Atlantis - 'The Queen Must Die'

This doesn't feel like winning.

Medea betrays Pasiphae, allowing Jason to capture her and Hercules and Pythagoras to execute her. Icarus's treachery is revealed, but he comes through in the end and the show finally confirms that Pythagoras is gay (yay!) All ends happily, and then Pasiphae comes back to life and OMG season 3 (that isn't going to happen!)

Or something.

Okay, you may have noticed that I've been hemorrhaging interest in this show, and the extended finale kind of sums up why. Atlantis was always at its best as tosh, and the increasing darkness of the second season has bled out the fun which made it worth watching, leaving only the negative space of it's hit-and-miss plotting and action. 'The Queen Must Die' features two of our heroes stabbing a defenceless woman to death in the rural equivalent of a dark alley (Pasiphae's powers have temporarily left her,) their bestie's mother no less, and there is no emotional kickback from it. When she turns up scarred and resurrected, all the drama they poured into the scene is wasted, and in the interim there's more emphasis on whether JerkJason did the nasty with Medea before marrying Ariadne in a wood than the fact that Herc and Pythagoras murdered (seriously, there's some attempt to portray it as an execution, but they are basically shivving her up in a gully and foolishly leaving her body for the scavengers.)

Mind you, by this point Pasiphae has sort of fallen back into being the bitch of her nasty adviser whose name I can't even recall, standing around looking conflicted while he snarls: "You must kill Jason, the people/gods demand it." He keeps bringing up Jason's blasphemy, despite the fact that everyone in the conversation knows that they framed him for it.

The one highlight was Icarus/Pythagoras, which was pretty brave for prime time.

Anyway, it's done now, with just a few flashes of the Argo and Jason making out with Medea while Ariadne stands on the beach on Naxos looking forlorn to hint at what might have been.