Stargate Atlantis-final goodbye!

I was not disappointed with the final end to SGA. Season Five was great. All the episodes this season wasn't a disappointment after it was announced the show was ending. Each episode would go by and I couldn't think why they would end this show but who knows the real reason, money is my guest. I went into the final show excited and I hoped everything would turn out for the best and I wanted it to end with a happy note. To my surprise it ended the way I hoped. Okay I suck at doing a review so on the Gateworld website here I'm going to use there outline of what Enemy At The Gate is about because they can explain it better than I can and in bold is what I added in. The team learns that a rogue Wraith has acquired several Z.P.M.s ( Zero Point Module's-power source the Ancients use to run there technology) to power a formidable new hive ship -- and he is headed for Earth. Todd contacts Atlantis and reveals that a Wraith subordinate has managed to acquire several Zero Point Modules that he has used to power a formidable new hive ship. He urges Woolsey to attack and destroy before it becomes a threat to Atlantis. On board the Daedalus ( One of many Earth Vessels equipped with Asgard Technology) , Colonel Caldwell, Colonel Sheppard and the rest of the team, rush to engage the new hive ship. But the Z.P.M. powered vessel proves itself an impressive opponent, crippling the Daedalus before making a sudden and inexplicable jump into hyperspace. Puzzled over the Wraith's sudden departure, the team picks up a weak subspace signal in Wraith code. McKay is quick to recognize that the communique was sent, through subspace, from another reality. Once deciphered, their worst fears are realized. The Wraith message contains a familiar set of coordinates. The hive ship is on its way to Earth! Okay that's all the write up on Gateworld. I'll finish my take on the rest of the episode. After they realize the Wraith Hive Ship is on it's way to Earth and now the Daedalus is severely not in working shape to get back in time, the team uses the last of the ZPM's to fly Atlantis to Earth. Col. Sheppard was sent back to Earth through the Stargate to Stargate Command just in case Atlantis doesn't get there in time. Sheppard is back on Earth and after he arrives realizes the Hive ship got to Earth sooner than they expected. The Ancient chair they found in Antarctica years ago Sheppard thought he could get there in time to help fight against the Wraith but little did he know they moved the chair to Area 51. Sheppard decided to use a one of Stargate Commands aircraft and deter the Wraith darts away from Area 51 but the Wraith succeeded and destroyed the chair. On Atlantis, they find out the Stargate isn't working, realized what is going on, McKay, Ronon, Teyla, and Lorne go through the gate and the other end is on the Hive Ship. Sheppard decided to be Sheppard and fly his aircraft up to the Hive ship and set off a Nuclear Bomb. I think it was more of a suicide mission myself but that's Sheppard for you. The team is on the hive ship fighting off the Wraith and Ronon gets stabbed and dies. I couldn't believe they killed Ronon off and then the rest of them leaves him there. ( I could say I wasn't at all pleased) Sheppard realizes the rest of the team is on board with him. They set up a plan. While the rest of the Atlantis Team on Atlantis is on it's way to Earth Zelanka figures out a risky way for Atlantis to travel faster through space. Woolsey agrees with the idea. So now Ronon is died and the rest of the team looks like they are going to be blown up with a Nuclear Bomb and the whole time I'm sitting there thinking it wasn't cool they killed off Ronon. A Wraith finds Ronon and gives him his Wraith life force to ask Ronon how many of them are on his Hive. Stupid reason to bring someone back but at least, Ronon is alive again. The team finds Ronon kill some more Wraith and right before the bomb goes off they were able to escape through the gate to the Alpha Site. Atlantis is badly damaged by the Hive and comes crashing to Earth but makes it through the Atmosphere and glides into the Pacific Ocean. The ending shows the team standing on one of many balcony's over looking the San Francisco Bay with the Golden Gate bridge right in front of them. The End! From Gateworld: I thought they pulled out all the stops for the finale, not only with different beloved characters in the Atlantis gallery that pop up, but I think it's a pretty spectacular one hour [with] three different story lines really hurtling toward the conclusion. ... It's going to have good action, great visuals, and it's got a nice little emotional punch at the end. I think it was a very nice way to not only wrap up the series but to open the door to some television movies, because where we left off at the end it certainly begs the question of what's next. I think it's a very well-crafted finale. I second that!! Goodbye and thanks for 100 episodes of Atlantis! Tear!!! I will miss this show!! Season Five comes out on DVD in the Summer of 2009. Can't wait! Take care, Peace!!! Edit: http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/ My Favorite Blogger Joe Mallozzi has a good entry called Finale. He's was a writer and one of the many Executive Producers for Stargate Atlantis. I thought you might like to get his prospective and also he posted some great pictures.

