Stargate Atlantis: Season 3 DVD set press release (US)

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TV - Stargate: Atlantis - Season 3 Press Release

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THE LOST CITY EXPEDITION CONTINUES AS MGM HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASES

 

Stargate Atlantis Season 3 Of The Fan Favorite Sci-Fi Series Surfaces To DVD On

September 18; Now Available Just Before The Fall Premiere Of Season 4

 

5-Disc Set Features All 20 Episodes And Arrives Jam-Packed With Cast And Creator Commentaries, Featurettes and Exclusive Bonus Materials

 

Los Angeles, CA - From the longest consecutively running sci-fi series ever, "Stargate SG-1", comes its thrilling spin-off, "Stargate: Atlantis" Season 3, splashing onto DVD on September 18 from MGM Home Entertainment. For the first time MGM is releasing the complete previous season of "Stargate: Atlantis" on DVD before the premiere of the next season allowing fans to catch up on their favorite episodes. Set in the lost city of Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy built millions of years ago by the most advanced race in the Stargate Universe, an adventurous expedition ensues, overflowing with intense battles, out-of-this-world visuals, amazing special effects, endearing characters and a two-time Emmy nominated score by Joel Goldsmith. "Stargate: Atlantis" Season 3 is anchored with a compelling ensemble cast including Joe Flanigan (The Other Sister), Torri Higginson (The English Patient), Rachel Luttrel (Imposter) David Hewlett ("The Triangle") and Mitch Pileggi ("The X-Files"). Executive produced by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, the five-disc DVD set is flooded with bonus features including audio commentaries for 19 episodes, many behind-the-scenes featurettes and a profusion of photo and production design galleries. A must-have collection for any sci-fi fan, the "Stargate: Atlantis" Season 3 DVD set will be available for the suggested retail price of $49.98 U.S. / $69.98 Canada.

 

"Stargate: Atlantis" Season 3 DVD Disc Content Specifics:

 

Disc One:

Episode 301: "No Man's Land"

In the third-season opener, Sheppard's ship vanishes during a space melee against the Wraith. Meanwhile, Weir is recalled to Stargate Command as Colonel Caldwell leads a mission to keep the Wraith from reaching Earth.

• Commentary by Producer/Writer Martin Gero and Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood

Episode 302: "Misbegotten"

Woolsey travels to Atlantis to evaluate Dr. Weir's leadership. Meanwhile, Dr. Beckett and Sheppard are at odds over what to do with the former Wraith transformed into humans by the retrovirus.

• Commentary by Executive Producer Paul Mullie and Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood

Episode 303: "Sateda"

While on an exploratory mission, Ronon is taken prisoner by villagers who made a pact with the Wraith. Meanwhile, Sheppard and Teyla rally the team to rescue their comrade.

• Commentary by Executive Producer, Writer and Director Robert C. Cooper & Director of Photography Brenton Spencer
• Mission Directive: "Sateda" featuring Director Robert C.

Episode 304: "Irresistible"

The team searches for stargates to harvest for an intergalactic bridge, and encounters a charming alchemist who beguiles Dr. Beckett.

• Commentary by Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood and Director of Photography Michael Blundell

Special Features:

• Inside the Stargate: Atlantis Visual FX Department
• Photo Gallery: Photo Gallery and Production Design Gallery

Disc Two:

Episode 305: "Progeny"

An advanced civilization is accidentally discovered during the team's investigation of a purportedly abandoned Ancient testing site, prompting Weir to broker an alliance with the society's leader, Oberoth.

• Commentary by Director Andy Mikita and VFX Supervisor Mark Savela
• Mission Directive: "Progeny" featuring Andy Mikita

Episode 306: "The Real World"

Dr. Weir has a rude awakening in a psychiatric hospital on Earth, where she is told that her memories of Atlantis are delusions.

 

Episode 307: "Common Ground"

Sheppard is captured by a Genii commander and imprisoned beside a Wraith, who becomes a tool in negotiations to release Sheppard, as well as an unlikely ally, for his escape.

• Commentary by Director William Waring and Director of Photography Brenton Spencer

Episode 308: "McKay & Mrs. Miller"

McKay returns to earth to enlist his sister's with an Air Force experiment, producing surprise visitor.

• Commentary by Producer/Writer Martin Gero and Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood

Special Features:

• Profile on: Rachel Luttrell
• Photo Gallery: Photo Gallery and Production Design Gallery

Disc Three:

Episode 309: "The Return, Part I"

Ancients journey to Earth and request that the Stargate team vacate Atlantis, a scenario that scatters the team and presents General Landry with a quandary.

