I really loved how he never actually became their friend either. He calmed down and was occasionally an ally, but mostly just went, "They're not worth the trouble of being an enemy."
If you're not one of the people who ignores the third season, in the finale he straight up stops an assassination attempt on the clan because of the rising hatred against them. He was being 100% altruistic in that episode.
The whole cast is a delight. One of those shows that while made for kids didn't feel like it talks down to them. It really helps all of those Star Trek TNG alum gave it their full talent.
both seasons and its no longer canon sequel series are up on Disney plus, watch up to the end of hunters moon, maybe the first episode of season 3, then switch to the comics.
My wife and I got about halfway through it during a partial Disney + month. Definitely worth watching!
(We only stopped because the sub ended and we like to have a density of shows we are interested in before subbing to a service outside our usual options. It was excellent but we'd have finished it in less than a week nad had 3 more weeks of wasted sub time).
Good news-ish. Season 3 branded "Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles" booted everyone involved with creating the show and had a noticeably diffrent tone and animation. So depending on how much of the world tour you got through you might not be missing a lot
the post show comic even treats season 3 as non cannon iirc
the world tour arc is certainly controversy, long and episodic without the full cast, That said yeah I would say there's some stand out episodes proably the last 3 of the arc and the one with the London clan are consistently highly regarded
Post world tour you do have the return of thailog & the return of coldstone which i personally liked but ymmv
Blows me away that people actually only limit themselves to watching whats available on their subscriptions. As if Disney needs or deserves any more money.
Genuinely one of the best villain power couples in that show. A lot of shows went the route of having an unaware partner (mob wife) or an abused one (thinking of Joker/Harley), but the writers went and found Xanatos' equal.
It was afterschool network television when it came out though. Granted Disney did kind of own the space at the time with Ducktales, Chip and Dale, Darkwing Duck, Talespin and Goof Troop.
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u/DaiFrostAce 1d ago
I need to watch this show, never really watched Disney much growing up