Favourite Season 2 Episode

[GateGipsy]

What's your favourite Season 2 episode and why?

For more info about Season 2 episodes click HERE (http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s2/index.shtml)

[Shipperahoy]

I voted for In the Line of Duty even though there are a few episodes that I would consider my favorite. It's really hard for me to choose between this one and Show and Tell and Message in a Bottle, but I chose In the Line of Duty because it was such a cool concept to introduce. A good Gou'ald? What the heck? I really didn't see it coming when I first watched the episode. And of course I found it a wee bit shippy. What can I say? I am what I am.

[GateGipsy]

To be honest, I have more than one favourite episode for this season, so it is a real toughie. My answer always changes but this time I went for Serpent's Song. The hosts and their fate has always been a powerful subtext for me in the Stargate saga, and their plight haunts me in the same way that Ernst's life in Torment of Tantalus torments me still!

The scene when Apophis's host 'awakes' is so powerful, I still cry every time I see it. Peter Williams is a fantastic actor.

[Major Clanger]

Can't choose here. I actually think S2 is nice to watch, holds my interest while the ep is showing and then loses it.

Wait... Foothold is interesting, but I can't remember why.

[Feli]

Can't choose here. I actually think S2 is nice to watch, holds my interest while the ep is showing and then loses it.

Wait... Foothold is interesting, but I can't remember why.
Maybe because Foothold is a season 3 ep and S3 is your favorite season...? ;)

[Major Clanger]

ah pooh.... I really can't think of an S2 ep that I really like

ETA: Need has some nice parts, but it is cringeworthy so I'm not voting for that either.

[Osiris]

Secrets! Love the helmets, Sha're, Abydos, Heru'ur and the introduction of Jacob!

[SeaBee]

This one was easy. "A Matter of Time" was the ep that got me hooked.

[bcmilco]

I voted for In the line of Duty, but I almost voted for Secrets. They are both really good episodes I really like the idea of "good"/less evil ;) gou'ald and I really like the character of Jacob.

I think the whole Tok'ra arc is great despite/because of the fact that I really don't trust any of the Tok'ra besides Jacob ;)

It adds a nice shade of grey to the whole SG universe.

[Norlioness]

I like The Tok'ra 1&2. The introduction of a new race that was fighting the Goa'uld was neat. Love both the Martouf and Jacob characters.

Oh, wait, I like the Fifth Race too.

[bcmilco]

Martouf was an interesting character, but he always made me want to grit my teeth. I never felt like I could trust him, and I could totally relate to how Jack reacted around him.

[aAnubiSs]

Voted for the best episode ever, The Fifth Race.

[Dani347]

Voted for the best episode ever, The Fifth Race.

So did I, for the same reason. This is what Stargate should be.

[David85]

Sorry but I love 1969!

[Nolamom]

You've all cited great episodes, but for me it's the Tok'ra Pt. 1 & 2. This entire group of secret warriors is such a great concpet. Besides, I really love Jacob Carter and Martouf is easy on the eyes.
Nola

[SallyK]

I had to go for the Fifth Race, one of the best episodes ever, but there are so many to choose from.

Need was brilliant, so was In the Line of Duty, I was fascinated by the Tok'ra from the beginning and Serpent's Song was outstanding as well.

It really is why I can't decide whether Season 2 or 3 is the best ever.

SallyK

[Sam_o_Neill]

This one was even tougher than Season 1! I love almost all of the Season 2 eps and there were 5 that I really couldn't choose between so in the end I went for 1969 because even though the concept of Time travel still gets me in a muddle I do enjoy trying to figure it out :)

[Spaceminx]

Ah, this one's easier. Its gotta be 'In the Line of Duty' for me. Sam ep - 'nuff said.

[jenniferhailey]

Wonderful Season for Sam! Thats why series 2 ROCKS


- In the Line of Duty - (with Singularity) my most watched episode
- The Tok'ra - YES!
- Secrets - Jacob, oooh!


Wonderful. :D

[auralan]

It was a close call between Fifth Race and 1969. I do love time travel plots, but the Fifth Race was such a powerful episode I had to choose it.

[Twisted Angel (Sam_rules)]

I had to go with In the line of duty. It is just a great Sam episode.
The fifth race came a close second though :).

~Tracey~

[QunStrudel]

I picked The Serpent's Lair though it's not good without Within the Serpent's Grasp from season one. I just love a good "let's shoot our way out of the mothership" episode! :p

[Lys]

I choosed The Fifth Race because of the eighth chevron, the Asgards, the Ancients... well because everything is just great in this one !

