Stargate Atlantis: Season 1

This spin-off of the Sci-Fi Channel's hugely popular "Stargate SG-1" series finds its crew, led by Dr. Elizabeth Weir (Torri Higginson), on a base located in Antarctica, wherein lies the lost civilization of Atlantis. What's more, they've also discovered a parallel world of sorts in a galaxy known as Pegasus, but what lies therein may not offer salvation; instead, it seems to be posing an imminent danger to the inhabitants of Earth.

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While generally entertaining, this first season of Atlantis certainly has some kinks to work out. First, the formulaic sci-fi is ripped practically verbatim from the superior show, Stargate SG-1. There's a four man away team led by a smart mouth adventurer, Sheppard, who is basically a Jack O'Neil (Richard Dean Anderson) wannabe. And the rest of the team can be mapped to original SG-1 character types also. There's the alien threat to Atlantis, the Wraith, which are basically just one more alien threat and not nearly as interesting as the original aliens in SG-1. And the away team travels to Earth-like world after Earth-like world pretty much like SG-1 did. The good news is that the formula that is copied here is a successful one. So while comparisons between shows are overwhelming at times, the episodes are still entertaining enough. I do have to throw out this one little caveat however: Rainbow Sun-Francks, a member of Sheppard's team is a terrible actor. The acting all around never exceeds average but this guy - yikes. Here's to hoping future seasons rise above the mediocrity of season one and that Atlantis finds it's own sci-fi identity.
- Creeper

ireviewnetflix.com rating: *** I like Stargate Atlantis, not nearly as much as Stargate SG-1, but it's still a good show. While I enjoy almost every episode of Stargate Atlantis, unlike Stargate SG-1, I have a hard time finding favorite episodes except "Before I Sleep," the only episode I really loved.
- ireviewnetflix.com