#g!macbeth

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

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.