I am an archaeologist by training, and siting and provenance is everything. There is so much lost when an item is taken out of context before it can be studied, and you just can't understand the pyramids from pictures and measurements. You only really understand how massive they are when you can be there.

The show does pretty well at capturing that facet of what archaeologists are like. A professor of my mom's once refused a rabies shot after being bitten by a dog in a region where rabies is endemic, because she just couldn't spare the time in the middle of a dig! Lucky for her, turns out it wasn't rabid.

One of my daughters was an impressionable teenager when we discovered Stargate as a family, and she was very taken by Daniel. I admitted that Michael Shanks is a handsome man, but just couldn't really join in her gushing. It took me a while to realize why. The character was far too much like most of the guys I knew from grad school and my own family, and I would never want to be involved with someone who would only notice me when he emerged from his artifact-or-theory induced haze for necessary food and air!

Bill, I have a feeling, is going to be disappointed when his German conference plans succeed, and Daniel turns out to be discussing something dull, like the necessity to find an espresso bar. :D