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Anonymous writes...
Hello Exhaulted One. (You don't mine if I call you that, do you? It just seems fitting) Anyway, I just felt like telling you that I just may be the only Gargoyle fan out there that doesn't want you to reveal everything 'bout the series' future. Keep it a secret. If you still have even a shred of hope for someday being able to bring back the show in some form, then that is enough for me to not wanna know all that you have planned. I'd rather learn everything in the form of a next season of Gargoyles then a Q&A webpage (not that I don't find myself glued to my computer screen every time you give us a future revelation). Okay, enough rambling. The long lost point of this letter was to beg the question: If you ever got the chance to continue on with Gargoyles, why would you feel obligated to treat TGC as canon? It was more or less a spin-off "inspired" by the original series.
Third seasons don't have different openings, animation, a new series title, and added opening narration . The way I see it, these factors isolated TGC from the first two seasons. Thanx for yor time!
Greg responds...
You make some good points, Entity, but I'm not sure they're convincing.
Chronicles was hardly a spin-off. It was intended as a third season, until Disney/ABC decided to try and market it differently. So they changed the title (slightly) and the opening "titles" (which isn't that big a deal, series do that all the time, as I'm sure you know, we made some changes to the opening titles between the first and second seasons as well), and they added Goliath's opening narration. But it's still Gargoyles.
Says so in the title. It aired on national network television and may be in rerun syndication some day. It seems to me that it would be a tad confusing to disinclude episodes that some viewers might have seen, or literally might be able to watch on another channel. The excuse that I didn't have anything to do with them might carry some weight with you, me and others like us. But the majority of the audience cares about characters, not creators. The distinction would be lost on them. And I'm still left with the dilemma over "The Journey", an episode I wrote and which I certainly think of as canon.
How do I make the distinction to the average viewer that one episode from chronicles is canon and the other twelve aren't? Plus, I don't really want to be a primadonna about this stuff. A lot of people worked very hard on the Chronicles. If I had a chance to do more episodes, being human (and not a bit exhaulted) I'd certainly weigh my work over theirs, but I think it's cheating and petty to pretend it never happened.