History Headscratchers / Gargoyles

* To quote the ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' sequel, you'd be surprised what you can live through. The immortality spell might not necessarily mean they're MadeOfIron and heal instantly when injured. So if she wasn't killed, she'd be maimed or burned or skewered or who knows, maybe even lose a limb. To protect "is the Gargoyle way."

** Elisa shooting and killing Demona -- and both Elisa and Macbeth are ''crystal clear'' that she shot to kill, not to knock out or wound -- happens after Avalon. So, no, the Weird Sisters weren't just saving them on the spot.

** Eliza kills Demona at one point to save her and Macbeth from each other. She heals up fine. There are a few instances where one dies and comes back because they weren't killed by the other.

*** Personally I always felt they misshandle the part of the names, I would've go for the route of "You Can't Pronounce My Name" and then having the nicknames Eliza gave them for her comfort. But in any case we shouldn't judge a non-human culture by human standards, we do know that other intelligent animals use names; dolphines and crows use special sounds to refer to individuals of their own species, but apes don't (as far as we know) so maybe naming individuals is not something all intelligent species do.

[[folder: Why didn't Eliza and Goliath ask Halcyon Renard to contact Bluestone and the Manhattan clan?]]

Seriously, their friends and family must be worried sick. In "Kingdom" it's revealed that the Manhattan Clan don't know where they are (and Eliza's cat hasn't been fed). Halcyon could have easily contacted them.
** The same reason they didn't pick up a phone and call anybody. It simply didn't occur to them. It's been a while since I watched the show, I think the clan had a phone in the clock tower but even if they didn't at the least Eliza could have called Matt Bluestone who in turn could have told the clan the score and fed her cat. Halcyon is an extra step that assume they cannot find a phone at any of the places they were being dropped off. The fact that they didn't ask Halcyon actually makes a certain amount of sense. The episode starts with them deciding it was okay to "cheat" and let Halcyon take them home, screw Avalon sending them where they need to be. They want to go home. The episode ends with them rescuing Halcyon from himself and realizing that Avalon is a force for good and is sending them to places where they can make a difference. The important part here is that with that mindset they might have decided then that if their friends and family needed to know they'd find out. And a short while later it "randomly" dropped Eliza off near her mother.

[[folder: Why did Taurus lie and why didn't Eliza pick up on that?]]
* Taurus initially states at the meeting that it was a human hero that killed his father, inciting more noise, despite the fact that he is an adamant law enforcer and tries to maintain order. But then, when Eliza sees Taurus' father, she thinks Taurus locked up his own parent rather than asking "I thought your father was killed". So what exactly was the point of scapegoating a human for the one being he obviously despises more than anyone else? In fact, why didn't Eliza ask why he lied in the first place?

Eliza has her own expenses. Cop's salary or not, NYC is not cheap. The other gargoyles aren't in a position to get jobs (not of the sort available in the 90s, anyway). So where exactly do they get the money to feed an entire family of beings who need to eat more than a typical human?

*** Besides, it lends to the private joke and StealthPun: Xanatos never used the Pack as anything more than stooges, and every time he interacted, he betrayed them on some level. Coyote really {{was}} two-faced.

*** It could be that they didn't had names in the sense we have them(Being named by our parents/guardians) but only had nicknames(Like the way LAs Names evolved) but they never acknowledged them as such. "Leader", "Second in command", "Red one", "Short one" etc could be easily used, as Gargoyles are wildly different one from another

* Awesome for some, fetish for others. Still, seconded like WHOA.

[[folder: Xanatos jumping on the [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lovely hostage, Angela]] villain bandwagon in "Cloud Fathers"]]

[[folder:The Weird Sisters' spell that gives Demona and [=Macbeth=] [[{{Synchronization}} synchronized]] immortality uses the line "As long as one lives, the other shall live" to establish how one cannot be killed (unless one kills the other, of course). Could there be room for a loophole here?]]

** Pure, utter, fetish material to certain groups of people... * cough*

** Xanatos simply plans to stay awake, and it happens. :p Seriously, though, maybe he's using a modified sleep program of some sort. There's all kinds of them out there that claim to leave you feeling rested and alert for more hours per day. He may be only sleeping 4-6 hours per night, supplementing this with diet and naps throughout the day.

** We usually see yuppie couple at the beginning of the night or with a throw away line about what they were up to. Xanatos is a harder one to understand. He's Ceo of a company and supposedly would need to handle some of the day to day operations of said company. The only think I can think is maybe he has some chemicals in his suit that make him stay awake all the time. :P As for some of the other characters that pop to mind: Macbeth is stated to follow the gargoyle lifestyle, as are the hunters, Owen probably does not sleep, and that's about it :P

[[folder: Xanatos jumping on the [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lovely-hostage-Angela]] villain bandwagon in "Cloud Fathers"]]

[[WMG: Wouldn't some of the Hunters have different last names if women are involved?]]

[[WMG: What if the original Hunter had killed Macbeth?]]

[[WMG: Why would Xanatos pick Goliath to be his "first" clone?]]

[[WMG: On Proteus's Escape]]

[[WMG: How did Demona get that company up and running so quickly?]]

[[WMG: How did the rest of clan feed itself during the Avalon World tour?]]

[[WMG: Why didn't Eliza and Goliath ask Halcyon Renard to contact Bluestone and the Manhattan clan?]]