Stargate Atlantis returns to the Sci Fi Channel tonight at 9 PM ET/PT with Alan McCullough’s “Infection”. Script coordinator Alex Levine interviewed McCullough about where he gets his ideas for stories, and McCullough revealed that he looks “for loose ends in existing story lines and finds areas on which to expand. So in this way, new episodes are seeded in past story lines or character arcs.”
Levine continued, “The episode you’ll see this week, ‘Infection’, is yet another episode that continues an existing story line. We needed to tell a story that wraps up the Queen/gene therapy story line and also revisits our favorite Wraith, Todd. Alan came up with an interesting tease, so the other writers told him to run with it.”
“The team receives a distress call from a Wraith hive ship that approaches Atlantis, and they’re like, ‘What the hell is [a] Wraith hive ship doing out here?'” executive producer Joseph Mallozzi told SCI FI WIRE. “So they go to investigate, and they find the entire crew in stasis and a message from Todd requesting their help.
“In that episode, actually, we finally get to see the big bruiser Wraith, the guards, with the masks. You actually get to see what they look like behind the mask. It ain’t pretty,” Mallozzi warned and then laughed.
Preview Video – Beware of Spoilers! –
Solutions Coverage –
- Episode Guide (includes spoilers and links to other articles of interest about the episode)
- On site forum: SGA S5 Discussion Board
- Live Journal
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