Hi,
If anyone needs an extra fix tonight, it's also playing on the Esquiretv channel, too. They are the complete opposite of Awake as far as promotion!
Thank you, Thunder, for the Norweigan viewpoint! lol Yeah, that whole red calf thing seemed a bit...questionable... I want to know who that gun is really for that the calf keeper was given.
Somehow I missed (at that moment) that the archy girl looked like his daughter, but I've been a little remiss in following all of the extras, since late fall and winter have kept me pretty busy, so maybe I'm behind on some background because I wasn't reading wattpad?
I enjoyed it. I agree; I didn't think it was hard to follow. They definitely used the first episode to build the background. And the cult leader totally creeped me out - way more than J skinny dipping with a younger woman!
I have this bad feeling that there is a herd of mini-Joshes in that cult building.
I liked the show. I liked it because, unlike other conspiracy theory types of shows, it didn't squick me out (well, so far!). Dan Brown makes me so annoyed I want to shake him. I did not want to shake Jason. lol.
Thanks for encouraging me to comment on the archaeology. Sometimes I get a little too excited about it, and I suspect I can be annoying (perhaps like a very cute annoying puppy -lol), and I'm always worried that I will annoy you guys.
UPenn has several archaeology programs, plus Penn is Ivy League- so the archaeology tradition is very strong, well-known, and many big name archaeologists have graduated from Penn (documentaries on ancient Egypt are often filled with either Penn alumni or Penn professors). There is the archaeology program in the Anthropology department. There is the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. There are also the folks who do archaeology in the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department. AAMW and NELC birth a lot of the archaeologists who work in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries. Those of us who graduate from AAMW and NELC are also required to do ancient languages in addition to the archaeology, which is why I have ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian. The Anthro folks can also do all of those, but many of them tend towards the New World (Maya archaeology is very strong), Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. And there is also lots of crossover as far as taking classes between all of those departments- if one is inclined. I had friends in all of them, so while there might be some competition between us, there was never any of the horror stories of students doing horrible things to other students that we hear about in other grad programs. We also have the Penn Museum, which has excavated some important sites in the Middle East, and all of the archaeology grad students spend a lot of time there.
It was a little odd to hear a graduate student dig participant called an "intern,' and, I'm not entirely familiar with the typical sizes of Israeli digs, but all of the digs that I have been on or have seen in action, the dig director knows everyone's names -even the undergraduates. But, perhaps Israeli excavations are so big that the dig directors don't know their participants' names - I just don't know. However, I have seen some experts in the field behave like Richard Grant. I think that I might have experienced a little twinge of inner horror at his tone. There wasn't really any archaeology (to be honest - none), so I guess we'll see if there is more next week?
I am curious to find out who their archaeological consultant was. I am assuming it must have been someone attached to the Israeli Archaeological service, but perhaps not.
I hope Jason feels really good about the premiere of his show.
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