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Stargate Atlantis: 02-15, “The Tower”

2006-02-08T13:10:01Z

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Our lovable Atlantis team find themselves on a planet inhabited by who they think are primitive people. It’s harvest time and the villagers are busy, so the team is kept around waiting. During that time, Rodney wonders why they’re there since there’s no technology to glean from these folks. Teyla mentions that establishing good relations with other planets can prove beneficial for other reasons. I gotta side with Rodney on this. They can be a good neighbor to the galaxy when the Wraith are destroyed. Until then, they should be spending their time trying to find some weapons.

It’s a good thing they were there after all though. One of the villagers, Eldred, comes up to greet them and apologize for their wait. He explains that they are trying to prepare their tribute for The Tower from their harvest. Naturally, this peaks their interest and they inquire of it. Eldred is amazed they don’t know of The Tower and states it protects them from the Wraith. The team can’t get to The Tower soon enough to investigate.

What they find kind of blows their mind a little bit. Mine too.

Episode spoilers inside!

Stargate Atlantis: 02-14, “Grace Under Pressure”

2006-01-29T15:22:00Z

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A puddle jumper test including Rodney goes drastically wrong and the jumper falls out of the sky and into the ocean. It’s sinking to the ocean floor quickly and the Atlantis crew needs to figure out a way to rescue Rodney. Rodney desperately tries to figure a way out of this situation himself and conjures a hallucination of Samantha Carter to help him find a solution.

Episode spoilers inside! Continue reading at your own risk.

Stargate Atlantis: 02-13, “Critical Mass”

2006-01-27T12:53:00Z

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When Stargate Atlantis spun off into its own series, there were questions like, “Why didn’t they take any staff weapons or zats with them to Atlantis?” Atlantis seemed to be ignoring a lot of the established Stargate-verse and to the fans, that just didn’t make much sense. The reasoning as I understood it, was that the creators wanted Atlantis to hold its own. They didn’t want a Stargate newbie to tune into Atlantis and be confused by all the references to pre-discovered alien technology or enemies. The common tie between Atlantis and SG-1 was the Ancients, the builders of the gates themselves.

This resolve was somewhat broken by the 9th episode of the first season, “Home”, where the team returns to what they believe to be Earth and we see characters we’d normally see only on SG-1. Since then they’ve added an Asgard to the cast and have a method of returning home, securing the possibility for many cross overs and plot tie-ins from SG-1.

This episode put a final nail on the coffin of making Atlantis a stand-alone show. Don’t get me wrong, I thought it was great, but there’s no way someone who didn’t watch SG-1 will get the full impact of what happened.

Spoilers inside! Do not continue if you don’t want to be spoiled for this episode.

Stargate Atlantis: 02-12, “Epiphany”

2006-01-16T14:26:01Z

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This episode felt similar to this week’s SG-1 for me. I guess it’s because of the romance factor, but it was also more or less a stand-alone episode. Unlike SG-1, however, Atlantis got it right.

Sheppard, McKay, Teyla and Ronon are off world together following an odd energy reading picked up by McKay. When they get to the source, they find only a covered entrance to a cave. The entrance seems to be shielded by some sort of force-field, so Rodney has the great idea to create “MALP on a stick” which is quite simply a camcorder on a stick, to investigate what’s behind the entrance. The recording indicates nothing out of the ordinary, so Sheppard decides to enter. Unfortunately the force-field sucks him in. Only at that point does the team pick up clues about what’s happening on the other side. They must rescue Sheppard before it’s too late!

There was a good bit of Rodney/Ronon interaction, which I found very refreshing. McKay is obviously less than thrilled with Ronon’s intellect and will spare no opportunity to make that fact obvious. This show is so fun and fresh, I can’t believe I’m saying it, but until they give Michael Shanks more air time on SG-1, Atlantis will be my favorite Stargate show.

Continue on for some thoughts about this episode. Spoilers inside! Do not continue if you haven’t seen it or don’t want to be spoiled!

Stargate Atlantis: 02-11, “The Hive”

2006-01-10T12:29:01Z

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As with this week’s SG-1 episode, I found myself a bit behind on things when the season recap flashed by. I don’t know why it was so difficult for me to retain information from the Stargates, but I had no problem recalling what happened earlier this season in Battlestar Galactica.

In this episode, Sheppard, Teyla and Ronon accompany Ford and his men on a mission aboard a Hive ship after they’ve been pumped full of the Wraith enzyme. To be completely honest, I have no recollection of the mission’s purpose. I think they were trying to destroy the hive ship. Sounds like a good idea, after all. Of course complications arise when they get caught by the Wraith, but those nasty bug ancestors surprised me by not killing them.

Spoilers inside.

SciFi Friday Returns!

2006-01-06T20:07:00Z

Set up your Tivos, DVRs and tape recorders, my US friends! Sci Fi Friday returns tonight from its winter break with new episodes of its three most popular shows!

8:00 PM: Stargate SG-1: “Fourth Horseman”, Part 2
9:00 PM: Stargate Atlantis: “The Hive"
10:00 PM: Battlestar Gallactica: “Resurrection Ship”, Part 1

Thanks to GateWorld.net for sending me an email letting me know the shows are returning tonight!

Expect brief reviews, theories and/or thoughts on each over the weekend.