The problem I have with writing in LJ is that I feel obliged to try and catch up on reading it, which quickly becomes impossible after a couple of days away from it.
You've captured the Jetsons, all right. I remember once dreaming I was in that future landscape with no ground. It was some kind of twilight time, when the lights of the city showed up clearly, but I could still see the shapes of the buildings.
Jonny Quest was good adventure for its time and age group, and I was in both. I remember once being pleasantly surprised at a moment of utterly gratuitous animation, where Bandit was moving around in somebody's (Jonny's?) pocket, even though it must have cost a few dollars and didn't advance the plot. Downright opulent of it! Doug Wildey's visual style was very appealing. I can't think of a single other thing he's done.
The Flintstones is a bit of a surprise, but I guess a case could be made that it goes in with SF. Especially after The Great Gazoo came in (which was after the show jumped the shark with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm anyway). When I took world history in college around 1981, I put it all together: They lived in the neolithic ('modern' stone age), and it was their pride in material possessions that caused these cavemen who co-existed with dinosaurs to be wiped out in the biblical flood. That's some pretty grand significance there. I'd like to see the episode where Fred laughs at Noah.
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You've captured the Jetsons, all right. I remember once dreaming I was in that future landscape with no ground. It was some kind of twilight time, when the lights of the city showed up clearly, but I could still see the shapes of the buildings.
Jonny Quest was good adventure for its time and age group, and I was in both. I remember once being pleasantly surprised at a moment of utterly gratuitous animation, where Bandit was moving around in somebody's (Jonny's?) pocket, even though it must have cost a few dollars and didn't advance the plot. Downright opulent of it! Doug Wildey's visual style was very appealing. I can't think of a single other thing he's done.
The Flintstones is a bit of a surprise, but I guess a case could be made that it goes in with SF. Especially after The Great Gazoo came in (which was after the show jumped the shark with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm anyway). When I took world history in college around 1981, I put it all together: They lived in the neolithic ('modern' stone age), and it was their pride in material possessions that caused these cavemen who co-existed with dinosaurs to be wiped out in the biblical flood. That's some pretty grand significance there. I'd like to see the episode where Fred laughs at Noah.