Season 8 Best Episode Tournament

[TheWarrior]

Endgame
Full Alert
Citizen Joe

[GatetheWay]

Threads
Full Alert
Endgame

[Sprinkles]

Round 7

Zero Hour
Reckoning, part 1
Moebius, part 2

[1DanielForMe]

Avatar
It's Good to be King
Endgame

[jonno]

Round 7

Citizen Joe
Lockdown
Full Alert

I actually liked Citizen Joe up until that cruddy revelation that Jack had been seeing flashes of some guy's life for like 8 years. AND NEVER SAID ANYTHING!

that is my biggest reason, but there is also the fact that in most other clip shows, there is a general impact on the rest of the season: eg - politics ... closed the stargate programme down, made it more interesting for the season finale - disclosure ... revealed the stargate programme to other world leaders (+ it had Thor in it) - inauguration ... lead to Kinsey's downfall.

To me, CJ was just pointless

[Naeara]

Round 7

Full Alert
Moebius Part 1
Moebius Part 2

[warmbeachbrat]

Round 7:

Lockdown
Avatar
Endgame

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

Round 7
Lockdown
Zero Hour
Citizen Joe

[SimilarCadence]

Round 7
*******

Avatar
Endgame
Full Alert

[ForeverSg1]

Endgame
Full Alert
Citizen Joe

[Callista]

Endgame
Full Alert
Citizen Joe

[Capt. Voronokova]

Moebius Part 2
Lockdown
Endgame

I like Citizen Joe. I watched it right as I got into online fandom, and thought the insider look was interesting. (Yes, I like Wormhole X-Treme too, so you probably think I'm nuts anyway). I definitely grant you the ending with Jack sucked, but I tend to ignore it over the other 40 minutes of lighthearted good humor.

Moebius Part 2-- I was very confused at the ending, and disappointed "our SG-1" appeared to have died, thought it seems that they didn't but it confused me, and the payoff to the premise seemed so anticlimactic and did I mention it confused me?

Lockdown -- the oil slick transferring from one person to another got a bit old. And why did the rules suddenly change that a manual base destruction set could be overridden by one officer (Sam) in the control room? A few cute scenes, but the overall premise was sloppily executed, IMHO.

Endgame -- I like a lot of "scenes" in this episode, like Carter kicking ass with her hands tied behind her back and the follow up to the translation in Affinity, but again serious plot holes. SG-1 decided to beam out with the gate instead of trying to take back the ship? (I know the dvd said they didn't know how many others were on the al'kesh--nice try), and Daniel was the only one who could sneak aboard because everything was in Ancient, but he just blew up the control panel anyway! I love Daniel, but just...no.

[DEM]

ROUND 7

Full Alert
Citizen Joe
Threads

[Matt G]

Citizen Joe*joins in the machine gunning*
Threads
Mobius part 1

[Katerine]

It's Good to Be King
Moebius, part 1
Moebius, part 2

Changed my mind about Citizen Joe (sorry, everyone). I really kind of enjoyed that episode - if nothing else, because I was amazed that I'd gotten through 3/4 of the show before I even noticed that it was a clip show. The premise was so unusual for a clip show. And it was kind of fun to watch a fan of the show, within the context of the show (a concept which features in a lot of my never-to-be-written-except-in-my-head fanfics, because I have so much fun writing them in my head).

Since Gemini was eliminated, and I changed my mind about another ep, that meant adding two new ones this round - I added IG2BK and the other Moebius. Moebius is just pointless. And shippy. And - did I mention pointless? Wouldn't be so bad, except that it's a season finale. Season finales are not supposed to be pointless.

Besides, I've never had fun watching characters whom I love and identify with making idiots of themselves. That's just not my idea of fun.

IG2BK - added because, although it's generally an ok episode, it contains yet another low point for Daniel's characterization for this season (as if Prometheus Unbound wasn't enough) - I'm referring, of course, to "Sort of a gwango?" GAH! This is DANIEL talking! And sounding like Jack! And not Intelligent!Jack, either, but Brainless!Jack! It's like the writers were having a contest this season to see how badly they can ignore everything that makes Daniel, Daniel.