[ReplicatorX]

The Tok'ra P1 & P2 for me. It was pretty much the first time we got a good insight about the Tok'ra and I thought they pulled it off nicely.

I also thought Serphents Song, Fifth Race, Prisoners and Thor's Chariot were high quality episodes in Season 2.

[Bagpuss]

I voted for "In The Line Of Duty" in the end,for several reasons.
The beginnings of the Tok'Ra storylines.
Jolinar/Sam dominance struggle.
The way the whole team played out the story.IMO,great "Team" ep.
The beginning of Sam's accessing Jolinar's remnant memories and the physical and mental after-effects.........

[gpguk]

Hiya

i voted for The Line of Duty, because not only is it my fav season 2 eppy but has to be one of my favs overall.

Great acting by amanda tapping and the rest of the cast.

see jack getting ready to talk to her and then teal'c giving advice to him.

the end with sam and cassie was a really good sceen and way to finish off the episode.

[AgentX]

The Fifth Race gets my vote. Season Two is especially hard to choose a favourite because there are a number of high quality episodes.

[DanielFan]

I voted for 1969 because it was one of the funniest eps in season 2.

[Anubis]

lol I loved it when Teal'c just walked into the road and stopped their car! :D

[TheWarrior]

1969 was one of my favourite episodes of Season 2 as well, I especially like the scene in the cell when the guard enters and speaks to Daniel:

Soldier: (Speaking Russian) You Sovient Spies?

Daniel: Nyet. (Translation - No)

O'Neill: Daniel?

Daniel: He just asked if we were sovient spies. I just .....


Its the look on Daniels face when he realizes his error and O'Neills face at him like he can't believe this one, just funny how O'Neill and Daniel play off one another.

But my vote for the best season 2 episode is The Fifth Race - funny episode as well as setting up future encounters with the Asgard etc.
Again the interaction between Daniel and O'Neill is top - especially did - did not - did - did not! :D

[Dahar Master Thor]

Thor's Chariot had some very good moments ;) but I went with Message in a Bottle. It's just a very well paced story from beginning to end.

[Uncle Dick]

Secrets! Love the helmets, Sha're, Abydos, Heru'ur and the introduction of Jacob!
I think it's the only time outside of the feature where we actually get to see the morphing of the Horus guard helmet, and it looks even better here than it did on the big screen, IMHO.

I was the only one who voted Gamekeeper and I know it's a controversial episode in many quarters, but I can't resist the look into the pasts of both O'Neill and Daniel. It's instantly accessible to the neophyte but gains significance among those who know Jack and Daniel well. It's a natural extension of the feature film and even features some nifty AU elements. An all around great effort.

[berenikee]

1969 - hammond with hair. cool :) and Jack was funny.
But I like also The fifth race.

[GeneralJackO'Neill]

Thor's Chariot-sweet Asgard mothership!!
Tok'ra Part 1 & 2-really cool meeting the Tok'ra
1969-really funny and good.

[JackDaniels]

OOh that was a toughie.

It was ultimately between the fifth race (meeting the Asgard properly and the repository of knowledge) and the episode I ultimately went for 1969. I love everything about this episode - the music, the outfits, the story, even Daniel's german accent is so stupid that its funny. I also love that they pretend they're aliens and Hammond, both old and young. Wonder whether he paid General Hammond back?

[Sha're]

There are so many good eps in Season 2 it was hard to pick one and it was nearly the Fifth Race. But Holiday swung it purely because no-one else has voted for it. I love this ep, the whole body switching thing is classic and I just love the line "thank you for my holiday". Here's a guy who has spent so long devoting time to destroying the goa'uld getting a chance to go out and enjoy the world, if only for a short time. Ahhh.

[Qtyled]

The Fifth Race was a good episode. It was between that and 1969.

The war with Canada.
-Tealc

[Egeria]

I voted 1969, it's so funny, and the groovy outfits are soooo cool.

[gate01]

fifth race is my all time fav

[kelmah]

Don't hate me- I voted for Holiday. I really like the part at the end when they're switching bodies.

[fair_nymph]

I voted for The Fifth Race, like most people it seems! I just love learning about alien races, and this introduction to the ancients and an overload of new information was tantalizing. Jack as the techie genius was pretty neat. Locking in another chevron was exciting, as was seeing the Asgard homeworld.

