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The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest[edit]

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Just needs a few fresh eyes for copyediting before FA submission. Thanks, ZeaLitY [ DREAM - REFLECT ] 22:34, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I only made a quick perusal of certain sections in the middle of the article but the impression I was left with was that the article assumes a certain degree of familiarity with the subject from the reader. Someone completely unfamiliar with the series might be left floundering out at sea. The character section for example might benefit from a brief introductory paragraph just to enumerate who the characters in the series are before going into detail. Not sure if the article would benefit from a list of villains but the article does not seem to reflect the idea behind the comment "comparing Quest without Zin to 'James Bond without S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'". Dr. Zin is barely mentioned although I must admit that perhaps that might be appropriate for this incarnation of the series. Lambanog (talk) 08:50, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Finetooth comments: I read the comments from the earlier reviews and decided to focus on copyediting and proofing issues. I made quite a few small changes as I went, and I list many more below. This article certainly seems comprehensive and even a bit overwhelming in the Marketing and Critical reception sections. It might not hurt to remove some of the least important material from these sections. I found reviewer fatigue setting in as I neared the end.

Lead

"The creators staged the show around Dr. Quest's investigations... ". - Who is Dr. Quest? Is this another name for Jonny? This is explained in the main text, but it would be useful to add something like "Jonny's father" here.

Development and history

"Hanna-Barbera (H-B) created The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest in the early 1990s as part of Turner Entertainment's plan to revive old brands.[13][3]" - Standard practice in Wikipedia articles is to arrange the footnotes in ascending order; i.e., [3][13] rather than [13][3]. Ditto for other sequences like this throughout the article.
"as part of Turner Entertainment's plan to revive old brands" - Would it be good to say how old? When and how did Jonny Quest begin in the first place? Was Jonny originally an H-B creation, or did he have an earlier existence in a book or comic book? The article later mentions a "classic" version and the 1960s. It would be good to include that here.
"Combined with a substantial marketing campaign, the project would be their largest corporate initiative undertaken since Turner acquired Hanna-Barbera." - It would be good to make clear here whether "their" refers to Turner or to H-B. In either case, shouldn't "their" be "it" since a corporation is an "it"?
"Turner executives regarded Real Adventures as the linchpin of the Quest revival, considering the planned live-action movie a reinforcement of the animated series." - The modifying clause is disconnected from the thing it modifies. Suggestion: "Turner executives, who considered the planned live-action movie a reinforcement of the animated series, regarded Real Adventures as the linchpin of the Quest revival."
"Takashi designed Jonny to be edgy and handsome—"rather than the cute kid he used to be", and rendered characters in the style of Japanese animation to differentiate from prevailing American superhero cartoons." - Delete the em dash? It doesn't seem to have a purpose in this sentence.
"A Turner executive claimed that Quest was developed for both boys and girls—"Traditionally, action adventure animation may be stronger with boys, but in this case, storylines are being developed to draw girls in...we're really hoping for a wide berth of viewership." - I think the em dash is being misused here too. I'd be inclined to use ""A Turner executive who claimed that Quest was developed for both boys and girls said, "Traditionally... ". Also, the ellipsis looks strange. If "girls in" is the end of a sentence in the quote, and "we're" starts a new sentence but something else appears between these two sentences, then the sequence would look like this: "girls in... We're really hoping... ". This makes the quote scan normally instead of reading as a run-on sentence.
"Hanna-Barbera axed Lawrence and Takashi in 1996... " - I'd suggest "fired" rather than the slangy "axed".
"Turner insisted on a prompt completion, but the work was exhaustive because some sequences needed heavy revisions." - "Exhausting" rather than "exhaustive"? Or perhaps "slow" or "time-consuming"? Or "but the work proceeded slowly because"?

Animation and Music

"Producers contracted seven studios to animate the first season... " - I'm not sure "contracted" is a real word in the sense intended here. Would "hired" be better or "signed contracts with"?
"Producers applied the process in excess of twenty hours per episode... " - I'm not sure what this means. Does it mean that it took at least 20 hours per episode to digitally ink and paint each episode?
The Manual of Style deprecates fancy quotes and suggests that blockquotes be used for quotations of four lines or more. I'd suggest changing the long quote in this section to a blockquote and rendering the short quote in ordinary quotation marks as part of the main text. WP:MOSQUOTE has details. Ditto for similar quotations later in the article.
"We can re-cut the show—effectively ADR the show... ". - The Manual of Style advises against linking anything inside a direct quote. A solution here would be to render this part of the quotation as "effectively ADR [replace the dialogue through an automated process] the show... ". The brackets indicate that the explanation is not part of the original quote. This is a bit clumsy, so you might think of a better solution.
"Producers originally intended to air the teaser... " - Briefly explain "teaser"? Does it mean "preview" or "overview"?
"Bodie Chandler directed music for Quest, while several composers wrote incidental music and cues—including Gary Lionelli, Thomas Chase, Stephen Rucker, Lawrence H. Brown, Guy Moon, Kevin Kiner, Christophe Beck, and Mark Koval." - Suggestion: "Bodie Chandler directed music for Quest, while several composers—including Gary Lionelli, Thomas Chase, Stephen Rucker, Lawrence H. Brown, Guy Moon, Kevin Kiner, Christophe Beck, and Mark Koval—wrote incidental music and cues."
"Stephen Rucker attributed the invention of MIDI to greater ease in scoring Real Adventures." - Something illogical here. Suggestion: "Stephen Rucker attributed the greater ease of scoring Real Adventures to the invention of MIDI." You might also consider spelling out Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI).

"QuestWorld"

"Amateur employees struggled with lighting and synchronizing jerky motion capture from the House of Moves in Venice Beach, of which Quest was the first capture production order." - The "of which" clause seems to modify "Venice Beach", which makes no sense. I'm unsure of the intended meaning.

International promotion and network run

"Slated to begin production in mid-1995, filming was delayed until 1996 and ultimately never began." - Since the filming wasn't slated to begin production, this sentence needs to be re-cast.
"Called "dive-in theaters" and staged in major US cities, the events... " - The events weren't called "dive-in theaters". Please re-cast.
"To build viral support... ". - "Broad" rather than "viral"?

Creative direction

dojo and gym for Race - Wikilink dojo?

Marketing

"the posters were awarded in Converting in 1997" - I'm not sure what this mean. Do you mean "published"?
"expected to make $60 million of profit a year" - I fixed quite a few of these, but here's another, and I might have missed some. Constructions like $60 million require an nbsp code between "$60" and "million" to hold the parts together on line-break. WP:NBSP has details.
"Editor Phil Amara assured fans that the comics would tribute the classic Jonny Quest as well." - "Pay tribute to" rather than "tribute"?

Other promotions

"50,000 children with a median age of ten" - If you start a sentence with a number, it needs to be in words rather than digits.
"and hosted barbecues, reggae concerts" - Wikilink reggae?

Critical reception

"Billboard magazine conversely welcomed the change to the all-male cast." - "From" rather than "to"?

References

The date formatting needs to be made consistent, either all yyyy-mm-dd or all m-d-y.

I hope these suggestions prove helpful. If so, please consider reviewing another article, especially one from the PR backlog. That is where I found this one. Finetooth (talk) 04:44, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]