Picking Nits
The panel questions effects, Indy’s durability and repeated survival, Marion’s alcohol tolerance, muted reactions to finding the Ark, the eye-closing rule, snake ecology, and the Nazis’ occult plan.
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- The dead-Molina dummy, Indy absorbing many punches, and villains repeatedly failing to kill him strain belief.
- Marion’s ability to win extreme liquor contests despite her size becomes a long-running physiology question.
- The Nazis underreact to proving the biblical Ark exists, and Indy somehow knows closing his and Marion’s eyes will protect them.
- Thousands of snakes appear to lack food or habitat, while Hitler’s occult interest and the decision to open the Ark are only loosely explained.