Okay...so I haven't really been able to update this blog as frequently as I'd hoped. It's amazing how much inertia laziness can gather :)
So, just wanted to do a quick post on "Stargate: Atlantis", the spin-off to "SG-1", which at 10 seasons is the longest running scripted Sci-Fi continuing series ever. Not "Star Trek", or "Battlestar Galactica", or "Babylon 5", but "Stargate: SG-1". So, "Atlantis" has some pretty big shoes to fill.
Last season ended with a pretty big cliffhanger where Atlantis was forced to leave the planet it had been inhabiting thus far in the face of the relentless Replicator attack. During the course of the escape, Elizabeth was injured, and the city jumped unexpectedly out of hyperspace, leaving the team drifting aimlessly in outerspace.
I thought this season started strongly, and I especially liked the second episode where Shepherd and Rodney went to the Replicator stronghold in a bid to save Weir. I've never really gotten why it seemed that a majority of the "Atlantis" fanbase dislike Weir so much, but I'm slowly (but surely) getting turned around to the predominant view, especially in light of the fact that the news is out that Carter from SG1 would be taking over (yay! Or double yay!). It just seems, in retrospect, that Weir was mostly in the periphery of the action on "Atlantis" (or at least in the episodes I've watched). Now, part of this might have been due to the fact that she's the commanding officer, but still, it just seemed like she was an afterthought. Hopefully with Carter taking over, the commanding officer position at "Atlantis" would be more integrated into the action, seeing that Carter was one of the most central (and popular) characters on "SG1".
So, just wanted to do a quick post on "Stargate: Atlantis", the spin-off to "SG-1", which at 10 seasons is the longest running scripted Sci-Fi continuing series ever. Not "Star Trek", or "Battlestar Galactica", or "Babylon 5", but "Stargate: SG-1". So, "Atlantis" has some pretty big shoes to fill.
Last season ended with a pretty big cliffhanger where Atlantis was forced to leave the planet it had been inhabiting thus far in the face of the relentless Replicator attack. During the course of the escape, Elizabeth was injured, and the city jumped unexpectedly out of hyperspace, leaving the team drifting aimlessly in outerspace.
I thought this season started strongly, and I especially liked the second episode where Shepherd and Rodney went to the Replicator stronghold in a bid to save Weir. I've never really gotten why it seemed that a majority of the "Atlantis" fanbase dislike Weir so much, but I'm slowly (but surely) getting turned around to the predominant view, especially in light of the fact that the news is out that Carter from SG1 would be taking over (yay! Or double yay!). It just seems, in retrospect, that Weir was mostly in the periphery of the action on "Atlantis" (or at least in the episodes I've watched). Now, part of this might have been due to the fact that she's the commanding officer, but still, it just seemed like she was an afterthought. Hopefully with Carter taking over, the commanding officer position at "Atlantis" would be more integrated into the action, seeing that Carter was one of the most central (and popular) characters on "SG1".
Anyhoo, I digress. It was a great rescue