Go to Gateworld because it has an article of The Best of John Sheppard who is played by Joe Flanigan on Stargate Atlantis. I would have to say my favorite John Sheppard episode is Doppelganger from Season Four, episode 4. I loved this episode because there was the coolest fight scene where Sheppard kicked his own ass as you can tell by the title. It was all around great. I will miss the show and I'm sad to see it go. I can't wait until Friday to see the last episode of the series. I saw a preview and it looks like it will kick some ass. The Team will have to figure out a way to save Earth from the Wraith.

The SGA Marathon has been good memories. I think I'm going to have to pull out the DVD's out again and watch the series over again. I forgot some stuff in the earlier seasons. I can't believe I forgot I also loved the episode this season called The Shrine. The story was about Rodney with him losing his memory and the team trying to find a way to save his life. I liked the scene with McKay and Sheppard on the Pier drinking beer. My favorite line from this episode was "You're a good friend, Arthur" I cracked up in between tears. It was touching. I also thought it was sweet McKay told Keller in a video he loved her before he lost his memory.

Well it's a slow night and my brain is fried. I had a long day because it was bath night for the children and without help I'm drained to bits. I could go on and on about Joe Flanigan and all of Stargate Atlantis but I'll wait until Friday. Take care, Peace!

Happy 2009!

It's 2009,Yeah!!!! It's a New Year. The hubby and I didn't do much to celebrate but watch a movie and just relaxed at home. We paused our movie and rang in the new year and then finished our movie. It's wasn't all that exciting but it was the way we wanted. We don't party as much anymore due to the fact we only trust the grandparents to babysit. I want to thank Montel Williams on this one. I watched a show about the horrors of babysitters before the daughter was born and it freaked me out so we don't want to hire anyone until the children can talk and express themselves if anything bad happens if anything happens. I don't want to risk my children being in harms way so the hubby and I sacrifice our sanity and don't go out much on our own. We do go on dates once in awhile but most the time when we go out the children tag along. I like my family and we were blessed to have well behaved children when we all go out to a restaurant. It's nice so we do it a lot because they are so well behaved or we wouldn't do it. I can't stand trying to have a nice meal when the table besides you has an out of control child. I find it embarrassing for the parents. We had one experience when the daughter was 9 months old at the Cheesecake Factory and she swiped a plate off the table behind her and broke it by throwing it onto the floor. I almost died and apologized. Lets just say we left a big tip that night. We got lucky and we find it a blessing we have good kids on this side of things. That's why it's not so bad when the children tag along on some of our dates. They are great company plus when the hubby and I are alone we talk about the chilren anyway so them being there is even more special. I can't believe Stargate Atlantis is almost over. Tonight is the second to last episode of the entire series. The Scifi channel is doing a week long marathon of Stargate Atlantis up until the season last episode next Friday. We have the first 4 seasons on DVD already so it's not like if I miss the marathon I would be heartbroken. I'm trying to be an adult about the end of the series but it's sad when a good show ends. I was mad when they just up and ended Dark Angel without any notice especially when they were talking about season 3 starting up and then Bam they announced the show wasn't coming back with just two seasons. I was so angry and boycotted the replacement show Firefly. I feel bad about this because we also have the boxset of Firefly and it was a great show. I keep telling people I was the cause Firefly got cancelled in it's first season because I didn't want to watch the TV show which replaced Dark Angel. :( I'm not angry Stargate Atlantis is ending but more of a sadness because I thought the show was getting better each year gone by. I think it should have at least a few more years of potential. I will have to be satisfied with a movie and hopefully it does so well some more will come there after but I'm not counting on it. It's more a wait and see and I'm fine with that and if more Stargate Atlantis movies come after I will be thrilled. I am a little disappointed with all the entertainment listings like IMDB. I would like to know what Joe Flanigan's next acting gig will be. I haven't found anything what he's going to do next now Stargate is over. I guess Joe Flanigan is taking a well deserved break from acting. I wouldn't blame him. He has 3 young boys and a wife who he probably wants to spend some time with until the next acting project comes along. He's a good actor and I'm impatient and want to see him be in something so I can watch him on my TV. :) It's going to be a good year. Lost is coming on in a few weeks and maybe it will take my mind off of Stargate Atlantis. Take care, Peace!

My final goodbye to Atlantis!

This is my dedication and thanks to the cast and crew of Stargate Atlantis. I know the show is not yet over with more memorable stories to go this season but I wanted to do this early so I can have a slow goodbye to this great favorite show of mine. It made for a great Friday night of entertainment and has it's final goodbye as a TV series with 100 great episodes. Stargate Atlantis was the spin off of Stargate SG-1. An international team of scientists and military personnel discover a Stargate network in the Pegasus Galaxy and come face-to-face with a new, powerful enemy, The Wraith. The Ancients used to be an advanced human race with advance technology. They are the original architects of the Stargate network and the builders of Atlantis.

