Stargate Atlantis - The Complete First Season
by Andy Mikita, Brad Turner, David Warry-Smith, David Winning, Holly Dale
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Actor: David Hewlett, Jason Momoa, Joe Flanigan, Rachel Luttrell, Torri HigginsonDirector: Andy Mikita, Brad Turner, David Warry-Smith, David Winning, Holly Dale
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Czech (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 873 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Stargate Atlantis - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Great Price, Great Quality
Summary: 5 Stars
The DVDs and case are both in great condition and the price is very competitive. I have not been able to find a better price locally or on the web.DVD Review: A sci-fi show to fall in love with
Summary: 5 Stars
I should start by saying that having watched all five seasons, Stargate Atlantis is officially my second favorite science fiction show (the first being Firefly).
The first season starts out a bit uncertainly, but by the middle of the season I was fully engaged in the show and its characters. Interestingly enough, when I went back later and re-watched the beginning of the series, I loved it! The bottom line is - if it doesn't hook you at first, keep watching.
Atlantis is not the best written show I've ever encountered, but its characters are among the most endearing. The acting is excellent as are the special effects, so I'm willing to forgive the choppy writing. The flaws it suffers from are common ones: uneven character development, characters magically regenerating from devastating traumas and injuries within the space of a week, characters forced out of character for the sake of a story, and so forth.
But putting all of that aside, I truly did fall in love with this show and its characters, who became like a dysfunctional second family. Some of the highlights:
John Sheppard - team leader and military commander of Atlantis. Highly trained, highly intelligent, snarky, brave, loyal and protective of his team above all else, Sheppard is a semi-suicidal hero with a dark past and disdain for authority. Sheppard's character bio might sound trite, but he is played with such delightful, playful expressiveness and complexity by Joe Flanigan that he becomes much more. The beautifully acted Sheppard is an endearing, flawed, and lovable leader.
Dr. Elizabeth Wier - overall expedition leader, in charge of Atlantis Base. Wier initially seems stiff and reserved, but develops into a smart and likable administrator who even has a positive relationship with the normally defiant Sheppard. A civilian, Wier lends the expedition a scientific and humanitarian aspect.
Dr. Rodney McKay - brilliant physicist and overall tech/science/mechanical genius who is in charge of saving the day whenever Sheppard isn't doing so. Initially portrayed as a bit of a coward, the insecure, high-strung, arrogant, and self-centered McKay is the show's best layered and developed character. McKay shows great courage and loyalty in overcoming his fears, and becomes a valuable, endearing member of Sheppard's team. Despite his arrogance and biting put-downs of co-workers, McKay is also portrayed as one of the most caring and moral people in the expedition.
Dr. Carson Beckett - A highly skilled Scottish medical doctor, Carson is in charge of all things medical and also becomes a more and more integral part of Sheppard's team. Carson is a deeply compassionate, sweet, and caring person that one cannot help but fall in love with, while an inner strength and occasionally biting retorts keep him from being a cream puff in doctor form. Carson is one of my favorite characters - ever.
Lieutenant Aiden Ford - initially a team member, Ford's character never quite developed, and was eventually dropped from the show.
Teyla Emmagan - Probably the most cardboard character of the team, Teyla none the less has some great scenes and contributes to the dynamics of the show. The hot female leader of an alien race of people, she decides that the best bet for her people's future is to leave them and join the Atlantis expedition. If John Sheppard is the designated eye candy for us female viewers, Teyla is the scantily clad warrior chick for the males.
The Wraith - anorexic goth vampires, AKA the Bad Guys. These nearly indestructible evildoers farm humans like cattle and feed on them by draining their life force in an excruciatingly painful feeding process. Fond of vengeance and growling noises, the wraith are the number one enemy of the expedition and of the galaxy as a whole. The wraith would love to find out where earth is so they can snack on it.
The Lost City of Atlantis - a submerged/floating/flying city filled with endless undiscovered technology.
Along with a well-rounded cast of likable side characters, this team along with some later changes keeps us well entertained for five seasons, at the end of which the show was canceled for no particularly good reason.
I grew to love Atlantis, and I hope you'll give yourself a chance to fall in love with it too!
DVD Review: Atlantis Season 1
Summary: 5 Stars
For those who love stargate SG1, or for those who love a good sci-fi show. Stargate Atlantis is just as amazing as SG1. with old and new characters in a whole new setting is just one interesting episode after another. altho i may seem partially bais, I'm an enormous stargate fan.DVD Review: Captured by Atlantis
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always liked the Stargate programs, from the original movie to SG-1. But, while I liked SG-1, I lost interest after about the fifth season. When Stargate Atlantis first premiered, I did not watch it, as so often a good series is beaten to death in attempt by the film companies to milk them for all they're worth. So, I did not actively start viewing Stargate Atlantis until it was well into its fourth season. I was truly 'captured' by the series then, and could not wait to get the seasons I had missed. Thank heavens for dvds! Season 1 is awesome, and Atlantis has brought a freshness back to the story that it had lost. DVD Review: A Great Start
Summary: 5 Stars
I think we have SG-1 to thank for the strong, running start Atlantis was given. Because we didn't have to do what SG-1 did--which was introduce nearly the entire concept of the Stargate to audiences--we had a strong foundation already created for the sister show. However, Atlantis did very well at not closely mimicking its predecessor but taking an idea already created and expanding it, literally, into an entirely new galaxy.
