Post by Ahryantah on Aug 9, 2004 15:36:05 GMT -5
Review of the Stargate Atlantis episode "Suspicion," first airing on the Sci-Fi channel on August 6th, 2004.
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To tell you the truth, I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to this episode. Maybe it was because I caught the last fifteen or so minutes of the first showing, so I already knew what was going to happen when I sat down later to watch the whole thing. That kind of ruined the suspense for me. But I'll try to review it just the same.
First of all, I'd like to say: Yay! The Ethosians are gone! Because of Dr. Weir and her nasty head of security dude's suspicion, the irritating natives of the Pegasus Galaxy have voluntarily left Atlantis and settled on the mainland of the planet, which Sheppard and Ford found while flying around the planet in a puddle jumper. Speaking of that, it already seems there are some recurring jokes on Atlantis - namely, Ford's penchant to come up with terrible names for things and Sheppard's love of turkey sandwiches.
Ford: "We should call it 'Atlantica.'"
Sheppard: "Didn't I tell you not to name things?"
Anyway, the plot of the episode - Sheppard's team has been attacked by the Wraith on more than half their off-world missions (any of which we STILL have yet to see). Dr. Weir is suspicious and nasty head of security dude thinks one of the Ethosians is tipping the Wraith off. Dr. Weir closes off certain areas of Atlantis from the Ethosians, who promptly leave in a snit. Sheppard's team goes off-world again and are attacked again. The only Ethosian who knew about that mission is Teyla, so nasty head of security dude blames her even after she saves Ford's life. Sheppard gets mad at nasty head of security dude and Dr. Weir is caught in the middle. McKay, as is his wont, finds out that Teyla is tipping off the Wraith but unintentionally. The necklace that Sheppard found and gave to her in the very first episode is actually some kind of Wraith homing beacon tuned to activate when touched by an Ancient. Since Sheppard has the Ancient gene, he turned it on when he touched it.
So it was really all Sheppard's fault.
This episode was decent, kind of run-of-the-mill. But not every episode can be outstanding. We did kind of get to see some off-world stuff, when Sheppard and his team use the necklace to set a trap for the Wraith. So now they have a Wraith imprisoned on Atlantis. Probably not a wise idea, but we'll see. Teyla got to show off some of her Teal'c-like fighting moves. Ford got to put his weapons knowledge to good use. McKay got knocked around a lot. The best scene was when they were trying to capture the Wraith. The worst scene was when Sheppard and Teyla were on a deck in Atlantis talking. I'm not sure what they were talking about because I was too distracted by the truly awful matte background behind them. It was such an obviously fake sky I wanted to cry. Surely a show that prides itself on its visual effects can do MUCH better than that.
This seemed to be kind of a transition episode more than anything else. I'm still waiting for a truly good team episode. "Thirty-Eight Minutes" last week came close, but not quite.
8 out of 10.
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To tell you the truth, I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to this episode. Maybe it was because I caught the last fifteen or so minutes of the first showing, so I already knew what was going to happen when I sat down later to watch the whole thing. That kind of ruined the suspense for me. But I'll try to review it just the same.
First of all, I'd like to say: Yay! The Ethosians are gone! Because of Dr. Weir and her nasty head of security dude's suspicion, the irritating natives of the Pegasus Galaxy have voluntarily left Atlantis and settled on the mainland of the planet, which Sheppard and Ford found while flying around the planet in a puddle jumper. Speaking of that, it already seems there are some recurring jokes on Atlantis - namely, Ford's penchant to come up with terrible names for things and Sheppard's love of turkey sandwiches.
Ford: "We should call it 'Atlantica.'"
Sheppard: "Didn't I tell you not to name things?"
Anyway, the plot of the episode - Sheppard's team has been attacked by the Wraith on more than half their off-world missions (any of which we STILL have yet to see). Dr. Weir is suspicious and nasty head of security dude thinks one of the Ethosians is tipping the Wraith off. Dr. Weir closes off certain areas of Atlantis from the Ethosians, who promptly leave in a snit. Sheppard's team goes off-world again and are attacked again. The only Ethosian who knew about that mission is Teyla, so nasty head of security dude blames her even after she saves Ford's life. Sheppard gets mad at nasty head of security dude and Dr. Weir is caught in the middle. McKay, as is his wont, finds out that Teyla is tipping off the Wraith but unintentionally. The necklace that Sheppard found and gave to her in the very first episode is actually some kind of Wraith homing beacon tuned to activate when touched by an Ancient. Since Sheppard has the Ancient gene, he turned it on when he touched it.
So it was really all Sheppard's fault.
This episode was decent, kind of run-of-the-mill. But not every episode can be outstanding. We did kind of get to see some off-world stuff, when Sheppard and his team use the necklace to set a trap for the Wraith. So now they have a Wraith imprisoned on Atlantis. Probably not a wise idea, but we'll see. Teyla got to show off some of her Teal'c-like fighting moves. Ford got to put his weapons knowledge to good use. McKay got knocked around a lot. The best scene was when they were trying to capture the Wraith. The worst scene was when Sheppard and Teyla were on a deck in Atlantis talking. I'm not sure what they were talking about because I was too distracted by the truly awful matte background behind them. It was such an obviously fake sky I wanted to cry. Surely a show that prides itself on its visual effects can do MUCH better than that.
This seemed to be kind of a transition episode more than anything else. I'm still waiting for a truly good team episode. "Thirty-Eight Minutes" last week came close, but not quite.
8 out of 10.
