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Gargoyles :: Awakening (01x01)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Awakening |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Production Number: | 001 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday October 24th, 1994 |
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Episode Summary |
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New York Police Detective Elisa Maza stops her car in front of the Eyrie Building, the tallest tower in the city. As she yells at the pedestrians to get back, she notices that one of the fallen bits of debris bears a claw mark. As Elisa wonders what's strong enough to create clawmarks on solid stone, the show jumps back in time one thousand years . . .
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Greg Weisman, the show's creator and producer has stated that the Castle Wyvern was loosely based on the Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, SW England.
| Greg Weisman has stated that Goliath was named by Prince Malcolm, around AD 971.
| About the gargoyles' clothes turning to stone, Greg Weisman disclosed that "during the time of Caesar Augustus, gargoyles would come to his court, and when they awoke at night their clothes would be torn to shreds. Augustus was a man of strong "family values," and in AD 10, he had a powerful mage (the original Magus) cast a Spell of Humility on the race. As a result, anything they considered "theirs" would turn to stone with them if they were in physical contact with it at sunrise."
| Greg Weisman disclosed that Hudson is Broadway's father, but neither of them are aware of it.
| Goliath's bandage didn't turn to stone when he did, because according to Greg Weisman only something that the gargoyles considered "theirs" turns to stone with them if they were in physical contact with it at sunrise.
| Star Trek Voice Actors: Many characters on the show are voiced by actors who stared on the various Star Trek series. These include Jonathan Frakes (Xanatos) and Marina Sirtis (Demona), who played William Riker and Deanna Troi respectively in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
| This is the only episode in the series to show the opening scenes at the end. Greg Weisman has asked to show it in reverse to allow viewers to remain unspoiled.
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Hakon's Soldier: Attacking a castle full of gargoyles near nightfall. This is crazy, and Hakon knows it.
Hakon: No, my friend. That's not crazy. Questioning my sanity when I'm in earshot. That's crazy.
| Captain of the Guard: Goliath, we owe you our lives.
Goliath: As we owe you ours every day.
| Princess Katharine: Our thanks for a battle well fought, good Captain.
Captain of the Guard: The credit is not mine to take, your highness. Without Goliath and his Gargoyles, our defense would have proven useless.
Princess Katharine: Please. Don't mention that monster's name in my presence.
| Goliath: No apologies needed. We are what we are. Her opinion will not change that.
Demona: Have you no pride? No sense of justice? We saved their lives and they repay us with contempt.
Captain of the Guard: She is right, Goliath. You deserve better than this.
Demona: These cliffs were our home ages before they built their stone fortress. They should bow to us!
Goliath: It is the nature of humankind to fear what they do not understand. Their ways are not our ways.
| Goliath: (to Demona) I won't go alone. Remember, you and I are one, now and forever.
| Tom: I'm Tom. What's your name?
Lexington: Except for Goliath, we don't have names.
Tom: How do you tell each other apart?
Lexington: We look different.
Tom: But, what do you call each other?
Brooklyn: Friend.
| Brooklyn: Sent to the rookery. How embarrassing.
Broadway: I haven't been down here since I hatched.
Lexington: I hope we're not down here long. He might eat us.
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Princess Katharine: In the future, Captain, you will make your reports to my advisor, the Magus, not directly to me!
Magus is named after a book of magic spells and ceremonial magic, which includes knowledge of alchemy, astrology, and the kabbalah. It was written by Francis Barret in London, in 1801. It was one of the primary sources for the study of magic, and was one of the rarest and most sought after grimoires of the 19th century.
| Princess Katharine: You would do well to remember, Captain, that the biblical Goliath was also a bully and a savage.
Goliath, the biblical giant of Gath and representative of the Philistines, challenged the Israelites to send a champion against him to put and end to the ongoing war between the two tribes with a single combat. According to the account in 1 Samuel 17:50, David, the champion of the Israelites, killed Goliath in the resulting contest with a single stone shot from a sling.
| Horse Rider: You seek the fall of Castle Wyvern?
'Wyvern' is traditionally a two-legged dragon. The hill and castle were probably given that name because the gargoyles that lived there long before might have been mistaken for wyverns, due to their bipedal stance, wings, claws, and tails of a distinctly dragon-like nature.
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Demona, the Angel of the Night
It is ironic and ominous that Goliath calls her mate "Angel of the Night", bearing in mind that she will later be called Demona, and a demon is a fallen angel.
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