• Commentary by Producer/Writer Martin Gero and Executive Producer Paul Mullie

Episode 310: "The Return, Part II"

The team tries to rescue General O'Neill and Richard Woolsey during the Asuran occupation of the outpost.

• Commentary by Producer/Writer Martin Gero and Executive Producer Paul Mullie

Episode 311: "Phantoms"

A mission to recover a lost team leads to the discovery of a discontinued Wraith experiment: a mind-altering device that adversely affects Ronon and Sheppard.

• Commentary by Co-Executive Producer Carl Binder and Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood
• Mission Directive: "Phantoms" featuring Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood

Episode 312: "Echoes"

Teyla sees a strange "woman in white" in Atlantis as the sea creature that saved Rodney from the puddle jumper crash resurfaces, signaling a new threat to the outpost.

• Commentary by Director William Waring and Director of Photography Brenton Spencer

Special Features:

• General O'Neill Goes to Atlantis
• Photo Gallery: Photo Gallery and Production Design Gallery

Disc Four:

Episode 313: "Irresponsible"

The team encounters Lucius, who uses Ancient technology to assume the role of protector for a besieged village.

• Commentary by Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood and Director of Photography Michael Blundell

Episode 314: "Sunday"

Trying to relax on a rare day off, an explosion on Atlantis develops into an emergency situation with dire results for one of the expedition's key members.

• Commentary by Producer/Writer Martin Gero and Director William Waring

Episode 315: "Tao of Rodney"

Rodney is hit by an energy beam from an Ancient device and begins to exhibit heightened senses and telekinesis. The team discovers that the device was used to accelerate ascension, which may kill Rodney in the process.

• Commentary by Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood and Director of Photography Michael Blundell

Episode 316: "The Game"

Sheppard and McKay compete in a civilization-building simulator they've discovered on Atlantis, which may turn out to have serious consequences.

• Commentary by Director William Waring and Director of Photography Brenton Spencer
• Mission Directive: "The Game" featuring Director William Waring

Special Features:

• Masters of the Alien
• Photo Gallery: Photo Gallery and Production Design Gallery

 

Disc Five:

Episode 317: "The Ark"

Survivors are revived from suspended animation in a space station, but problems from their past come back to haunt the team.

• Commentary by Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood and VFX Supervisor Mark Savela

Episode 318: "Submersion"

An underwater mission has the team searching for an alternate power source in the Atlantean ocean.

• Commentary by Director Brenton Spencer and VFX Supervisor Mark Savela

Episode 319: "Vengeance"

The team encounters an old enemy while searching for one of their allies, and uncovers a plot to engineer a race of powerful monsters.

• Commentary by Director Andy Mikita and Creature Effects Designer Todd Masters

Episode 320: "First Strike"

The Apollo, a new Earth ship, arrives at Atlantis under the command of Colonel Abe Ellis, whose mission could start a war, and endanger the station in the process.

• Commentary by Producer/Writer Martin Gero, Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood and VFX Supervisor Mark Savela
• Mission Directive: "First Strike" featuring Director/Supervising Producer Martin Wood

Special Features:

• Stargate Atlantis: A Look Back on Season 3 with Martin Gero
• Photo Gallery: Photo Gallery and Production Design Gallery

 

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Ooookaaayyy.... is it my imagination (or being tired?) in that I don't see a single actor doing a commentary??

Comments

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Hey there. Thanks so much for sharing this but... um... could ya LJ cut please? Thanks. :)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Fixed :)

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Ooookaaayyy.... is it my imagination (or being tired?) in that I don't see a single actor doing a commentary??

Nope, it is not your imagination...I was rambling about this in my journal a while back. I think it is probably one of the stupidest moves they've ever made with the DVDs...

Since I don't have to pay for them, I guess I can't complain...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You don't have to pay for 'em?? Wish I could say that. Yeah, I ranted about this earlier too. I hope in season 4 they beg/cajole, pay for a Caribbean vacation to get the main cast to do commentaries.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

eTeam. I review - I get to keep the DVDs. Not really that exciting, and something I could start on right now. Not like I've not seen the episodes, and don't have some info to start docking points. The special features are going to need to be really special this time out.

I hoped when I ranted about it that it might turn out that there was some mistake, however this keeps turning up, so I guess not. I'm definitely hoping for cast members to do S4 ones. I really cannot understand why it never happened this season. It's a 45 minute job for each one. They can't seriously be telling me, they couldn't find time every now and then to get an actor to do a commentary or two.

[margec01.livejournal.com]

I found this out with Season 9 of Stargate SG-1 and boy was I pissed. Amanda commented on Unending--that's it for the actors! For SG-1 that's almost the only reason I bothered to buy the DVDs. Now that the show is already canceled, I may not waste my money buying Season 10.

