Where does "Stargate Atlantis" go in terms of its upcoming straight-to-DVD incarnation if The City of The Ancients is back on Earth? Executive Producer Joseph Mallozzi says that they will go even further back to "Stargate SG-1" basics.
"With Atlantis back on Earth, why the hell would the I.O.A. ever let it go?” Mallozzi said. “Also, with a permanent station in the Milky Way, wouldn‘t Atlantis, logically, cease to be a launch point for gate travel and, instead, become a research center for Ancient technology?” SHOW STORY!
When gate travel continues, Sheppard and his exploration team will likely do so from Stargate Command, with Atlantis substituting for The Wraith-destroyed Area 51. Sound familiar?
Does anyone else sense an SG-1/Atlantis team-up on the horizon?
Had the series continued, a better idea would have been to have Colonel John Sheppard, Ronon Dex and the rest of the Atlantis crew hijack Atlantis back to The Pegasus Galaxy to which it is responsible instead of giving into bureaucratic pressure from The I.O.A.
Completely cutting off Atlantis from Earth would have let the series stand on its own legs.
More upsetting than this uninspired, albeit rudimentary premise for the movie are the interesting ideas for episodes that would have seen production if the series had been renewed for a sixth season.
The Pegasus Galaxy Replicators and Asgard would have returned to substantiate the hefty fiscal cost and loss of man-power that comes with running the Stargate program.
Aside from the return of familiar alien menaces, the "Stargate Atlantis" writing staff intended to have Sheppard and his team disappear for months and then replaced by a new one when they are presumed dead, launch a daring rescue of one of the so often expendable other members of the expedition and go up against creepy pod kids with the ability to control space ships with their minds.
To have kids as enemies would have been an apropos idea to explore given that one of the ongoing themes of "Stargate SG-1" was Earth having been portrayed by advanced alien cultures as naive in terms of how prepared humans were to use technology beyond their level of intellectual and moral development.
What a nightmare it would have been for The Atlantis Expedition to go up against literal children irrationally using immense fire power.
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