Atlantis: Season 1

It's a great season anyway you look at it.

I wanted to like this show. I tried to like this show. The lead is personable. The premise has potential.Searching for his father, Jason stumbles into Atlantis, which turns out to be a parallel earth. Why they bother with this plot element, I have no clue. After episode one it seems to lose any significance. The writers might as well have started us in the mythical Atlantis and give the character a decent back story.Atlantis is depressing. You'd expect some kind of civilization, maybe some steampunk neatness, or an inexplicable pseudo-science. Instead you get a bastardized ancient Greece, in which everyone speaks English until it's time to pray or cast a spell--then everyone speaks Greek.Jason's bumbling friends, Pythagoras, who has no personality or character and, Hercules, who has been comically reduced to a cowardly slob, are irritating at the best of times. Most of the other recurring characters are bland and generic. Jason has somehow ended up living with Pythagoras and Hercules (why do they live together?), and at no point seeks to move on in search of his father, destiny or decent lodging. While somehow not knowing anything of the customs of Atlantis, he manages to kowtow to its rules regarding Ariadne alone, Rather than seeking after the obvious love interest, he drags his friends into one seeming catastrophe after the next due to his lack of knowledge regarding how life works in Atlantis. You'd think after the first or second time his friends would sit down and lay out the rules for him...The absolute most annoying feature of the series is its obsession with bad chase scenes through dirty Aladdin-esque streets. Every episode so far has featured a chase scene in which the characters masterfully outwit the guards by hiding behind obvious objects as they run by or by climbing up onto the roof of a building.This show is a disappointment and fails to achieve the campy goodness of Xena, Hercules and Merlin. I'm fairly certain that Atlantis has only run as long as it has because of the protagonist's frequent displays of partial nudity. He spends almost as much time with his shirt off as he does running through the beggar-ridden streets of Atlantis

The whole myth... story has been told repeatedly over the decades and always with the same - same - same - same- get the point? "You know what's coming next story line!" and all myth... characters are played true to form (HEADS UP SPOILER ALERT) Hercules- Tall-Thin-Muscular-Brave-oh yeah and Blond now that is typical portrayal, but tune into this and WELL let's just say you'll receive a belly full of joy and surprises! :)) and then there is the (as Jason calls him) the triangle guy (OMG that was funny) our family calls him Pi we keep getting tongue tied on his name LOL.. Then Medusa and when Jason meets her and the look on his face. Our family gives cudos to the casting director!!! BRAVO and then the WRITERS and CREATORS. The imagination and creativity to take this MYTHOLOGY DONE RAGGED THEME OVER AND OVER and you all together BRIGHTENED IT UP- ENLIGHTENED- MADE IT SO ENJOYABLE AND FUN. MY TEENAGE SON 16 AND HIS FRIENDS THAT I SHOWED THE SHOW TOO LOVE IT AND CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO CONTINUE THEY LAUGH AND GET CAUGHT UP IN THE STORY LINE AND LOVE THE ALL THE CHARACTERS. OUR FAMILY SITS AFTER THE EPISODES AND WE TALK AND LAUGH. AND MY CHILDREN LEARN SO MUCH AND DON'T HATE THE LEARNING LOL.... so I want to Thank You From the Bottom of my Heart for bring a Brilliant, Fun, Intelligent, Show into our home! I wish you and your team and Cast Many Years with "Atlantis"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lovin It ALL and All OF You

Three words: Jack Donnelly - yum! Seriously, I know I'm a little late to the party, but, I just discovered this delightful series a few months ago and it had me within the first ten minutes ("You're the triangle guy!"). It has everything from adventure, romance, loyal friendships, Mythological characters, humor, scary monsters, evil antagonists, and, plenty of gorgeous, ripped, bare-chested men for the ladies and amazingly choreographed fight scenes (without all the blood and guts like so many other series) for the guys. Yes, there are plenty of holes in the story, so either ignore or ponder them, but take it for what it's worth - pure entertainment! It is so disappointing that the BBC and producers - for whatever reason - decided to cancel after just 2 seasons! So many unanswered questions and unfinished story lines that could have taken the series so much further! I just don't understand since from what I read, the series had really good ratings?!?Oh, and did I mention Jack Donnelly????

In the hands of less committed Shakespearean trained actors and production artists this could be a very dull production. The adherence to the rich Greek mythology heritage is refreshing. There is little 21st century spin and even some guessing as to origins of myths (including that the continent of Atlantis could have had actual people encountering mythical level manipulation of physics and genetics and behaving in remarkably mythical ways, such as leaping gracefully over charging bulls). The scripts do have forced humor, but it is for a family audience, so that is understandable. That it respects its subject and tries to inform about the ancient world culture is a five star effort that only the 50's Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, etc. has attempted. Even though the ancients didn't have a sense of the biology, laws of physics, etc. they did have a pool of wisdom which sadly kids today are not getting passed on to them. I just hope Atlantis would move on eventually to interesting people like Homer and Aesop!

A really good series here, bought it to try as we seen the trailer for season 2 and was like oohhh thats looks quite good and i have to say we were very happy with it. There are some really funny parts and has a very good storyline to it.Only problem is that it got axed after 2 series and as we have yet to watch the 2nd series i couldn't say whether it got left infished or not, boooo to axing good series.

I think this series has great potential. The characters and plot need to be more fleshed out but then it is only the first series I am sure the next one will be much improved. Love the times this was set it and could be a little more intense.

received in good condition, thanks a lot.

Currently watching the second series which is definitely living up to the first. Funny and actuon packed all at once with great characterisation, even if the writers take serious liberties with the mythology part of things :)

I loved this series when I watched it on TV last year and as the new series has started now it reminded me how much I enjoyed the first hence the reason for buying. Excellent service from Amazon as usual.