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I think this is the most fun we've seen Owen have so far in the entire series, and I am here for it!

Look at the unrestrained summer fun painted all across his face! XD LMAO I joke but also I'm totally not. He's so stoic all the time that him breaking out into a mischievous grin, especially in that third panel, is like super emotive for him.

Owen is so sick of the gargoyles right now I think, and he knows Xanatos doesn't have it in him to kill them, and Demona always misses the mark because she's too close to them, but The Pack? Maybe for once some truly blood thirsty and unattached hunters will get the job done. Especially knowing the sort of experiments Xanatos has in store for them.

What a marvelous little shit!

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I am working under the assumption that the blast that threw Brooklyn here separated the gargoyles, so Brooklyn is in view only of Lexington and not the others. Which leaves Lexington in the predicament of choosing between revenge and saving Brooklyn.

Of course Lexington was going to choose Brooklyn, but I do very much enjoy that it wasn't an easy decision for him. Let The Pack get away again to potentially hurt them and others, or stop Brooklyn from falling.

The obvious choice is still Brooklyn, but that doesn't make it an easy choice. Even when Brooklyn is probably the member Lexington is The Closest To of the clan. That's how badly he wants The Pack. Amazing. Love it. And if he isn't a coward, he'll have to face just how close he came to not acting fast enough.

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I love how, for a brief moment, Lexington tried to play it off. He could have dismissed the whole dilemma he'd found himself in if he just acted like everything was par for the course. No sweat. Force of habit.

Only force of habit would mean that it would have been an instinctual, immediate response to save his friend. But that's not what happened. He had to take a moment and 'get his priorities straight.' What an admission of Lex. He didn't have to let Brooklyn know that he didn't save him exactly as soon as he could have. That there was nothing else in his brain at that moment. But in a way, he is admitting to it here. And he's admitting he was wrong to dismiss the questions and idea Brooklyn had posed to him about his unthinking pursuit of The Pack.

It's a small moment. Could be easy to be overlooked. But it is there and doesn't wax poetic and at length to drill it in all the more to the kids at home. The scenario was enough. Show don't tell in this moment. I approve.

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Owen is just having the absolute best night! He and Broadway might not have interacted all that much, but he absolutely knows for certain that it's Broadway.

I think if there's one gargoyle Owen dislikes above the others, it would probably be Hudson because of the exchange when they took the Grimorum and he meant to prevent it; however, Broadway was there for that, so Owen was not going to forget him. So this is him being petty. Acting like Broadway is less important than the others to not remember. Because that's more Owen's way.

If he can't just smash them during the day, he can toy with them by pretending to not know names, blatantly predicting their moves, and inviting them to "soiree" at an oil plant where a trap has been laid for them. A trap Owen doesn't have to physically attend himself.

Amazing.

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I really love this. Lexington has had time to sit with the fact The Pack has escaped, and he hasn't come down from his mission. He isn't caring about high mindedness right now. He cares about his vengeance. And. I think. He tells himself he cares about keeping The Pack from hurting anyone else. They have a platform, they sell themselves as the good guys, people will come trying to get autographs from them as they are hunting down people who haven't hurt anyone.

The Pack is dangerous. In part because they are able to pretend as though they wouldn't be so to anyone who was good or innocent, but that's not true.

It really works in this sense that this is the first episode after their declaration that Manhattan is their castle. Demona, so far as they have seen, is a danger to their clan, not so much to the humans they're now protecting. But The Pack? He's got all he needs to work with to make this seem bigger than just his simple revenge. And no amount of "think about what's important like family and friends etc" is going to deter him.

But he can't explain how this feels different to Brooklyn and doesn't want to use the energy if he felt he could. So he dismisses this conversation.

I think Brooklyn wouldn't want to come off so cold hearted to everyone with such a dismissal if that argument was used against him, and so that's the tact he's taken with Lexington. He's worried about him for good reason but doesn't see how what might work on him might not for Lexington.

I love this moment. I love Brooklyn for trying and the compassion he shows. I love the way Lexington coldly rejects the attempt at camaraderie and advice. And I love that Brooklyn straight forwardly tells him how concerning he finds that. Just... overall a really great character moment. XD

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I wouldn't have caught who it was Fox was reading if I hadn't paused. I think this is literally the best shot you get of the title of what she's reading, so I almost didn't even know who the third famous dead guy being invoked here. Is Gargoyles going to make me read some old philosophy? XD

I absolutely do wish I had a better idea for this joke, particularly of Sarte. Of my really quick, need-to-get-on-with-things internet search, certainly Sarte seems the most Xanatos's kind of guy. Is Fox studying her crime partner? Certainly questions about free will are incredibly interesting when dealing with a manipulator. At which point are you being successfully manipulated or are making your own choices despite the attempts of a manipulator. I like that as an idea for someone currently in the throes of one of Xanatos's plots, about to make a performance to shorten her time here and still walk out an actually free woman.

What will it say about the others who are still sentenced to time who will only potentially put that 'time' on pause to break out. To pause and to lengthen it in fact if they aren't able to force their freedom despite powerful forces working against them.

FUN STUFF. lmao

I couldn't find anything that made me feel like I understand the Kafka/cockroach comparison, but if I was right about Neitzsche being a guy liked by the dudebros who love Fight Club, then I am in fact amused at her calling him 'too butch.'

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Ahahaha

Amazing Hyena.

She's been flirting with him all episode which was fun but didn't really compel me to comment on. Nothing really comes of it I'm pretty sure. She's just... a strange beast. But I ADORE that she's into him more as a robot. Hahaha. A++ decision there.

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We have to make sure the kiddos don't miss this. Everything we saw with the gargoyles was extra. This was the heart of the plan all along. He would break Fox out of jail in a way that gave her actual freedom. No pursuit or hiding away or risking going back just because someone finds her. Xanatos can't have the jewel he found and wants to flaunt hidden away!

Not to say he's not actually interested in her. I just don't think that's really what he tells himself his motivation is. The show hasn't entirely figured Fox out just yet, so they're playing up the mushy stuff. I definitely believe their enamored, but given conversations they have later, I don't think they're to the love stage yet.

They make a great team though. And it's much easier to work together when neither of them are in jail.