Atlantis season 6 info

[Samurai8472]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/01/season-six-that-might-have-been/

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW - If it’s one thing that Atlantis didn’t seem to get around to much, it was the old sci-fi staple of traveling through time. In this episode “McKay’s experiments with a time-traveling Puddle Jumper send the team both backwards and forwards in time. The story jumps from five years into the past (where one version of the team struggles to acquire the Puddle Jumper and undo the damage done without affecting the time line), five years into the future (where the Wraith have taken over Atlantis and another version of the team is attempting to acquire the Jumper so that they can warn their past selves), and the present (unaffected team) with developments in each timeline influencing events in the other. At the end of the day, despite my detailed, color-coded outline, everybody else’s head threatened to explode so the story was shelved.”

Sounds like "Ripple" and "Mobieus"

REVENGE - Mallozzi hinted: “A certain alien race seeks revenge on Atlantis after we screw up their plans (qv that Season Five episode in which we screw up the plans of that alien race).” After Season Five’s two-parter aired, Mallozzi further clarified that this episode would have brought back the lost tribe of Asgard living in the Pegasus Galaxy.

More Asgard yay

I would have liked a scene in the season premiere where Rodney and Keller visit San Francisco China town.

Rodney- We should try this Chinese restaurant, Coombs said he enjoyed the egg drop soup

 

[Kpnuts]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/01/season-six-that-might-have-been/

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW - If it’s one thing that Atlantis didn’t seem to get around to much, it was the old sci-fi staple of traveling through time. In this episode “McKay’s experiments with a time-traveling Puddle Jumper send the team both backwards and forwards in time. The story jumps from five years into the past (where one version of the team struggles to acquire the Puddle Jumper and undo the damage done without affecting the time line), five years into the future (where the Wraith have taken over Atlantis and another version of the team is attempting to acquire the Jumper so that they can warn their past selves), and the present (unaffected team) with developments in each timeline influencing events in the other. At the end of the day, despite my detailed, color-coded outline, everybody else’s head threatened to explode so the story was shelved.”

Sounds like "Ripple" and "Mobieus"

REVENGE - Mallozzi hinted: “A certain alien race seeks revenge on Atlantis after we screw up their plans (qv that Season Five episode in which we screw up the plans of that alien race).” After Season Five’s two-parter aired, Mallozzi further clarified that this episode would have brought back the lost tribe of Asgard living in the Pegasus Galaxy.

More Asgard yay

I would have liked a scene in the season premiere where Rodney and Keller visit San Francisco China town.

Rodney- We should try this Chinese restaurant, Coombs said he enjoyed the egg drop soup

As if they haven't done enough AU stories

 

[OmahaStar]

Perhaps if the writing had been better, we'd have a sixth season. As it is, it was barely limping along. Just how bad would it have gotten if given yet another undeserved season?

 

[Broccoli]

Some of the stuff sounds interesting. "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" sounds interesting (at least on paper). Reminds me of VGR's "Shattered" which I thought the concept was fantastic, but the execution was poor.

 

[RaymondJames]

If they would have used some of those stories in Season 4 or 5 they may have gotten a season 6

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I would have liked a scene in the season premiere where Rodney and Keller visit San Francisco China town.

Only if they pony up the bucks to film here. If there's one thing I hate, it's shows that try to show us "imitation San Francisco." One of the most unique looking cities in the world - cmon!

 

[sidious618]

If they would have used some of those stories in Season 4 or 5 they may have gotten a season 6

My thoughts exactly. It almost seems as if they knew that they were running on fumes an were going to try and make it better for the sixth season. Too little, too late, I'm afraid.

 

[bigdaddy]

Thank god the show was canceled, dear god that tiem traveling episode sounds horrible.

 

[Hyperspace05]

Thank god the show was canceled, dear god that tiem traveling episode sounds horrible.

Yes, I was just going to write the same thing. If that is what they were planning, then it is proof positive that SG:A deserved to be cancelled. Talk about going to the well a few too many times.

 

[Hermiod]

I like the time travel idea. There's nothing "alternate universe" about it. How they can go back 5 years, though, and not include Weir I don't know.

