What is the best episode ?

Horatio

Ok........We all have our favourite but after 8 seasons can we really
nail down one episode in particular that outstrips the rest ?

So many to choose from, Window of Opportunity, The Abyss, The Lost City
Hero's........There are so many, they are all brillant but which are the
besr..opinion's please..........

mr_angry

I think out of all of them, my favourite is the episode where the Harsesis Child shows Daniel what would happen if he gave him the genetic knowledge of the Goa'uld. I can't remember the exact title of the episode right now, but it was a good one.

I'm also very fond of "Full Circle" because Anubis goes crazy and blows up everything. Ironic, considering the following episode was one of my least favourite. After "Emancipation", of course.

Pepe LeFrits

mr_angry wrote:

I think out of all of them, my favourite is the episode where the Harsesis Child shows Daniel what would happen if he gave him the genetic knowledge of the Goa'uld. I can't remember the exact title of the episode right now, but it was a good one.

I'm also very fond of "Full Circle" because Anubis goes crazy and blows up everything. Ironic, considering the following episode was one of my least favourite. After "Emancipation", of course.

The episode you're talking about is Absolute Power. Terrific episode up until Daniel wakes up, I thought.

I loved Full Circle right up until the very end, which was a bit lame (at the time that was going to be the last ever episode of SG1!!!).

There have been so many good episodes at this stage that I couldn't name a favourite, I don't walk the show as religiously anymore either which makes it more difficult.

There But For The Grace of God
Secrets
The Fifth Race
Serpents Song
Fair Game
Nemesis / Small Victories
The Other Side
Between Two Fires
Summit / Last Stand
Smoke and Mirrors
Meridian
Changeling
Prophecy
Full Circle

They'd all be up there

Horatio

good choices and I know it is hard to choose between them but who can
ever forget Tel'c in jodpers on astroturf in front of the stargate with a spalding bag
and a driver or Jack's imortal line " hey you know that we come in peace bit.....bite me "

ixoy

We've nearly 200 episodes set in the Stargate universe - somewhat difficult to choose

But one of my very faves is one I watched recently - 'Forever in a Day'. Not sure if it'll crop up on many people's lists here because it's very low on action. What is done very well is everything else: probably the most beautiful episode in the show in terms of cinematography and editing. The sweeping sands of Abydos looked gorgeous at Sha're's "funeral" for example.

What was also great was the acting and characters. Everyone's relationship was spot on. Daniel's drive to find Sha're being re-evaluated and discovering his own inner strength. Carter's face touched by tears as she sees a deadness in Daniel. Jack's disdain of Rothman and delight when Jackson returns to the fold. Teal'c's attempts to try and cultivate an apology and trying to understand how it's done on earth. Even Hammond's turning down of Jackson.

It also has wonderful lines - Daniel's touching words at Sha're's funeral. A bit of the great Jackson/O'Neill humour in the "Deja vu" "Deja vu" "Deja vu" joke.

And one of the most poignant and teary-eyed scenes in the franchise's history at the very end.

All brilliantly done and a good example, to those disdainful of sci-fi, that Stargate can also do excellent drama and character pieces.

toiletduck

Ah, so many to choose from! I cant pick just one!

Horatio

ixoy wrote:

We've nearly 200 episodes set in the Stargate universe - somewhat difficult to choose

But one of my very faves is one I watched recently - 'Forever in a Day'. Not sure if it'll crop up on many people's lists here because it's very low on action. What is done very well is everything else: probably the most beautiful episode in the show in terms of cinematography and editing. The sweeping sands of Abydos looked gorgeous at Sha're's "funeral" for example.

What was also great was the acting and characters. Everyone's relationship was spot on. Daniel's drive to find Sha're being re-evaluated and discovering his own inner strength. Carter's face touched by tears as she sees a deadness in Daniel. Jack's disdain of Rothman and delight when Jackson returns to the fold. Teal'c's attempts to try and cultivate an apology and trying to understand how it's done on earth. Even Hammond's turning down of Jackson.

