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Gargoyles :: Grief (02x30)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Grief |
| Episode #: | 02x30 |
| Production Number: | 040 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday December 28th, 1995 |
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Avalon World Tour: Giza, Egypt. The World Travelers arrived on January 25, 1996.
| Child of Oberon introduced: Anubis.
| The Emir was mentioned in two previous episodes (cf. "The Edge" and "Double Jeopardy").
| This episode marks the third time that Xanatos tries to attain immortality (cf. "City of Stone, Part One" and "The Price").
| It is established that gargoyles age at one-half the rate that humans do.
| Roughly one year and a half this episode aired, Interplay Productions produced the video game Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game. It appears as is the company was a big fan of this show and/or this episode, because the game featured the voices of Clancy Brown, Keith David, Tony Jay, Tony Shalhoub, Frank Welker, and Cree Summer - all of which are also featured voice actors in this episode.
| Interesting to note, Tony Jay (voice of Anubis) one played a supreme being that wasn't entirely as evil as he appeared in Time Bandits, vis-à-vis Anubis. Likewise, Tony Shalhoub (voice of The Emir) went on to play a detective obsessed with the death of a loved one in the TV series Monk.
| Star Trek Voice Actors: Tony Jay (Anubis) played Campio in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Coyote: I'd sure like to know how you got here, but I'm programmed to shoot first and ask questions later.
| Wolf: Well, shave my chest and call me baldy.
| Jackal: (seeing Anubis) The original model...
| Emir: Here me, Guardian of the Gate. I demand a favor.
Anubis: I grant but one boon, mortal, and it will be given to you as it is given to everyone, when your time has come.
Emir: You took from me my only son, Anubis, two years ago, in a pointless car accident.
Anubis: Death is always pointless. That is the point.
| Anubis: On the contrary, death is the ultimate fairness. Rich and poor, young and old, all are equal in death. You would not like to see the jackal god play favorites. Think what you are doing. All over the world there is birth but no death. Our planet cannot support so many lives at once.
| Elisa: And the Emir? What do you think happened to him?
Goliath: If there's any justice in this world or the next, he's with his son now, at rest.
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If Xanatos sent the Pack to help the Emir because he wants to achieve immortality, why didn’t he program the Coyote to be in charge of things and keep an eye on the Emir -- as opposed to be ordered around by him?
| Anubis is one of the Death Gods of a plethora of mythologies, and he hasn't been worshiped in over 10 centuries. However, he proclaims that no one can die while he is imprisoned. How can he still be so powerful that the fact of him alone being held captive nullifies death?
| If no one could die while Anubis was trapped by the Emir, why did he order the Pack to "dispose" of Elisa and the Gargoyles? It was quite obvious that the Pack intended to kill them.
| Goliath says that gargoyles age half as slowly as humans, and therefore he was fit enough to act while Elisa was helpless. However, he looked as old and feeble as Elisa did, and Anubis probably took into account their different aging rates. So, if he looked as old as Elisa, his strengths should be proportionally weak to Elisa’s. Unless, he meant that even though they look old, gargoyles are fitter than humans at that elderly stage.
| Goliath and Angela chose to sleep right in front of the Sphinx when they weren't certain of what had happened to the Pack. They could've all of a sudden burst out from the wrecks and Elisa and the gargoyles would have been helpless.
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Goliath: The Sphinx. It was ancient long before I was hatched.
In Egyptian mythology, sphinxes were equated with guardian deities, and were represented with the body of a lion and the head of a ram or a man, frequently a likeness of the reigning pharaoh. The most famous of all Egyptian sphinxes is the Great Sphinx of Giza, near the pyramids. It dates from before 2500 BC, and is about 20 m (66 ft) high and about 73 m (240 ft) long.
In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was monster with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a lion, and the wings of a bird. Her name means "throttler". Lying crouched on a rock, she accosted all who were about to enter the city of Thebes by asking them a riddle: "What is it that has four feet in the morning, two at noon, and three at night?" If they could not solve the riddle, she killed them. When the hero Oedipus solved the riddle by answering, "Man, who crawls on four limbs as a baby, walks upright on two as an adult, and walks with the aid of a stick in old age", the sphinx killed herself. For ridding them of this terrible monster, the Thebans made Oedipus their king.
| Emir: The Papyrus of Thoth contains a spell that transforms the reader into an avatar.
Thoth was the god of wisdom, the moon, and sacred writings. He is usually depicted as a man with the head of an ibis bird.
| Emir: Behold the jackal god, the lord of death himself. Anubis.
In Egyptian mythology, Anubis guided the souls of the dead from the world of the living to the world of the dead. Anubis was also who judged the actions of the dead in terms of good or evil. He is usually depicted as having the head of a jackal.
| Emir: In the name of Osiris, Isis and Set, let the spirit of Anubis flow into this vessel.
In Egyptian mythology, Osiris, Isis and Set were three of the five children of Geb and Nut. Osiris was the god of vegetation and farming and later became king of the Underworld after he was murdered by Set. Isis was Osiris's wife and sister, and was goddess of motherhood, women, and magic. Set was Osiris's brother, god of evil, serpents, and desert storms. Set killed Osiris to become pharaoh himself.
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Grief
The title of this episode refers to the Emir, who has been going through the 'Five Stages of Grief' - Denial, Anger, Guilt, Bargaining, and Acceptance - due to the lose of his son. During most of the episode he is obviously in 'bargaining,' trying to get his son back. In the end, he finally accepts. It also refers to the grief, as Wolf points out, that the gargoyles give to the Pack.
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