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Ifrinn writes...
I am new to the Station 8 site here so you may have been asked this question before but here goes. In my experience Gargoyles had a large adult viewer ship, I think because it was a very intelligent show. Was this an intended aspect or a happy coincidence? And do you think it had anything to do with the canceling of the show? Most of Disney's TV projects aren't half as intelligent as Gargoyles was, perhaps it was garnering too much of an adult audience and not enough of a children's audience?
I have had friends who are deeply Christian and who would not let their children watch the show simply because of the "demonic" Visage of the characters. Knowing Disney's problems with Christian fundamentalist groups do you think this as well could have been part of the show's downfall?
Thanx for your time, Gargoyles is one of my all time favorite Animated series.
Greg responds...
We consciously tried to write the show on multiple levels, for kids and adults and everyone in between.
But, guys, as I've said before, the show wasn't exactly cancelled. We set out to make a syndication package of 65 and we did that. If the ratings had been HUGE we might have gone on...
Oh, wait, we did go on. (Well, not me, but the show.) See, the ratings the first two years were in fact, quite solid. And so they made 13 more episodes for a third season on ABC. The ratings there weren't strong, so the show wasn't picked up for a fourth year. Which, sure, is a euphemism for being cancelled. But if the Goliath Chronicles was cancelled because it was TOO intelligent, then...
As for Christian fundamentalists, I only ever saw one complaint letter from someone who described themself that way. And reading that letter it was clear that the person had never seen the show. I can't judge whether or not that one letter was representative of a huge and diverse group or not. But there was never any pressure from them or any other "group".