While most of the episodes of Sg-1 were amazingly awesome,what was the worst episode?

**Villain:Anubis** · April 29th, 2012, 09:23 AM

While being in the rewatch of the series and almost done i reviewed the series and found this the worst episode in the series. For me the worst episode of all time of SG-1 was season 2's One false Step. The complete story and aliens were incredibly boring and stupid. The most complete waste of an hour of my life and I will never watch it again. Although I do know where to go now if i ever need to get bored. It was slow, stupid concept that was just not fun. Written by Michael Kaplan and Jan Sanbourn its not question why they got kicked out that was a terrible episode and for me marked the terrible dot in the series that every series has. Directed by Bill Corcoran he only wrote this incredibly shamful episode and the good episode Seth with the goa'uld Setesh which i liked. But with these two only i guess it couldnt keep him going on SG-1.

**Fan-e-Gate** · April 29th, 2012, 02:44 PM

Unending was pretty bad, IMHO. I wasn't a fan of 200 or Wormhole X-Treme either.

BTW this is post #1,234 for me. Interesting.

**Starfist** · April 29th, 2012, 03:20 PM

I don't usually complain about SG-1 epsiodes.

But I have to say that Season 8's finale 'Moebius' was for me a poor episode. It appeared, to my eyes, to be rushed. And tried to squeeze to much into the epsiode.

**Macphisto** · April 29th, 2012, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Villain:Anubis

While being in the rewatch of the series and almost done i reviewed the series and found this the worst episode in the series. For me the worst episode of all time of SG-1 was season 2's One false Step. The complete story and aliens were incredibly boring and stupid. The most complete waste of an hour of my life and I will never watch it again. Although I do know where to go now if i ever need to get bored. It was slow, stupid concept that was just not fun. Written by Michael Kaplan and Jan Sanbourn its not question why they got kicked out that was a terrible episode and for me marked the terrible dot in the series that every series has. Directed by Bill Corcoran he only wrote this incredibly shamful episode and the good episode Seth with the goa'uld Setesh which i liked. But with these two only i guess it couldnt keep him going on SG-1.

I completely agree on this one. It is the only episode that I have skipped on any rewatch of the series (I tend to skip it on all of them). I also am not a huge fan of Emancipation from S1. Come to think of it, Bane and Spirits are also not well liked by me, so S2 has three eps. I think you have to go all the way to S6 before there's another iffy ep in Sight Unseen.

But One False Step is definitely my least favorite. And, frankly, there's no cringe inducing full episode in the entire series (in fact, in any episode of the Stargate franchise). There are moments and there are plot lines that I think fell flat, but I think it compares well to Star Trek in that every series in that franchise (other than DS9, IMHO) had some horrible episodes. TNG takes the cake for that in its first two seasons before really hitting its stride in S3. SG-1 did pretty well to hit the ground running.

**KayLyne** · April 29th, 2012, 04:54 PM

For me, the worst episode (for overall lack of any story) is 1x20 Politics (the clip show). I could handle most of the clip shows from other seasons, but this one I never rewatch. Seeing it once was one time too many.

If we're talking "least favorite" episodes - then mine are 9x02-9x05. No Carter, no need for me to watch. Ever. (and I still haven't)

I actually kind of like One False Step - just because there's a lot of Dr Fraiser.

**DigiFluid** · April 29th, 2012, 04:59 PM

Some of the worst, IMO....

Family -- Great in concept, but absolutely horrific in execution in no small part because of the horrendous performances by Teal'c's wife and son.

Prodigy -- Jennifer Hailey is one of the most annoying characters I've ever had the misfortune of watching

Sight Unseen -- Oh boy. Neon transdimensional bugs. Chills.

Lifeboat -- I really hate the "look at me, I'm an actor!" episodes that Shanks got after he came back

Birthright -- Another one that's great in concept but just terrible in execution. Instead of coming across as intended--a group of victims taking control of their own destiny--the female Jaffa just came across as a group of stereotypical angry lesbians

Avatar -- Example #485934589 of why TV shows should never try to show what video games look like

Moebius -- Besides being 2 hours of boring, it was just a terrible way to end classic SG-1. I would not have cared in the least if the season had been only 18 episodes long, if it had ended on Reckoning/Threads. Instead it was a 2h snoozer that arguably deleted the SG-1 team we know from the canon, and ultimately only served to provide a plot point for the Atlantis season 1 finale. Lame, guys. Very lame.

Collateral Damage -- Yeah, because I haven't seen this exact story played out in a dozen other sci fi series before. With exactly the same plot points, and ultimate reveal of innocence. Nope, this one was completely original

**rushy** · April 29th, 2012, 11:55 PM

I think the only episode I truly disliked and almost never watch is Emancipation.
Btw, I agree about Collateral Damage, there was an almost exact episode at Star Trek: Voyager.

**Crazedwraith** · April 30th, 2012, 04:46 AM

Avatar -- Example #485934589 of why TV shows should never try to show what video games look like

Wasn't the footage of a game from that made from the actual game they were developing at the time?

I wouldn't write off that episode just for the brief video game sections that are tiny compared to over run time. For me, that's actually a very strong Teal'c episode. One that is about him rather than Jaffa Traditions. (or his love life. Or both. I'm looking at you cross roads/)

For my least favourite there has to be Emancipation. Which is boring and very heavy handed with its message. And the season 2 finale because clip shows do not make epic finales.

**garhkal** · May 2nd, 2012, 01:54 PM