More than just a bang, but several booms and stuff blowing up await fans as Stargate Atlantis returns to the Sci Fi Channel at 10pm Eastern tonight! Executive producer and co-showrunner Joseph Mallozzi said of tonight’s episode, “Be All My Sins Remember’d”, “This one boasts the greatest visual effects sequences the show has ever done. Mark [Savela] is going to be hard-pressed to top this one.”
Savela, the show’s visual effects supervisor, talked with Sharon Gosling at the Official MGM website about the work his team did in preparing these sequences. The team at Image Engine in Vancouver actually used models to produce a three- to three-and-a-half-minute space battle, the culmination of the Wraith-Replicator-Human war in the Pegasus Galaxy. But in the final edit, the battle lasts much longer. Savela explained, “It’s a fun eight minutes of the show, with the VFX intercut between the scenes that are on the planet’s surface.”
Representing Earth in the battle are the Daedalus and Apollo starships, with their commanders playing major roles in the outcome. Mitch Pileggi returns after a long absence as Col. Steven Caldwell, commander of the Daedalus. Both his ship and Col. Abe Ellis’s Apollo have been upgraded with the Asgard-based weapons that were installed on their sister ship, the Odyssey, by the Asgard as seen in Stargate SG-1‘s series finale, “Unending”. Can these upgrades successfully go up against the Asurans’ powerful Aurora class ships?
And speaking of Aurora class ships, the Travelers’ leader Larrin reenters Sheppard’s life, and apparently makes him even more miserable. But, later, she joins the leaders around the conference table in a scene about which Mallozzi said, “Can’t say enough about the convening of the war council scene.”
The ultimate goal of combining the efforts of the humans and the Wraith are to see an end to the Replicators. How close are McKay and the Wraith scientist (known as “Todd”) to coming up with the shutdown code? Will the agreements made in the war council last beyond the battle? And, will this really mean the end for the Replicators? Tune in tonight to find out, and after viewing, please join our on-site forum to rate and discuss the episode.
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