Awakening Part Five

"Awakening: Part Five" is the fifth televised episode of the series Gargoyles, and the fifth episode of Season 1.

• Story by Eric Luke & Michael Reaves
• Teleplay by Michael Reaves

Summary

As the clan returns with the diskettes, Xanatos and Goliath's mate - who reveals her name as "Demona" - show their true colors, attacking the gargoyles with the Steel Clan, a team of gargoyle-shaped robots. They manage to destroy the Steel Clan, and soon after, Elisa rescues Goliath from death at the hands of Demona. A stray rocket causes the tower to collapse, and Goliath rescues Elisa, leaving Demona to fall. Elisa reveals to Goliath that the diskettes he "retrieved" never belonged to Xanatos. Goliath then nearly kills Xanatos, but relents, allowing him to be arrested for receiving stolen goods. The castle is won, opening the way for a whole new adventure...

Tidbits

Hudson's line "And they say the Middle Ages were barbaric!", while amusing, is (from a perspective of strict realism) questionable. The term "Middle Ages" only came into existence after the medieval period, as a way of describing (in a patronizing fashion) the period of history between the classical age of Greece and Rome and the rediscovery of its art and literature during the Renaissance. Nobody in 994 would have recognized the term. One could, of course, assume that Hudson had picked it up from some of his television watching (maybe a historical documentary), although it would have been fast work.

The scarab logo of the robotics company owned by Xanatos that manufactured the tracer is the only remnant in Gargoyles of the Scarab Corporation, which was originally designed by the Gargoyles Production Team as one of the leading divisions of Xanatos Enterprises, alongside Pack-Media Studios and Gen-U-Tech. However, it received far less attention than these other divisions, thanks to the fact that stories involving its products focused on the products themselves (such as Coyote) and did not involve the corporation staff at all (unlike stories featuring Gen-U-Tech, for example, where Sevarius was certain to play a prominent role). We get another brief glance at that same logo in "Legion".

The scene where Demona reveals her name is another strong hint that she was lying about having been under the Magus's spell for the past thousand years like the rest of the clan. If she actually had been in stone sleep for that long, she would scarcely have had the opportunity to have gained it from a human "long ago".

Links

• Greg's Ramble
• Extensive Synopsis and Review

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