Atlantis - New BBC Series

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Pleasantly slashy.

Juliet Stevenson

Ariadne is rather beautiful..

Why is Hercules an oaf?

BASHIR!

AND my big big question: if one man could kill the minotaur why didn't they just send an army in there all with strings to kill it? I laughed my head off when it turned into a fat white pommy bloke, is this what happens in the myth?

Pythagoras is oddly cute, I think this might work well because of him.

(ooo just realized ep 2 is already out)

 

[Lonemagpie]

Atlantis this week appears to consist entirely of a wailing and screaming baby. On behalf of all misophonics, fuck you very much, BBC.

Even nicking Maester Luwin from Game Of Thrones isn’t improving this.

So the little bastard is the bastard of a king - and they bring it to Robert fucking Baratheon to take care of. Great thinking there…

 

[Deckerd]

Jack Donnelly has the same contract clause that Bradley James had. Not that I'm complaining. No sirree.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Was that Atlantis shorter than usual? If so, thank fuck for that!

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Some how managed to surpass itself on the mediocrity levels tonight.

 

[Deckerd]

Moaning Minnies.

Just because there wasn't a monster to kill and there was an ickle baby to save so that he can grow up and marry his mummy. How liberal and joy filled can an story be?

 

[Relayer1]

I've watched two of the four I've recorded. That's enough...I'm out.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Moaning Minnies.

Just because there wasn't a monster to kill and there was an ickle baby to save so that he can grow up and marry his mummy. How liberal and joy filled can an story be?

Well, for me, Google "misophonia" and possibly "sensory defensiveness". Taste in story has nothing to do with my problem with this episode!

 

[Shawnster]

Tugging on our heartstrings with Medusa. They're making her to be such a nice girl, yet we know what her fate's going to be.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The formula does appear to have become stale very quickly. I'm sick of seeing the same old woods. What happened to the BBC quarry?

 

[Kelthaz]

Tugging on our heartstrings with Medusa. They're making her to be such a nice girl, yet we know what her fate's going to be.

Which is the exact same thing that they did with Morgana. Atlantis is just Merlin without Uther, Gaius, and a badass dragon.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Jack Donnelly, who plays Jason) just announced on the Saturday Kitchen that Atlantis has been renewed for a second season for next year - cheer or wail as appropriate... (He also mentioned that this series ends with a two-part story whose conclusion is intended for Xmas Eve - which is odd, cos that's a tuesday, and unless there's a week off - presumably Nov 23rd for Dr Who's anniversary - it should finish on the 21st)

 

[Guy Gardener]

Just caught up on the last 3 weeks.

This is bosh.

You know when when MacGyver would wander around third world villages and save the day with electromagnetism or using the sun and optical lenses to make big honking space guns...

Or how about the Planet of the Apes TV Show where the two lost astronauts would use 21st century solutions (EVERY WEEK!) to solve problems on the Planet of the Apes who for the most part thought that it was still 1620 AD.

Jason doesn't seem to be tweaking at all from the lack of twitter or Caffeine in his life.

I have no damn idea why they even bothered to make him come from the modern world if they never even bloody mention it or use it.

 

[Deckerd]

I think the only benefit he has is from his shaky knowledge of Greek mythology. He does seem to be exceptionally adept at sword skills and, hell even speaking the lingo like a native. I've come to the conclusion that it's not supposed to be taken seriously.

Also, when d'you think they'll reveal he's Theseus?

 

[timothy]

Is this show in the us or only on bbc 1? If it is in the us what channel?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

According to the BBC America website:

Atlantis premieres Saturday, November 23 at 9/8c as part of Supernatural Saturday.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/atlantis/

 

[timothy]

Awesome thanks. I saw the trailer on youtube it looks fantastic can't wait

 

[Guy Gardener]

But you can pretend it isn't and save yourself a head ache.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The plot development is so slow and has so little depth that I'm finding it difficult to muster up any enthusiasm to watch any more of it.

 

[Starkers]

It does seem to have settled into a very bland pattern very quickly and, as I think the SFX review of the opening episode said, if the makers of Merlin were just going to do Merlin again, I’d rather they’d just kept Merlin going a bit longer!

Siddig is just Uther, the Oracle is the dragon/Gaius, Medusa is Morgana (but then so is the queen) Ariadne is Gwen only this time she’s regal and Arthur is the commoner (although I’m guessing he’s not that common.)

As Guy said, why make him from the 21st Century if this isn’t going to play a part? It would have been far better if the show had started with him waking up on the beach with neither him, nor us, having a clue as to who he was. They could have then scattered clues throughout the series that would lead to us realising he’s from now, and him gradually recollecting his past. As it stands the fact he’s from the 21st Century and the fact he’s looking for his father is 99% pointless aside from the odd shocked look when he meets someone he recognises the name of. Even then this isn’t that useful (Hercules isn’t the Hercules he knows, and neither is Pythagoras, so why does it follow that Medusa will go all snakey?)

It really does feel like a show that was conceived on the back of a fag packet and its increasingly obvious that Merlin was a show that was WAY better than it had any right to be.

I do realise that it is what it is, it’s a lightweight Saturday night show, I just think it could be a bit more adventurous with its format and just because something is light and fluffy it doesn’t mean it can’t be thought provoking as well and a little dangerous. Right now every episode feels like the episode before. The only reason I keep watching is that it’s nicely cast, but I do wonder when I’ll duck out (which I did with Robin Hood)