That is intresting that you say that because the young indy series was mostly the same crew. But they also had good writers like frank darabount. And good actors like Sean Patrick Flannery.
Also the show i believe was nomiated for emmy's i think. And the fans generally like the young indy series but hate crystal skull. Me i never really got that into young indy but i liked the trenches of hell episode. And another one of them can't remember the name where he gets the girl and is a spy. Kind of like bond,lol.
Joel Mcneely was okay as the musician and at the end of the day he did a better job than williams phoned in score on indiana jones IV. Despite the fact that the indiana jones theme was missing from the show and so was williams. So was the adventure archeologist. It was much like making a movie about Bond before he was the james bond we all know. The fake convoluted connection to historical events would not have been so bad if lucas did not embellish or willfully stray from what actually happened in history. But nobody really cares because the historical stuff was only a framing device. Much like the times in which the other indy films happen just so you can have movie serial stuff from the 30's and 40's on the screen.
To me INDY IV's biggest problem was you could see the storyteller at work manipulating things and it fealt contrived just like the prequels. Unbelievable stuff happens just because its in the script. And there is not so much a suspension of disbelief because the films betrayed the in universe laws.
Plus waiting so long that Ford was so old they had to set the film in the bad cold war b movie era. Instead of the action adventure matinee serials.
Plus no respected archeologist who follows the scientific method would believe in Aliens. Especially since real crystal skulls are not alien skulls. And archeologists study ancient earth civilizations of man.
They may also study religios artifacts. But i have heard of no real world recspected archeologist/historian going into psedo science and fake things like aliens. After all Indiana Jones himself says in the last crusade that archeology is "the study of fact". Their are no alien artefacts in real life to study and even if their were they would not tell man anything about himself. Archeology is one of the social sciences that is supposed to help us understand history ourselves and our place in it.
The Alien thing again is completely out of place in the indiana jones world, and outside of his character to believe in such sillyness. He is not Mulder who wants to believe. The second X-files movie should have had aliens and indy IV should have been about a lost tresure, civilization or relgious artifact.
Now not to derail the thread any further back to star wars.
Hidden item in the prequels. Likable characters. Good story/plot. I of course don't really mean hidden i mean they are not there.lol.