Hello, everyone.  Hope the list is flourishing.  Today is my last day at Disney, 
and not coincidentally, my last day with e-mail.  So I thought I owed it to you 
all to let you know what's been going on.

I hope you've been enjoying the last ten episodes of GARGOYLES.  More new ones 
this week and next.  Then reruns in syndication.  New episodes on ABC Saturday 
morning in the fall -- but...

My involvement in those 13 ABC episodes is fairly minimal.  I wrote and story 
edited the first of the 13, titled "The Journey".  When you see it in September 
it should give you an idea of what I had in mind for season three.  But the next 
twelve episodes were story edited by someone else and they don't reflect my work 
or the big "Master Plan" that I used to talk about.  Which is not to say that 
they may not have something in common with what the master plan was (after all, 
they are still building off what has come before), but any other similarities 
are probably coincidental.

This is a Disney computer system, so I want to avoid making this a Disney-
bashing memo, but I think it's fair to set a few things straight on the record.  
I did not leave the show over money.  We never got far enough in our discussions 
to get to the issue of money.  And I certainly didn't leave the show because I 
was out of ideas for GARGOYLES.  I had plenty of those.  They did offer me the 
third season.  But they wouldn't offer me any of the creative controls or checks 
that I had in the first two seasons.  At the time they were planning on pre-
producing and producing the episodes at DIC.  In addition, the schedule that I 
was presented with was literally impossible for me to meet.  I just couldn't 
preside over what seemed destined to be the destruction of the show.  So I 
turned it down.

Since that time, a lot has changed.  They changed their minds about DIC, which 
is no longer involved with the show.  Scott Thomas, the new producer has all the  
checks and controls that I requested, but that they would not guarantee at the 
time.  The writing schedule relaxed considerably.  So news for Gargoyles fans is 
not necessarily bad.  The new story editor is former Disney Writer Eric Lewald.  
He's a great guy.  I went to his wedding.  Eric is using former Gargoyle writers 
Cary Bates, Lydia Marano and Adam Gilad.  He's using former Disney writers Len 
Uhley and Julia Roberts Lewald and a bunch of other talented people as well.

  But those last twelve episodes are not the shows I would have done.  

I'll leave you with one last riddle explained.  During the reign of Caesar 
Augustus in Rome, there was a human sorceror, the original Magus, who wrote the 
GRIMORUM ARCANORUM.  He was very powerful and he worked for Caesar.  Caesar was 
a "family values" kind of Emperor.  And though Rome, as a "civilized" nation was 
largely Gargoyle-free, the occasional gargoyle was brought before him.  Caesar 
found it very disturbing that when the gargoyles burst free of their stone skins 
every night, they invariably wound up in the buff.  For their clothes did not 
turn to stone with them.  He asked his Magus to cast a spell of humility.  The 
Magus complied and since that time gargoyle clothes have turned to stone with 
the gargoyles themselves.  Bandages, weapons, accessories or what have you, are 
more inconsistent.  It largely depends on the mindset of the gargoyle as he or 
she is turning to stone.  If they regard the item as part of the package.  It 
will stone up too.  If not, it will remain in it's normal form.  


Now that's a tidbit that I'm sure at least a few people wish I had never 
revealed.

Thanks for all your support.

Take care, Greg.