Season Three — Lost
12 episodes. This is where McKay enters.
And I'd have enormous fun with these titles.
| # | Title | What the audience thinks / what we're doing |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not Atlantis | Yes. Literally call the premiere that. The expedition follows its first lead and finds something completely different. |
| 2 | The Man Who Knew Everything | Rodney McKay appears. Obviously. |
| 3 | Approximately | McKay discovers that Langaran mathematics reached some Ancient solutions by a completely different route. This drives him insane. |
| 4 | Eight | Eight-chevron dialing becomes the season objective. |
| 5 | Grace | Fans immediately think Samantha Carter because Grace was her great character episode. Absolutely no Carter. It's the name of a Langaran ship. |
| 6 | Pegasus | And still no Atlantis. They're establishing the intergalactic bridge. |
| 7 | Sunday | This one is borderline evil because Atlantis fans know exactly why that word hurts. Nothing whatsoever to do with that episode—until McKay reacts strangely when somebody casually uses the word. |
| 8 | City of the Ancestors | They find an Ancient city. Wrong city. |
| 9 | Dr. Jackson | Internet melts down. Daniel does not appear. They find an archaeological paper in a Tau'ri archive authored by him. But it contains a handwritten annotation dated after Earth supposedly disappeared. |
| A | Where We Left It | McKay realizes Atlantis moved. |
| B | Lost City | Now I'm being cruel. That's one of SG-1's most famous titles and its mythology led directly toward Atlantis. They finally establish an eight-chevron wormhole. |
| C | Splash | They step through. Ocean. No Atlantis. End season. |
STARGATE ATLANTIS: LOST CITY
That's when you've earned the first feature.
