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The Tragic Romance of When the Gargoyles Turned Human for a Night
The greatest goth romance in kids’ TV came to a heartbreaking — and series-defining — turn in the unforgettable season two episode “The Mirror.”
So it was a delight for weirdos like me that the dramatically goth, poignantly melancholy, and complexly plotted Gargoyles, one of the rare original offerings in the Disney Afternoon lineup, was nothing like its peers, especially when putting its own spin on a classic “be careful what you wish for” story in season two’s series-defining “The Mirror.” Demona steals a magical mirror — which resembles an Art Deco–style guillotine, and which Weisman has described as a “a window, a doorway, a Peeping Tom” — and casts a spell that summons Puck (Brent Spiner), the sprite made infamous by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was important to the series’ creative team that the gargoyles’ human versions resemble their voice actors as much as possible, so the bald Lexington got a brunette buzz cut to look more like Adcox-Hernandez, while Fagerbakke and Bennett “influenced” Broadway and Brooklyn’s body shapes and hairstyles, Weisman says.
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