"Into the Great Pyramid" (2002)

A National Geographic documentary--seems to be built for a TV audience, meaning places for commercials to happen and a lot of hype to try to keep the audience watching past the commercial.  One of the documentary's assumptions is a typical train of thought; it's the thinking that human civilization has gone from simple, primitive thinking and slowly advanced to more complex thinking to our present age.  I tend to favor the reverse.  I think the past was more intelligent than we are and we tend to lose that knowledge the more time progresses on.  At very least, post-flood folks are going to be just as intelligent as we are, not less.  It's a common assumption in thinking, but one I find erroneous.  If a person can ignore the several erroneous assumptions that show up in documentaries, this being one of them, then the rest of the information they present can be quite interesting.  In this documentary, the show surrounded 3 aspects.  Two of this were hype "we are now going to open/look for the first time ever..." types of things.  I don't doubt they were exciting discoveries--quite agree in fact--but could've been done without the hype.  The third aspect of the show didn't involve this, and I found a little more tasteful.  It was a play by play report of discoveries made across the grounds.  I liked it because it included the questions being asked at each point before more discoveries were made, then shows the next set of discoveries made.  This process repeats itself up to the date of the documentary's filming.  It presents the questions along the way, but fast forwards through the archaeological process.  I know that process takes time--I don't pretend it doesn't--but it was more conversational to hear than the other 2 parts.  The other 2 parts were framed like someone getting ready to bang open a pinata which may or may not have anything in it, by a person who has never hit or seen a pinata before.  The 3rd part was like a chap sitting next to you around a fireplace talking about what he's thought and been up to for the last few years.  I much prefer the fireplace chap.  Documentary includes reenactments and computer models to help explain a few things.