Post by Ahryantah on Aug 20, 2004 20:02:11 GMT -5
Review of the Stargate Atlantis episode "Childhood's End" first airing on the Sci-Fi channel on August 13, 2004.
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Everyone quick! Be quiet! I think we have . . . yes we do! It's a Stargate Atlantis episode where the TEAM visits another WORLD and interacts with an alien RACE! Shh, we don't want to scare them away.
Okay, now that I've got that out of my system I can continue on with the review. I liked this episode. I can hardly not like it, seeing as the title comes from an Arthur C. Clarke book of the same name, which is great reading. I recommend it.
What was I talking about? Oh, yeah, Stargate. Well, this episode was a little forgettable, but it was novel in that this is actually the first time we see the team off-world in a non-mythology situation (as in, just an adventure of the week episode where they explore other planets). Very cool. We also got to see the return of the guy who played Lt. Elliot in SG-1, and even though he almost died he didn't, so that was good.
A quick recap of the plot: Sheppard and Co. are flying around a planet when their puddle jumper loses control and crashes because of some electromagnetic disturbance on the planet. Naturally, being curious explorers and also desperate for a new power supply for Atlantis, they set off to find the source of the disturbance. They come across a village of people, none of them over the age of twenty-five. The reason for this is because they sacrifice themselves when they reach their twenty-fifth birthday because they believe this keeps the Wraith away. McKay, however, discovers that the source of the disturbance is a ZPM generating a field protecting all the villages on the planet. The sacrifice was established as a population control.
So this went similar to a basic early SG-1 episode. The team comes in, screws up everyone's lives, fixes it in the nick of time, and leaves the native reeling in their wake. In this case they put a stop to the sacrifices by proving the people are being kept safe by the shield. McKay improves on the shield so that it now covers half the planet, allowing significant room for population growth. And Ford sets about corrupting another galaxy with chocolate (Daniel, of course, already having done so in our galaxy). Curse those cocoa beans!
There weren't any outstanding elements to this episode. What we got was just a good, solid episode with a good, solid storyline. This isn't one that I think will ultimately make anyone's top ten list (it can't be helped that it's there right now; there hasn't been ten episodes yet) but it achieved its purpose. And we got to see McKay panic and scream some more, which is always amusing. And remember: Ford likes kids, McKay doesn't. But I think they grew on him at the end, maybe just a little.
8 out of 10.
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Everyone quick! Be quiet! I think we have . . . yes we do! It's a Stargate Atlantis episode where the TEAM visits another WORLD and interacts with an alien RACE! Shh, we don't want to scare them away.
Okay, now that I've got that out of my system I can continue on with the review. I liked this episode. I can hardly not like it, seeing as the title comes from an Arthur C. Clarke book of the same name, which is great reading. I recommend it.
What was I talking about? Oh, yeah, Stargate. Well, this episode was a little forgettable, but it was novel in that this is actually the first time we see the team off-world in a non-mythology situation (as in, just an adventure of the week episode where they explore other planets). Very cool. We also got to see the return of the guy who played Lt. Elliot in SG-1, and even though he almost died he didn't, so that was good.
A quick recap of the plot: Sheppard and Co. are flying around a planet when their puddle jumper loses control and crashes because of some electromagnetic disturbance on the planet. Naturally, being curious explorers and also desperate for a new power supply for Atlantis, they set off to find the source of the disturbance. They come across a village of people, none of them over the age of twenty-five. The reason for this is because they sacrifice themselves when they reach their twenty-fifth birthday because they believe this keeps the Wraith away. McKay, however, discovers that the source of the disturbance is a ZPM generating a field protecting all the villages on the planet. The sacrifice was established as a population control.
So this went similar to a basic early SG-1 episode. The team comes in, screws up everyone's lives, fixes it in the nick of time, and leaves the native reeling in their wake. In this case they put a stop to the sacrifices by proving the people are being kept safe by the shield. McKay improves on the shield so that it now covers half the planet, allowing significant room for population growth. And Ford sets about corrupting another galaxy with chocolate (Daniel, of course, already having done so in our galaxy). Curse those cocoa beans!
There weren't any outstanding elements to this episode. What we got was just a good, solid episode with a good, solid storyline. This isn't one that I think will ultimately make anyone's top ten list (it can't be helped that it's there right now; there hasn't been ten episodes yet) but it achieved its purpose. And we got to see McKay panic and scream some more, which is always amusing. And remember: Ford likes kids, McKay doesn't. But I think they grew on him at the end, maybe just a little.
8 out of 10.
