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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35236 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-08-27
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: Czech, English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 166 minutes

DVD Description
Episodes Comprise:

1. "No Man's Land" - After tricking the humans of Atlantis into revealing Earth's location, two Wraith hive ships capture Dr. McKay and Ronon and head for the planet. What they don't know is that Colonel Sheppard and his F-302 fighter are in their midst.

2. "Misbegotten" - After overtaking one of the Wraith hive ships, the Atlantis team must decide on the fate of the two hundred Wraith they have temporary turned into benign humans. Meanwhile, Dr. Weir finds herself under the scrutiny of Richard Woolsey and the International Oversight Advisory.

3. "Irresistible" - A seemingly friendly baker from another world brings the Atlantis team under his power with a mind-control substance. It's up to Sheppard to undermine his chemical concoction in order to save the rest of the team.

4. "Sateda" - When Sheppard, Teyla and Ronon go to a village where Ronon once live, they come under attack. It turns out that Ronon was implanted with a Wraith tracking chip and his prior visit resulted in a brutal siege on the village.

Synopsis
A team of scientists and military personnel is dispatched to the distant Pegasus galaxy to explore the remnants of the Lost City of the Ancients, also known as Atlantis in this STARGATE SG-1 spin-off series. The Ancients were an advanced human race that initially created the Stargate network, and diplomat Dr. Elizabeth Weir (Torri Higginson) and pilot Major John Sheppherd (Joe Flanigan) head the international squad that is sent to investigate. The team arrives at Atlantis to find the city abandoned and their ship permanently stranded, unless they can find a power source to get themselves home to earth. They make contact with a brave but primitive native civilisation as well as with the evil Wraith, a species that feeds on fear and, it quickly becomes clear, poses a threat to human life everywhere.

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Customer Reviews

Ok, but the rip-off continues.
This is a decent DVD, with three pretty strong episodes out of four. (The third is not too great.) I particularly liked the fourth episode, which gave Jason Mamoa a chance to shine. Once again we're being asked to pay up for a series of discs though, if we want to buy series 3 episodes as they become available. But wait - nip across to Amazon dot com and you can get the entire third series in just a few days - for under thirty three dollars. I wish I hadn't bought this DVD now.

Stargate Atlantis Season 3 kick's off with a bang!
Episode 3.1 (No Man's Land) picks up from directly from the season 2 finally, with the team desperately attempts to stop two Wraith hive ships from reaching Earth. With a number of space battle sequences adding to the scope of the episode, this episode delivers action and suspense. The story continues and concludes in episode 3.2 (Misbegotten) as the Atlantis team must decide the fate of a colony of Wraith they have turned into humans. This episodes allows actor Paul McGillion to shine as Dr. Carson Beckett, by exploring the ethical issues of experimentation on prisoners of war. Episode 3.3 (Irresistible) is one of Atlantis more comic episodes, in which actor Richard Kind is introduced as Lucius Lavin, who's pheromones cause both men and women to take an interest in him to the point, ignoring their own self-interests. At times silly, this episode allows the actor to explore a different side to their characters. Episode 3.4 (Sateda), delves into the past of Ronon Dex. A mixture of high octane action and flashbacks, works well giving the episode a major big film feel into 42 minutes of television. Over all, the first four episodes of season 3 provide enough entertainment for any fans and new comes alike.

A reasonable start to the series
As is pretty traditional by this point, the series starts by carefully writing the good guys out of the horrible mess they were in in the end-of-season cliffhanger: "No man's land" and "Misbegotten" deal with somehow stopping the Wraith from reaching Earth, and then dealing with the consequences of the way that was achieved. They're both pretty enjoyable (though mildly schizophrenic) episodes.
"Irresistible" is apparently intended to be a comic relief episode in tone, but is unspecific enough about the motivating-danger-of-the-week that the superficially humourous moments are darkened with the question of whether the good guys are in fact in trouble at that point.
"Sateda" deals with the origin of Ronon, told mostly in flashbacks (not of actual earlier footage). If you like the character, or enjoy seeing very straightforward Wraith-are-bad/kill-lots-of-Wraith episodes, then you'll enjoy this one. It's not great, but rather better written than the other three.

Overall, not a bad start to the series, but it is pretty forgettable.