SGA - The Hachiko: Review of 'The Lost Tribe':
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(Please follow the link for the complete review. The review author rated this episode with a 3 out of 5.)
'Stargate Atlantis' (5.11) "The Lost Tribe" - Review
Mon, 10/13/2008 - 09:39 — Vrej Hezaran
If there's one thing at which Stargate Atlantis excels, it's disappointing me after cliffhangers. At the end of the last episode, the gate room on Atlantis blew up with Zelenka and Sheppard inside. We all knew they'd survive, of course, but the fun is speculating on how they survived and seeing if you're right when the conclusion airs. So how did they survive? Beats me. They apparently...just...did. They took cover or something...I'm not quite sure. It was a completely meaningless cliffhanger to build some artificial suspense that went nowhere. But on to the real plot.
**snippage**
The reveal that the suited aliens are Asgard wasn't nearly as satisfying as I had hoped. I was really waiting for some new badass aliens that would stir up so much trouble and basically replace the defanged Wraith as the new baddies, but no such luck. We'll see where the writers can take this revelation with only nine episodes left in the series, but I'm not too hopeful. Their suits did allow for good Star Wars-style let's-wear-their-armor escapades by McKay and Jackson, though.
Even though I have some gripes with the episode, I found the action to be quite entertaining, with lots of gunplay and ship battles, and the use of one hyperspace window to pass two ships was pretty inventive. Also, the fact that so many gates are now wiped off the face of the Pegasus galaxy will surely have an effect in the Stargate TV universe.
At The Hachiko:
(Please follow the link for the complete review. The review author rated this episode with a 3 out of 5.)
'Stargate Atlantis' (5.11) "The Lost Tribe" - Review
Mon, 10/13/2008 - 09:39 — Vrej Hezaran
If there's one thing at which Stargate Atlantis excels, it's disappointing me after cliffhangers. At the end of the last episode, the gate room on Atlantis blew up with Zelenka and Sheppard inside. We all knew they'd survive, of course, but the fun is speculating on how they survived and seeing if you're right when the conclusion airs. So how did they survive? Beats me. They apparently...just...did. They took cover or something...I'm not quite sure. It was a completely meaningless cliffhanger to build some artificial suspense that went nowhere. But on to the real plot.
**snippage**
The reveal that the suited aliens are Asgard wasn't nearly as satisfying as I had hoped. I was really waiting for some new badass aliens that would stir up so much trouble and basically replace the defanged Wraith as the new baddies, but no such luck. We'll see where the writers can take this revelation with only nine episodes left in the series, but I'm not too hopeful. Their suits did allow for good Star Wars-style let's-wear-their-armor escapades by McKay and Jackson, though.
Even though I have some gripes with the episode, I found the action to be quite entertaining, with lots of gunplay and ship battles, and the use of one hyperspace window to pass two ships was pretty inventive. Also, the fact that so many gates are now wiped off the face of the Pegasus galaxy will surely have an effect in the Stargate TV universe.
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