So by now of course you know that this is the last season of Stargate Atlantis. Hopefully they plan to go out with a bang. The Ghost in the Machine starts off in very familiar territory with our in the puddle jumper and doing what they do best (squabbling).
Incidentally is the puddle jumper the least impressive looking spaceship is scifi history?
From there things go bad with some weird systems failures.…
The Sci Fi Channel has greenlit a two hour movie based on their Stargate Atlantis series. Sci Fi will of course have the television premiere for the movie which will aslo get a DVD release.
The Stargate Atlantis movie will be written by executive producers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie and will follow Atlantis’ fifth and final season (which is set to conclude in January 2009). It seems at this new…
Stargate: SG-1 always had season defining elements, Atlantis is a much more stand alone show. They are conscious of continuity, but on the whole the shows don’t build up over the episodes to an inevitable confrontation. That can be a good or a bad thing.
The Daedalus Variations is the sort of episode that works well standing alone and since there’s no larger storyline that I’m eager to see resolved in…
The opening action sequence with Ronan’s capture was fine, but the chummy dialogue which preceded it just sounded fake to my ears. Atlantis always seems to have trouble with these “downtime” scenes. It’s a problem I didn’t notice in SG-1 and it may be because the Atlantis world is relatively undeveloped whereas SG-1 was firmly grounded in present day earth.
I’m definitely liking the addition of Woolsey to Atlantis. There’s no…
The Stargate franchise is perhaps the sleeper hit of scifi TV. Unlike The X-Files which was an instant phenomenon or Star Trek which has always been there, Stargate launched with a relatively low budget movie that met with middling success but appeared set to end there. It didn’t end though and has spawned numerous spin-offs.
It all started in 1994 with the movie Stargate. Starring Kurt Russell and James Spader,…
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