Billy Ray said:I realize this isn't exactly a scene (though it applies to pretty much every scene he is in), but my least favorite part of the trilogy is the transformation of Marcus Brody into a bumbling bufoon in TLC. In Raiders he comes across as almost a mentor to Indy, claiming that if he were younger he owuld go after the Ark. There is a sense that in his youger days he was much the same sort of adventurer as Indy. In TLC he is downgraded to comic relief.
Billy Ray, I agree completely! This is exactly why I take issue with LC! Waaayyy too much slapstick! It really seems like Spielberg (feeling guilty for ToD) deliberately made LC lighter to make up for it.
Resident Alien, I see what you are saying, and where the young Young Indy segments are concerned I could divorce myself as well from the lineage. But... as soon as Sean Patrick Flannery took over, my interest in the series dissipated. There was nothing about SPF's young Indy that convinced me in a few short years he would become HF's Indy. That for me was too big a pill to be asked to swallow. I can suspend my disbelief only so far.