Posted: 5/22/2004 9:55:48 AM EDT
| Evidently going through some type of mid-life crisis while at Wal Mart I bought the DVD set that includes all the original 26 episodes from the 1964 season. A very nice packaged product. My six and eight year old girls thought it was great viewing. |
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The first season rocked. Alot of Cold-War theme. Race Bannon actually kills people with gunfire, and they fall down dead. I recently watched them, and I liked them better now as an adult than a kid. The second season they did much later in the 90's was worthless, PC, dribble. Ross |
| I remember for a while in the early 70's they took JQ and the other more "violent" cartoons off the air and replaced them with that BS super hero stuff that had the little public service announcements at the end of the show. You know, a kid might steal something and his friend would tell him it's wrong and the next thing you see is Superman showing up and reinforcing that stealing is bad, the stealer repents, and they all have a gay group hug. God, I hated that crap. |
As a kid, I remember watching the premiere, in 1964- it was the one where they fight laser-shooting frogmen in the Sargasso Sea. (Remember the voice activated computer?) I watch it now on video with my kids who are just amazed by it. They see unabashed patriotism, but with respect for other cultures, admiration for the govt. and military, and a definite sense of who's good and who's evil. Communism and Fascism were definitely the bad guys. Real un-PC villains, people dying, screaming, in pain, not like the sanitized fluffy crap on TV nowadays. Guns, everywhere, presented as a fact of life. And- kids with guns, real guns, sometimes defending themselves. Real consequences to people's actions, both good and bad. I never thought I'd say it, but Jonny Quest was actually pretty good kidvid. I'd rather have my kids watching it than most of the PC pap on TV nowadays. Queer As Folk, anyone?  
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