I also loved: In the Line of Duty (fantastic Sam episodes, and intro to Tokra), Need (Daniel is so hot when he's evil, and loved learning about the sarc), and Thor's Chariot (I like those people, and who can't like a giant Asgard mothership?).

[Freyrs]

Fifth Race, simply amazing episode. I don't think I've ever seen an episode that made me want to keep watching the series as much as that episode. And 6 seasons later I still am. :p Kudos to the writers of that one it was a stunning episode.

Matter of Time is a close second.

[fair_nymph]

Oh, I forgot to say: I didn't particularly like 1969. I sort of disliked it in fact. If felt like a total filler episode to me, and it seemed to have no purpose whatsoever in regards to the SG1 storyline. I still don't get why they had to go back in time, shouldn't they just never have had to go back in time at all? *sighs*

However, I did find Teal'c's fro highly amusing, and I did like the young, rather dashing Hammond.

[SmartFox]

This is a hard one as i have several favorites of season 2. My top three favorites (in random order)are Fifth Race, Thor's Chariot, and Holiday.

[Celsius]

I think my favourite is probably A Matter of Time. It raised a lot of moral issues, delved into Jack's past and was a really cool concept too! Secrets is a close second, it was so sad :(

[zahncrelnik]

I really enjoyed the ep '1969', except when they were showing
landmarks of the cross country trip and for Chicago they
showed the Sears Tower, which wasn't built until around 1973.

[hermajesty]

Wonderful Season for Sam! Thats why series 2 ROCKS


- In the Line of Duty - (with Singularity) my most watched episode
- The Tok'ra - YES!
- Secrets - Jacob, oooh!


Wonderful. :D
I agree, season two has some great sam episodes. I liked the tokra story, and i thought both sam and jack's storylines in secrets were very moving. However, although i love daniel, i thought the part on abydos was quite weak. It just seemed to be a load of random things happening rather than an actual plot, and the acting didn't fit. Maybe it was because i expected too much of the long-awaited "I'll return in one year".

Serpent's song was beautifully moving and had really good emotional acting from all the cast. But my season favourite has to be A Matter of Time. The special fx sequence at the beginning captivated me, and the episode never missed a beat. I loved the scene with sam explaining wormholes to jack again, the cool time dilation idea: "We called an all-night session with the President and the Joint Chiefs. I've been gone nearly eighteen hours." - "I thought you were on the phone." And the scenes with Jack and Cromwell were excellent - great Jack angst. The whole episode was well written.

[UnderT]

I gotta go with the Fifth Race. That was an awesome episode.

[LouisaB]

I voted for Touchstone. I really loved the set on this one and it always stuck in my mind because of it. I also liked that it really set things in motion for the whole story arcs about the other Stargate being used.

Other favourites of mine for this series are The Gamekeeper, The Fifth Race, Holiday and 1969. I do love the time travel ones in general.

[knocknashee]

The Fifth Race was the one that instantly came to mind, along with 1969 - both fab eps...

Prisoners was another I particularly enjoyed. Seeing the ethics flying out of the window and releasing that woman from Hadante...set up a nice story arc for the future there...

[Hemu]

I voted for In the line of duty. Fantastic Carter episode and tok'ra story begin. Holiday, The Tok'ra and The Fifth race are also very good.

[Mirnell]

Can I vote for about ten of them, pretty please? :-) This is such a hard season to pick one favorite episode from, I love all of them. I went with The Serpent's Lair because I had to pick one, and I just love the Space Monkey line! But as I said, really really hard choice here!

Mirnell

[Qasim]

The 5th race

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

The Fifth Race. Why, I honestly don't know why I like it.

[thor_]

1969 - its very good and very funny episode :)

[col aga]

I don't even know why I'm doing it to myself :P Trying to choose one from so many...;)

Anyway, I voted for Secrets. I've lost count how many times I watched this episode. It had a nice continuity with going back to Abydos and giving Sam and Jack medals for saving the world (although they were recognised for it for the first and the last time in the entire series), it introduced Jacob and the NID black ops, and of course we met Share again. And Kasuf. And Apophis. And Heru'ur..need I go on? :P It's a great episode in terms of moving the plot and at the same time it's a character piece and what's even more rare: everybody gets their own story and something to do. Wonderful.

Still, I had trouble deciding between secrets and 1969, which I also love. And then there's In the Serpent's Lair, A Matter of Time, Serpent's Song and of course The Fifth Race..

[Butlersgate]

1969, teal'c dressed as a hippie need i say more?

[Ulkesh47]

No question at all.

It's "The Fifth Race".

