EDIT: fwiw I hunted down this thread and it turns out that OP actually did some self-crit, which was more positive than I was expecting https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDigitalCircus/comments/1ucu9hl/jax_being_trans_and_my_opinion_as_a_cis_straight/
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I started watching it because my daughter and her most sparkly of friends were all into it. I was looking for a way to take my old school media metaphors and pin them to something new for her sake.
It was a nice shiny little hypersigil for a while there. Lots of cool little life lessons packed into a weird container.
I felt like something off started creeping in around episode six. My daughter noticed it too. The shift between episodes 8 and 9 lost her interest. It had nothing to do with any of the character identities, and everything to do with the feedback loop taking place between the creator and the fandom. Wherever the story was going, the author's aim got jiggled enough that everyone in my daughter's social circle agrees it missed the mark, even if all their opinions differ as to why.
We used to call this sort of turning point "jumping the shark".
Then again, for as much as I didn't like the ending of Seinfeld when it aired, I absolutely love it now. I wonder how TADC will age.
Gooseworx mentioned that Jax became a deuteragonist around then, and it shows. I do think he's an interesting character worth exploring, but I really wish Zooble got some more time. I guess they were the most well-adjusted character from the gate that couldn't drop lore like Kinger could
Making Jax a deuteragonist was some sort of fan fic crime for sure. If you lift "Max" from "Sam & Max" and insert the character whole cloth into your own story...
That character has to remain scenery. It's unfair to the source material to elevate such unapologetic thievery to deuteragonist.