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Episode Guide Episode Guide Episodes 001–026 Last episode aired Saturday May 16, 2015 www.bbc.co.uk c c 2015 www.tv.com c 2015 www.bbc.co.uk c 2015 baringtheaegis. blogspot.it The summaries and recaps of all the Atlantis episodes were downloaded from http://www.tv.com and http://www. bbc.co.uk and http://baringtheaegis.blogspot.it and processed through a perl program to transform them in a LATEX file, for pretty printing. So, do not blame me for errors in the text ^¨ This booklet was LATEXed on June 28, 2017 by footstep11 with create_eps_guide v0.59 Contents Season 1 1 1 The Earth Bull . .3 2 A Girl By Any Other Name . .7 3 A Boy of No Consequence . 11 4 Twist of Fate . 15 5 White Lies . 19 6 The Song of The Sirens . 23 7 The Rules of Engagement . 27 8 The Furies . 33 9 Pandora’s Box . 39 10 The Price of Hope . 43 11 Hunger Pangs . 47 12 Touched by the Gods — Part 1 . 51 13 Touched by the Gods — Part 2 . 57 Season 2 61 1 A New Dawn: Part One . 63 2 A New Dawn: Part Two . 67 3 Telemon . 71 4 The Marriage of Two Minds . 75 5 The Day of the Dead . 79 6 The Grey Sisters . 83 7 A Fate Worse Than Death . 87 8 The Madness of Hercules . 91 9 The Gorgon’s Gaze . 95 10 The Dying of the Light . 99 11 Kin................................................ 103 12 The Queen Must Die — Part 1 . 107 13 The Queen Must Die — Part 2 . 111 Actor Appearances 115 Atlantis Episode Guide II Season One Atlantis Episode Guide The Earth Bull Season 1 Episode Number: 1 Season Episode: 1 Originally aired: Saturday September 28, 2013 Writer: Howard Overman Director: Justin Molotnikov Show Stars: Mark Addy (Hercules), Jack Donnelly (Jason), Robert Emms (Pythago- ras), Sarah Parish (Pasiphae), Juliet Stevenson (The Oracle) Guest Stars: Aiysha Hart (Ariadne), Alexander Siddig (Minos), Hannah Arterton (Ko- rinna), Joe Dixon (Ramos), Charlie De Melo (Guard), Faye Brooks (He- lena), Ken Bones (Melas), Louis Maskell (Alcaeus), Mark Lewis Jones (Mac), Ron Donachie (Theos) Summary: In the present Jason goes in search of his father’s missing vessel and finds himself washed up on the shores of a mysterious land — a world of mythical creatures, soothsaying oracles and palaces so vast it is said they were built by giants: this is the city of Atlantis but it seems the newcomer has chosen the wrong time to arrive in the fabled realm and Jason soon finds himself at the mercy of a deadly ritual, from which there can be no escape. We start the series looking out over the waters of the Mediterranean Sea with Ja- son. He is on a hunt for his father, who took a submarine down under the sur- face after leaving his son a necklace with bull horns, and never came back up. He is about to take a submarine down him- self and look for his dad, something the boat captain does not find a comforting thought. The boat captain turns out to be right; Jason reaches the bottom of the sea and shines his one person submarine light on a piece of metal with the words ’the oracle’ on it in funky typeface. I am assuming this is a part of his father’s submarine as well as a major dose of foreshadowing. As soon as Jason’s light hits the metal, another light appears, speeding towards him with such force that it cracks the window of the submarine. Jason realizes his life is over and shields his face with his arms as the water rushes in. When Jason wakes up on a beach, he seems to have misplaced his clothes, but he still has his necklace. That is never how it works for me in the swimming pool, but whatever, right? Jason does not care: he is still alive, so while covering his manhood, he tries to wave over some fishermen for help. It seems the fishermen fish in the nude because when Jason reaches the place their boat left, there is a pile of (what I assume to be the hollywood version of) Hellenic clothing. Naturally, Jason takes the clothes and heads off to find civilization. Civilization comes in the form of a huge city just past the dunes, which definitely does not look modern. It does, however, look pretty and the music swells in an impression of Greek music to set a mood that reminds me most of Xena: The Warrior Princess. Once he wanders into the city, Jason finds himself in a market place where there are actually people who wear something resembling ancient Hellenic clothing (although most aren’t) and are 3 Atlantis Episode