The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

politicidal, I finally finished Phantom Train of Doom (yeah, that one I started in October) last night and liked it a lot, though I preferred the first episode to the second. The German hiding place for the train was quite clever, and Flanery is at his most River Phoenix-esque; there were points when I could well imagine Phoenix delivering the dialogue in the exact same way. Unfortunately, the second half was slow-going, and I think the script was just wacky, overemphasizing the wrong elements and skipping over what could have been very entertaining. There’s a girl playing a German pilot who’s particularly underused. But the first part’s good, and it was great to see Paul Freeman in Indiana Jones again!

Thanks for the thoughts, ravi02. I’ve liked parts of all the episodes I’ve seen, but I’ve yet to see a single masterpiece in the show. While I agree in theory about the contrivance of Indy stumbling into every historical figure/event, so far it’s been inoffensively done here, and the series focuses on Indy, not on anyone else. I get the “dullness,” as I’ve felt it myself, but as I say there have been some very good parts.