 

[Jax]

Thank god the show was canceled, dear god that tiem traveling episode sounds horrible.

Yes, I was just going to write the same thing. If that is what they were planning, then it is proof positive that SG:A deserved to be cancelled. Talk about going to the well a few too many times.

Yeh 1 out of 20 episodes makes it a bad season, sounding and being is two different things. SG-A never deserved to be cancelled, it should of been given one final season to wrap everything up.

 

[The Wormhole]

If you read Mallozi's blog (link to it in that Gateworld article) he goes into detail regarding the entire season. There were some fairly decent ideas there. The Red Shirt Diaries and The Replacements sounded promising anyway.

 

[Kpnuts]

The Red Shirt Diaries

I've not read Mallozi's encyclopia-length blog but would that be similar to TNG's "Lower Decks" by any chance?

 

[bigdaddy]

Thank god the show was canceled, dear god that tiem traveling episode sounds horrible.

Yes, I was just going to write the same thing. If that is what they were planning, then it is proof positive that SG:A deserved to be cancelled. Talk about going to the well a few too many times.

Yeh 1 out of 20 episodes makes it a bad season, sounding and being is two different things. SG-A never deserved to be cancelled, it should of been given one final season to wrap everything up.

No I'm thinknig that the last few seasons of Atlantis show that the show should have been canceled, this is just more proof. Also Replicators would come back yet again, that writer needs to be fired.

CARTER RASHOMON - An Atlantis spin on the classic Kurosawa film, in this episode “Colonel Carter faces a possible court-martial and dismissal after an offworld op goes awry. During the ensuing investigation, we are offered three different flashback versions of the charged events.”

That sounds like trash, more so because it should be an Atlantis character. Atlantis already screwed up the Sam character enough.

#14: Hexed: Ah, the infamous Sheppard story that didn’t make the cut, much to the chagrin of the whumpers. While visiting a primitive off-world village,

Yes! That's what Stargate needs another primitive wooded village episode!

They might have 10 decent episodes a season. Frankly that's all they should give the Stargate writers. However after reading the plans for a season 6, thank god it was canceled. They didn't even have the big main storylines planned! You plan those first and work them into the other episodes.Several Sci-fi Channel shows get only 13 episodes. What a bunch of hacks.

And they bring up Wier, all I can say to Joe is FUCK YOU! You're the asshole, not Torri.

 

[Broccoli]

I think many of you are taking his word too literally. Most of these stories have the disclaimer attached saying that they were shelved from previous seasons because the stories were not working, but could have been revisited if they figured out a way to make it work.

 

[bigdaddy]

The point is that they were thinknig of these episodes, and they are garbage. He should have instead said "Well here are some episodes were thought about over the years...", but didn't he said season 6 and even put them in a basic order. Plus once again, they didn't even have the main story arc for the mid season, and season finale. Just further proof they pulled out stories from their asses the last several years.

 

[Candlelight]

I like the time travel idea. There's nothing "alternate universe" about it. How they can go back 5 years, though, and not include Weir I don't know.

It's not like she was always present for entire episodes...

 

[InvisibleGT]

If you read Mallozi's blog (link to it in that Gateworld article) he goes into detail regarding the entire season. There were some fairly decent ideas there. The Red Shirt Diaries and The Replacements sounded promising anyway.

The Replacements would have been interesting, had they not used some version of the "reset" button at the end. But, I can imagine McKay coming up with some sort of workaround for it, and all being right at the end of the episode. As they sat around the cafeteria/hospital of course...

 

[Hermiod]

I like the time travel idea. There's nothing "alternate universe" about it. How they can go back 5 years, though, and not include Weir I don't know.

It's not like she was always present for entire episodes...

Yeah, but I wouldn't have liked a "oh, she's back on Earth" line or anything like that.

 

[The Wormhole]

The Red Shirt Diaries

I've not read Mallozi's encyclopia-length blog but would that be similar to TNG's "Lower Decks" by any chance?

Basically, yes. And Lower Decks was one of my favourite episodes from TNG S7, so I can see this episode being enjoyable.