History Series / Atlantis

A [[Creator/TheBBC [=BBC1=]]] series that began 28 September 2013 as a replacement for ''{{Series/Merlin}}'', created by [[{{Series/Misfits}} Howard Overman]] and sharing some of the same production team. However, the Jason seen here is ''not'' he of the Argonauts fame [[spoiler: until the series finale indicates otherwise]], but a young man from the 21st century who is deep-sea diving, trying to find out about his missing father, when he abruptly vanishes and re-emerges in a pre-sinking Atlantis. Quickly making friends with Pythagoras and Hercules, they decide to become soldiers for hire to survive in the world Jason now finds himself in.

* FantasyKitchenSink: The series [[ArtisticLicense playing loose]] with [[YouFailHistoryForever real history]] and Myth/GreekMythology is justified as being set in an AlternateUniverse, with events and details bleeding through into "our" world as half-remembered myths.

* ArtifactOfDoom: Pandora's Box, it whispers to people to open it. When they do, they get a face full of curse.

* {{Curse}}: It is a ForegoneConclusion that Medusa will end up with one of these, it turns out that it is ThePunishment for opening Pandora's Box.

* TemptingFate: In 'Pandora's Box', just before Medusa flees from Kyros and his goons, Hercules assures her that they will never be parted again. [[spoiler: Then Medusa finds Pandora's Box back at the house...]]

* GenreSavvy / RecognitionFailure: Jason seems to swing between these two, suggesting that he has a working knowledge of the major figures present within Myth/GreekMythology, but is rather fuzzy on the exact details of their myths.

A [[Creator/TheBBC [=BBC1=]]] series that began 28 September 2013 as a replacement for ''{{Series/Merlin}}'', created by [[{{Series/Misfits}} Howard Overman]] and sharing some of the same production team. However, the Jason seen here is ''not'' he of the Argonauts fame, but a young man from the 21st century who is deep-sea diving, trying to find out about his missing father, when he abruptly vanishes and re-emerges in a pre-sinking Atlantis. Quickly making friends with Pythagoras and Hercules, they decide to become soldiers for hire to survive in the world Jason now finds himself in.

* AlternateHistoryWank: Where to begin? Pythagoras, Hercules and Jason of the Argonauts all end up in Atlantis together. The labyrinth is just down the road, as are the Hours and Oedipus, for a start. Basically taking all of actual Greek History and any part of ClassicalMythology you like and stuffing it all into {{Atlantis}}.

* ClassicalMythology: Just as ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' took a pick and mix approach to Arthurian mythology, ''Atlantis'' is taking the same approach to Classical Mythology and history.

** [spoiler:She reveals this to Jason in "The Gorgon's Gaze", when the latter is about to kill her.]]

* FantasyKitchenSink: The series [[ArtisticLicense playing loose]] with [[YouFailHistoryForever real history]] and GreekMythology is justified as being set in an AlternateUniverse, with events and details bleeding through into "our" world as half-remembered myths.

* GenreSavvy / RecognitionFailure: Jason seems to swing between these two, suggesting that he has a working knowledge of the major figures present within GreekMythology, but is rather fuzzy on the exact details of their myths.

* XMeetsY: ''[[Series/{{Merlin}} Merlin]]'' meets ''[[Series/TheATeam The A Team]]'' in [[Main/RecycledInSpace Ancient Greece]] as described in [[http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/28/atlantis-bbc-saturday-night this article]].

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They must be stabbed through the heart to kill them, as opposed to the usual decapitation.

* AlternateHistoryWank: Where to begin? Pythagorus, Hercules and Jason of the Argonauts all end up in Atlantis together. The labyrinth is just down the road, as are the Hours and Oedipus, for a start. Basically taking all of actual Greek History and any part of ClassicalMythology you like and stuffing it all into {{Atlantis}}.

** BigBadEsemble: Pasiphae and Circe during the first season.

* XMeetsY: ''[[Series/{{Merlin}} Merlin]]'' meets ''[[Series/TheATeam The A Team]]'' in [[Main/RecycledInSpace Ancient Greece]] as described in [[http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/28/atlantis-bbc-saturday-night this article]].

* NatureHero: Atalanta, who was abandoned in the forest as a child and apparently raised by the goddess Artemis

** {{Averted}} in all other cases, from Atlanta mowing down dozens of Scythians with her bow to [[Spoiler: Jason getting shot and being near fatally wounded in the Season Two Premier]]

* AccidentalHero: Jason kills the Minotaur by holding onto his sword and letting it impale itself.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Pythagoras accidentally killed his father by pushing him back resulting in him cracking his head when he attacked his mother in a drunken rage, which his younger brother Arcas finds out in "The Furies" having previously believed him to be murdered.]]

** Personal headcanon: this is the BBC spin-off series showing more of the Alternate Timeline from Series 7 of ''Series/DoctorWho''.