Stargate Atlantis Rewatch: Season 2, Disc 3 Special Features

Special Features

Road to a Dream with Martin Gero
No, this isn’t the story of how Stargate Atlantis came into being. It’s a tongue-in-cheek documentary about writer Martin Gero’s attempt to be an actor and play Dr. Beckett’s “younger, handsomer, smarter” brother. He does the most horrible Scottish accent ever. All in good fun.

Audio Commentary for Aurora
Director Martin Wood, Co-Producer Peter DeLuise. These two get technical about how scenes were shot, use of visual effects, and trivia about the actors. Things I learned: They got real chess champions to play the two guys playing chess at the beginning of this episode; Martin Wood doesn’t like cuts in a shot, Peter DeLuise likes them; Jason Momoa’s head is huge and didn’t fit in the EVA suit helmet; Joe Flanigan kept the New York Times with him on set, even in the stasis pod; they love David Hewlett and Mitch Pileggi…a lot.

Audio Commentary for The Lost Boys
Writer Martin Gero, actors Joe Flanigan and David Hewlett. These guys had a lot of fun with this commentary. They even called the actor who played Kanayo while doing the commentary and interviewed him. They really like this guy (he’s a friend of Martin’s). They also hate montages. They, like the viewer, are in awe of the effects shot when Sheppard flies the dart into the hive ship.

Audio Commentary for The Hive
Director Martin Wood. Commentaries are usually best with more than one person so they can play off each other, but Martin Wood does a good job on his own of explaining how and why things are done in this episode. He’s really informative, going into some detail about the idea of everybody going into drug withdrawal. If this guy taught a class in film school, I’d take it, even though I have no interest in directing. He’s a really good lecturer.

Audio Commentary for Epiphany
Director Neill Fearnley. Mr. Fearnley is nowhere near as dynamic a speaker as Martin Wood. His slow voice and cadence and the fact that he’d go for long stretches with no commentary don’t help, either. I couldn’t listen. He kept losing me.

Production Design & Photo Gallery