STARGATE ATLANTIS GAME EPISODE SERIES
The final episode of Stargate Atlantis sees the entire Atlantis expedition needing to come into action as a Wraith Hive Ship more powerful than anything ever seen before heads towards Earth.ĭespite not being the planned conclusion to the series (the show came to an end so that production could begin on Stargate Universe as they wanted to re-purpose several of the sets), the final episode of Stargate Atlantis manages to deliver a mad dash rescue story, where it’s Earth that needs saving. It’s an interesting look into the inner workings of the Pegasus Galaxy, as well as how complex and multi-layered the series had become since it first started. Whilst the battle itself is a great spectacle, the journey to it is just as entertaining, seeing these separate groups coming together in an uneasy alliance. The ensuing space battle is one of the best the series has ever delivered, culminating in not just the destruction of the Pegasus Replicators, but their entire planet. ‘Be All My Sins Remembered’ sees Atlantis having to work alongside the recently discovered Traveller group, as well as their long term enemy, the Wraith. The Season Four mid-season finale left the audience realising that Atlantis was up against worse odds than initially believed when they discover that the Pegasus Galaxy Replicators are a much bigger threat. Add in some dark and emotional moments as a wounded scientist kills himself so as to allow McKay (David Hewlett) to go help Sheppard and this becomes a stand out first season episode. Trapped on a remote planet with no other fighters to back him up Major Sheppard has to fight a hulking brute of an opponent. Having an episode just before the season finale that reestablished just how frightening an enemy the Wraith were was a brilliant choice.
Stargate Atlantis started off introducing its new villains, the Wraith, as near unkillable monsters, but towards the end of the first season the team had had some victories over the Wraith, and the fear factor had started to lessen. Despite knowing that the show isn’t about to kill of it’s main cast in the third episode, just how things are going to be resolved is still a tense and dramatic episode.Įxploring the system that houses Atlantis a small group of scientists and Major Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) discover a crashed Wraith ship on another planet from the battle 10,000 years ago, a ship that still has one living inhabitant. This choice ramps up the tension and means that things feel really tense for the team.
The episode makes the best use of the arbitrary 38 minute time frame in which the Stargate can be active by having the episode happen in real time, something that had not been done in franchise to date. When the Puddlejumper gets stuck midway through the Stargate during an emergency the main team find themselves trapped with only 38 minutes to find a solution before the Stargate deactivates, killing them all. One of the earliest episodes of Stargate Atlantis, ‘Thirty Eight Minutes’ makes use of one of the central prop of the whole franchise, the Stargate itself.
Whilst some fans felt that the new show couldn’t live up to the popularity of the original show it proved to be massively popular, and delivered some amazing episodes. The first spin-off series from Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, took bold new steps in the Stargate franchise, shifting the action to a new galaxy, introducing a whole host of new characters, and a new threat for the heroes.