Brikar

This episode is a Western. It presents a story rife with the stylings of a typical Western - the isolated town besieged by ruffians and thugs, the outsiders who ride in to save them, and the pistol duel in the town square that defeats the bad guys...

...The only thing it doesn't do is set it in a Western town. Where "Star Trek: Enterprise" has a fun third-season jaunt to Western World with a very "Star Trek" story, "Atlantis" gives us a very Western story in a Sci-Fi World.

Fun times.

Having this funky Lucius character back, I'm kinda "meh" on. He's funny, I guess, but overall nothing particularly original or even that memorable.

But the big deal at the end of the episode is the end of Kolya, Sheppard's Genii nemesis. I felt like getting rid of this guy should have been, well... bigger. This wasn't really an episode big enough or important enough to do away with one of the more fun recurring villains this show's got. Kolya's end should have been some kind of big two-parter, with a sweet one-on-one fight between Sheppard and Kolya.

What we get is a very subdued, small ending. So while I enjoyed the episode, I'm disappointed on that aspect of it. It could easily have been some nameless Joe Thug villain of the week, and it wouldn't have mattered.

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Bean

With the exception of your implicitly positive mention of the Enterprise episode... you're absolutley right. This was an episode in a bottle, and it should have stayed that way. Including Kolya was a bad move. They took one of the big Atlantis storylines (Kolya), and mixed it with one of the "distraction" storylines (Luscious).

Where Luscious never had any real potential as a recurring role on the show, Kolya obviously did. To sacrifice a character with such potential, to serve the story of a character with no potential, was just dissapointing. I think maybe had they found a way to come to a similar ending, but have Kolya kill Luscious and then escape would have been a much better move on the part of the writers.

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