For season 2, my picks were In the Line of Duty, The Tokra Part 1, and One False Step.
Many of you have already given excellent reasons for choosing ITLOD and The Tokra Part 1, and I couldn’t agree with them more, so I won’t repeat those thoughts. However, One False Step is a more unusual choice, so I’ll try to explain, since it’s not a big Sam episode.
I admit to having a soft spot for OFS, since it was the first SG1 episode that I saw. I was hooked from that first show, mainly because of Sam. There she was, a female character, carrying a gun and looking like she might know how to use it. She was concerned about the indigenous people, worried that somehow their sickness was the team’s fault. She was smart, coming up with the solution to the epidemic. She was real, sheepishly admitting to the guys that she talks to her plants. That scene at the end is a wonderful example of Amanda humanizing Sam.
That episode gave me hope that science fiction television could do it right in creating and writing female characters. I hadn’t seen much of that in viewing sci fi for 30+ years, so SG1 was a revelation. Even though some of us may not like the direction that Sam has been given in the last couple of years, I believe she’s still much better than virtually all the other female characters that I’ve seen.
NC
Many of you have already given excellent reasons for choosing ITLOD and The Tokra Part 1, and I couldn’t agree with them more, so I won’t repeat those thoughts. However, One False Step is a more unusual choice, so I’ll try to explain, since it’s not a big Sam episode.
I admit to having a soft spot for OFS, since it was the first SG1 episode that I saw. I was hooked from that first show, mainly because of Sam. There she was, a female character, carrying a gun and looking like she might know how to use it. She was concerned about the indigenous people, worried that somehow their sickness was the team’s fault. She was smart, coming up with the solution to the epidemic. She was real, sheepishly admitting to the guys that she talks to her plants. That scene at the end is a wonderful example of Amanda humanizing Sam.
That episode gave me hope that science fiction television could do it right in creating and writing female characters. I hadn’t seen much of that in viewing sci fi for 30+ years, so SG1 was a revelation. Even though some of us may not like the direction that Sam has been given in the last couple of years, I believe she’s still much better than virtually all the other female characters that I’ve seen.
NC
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