It was a throwback to Raiders, before Indy was turned into a cartoon. The intrigue was there and had a bit of darkness to it. All of the banter between Marion, her new husband and Indy and the dynamics of that triangle was much more true to the characters as introduced in Raiders. I remember there was a great action sequence where what seemed like tiling and ceremonial decor turned out to be pieces of a giant circuit board or something, stone alien tech or whatever. Its been a few years since I've read it, but I remember being really impressed, and thinking THIS is the Indy movie I wanted to see. Until I read that script, I had been an ardent defender of the movie as is, but the previous version seemed so much better.
). And, of course, that stupid falling life raft, which defies physics in an instinctive and graceless way that the fridge escape does not. 
