You know, after looking at some fansites about Gargoyles it's just reinforced my opinion that Gargoyles was a frickin' awesome show.

I mean, what other cartoon would you find:
MacBeth & King Arthur fighting over who would be the true King of England; a group of merchenaries whose day-jobs were as hosts of a children's show; Easter Island aliens; a gangland war between a NY mob boss and a Czech gun-runner; homeless people used as scientific guinea pigs; a clan of Bizarro-like clones whose collective IQ would barely break triple digits; the king of the Fairefolk waging an all out assault on Manhattan; and the Illuminati, to boot! [biiiig grin]


Rob, it's interesting that you'd compare Xanatos to Lex Luthor. In my mind, Xanatos is what Luthor would've been if he didn't have a psycological hang-up about Big Blue. I must've been around 14 or 15 when I first saw the show. After a few episodes it became clear to me that Xanatos wasn't your standard-issue bad guy. He wasn't one of those "I'm so eeeevil!" guys. He was more, um... amoral I guess.

Also, he & the Gargoyles didn't have that standard good guy/bad guy dynamic either. He never really hated the Gargolyes, he merely saw them as a means to an end in his search for eternal life. Even after they started to interfere with his plans, he thought of them as interloping pests that could still be valuable in certain situations. They even became allies toward the end of the second season.

Great show.