(S03E10) Like SG-1, Atlantis is having their own mid-season finale before taking a little break. I enjoyed this one. My two week old snored her way through it perched on my chest, but she's not quite up to writing her own reviews just yet. Richard Dean Anderson reappeared for this one, but now he's probably a replicator prisoner. Don't they realize what he can do with a roll of duct tape?
(Sorry, I couldn't resist. When he's not carrying a MP5, I just think of McGyver)
I thought it was pretty lame of the Ancients to kick out the earthlings. They're supposedly ancestors, and there were only 100 of them. Atlantis is huge! Why not let the earthlings have a tower or something. Sheesh. Taking control of the city with a whack o' the palm was a bit rude, really. It seems that the real thing is just as cocky as the replicated version.
It was pretty interesting to see all the reactions to the characters loosing Atlantis. I half wondered if Shep was going to make a move on Weir before they headed back. During the entire setup, I kept wondering if it was all a replicator trick. They certainly had the resources, and it would be such a sneaky way to get into the city and steal it. I'm still wondering. It seemed to me that the repli-ancients wanted to destroy Atlantis more than anything else.
Distracting the Doc by having Weir pretend to play WOW was pretty funny - if mildly painful to my cheesy humor threshold. (I don't know why, but sometimes I just can't stand certain forms of over the top jokes)
While I watched, I was reminded of various times that SG-1 has gone against orders. That's happened once a season or so? I was amused to watch Tayla and Ronon being headhunted by the Geni. It was interesting to hear them mention Atlantis as 'home' when the team regrouped.
It was a good episode. My favorite lines from this one: 'Babbling brook' and 'Wee turtles'. It was a nice build up, and I kept thinking that they'd get caught. The cliff hanger was a bit more blatant than SG-1, but I'd sure like to know what's next.
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9-23-2006 @ 9:42AM
KenMo said...
Sure sounds like the "Ancients" to me.
Over-confident.
That's how the Wraith problem got so bad. They we so convinced they were so superior that before they knew it they were on the losing end of a War of Attrition.
Now, like SG-1 bailing out the Asgard, the Atlantis group is going to bail out the "Ancients", and MAYBE earn a little respect.
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9-23-2006 @ 4:15PM
chris said...
A very solid episode. A much better mid-season finale than that TIRED horse, SG-1. And I have a LOT of problems w/ Atlantis. But all creative energy by Wright and Cooper should be focused on Atlantis. Otherwise. THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE OF STARGATE WILL BE DEAD IN A FEW YEARS. Please don't kill this franchise like the producers of Star Trek did.
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10-05-2006 @ 6:16PM
chloe said...
I half wondered if Shep was going to make a move on Weir before they headed back.
Nods. Me too.
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9-24-2006 @ 7:13PM
pyrite said...
Easy Chris, without SG1 and Command there would never have been an Atlantis. They already said next season was the last, lets let them have one last GOOD year then we can all focus our complete attention on Atlantis.
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11-21-2006 @ 10:37PM
Rodney said...
I really enjoyed this one. They made some interesting progress here too. Namely:
1) They have a new ZPM powering the city.
2) They finished the trans-galactic stargate bridge that was discussed a few episodes ago.
Now, I'm guessing that the team will retake Atlantis somehow. What I am wondering is whether any of the Ancients will still be alive by the end of the episode.
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10-08-2006 @ 1:23AM
BeckyS said...
Okay, I was going along enjoying your review thoroughly (and pretty much agreeing with it, though my son says they got a lot wrong with the WOW scene) when WHAM! I came across this sentence:
It was pretty interesting to see all the reactions to the characters loosing Atlantis.
It's bad enough that fanfic writers everywhere can't tell the difference between "loosing" something (how do you set a city loose?) and "losing" it -- please, let's not have professional writers falling into the same trap! Hopefully that was just a glitchy typo kind of thing . . .
Becky
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11-23-2006 @ 4:35PM
matt quinn said...
I also thought it was a good episode. I haven't really found a good place to discuss atlantis and i don't really know what's happening with it. Last season the ratings and viewership seemed pretty good. Now SG-1 and Atlantis have taken a plunge (not in quality imo but in the number of people watching). I fear that Atlantis might fall in a season or two to the knife but i hope maybe a consolidated effort can keep people interested. Eureka is not a sufficient alternative. What do you think about Atlantis's future?
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11-30-2006 @ 11:51AM
Robin H Goodfellow said...
First, the takeover of Atlantis by the Lanteans was typical of their behaviour; they are dismissive of anyone not as tech advanced as they are, and they tend to end up with their heads handed to them because of it. Second, no one mentioned that Caldwell made a reference to the Lanteans having a hand in the emergence of the Wraith as a species, Third, what kind of flarking maniacs leave a matter transmuter lying around for just and idiot to find ? The Lanteans remind me of the Jedi of the Old Republic, too arrogant, and close minded to see that their solutions to probelms don't tend to work...
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11-30-2006 @ 12:54PM
Robin H Goodfellow said...
Did they find another ZPM ? And is one of those Dakara style transmuter towers somewhere in Pegasus ?
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