5 Good 5 Bad moments and arcs of Atlantis ( S1-5)

[bungeeguy245]

Ok before I list mine, let's try to keep this civil. I am not trying to bash TPTB or anything else. Just remembering a show I liked now that it is over. I would like to hear what everyone thinks. There are some obvious ones. I tried to throw in a couple that aren't so spotlighted in these forums.

5 Favorites (not in any particular order)
1. Battle of Be all My Sins Remembered
2. The Shrine ( I liked that episode )
3. Bantering back and forth between Mckay and Sheppard
4. Vegas
5. From "The Eye"
Dr. Carson Beckett: The dots don't tell us much about who's who. How do we know which one's the Major?
Lt. Aiden Ford: He'll be the dot taking out the other dots.
I love one liners like that one. I really like in SG-1 when Daniel tells Vala "a little less talk a little more shut the hell up."

5 Bad
1. Wormhole Drive
2. Exploding Tumors
3. Live ancients being found alive on a ship where the smartest race we have ever known couldn't fix their hyper drive.
4. Bad Asgard back from the dead and hardly used.
5. Not enough use of Mark Dacascos as Tyre. He is a good actor.

And yours are?

[kennythewraith]

i dont think its fair to put the evil asgard on the worst list.they were meant to be brought back in season 6 but the show was canceled.
my 5 best(also not in order)
-rodney and shep moments
-woolsey(yes i consider him awesome as leader)
-todd
-midway(the episode)
-the shrine
my worst
-killing beckett(but i didnt mind keller joining the cast)
-teylas underuse in season 5
-asurans
-overuse of body switching
-weir in season one

[Stargate Steve]

Good:

- Flying the city
- Rodney
- Lost Tribe Asgard
- Woolsey (I wish he had taken over after Weir left)
- Caldwell and the Daedalus

Bad:

- No technologically advanced ally race
- Beckett's death/clone fiasco
- No resolution to Ford's story
- "Weir" in the Ghost in the Machine ep.
- Michael becoming a mad scientist

[Valar]

Good:
Asgard returning
Tao of Rodney / The Shrine / Sunday
"Team" Moments ("I'M SORRY FOR SHOOTING EVERYONE!")
Todd
Daedalus Variations

Bad-

-Overuse of trying to make Keller more then what she was (I actually liked the character, I just think they put her in far too many situations when she "needed to prove herself." She got the job of Head Physician person dude, that's proof enough.)
-Samantha Carter. I've watched Stargate since the movie came out in 1994 and the series started in 1997 on Showtime - and this character was amazing for the series. She isn't leadership material though.
-One-off episodes. I'm sorry. Terrible One-off episodes. There are good ones, there's bad ones, and then there's terrible ones. Irresistible. Irresponsible. *shudder*
-Human weapon effects. SICK AND TIRED OF THE CRAPPY P-90 NOISE! AND THAT INSANE MUZZLE FLASH! Have you heard an actual P-90 fire? Sounds a bit more... menacing. And mechanical.
-The sets. Atlantis.... is not just a bunch of skewed metal laced together to form a building on top of a massive base. The architecture of Atlantis is amazing, yes. But the interior... UGH. By tower, they mean radio tower. The stairs.... the "atrium".... ugh....

Oh I'm breaking the rule and making a 6th of each

Good

Wolsey

Bad

VILLAGES!!! WOW!!!! REALLY!?!?!?

[pwells]

Good:
1. Atlantis City
2. McKay and Sheppard characters
3. Wraith
4. humor going along with action/drama
5. Todd as an ally

Bad:
1. lack of team chemistry, like Teyla being the invisible woman. While I liked the McKay and Sheppard characters, there was too much emphasis on them and it became their show.
2. Beckett's death
3. too many character changes
4. McKeller or any on-screen romance
5. wasted opportunities - many storylines had potential for continuation but never materialized

[Replicator Todd]

Good:
Carter in 4th Season
Todd
The Asgard!
Micheal's awesomeness
Puddle Jumpers

Bad:
Woosley
Weir's "death"
Beckett's "death"
Ford's unkown death
Not enough Daniel Jackson!(and he wanted to go to Atlantis bad too...)

[Andru10]

Good:
Beaming nukes on Hiveships
Asgard beam weapons on 304s
Carter as commander of Atlantis
Intergalactic gate bridge
Evil Asgard

Bad:
Wormhole Drive
"Ascended" (consciousness in subspace) Replicators
Echoes
McKay - Keller relationship
Travelers

[spinny magee]

Good:
1: Mckay
2: Vegas(different to other atlantis or alternate reality episodes)
3:Asgard surviving
4:1st and 5th season
5:Zelenka muttering stuff in czech all the time.

bad:
1: Trio
2: Replicators
3:Keller
4:Ford
5:Todds underlings betraying him all the time.

