I have been watching Stargate: Atlantis on and off these last years, sometimes with a break of some months before watching four or five episodes in a couple of days. It is a series I enjoy, but not one I feel I need to rush to watch.
Nonetheless, I like its fun, camp and cheesy atmosphere, with some sci-fi and cool characters. This episode offers us more of that, but with a good script and great interaction between the best characters of the show: John Sheppard and Rodney McKay, who is probably everyone's favorite.
It all starts when a mission discovers that in a little town (here it's always small villages) they have an oracle whose appearance resembles a lot Rodney McKay. They decide to pay a visit and discover that a game that him and John Sheppard were playing back at Atlantis was in reality not a game, but real people, who received information from Atlantis computers thinking it was the voice of oracles. And with their intervention, what was a situation of peace is verging into war. From that moment, they work to defuse that dangerous situation, but things are not as easy as they expected...
David Hewlett and Joe Flanigan have great chemistry together, and they play perfectly the brain against muscle part, with retorts, quips and all kinds of back and forth that make for a fun episode every time they share the screen. Their "game" counterparts are good too, exaggerated representations of their persona, which seen from outside show to them their own flaws.
Stargate: Atlantis may be camp and cheesy, but sometimes is thoughtful and smart too. This episode is a prove of that. Good one.
Nonetheless, I like its fun, camp and cheesy atmosphere, with some sci-fi and cool characters. This episode offers us more of that, but with a good script and great interaction between the best characters of the show: John Sheppard and Rodney McKay, who is probably everyone's favorite.
It all starts when a mission discovers that in a little town (here it's always small villages) they have an oracle whose appearance resembles a lot Rodney McKay. They decide to pay a visit and discover that a game that him and John Sheppard were playing back at Atlantis was in reality not a game, but real people, who received information from Atlantis computers thinking it was the voice of oracles. And with their intervention, what was a situation of peace is verging into war. From that moment, they work to defuse that dangerous situation, but things are not as easy as they expected...
David Hewlett and Joe Flanigan have great chemistry together, and they play perfectly the brain against muscle part, with retorts, quips and all kinds of back and forth that make for a fun episode every time they share the screen. Their "game" counterparts are good too, exaggerated representations of their persona, which seen from outside show to them their own flaws.
Stargate: Atlantis may be camp and cheesy, but sometimes is thoughtful and smart too. This episode is a prove of that. Good one.