<\/div>\nTonight’s episode of Stargate Atlantis<\/em> is “Quarantine”<\/a>, written by Carl Binder. During normal daily activity, the city suddenly initiates a quarantine lockdown, trapping people all over without a way out or a way in. If there is really a contagion in the city, Dr. Keller can’t get to her patients, and this could be a very bad thing. <\/p>\n Script coordinator Alex Levine explained in his scifi.com blog<\/a> that “Quarantine” is a “bottle episode”, meaning that the production used existing sets and had very few, if any, guest stars. After having spent a large portion of their budget on the visual effects of “Be All My Sins Remember’d”, the writers decided to go more toward a character-driven story with this episode. The story centers around the relationships emphasized by the odd pairings that result from the lockdown: Carter and Zelenka in a transporter; McKay and Dr. Katie Brown in her lab; and Keller and Ronon in the infirmary. <\/p>\n Although “Quarantine” is a “bottle episode”, it doesn’t mean that there are no visual effects. Levine described the development of this episode’s VFX sequence, “Lastly, I should mention the amazing VFX sequence of the tower climb. When Carl envisioned the script, he knew most of it would take place in interiors, so, even though this was a bottle show, it was going to need a breathtaking sequence to open up the episode. So you get to see your hero, Sheppard, in a death defying climb up the Atlantis tower. Carl called it a ‘visual showpiece’, which is exactly what it is.”<\/p>\n Find out which relationships thrive and which are strained as the city takes over tonight on the Sci Fi Channel at 10pm Eastern and then visit our on-site forum<\/a> to rate and discuss the episode.<\/p>\n Spoiler preview videos:<\/p>\n Tonight’s episode of Stargate Atlantis is “Quarantine”, written by Carl Binder. During normal daily activity, the city suddenly initiates a quarantine lockdown, trapping people all over without a way out or a way in. If there is really a contagion in the city, Dr. Keller can’t get to her patients, and this could be a … Continue reading “SGA "Quarantine": Testing Relationships”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantis","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n