad the episode out enough to have it run full-length (like the clips in "Outfoxed" and "The Cage").

When Max Loew orders the Golem to spare Tomas Brod's life, he mentions "the words of our ancestors: 'Love justice, and do mercy.'" These words are not an exact Old Testament quote, but a close parallel to them appears in Micah 6:8: "and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

Links

• Greg's Ramble
• Extensive Synopsis and Review

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