4 should have been a hand-off to a grown up Short Round, who'd carry the franchise from there. '60s geopolitics were full of conflicts and great power games in

4 should have been a hand-off to a grown up Short Round, who'd carry the franchise from there. '60s geopolitics were full of conflicts and great power games in relatively-wild regions featuring the ruins of cool ancient civilizations and such, would have been great. Southeast Asia, parts of Africa, some stuff going down in South America, tons of fertile soil for '60s-updated Indy. Put it in the early 60s and Short Round ("Actually, I go by Wan Li these days—Junior.") could start at about the same (fictional) age Indy did in the first three movies. Instead we got... what we got.