From: "Todd Jensen" <merlyn1>

A few comments of my own about the Proposals:

1. Brooklyn's infidelity: I'd rather that we not use it. The big
reason is that I don't think that something like this could ever
have been shown on "Gargoyles" - infidelity that would actually
produce a child would have never gotten past S&P, even given
how understanding (as Greg Weisman has often mentioned) the
series' S&P official was. (This will probably lead to some argument
over the S&P issue in general, but I believe that we need to
adhere to it in order to maintain the atmosphere of the original
series).

2. Wasn't Tamora supposed to be turned into a vampire by Dracula? I
recall that that was what we had decided upon originally, but the future of
Tamora given here doesn't fit in with that.

3. I honestly don't feel that comfortable with a regular like Sata
dying, either, even if it's supposed to be in a series finale.

On a side-note, I'll confess that Demona's attempt to assassinate
Fletcher still reminds me a little of a certain "X-Men" story (though we
obviously won't have any time travellers showing up to reveal the bleak future
that will ensue if Demona succeeds in murdering the man :) ), but then
again, "Gargoyles" always did remind me a little of "X-Men" anyway; I don't
see the similarity as that much of a problem.

I'll confess that the creativity demon that I had for a possible
series finale went something like this:

Some powerful non-gargoyle antagonist is out to seize control of
Manhattan or maybe even the human world in general, but goes after
Goliath and his clan first because they have some information or object that the
antagonist needs to accomplish its goal. The clan is almost defeated, but a few
of the other clans come to its aid. However, the gargoyles from those clans
initially make it clear to Goliath that they're only intervening to
help him and his clan out, not to help the humans; after everything that
humanity's done to gargoyles over the millennia, they don't see why they should
lift a talon to help them. (They aren't quite as bitter as Demona - in that
they aren't out for genocide - but they still don't like humans at all).
Goliath finally convinces them to help, however, partly through reminding
them of the "Gargoyles protect" credo and partly by showing them that the
antagonist, if victorious, would be a menace to gargoyles as well as
humans. The clans together finally defeat the antagonist and save the humans.
(I'll confess that this concept was partly inspired by an episode of
Disney's "Gummi Bears" where the Gummis similarly needed to convince a
particularly bitter tribe of Gummis from the Barbic Woods to help them defeat Duke
Igthorne, but Greg Weisman has mentioned that "Gummi Bears" was an
inspiration for "Gargoyles", so it's probably appropriate).

I'm not certain as yet as to who the antagonist might be, of course.
Maybe Dracula and his vampires, or a darker Illuminati that has replaced
Duval with somebody much more willing to turn the world into a "1984"-type
place.

Todd Jensen