I imagine a lot of the Watchers would sneer at Daniel's ideas of aliens since "obviously" those myths were based on immortals. The SGC probably has the same reaction to historical myths of immortals, thinking them "obviously" based on aliens. Daniel, with his thinking outside the box, is one of the few people to realize that there are both aliens and immortals.
So maybe he goes to his old college roommate Adam to bounce ideas off of because Adam never sneers at him. Or maybe he goes to the Watcher's expert in ancient languages to get help figuring out which myths are alien and which immortal.
As for their conversations, I bet they're both very careful about primary source records, including each other, because there are dozens of reasons for them to lie or at least fudge the truth a bit. And the poor evesdropping watcher gets really annoyed because Methos and Daniel will each tell stories around a campfire when they're apart (with a bit of judicial exaggeration) but when they're together get into these indepth and detailed analyses of pot shards or language mutations between 10,000 and 5,000 years old, and it's all very frustrating.
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Date: 2009-03-22 08:26 pm (UTC)So maybe he goes to his old college roommate Adam to bounce ideas off of because Adam never sneers at him. Or maybe he goes to the Watcher's expert in ancient languages to get help figuring out which myths are alien and which immortal.
As for their conversations, I bet they're both very careful about primary source records, including each other, because there are dozens of reasons for them to lie or at least fudge the truth a bit. And the poor evesdropping watcher gets really annoyed because Methos and Daniel will each tell stories around a campfire when they're apart (with a bit of judicial exaggeration) but when they're together get into these indepth and detailed analyses of pot shards or language mutations between 10,000 and 5,000 years old, and it's all very frustrating.