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Most recent few eps of Atlantis - any comments?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OnToMars: [QB] I haven't been a big fan of Atlantis lately, all women team episode included. As cute as Nicole DeBeor is...not so much. And what was with bringing Beckett back for an episode and then just popping off again? Lame. But tonight's episode, much better. ==SPOILERS== Now there's a cameo worth it's salt. I for one was a fan of Woolsey being put in charge of Atlantis. I thought it offered the chance to really shake things up while adding an element that every viewer could relate to. Who hasn't had a boss they couldn't stand and just didn't get the place they were supposed to be running? Imagine it, Michael Scott running an extra-galactic outpost! And from Woolsey's perspective, how must it feel to be a regular paper-pushing guy like him, suddenly thrust into leading a bunch of death defying action hero super geniuses? But, like Carter, we go whole episodes without seeing him at all, and when we do, little of that dynamic actually gets explored. It actually did in this last episode, to some extent, and not in a shallow jokey way that it has been touched on in the past. Jewel Staite continues to be adorable without being Kaylee and adding a lot of likability and a compelling quality that is completely lacking from the character as written. In this episode we actually make progress. It's felt like so many of these episodes have been place holders - and bad ones at that. Somehow, I imagine this is the episode that was at the beginning of the production line or close to it when word was handed down they were canned. And things get shaken up. For a story to be compelling, it has to continually raise the stakes, which can be tough to do on an open ended show like this. But they finally did and did so wonderfully. All enemies have to evolve, and the Wraith have actually done it rather compellingly in my opinion. Todd's moment, "What will we do? Who will we be?" was excellent. Re: Daniel's line, "I'd hate to think this is what heaven looks like." Um, aren't you the one that's died half a dozen times over already? Shouldn't you have a pretty good idea about the afterlife at this point? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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