Aug 22, 2008
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…
Aug 7, 2008
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…
Jul 31, 2008
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…
Jul 31, 2008
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.
Stargate Movie
It all started in 1994 with the movie Stargate. Starring Kurt Russell and James Spader,…
Jul 29, 2008
This DVD has a lot riding on it. Stargate: The Arc of Truth was the first straight to DVD release and it had the advantage of finishing up a plotline that had begun on TV. Stargate: Continuum has to stand on its own merits.
In order to justify the asking price Continuum has to offer a lot more than just a feature length episode of Stargate: SG-1. So does it?
Well it…