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So recently I was reminded that this series existed, having
watched it when I was younger. I’ve been re watching them as I remembered it
being really good. Holy hell I forgot how good it was!!

So for those who don’t know the show it was about creatures
called Gargoyles who were stone by day and came alive at night living in
medieval Scotland atop a castle they helped the humans ruling it defend,
despite racism towards their people. Long and the short of it is that after a
battle with the Vikings who destroyed most of the gargoyles during the day,
including Goliaths lover, the castles Magus (because why not) believes the
gargoyles are responsible for the princesses death & curses the gargoyles
to be stone until the castle “rises above the clouds”. In over words, their
stoned forever (sorry not sorry)

Cut to present day/sometime in the future and multi
billionaire business man Xanatos buys the castle & has it moved brick by
brick to the top of his skyscraper, literally rising the castle above the
clouds. Now awake in a different time the gargoyles discover more about this
new world from Xanatos and a detective who discovers them named Elisa Maza. I
will try not to spoil what happens from there on but I do want to talk about
one episode shortly after the 5 part intro to the series.

Episode 8: Deadly Force

The younger members of the team started off as the somewhat
comic relief or at least lighter moments of the first 7 episodes, especially the
token Fat member Broadway being the most naive and innocent member of the
group. Beginning of this episode we see that he is fascinated with the latest
western movie, thinking the gun spinning protagonist is cool. Now at this point
I should mention that the gargoyles and Elisa have been shot at by various
antagonists up to this point, and not in the style most kids shows did in the
2000’s with lasers. No these are proper automatic weapons and pistols, but
everyone luckily has storm trooper syndrome and can’t hit shit. After watching
the movie he visits Elisa and

while
she’s cooking he see’s her gun holster hanging up and like so many cases that have happened where children have found their parents guns Broadway starts to play with it.    

Of course the gun goes off at the worst time. Broadway
frightened by the sudden shot jumps and starts apologizing to Elisa only to
realize he has caused this.

Yes people, that is blood from a victim of gun violence on a
kids cartoon from Disney. I wish I could capture a pick after Broadway rushes
her to the hospital and after dropping her off is horrified by the blood on his
hands. And there’s A LOT of it by kids show standards. Later when Elisa’s
family arrive and are told she is in critical condition the doctor goes into
detail over the damage done and the show does not tone it down, saying how it
pierced her lung, nicked her heart and that even after 10 hours of surgery she
may not pull through. This is a Disney show!!  

Later after stopping some thugs from selling more guns he
and Goliath visit Elisa who has recovered and regained consciousness. Broadway apologises
saying he never should have played with the gun and he’ll never touch one ever
again. Now for any show that would have dared touch this subject they probably
would have left it there as a message for kids that guns aren’t safe and should
not be played with but not this show. It took it one further by making it a
message for the adults too as Elisa admits she was at fault too as she should
have been a lot more careful about where she kept it.

Holy Hell this show was amazing!

Now I don’t live in the US so I cant really get a sense of
why you would want a weapon built to kill in the same house as your child. So
much emphasis is put to children on how guns aren’t for kids to play with but
who is the one who brought it into their living environment? If you MUST have
one you have to take responsibility for keeping it out of naive hands, and this
show tackled it like a boss with the shocking story and images that both child
and parent needed to see.

Disney, if your not going to remake this series (for the
love of god please do) at least re air it so that once again this episode can shape
both young and old minds on the importance of gun responsibility.