Matinee Idyll
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Well, I'm gettin' so freakin' into the Chronicles at the moment... just watched Petrograd July 1917 this evening. As powerful now as it was when I first saw it about 10 years ago. Honest to Christ, I can't understand the venom directed at this show. I don't think I'm blinded by childhood nostalgia, but a good 3/4 of the programs were moving or funny, exciting and interesting (the rest were quite awful). I think it's the last truly great thing George Lucas has been involved in.
Anywho, for those few of us who like the program, I thought this'd be a nice way to remember the episodes, in the order they originally aired. Post your comments, reviews, pictures, whatever - let's start with what was the first, and one of the best, The Curse of the Jackal!
What a fantastic season opener it was. I remember when it first aired, I was only 7 or 8, and there was a thunderstorm, so the transmission kept dropping. Wonderfully introduces all the principal characters (always liked Ms. Seymour), the two different Young Indys, and wrap it all around tombs and revolutions and stolen Jackal headpieces and the like. Excitin' stuff!
Wonderful scenes throughout - In the first half, the dinner scene on the ship with Indy describing with some glee the process of mummification is hilarious, the sequences within the tomb are mysterious and tense. T.E Lawrence is a wonderful 'action' mentor for Indy (just realised he's played by a different actor in Palestine, 1917), and it's a nice way for Mr. Lucas to pay some respect to the film by David Lean and its influence on Raiders.
Sean Flannery takes over the role halfway through, plays it pretty darn well. Many exciting sequences, and fascinating issues about the nature of revolutions (does anyone actually win) (raised again later in Ireland), patriotism (Remy and Indy torn between two wars), capitalism, the class divide, etc. What other childrens program even attempts to touch on stuff like this? I think it's a testament to George Lucas, and I thank him for it.
I've always been tremendously moved by the sequence at Hearsts cinema - y'know the one? When the strings come in, Remy gets all thoughtful - then when Indys leaving the cinema, he picks up the photograph of the woman. I find it so poignant, that scene, and I can't explain why.
The fight with Dimitrius over the Jackal is thrilling, truly worthy of the film Indy.
And good old OLD INDY! Damn Mr. Hall ruled, beating up them punk kids - please reinstate him Mr. Lucas. He was so vital to the show. And stitch these two episodes back together again as they belong!
Anyone?
Anywho, for those few of us who like the program, I thought this'd be a nice way to remember the episodes, in the order they originally aired. Post your comments, reviews, pictures, whatever - let's start with what was the first, and one of the best, The Curse of the Jackal!
What a fantastic season opener it was. I remember when it first aired, I was only 7 or 8, and there was a thunderstorm, so the transmission kept dropping. Wonderfully introduces all the principal characters (always liked Ms. Seymour), the two different Young Indys, and wrap it all around tombs and revolutions and stolen Jackal headpieces and the like. Excitin' stuff!
Wonderful scenes throughout - In the first half, the dinner scene on the ship with Indy describing with some glee the process of mummification is hilarious, the sequences within the tomb are mysterious and tense. T.E Lawrence is a wonderful 'action' mentor for Indy (just realised he's played by a different actor in Palestine, 1917), and it's a nice way for Mr. Lucas to pay some respect to the film by David Lean and its influence on Raiders.
Sean Flannery takes over the role halfway through, plays it pretty darn well. Many exciting sequences, and fascinating issues about the nature of revolutions (does anyone actually win) (raised again later in Ireland), patriotism (Remy and Indy torn between two wars), capitalism, the class divide, etc. What other childrens program even attempts to touch on stuff like this? I think it's a testament to George Lucas, and I thank him for it.
I've always been tremendously moved by the sequence at Hearsts cinema - y'know the one? When the strings come in, Remy gets all thoughtful - then when Indys leaving the cinema, he picks up the photograph of the woman. I find it so poignant, that scene, and I can't explain why.
The fight with Dimitrius over the Jackal is thrilling, truly worthy of the film Indy.
And good old OLD INDY! Damn Mr. Hall ruled, beating up them punk kids - please reinstate him Mr. Lucas. He was so vital to the show. And stitch these two episodes back together again as they belong!
Anyone?