I'm a big fan of Stargate and really liked the premise of this show - that Atlantis was actually not a lost continent but a lost planet far from Earth where our ancestors are from.
An exploratory group of U.N. scientists and civilian-types go through along with military units whose job is to keep the place secure and the scientists safe. This of course leads to some head butting between the military's leader and the head of the civilians/scientists over who is in charge of the mission at any given time. It's supposed to be her but the military takes over sometimes when they are under threat, and the threat is always there that the guys with the guns could take over at any time, which some of them want to do.
The effects on the show are good, with an interesting enemy and decent writing.
The real failing of the show was the casting. I just couldn't make myself keep watching since the show was confined to a very limited number of characters and I couldn't stand one of them.
Hewlett and Higginson are both very good, in this and in other shows/films I have seen. Flannigan I find just OK but he is good enough. The one character I couldn't stand watching at all was Rainbow Sun Francks, his acting was just 100% terrible, it's as if he only got his job by being the producer's son or something, but I checked and he actually had done some acting before, which surprises me.
Unfortunately when a show has such a small cast just one character can be enough to ruin it and that is what happened here. Too bad.
An exploratory group of U.N. scientists and civilian-types go through along with military units whose job is to keep the place secure and the scientists safe. This of course leads to some head butting between the military's leader and the head of the civilians/scientists over who is in charge of the mission at any given time. It's supposed to be her but the military takes over sometimes when they are under threat, and the threat is always there that the guys with the guns could take over at any time, which some of them want to do.
The effects on the show are good, with an interesting enemy and decent writing.
The real failing of the show was the casting. I just couldn't make myself keep watching since the show was confined to a very limited number of characters and I couldn't stand one of them.
Hewlett and Higginson are both very good, in this and in other shows/films I have seen. Flannigan I find just OK but he is good enough. The one character I couldn't stand watching at all was Rainbow Sun Francks, his acting was just 100% terrible, it's as if he only got his job by being the producer's son or something, but I checked and he actually had done some acting before, which surprises me.
Unfortunately when a show has such a small cast just one character can be enough to ruin it and that is what happened here. Too bad.