Rocket Surgeon said:
Er, not really, not from that. The selection of a venue / orchestra with which to record a score is subject to all kinds of considerations (and FWIW, the Hollywood studio players who recorded the later movies' scores are quite fine).
If you absolutely must argue that the
Indy saga is regarded with lesser consideration by Lucas(film) than its more lucrative sister franchise, frankly I think you would make a much better case citing the apparently more lax continuity guidelines for authors of the Indy "EA" (expanded adventures) than authors for the
Star Wars EU have to conform to.
That said... if it comes to actual investment - not just financial, but personal, creative involvement - I think
Indy has arguably actually gotten the better end of the stick out of George, by virtue of all the labor of love he put into the
Young Indy TV series, even after it was demonstrably unprofitable (as he predicted at its outset, IIRC), and indeed even
years after the show was
cancelled. To me, the entirety of
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles /
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones argues compellingly that George is still quite passionate about his most famous Earthbound character and his adventures, regardless of how much money the series does or doesn't generate.
(Besides, if you want to compare
Indiana Jones to
Star Wars, it's also only fair to compare
IJ to all those other Lucas creations that generate
lesser box office and licensing revenues -
American Graffiti,
Willow,
THX 1138, etc. In most contests, coming in second against more than two or three other contestants is not exactly doing horrible...)