Junior Bronson I'm a big fan of Stargate and really liked the premise of this show - that Atlantis was actually not a lost continent but a lost planet far from Earth where our ancestors are from.An exploratory group of U.N. scientists and civilian-types go through along with military units whose job is to keep the place secure and the scientists safe. This of course leads to some head butting between the military's leader and the head of the civilians/scientists over who is in charge of the mission at any given time. It's supposed to be her but the military takes over sometimes when they are under threat, and the threat is always there that the guys with the guns could take over at any time, which some of them want to do.The effects on the show are good, with an interesting enemy and decent writing.The real failing of the show was the casting. I just couldn't make myself keep watching since the show was confined to a very limited number of characters and I couldn't stand one of them.Hewlett and Higginson are both very good, in this and in other shows/films I have seen. Flannigan I find just OK but he is good enough. The one character I couldn't stand watching at all was Rainbow Sun Francks, his acting was just 100% terrible, it's as if he only got his job by being the producer's son or something, but I checked and he actually had done some acting before, which surprises me.Unfortunately when a show has such a small cast just one character can be enough to ruin it and that is what happened here. Too bad.

bluesquirrel2004 I finally found the time to watch this show, being a lover of the original movie, series and SG:Universe. What I want explained is how this show was renewed for another 4 seasons??The story lines throughout the series are repetitive. The progress of each episode is predictable, that being: --Opening pleasantries, followed by --Inbound crisis, followed by--Mad scramble to fix the problem, followed by --The all is fine endingAnd there is nothing worse than the "Just In Time" type story line- --A new technology is discovered Just In Time to fix the current crisis --A new facility is found in Atlantis Just In Time to fix the current crisis--The scientists are able to reprogram the Atlantis computers to evade the current threat Just In time --The enemies reconsider their attack/switch sides/take on human morals Just In Time to evade annihilation --The non-operational defense systems are fixed Just In Timefor the attack. --etc etcThe best performances came from the support cast.I can't believe I wasted 30 hours watching the first two seasons hoping it would improve.

XweAponX In the beginning was a huge blockbuster movie introducing RA. RA was a Goauld, thousands of years old. He had used a round circular thing, flushes like a sideways toilet, to bring a bunch of people from Earth and enslave them on a planet called Abbados. Enter Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill (Originally two L's) and they learn that as powerful as RA is, he's pretty stupid, and they blow him into atomized pieces of Naquada (The stuff the Gate is made of).A year later, Daniel is still on Abbados and the Stargate is shut down, when a new Goauld "Apophis" shows up at Stargate Command in ridiculous snake-headed armor and they kidnap the sole woman in the room. Jack is called back, drops one of his "L's" and he sends a box of Kleenex to Abbados, rejoining him to Daniel Jackson, Sheauri, and Skaara, who both get kidnapped by Apophos and then SG-1 through 9 are formed: SG-1 consisting basically of Jack and Daniel and a new Captain chick named Samantha Carter, they meet up with a skinhead named Tealc on a planet called Chulak and they start doing great things. It turns out that RA was not the last of the Goauld, there are hundreds if not thousands of them, who all need people to take over. And so SG-1 finally kills most of them, but an odd thing happens: Even worse bad guys show up.But Daniel has not been Idle, in their treks through the star-gates SG-1 finds out about four races who had a sort of "United Nations of the Stars" - The Furlings who we only got to see in parody in one SG-1 Ep, the Asgard who become Jack's best buddies, the Knox who do nothing but hide and make themselves invisible, and a mysterious race called The Ancients.We know little of these guys until Jack gets his head stuck in an Ancient Repository of Knowledge, twice... And the second time, it leads him to clues about The Lost City of Atlantis, which Daniel had given them vague hints about during the year he died and was an ascended being. Several episodes and story arcs were devoted to the finding of Atlantis, for the hope of finding more of those glowing squid-bombs that blew up Anubis. Or other Goauld-killing tech.Well, eventually they figure it out, it's another 8-chevron Gate Address, and that's what this show is- It's about a bunch of people who opt to step out into the unknown, into another galaxy even, for the hope of finding help or tech for Earth.But true to Stargate form, after one set of bad guys is killed off, new, worse bad guys show up. The leader of this expedition to Atlantis is Dr Elizabeth Weir (Torri Higgonson who was Beth Kitteredge in William Shatner's TekWars TV shows). Originally she was played by Jessica Steen, who I thought was much better, but Tori was OK, she should have bleached her hair for the part. But the other two main guys, one of them we have already met, as in the irritating Rodney McKay (the irritating David Hewlett) and the other is John Sheppard (Joe Flanagan) who likes Flying and Johnny Cash. These people spearhead the original mission, along with Colonel Sumner (The Evil T-1000/John Dogget himself, Robert Patrick).The Pilot episode is magnificent for the first hour, but as cool as walking through a Stargate to another galaxy is, things go wrong immediately, and during a reconnaissance mission all hell breaks loose and we get to, well remember these new Bad Guys who are even worse? It's a race of Vampires called The Wraith, and we get to see their life sucking powers in great detail.So from the start, it all went sideways, but over 5 years of 20 episodes per season, they acquitted themselves nicely, and many Canadian actors got to sink their teeth onto sometimes multiple roles. My only complaint was that the new Bad Guys were introduced in the pilot episode, they should have been introduced over a period of time- Because it's just too much to load into one pilot. But nevertheless, there are quite a few things in the pilot that are great, which was why I continued to watch.

Alison Webster It is such a shame that this series did not carry on I felt sure that there were plenty of good story lines left and it had huge ratings and a solid fan base. Perhaps someone can come up with a decent follow up, here is hoping.:-) Sci_fi is not my favourite genre but I can remember watching every episode of Star Trek and all the Trekky movies. It is not an easy subject to get right, do not get annoyed but The Blob, Signs..really ? Yet Close Encounters, Alien, awesome. Let's not churn out programmes just for the sake of it there must be a plethora of up and coming writers out there with. some inspiring and creative ideas. Here,s to the next generation.