In season three, the Atlantis team manage to stop the Wraith’s journey to Earth. In fact, they are able to turn many Wraith into humans and strand them on a distant planet. We learn a little bit more about the Wraith, too, as Sheppard is captured by the Genii and put in a prison with a Wraith who’s also been captured - and is very hungry . Sheppard learns first hand that they can suck the life out of people, but they can return it as well. He and the Wraith eventually help each other escape.
Another enemy is revealed in this season: human form Replicators. It seems the Replicators were first made by the Ancients to fight the Wraith but the Ancients deemed them dangerous and tried to destroy them. Now, McKay has actually made them more dangerous by giving them the ability to alter their own base code. They want to exact revenge upon the city. About this time, a lost warship full of the Ancients also returns and they decide to reclaim Atlantis. But the Replicators attack at the same time and they take over Atlantis. Sheppard and his team come up with a plan to retake the city and once again it comes under Stargate Command’s control.
Also in the third season Dr. Beckett is killed off. This generated a lot of fan outrage. The episode was one of the best written of the series. It was hard to see Beckett go; he’d become the soul of the team. After that, the story turns back to the Replicators; the SGC decides to strike out at their home world and destroy them once and for all. But the first strike doesn’t go exactly as planned and the Replicators begin their own assault on Atlantis. During the attack, Dr. Weir is seriously injured. Season Three ends as the did the first two: with Atlantis under attack.
Season three was packed with action and story development. The fourth one has been fairly good, too. Atlantis gained a new commander since Weir is now gone: Sam Carter from SG1. Weir sacrificed herself to the Replicators so that they could be beaten. Now the Replicators home world has been destroyed and Atlantis has found a new home world. The Wraith do not know where the city is and so a balance has been somewhat restored. Teyla is pregnant, however, and her people missing, so some interesting events lie ahead.
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