It would be an interesting poll to see who likes TAS X-men vs X-men Evolution
Although I have to say TAS was supported better in the mainstream, comics, comic cards (I have these), and that sweet pizza hut promo in the mid 90s, had cool interviews with Stan Lee.
I went and watched a few episodes last night and at some times and the animation is a bit rough around the edges, it still a lot better looking then the Hulk or Iron Man cartoons. And Ill take X-men Evolution for storyline over Spider Ultimate crap....
And a few things taken from articles supporting TAS
"...The show is widely considered one of the best television adaptations of a comic series ever, often being compared to Batman: The Animated Series in terms of quality. In its prime, X-Men garnered very high ratings for a Saturday morning cartoon, and received wide critical praise for its portrayal of many different storylines from the comics.
The show currently has a score of 8.8/10 on IMDB.com
[3], and 9.0/10 on TV.com
[4].
In 2009, IGN ranked X-Men as the 13th greatest animated show of all time in their Top 100 list.."
Now about Evolution
The
X-Men: Evolution series was targeted at a younger audience and as such portrays the majority of characters as teenagers rather than adults like in the previous animated series.
The series was created as a stark contrast to the Fox series of the 1990s. The Series Bible was written by
Robert N. Skir and Marty Isenberg (albeit uncredited), who meant to take The X-Men back to their roots as high school students learning to control their superpowers, as when the comics termed them "The Strangest Teens Of All".[
citation needed] Whereas the Fox series reflected the then-current role of X-Men as freedom fighters battling persecution and bigotry against mutantkind,
X-Men: Evolution used the theme of mutant powers as a metaphor for the struggles of adolescence.
And its awards:
X-Men: Evolution won the award for
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Live Action and Animation at the 30th
Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, on
May 16 2003.
[2] It also won the
Cover of the Year Award in 2004 for best
animated figure for Beast. It was nominated for several
Golden Reel Awards, as well as other Emmys.
Steven E. Gordon, the director of this show, was nominated in the
Production Design in an Animated Television Production category for
X-Men: Evolution at the 2001
Annie Awards.
Although after browsing the Wiki it still doesn't seem like Evolution was that close to the comics...if its taken back to the roots then only the original xmen would be in the series. No wolverine, nightcrawler, etc....
Finally if you wanna stick with the teenager theme use Generation X sheesh...