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Michael Nimmo's avatar

Loved the show, and I always think of the quote - "Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into Hell." - Xanatos

That was pretty deep!

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Say what you will about Michael Eisner, but a massive amount of good animated things from Disney came out of the period when he was in charge. He left the television animation department alone to do its thing and they created magic. His successors have gradually dimmed that glow.

"Gargoyles" is an example. It is an extremely rare thing: an animated television series with an impressive level of dramatic gravitas. That came not only from the realistic animation but the down-to-the-wire soap opera plotting and characterization. Unlike so many other series of this kind, the content wasn't served with a chaser of bad humor; it was straight ahead action. It's the television animation equivalent of a rare bird.

This series and many of its contemporaries in the 1990s and 2000s permanently raised the stakes for animation on television, and for all of the ones now that are dramatic in tone, a huge debt is owed to the predecessors who paved the way.

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