[spinny magee]

Good:
1. Atlantis City
2. McKay and Sheppard characters
3. Wraith
4. humor going along with action/drama
5. Todd as an ally

Bad:
1. lack of team chemistry, like Teyla being the invisible woman. While I liked the McKay and Sheppard characters, there was too much emphasis on them and it became their show.
2. Beckett's death
3. too many character changes
4. McKeller or any on-screen romance
5. wasted opportunities - many storylines had potential for continuation but never materialized

I have to agree with chemistry part. All sg1s characters had great chemistry between eachother but SGA didn't have the feeling you got from Sg1. Imo Sg1 was better in pretty much everyway then SGa

[Fandom Addict]

Good:

1. Todd & the other Wraith
2. Some really nice episodes, e.g. Tao of Rodney
3. Some funny lines ("I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them.")
4. The humour and interaction between some of the characters.
5. The City

Bad:

1. McKeller
2. Episodes like The Seed and Whispers
3. The fact that they cancelled it
4. Lucius Lavin
5. Keller

[Hanmer]

Bad-
-Human weapon effects. SICK AND TIRED OF THE CRAPPY P-90 NOISE! AND THAT INSANE MUZZLE FLASH! Have you heard an actual P-90 fire? Sounds a bit more... menacing. And mechanical.

You've got to remember that they're fireing blank rounds and not live rounds so the noise you hear onscreen in the actual noise that a blank round fired from a P90 makes.

The only thing they could so is Special Effects a real P90 firing in and that would sound even worse.

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My top 5:
1. McKay
2. The BAMSR space battle
3. The Ronon/Carson moment in 'Sateda'
4. Carter
5. Sheppard (esp. in episodes like 'The Shrine' with Rodney)

Bottom 5:
1. Lucius - Never really liked the character but I liked the storyline of 'Irresponsible'
2. Loss of Peter Grodin. He was the only British guy (other than Carson) to have a proper speaking role and they killed him off.
3. No resolution to the Ford storyline. Liked the note to that in 'Search and Rescue' though.
4. The Control Room being perfect again almost straight after the explosion in 'First Contact'
5. 'Ghost in the Machine' Weir. Would have been nice to see Torri Higginson again but obviously we couldnt have that...

[escyos]

5 Good:
1. All of SG-1
2. All of Atlantis
3. All of Universe
4. All the movies
5. ESPECIALLY KELLER!

5 Bad
1. Everything else especially reality tv shows!!
2. thats all i got

[solid-snake56]

Good moments:
- When they discovered the city
- "The Daedalus Variations"
- "The Last Man"
- The Asgard storyline
- The McKay/Keller relationship (even if TPTB can't write correctly a relation between two main characters)

Bad moments:
- When TPTB added Ronon on the show
- When TPTB brought back Carson (come on...)
- When they killed Weir (badly written)
- The Replicator storyline
- The Village set (I think that set destroyed both shows... )

[g.o.d]

5 Good:
1. Rising
2. Team episodes during S1
3. exploration in S1
4. Wraith in S1 and the Alterans in "Before I sleep"
5. dark stories in S1

5 Bad:
1. Lack of characters' development
2. Wraith being dumbed down and weaken
3. "Rodney, fix it!" "I can't. I don't know how." "I've fixed it!" "Hooray, we're saved."
4. boring and stupid filler episodes
5. lack of exploration of the Atlantis
and list goes on...

[THE HAM]

the good
1. Atlantis being cut off from earth in Season 1. i loved this story line
2. Rodney always being arrogent and finally saying "in case you havent noticed im a very arrogent person who thinks all his plans will work"
3. (from SG-1 S.10.3) Shepherd telling mitchell he keeps a lemon with him to motivate rodney - not from atlantis the show, but still fits
4. Finally seeing Ronan and Telac fight
5. The episode "the game" was just awesome to anyone who plays age of empires

the Bad
1. Killing of Beckett
2. Bringing Beckett back
3. getting rid of Lt. Ford
4. always allowing the team to get a ZPM just in the nick of time
5. the deadulas showing up always at the last second to beam people out

the ugly
1. Giving Ronan just 1 episode per season and airing it 3rd or 4th
s.2 - Runner
s.3 - Sateda
s.4 - reunion
s.5 - broken ties
all great episodes, but its kinda like here is your ronan and thats all you get this season
2. Recycled SG-1 Episodes, or technology
s.2 - Critical Mass, Grace under Pressure, the long good bye
s.3 - The replicators
s.4 - Doppleganger
3. Wormhole Drive
4. the cancelation
5. Every season has a Rodney is going to die episode
s.1 - Hide and Seek
s. 2 - Grace under pressure
s. 3 - Tao of Rodney
s. 4 - Tabula Rasa
s. 5 - The Shrine
come on we know they are dumb enough to kill him off