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Macbeth is just like, 'this is not worth it.' He might be a well read guy (who knows), but he doesn't have much interest in their interpersonal dramas. He's old enough to know that the quickest way to get out of having to witness something boorish is to just let everyone GTFO, and honestly, possibly the best character for him yet. XD
Macbeth really does have royalty vibes. The panicked calling of trouble met with such an unperturbed, matter-of-fact, shrugging-it-off way he replies, 'then take care of it.' Just... great work. Love a good line delivery XD
We get a reveal that this thing unearthed by archeologists was sealed by Macbeth himself, so if we haven't already had the reveal (I don't think we have) or suspected it, that he's THE Macbeth, we get a clue now. This mofo is OLD. And still able to wrestle a giant monster being. XD
But what's so wild to me is that I remember that he has a moment of finding out what it is and not being impressed with what is on the scrolls. If he sealed it... had he not bothered to first read it? I don't know if this clue is worth it to not be willing to explain why he wouldn't know the contents of the scrolls before sealing them. It's not like HE couldn't read.
Really fuzzy on your code of honor here Macbeth!
I mean, I don't put it past him to just be messing with Broadway here, but if he had no further need for Broadway after getting the first scroll, he could have literally just dropped him off anywhere while stone and be done with it.
Which does indeed imply he means what he says. Perhaps he hopes he'll find some harmless spells to try just to make sure they work.......?
What little seeming text is on that book is utterly unreadable. I mean, it's not supposed to be in print largely, so that makes sense, but this is killing me, because he walks to the bookshelves while telling Hudson about a Shakespeare play. I legit for a moment wondered if Jeffrey was looking in the play for some mention of like, 'where the river flows beneath the pine' or some shit to find an address. But by what he says, this HAS to be like, a Yellow Pages. Why couldn't they at least make it yellow?
Also, it's HILARIOUS to me that Macbeth has a whole ass castle with the address just chilling in the phone book next to a fake name comprised of characters from his play. lkjdfoiejlk
Just not the best storyboarded episode. I feel like I could be convinced of Broadway's awe if it would have come later in this sequence. He gets taken away practically before Macbeth gets going. It's enough to me that Macbeth is charismatic enough and compelling enough to sell this tale to a creature in love with stories, but let it breathe just a little bit please XD
This plot works so much better for me with Broadway. He's still young and clearly we met him as he was just beginning to deal with the responsibilities of adulthood. Also, If I'm to be convinced of Hudson's illiteracy while everyone else except Broadway Does read, it sort of feels like it has to be an out-of-culture activity. This was things done with the humans, and Broadway has never been ambitious. It's been enough to make connections inside his clan and not focus on the warrior stuff, which was the main connection to the humans in the castle, since they were all about protecting each other.
I do enjoy though this idea that Broadway is first enticed toward reading because he realizes its power of transformation. That Macbeth can read something so compelling that his retelling of it is so convincing, that Broadway wants to know more! One of the more compelling ideas in the episode for me actually
Oh this is delicious. Why should Macbeth believe Goliath here? We don't know Macbeth's story yet, so we could just think here that he doesn't know Demona that well! But the truth is that there is perhaps few who could ever know Demona so well as Macbeth.
If these gargoyles had been just any gargoyles, ones Demona didn't know that he'd gotten his hands on, I do think she would in fact come for them. She doesn't want to be alone; she does want a clan of her own. And after such treatment at the hands of a human? How ready might they be to follow her path and not a path like Goliath's?
But the anguish on Goliath's face? I'm going with that's what convinces him. Anyone might make a lie, saying what Goliath does, to spite their captor, undermine them. He could assume it's a lie. But again, he does actually know Demona, and I think maybe he recognizes a bit of what is going on with Goliath here. In the face of that agony and the reality that these gargoyles also do know Demona not just as a leader or another gargoyle, but personally, he believes it. But also... it's a kids show and there's only so much time left in the episode. Much easier if he believes it for that reason. But still, going to attribute everything I can get away with to in-universe reasons, and I think it's a fair reading.
Xanatos is about to be released, so finally Owen broaches the topic of the gargoyles. It's interesting that they have waited this long, and to me, speaks to the fact that Xanatos doesn't like the idea of killing in cold blood and that Owen knows this.
Owen, interestingly, is the only one who does not seem to have any issues with this. There are, of course, many villains in this series, and it is very interesting to me which ones would kill our heroes while vulnerable during the day and which ones would not.
Xanatos appears to consider it when he said he can't have them under foot, but I really don't think he has it in him to do it. I don't know if I think it's out of any particular nobility in the way we'll learn Macbeth has. For all he comes into this room saying he'll take care of the 'pests' which are obviously the gargoyles, he is less likely even than Xanatos I think to kill them in their stone states.
In that room, only Owen, if left to his own devices, would go to the measure without extreme duress. It's the practical solution, and he is nothing if not practical.
Honestly, I think Xanatos's reason has more to do with this idea that if he cannot best them himself in some way, then they deserve to keep fighting. I don't know if that's an honor thing or a weird dedication to some sort of fate. He is a mystical man in ways Owen Burnett specifically is not. He's sought out magic and the impossible against all rationalization, and his persistence and determination got him answers a normal person could never dream of. If the gargoyles, despite being alone and the last and outsiders and the outcast, persist on surviving and best all his attempts to get them to succumb, then who is he to intervene. For all he has reached a point where he is lord over his own life and come to wield power once not remotely imaginable for someone like him, that seems a power he does not wish to cross. Likely because it was that power that let him get where he is now.
It's just all very interesting. And yes we do, just after this, learn that this is Macbeth.
