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Greetings, Greg!
	1. How did Demona come to be the Archmage's apprentice in the first
	place? Did she approach him with a desire to learn, did he go to her, or
	what? And does Demona have a special magical ability that most other gargoyles
	don't, or could anyone be taught to perform magic?
	2. Would Elisa become a famous figure as the Manhattan clan is exposed
	to the world, known in history as "the woman who introduced the world to
	gargoyles" or some such thing? I have trouble seeing how her
	attachment to the clan could escape public attention . . . or her attachment to
	Goliath in particular. I know you had almost nothing to with _Chronicles_, but at
	the end of "Angels in the Night" Elisa is standing with the clan, right
	next to Goliath, in front of a cheering crowd, and I think people are taking
	pictures and everything.
	3a. With the movie in the stages it's in now, is it reasonable to say
	that the chances are great that the entire project could be scrapped
	between now and the time it would get into a more certain stage (ie script
	written, director found and actors cast, etc.)?
	3b.If the movie is made, will Disney pound it into the ground as much
	as they do with their animated films, like _The Hunchback of Notre Dame_
	and _Hercules_ (with all the Burger King toys and movie trailers running
	25 hours a day), or will it be less forcibly advertized?
	4. How old would Katana and the children be when they returned with
	Brooklyn from Timedancing?
	5. Lastly, some comments. First I wanted to say that I loved the MiB
	episode you wrote, "The Big Sleep Syndrome." It was one of my favorites, and
	not just because you wrote it. I liked the scene where they were icing the
	monsters. Will you continue to write episodes for the series? (Huh, I
	guess it turned into a question after all.)
	6. My next comment is on the Archmage's Time Loop. I lurked for a bit
	during the Comment Room discussion, and read with amusement your repeated
	attempts to explain the paradox, but it never seemed complicated or confusing
	to me. Same with the MIA loop. (I always wondered why Elisa was having
	trouble following when she asked Goliath to explain the whole thing to her
	again at the end.) I've never had much difficulty in rationalizing time
	paradoxes, and I tremendously enjoyed the few you wove into Gargoyles. Too bad
	that they, shall we say, threw so many viewers for a loop. *grins at her
	bad pun* Well, thank you for all your time. Until next time, farewell.
1.  Different people have different apptitudes, but I don't
	think her ability to perform magic is itself a magical ability.  It's
	about talent, study, etc.  Like any discipline.  As to who approached
	whom, I'd guess Demona would have had to have approached him.
	2.  I had NOTHING (not almost nothing) to do with Angels in the
	Night.  As far as I'm concerned, Elisa's secret would have stayed a
	secret for the forseeable future.
3a. It's certainly possible.
	3b.  I would hope for the POUNDING.  It would increase
	awareness, and my opportunity to do another pass at the show.
	4.  Oh, I have that written down somewhere.  Ask me again, some
	other time.
	5.  I've written an episode for season two:  "The Big Bad Bug
	Syndrome," and I'm currently working on another one for season two:
	"The Star System Syndrome".  That'll be it for this year.  Oh, and I
	wrote a Hercules for Disney entitled:  "Hercules and the Grim Avenger".
	Just out of curiosity, since MiB doesn't use their titles on air, how do
	you know which episode went with which title?  "The Big Sleep Syndrome"
	was the Dream episode, by the way.  The one with the Vermax.
	6.  I don't have much problem with it either, most of the time.
	Occasionally, I get bogged down.  Usually when I overthink.  Elisa's
	reaction, however, was an honest tip-of-the-hat to all those people out
	there (and there were many within Disney at the time even) who don't
	find all this quite as facile as we do.  If enough bright people have
	trouble with something, then that suggests to me that people are
	hardwired differently and that the subject may be legitimately difficult
	for some intelligent people to grasp.  It's easy to diagram visually on
	paper, but it's hard to express in words.  SO Elisa's reaction is just
	playing fair. (GDW / 4-20-98)