Atlantis

• Title: Atlantis – Touched by the Gods (Part 2)
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Despite teasing major changes leading into next season, the second-half of Atlantis‘ First Season finale returns all of the chess pieces back to their starting position – with only one major change. After rescuing Ariadne (Aiysha Hart) with the help of Ramos (Joe Dixon), who gives his life to save the princess, Jason (Jack Donnelly), Pythagoras (Robert Emms), Hercules (Mark Addy), and Ariadne and head to a leper colony hidden in the Silver Mines of Pangeon in the Mountains of Galena where the Oracle (Juliet Stevenson) believes they will be safe. There the audience will learn more about Jason’s parentage, although the hero himself maintains blissful ignorance of the identity of the man (John Hannah) who helps him or the fact that his mother is the current Queen of Atlantis.

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• Title: Atlantis – Touched by the Gods (Part 1)
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The First Season comes to a close with the first-half of the season finale that finds King Minos (Alexander Siddig) near death, full power within Pasiphae‘s (Sarah Parish) grasp, and Jason‘s (Jack Donnelly) debt to Circe (Lucy Cohu) comes due. Struggling with killing the Queen of Atlantis, despite what he knows about her, Jason sneaks into the palace with the help of Pythagoras (Robert Emms) and Hercules (Mark Addy) but at the last moment is unable to go through with the assassination.

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• Title: Atlantis – Hunger Pangs
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The latest episode of Atlantis is even goofier than usual (one of the characters actually lights himself on fire on purpose) as a starving Jason (Jack Donnelly) steals and eats meat from a shrine to the goddess Hecate. Pythagoras (Robert Emms) and Hercules (Mark Addy) become increasingly concerned with their friend’s odd behavior which includes waking up nude in an animal pen every morning. In an attempt to cure their friend, Pythagoras calls on the help of  Princess Ariadne (Aiysha Hart) to acquire the silver necessary in breaking the curse.

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• Title: Atlantis – The Price of Hope
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With the help of his friend Daedalus (Robert Lindsay), Pythagoras (Robert Emms) finds a cure for Medusa (Jemima Rooper) but is reluctant to tell his friends as it would require Hercules (Mark Addy) to sacrifice his own life for the woman he loves. Cure or no cure, when Hercules sets out to find Medusa on his own, Pythagoras and Jason (Jack Donnelly) go after him only to be captured by Scythians and reunited with Hercules as potential prey for the barbarians who plan to hunt the threesome through the Forest of Calydon.

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