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Favourite Season 4 episode?
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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...sigpic
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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.In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
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Originally posted by OsirisWindow of opportunity: a classic!
The Curse and 2010 are also great.
WoO one of the best episodes ever, just the kiss of Sam and JackVery good German Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis Fanpage with all Information, Lexicon, Episodeguide, most current News and a great design: www.Stargate-Project.com
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Originally posted by ShipperahoyI 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.
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