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Left the computer and have gone back to the tv to finish previously mentioned Gargoyles episode. The pleasures of DVR! I can pause tv; I love it!

I also love this episode. This is the one where Demona tries to recruit Brooklyn into her antihuman hate-on. Aaaaah, Demona. I shall forever love your character.

Actually, now that I think about it, the whole Goliath/Demona relationship has a lot in common with the whole InuYasha/Kikyo relationship of IY. Both couples started out in love and happy, then were separated by a betrayal, a curse, and time passing. Both couples' history is threatened by the appearance of the new girl. Except Kikyo was never as interesting as Demona. Kikyo as she was when she was first revived as demon, full of hate and vengeance... that's what Demona is like all the time. Except unlike Kikyo, who spends her days wandering around or hunting Naraku, Demona had much grander ambitions which involved lots of pain and death and subjugation of the human race. And really, from where she's standing, 90% of it is totally justified, because she really got screwed over by humans and by destiny. I really sympathize and I dug the depths to which she would go to achieve what she wanted.

Also, Demona and Goliath actually fought each other in battle when a conflict (usually started by one of Demona's sinister and misguided schemes) came up, instead of him staring longingly at her while she strings him along or puts him under a spell some absurd reason. Of course Demona did string Goliath along a number of times... but then Goliath was an adult and leader of his entire clan, not a 16 year old immature halfbreed, so he saw through that crap eventually.

Know what else I loved about Demona? She was so relentlessly manipulative. Clever, clever, clever, with her only flaw being that she can't let go of her anger enough to correctly predict the behavior those who can.