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Season 1:

When SG-1 discovers what they believe to be the remnants of the Lost City of the Ancients - the originators of the Stargates - Stargate Command launches an investigation. A new team of explorers, headed by civilian Dr. Elizabeth Weir, travels to the distant Pegasus galaxy, where they discover an advanced but deserted city on the ocean floor, a group of nomadic humans and a deadly enemy that feeds on human fear! Actors: David Hewlett, Jason Momoa, Joe Flanigan, Paul McGillion, Rachel Luttrell, Special Features: Widescreen format. Language: English / Add. Portuguese, Spanish / Sub. French, Portuguese, Spanish, English Year: 2004 Runtime: 873 minutes.

Season 2:
The complete second season of the popular spin-off sci-fi series. A new Stargate team embarks on an incredible journey to the lost city of Atlantis. The team must battle to defeat a gruesome, powerful new enemy known as the Wraiths, quickly forge new alliances and simply survive. Their success will dictate whether they live long enough to gather the resources needed to return home from the intergalactic adventure of a lifetime. Episodes comprise: 'The Siege: Part III', 'The Intruder', 'Runner', 'Duet', 'Condemned', 'Trinity', 'Instinct', 'Conversion', 'Aurora', 'The Lost Boys', 'The Hive', 'Epiphany', 'Critical Mass', 'Grace Under Pressure', 'The Tower', 'The Long Goodbye', 'Coup D'etat', 'Michael', 'Inferno' and 'Allies'.

If Stargate Atlantis isn't the coolest sci-fi series on television, this five-disc, 20-episode box set from the second season (2005-06) offers ample evidence that it's right up there. The writing is good; the stories are intriguing, and the science part of the equation is credible enough to justify our suspension of disbelief. The characters are for the most part well-defined, and the acting, while perhaps not Emmy-calibre, is just fine. The action is exciting, the effects work impressive, the costumes and sets first-rate. But what Atlantis really has going for it is the presence of some of the baddest bad guys in the cosmos: the Wraith.

With their flowing white locks, cat-like eyes, pale, almost translucent skin, and shockingly bad teeth, the Wraith rock. They also have a constant need to feed--on humans, of course--and are a serious threat not only to Atlantis but to the entire known universe, including good ol' Earth. And although there are occasional diversions, the producers and writers have wisely kept the focus on these implacable antagonists; in fact, the newest member of the team, one Ronon Dex (played by the dreadlocked and hunky Jason Momoa), is a "runner" who escaped the Wraith's clutches, was a fugitive for years before being found by our heroes, and specialises in dispatching the villains with cold precision. In the course of the season, via single episodes and several multi-parters, the Stargate team, commanded by Dr. Elizabeth Weir (Torri Higginson in the show's least interesting role) and led by insouciant Major John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan), with genius-neurotic Dr. Rodney McKay (David Hewlett) handling the scientific intricacies and yet another doc, Carson Beckett (Paul McGillion, affecting a Scottish brogue), overseeing medical matters, deals with the enemy on many fronts. Lt. Ford (Rainbow Sun Francks) defects after assuming Wraith-like characteristics. The team experiments with a "retrovirus" designed to turn Wraiths into humans (the results are decidedly mixed). They encounter a human who raised a Wraith female from childhood and insists she's just like us (she's not). They're captured and imprisoned on a Wraith "hive" ship. And in the final episode, the humans and the Wraiths even form an alliance of supposedly mutual convenience (the episode is a cliffhanger that awaits resolution until Season Three, but anyone who thought this "partnership" was a good idea for our side clearly hasn't been paying attention).

Season 3:
The complete third season of the popular sci-fi drama in which a new Stargate team embarks on an incredible journey to the Lost City of Atlantis. The team must battle to defeat a gruesome, powerful new enemy known as the Wraiths, quickly forge new alliances and simply survive. Their success will dictate whether they live long enough to gather the resources needed to return home from the intergalactic adventure of a lifetime. The episodes comprise: 'No Man's Land (2)', 'Misbegotten (3)', 'Irresistible', 'Sateda', 'Progeny', 'The Real World', 'Common Ground', 'McKay and Mrs Miller', 'Phantoms', 'The Return - Part 1', 'The Return - Part 2', 'Echoes', 'Irresponsible', 'Tao of Rodney', 'The Game', 'The Art', 'Sunday', 'Submersion', 'Vengeance' and 'First Strike'.

Season 4:
The STARGATE universe is exhilaratingly expanded and the epic feel of the franchise is perfected in this acclaimed spin-off of the STARGATE SG-1 series, itself spun-off from the 1994 blockbuster from director Roland Emmerich. In STARGATE: ATLANTIS, an international crew of scientists and soldiers finds yet another Stargate... one which leads to the Lost City of Atlantis. This Stargate, though, isn't on Earth but in the far-away Pegasus Galaxy, and the secret city holds a formidable new enemy-the Wraith. With this fourth season of the hit sci-fi series, things take a turn in a bleak new direction, with team leader Dr. Weir injured and captured by the evil Asurans as the damaged city of Atlantis drifts through space. Features: 5-Disc Set Keep Case Widescreen - 1.78 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English Subtitles - English, French, Spanish Additional Release Material: Behind the Scenes - (4) Clips/ Highlights - Excerpts a Look Back at Season 4 Deleted Scenes: 1. Stargate Atlantis Bloopers 2. Line 21 - VAM, Deleted Scenes Text/ Photo Galleries - 1. Photo Gallery (Unspecified) 2. Production Design Gallery Episodes (20) Runtime: 900 minutes.

Season 5:

All 20 episodes from the fifth season of the American sci-fi series following the adventures of a new Stargate team as they embark on an incredible journey to the Lost City of Atlantis. Episodes are: 'Search and Rescue', 'The Seed', 'Broken Ties', 'The Daedalus Variations', 'Ghost in the Machine', 'The Shrine', 'Whispers', 'The Queen', 'Tracker', 'First Contact', 'The Lost Tribe', 'Outsiders', 'Inquisition', 'The Prodigal', 'Remnants', 'Brain Storm', 'Infection', 'Identify', 'Vegas' and 'Enemy at the Gate'.

By the time the credits roll for the final time at the end of Stargate Atlantis’ fifth season, it’s hard not to feel some sadness. For this is the final season of the show, and it’s also, arguably, right up there with the best.

It starts with a fairly major gamble, by replacing Amanda Tapping’s Samantha Carter as Atlantis’ commander and instead giving the job to Richard Woolsey, played by Robert Picardo. But it’s a gamble that pays off smartly, as Woolsey becomes a less predictable and more interesting commander. That said, not all of the characters in the show will have you warming to them, but then that’s arguably deliberate. The fifth season follows the ongoing battle with Wraith, and leaves--in the aftermath of its excellent finale--a number of threads that were presumably designed to be picked up in the sixth season that we’ll now never see.

Yet don’t let that discourage you. Season five of Stargate Atlantis doesn’t just feature some of the best moments of the show to date, but also some episodes rival anything its forerunner served up, too. The ambition of the ideas here, and the quality of both the visual effects and overall execution, is something to be genuinely admired.

The Stargate torch now passes over to the new series Stargate: Universe. But Atlantis deserves time to be kind to it. Out of the shadows of SG-1 it emerged as something genuinely special in its own right, and this fifth season finds it on tip-top form.

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