Just curious if any of you guys with kids in your life have taken a shot at sharing Young Indy with them?
My 7 year-old has seen and liked most of the Corey Carrier movies. Before we watched them, I had bought a box of the Pro Set YIJC trading cards off of ebay for like 3.99 and let him open a pack a day to work on building his own complete set, which he loved. This provided some of the context and introduced the characters associated with 8 year-old Indy- Mom, Dad, Ned, Miss Seymour.
I feel like he still might be too young to enjoy the Sean Flannery episodes based on themes like war and love, but we’ll see. I also have about five of the old Random House Young Indy novelizations based on those episodes which I’m thinking about reading him at bedtime in the near future, or at least before we give those episodes a shot. Buf of course, if he’s not into it, can’t force it.
Anyway, I found this chronological approach to Indy interesting. Most of us met Indy as Harrison Ford, then enjoyed the chronicles and expanded universe later on. In my son’s case, he met Indy as an 8 year-old, and if he likes the SPF episodes, will see him age into his 20s, until finally we hit that sweet spot when we get to watch Raiders, TOD, Last Crusade and Crystal Skull together. After that, we'll head over to StooTV and binge-watch the Old Indy Chronicles.
Looking forward!
My 7 year-old has seen and liked most of the Corey Carrier movies. Before we watched them, I had bought a box of the Pro Set YIJC trading cards off of ebay for like 3.99 and let him open a pack a day to work on building his own complete set, which he loved. This provided some of the context and introduced the characters associated with 8 year-old Indy- Mom, Dad, Ned, Miss Seymour.
I feel like he still might be too young to enjoy the Sean Flannery episodes based on themes like war and love, but we’ll see. I also have about five of the old Random House Young Indy novelizations based on those episodes which I’m thinking about reading him at bedtime in the near future, or at least before we give those episodes a shot. Buf of course, if he’s not into it, can’t force it.
Anyway, I found this chronological approach to Indy interesting. Most of us met Indy as Harrison Ford, then enjoyed the chronicles and expanded universe later on. In my son’s case, he met Indy as an 8 year-old, and if he likes the SPF episodes, will see him age into his 20s, until finally we hit that sweet spot when we get to watch Raiders, TOD, Last Crusade and Crystal Skull together. After that, we'll head over to StooTV and binge-watch the Old Indy Chronicles.
Looking forward!