It also has wonderful lines - Daniel's touching words at Sha're's funeral. A bit of the great Jackson/O'Neill humour in the "Deja vu" "Deja vu" "Deja vu" joke.

And one of the most poignant and teary-eyed scenes in the franchise's history at the very end.

All brilliantly done and a good example, to those disdainful of sci-fi, that Stargate can also do excellent drama and character pieces.

Clearly you have given this episode some thought and I happilly
agree with you , sometimes people forget that one of the things
which has kept Stargate running as long as it has is those wonderfull
characters and the entricate relationships they have with each other,
as in last nights episode on Sky 1 was the Abyss. A wonderfull example
of the great chemistry between Jack and Daniel, Jack looking to die
and Daniel trying to help him ascend " do you think the Asgard named
a ship after you because it was a cool name?"
With episodes like these it is easy to back to them time after time.

Flux

For me it has to be Unnatural Selection, the way that SG1 betrayed the one replicator that was helping them in order to ensure that there mission succeed. It was one of the morally greyest episodes and all the better for it.

The episode also gave the replicators personalities without detracting from their menace.

Horatio

Yes but 5 was ultimately unstable as was Reese and Jack could see that hence the call but it was only a matter of time before they had to give the replicators a voice
and the best one was replicator Sam, espicially when Daniel got the upper hand on her
in Lost City pt. 2

ixoy

Horatio wrote:

and the best one was replicator Sam, espicially when Daniel got the upper hand on her
in Lost City pt. 2

But Replicarter wasn't in that episode. She appears first in 'New Order' in S8? But she only appeared then. Maybe you mean 'Threads' :S

dudara

I was watching Season 5 last night on DVD, and episode 5.21, where Daniel ascends, and Corin Nemec appears, struck me as one of the worst episodes.

Was there a guest director/scriptwriter or something, because the whole style of the episode was at odds with "normal" stargate

ixoy

dudara wrote:

I was watching Season 5 last night on DVD, and episode 5.21, where Daniel ascends, and Corin Nemec appears, struck me as one of the worst episodes.

Was there a guest director/scriptwriter or something, because the whole style of the episode was at odds with "normal" stargate

Regular writer - Robert C. Cooper whose been there since the beginning but the director has only 5 episodes to his name in SG-1 so maybe that's where it went wrong. It's still no "Emancipation" though...

mr_angry

"Forever In A Day" was pretty high on my list too. It was similar in a lot of ways to "Absolute Power" in that we see Daniel slowly but surely wrecking everything, and it turns out to be all in his head.

I'm also fond of "A Hundred Days" where Jack is trapped on an alien planet for what he thinks is the forseeable future. No real action, but an interesting insight into a side of Jack we don't normally see - his "home life".

User45701

it is VERY VERY VERY hard im am surpised i didnt see 2010 on ppls list great episode in alternite future with the earth ashen allience and the fall of the gouald and kinsey as presdiant

abyss yes amazing as with al of the ablove supiresed not to see recconing parts 1 and 2 and threads there

i loved The serpents venom and my faverate is priobbley jolinars memores and the devil u know (2 parter with sokar and the planet delmack)

there are just too many im sorry

Easily_Irritated

Richard Dean Anderson *swoon*

More so in his magyver days tho! Gotta love that mullet and big white runners lol

toiletduck

yeah, i really enjoyed 2010. That one that was on yesterday with the two scientists saving sg1 was pretty good.

User45701

Abyys should rpobbley get the vote as best episode because it is mentioned most above

Horatio

quite true but isn't also true that every character has their own best episode ?
and correct me if I'm wrong here but every episode that Christopher Judge writes
features him getting it on with a beautifull woman ( Joleen Blalock anyone )
this definiately smacks of selfishness on his part....no ?

Pepe LeFrits

Horatio wrote:

quite true but isn't also true that every character has their own best episode ?
and correct me if I'm wrong here but every episode that Christopher Judge writes
features him getting it on with a beautifull woman ( Joleen Blalock anyone )
this definiately smacks of selfishness on his part....no ?

i feel it's time for a frivolous poll!