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.