Guide selling everything from chickens to fruits, to more fruits, and even more fruits. In the shade is something that finally seems to convince Jason that he is not in Kansas anymore: a two-headed lizard that I am assuming to be a Hydra. He tries to pet it and the Hydra snaps at him before chasing him through the market square. As a note, this scene had so many shots of fruit–either remaining stationary or rolling about after Jason knocks them over–that I figured there must be some hidden meaning or other relevance to it. Sadly, I have not been able to find out what. After a long chase from the Hydra and then the city guards wherein Jason shows he was a gymnast in a (past) life, he ends up danging from a building and being pulled up by a scrawny young man so adorable, I immediately end up shipping Jason and the young man, who–it turns out–is Pythagoras. Yes, that one. Pythagoras–like everyone in Atlantis–speaks posh English, and while I had not expected otherwise, it still irks me a little. At any rate, Pythagoras is quite smitten with his guest, but his housemate isn’t. Much to Ja- son’s surprise, Pythagoras’ housemate is no other than Hercules. I really want to type ’Herakles’ here, but it seems that is a bit too difficult for the common watcher, so ’Hercules’ it is. Hercules is not exactly as he might have been portrayed in ancient Hellenic art, and I am quite sure he is supposed to be the comic relief, but I chuck any hope of authenticity out of the window just to be sure. Jason shares a bit of his story with his new sidekicks and they wisely tell him to visit the temple of Poseidon and ask the Oracle his many questions. Pythagoras also tells Jason that his necklace represents the bull horns of Poseidon. To the show’s credit, the temple is beautiful. It does, however, house the statue of a bull instead of a statue of Poseidon. As far as I am aware, Poseidon’s only link to bulls is the myth of the Minotaur. Minos, king of Krete, requested Poseidon raise a bull from the sea, which the king promised to sacrifice; but when Minos refused to do so, Poseidon caused his wife Pasiphaeˆ to fall in love with the bull. The child that came from this union was deformed in such a way that he had the head of a bull and the body of a man. Why the enormous link with bulls in Atlantis exists, I do not know. At any rate, Jason sees Hercules leave the temple with a heavy heart and doesn’t seem too happy to look for the Oracle now. He does, however, and the Oracle turns out to be the wonderful and underrated Juliet Stevenson for whom I am very happy she got another acting gig. In the most un-Hellenic thing of the episode, a chicken is slaughtered, its blood added to a bowl of water, and the Oracle tells Jason that his father ’walks amongst the dead’. She also hints that Jason is actually from Atlantis, and so was his father. She also hints that his destiny will cause a lot of danger to him. People want him dead; it seems only Jason can ’bring an end to the people’s fear and suffering’. After Jason leaves, the Oracle’s helper asks her why she witheld information from Jason. She tells him she did it to keep Jason safe. In all my years reading books, watching TV, and playing games, never, ever, has witholding information led to a safer situation for the person involved, but we’ll see what happens next. Pythagoras meets Jason on the steps of the temple and the two bond over the message the Oracle had for Jason. Pythagoras then tells Jason to come home with him as there is a curfew tonight. Tomorrow, lots will be drawn amongst all Atlantians to see which seven citizens will be shipped off to be sacrificed to the Minotaur (Ah! Now the bull thing makes sense! (sort of)). Anyone caught outside tonight will be shot on sight, as it will be assumed they are trying to flee the will of Poseidon. Later that night, Hercules begrudgingly allowes Jason a place to sleep in the house he owns, but Pythagoras helped him keep by paying his gambling debts, and then tries to sneak out of the house. Jason wakes up and wakes Pythagoras. The two sneak out after Hercules and manage to catch up to him before he climbs down the city wall, which would make him an exile for life. It seems he was fleeing because the Oracle predicted he would draw a black rock tomorrow and be shipped off to the Minotaur.
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