The most sad episode of SGA

[Flyboy]

the song solitary man playing at the scene when John dies

So in one reality out of all of them, John didn't survive one of his infamous suicide runs.

I'm afraid I can't see it myself - I found Beckett's funeral far more touching, despite his daft death.

[Sp!der]

I think one of the "saddest" eps of SGA was "The Shrine", not so much in content (it got blown 9 ways from hell to a degree), but to see the degredation of a man who's only percieved strength was his mind, and to see him cling to the only person he see's a a "friend" while losing that showed a *potential* depth of character that was quite suprising in many ways for SGA.

This and Sunday.... OP only talked about SGA so....

[iheartshep]

I was sad watching "Sunday", but I lost it watching Sheppard at Carson's memorial. His eyes........*sniff*

Probably "The Shrine" too. Although they broke the drama up with the "beer on the pier" scene.

The scene in "Outcast" where Sheppard is standing next to his father's coffin.....that made me sad. Anyone who's been through that can relate.

IHS

[Linda06]

I don't think there were really any sad eps in SGA. Heroes part 2 from SG1 is the saddest episode in the franchise.

[Falcon Horus]

I don't think there were really any sad eps in SGA. Heroes part 2 from SG1 is the saddest episode in the franchise.

I kinda have to agree with that.

Of all the episodes of SG1 and SGA, I have seen Heroes just one time when it aired and never again. It was heartbraking good.

[Lythisrose]

All I can say is that I never cried while watching any of the other SG eps, but after seeing Vegas I was bawling my eyes out and then randomly for the next few days I'd start crying every time I thought of the ep. I think the desolation of it all got to me big time.

[jelgate]

I cried in Vegas too but I don't think it counts as I was crying in not using Ronon and Teyla again

[LT. COL. John Sheppard]

I'm afraid I can't see it myself - I found Beckett's funeral far more touching, despite his daft death.

same with me that was the saddest scene but i was also saddened by Johns death

[Hyndara71]

SG1 I'm with the most here "Heroes II" was heartbreaking *sniff*.

For SGA ...
Sunday, Doppelganger (I think I'm with Falcon Horus here ), Ghost in the Machine, The Shrine.
Especially The Shrine is one episode for me that I can barely stand without a box of tissues. DH was brilliant in his role and his acting here reminds me always on my Mom, who had dementia at the end of her life, as my Dad had Alzheimer (funny gene pool, huh?).
As much as I will subscribe that "Vegas" is the best episode all over the franchise and I can understand why some are crying at the end I never saw that Shep died, he was pretty close, true, but (maybe the fanfic-writer in me ) for me he made it somehow.

[Lythisrose]

While The Shrine is one of my favorite episodes (minus a few seconds there at the end), I would never consider it sad. It was dramatic and well done, but I guess I just don't see it as a sad episode. It was more uplifting in that we got to see how the team and Rodney's sister cared for him. Plus The Beer on The Pier scene, it just makes me smile. Not cry.

[Hyndara71]

Different tastes, different experiences, don't know *shrugs*. I have several movies, show-episodes and books I cannot watch/read without begin to cry like a baby, sometimes (like in "The Shrine") I know why, sometimes not.

Oh my, the beer on the pier! It's such an awesome scene!

[garhkal]

The Shrine and also Before I sleep. They both were bittersweet, with great character moments. Both had happy endings but still, there were really sad moments in both of them.

Forgot about Before I Sleep.. man was that sad.. to see the original time line and all our heroes dying off, while mccay valiantly fights till the bitter end to try and save everyone...

[JT-2]

Forgot about Before I Sleep.. man was that sad.. to see the original time line and all our heroes dying off, while mccay valiantly fights till the bitter end to try and save everyone...

Yes, and then alternate Elizabeth giving up her life in order to help the current expedition. She could have gone back with the Ancients to Earth, but instead stayed to give the next expedition a better chance. It was a precursor of things to come... Elizabeth giving up her life to save the expedition... over and over and over. That all brings me back to Ghost in the Machine where she gives up her life for the last time. Since she's my favorite character, it makes me sob every time.

[Linda06]

The shrine and Vegas makes me cringe, not cry. *shudders* Another McKay is dying episode, been there done that. Did anyone really think he was gonna die? And Vegas wasn't even our characters. And half of the team was missing anyway.

[Gatefan1976]

The shrine and Vegas makes me cringe, not cry. *shudders* Another McKay is dying episode, been there done that. Did anyone really think he was gonna die? And Vegas wasn't even our characters. And half of the team was missing anyway.

Sigh
What we BELIEVE will happen is immaterial, we all know well the "plot immunity" armor clause. The ep succeeds if it drew you into the story. If Vegas and the Shrine failed to do that for you, cool. Vegas Sorta failed for me because I just found it on the whole, well, boring. It had FANTASTIC elements, many of which I feel were wasted. The shrine suffered from almost the opposite, Excellent premise, but very sub-standard follow up. SGA suffered from this alot unfortunately

[Klenotka]

I loved The Shrine, but as everything in S5, it felt rushed. David was amazing, so was Joe but it had a potential for a longer story, for two, three episodes. With McKay slowly forgetting things but not focusing on his story all the time - it would be a B-story, maybe even a C-story, in two, three episodes and then they could deal with it. And I loved, *loved* McKay, he was my favourite but it would make the end of SGA much more interesting with him dying...they damaged his character anyway, with the writers thinking about his pairing with Keller more as a joke than a serious story.

[Linda06]

Sigh
What we BELIEVE will happen is immaterial, we all know well the "plot immunity" armor clause. The ep succeeds if it drew you into the story. If Vegas and the Shrine failed to do that for you, cool. Vegas Sorta failed for me because I just found it on the whole, well, boring. It had FANTASTIC elements, many of which I feel were wasted. The shrine suffered from almost the opposite, Excellent premise, but very sub-standard follow up. SGA suffered from this alot unfortunately

There were too many bad things in The Shrine that to me it was doomed from the start. And Vegas was just bad, period. Which is probably why those eps never grabbed me emotionally or otherwise. Almost all of season 5 was like that.

That should b their moto, "good premise, poor execution".

[Solaris.]

Sunday was the saddest and best episode for me.

For one the character interplay felt honest. It only began to suck once Rodney became himself again and wouldn't stop freaking out at everyone.

His attitude was the hardest thing to swallow thoughout the entire series. It made it hard for me to watch.

[Arica15]

Sunday. (well until they started up with bagpipes...I mean seriously! Oh look we've killed a Scottish character, let's whip out the pipes and give em a (very poor) blast. Grrrr

I was over the Shrine, I saw and enjoyed that story in Season's three the Tao of Rodney, I didn't need to see it again, it sort of reduced the impact.

[myhelix]

I think "Sunday" and "Before I Sleep". Carson was a great character.