I think it’s safe to say that there were a lot of people who were disappointed with ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’. We had waited a long time for Harrison Ford to embody another Indy adventure since ‘The Last Crusade’. An adventure with magic, mystery and over-the-top action. A lot of us also seem to forget (or I should say overlook?) his television adventures from ‘The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles’. We expected to get a mini-movie every week that had the basic tropes of Indy’s world as we had come to know from the silver screen. Instead, we got a globe-trotting history lesson that was sprinkled with the occasional action sequence. Designed to be a larger-than-life foray into historical figures that our youthful hero coincidently would meet, it set a new standard for American network television, but alienated most viewers with its PBS-like feel of stories. We expected something like an older ‘Jonny Quest’ show without the gadgets, and got more of a ‘Carmen Sandiego’. Sean Patrick Flanery became the face of young Indy, and George Hall became the face of ‘Old Indy’, now EXTREMELY retired (I hope!). There was one other hidden gem of the series most have probably forgotten: Harrison Ford reprised the role for a special two-hour adventure, ‘The Mystery of the Blues’. It wasn’t all bullets & bullwhips as we had hoped, but it was nice to see him in the fedora again. Here’s the edited content featuring Ford, which was then what we thought would be his last Indy appearance.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:26:59 +0000
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