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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:04:33 EST
- From: Young Indy <EMW107@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92326.230433EMW107@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
- Subject: Re: Young Indy Cancelled
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- In article <92326.190933GPS108@psuvm.psu.edu>, <GPS108@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
- >
- >These programs (at least the ones I viewed) were NOT written with
- >intelligence.
- > I suppose Lucas would have to take responsibility
- >f
- >or those contrived "historical figure guest appearances" though. I certainly
- >hope you don't think of Lucas's pair of trilogies as the "mindless action" you
- >refer to in your post. Lucas has produced this sort of garbage before (e.g.
- >Howard the (lame) Duck) but the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies are *not*
- >it!
- > ------Eric Sansoni
-
- First off, the YIJC WERE written with intelligence. The show required more
- knowledge and/or close following of the plot than did any of the Indy movies,
- (Not to say I don't like the Indy movies, they are awesome.) thus viewers were
- called upon to put a little more into "watching" TV. I feel it was George's
- intent to expose people to some history while having a little twist with ol'
- Indy. He also intended to have a complete CD-I (interactive system) program up
- and running about Young Indy as a complete learning experience. Like I said
- before, it looks as if ol' George was let down. I think he actually thought
- the public would be willing to learn something from all this.
- No, I guess I can't go to extremes and call ANYTHING George has done
- "mindless action," but compared to the Indy movies, YIJC was missing some
- action, which lured viewers. (Though some of those war scenes were very in-
- tense...)
- If you're comparing YIJC to Howard the Duck, I can understand why you
- didn't follow Young Indy. They are two different styles of productions. I don't
- even want to get into comparing the two, it's so obvious.
-
- What I'm getting at is the following: George finally had a good thing
- going with an intense series. It seemed he was getting out of his slump
- after the Twilight Zone mishap and back onto life when suddenly, the earth
- fell out from underneath him again. I was engrossed in YIJC while at the same
- time cherishing the thought that Lucas was gearing up for something big, mainly
- Star Wars. I just hope he had enough warming up.
- Please don't get me wrong, I grew up with Star Wars and Indy, my life sorta
- revolves around them, (after of course the Divine.) I am just upset to see
- a quality program get crushed so bad. Oh well, at least I have copies of
- the YIJC, and the MacGregor books...young Indy WILL live on.
-
- -Ed
-
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- Edwin 'Big Ed' Weiland - EMW107@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
- Architectural Engineering; Penn State University
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