Stargate Atlantis "The Lost Tribe" Review

Stargate Atlantis Season 5 Episode : "The Lost Tribe"

We leave from the cliffhanging previous episode "First Contact" where Atlantis was attacked and robbed of some essential technology as well as Rodney McKay and visitor Daniel Jackson by an new Alien threat.

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We discover the new Aliens don't like the Wraith very much and are hell-bent on destroying them with the aid of an ancient device which they have just pinched from Atlantis. The Mechanised looking Aliens re-activate an ancient weapon on a distant outpost that disrupts the Wraith hyperdrive and causes their warships to explode every time one enters hyperspace.

Sounds great! but the side effect is that it also happens to make Stargates explode every time one is activated which will surely kill millions of humans all across the Pegasus galaxy.

The rest of the Atlantis crew relocate the control room after the Stargate explodes and they soon discover that the Wraith "Todd" has taken over the Daedalus, where only Keller and Ronon are free to take back the ship.

Todd, is not really being a nasty Wraith again, he simply wishes to stop the Aliens from destroying more of his ships, an interesting angle on this awesome "bad" guy. The Travellers come to the rescue and take Sheppard and Zelenka aboard one of the rusty yet powerful ships and they beat the Daedalus to the Alien outpost and engage the Asgard in battle.

Nasty old Todd unfortunately has abandoned the Daedalus but sets it heading on a collision course with the outpost requiring a few last minute special effects to save the day.

Overall I thought it was great. Good action and the usual quirky dialogue from McKay, especially in his interactions with Jackson.

I did think that some of the space battle effects at he end with the Travellers ship v the Asgard were a bit dodgy. It looks like the FX department were experimenting with some new angles but I didn't think it worked, the rest however including the FX where the Daedalus enters the planetary atmosphere were pretty cool.

On a soapy note, we discover that Keller is not interested in Ronon. She has her eye ion someone else.

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