@Cyclone_Baroness:
Ugh was he responsible for world tour? That was awful. Angela was terrible…
He was showrunner on Gargoyles after all, so yes, he was behind nearly all the broad strokes… but everyone on staff was responsible for it and thought it was a good idea. And the Avalon 3 parter itself, and several of the episodes during the trip were great. Angela was fine, a natural extension, and she had a development arc... the problems were
1)they didn't count on production rerunning that string of 15 episodes for almost a year rather than 2 weeks
2)they didn't realize how much the fans would miss the other half of the cast.
3)there was a lot of repetition in those episodes, and several of them were downright bad
From a world expanding viewpoint, introducing new villains, allies, plot threads, adding some hope for the fate of the gargoyle race, it was a good IDEA... just the execution and extent was handled badly. Sort of the same thing here.
The IDEA of expanding the group, progressing character arcs rapidly, and having looming catch up threads over the whole season are interesting... but just being dropped into the deep end of the pool probably wasn't the best way to do it.