Though I still hold that season 2 is probably the best of all five SGA seasons, season 1 gave Atlantis the strong foundation it needed to become a truly remarkable television series. The characters were strong and evolved over the course of twenty episodes to become people we could really relate with, care for, love, hate, sympathize with, laugh with and hurt for. As I will always openly admit, McKay is my favorite character and I thought he got a great start with episodes like Hide and Seek, The Storm and the Eye, The Brotherhood, Home, The Defiant One and Hot Zone. However, this was also a great season for seeing John Sheppard really come into being as a great character, especially in all the episodes mentioned above. Season one really saw the beginning of what becomes, what I think is, one of the greatest friendships in the Stargate universe.
One of the things that made this season so great (and so different from all the others) is the concept of this team of explorers being completely isolated from their predecessors. With literally almost no ties to the show that began it all, season one of Stargate Atlantis was allowed to come into its own with nearly no interference from the show that began it all. I think that is one of the things that really helped make SGA strong. SG-1 was a great show, one of the best and hard to beat, but we needed to know that we were not just getting a repeat of the first eight seasons of SG-1 set in another galaxy. I think fans were pacified after the first few episodes.
Season one was nearly perfect as an introductory season. The writers, cast and crew did a wonderful job at giving us something both familiar and unique.
Description of Stargate Atlantis - The Complete First Season
When a secret base, abandoned by the original builders of the Stargates, is found buried in the ice of Antartica, the newly formed Stargate Atlantis team is born. The team's discovery leads to a daring expeditiion to the distant Pegasus galaxy, where they encounter a primitive human civilization and a sinister new enemy that threatens human life everywhere. The Stargate Atlantis mission is headed by Dr. Elizabeth Weir, a specialist in diplomatic relations. Her political savvy is balanced by the bravado of her military counterpart, Major John Sheppard, a courageous pilot. Rounding out the crew are Lt. Aiden Ford, Sheppard's second-in-command, Dr. Rodney McKay, a clever and quick-witted astrophysicist and Teyla, a beautiful young leader among the primitive alien civilization that the Atlantis team encounters.It's not a franchise on the order of Law & Order, CSI, or Star Trek--not yet, anyway--but with Stargate Atlantis, a more than worthy successor to SG-1, Stargate is becoming a nice little cottage industry in itself. The premise, in a nutshell: The Ancients, the greatest race the universe has ever known (or something like that), abandoned Earth millions of years ago, taking Atlantis with them; they then sunk the entire city in order to escape the clutches of the dreaded Wraith, an implacable bunch of villains who nourish themselves by sucking the life from humans. Now, as the two-hour "Rising" pilot details, a new team has gained access to the legendary city. Once they arrive, Atlantis loses the power to sustain its protective shield and rises to the surface, and thus begin the team's adventures (i.e., using the stargate to travel to other planets in the Pegasus galaxy, encountering aliens both hostile and friendly, and trying to defeat the Wraith, or at least stay out of their way).
Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), SG-1's driving force, is missed, but Atlantis has a strong replacement in Major John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan), easily the most charismatic member of the new team. Like O'Neill, Sheppard is a wiseacre and a loose cannon, as well as a superb pilot with an innate understanding of the Ancients' arcane technology. His humor, humanity and conscience provide a welcome contrast to the other characters, especially brilliant-but-neurotic Dr. Rodney McKay (David Hewlett) and ultra-serious project leader Dr. Elizabeth Weir (Torri Higginson), who has little to do but give orders and stand up for her people. The Wraith, who resemble a vampire mutation of the albino blues guitarist Johnny Winter, are the focus of most of these 19 episodes (including the pilot). These bad boys will stop at nothing--nothing, I tell you!--in their quest to snack their way through every galaxy in the universe, with Earth their ultimate feeding ground. And while the final four episodes, dealing with the Wraith's massive attack on Atlantis, end with an unsatisfying cliffhanger (basically, nothing is resolved), earlier shows effectively keep their ominous presence in the forefront. The episodes in which the Wraith play little or no active role are often compelling as well, including "Thirty Eight Minutes" (one of our heroes' "puddle jumper" spacecraft gets stuck in the stargate), "Childhood's End" (we meet a race whose members are convinced that only ritual suicide is keeping the Wraith at bay), and "The Eye" (a planet-size hurricane/tsunami bears down on Atlantis). As is the case with SG-1, the visual effects work, especially by TV standards, is excellent; in fact, one might wish for bit more cool sci-fi action and less talk in some of the episodes. Special effects include commentary (by directors, writers, and/or actors) for every episode, as well as the occasional behind-the-scenes featurette. --Sam Graham
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