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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 14, 2018 18:48:54 GMT
I watched its premiere and caught and episode or two but I think the various age changes was too jarring.
The old Indy was jarring.
But then to have a fluctuation between the different ages--also I didnt accept someone else as young Indiana Jones after the movie.
I remember the Teddy Roosevelt episode and the Mystery of the Blues one best (the latter for obvious reasons).
Was there any supernatural element in the series?
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 14, 2018 18:55:30 GMT
I watched its premiere and caught and episode or two but I think the various age changes was too jarring. The old Indy was jarring. But then to have a fluctuation between the different ages--also I didnt accept someone else as young Indiana Jones after the movie. I remember the Teddy Roosevelt episode and the Mystery of the Blues one best (the latter for obvious reasons). Was there any supernatural element in the series?Yes, but I’ll put it in a spoiler (though I think I might have mentioned that it’s supernatural before): “Transylvania, January 1918,” which was later re-edited into the second half of Masks of Evil, has Dracula (more accurately, a vampire Vlad Dracul, but y’know). |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 17, 2018 23:05:44 GMT
Watching “Attack of the Hawkmen” right now. It’s superb—and surprisingly close to the movies, particularly Last Crusade (surprisingly because its plot has no similarities to any of the movies—it’s a war story about pilots). Fast-paced, exciting, excellent direction and a wonderful villain (of sorts) in the Red Baron—at least so far, this one’s great.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 22, 2018 17:43:32 GMT
It's one of the better ones they made from the series.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 24, 2018 21:15:49 GMT
It's one of the better ones they made from the series. It’s really very good. politicidal, have you seen Mystery of the Blues? That one’s very highly rated on the Raven (mostly because of Ford’s cameo, maybe?), but the main plot description doesn’t sound very Indy-esque to me. |
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Post by politicidal on Jul 25, 2018 0:59:45 GMT
It's one of the better ones they made from the series. It’s really very good. politicidal, have you seen Mystery of the Blues? That one’s very highly rated on the Raven (mostly because of Ford’s cameo, maybe?), but the main plot description doesn’t sound very Indy-esque to me. I probably started it and got bored. Then proceeded to have forgotten it. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 3, 2018 16:33:06 GMT
Watching Mystery of the Blues right now, but only about 15 min. into it. The Ford parts are a lot of fun—Jan El Señor and @forceghostackbar let me know on Colden’s board that Young Indy is officially considered canon, so I suppose the Ford scenes “officially” count as what Indy was doing in between Last Crusade and Crystal Skull?
Actually, the Flanery parts are really pretty good as well, as usual—only not Indy-esque at all, which is my major problem with the series. But the acting’s really good, and the ‘20s atmosphere is fun.
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 6, 2018 21:12:51 GMT
As usual, I took a long time to finish this one; I didn’t watch any of it on my train ride back home yesterday. (I’d been away for the weekend.) Anyway. Mystery of the Blues is really good—both segments, unlike even the ones I loved. They fit together nicely, they condemn racism without coming off as didactic, they offer a great setting and some excellent acting (Jeffrey Wright is superb in it), and the plot is exciting and involving. Unfortunately, it also doesn’t feel anything like Indiana Jones.
This is such a hard one to rate. Ultimately I think I’d put it below Peacock’s Eye and above Phantom Train of Doom, but it’s not Indy—except the opening and closing, with Ford on an actual Indy-like adventure, of course.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 9, 2018 3:44:02 GMT
I’m watching my first episode since August— Winds of Change. “Ned” Lawrence (of Arabia) is back, which is good—I like the guy who plays him here. Oddly, the actor playing Woodrow Wilson (lionized here) more resembles Franklin Roosevelt! And Clemenceau looks like retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. politicidal, now that I’ve seen more of George Lucas’s work, I’ve got to ask—do you know to what extent Lucas was personally involved in this? It looks and feels more like the Lucas-directed Star Wars prequels than the Spielberg-directed Indiana Jones films. |
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Post by politicidal on Nov 9, 2018 4:07:51 GMT
I’m watching my first episode since August— Winds of Change. “Ned” Lawrence (of Arabia) is back, which is good—I like the guy who plays him here. Oddly, the actor playing Woodrow Wilson (lionized here) more resembles Franklin Roosevelt! And Clemenceau looks like retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. politicidal , now that I’ve seen more of George Lucas’s work, I’ve got to ask—do you know to what extent Lucas was personally involved in this? It looks and feels more like the Lucas-directed Star Wars prequels than the Spielberg-directed Indiana Jones films. Heavily involved. For better or worse.  |
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 12, 2018 23:53:40 GMT
I’ve given up trying to judge this show by comparing it to Indiana Jones, but that aside it’s just so much fun. Winds of Change rather reminds me of The Mystery of the Blues, and it’s quite good as a light romance. I like the guy they chose as Henry Sr.—he’s not doing a Sean Connery impression (he sounds more English than Scottish), and in doing so he makes the character his own. And Brooke Langton’s Amy Wharton is one of the prettiest and most likeable of Indy’s girlfriends in this show.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 13, 2018 1:45:35 GMT
YouTube automatically went to the next episode, The Scandal of 1920, and boy-o, this is one of those movies, if you call it a movie, that seems to have been made just for me: Indiana Jones, the ’20s, New York City, Broadway, Gershwin, the Algonquin Club, and, uh, yeah, three beautiful girls!  One of the most fun. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 13, 2018 2:06:32 GMT
This one’s just great. There was just an unusual close-up in which Flanery resembled a young Orson Welles!
