Atlantis Manages a Surprise or Two
I finally got around to watching the Season Premier of Stargate Atlantis on Tuesday. I had saved it for last, simply because it was ranked third in my triumverate of new Friday Science Fiction. Whoops. I think I may have misjudged.
BSG was still the best premiere, by far. But that's helped along by the fact that BSG, as far as drama and delivery goes, is the best of SciFi's Friday night lineup. No real shocker there. But SGA managed to surprise me.
They came up with a way to save MAJ Sheppard before the nuke went off (you're not surprised, neither was I) and save Atlantis (also not surprised), but at the same time, they tossed a few things in there that were terribly cool. The new Daedalus showing up, with an Asgard on board to keep watch on their technology was very cool - though it did remind me of the introduction of the Defiant on Deep Space Nine, complete with an alien to watch over 'sensitive' systems. But oh well, I don't think the ship will be staying.
McKay made me laugh, a lot, and Sheppard was on the ball as well. They tossed in a shake up, cast wise, by 'damaging' Ford and sending him off alone. I'm going to be interesting to see where they go without the gung ho young marine. I see in the preview that they are adding another Pegasus native to the mix, so we'll see how that fares.
All in all, the episode made me laugh and say 'cool' a few times - which is more than I can say for SG-1's premiere. That show is probably on life support right now, and it either needs to start breathing or someone needs to pull the plug on it.
I also saw the SciFi is going to start running Firefly tomorrow, got to set up TiVo to grab that. I'm looking forward to seeing it all from the beginning.
BSG was still the best premiere, by far. But that's helped along by the fact that BSG, as far as drama and delivery goes, is the best of SciFi's Friday night lineup. No real shocker there. But SGA managed to surprise me.
They came up with a way to save MAJ Sheppard before the nuke went off (you're not surprised, neither was I) and save Atlantis (also not surprised), but at the same time, they tossed a few things in there that were terribly cool. The new Daedalus showing up, with an Asgard on board to keep watch on their technology was very cool - though it did remind me of the introduction of the Defiant on Deep Space Nine, complete with an alien to watch over 'sensitive' systems. But oh well, I don't think the ship will be staying.
McKay made me laugh, a lot, and Sheppard was on the ball as well. They tossed in a shake up, cast wise, by 'damaging' Ford and sending him off alone. I'm going to be interesting to see where they go without the gung ho young marine. I see in the preview that they are adding another Pegasus native to the mix, so we'll see how that fares.
All in all, the episode made me laugh and say 'cool' a few times - which is more than I can say for SG-1's premiere. That show is probably on life support right now, and it either needs to start breathing or someone needs to pull the plug on it.
I also saw the SciFi is going to start running Firefly tomorrow, got to set up TiVo to grab that. I'm looking forward to seeing it all from the beginning.
posted by DFMerrick at 00:02
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