Legion
"Legion" is the sixteenth televised episode of the series Gargoyles, and the third episode of Season 2. It originally aired on September 6, 1995.
- Story: Marty Isenberg & Robert N. Skir
- Story Editor: Michael Reaves
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Summary
Continuity
The Golden Cup Bakery reappears in "Vows" (where Goliath and Xanatos meet at the very beginning of the episode), and "The Reckoning" (where this time Demona breaks into it). Its real-life model was the Silver Cup Bakery in Brooklyn.
After being reactivated, Coldstone rises out of the Hudson River below the George Washington Bridge, where he had disappeared at the end of "Reawakening".
The Manhattan Clan stores Coldstone's comatose body at the Clock Tower at the end of this episode, where it remains until "High Noon".
Tidbits
The episode's title is (like "Her Brother's Keeper") ultimately drawn from the Bible: to be precise, a story in the Gospels when a demon-possessed man says to Jesus Christ, when asked his name, "My name is Legion: for we are many" (Mark 5:9). The immediate source, however, was a movie adaptation of Frankenstein which Greg Weisman had seen as a boy, where the hypnotized Frankenstein monster (composed of the remains of many bodies) utters the same line; since Coldstone was the Gargoyles version of the Frankenstein monster, such an element was obviously irresistible to Greg.
The names "Desdemona" and "Iago" occur only in the ending credits, not in the actual episode. The names are an obvious derivation from William Shakespeare's Othello, fitting in with the parallel situation to that of the play (with Goliath in the Cassio role).
The audience is carefully prepared for the revelation at the end that RECAP's role in confronting Coldstone at the Golden Cup Bakery was all part of Xanatos's plan; when RECAP rushes into the building at the beginning, the familiar scarab logo from "Awakening" can be glimpsed on its side.
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