Flannery vs Pheonix
This is only my opinion (obviously), but it seems fruitless to compare the one effort Pheonix had at the part, to Flannery's entire series, which like someone else said before this, explored so many more aspects of the young indy character. Pheonix never got the chance to show the humourous, young and often naive side of indy. Lets not forget SPF, as was Pheonix, was being directed by Lucas, who obviously wanted the character to develop in a certain way. Towards the end, we saw some great action come out of him with so much more maturity shown through the character. He came a long way from beginning to end. I think Sean Patrick Flannery did a fantastic job right off the bat in what must have been an overwhelming task when he started. By the series end, he really showed us what an accomplished actor he is. Not to detract from his skills, but not to mention how much of enjoyment he was to watch through the series - make 12 more I say! ;-)