Stargate: Atlantis - 'The Battle For Atlantis' [1/7]

Back to Stargate, we find the Atlantis Expedition girding their loins - preparing for potential obliteration at the hands of those pesky Wraith!

Will our brave explorers survive with their hides intact?!?!

⚠️ Technical Notes: ⚠️

I had previously processed a few parts of this with my old Topaz / Flowframes methodology, but switching to tasking entirely within Topaz yielded a better result on subsequent installments - so I went back and reprocessed the first 3 parts to be consistent: Flowframes 1.36 has serious issues processing bright flashes in dark scenes, which really rendered much of the combat footage in this series of cuts unwatchable considering the railgun AAA and muzzle flashes from LMGs

Topaz with Apollo interpolation doesn't suffer that problem (though light gradients lose their analog falloff, and become square shaped due to the cubic vision of the A.I. engine)

Audio-wise, the quality is above average for my archival collection (with only 5 seasons, I think the encoders let the audio breathe a bit more since 'Atlantis' only takes up half the run time of 'SG-1"

[omnitrixian]

To this day, I still don’t think I’ve seen a sci-fi battle looking this beautiful.

[TK]

Got a "on your left" moment watching this.

[starflame]

1:20 "General O'neil also wants to know where the f*ck is that ZPM you promised him when he let you on this expedition over a year ago! Because in the end, he and SG-1 ultimately had to do everything as usual! Like seriously, you had one job!"

[vodeankandosii]

3:37 Put your war face on, Pegasus expedition.

[seanthilges]

Imagine the ancients just watching this battle

[jantopaz]

One of my favorite episodes in SGA . Humans have great experience in both warfare and vermit extermination, We don't ask or beg some fucking kind of space cockroaches for mercy, instead give them hell

[kevreid]

There should have been hundreds of stinger missiles used against the darts instead of manually targeted railguns. Too bad patriot batteries couldn't fit theough the gate. And the drones should have attacked a hive ship since it was the only weapon they had capable of attacking ships in orbit

[patsfreak]

The day they had to rewrite “The Halls of Montezuma” again

[bobbyflynn]

Why are they relying on humans to shoot the guns? Shouldn't that be computer controlled? How are humans going to be able to track and destroy moving aerial targets? That's just absurd.