{"id":1345,"date":"2012-09-14T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T00:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2016-10-12T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:51:52","slug":"stargate-atlantis-season-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/stargate-atlantis-season-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Stargate Atlantis (season 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;m not wandering aimlessly, I&#8217;m exploring. There&#8217;s a big difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Queen&#8221; Todd (the Wraith)&#8217;s Queen has been killed. Teyla poses as the Queen in order to convince the alliance to a plan to rid the Wraith of the need to feed on humans. In &#8220;First Contact&#8221; Daniel Jackson arrives on the station because he thinks there&#8217;s a secret lab there left by Janus, an Ancient inventor. When they find it he and Rodney are whisked away by some mysterious aliens. In &#8220;Remnants&#8221; they find a device that was created to seed a planet for an extinct race of aliens. Around the same time Sheppard is captured by someone who was very clearly dead last time he saw him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stargate Atlantis<\/strong> season 5 originally aired in 2008-09. There&#8217;s another cast change, so if you don&#8217;t want to know ahead of time who&#8217;s out and who&#8217;s in &#8212; don&#8217;t watch the opening credits when you&#8217;re watching the first episode.<\/p>\n<p>This is the final season. The first half of the season was a bit disappointing &#8212; it seemed like the writers lost steam. But the second half had the quality I had come to expect from the past few seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The show definitely has more of a focus on story than character, but we do see some progression in the main characters&#8217; lives now and then.<\/p>\n<p>The finale was exciting, although a couple of the main characters were underused.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Shanks (the TV show <strong>Saving Hope<\/strong>) as Dr. Daniel Jackson and Paul McGillion (<strong>See Grace Fly<\/strong>) as Dr. Carson Beckett were both welcome guest stars this season.<\/p>\n<p>The producers intended to film a TV movie after the series (more than one if the first was successful) but that didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Once <strong>Atlantis<\/strong> was done the next <strong>Stargate<\/strong> show started &#8212; I&#8217;ll be checking out <strong>Stargate Universe<\/strong> next.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/stargate-atlantis-season-4\/\">season 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;m not wandering aimlessly, I&#8217;m exploring. There&#8217;s a big difference.&#8221; In &#8220;The Queen&#8221; Todd (the Wraith)&#8217;s Queen has been killed. Teyla poses as the Queen in order to convince the alliance to a plan to rid the Wraith of the need to feed on humans. In &#8220;First Contact&#8221; Daniel Jackson arrives on the station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,8,11],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9633,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}