the gargoyles spin-offs that never were
written by daroff on 05/18/07

the spin-off that both happened and sucked

just when you thought greg weisman, the genius behind gargoyles, couldn’t go any further, it turns out he had way more planned for these characters. you could just click on this link (the master plan) and read all about it, or keep scrolling down to get my reaction to each of these planned spin-offs.

1) time dancer - brooklyn finds the phoenix gate and has time travel adventures. anyone who knows me will tell you i think time travel is the single greatest storytelling device of all time, um, travel. go weisman for thinking up a series based entirely on jumping through time. never been done before, ever in the history of television. ziggy says there’s a 97% chance this would have been the best tv show of all time, um, travel.

2) future tense - just sounds lame.

3) the dark ages - you know all those flashbacks to 994 AD in scotland? this show is entirely that. do you know what this means? lots of sword fights. lots of horse battles. way more gargoyles. and way fewer annoying new york characters (the pack anyone?)

4) the new olympians - yay! a show about stupid characters we don’t care about. i can’t wait.

5) pendragon - king arthur and griff search the modern world for merlin and battle the illuminati. let me rephrase. king “coolest fucking guy of all time” arthur and a bird-based gargoyle travel the world starting shit with the most influentially evil secret society of all time, um, travel. this would have rocked!

6) bad guys - five of the most random bad guys from the series go off on adventures. i’m down, but only if they spin off from that the bad guys from other shows also teaming up. imagine the following villains teaming up and going around causing mayhem: starscream from transformers, blackwing from arthur and the knights of justice, megavolt from darkwing duck, m.a.l. from captain planet, and pokerface from silverhawks.

but weisman screwed up by handing the reigns of season 3 of gargoyles to his second in command, eric lewald, who turned the show into utter shit. thanks guy, for ruining what could have been. jerk.

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  1. Gargs Fan May 25

    A little inaccurate. Eric Lewald was not Greg’s second in command on the series. Lewald was never involved with “Gargoyles” at all until Greg was gone. And Greg hardly handed the reigns over… he was forced out.

    “Future Tense” is now “Gargoyles 2198″ and Greg has revealed a hell of a lot more about it. It sounds like it would have been great.

    “Gargoyles” is back as a comic, and “Bad Guys” is coming as a comic later this year.

  2. Daroff May 25

    hey, thanks for checking us out. if you really love gargoyles as much as i do, check back for parts 3, 4, and 5 of this series.

    that does make a hell of a lot more sense because “the goliath chronicles” really sucked.

    i still stand by my insistence that the future one would have sucked. wow, the future, that’s not nearly as original as creatures from the past shedding light onto our modern day society.

    as far as the bad guys go, i’d love to see dingo and matrix fight crime, but those other guys are just lame.

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