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Stargate: Atlantis, SciFi, Airs Friday 9/8c

Episode: “Enemy at the Gate” (Season Five, Episode 20)

Synopsis: Once again, Todd the Wraith contacts the Atlantis team. We thought he was dead, but his dangerous iratus bug healed him from his previous encounter. Todd confesses to Sheppard that he had modified a hive ship to use a ZPM as a power source, resulting in a super-hive that could become invulnerable. Todd’s underlings committed mutiny, and he is now asking the Atlantis team for help. Sheppard and his team go on a mission to destroy the ship while it is in its construction phase, but things prove more difficult when they learn that Earth is the super-hive’s new target.

Review: I cannot help but feel sad with this episode because it is the end of Stargate: Atlantis as a series. Of course, there was a quick teaser for the new series Stargate: Universe at the end of the episode. We’ll see about the new series, but I did like both SG-1 and Atlantis, so I have hope.

As far as series finales go, this was a pretty great episode. We had the Wraith attacking Earth. We had the return of Todd. We had a really cool in-space fire-fight between the super-hive and the Atlantis city. We also had some nice cameos by the old SG-1 crew, including Amanda Tapping as Sam Carter, Colin Cunningham as Major Davis and Gary Jones as Airman Harriman. And on a sad note, we also had a nice nod to the late, great Don Davis (SG-1’s original leader, General Hammond), who died this summer of a heart attack.

There have been more exciting and all-encompassing episodes, including the assault on the Replicator home world with the Wraith and Asgard fleets in tow, but this series finale wasn’t about making the biggest splash. It was made to lead into a slate of direct-to-DVD films, which was successfully road tested last year with the SG-1 team (in the DVDs The Ark of Truth and Continuum). I am definitely looking forward to more Stargate fun on DVD.

But as a series, Atlantis is over, and that makes me a bit sad. At least next week, I’ll have Battlestar Galactica to look forward to on Friday nights.

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