Sandy on January 14th, 2009

A moment of silence please for the series finale of Stargate Atlantis.
::bows head::
The following review contains spoilers.
Todd contacted Atlantis to let them know he’d been overthrown by one of his own minions who had figured out how to integrate a ZPM into a hive ship. The Daedalus set out to intercept this new threat. Sheppard’s [...]

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Sandy on January 5th, 2009

The following review contains spoilers.
As the Monty Python troupe likes to say, “And now for something completely different.” This week’s episode was literally a complete departure for the series. It was set in an alternate universe that bore an uncanny resemblance to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Detective John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) of the Las Vegas [...]

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Sandy on December 13th, 2008

The following review contains spoilers.
A career thief and sometime murderer named Neeva Casol (Dawn Olivieri) accidentally touched the wrong Ancient device during a heist, causing her to swap bodies with Dr. Jennifer Keller (Jewel Staite). At first, Neeva had no idea what had happened to her and was just trying to figure out where she [...]

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Sandy on December 10th, 2008

The following review contains spoilers.
Atlantis received a garbled transmission from Todd the Wraith. Since his hive ship was just sitting over Atlantis and not attacking or responding to attempts to contact it, Sheppard’s team, with Lorne’s team as back-up, was sent up in a jumper to investigate. While on approach to the hive ship, the [...]

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Sandy on November 30th, 2008

The following review contains spoilers.
I guess I’ve procrastinated enough on reviewing this episode. It’s been very hard to figure out what to say because I have a lot of conflicting emotions about it. I’ll start with what this episode had going for it the most, which was the plot.
A physicist back on Earth named Malcolm [...]

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Sandy on November 22nd, 2008

Stargate Atlantis actor Jason Momoa (Ronon Dex) is recovering after being attacked in a cafĂ© in Hollywood last weekend. A 21-year-old man allegedly smashed a glass into Momoa’s face during an argument. The resulting cuts required 140 stitches.
The full story can be found on the Los Angeles Times website.

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Sandy on November 15th, 2008

The following review contains spoilers.
Woolsey received his performance review from the IOA, which turned out to be a disguised political ploy to replace him with someone more willing to be the IOA’s puppet. His new friend, Dr. Vanessa Conrad, helped him fight to stay on Atlantis. Sheppard accompanied a pair of scientists on an overnight [...]

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Sandy on November 8th, 2008

The following review contains spoilers.
After a run of poorly written and implausible episodes, Stargate Atlantis finally returned to what it does best: action, banter, and revealing character interaction. It even had a plot that held together for the whole episode!
Michael returned to once again seek revenge on Atlantis for performing the unauthorized experiments on him [...]

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Sandy on October 25th, 2008

The following review contains spoilers.
Sheppard’s team received an invitation from a coalition of planets to attend what they thought would be a diplomatic function. Instead, they were drugged and taken to an undisclosed location to stand trial for crimes against the peoples of the Pegasus galaxy.
This is where the show once again missed an opportunity [...]

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Sandy on October 18th, 2008

The following review contains spoilers.
Lt. Col. John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) and his team go off-world to deliver supplies to Dr. Carson Beckett (Paul McGillion), who is treating a small group of survivors of the Hoffan plague who had been taken in by a village on another world from their own. When the Wraith arrive and [...]

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