Thanks for posting such a detailed write up. This sounds atrocious. I thought the old leak about the ending was as bogus, but this makes me wonder jf there isn’t some truth to that.

There’s so many things wrong with this - Indy’s colleagues are brutally murdered; he knows who did it; but instead of going to the police, he goes off after Helena and the dial. Check.

The villain of Indy 5 plans to travel through togoing to kill Hitler to stop him from starting WW2..too early? And his unforgettable villain death is …a plane crash. Check.

But the worst part of it is Indy himself. The set up is the bad version KOTS. But in DOD, Indy feels more like TLJ’s Luke Skywalker: a depressed, embittered loner who blames himself for losing his son (or nephew in Luke’s case), and shuts himself off from the world (Luke on an island, Indy with booze). For both, a lifetime is incredible heroism has been chopped off at the ankles and rendered meaningless.

Is this another TLJ “let the past die” type of thing, where Luke and Indy battle with their own irrelevancy? With Helena, like Rey, waiting for the old codger to pass her the baton? It kind of sounds like it.

The face punch and the final scene of Indy in his bed with Sallah & Marion feels tacked on. Maybe there is some truth to him dying in an earlier ending? And the punch in the face is where an old ending was cut and a new one added in? If it’s a reshoot, that would be a quick and easy fix: rebuild the set, put him in bed, and do the scene.

Could you elaborate on the finale up to Helena punching him in the face? What does she say to him to get him to go back to 1969? When she says he’ll change the course of history, does he have a response? Do we know what hat will happen to history if he stays?

Also, re: Archimedes rigging the dial, the film’s idea is that Arch rigged it so Indy/Helena would go back in time and save Arch from being killed in the siege?

Thanks again.