Condemned

Tim joined me for this new episode of the Stargate Archives and he chose the season two episode "Condemned" to discuss.

Stargate AtlantisCondemned

The team take the jumper through the gate to a world whose people are called “Olesian” who practice an unusual form of punishment for those that break their laws, naturally it turns out that there is far more going on once the team dig beneath the surface of this society.

The team visit the Olesian city and begin an agreeable dialogue with the Magistrate played to perfection by Alan C. Peterson who reveals the island which holds the gate is a penal colony, on return to the gate the jumper comes under fire and is brought down. On Atlantis Elizabeth is worried when there is no contact with the team and visits Olesia along with Major Lorne and support personnel. The Magistrate is friendly and states that everything will be done to locate the missing Atlantis people despite the danger the prisoners could represent, he believes only his only people should search and for now Elizabeth agrees. Meanwhile the team are the prisoners of the de facto "head honcho” named Torrell ( Christian Bocher ) who demands that the jumper be repaired by McKay or else he will execute the others. As time goes by Elizabeth gets more concerned over the delaying tactics of the Magistrate and when she learns from Marin ( Kyla Anderson ) that anyone regardless of the crime is sent to the island and this food for the Wraith. The team eventually escape from captivity thanks to help from one of the native prisoners but it was a setup and they are once again captured but now Rodney has acknowledged that while he can not repair the jumper he can get the DHD working. Naturally this is the time the Wraith appear in the form of a single dart and we learn that the Magistrate is sacrificing his own people to prevent a global culling but as two cruisers fly towards the gate they are fired upon by a drone and all hell breaks loose. Elizabeth in the second jumper supports the grounded team and the native prisoners escape to a unknown world and the Atlanteans return home leaving the Magistrate and his people to feel the wrath of some hungry Wraith.

Condemned is an entertaining episode and well chosen by Tim, the strength of the episode rests more with the two outstanding performances by Christian and Alan but the story is strong and the production levels hit the high bar Atlantis has set for itself. My thanks to Tim for coming on the show and choosing an good episode to chat about, if you want more of Tim then he co-hosts the long running Uncharted Territories Podcast which I’ve listened to for many years.

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