I think one of my biggest criticisms of TADC is that the show kind of bends over backwards to have the other characters care about and be kind to Jax.
Like, throughout the entire show, Jax does almost nothing but actively try to make everyone else in the circus miserable, largely for his own enjoyment. But despite this, he’s given infinite grace and constant forgiveness by the people around him.
Nobody actually holds him accountable for his actions. Even Zooble, the most outwardly hostile of the group, is actually incredibly warm, kind and open to Jax despite his behaviour.
It gets to a point where he almost feels like… A Mary Sue? A writer's pet? I don’t know what exactly you’d call it but I can tell Jax is Goose’s favorite character and that it had a massively negative effect on how other characters around him were written.















