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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 20
Runtime: 42 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2004

Format:

Series

Genres:

Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Created By:

Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper

Actors:

David Hewlett, David Nykl, Joe Flanigan, Paul McGillion, Rachel Luttrell, Rainbow Sun Francks, Torri Higginson

Made In:

Canada, USA

Premiered at:

SyFy

Here is the series about amaz­ing story of the city that peo­ple are search­ing for years. SG-​1 cre­ators had not dif­fi­cult time to imag­ine the lost city of Atlantis. With cur­rent tech­nol­ogy and com­puter ani­ma­tion they cre­ated this city. This is very dif­fer­ent story about Atlantis built on the the basic mythol­ogy cre­ated for Star­gate SG-​1. Brad Wright (cre­ator of SG-​1) and Robert C. Cooper are respon­si­ble for, this, another SG series.

Story & Writing

Again, series is recorder in Canada in the same stu­dio as the SG-​1. The story of Atlantis starts back with SG-​1 series and dis­cov­er­ies made in Antarc­tic. All miss­ing pieces for com­plet­ing the cir­cle are found there, and Dr. Daniel Jack­son has found the loca­tion of the Lost City of the Ancients, and the Star­gate Com­mand decided to send the expe­di­tion. One very pleas­ant change is that head of the expe­di­tion is a civil­ian and a woman.

SGA Sea­son 1 Cast

Dr. Eliz­a­beth Weir is the expe­di­tion leader and she was played by great acress Torri Hig­gin­son. Another refresh­ing char­ac­ter is Dr. Rod­ney McKay (played by David Hewlett), ego­cen­tric astro­physi­cist and genius with­out sense of humor. John Shep­pard (played by Joe Flani­gan) is a lead­ing a mis­sion Athosian planet where they meet Teyla Emma­gen (Rachel Lut­trell). She joins them in the fight against the new enemy called Wraith. Wraiths are feed­ing on human life energy and lit­er­ally suck­ing them dry. And they were a sleep for cen­turies. And wak­ing up of this sci-​fi vam­pires ver­sion was actu­ally done by the new com­ers from Earth.

Pro­duc­tion

Lost city was sup­posed to be located in Antarc­tic, but to dis­tin­guish them­selves from already suc­cess­ful SG-​1, deci­sion was made to move it into Pega­sus Galaxy. So, new adver­saries are cre­ated in form of Wraiths with very inter­est­ing and scary look. Visu­ally, series looks great with new and inter­est­ing sets and amaz­ing design of the city.

Con­clu­sion

SGA didn’t offered too much new from SG-​1, aside from new ene­mies and dif­fer­ent cast. After 7 sea­son of SG-​1, every change is good and the bad in the same time. Any­way, this is worth a watch.