What makes the classic “season 1” Jonny Quest so good?
There are quite a few points that, in my opinion, come together to make Jonny Quest such a well-remembered and well-respected show. Rather than discuss those points abstractly, I’ll use an episode as an example and use specific content from that episode to illustrate. The Robot Spy episode has numerous examples of what, IMHO, makes the classic 1964 Jonny Quest series stand head and shoulders above other animated shows (and even some live action shows). This, for lack of any better term, I call “less is more”. The show’s writers and artists collaborated in the use of dialogue and scene layout to create a world that feels much, much richer than it was drawn. Other shows have attempted to capture this feeling by drawing scenes so full of detail that they appear cluttered and, actually, more unrealistic. Jonny Quest takes the opposite approach, by letting the viewer’s imagination fill in the scenes instead. Following are some examples from The Robot Spy episode that show what I mean: • Whe
