I'm never watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ever again
You are wise.
It may simply be those pytamid/alien associations you mention at work, but the mention of a Mesoamerican Indiana Jones movie and aliens instantly suggested certain Stargate SG-1 tropes, such as unearthing a long-lost alien goddess with glowing eyes, who naturally wakes up mad and wreaks havoc on the excavating archaeologists. There's something kind of overlappingly archetypical about action flicks in general, so that it seems very easy to combine them if the flavors don't clash too much.
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You are wise.
It may simply be those pytamid/alien associations you mention at work, but the mention of a Mesoamerican Indiana Jones movie and aliens instantly suggested certain Stargate SG-1 tropes, such as unearthing a long-lost alien goddess with glowing eyes, who naturally wakes up mad and wreaks havoc on the excavating archaeologists. There's something kind of overlappingly archetypical about action flicks in general, so that it seems very easy to combine them if the flavors don't clash too much.