Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Second Season
by Andy Mikita, Brad Turner, Martin Wood, Neill Fearnley, Peter DeLuise
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Actor: Jason Momoa, Joe Flanigan, Paul McGillion, Rachel Luttrell, Torri HigginsonDirector: Andy Mikita, Brad Turner, Martin Wood, Neill Fearnley, Peter DeLuise
Brand: Sony
Writer: Brad Wright
Writer: Carl Binder
Writer: Damian Kindler
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 872 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sci-Fi Channel, The
Movie Reviews of Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Second Season
Movie Review: If You're Not a Fan, You Should Be, and then You Should Buy This
Summary: 5 Stars
I spent the weekend listening to the commentaries on all 20 (!) of the episodes and even watching the featurettes (well, most of them) all the way through. There are, alas, no bloopers no deleted scenes, but, as with the first season, the Atlantis audio extras belong to that rare category of commentaries that actually tell you interesting things.
For those who don't have the episodes memorized, we start with the third episode in "The Siege" trilogy, when Ford has fallen into the water with a Wraith drone attached to his chest, Sheppard flying into a Wraith hive with a nuke in his puddlejumper, and all of Atlantis about to fall into enemy hands.
During the season, we get to meet (and grow to like) the new member of SA-1, Specialist Ronon Dex, who's spent the last seven years running as a sort of sport-prey from the Wraith. Poor Rodney gets stuck in the back of a sinking puddlejumper and hallucinates Samantha Carter. Tayla sings over the body of her grandmother. Elizabeth gets another consciousness in her head and almost kills everyone, and Carson Beckett comes up with a Wraith nano-virus that creates Michael the Wraith and almost turns Sheppard into a bug.
Pretty cool.
The season ends with the cliffhanger "Allies," where Michael brings a Wraith Queen to Atlantis to fight against another hive. Despite the ever-present threat of the Wraith, Atlantis has managed to remake the Stargate magic in its own cauldron precisely by not having too much reliance on the Big Bad Plot Arc. While SG-1 has unfortunately been mired down through seasons nine and ten with the Ori, Atlantis has gone back to the fun of SG-1's first seasons, which the teams went through the gate to adventure and romance.
So we also get to hang out with foppish "nobles" who use an Ancient tower to lord over the peasants, criminals who are sent to "Wraith Island" instead of prison, Ancients in a VR who don't know they've been in stasis 10,000 years, and nice guys who don't realize that when your Ancient shield is powered by a volcano, you really shouldn't leave it set to "high."
As I said, all the episodes have commentary, the best coming from Martins Wood and Gero, David Hewlett, and Peter DeLuise (though it's all fun, really, and they bring in Amanda Tapping for "Grace Under Pressure"). We get a great featurette on James "Bam-Bam" Bamford, the stunt coordinator, and we spend a loooooottt of time on the kiss in McKay and Beckett character profiles.
What's really great about Wood and Gero is that their commentaries are 40-minute lessons in filmmaking. We get to hear about the DoP's lighting choices, 100 ways to make the same corridor look like different corridors, how blocking works, how the actors contribute to their characters, and how the whole thing really works.
My only complaint, and I have to reach for it, is the sucky cover art. Get someone better with Photoshop next time, guys!
Summary of Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Second Season
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 03/06/07
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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