Stargate: Atlantis (TV Series) Sanctuary (2004) User Reviews

One of the best episodes from the first season

[yugurtz · 9/10 · 13 September 2019]

Up to this point the season has been up and down in terms of interest and pace. This one stood as one of my favorites. I'm a sucker for the one-off episodes where we get to see a different side of a character, in this case Major Sheppard.

The majority of the season has been plot driven but it was nice to see a change of pace with a more character driven story telling. Romance and spirituality (which wasn't really explored up to this point) added a nice touch to this episode. I wish we saw more from Chaya, but like the food from their picnic (the last left from earth), we will just have to enjoy it.

sensitive

[sheila-85119 · 9/10 · 8 February 2021]

What a wonderful episode. Fed up of shoot 'em up episodes. This shows real compassion between cultures. Love the relationship between Sheppard and Chaya. Hope she returns to the program. Nice to see McKay being a prat as usual. References to Kirk and Star Trek a bonus. Glad we don't see The Wraith in every episode. Got fed up with Star Trek Voyager for their rubbish villains, The Kazons, episode after episode. Just humanoids with a bad hair day.

"Sanctuary"

[allmoviesfan · 7/10 · 20 April 2024]

More than halfway through the first season of Stargate: Atlantis and in "Sanctuary", we see a more diplomatic side - and, dare we say it, romantic side? - of Major Sheppard. By now, we all know he can get into and out of a gunfight like it's nobody's business, but seeing him take care of business sans a machine gun was a good piece of character development for Atlantis' main military man.

The Wraith loom large over this episode, as they have over pretty much every one so far. Sheppard and the Atlantis crew meet with a high priestess from what seems like a fairly primitive and spiritual race about a weapon that keeps the Wraith at arm's length.

'Omg, he is Kirk!'

[alci350 · 10/10 · 12 January 2021]

Although I love Stargate for the sci-fi, comedy, action and fantasy technology, this episode was a blend of all that and more. All the main characters personalities came together to form an incredible huge romantic twist, performed perfectly by Joe Flanigan and 'Chaya' Leonor Varela. I had to rewind it so many times to grasp the incredibly well written and powerfully/masterfully performed scenes. This would have been a great movie if they intented to make it 90 mins. Anyway, it's a great stand alone episode if you got the blues, anytime :)

I also have to admit, I loved the constant references to Star Trek - The original series, by McKay. Which I noticed happens a lot throughout all StarGate series.

A perfect episode to get romance fans hooked to SG-A's sci-fi world.

Spoilers...

[Miro234 · 1/10 · 26 January 2011]

This episode was so bad that I had to write a review.

I mean that the episode might be OK if not for the complete lack of logic and sense to the point that I feel cheated of my time. My advice to everybody: your time is to valuable to waste it for this crap.

**************Spoilers following********************

Seriously now the team is traveling to some planet and there they find out about the existence of a mighty weapon that keeps the locals safe from the wraith. After a lot of nonsense they discover that it was actually an ancient who was punished to guard the place . . . as she broke the most sacred law of the ancients: to never interfere. And now she can't help in any way anybody, not even with knowledge!

Now really: the Wraith have waged war, defeated and killed a lot of the ancients . . . and now the ancients are not to touch the Wraith because they come up with some weird rule. In truth they are to allow their deathly enemies to farm a whole galaxy and even more.

Come on . . . do the people who wrote the screenplay for this episode, have forgotten they brains somewhere on holiday?

Oh my Athar!

[Kepart · 1/10 · 23 June 2022]

Didn't I just watch this? A primitive civilization clueless their planet is protected from the Wraith. The team once again attempts to commandeer the "weapon" only to find out it couldn't be useful to them. It would have been a much better episode if you knew what the twist was, even if the crew didn't. Then it would have been a little more heartbreaking at the end.