I feel like even colonialist academics of the 30s would not say "it belongs in a museum" abt an idol protected by operational traps including a giant rolling boulder, maintained by the indigenous people. I feel like they would let that one go, out of self preservation at least
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Or, in other words: Indiana Jones isn't a pulp academic with the racist attitudes "of his times," he's a terrible academic in any era and also a mercenary who uses an incoherent racist justification to seek glory or money
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I feel like reading Doctor Aphra comics makes this really apparent, she's exactly like him except that she suffers consequences and gets kicked from academia
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Similarly, his pederasty isn't actually excused by anyone in his time, which is why his victim sets her bar on fire rather than willingly interact with him, is a self destructive alcoholic, and doesn't actually forgive him even after he helps her survive a Nazi kidnapping
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Unfortunately, the end of the movie strongly implies that they end up together, and according to the most recent film they had a kid even if the marriage didn't last. (So, a lot like Han, basically.)
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I just took all the other movies prior to Crystal Skull as implying emphatically that they did *not* end up together, but yeah. And, serial monogamy does seem to be a trait shared by Harrison Ford with at least two of his famous characters
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Didn't they deliberately set Temple and Crusade before Temple so they could still have different love interests without breaking him and Marion up? That's what I remember about Temple, anyway.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail
I always understood that Crusade takes place after Raiders
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Well, Crusade is the one I haven't seen of the original movies, so that could be true. Temple is definitely set before Raiders.
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There's nothing in Crusade to indicate that it's set before the others, and his academic friend seems to recall certain things from Raiders
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The chronology is Raiders is 1936, Temple is a prequel taking place a year earlier in 1935, and Last Crusade is a sequel in 1938 Last Crusade has a time skip specifically to get us around Indy and Marion ambiguously getting back together at the end of Raiders
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Their abortive wedding was in 1937 and Last Crusade is after it's far enough in the past he's not thinking about it anymore
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