Wow, I’ve completely forgotten about this! I’m rewatching original X-Men and it’s amazing and terrible. Glad to know I agree with myself 20 years later. :D
I used to watch the original X-Men cartoon in graduate school. It was a lot of fun, though it suffered at time self-important-monologue-itis. Various characters, particularly Professor X and Storm, would periodically give overly dramatic monologues. This is part of why I enjoyed The Tick so much...