SG-1 Season Eight Awards: Vote Now!

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• Season Eight is my favorite season. It just has so many great episodes. I think of all of them, Prometheus Unbound has to be my favorite. I love episodes that feature Prometheus or any other Earth ship, and this episode with Vala was awesome.

  The New Order episodes are great. We see the Goa'uld coming to us scared after our unexpected and stunning defeat of Anubis, the Asgard needing our help once again, and O'Neill developing the disruptor weapon and using it to save the Asgard.

  Reckoning has to be one of the best two-episodes in all of Stargate, and the scene with the superweapon going off and killing all Replicators is one of my favorite scenes.

  Daniel in the Ascended Diner pleading with the Ancients to stop Anubis was very revealing, and helped set up season nine by showing us the motivations and philosophies of ascended beings.

  Moebius was the best time travel episode of all Stargate in my opinion. It goes back to the roots of Stargate. We get to see Ra and Apophis again, get to see an alternate SG-1 with a very nerdy Carter, an O'Neill not shy about wooing nerdy Carter, and an O'Neill disappointed because Carter is in love with Daniel ("our" Daniel, since alternate Daniel became a goa'uld). And to top it off, we get a ZPM without "doing" anything, which allows the Daedalus to go to Atlantis and save them from a Wraith assault.

  Full Alert is also one of my favorites. It had been a while since the US-Russia relationship had been explored in detail in SG-1, and this episode showed that even after repelling Anubis with the Ancient weapons platform after an attack that should have made old problems look irrelevant, mistrust dies hard and nuclear weapons are still a major threat to humanity, and the Trust remains as strong as ever and sought to exploit the mistrust between the Russians and the US to bring about nuclear armageddon.

  We had many great Teal'c episodes too. Avatar, Affinity, and Sacrifices were all great, and all expanded aspects of Teal'c that we had seen before: Teal'c struggling to be the "old" Teal'c from when he still had his symbiote, Teal'c struggling to fit in on Earth, and Teal'c wanting to keep up a strong relationship with his son even though he can't spend much time with him.

  It's Good To Be King and Citizen Joe were a couple of fun episodes. Any episode with Maybourne and O'Neill is good, and even better when Maybourne is the king and O'Neill just hates that. Citizen Joe was a great implementation of a clip show, and you know that Dan Castellaneta was there because RDA loves The Simpsons in real life (and after starring as himself in The Simpsons, they probably owed him a favor).

  Really, there are no forgettable, wasted, or filler episodes in Season Eight. It was SG-1 just getting better and better.

• Reckoning II isn't just the best episode of Season 8, it's episodes of SG-1!

  But 'Threads' will win because the Shippers won't vote for anything else.

• This was a great season, even though Jack O'Neill isn't as prevalent as he was in the earlier seasons, due to Richard Dean Anderson takings reduced part in the season. I really liked "Lockdown," especially when Anubis claims Jack's body to go through the Gate, but is coaxed out of Jack by Vaselov. Jack's "I'm ok...ish!" was very much a Jack line. It was even funnier when he shot Daniel and no one was willing to admit it. I also really liked Avatar, especially the end when Daniel gets into the game to help save Teal'c, who is slowly giving up.

  This was a good season, at least what I have seen of it - I still have at least 12 episodes to go at this point. I have seen Threads (the 63 minute version of it, not the edited version, thank goodness!), and the two part Mobeius, and I tell ya, those three episodes could have wrapped up the entire series perfectly. If it didn't get renewed at the last second for another season, these three episodes would have been the right way to end the series, even though they wouldn't have gone out the way they came in...going through the Gate to their next journey.

  I haven't really attempted to work through seasons 9 and 10 yet, because I just don't want to finish watching the series yet. I have started, but it makes me sad to keep working toward the end of the series. Oh well, I guess I better watch the rest of this season first.

• best stargate season. period. it had three season finales. one after another. puting jack in charge of the sgc was pretty smooth. it allowed them to do lots of new fresh stories they could not do before. the reckoning part 2 is sg1 in its prime. that episode almost wins every category. best team moment? fishing scene without a doubt. only drawback was the recap episode. i am not a fan of these kinds of episodes. but it was still pretty good. i would take that episode over any filler episode from atlantis season 4 or 5.

• I only wish SGA got to end their series this way!

• I would have voted for Torri Higginson (as Elizabeth Weir) for Best Guest Star...

  By the way, regarding the re-watch, at this point we should be watching one SG-1 episode and one Atlantis episode... u.u

• Currently watching Dr. Who's "The time Warrior" with John Pertwee. Very dated but still fun to watch. After this I will top off with SG: Season 8's Moebius". Yes its time travel night for me.

• @fer++
  I agree with you- Torri actually was my choice on the nominating forum board as 'Best Guest Star' for Season 8. She not only stuck the Weir character right on the money (as opposed to Jessica), but she went on to portray, IMO, one of the most remarkable characters in all of Stargate itself.

  Sadly, it seems I was one of the very few (if not the *only* one) who dared to put Torri up for it...