It was an adventurous 5 seasons getting wrapped up in a Scifi world exploring a distant galaxy encountering vast challenges and meeting great friends. Finding the lost city of Atlantis the team learned a vast network of civilizations within the the galaxy linked by the Ancients. The story lines confront dangers, mysteries and enemies like the Wraith who feed off human life. Each season you learned more of in dept of each character and the friendship they learned amongst each other. It was fun falling in love with some of the characters and then hating certain others but in the end they all worked together as a team to get the job done for their survival as a human race fighting enemies like the Wraith, Replicators, the Genii and also a Wraith hybrid named Micheal. Each episode would bring you farther into the storyline and drawing you into there world to explorer and fight enemies they didn't know. It was a great show and I will sadly miss it. Good news a Movie is in the works. I want to introduce some of the cast and crew behind this great series and if not for them and the chemistry between the Actor's this show would not be the success it is. Joe Flanigan plays pilot Lt. Colonel Jon Sheppard and the Military leader of the Atlantis Expedition and also possesses the rare ATA gene, which enables him to activate devices created by the Ancients. David Hewlett plays Dr. Rodney McKay and is the Chief Scientific Advisor for the Atlantis Expedition. With his quick mental reflexes he has saved the team on countless occasions once you get past his arrogant personality. Rachel Luttrell plays the leader of the Planet Athos in the Pegasus Galaxy. She serves the team well with her ability to sense the Wraith's presence and she is their alien liaison. Torri Higginson plays Dr. Elizabeth Weir and she commanded the Atlantis team for the first several years and won the respect of everyone on the expedition. She was brilliant at brokering international treaties in the U.S. Government. Paul McGillion plays Dr. Carson Beckett and was Atlantis's first original Chief Medical Doctor. He discovered the Ancient Gene in humans and was also an expert with Wraith Genetics. He had a tragic death in season three but later came back as a clone of himself made from an enemy named Micheal. Rainbow Sun Francks plays Lt. Aiden Ford and once served as second in command until he was addicted to a Wraith enzyme and went rogue. He had some guerrilla like strategies against the Wraith until he went missing during an attack against a Wraith Hive Ship. Jason Momoa plays Ronon Dex a runner for the Wraith until he was freed by the Atlantis team. With his physical presence and a now trusted member his approach is kill first and ask questions later. Before Ronon joined the team he was captured by the Wraith as a target of a Wraith hunting game. Jewel Staite plays Dr. Jennifer Keller taking over the newest position of Chief Medical Director after Dr. Beckett's passing. She has to figure out her place within Atlantis and also among the rest of the team main members. Amanda Tapping plays U.S. Air Force Colonel Samantha Carter already a veteran of SG-1 is reassigned as the Commander of Operations at Atlantis when Dr. Weir goes missing. With years of combat experience with the Elite Stargate program she provides the Atlantis Team some unmatched military backup. Robert Picardo plays I.O.A representative Richard Woolsey and was chosen to succeed Col. Carter to becomes the newest Commander of Atlantis. His crossover appearance from the long running SG-1 brings his Bureaucratic personality to the Atlantis team and realizes sometimes you can't go by the book. With special appearances by the wonderful Actor Richard Dean Anderson reprising his role as Major General Jack O'Neill and Michael Shanks reprising his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson, also Christoper Judge reprising his role as Teal'c and all from the crossover series Stargate SG-1. Over the time of the series Stargate Atlantis had wonderful Actor's with guest spots contributing to the great in dept story lines and adventure within the Pegasus Galaxy. Connor Trinneer, Beau Bridges, Michael Beach, Kate Hewlett, Jill Wagner, Mark Dacascos, Gary Jones, and Robert Davi. Including reacurning roles by Mitch Pileggi, Chuck Campbell, David Nykl, Kavan Smith and Christopher Heyerdahl. I am sorry I couldn't list all the actor's who had a guest spot seeing how their were so many of them. Thank you for your great characters and the contributing to a wonderful series. I would like to thank some people Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright, Joseph Mallozzi, Paul Mullie, Carl Binder, Martin Wood, Andy Mikita, William Waring, Alan McCullough, John G. Lenic, N. John Smith, Alex Levine, James " Bam Bam" Bamford and countless others who worked on this show. The cast and crew who were behind the series did a marvelous job making the show the success it was. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374455/ This link you can read all the people behind the making of the show Stargate Atlantis. It was a fun ride while it lasted. Thank you!