Possession
"Possession" is the sixty-second televised episode of the series Gargoyles, and the forty-ninth episode of Season 2. It originally aired on May 8, 1996.
- Story Editor: Cary Bates
- Writer: Cary Bates
- Director: Dennis Woodyard
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Summary
Continuity
Coldstone appears for the first time since "High Noon". He is discovered in the Himalayas, a reference to a story that Greg Weisman had planned to write for the Marvel Comics Gargoyles series before its cancellation, and which was eventually adapted into the flashback scenes of "Reunion". In it, Goliath, Elisa, Angela, and Bronx encounter Coldstone in the Himalayas during the Avalon World Tour. This also explains why Angela does not have a very strong reaction to first seeing Coldstone in the episode, since she had seen him before.
Coldstone's three personalities are separated into three separate bodies in this episode. Othello remains in the original Coldstone body, Desdemona is transferred to Coldfire, and Iago is transferred to Coldsteel. Coldsteel next appears, without Coldstone or Coldfire, in "Reunion", and then again in "The Rock".
Puck is seen tutoring Alex for the first time since he had been instructed to do so by Oberon in "The Gathering Part Two".
Tidbits
"Possession" was originally intended to be two stories, one about the Coldtrio, the other about Puck tutoring Alex; the original concept for the latter was that Raven, Coyote the Trickster, and Anansi would apparently attempt to abduct Alex, though why is uncertain (since Titania had been satisfied with the arrangement at the end of "The Gathering Part Two", she surely would have no reason to send them on this mission, and it is hard to imagine the three tricksters leaving Avalon without her and Oberon's permission). When "Possession" became a single story, the projected Tricksters episode was initially moved to Season Three, then drastically altered (once Greg Weisman left Gargoyles and the series became The Goliath Chronicles) into "Ransom", where Alex's abductor was a villainous mayoral candidate who was exploiting the gargoyle issue in the hopes of getting elected to office.
Xanatos makes a reference to the television series Bewitched when he suggests that Owen turn into Puck and "wiggle your nose or something".
While the television episode never mentions where Xanatos and Fox were going when they went out for the evening, according to one of the outlines, they were attending a performance of Verdi's Otello, a reference to the Shakespearean counterparts of the Coldtrio that unfortunately did not make it into the final version.
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