Favourite Season 4 episode?

[GateGipsy]

What's your favourite Season 4 episode and why?

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[Shipperahoy]

I voted for Window of Opportunity because I think it's the funniest Stargate episode yet and well...I really don't think that I need to elaborate.

[GateGipsy]

Anyone who knows me knows which one I voted for here - Scorched Earth!

This is my absolute, all time, no doubts about it, favourite Stargate episode.

It is Stargate, and indeed Sci Fi as a genre, at its best. For me, sci fi is for exploring ourselves, humanity, by using situations that are very out of the ordinary. For me this episode wasn't about who was right - daniel or Jack. It was about the fact that there was no right answer and no wrong answer. There was only the two ways of looking at the situation, and what that says about us and humanities way of looking at the universe.

The rational, logical, answer: go with the Gadmeerians. At stake here was an entire species, their civilisation, culture, history, etc. These people's only way of saving themselves was to put themselves into 'freeze dried' storage and set off in the hope they'd find somewhere to start again. It wasn't their fault that the Enkarans were on the planet - they started terraforming before they arrived. The Gadmeerans freeze dried on the ship had no other choice left.

Whereas the future of all Enkarans wasn't at stake here. This was just a group who'd been taken off their world by the Goa'uld. Somewhere out there was a planet of Enkarans. Plus they had options - they could leave the planet. Maybe they didn't have anywhere else to go, but then again maybe they could find another place. It wasn't going to definitely be the end of them. There was still hope.

The emotional, subjective answer: What would the Gadmeerians know? They were freeze dried, ancient specimens. Their time was over - the universe had already voted against them. And what did we know about them? Nothing, except that they weren't humanoid and saw and heard the world differently from us. We didn't know if they laughed, or cried, or had emotions, or families or anything else. They could have been evil, or they could have been good. The point is we didn't know them.

Whereas we did know the Enkarans. We knew how they felt because we feel the same way. We had an emotional attachement to them, and could empathise - we know how we'd feel in their place.

And the right answer? Well, if they hadn't found the alternative, and I personally had to make the choice, then it would be with the Enkarans for all the reasons I've said above.

Plus, Daniel looks so utterly thunkable in that long shot of him walking in the grove with Lotan, and the way that uniform outlines those thighs I swear it is the closest to pornography you can get on a PG show...

[Major Clanger]

I just knew it would get down to the grove scene in the end... and while I like that ep a lot, especially because there were essentially two right answers and two wrong answers to the same question.

My favourite ep on a superficial level is Chain Reaction. I wonder why that might be? Then there is Window of Opportunity: the Ep Which Sucked Me In. Then there is Absolute Power... but I have to say, I think The Other Side is the most thought provoking, although in a way it is a similar situation to Scorched Earth.

Man... decisions decisions.

[Osiris]

Window of opportunity: a classic!
The Curse and 2010 are also great.

[Thor]

Window of opportunity: a classic!
The Curse and 2010 are also great.

Indeed
WoO one of the best episodes ever, just the kiss of Sam and Jack

[SeaBee]

Window of Opportunity.

Simply the best.

[Apophis]

I voted for Window of Opportunity because I think it's the funniest Stargate episode yet and well...I really don't think that I need to elaborate.

Damn right, i must have watched this episode more times than the rest of the season together, it has everything. Golfing through the stargate, the juggling scene, Teal'c getting his own back on the guy that keeps hitting him with the door. Aside from humor it's great too. If ur a sam/jack shipper u have to be happy with the kiss and knowing look he gives her at the end. Man, even the special effects are pretty cool.

[bcmilco]

I vote for almost all of them... What do you mean I can't?
okay fine...

I voted for WoO because I just love that they could take the episode from light and funny to poignant and intense. It's truely a great episode.

[Norlioness]

I voted Window of Opportunity. Why? Because I'm shallow and love light and funny stories. It's also one of the few episodes I would watch repeatedly.

[Watters87]

WoO. Had everything, it was funny, had ship, golfing through the Stargate and intense emotion at the end.

[Sam_o_Neill]

I can't answer this one!
There are just too amny episodes that I love, How could I possibly choose between WoO, Divide and Conquer, Beneath the Surface,Entity,Prodigy and so many others?

[Spaceminx]

Damn, this season has so many great eps in it but 2010 is my fave ep of all time so I have to vote for that.

[jenniferhailey]

Prodigy because Jennifer Hailey is sooooo cool!

Window of Opportunity

Divide and Conquer

Upgrades

Sam and Jack arc

So many great eps. Best series.

[auralan]

Window of Opportunity. Anything that can make me fall off the couch laughing gets a vote.