I don’t think that The Shrine will win, not with this competition, but it’s still awesome. This was one of the best eps of SGA’s mediocre last season and it deserves the praise.

To say i’m very surprised at this is a bit of an understatement, I thought it was one of the worse episodes of the season *shrugs*

I could think of far better episodes than this!

It should win it was emoationaly powerful

Wow I think it would be great if this episode wins an award. Wouldn’t the SciFi execs regret cancelling the series if they realized it could still win awards? I bet they would! My favorite part in this episode was when John and Rodney were just hanging out, which I feel wasn’t shown on screen as often as it should have been shown. Rodney’s acting was A+. Also, the scene where Woolsey shares his experience of having a father with Alzheimer’s just makes the show connect with the audience. The rest of the episode was just mediocre, but these two scenes are the standout scenes.

great news but dam there up againts the dark knight. hope sga wins

For a second I thought it said NSFW instead of SFWA lol.

But yes, that was a great episode. I think they should separate their mediums for each category, though. “The Dark Knight” (a movie) versus “The Shrine” (a tv episode) is like David vs. Goliath. It’s apples and oranges. They don’t mix. The Dark Knight is much more well-known than SGA, and although the voters are supposed to be unbiased, many of them may have already seen Dark Knight and not The Shrine. And Batman is a brand most, if not all, of them have loved and been familiar with their whole life, but Stargate is not so ubiquitously loved. Also, it takes a lot more skill and is much more difficult to be creative, deep, and impactful with a 42 minute limit and a Television budget compared to a 2+ hours timeframe with a $180 million budget.

Yeah it was a very good episode. still a huge shame it was canceled (series) I hope it wins…batman script wise is well not that great..the movie it self was boring in parts…Heath Ledger was the only good part if the film and the action/blow up scenes..like the hospital.

This is great news. The Shrine was one of the few bright spots in the season. I truly hope SGA wins.

I though The Shrine was an amazing, standout episode. The script was solid, and the actors were phenomenal. David Hewlett was of course great, but I was extremely impressed with Joe Flanigan in this episode. This role called for him to show a depth of emotion while paradoxically playing a man who does not show overt emotion, and JF did it to perfection. Without dialog, without any scenery-chewing emotional outburst, he got the feeling across with his eyes and with the way he held his body, tensed against something he had no way of fighting. The night time scene between Sheppard and McKay is my absolute favorite of the entire series, and a master class by both actors. I was also very impressed with Kate Hewlett in this episode. She hit the perfect note with her performance, especially in the scene when she first goes in to see Rodney.

As someone who has lost two family members to Alzheimer’s disease, this episode had me in tears throughout most of it. While the stiff competition doesn’t give me a lot of hope of The Shrine winning the Nebula, I’d certainly love to see it happen.

And I’d really like to see the actors recognized for their performances as well. A script is only as good as the performers who bring it to life.