Vengeance (2007) User Reviews (4)

An old friend is back

[tenshi_ippikiookami · 7/10 · 29 December 2015]

The team loses contact with a settlement, and decides to go and investigate. When they arrived, they soon see that everyone seems to have disappeared, but soon afterwards they discover one life sign in an underground system, and go to investigate.

This episode ditches the sunny environments for a subterranean tunnel system. So, lots of dark rooms and corridors, where what's happening is difficult to see, and, because of that, to enjoy. That doesn't mean it isn't fun, because it is, and sometimes is good to ditch the camp and cheesy for some dark and bleak episode. "Vengeance" is an homage to Alien with its atmosphere and dangerous creature (there is even one reference to it by one of the characters) and it is a competent effort in that respect. But it is kind of just the characters running around and shooting in the dark, and the tension is a little bit lacking. It does bring, though, a new interesting plot development, that may be developed in further episodes.

Small mistake, but I liked the episode.

[andrei_c_davis · 7/10 · 12 February 2007]

Occurrence in "Vengeance" -Stargate Atlantis S03E19-

At 0:13:23/0:43:31, Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard says to the team:

"Alien. The movie Alien. They use the air-shafts to move around the ship."

Dr. Rodney McKay replies to Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard via interruption of him:

"And then they systematically killed the entire crew one by one. Thank you for bringing that up."

Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard then corrects Dr. Rodney McKay:

"They didn't kill them all."

This correction spoken by Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard indicates the carefulness of all who work on the fine program. To help in the only way that I can, I add that the movie in which there was more than one alien which traversed through the air-shafts was titled "Aliens" and was directed by James Cameron. In "Alien, "directed by Ridley Scott, there was one alien who "used the air-shafts to move around the ship" (Binder, 2007). I really enjoyed this episode and the continuity that writer Carl Binder and director Andy Mikita brought to it.

Binder, C. (Writer). (2007, January 29 ). Vengeance (Science fiction series episode). In Stargate Atlantis. Washington: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

We wanted Light, they gave us Darkness

[herthh · 1/10 · 26 December 2020]

Watching this nonsense was hard to endure. 45min of running in dark tunnels and looking at decomposing bodies for a dinner time. Well, thank you for this masterpiece. The entire recurring story-line with the 'Michael' was unbearable. Here an entire civilization was apparently killed off by a vengeful individual, and processed as lab-rats in some sort of bio experiments. Even worse, the victims and their stage of development are totally incongruent with their previous appearance.

A Cheesy, Dumb Epsoode

[Easygoer10 · 3/10 · 28 May 2021]

This is a bad plot stolen from many films. The same plot is reused over and over in subsequent episodes. Worst of all, there is a 2+ minute sequence of Colonel Sheppard talking to the "evil" Michael when Sheppard had the upper hand. He easily could have killed him. It's so dumb it's funny. Skip this rubbish.