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Smallville and Archaeology - It's not my fault they were on right after each other.
Let's see. Watched my first episode of Smallville. (The premiere of the latest season as far as I can tell). I wasn't really impressed by the acting. The plot was pretty good though and the way they deal with Lex is intriguing.
Secondly, watched an episode of Time Team that had me aching to be on site somewhere excavating. It was a bronze age cemetary and they had some gorgeous finds. Cemetaries btw, are some of the best places to dig (if you're not squeamish over the handling human remains stuff, which I'm certainly not...). When you have multiple tombs, they split up the diggers, and usually you get assigned your own tomb to excavate, making anything you find in it, yours to be proud of, and if there's a skeleton you can informally name it (I remember we had one tomb with Bob and Aphrodite (though we later found out that Aphrodite was male...)).
On my last dig (at a chalcolithic cemetary site) I dug two tombs on my own and helped someone with another one. I was injured during the dig season though, so most people there dug 3-4 tombs on their own. Of course, our site turned out to have about 10 tombs per person. Crazy stuff, but there's nothing so fun as finding something like a picrolite pendant in a tomb that's been 'given' to you.
Settlement digs aren't near as fun since it's far more dependent on luck if you find something, and even when you do, you're liable to be pushed aside (though, you are liable to be pushed aside by a specialist in any sort of situation that requires it...ah, the joys of trying to help our physioanthropologist remove Bob from the site near sun down before the looters came...)
Oh, and never dig with Time Team if you can help it. I've talked to people who did, and it's not as fun as it looks.
Secondly, watched an episode of Time Team that had me aching to be on site somewhere excavating. It was a bronze age cemetary and they had some gorgeous finds. Cemetaries btw, are some of the best places to dig (if you're not squeamish over the handling human remains stuff, which I'm certainly not...). When you have multiple tombs, they split up the diggers, and usually you get assigned your own tomb to excavate, making anything you find in it, yours to be proud of, and if there's a skeleton you can informally name it (I remember we had one tomb with Bob and Aphrodite (though we later found out that Aphrodite was male...)).
On my last dig (at a chalcolithic cemetary site) I dug two tombs on my own and helped someone with another one. I was injured during the dig season though, so most people there dug 3-4 tombs on their own. Of course, our site turned out to have about 10 tombs per person. Crazy stuff, but there's nothing so fun as finding something like a picrolite pendant in a tomb that's been 'given' to you.
Settlement digs aren't near as fun since it's far more dependent on luck if you find something, and even when you do, you're liable to be pushed aside (though, you are liable to be pushed aside by a specialist in any sort of situation that requires it...ah, the joys of trying to help our physioanthropologist remove Bob from the site near sun down before the looters came...)
Oh, and never dig with Time Team if you can help it. I've talked to people who did, and it's not as fun as it looks.
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And who says that archaeology isn't fun? ;) Unfortunately, I'm trapped in Irish-TV-channels-only land for the next few weeks, so no more Time Team or Meet the Ancestors or...well, any British TV programmes for me. :( I like Time Team - if nothing else, it makes me laugh. A lot. Did you see the one where they thought they had discovered an Iron Age holy place in Wales, which turned out to be a hoax? The artifacts had been put down about 20 years before...quite funny to see poor Baldrick...I mean, Tony Robinson...so upset...
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Tony Robinson scares me on that show. All I can picture is Baldrick, especially when he does his voice overs. (Oh, god...I will not write a time team/blackadder crossover...) What I do find hilarious is how scornful all our professors/lecturers are of Time Team, and yet they'd leap to be on the show in a second (and one of them has...)
No, I didn't see that one. I've actually only seen about three episodes in total, though I have this strange propensity of running into people who've met them or worked with them...
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Meh. If you think that's bad, try getting hit with an idea for a Python/Harry Potter cross over when you're rewatching Life of Brian for the millionth time.
It's so wrong it hurts...
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*grins* Bit of an understatement, there, I would say :) I love to watch the show because it's fun, and because some of the plots really are good (but some are really quite pitiful). But the acting is sort of... uneven. Yes. And I have a hard time accepting the fact that Clark's in high school. He looks my age (which I think he is in RL, actually).
But yeah. You should keep watching. Good fun, there.