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atomicfear posted...

nailed it. I want to believe it's 2 because I want the universe to be less magical. But they break that wall in every movie, so who am I kidding. That being said, it's positioned--to start the franchise-- as scientifically plausible and genius.

To be fair, even though magic blatantly exists in that universe, Indy is skeptical as fuck about it for most of Raiders (which is even stupider when you realize Raiders takes place after Temple of Doom, so by this point he's already seen a man who can pull people's hearts out of their chest and magic god rocks).

In other words, Indy probably wouldn't be so blase about a trap using an inherently illogical and supernatural trigger, so there'd have to be some physical mechanism that he understands for him to be so chill about it.