YMMV / The Legends of Treasure Island

• Audience-Alienating Premise: The show is such a bizarre mishmash that it's hard to tell who it's appealing to (an adaptation of Treasure Island, but In Name Only, and with Funny Animals, but Darker and Edgier, and with fantasy and supernatural elements).
• Base-Breaking Character: There are those that find Squire Trelawney in this version of Treasure Island to be an annoyance. However, he does have his defenders.
• Ho Yay: There were a couple of episodes that had Rat being a bit affectionate to Long John, for example while teaching Jane during "The Merman Prince" episode on how to be a lady, when Silver demonstrates his complimentaries to Rat, he's actually smittened.
• Iron Woobie: Jane
  • Jim even moreso. He's been mutated by crystals in one episode, barely escaped execution by drowning at the pirates' hands, almost watched Jane die not once but twice (the first time, her soul got sucked out by a demon, the second time, she was bitten by a venomous snake), was psychologically tormented by the pool of prophecy, and he lost his friend Smollett to the hands of Pew. After all he's been though, it's hard not to just reach into your screen and hug the poor pup.
• Moral Event Horizon: If he hadn't crossed it as much during the series, Pew does at the final episode when he kills Captain Smollett.
• Retroactive Recognition: The lower budget second season had several voice changes, though these days would likely be considered as much an All-Star Cast as Season One. Perhaps the clearest case is comedian Rob Brydon replacing Richard E. Grant as Long John Silver in one of his first screen performances.
• Questionable Casting: Though some theatrical actors were involved, a large bulk of the main characters were voiced by comedians or otherwise light hearted actors (even ones who started their careers here amusingly). Dawn French as Jim is probably one of the strangest casting choices.
• Spiritual Prequel: Though some see it this way, few fans of this series oddly see this as a somewhat spiritual prequel to Sonic the Hedgehog due to there being regular animals and some humans alongside the Anthrophomorphic Animals. Rather amusingly, the series actually has aesthetic similarities to High Seas Havoc, a pirate themed Sonic-alike made almost the exact same time.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Jane's backstory, while given hints, was never properly established within the series after her introduction (despite her and Jim being more focused than the rest of the cast).
• Toy Ship: Some people have grown fond of Jim and Jane being cute together.
• Vocal Dissonance: Dawn French doesn't even attempt to make Jim sound masculine. This was fixed in season 2, replacing French with John Hasler.
• The Woobie: Poor, poor Emily. She was killed when she was alive and separated from her father's spirit for 30 years. She also had to endure with being stuck inside the Lightkeeper until Jim sets her free.

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