The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

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Posted by SuaveMutha69 from 63.168.118.252 on August 25, 2001 at 21:09:54:

I've been at Indyfan for about three and a half years now, and
while I have never posted, I have noticed that many people fail to
see the point of the YIJC. Many of you expected to see a younger
version of the Indiana Jones that Harrison Ford played, but
instead you got something that you called "a bastardization" of
the character. He wasn't the same tough-as-nails,
lead-for-breakfast rogue that you see in the movies.

But that's the point of the TV series. George Lucas gave us a
sensitive young man, learning about the world, it's languages,
it's customs and about himself. If we just got a mini-Harrison
Ford running around, it wouldn't have been realistic. Here we
have a bright young man, he goes off and fights a war as a 16
year old, and in the series's proposed third-season, we would
have seen him put up this shell around him that you see in the
films. In the third season, Indy was going to get a taste of
betrayal, as his good friend Belloq turns against him in some
form or another.

It also made the perfect set-up for Last Crusade in the
unreleased "Winds of Change", where the single most powerful
scene is the breakdown of his relationship with his father, and
the foreshadowing of what was to come.

At the end of "Hollywood Follies", we are left with a budding
archeology student. Six years later he has a relationship with a
15 year old. Can you imagine what could have happened to Indy
in those six years to transform him into that sort of a person?
When I say "that sort of a person" I mean, *gasp!* a pedophile.

-SMF69


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