Atlantis [BBC - UK]

Richard Dower

Looks lush!....did they re-use the sets from Rome? :P

Anyone notice the doctor from DS9?....Alexander Siddig, who renamed himself Siddig El Fadil in later seasons. He's a bit typecast as the Arab....but i have seen some of his stuff and he's turned into a pretty darn good actor and was excellent in Syriana and Cairo Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_itzsxNOfFM

mewso

Richard Dower wrote: »

Anyone notice the doctor from DS9?....Alexander Siddig, who renamed himself Siddig El Fadil in later seasons.]

Other way around. Renamed to Alexander Siddig because nobody could pronounce his name.

expectationlost

trailer http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2013/09/tv-trailer-bbc-ones-atlantis/ mixing in a lot of different things

Mister R

I'm not expecting much but I'll give it a shot, I'd imagine it will be predictable BBC Family drama though.

I liked Robin Hood but hated Merlin so we'll see what this turns out like.

brian_t

Atlantis starts on BBC1 on Saturday 28th September at 8.25pm

Mr E

Anyone watch? Was it any good?

Patty O Furniture

Mr E wrote: »

Anyone watch? Was it any good?

Was watching it on a -4min rewinded, had to make a cuppa to sit down it, looked ok & then came the dreaded message, 'insufficient space on hard disk to rewind' :mad: went to make something stronger
So i don't know how it ended?

CastorTroy

I watched since it had the Merlin/Doctor Who slot. Was enjoyable. May even be classed as cheesy.
Didn't know what it would be about but seems it's going to be mostly based around Greek history and mythology.

The main characters are Jason(who'll probably team with a a certain group of Argonauts at some point), Hercules(out of shape and played by Mark Addy and Pythagorous("The triangle guy"). They work well together and play well off each other.

This week they took on the minotaur and next week they meet

Medusa

I'll keep watching and see how the story plays out. Seeds are being sown for a bigger story.

FloatingVoter

Its crap in a great self-aware kind of crap. Think of it as an antidote to reality. I'm sure he'll bump into Leonardo next week. The lad off DS9 is doing the king in this and the Arab fella in Leo...so who knows.

FunLover18

CastorTroy wrote: »

I watched since it had the Merlin/Doctor Who slot. Was enjoyable. May even be classed as cheesy.
Didn't know what it would be about but seems it's going to be mostly based around Greek history and mythology.

I think it can definitely be classed as cheesy and as someone with a degree in Greek and Roman Civilisation I can confirm that it is based around Greek mythology in the very loosest sense.

Personally, I thought it was awful, but I may have gone in with too high expectations. I'll tune in next week and hopefully I might enjoy it more knowing that it's a family show in the truest sense of the word. Mark Addy is always enjoyable.

FloatingVoter

FunLover18 wrote: »

I think it can definitely be classed as cheesy and as someone with a degree in Greek and Roman Civilisation I can confirm that it is based around Greek mythology in the very loosest sense.

Anybody hoping to get a similar degree had best not watch this show for research purposes. They'd shoot the exam paper, never mind mark it.

Mister R

On both IMDB and Digital Spy boards people are ripping this to shreds for various reasons :pac: Haven't watched it yet myself though.

FunLover18

Mister R wrote: »

On both IMDB and Digital Spy boards people are ripping this to shreds for various reasons :pac: Haven't watched it yet myself though.

The writing and plotting is very poor. I was really hoping for better from Overman.

FloatingVoter

It's about a modern day bloke who gets transported back to Atlantis. Were these people expecting gritty realism with a twist of profound deep meanings ?

chucksandstorm

I thought the production quality looked cheap, very like Doctor Who.

FloatingVoter

chucksandstorm wrote: »

I thought the production quality looked cheap, very like Doctor Who.

Same target audience, I'd imagine - and doctor Who isn't cheap to produce (not the modern reboot).

Manach

Always nice to encounter a fellow classicist.
A bit of fun on a Saturday, enjoyable and reminded me of Sinbad but with higher production values. When Jason did the Minion era bull leap over the Minotaur, that was cool.

CastorTroy

I'm a fan of the Harryhausen movies like Sinbad, Jason and Clash but I also watched Merlin, Doctor Who and Robin Hood. I don't know what people complaining about this series expected.

I watched Sky's Sinbad as well and what I think went against it was when it tried to go all dark. This was a light hearted fantasy which is aimed at all the family. It's not meant to be gritty and realistic. Seems every show is expected to be Breaking Bad, or as it's BBC, Luther.

So if you're not sure if you want to watch it or not, I'll just put it this way: Do you mind watching something that just tries to entertain without taking things too seriously? If not, go ahead. It's not life changing but there are worse ways to pass around 45 mins

Mister R

CastorTroy wrote: »

I'm a fan of the Harryhausen movies like Sinbad, Jason and Clash but I also watched Merlin, Doctor Who and Robin Hood. I don't know what people complaining about this series expected.

I watched Sky's Sinbad as well and what I think went against it was when it tried to go all dark. This was a light hearted fantasy which is aimed at all the family. It's not meant to be gritty and realistic. Seems every show is expected to be Breaking Bad, or as it's BBC, Luther.

So if you're not sure if you want to watch it or not, I'll just put it this way: Do you mind watching something that just tries to entertain without taking things too seriously? If not, go ahead. It's not life changing but there are worse ways to pass around 45 mins

That is a total cop out, various family shows can still have solid plots and developed characters. The Gilmore Girls, 7th Heaven are two examples that spring to mind of shows that were not gritty or adult that still had good scripts and interesting plots.

Just because its all round family entertainment doesn't mean it should be poorly written with cardboard acting from some young pretty people.

Also Xena was hardly mythologically accurate the entire time but they still managed to make an interesting series with some unusual plot twists and believable characters.

JP Liz V1

BBC America has renewed for a second season Source

brian_t

The second series starts this Saturday at 8.30pm