Stargate: Atlantis

Stargate: Atlantis (2004)

15 mistakes in season 1 - chronological order

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Rising (1) - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When they first arrive on Teyla's planet, the DHD is close to the gate. When the wraith attack, the DHD is much further from the gate.

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Hide and Seek - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: Right at the end, after the entity has gone through the gate, we get an overhead shot of McKay lying on the ground in front of the gate. His legs are stretched out straight. In the next shot, one of his legs is bent. He's unconscious, so he shouldn't have moved.

Suspicion - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Wraith attack on the Mainland, Sheppard is stunned and falls with his right hand on his gun near his hip, but when McKay and the other guy grab him, to pull him to the gate, both the gun and his right arm are above his head.

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Poisoning the Well - S1-E7

Revealing mistake: Steve (Wraith)'s belly appears not to match the rest of the Wraith character's skin tone. Clearly, it is a human body rather than an alien. (00:31:36)

Home - S1-E9

Plot hole: General Hammond is promoted to 3-star general and command of the SGC is given to General O'Neill before the Atlantis gang even left earth. Why is it, that none of them find it the least bit odd that a 2-star Hammond greeted their return instead of O'Neill?

Grumpy Scot

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Suggested correction: The dream-state induced by the aliens had some ability to stop them from questioning their reality. (One of them takes quite a while to realise that a friend they're partying with died years before they left for Atlantis). It's not infallible or entirely consistent, but it would theoretically explain this.

Anson Gordon-Creed

Home - S1-E9

Other mistake: In Shepard's apartment, there is a fresh pineapple and other fruit in his kitchen. This despite him having been in Atlantis for several months. This later turns out to be an artificial reality, but that should've been a big hint.

Captain Defenestrator

The Eye (2) - S1-E11

Visible crew/equipment: In the beginning of the show (before the intro starts), when you look out the window you can actually see two people shaking the small trees in the storm... Come to think of it, why would there be trees in the first place? How could they survive out there if Atlantis submerged in the ocean? (00:02:21)

Hot Zone - S1-E13

Audio problem: In the scene in the hallway when Sheppard and Teyla are dressed in hazmat suits and talking to Dr Weir via the intercom, you can see a reflection in Teyla's helmet of Sheppard's mouth moving, but there's no sound. (00:23:45)

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Letters from Pegasus - S1-E17

Plot hole: After Zelenka is finished with his description of how Atlantis rose from the ocean, Ford asks him if he said anything that would require security clearance to see. But if he is worried about security, why did he film Zelenka sitting in front of a top-secret Naquadah generator? This would be the equivalent of a soldier filming Enrico Fermi (speaking in Italian) in front of a nuclear bomb prototype then asking if he said anything secret.

Grumpy Scot

Dr. Rodney McKay: All I know is that she's not who she's pretending to be.
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: And you know this because...?
Dr. Rodney McKay: What, I'm not allowed to have intuition?
Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: You? No.

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Season 1 generally

Question: Why can't they use every last iota of energy they've got and dial earth and ask them to send them any ZPM's that they could find?

Answer: Because even all 4 Naquadah generators (one was destroyed) together is only enough to dial Earth for approximately 1.2 seconds (As seen in the episode "Letter from Pegasus"). Further, if Earth had found a ZPM, they would dial Atlantis and let them know. After all, the SGC has no other use for a ZPM than to dial Atlantis.

Grumpy Scot

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