[Professor D.H.D. Puddlejumper]

The Fifth Race is my favorite from the whole Stargate canon.

I wish I could put in second and third place votes for A Matter of Time and Thor's Chariot as well.

:)

[magictrick]

The Fifth Race

It is also one of my favorites in the entire Stargate series.

[Sue_Jackson]

The Fifth Race

Just love how the whole team got together and helped their dear friend Jack. Love how Daniel decided to stay by Jack's side to help him.

That's when we finally meet the Asgard. We also learn first learn about the Ancients, The Gate Builders.

:)

[Madwelshboy]

went for The Fifth Race.

[amconway]

So many great episodes! This was a really great season, overall. I had to go with In the Serpent's Lair which was as close to perfect as an episode can come. Team, adventure, pathos, joy--it had it all!

[Khentkawes]

That's a tough one. Either The Fifth Race or The Serpent's Lair. But I voted for Serpent's Lair, because apparently Fifth Race already has a bunch of votes. ;)

But I also think that Thor's Chariot, Secrets, and Serpent's Song are all wonderful classic eps with a lot of depth to them. They all have some great character moments, nice team interaction, and they all add important new twists to the overall storylines.

And on a purely fun level, I always enjoy Spirits and 1969. :)

[Replicator Todd]

I really liked The Gamekeeper, it showed alot of the past of the characters.

[nx01a]

You are... the Fifth Race.

[Descent]

I'm surprised that not a lot of people love "Secrets". What a classic episode! Jack throwing the knife into Heru'ur's hand was a pretty memorable (and awesome) moment to me.

Ah well. Yeah yeah Matter of Time, 1969, Fifth Race and all that jazz. :P Great season!

[nx01a]

I thought some of RDA's best acting was seen in Message in a Bottle. It's consistently on my S2 rewatch list.

[g.o.d]

The Fifth race. It's in my personal Top 10 list

[Khentkawes]

I'm surprised that not a lot of people love "Secrets". What a classic episode! Jack throwing the knife into Heru'ur's hand was a pretty memorable (and awesome) moment to me.

Ah well. Yeah yeah Matter of Time, 1969, Fifth Race and all that jazz. :P Great season!

I love Secrets! It may not be winning the poll, but I think most fans think it is a pretty important episode... the problem is that there are just so many great episodes to choose from. :) Plus, The Fifth Race is pretty much the Classic because it introduces the Asgard. It was a cool and dramatic way to introduce them as a race, and the whole episode has this sense of wonder about it that pretty much defines the early SG-1 style. So I can definitely see why it's winning the poll... even though there are other really good classic episodes from this season (including Secrets).

[Amaunet]

^ I also loved Secrets!
I picked 1969, I couldn’t decide between that...In the Line of Duty & A Matter of Time

[Xcully]

I voted the fifth race! A wonderful episode, so important for the series!

[x_stargatergirl_x]

1969, just because i think its a awesome episode and my favourite one :D

[jasminaGo]

1969 one of the best Stargate eps ever!

IMO :)

[Alder]

1969 for me.

It's one I can watch over and over and enjoy. Though that's true for a healthy proportion of this season.

[Callista]

Looks like I'm the only one who voted for "Need". Oh well, I suppose there's not really any big surprise there.

[pinielf]

A Matter of Time

[Pharaoh Atem]

chevron 8 locked????

fifth race

[gatershanks]

secrets is amazing! i love both of the storylines, both amanda and michael do such an excellent job in evoking the emotions of their characters onto the screen and makin the audience (well me anyway) feel what they are feeling.

[Killdeer]

Really REALLY hard. So many episodes in the first three seasons I just love. :) I finally picked The Serpent's Lair though. But I also love The Gamekeeper, Thor's Chariot, Message in a Bottle, Fifth Race, Holiday, 1969, the Tokra episodes, even Touchstone and Spirits! :)

[Milea]

The Fifth Race was a very good ep!1969 was great too!i voted for The Fifth Race....

[clauz89]

It's really hard to choose between The Fifth Race and 1969, and also A Matter of Time is great.
1969 is very very funny, but The Fifth Race is beautiful and very important, so I vote for it.

[bunny fear]

I chose 1969...though I struggled between that and The Fifth Race.

Notable mentions to In the Line of Duty, The Tok'ra, The Gamekeeper and Need.

[The Stig]

i liked the serpents song as we get to see apophis at his most vulnerable moment. It brings the goauld back down to earth in that we see how pathetic they actually are without their technology and guards.