I was afraid that was going to happen with SGA and here it is. I suppose it has now been written into the actors' contracts that they will get PAID for doing commentaries. And God knows, MGM and Bridge aren't going to pay for that. Grrrrr. God, David and Joe and Martin and Martin were SO good on the Season 2 commentaries!

The two Martins are decent commentators, but I listened to a couple of the other ones on SG-1 and...meh. I don't need to hear endlessley about special effects, set design, and camera angles, thank you. MGM better realize WHY the Stargate DVDs are best-sellers, and it ain't all for the production values.

I suppose I ought to put this in a letter and send it off to someone who has some power, right? Or maybe I'll just comment on Gateworld, since that seems to get a lot of attention.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Well, don't see how it court hurt MGM/Skiffy/whoever to shell out a little more cash for the actors for commentaries. I guess this is one time I'm glad I watch the shows and get around to commentaries a year or so later... However, should probably wait a month or a little longer, see if we get another PR and if the DVDs come out without actor commentaries, complain straight to MGM. MGM doesn't troll GW to my knowledge, and complaint letters straight to the source will probably have more impact.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I have mixed feelings about this. David and Joe do good commentaries, but that one ep that just had Torri and Rachel talking about their yoga class and what they were going to do after they finished recording the commentary track was deadly dull. I like Martin Wood's commentaries. I'm glad that everyone doing commentaries this time actually works on SGA (as opposed to Dan Shea and Gary Jones, who have nothing to contribute because they don't even work on the show).

I guess I'll miss hearing about things from the actors' point of view, but if the commentaries are interesting, then it won't matter to me as much who's giving them.

[vecturist.livejournal.com]

I thought I had seen before that there weren't going to be any commentaries by the actors, but I was still hoping... especially for DH and Kate to do "M&MM'. That could have been hysterical. I also really want to see a bloopers reel for some of the episodes.

[alipeeps.livejournal.com]

I was hoping the previous info released was inaccurate... but this is the official release info, no? I can't understand not having A SINGLE actor on any of the commentaries. Now.. much as I like Martin and Martin and usually find their commentaries interesting... most people do watch the show for the people IN FRONT OF the camera and that's what people are interested in seeing/hearing more of. Yeah, not all the actor commentaries are great but they usually add a further level of interest for me.. with David Hewlett and Joe Flanigan being the best contributors. And, I'm sorry, but there is a limit to how interested I am in hearing a director explain how or why they filmed a particular shot a particular way. Yes, a certain amount of that stuff if okay... but not for the whole commentary. And do I really want to listen to the FX guy explain how they did the FX shots? Not so much...

What I don't understand too is the conflicting information... Ken Cuperus mentioned MONTHS ago on GW that he had recorded the commentary for Common Ground. I have to admit I worried when Ken disappeared abruptly off GW and never returned that he had had his knuckles rapped by TPTB for interacting with the fans without their permission/say so (particularly as well-intentioned fans began to complain when they heard Ken was leaving the writing staff (mainly due to staff from the cancelled SG1 being carried over to SGA - "last in, first out", as it were)) and this reinforces that fear... that they are now pissed off with Ken... maybe even to the extent of re-recording the Common Ground commentary without him? :/

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I am thinking now that this still might be 'tentative,' I hope, as "Real World" doesn't have any listing at all. I mean, they gotta have commentary on all episodes, right???

Fingers crossed that as we get closer (well, what, less than two months now?) we'll get another press release like the week before that lists actors on the commentaries. I just can't see absolutely NO actors doing commentaries.

[kaaatie.livejournal.com]

*grumble* That really sucks that they don't have actors doing the commentaries. I'm sure that some of the special features will be entertaining, but it would be so much better if the actors were involved with the commentaries...

[mangst.livejournal.com]

It is stupid to have no actor commentary on season 3, after having the first 2 seasons filled with them. I personally like it when they have several different viewpoints in commentaries like director/writer/actor. I have absolutely no problem with other crew members being represented (They are important to and should be heard) but don't do away with actors contributions all together. The actors are who we are familiar with and whose point of view we can relate to the best. I'm dithering on buying the DVD's now. I probably will, but I'll wait until the price comes down. I watch the episodes once or twice, but I listened to the commentaries over and over. It's why I buy them.

[pisces227.livejournal.com]

I am so disappointed in this. I'm currently watching the S2 commentaries and I can't for the life of me figure out why Gary Jones is on it. What's up with that? *rolls eyes*

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Alas, nobody seems to know why Gary Jones is doing Stargate ATLANTIS commentaries....