What IS the best stargate episode...ever!!!

[Sir Ruff]

Well.. don't what episode but my favorite SCENE is in crystal skull. That goes something like this

Jack-I'm tired of lying here, T help me up
Teal'c- Frasier told you to stay .....
Jack-yeah yeah(stands up and falls straight to the ground)
Teal'c- Dr Frasier is usually right about these kinds of matters...

F-U-N-N-Y

[Bast]

Tin man was cool!

[zafrod]

season 8 is gonna be cool, as is the last season and maybe they will kill major characters off, like hammond or oneill...as it is the last season, ( maybe )


coz u have to admit, the ones where they die are best!!!

[Bakjuh]

I have several favorites...

but Window of Oppertunity is still my all time favorite

But i have to admit, i haven't seen all of Season 7's episodes yet (i depend on the DVD's)...

[taupecat]

Going back to that "stranded on an island with a 6 hour tape...", I'll pick one from each season:

1: Solitudes - great Jack/Sam moments, Daniel saving the day, definitely one of the best eps of the show
2: Fifth Race - (narrowly beats out 1969)
3: Hmm, not one of my favorite seasons. But I'll go with Crystal Skull for this one.
4: The oft-mentioned Window of Opportunity, of course!
5: Meridian - I feed off angst
6: Either Abyss or Full Circle, for the Jack/Daniel banter and the angst. I think Abyss narrowly wins out

And since w/o commercials we can squeeze and extra ep in...

7: Fragile Balance, since Lost City 1 & 2 won't fit on the tape.

[zafrod]

nooooooooooooo
1969 really badddd!!!!!

[Jprime]

I thought Fifth Race was awesome (a bit like a certain next-gen ep if it had been done well) as well as Window of Opportunity. I almost never stopped laughing the whole 60 min.

[Madeleine]

I thought Fifth Race was awesome (a bit like a certain next-gen ep if it had been done well)

Okay, I'm curious. Which Next Gen ep?

[Jillybiehn]

The BEST episode? I'd say The Fifth Race, and it seems by reading everyone else's posts that it's pretty much a general consensus.

Now, my FAVORITE episode? That's a toughie. Window of Opportunity ranks right up there, along with Urgo, Wormhole X-Treme!, Red Sky, Solitudes...I could go on forever. The beauty of Stargate is that there is something to love in almost every episode--even the iffy ones--whether it be a Jack-ism, a snarky Daniel comment, a raising of Teal'c's eyebrow or whatever.

Anyway, that's my $0.02.

[Bogopimp]

my all time favorites

1. The Lost City
2. The Fifth Race
3. Shades of Grey

For some reason, episodes with jacks head full of ancient's knowledge is usually something to shout about

edit: oh, and a spacial mention to "Window Of Opportunity" For being the funniest episode by a long way Whats all this talk of Urgo :?

[flynn1959]

Torment of Tantalus

Legacy

Enemy mine

Lifeboat

are all great but really to pick just one I would have to go with

Beast of Burden.

[VixyOwl (~~Ani)]

While I extend their propers to Fifth Race, Serpent's Grasp, and Lost City for certain, and even though I laugh like crazy during the funny eps, too,
I have some kind of crazy love for Paradise Lost.

It aired while I was working heavily with Renaissance travel and colonization narratives, and so I was prepared to get giddily excited...

I love it because it speaks to or plays with the following (not an exhaustive list):
- humanity separated from culture
- Utopian/Dystopian narrative
- requirements of and suggestiveness of the lunar voyage
- morality, ethics, and penance--both within and removed from cultural pressure
- the value of history/narratives
- technology's uses, limitations, and dangers
- the dangers of ignoring technology
- confronting Stargate's bread-and-butter: the dream of instantaneous travel

...but it does this all WITHIN the narrative, not just by talking about it (as ST:TNG would have a tendency to do, for example)

PLUS, Jack has a great arc--he actually *grows* within the episode--
AND, Maybourne is great
AND, Dr Lee v. Carter scene is fabulous
AND, Teal'c & Carter's loss is palpable (confronting the pain of being left behind, being unable to control the world---and a sweet Daniel reference)

AND it has some of the greatest sound design
AND it's got a great look to it, esp with lighting (and that field of flowers!)

AND, how about that cool round book? Why would all alien books be quadrangles?

....See? Crazy love.

It should surprise no one that Torment of Tantalus is my #2 favorite.

[Crazedwraith]

Take a look at my sig and take a wild guess.

[zafrod]

A particualr bad episode was the one with maybourne and Jack, this was obviously an episode where the writers couldn't think of anything better to write about, and what really P'd me off was that maybourne was allowed to leave with the tok'ra, when he was a convicted treasoner!!! kill maybourne!!

[GateGipsy]

We've got enough threads about worst and bad Stargate episodes - let's leave this one for the folks who want to talk about their favourite episodes.