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They're finally releasing The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest on DVD. I'm a huge fan of the original Jonny Quest cartoon. I really enjoyed the little-seen second season of the late 90s revival.
Unfortunately, the DVD release is starting with Season 1. Isn't that natural place to start, you ask?
Well, yes. But Season 1 was pretty...awful. Major reasons include "QuestWorld", a lame combination of the Star Trek: The Next Generation holodeck and the games on ReBoot that totally ran counter to the entire Jonny Quest paradigm.
"Adventure in exotic locations around the world? No thanks, Hadji! I want to pretend I'm TRON instead!"
And then there was Race Bannon's Season 1 voice. For some reason, they cast a guy who sounded like H.R. Pufnstuf. Only less masculine.
Combine that with stories that had a weird desire to emulate the X-Files by way of G.I. Joe instead of world-spanning pulp science adventures, and we had one awkward show.
Season 2 fixed all this. Season 2 was great! However, as Season 2 was already in production during the time Season 1 failed to rock the world, those episodes were quickly burned off before cancellation.
I want a Season 2 DVD release, but I get the feeling it won't happen unless a lot of people buy Season 1. I have my doubts about that, to say the least. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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That would be an interesting addition to my collection.
I did give up on it after watching a few episodes, for the reasons that you outlined above. I guess I'll have to look out for the second season. Thanks.
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I like what few episodes I've seen of Venture Brothers, but normally I'm working hours that I don't get to watch much late-night television.
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I already have the first two seasons of Venture Bros. Johnny Quest would be excellent with them, and would give my kid some perspective since he already watches VB.
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awesome. yeah, we're in a better position to be hit by the brilliant parody of venture brothers since we grew up watching the cheapo adventure cartoons that they adeptly dysfunctionalized.
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