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reinthal, I very much agree with you.
It's almost 19 years ago when I saw that episode "Die Abenteuer des jungen Indiana Jones (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) - Die Prinzessin auf dem Eis (Wien 1908)" in November 1993 on German TV station Sat.1 (so, virtually 85 years after the events on screen should have taken place).
It left a big impression on me, given that family history goes well into Austro-Hungarian Vienna - my paternal grandfather was 5 years younger than Young Indy then .
The academic parts of the episode also influenced me quite a lot, on a sort of "unconscious bias" level, if you want .
Incidentally, yesterday last year (so... eh... one year ago ), I saw that episode for first time ever again, on the DVD Set of "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One ? The Early Years ? Perils of Cupid (Vienna + Florence 1908)" that I had just purchased. Had the same effect.
Funnily enough, I watched it with my partner, and she remembered that episode as well back from 1993, with similar sentiment.
That the Sophie Fürstin von Hohenberg plotline was never picked up again is one of the really annoying aspects from the series for me, and the only loose end that I really would like to see tied up in some official way in the franchise.
The obvious oversight in what I guess is now known as "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Two ? The War Years ? Adventures in the Secret Service (Austria + Petrograd 1917) is all the more aggravating, because completely unnecessary/lazy.
I also find it sad that people who have never seen the Old Indy bookends will have no indication that Sophie played a further role in Indy's life - which is absolutely plausible. Just look at the influence Otto von Habsburg had on the remaining history of Europe in the second half of the 20th century. Given that Sophie outlived Otto's mother and her relative Zita Maria delle Grazie von Bourbon-Parma by just one year, there's is ripe opportunity to pair Indy and her... (the inevitable comment has to come now...)... maybe in Indy V.
I am sure this is well-known and documented here, but just in case: Sophie's second degree nephew is of course Friedrich von Thun (und Hohenstein), who played Albert Schweitzer (see "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Two ? The War Years ? Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life (German East Africa 1916 + Congo 1917)". For any German speaker, von Thun's epic documentary series "Die Habsburger ? Eine europäische Familiengeschichte" is also well worth watching.
It's almost 19 years ago when I saw that episode "Die Abenteuer des jungen Indiana Jones (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) - Die Prinzessin auf dem Eis (Wien 1908)" in November 1993 on German TV station Sat.1 (so, virtually 85 years after the events on screen should have taken place).
It left a big impression on me, given that family history goes well into Austro-Hungarian Vienna - my paternal grandfather was 5 years younger than Young Indy then .
The academic parts of the episode also influenced me quite a lot, on a sort of "unconscious bias" level, if you want .
Incidentally, yesterday last year (so... eh... one year ago ), I saw that episode for first time ever again, on the DVD Set of "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One ? The Early Years ? Perils of Cupid (Vienna + Florence 1908)" that I had just purchased. Had the same effect.
Funnily enough, I watched it with my partner, and she remembered that episode as well back from 1993, with similar sentiment.
That the Sophie Fürstin von Hohenberg plotline was never picked up again is one of the really annoying aspects from the series for me, and the only loose end that I really would like to see tied up in some official way in the franchise.
The obvious oversight in what I guess is now known as "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Two ? The War Years ? Adventures in the Secret Service (Austria + Petrograd 1917) is all the more aggravating, because completely unnecessary/lazy.
I also find it sad that people who have never seen the Old Indy bookends will have no indication that Sophie played a further role in Indy's life - which is absolutely plausible. Just look at the influence Otto von Habsburg had on the remaining history of Europe in the second half of the 20th century. Given that Sophie outlived Otto's mother and her relative Zita Maria delle Grazie von Bourbon-Parma by just one year, there's is ripe opportunity to pair Indy and her... (the inevitable comment has to come now...)... maybe in Indy V.
I am sure this is well-known and documented here, but just in case: Sophie's second degree nephew is of course Friedrich von Thun (und Hohenstein), who played Albert Schweitzer (see "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Two ? The War Years ? Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life (German East Africa 1916 + Congo 1917)". For any German speaker, von Thun's epic documentary series "Die Habsburger ? Eine europäische Familiengeschichte" is also well worth watching.