Who directed this one? Whoever it is knows how to shoot musicals, and there are these marvellous shots of Flanery running to get the show done.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 13, 2018 2:37:51 GMT
I’ve got to say, The Scandal of 1920 might well make my Top 5 episodes. As usual, the casting is spot-on–but I don’t know any of these people (well, I mean, except Anne Heche and Jeffrey Wright, in small parts)! I really like this Gershwin, for example. I was thinking that the guy playing George White would make a great J. Jonah Jameson in a Spider-Man movie and the guy playing Woollcott would be a great Nero Wolfe. And it’s professional-quality: I mean, it could well be a Hollywood movie. Why didn’t Lucas make this one into a film? The end works beautifully as well; it reminded me a lot of The Rocketeer and Tower of Terror. 5 stars.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 14, 2018 0:23:34 GMT
Taking a look at my first Corey Carrier episode, appropriately My First Adventure. It’s the most Indiana Jones-esque of the episodes so far (Egypt, mummies, booby traps, curses), with the exception of The Treasure of the Peacock’s Eye, and it’s pretty good so far. Carrier’s not the best child-actor, but he’s OK. He looks and sounds like the kid in The Phantom Menace, by the way; in fact, this whole episode reminds me of The Phantom Menace, to the extent that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Lucas directed some of this. “Ned” Lawrence even looks like Ewan McGregor’s young Obi-Wan!
Like last night’s episode, but in a different way, this sort of thing is right up my alley–I was the kind of kid who grew up on Egyptology, Indiana Jones, and Tintin, so I love this stuff.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 14, 2018 18:36:11 GMT
Taking a look at my first Corey Carrier episode, appropriately My First Adventure. It’s the most Indiana Jones-esque of the episodes so far (Egypt, mummies, booby traps, curses), with the exception of The Treasure of the Peacock’s Eye, and it’s pretty good so far. Carrier’s not the best child-actor, but he’s OK. He looks and sounds like the kid in The Phantom Menace, by the way; in fact, this whole episode reminds me of The Phantom Menace, to the extent that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Lucas directed some of this. “Ned” Lawrence even looks like Ewan McGregor’s young Obi-Wan! Like last night’s episode, but in a different way, this sort of thing is right up my alley–I was the kind of kid who grew up on Egyptology, Indiana Jones, and Tintin, so I love this stuff. Only saw bits of that one. I take it you hadn't seen Travels with Father yet then? It's pretty good. It's kind of sad in retrospect when you are aware of Jones' estrangement from his dad later down the line. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 14, 2018 18:43:45 GMT
I haven’t, politicidal–this was the first Carrier episode I’ve seen. I didn’t mention this, but the episode/movie kind of fell apart in the second story, though–a tendency I’ve seen so many times with this show. Flanery-Indy mentions having had a good time with Dad in Winds of Change, though. The Treasure of the Peacock’s Eye, The Mystery of the Blues, The Scandal of 1920, Attack of the Hawkmen, and maybe Masks of Evil would make my top 5 so far. |
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Post by vegalyra on Jan 9, 2019 22:03:59 GMT
Glad you are enjoying the show, hope you are continuing to view some of the episodes.
I still wish this series would be rebooted and aired on television. There is tremendous opportunity in my opinion. Especially if instead of a reboot they just took the series to the college years and introduce Professor Ravenwood, etc.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 20, 2019 0:26:40 GMT
It’s remarkable how faithful Joe Johnston is to his favorite themes and kinds of stories. I’m watching an episode he directed (“Princeton, February 1916,” one half of Spring Break Adventure) right now, and it looks and feels exactly like The Rocketeer and The First Avenger, right down to the way the girl looks! It’s a quiet, under-the-radar kind of auteurism that I find appealing—also, needless to say, I love the atmosphere of the ‘10s here. It’s so endearing, somewhat like Disney’s Main Street, U.S.A. I love it.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 22, 2023 15:03:16 GMT
Rewatched Scandal of 1920 for the first time since 2018 (oof). It’s just as good as I remembered it—fun and funny and fast-paced, and very well-made and well-acted.
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