Several eps have made me cry. Most have turned out to be some of my favorite eps. The one where Fred turned into Illyria made me sob like a baby, but I really didn't like it very much. It was like the tears were turned on, but not the real emotions. But then, Fred and Gunn should have never broken up, so I never was really happy with anything after that.

favorite episode ever.

Wrod with a side of wrod. OoG is the best ep of any series, ever, which I pretty much expound upon ad nauseum any time anyone brings up anything remotely related.

Question: why do people like Out of Gas so much? What are the qualities which make it a good episode?

The Office has tainted me forever. now anytime i see someone type "question" i hear Dwight Schrute saying it.

I would answer your question, Kevin, but i can never put into words why i like something as much as i do. OoG just has a lot going for it.

It's simplicity, an everyday sort of problem, like a bad alternator, transferred to them. If they were in a Winnebago in Death Valley, they might have a similar problem, Mad Max style.

Question: why do people like Out of Gas so much? What are the qualities which make it a good episode?

I dig the non-linear narrative, especially the flashbacks that give us backstory on how many of the characters ended up on Serenity. I love that the whole episode is basically a love letter to this dinky old spaceship.

Also, "Everybody dies alone" just kills me.

It's a simple concept but it's got a complex narrative. I think the director did a *REALLY* good job in helping the audience visually seperate out the timelines (plus, extreme kudos for the matching one into another).

Plus, starting with the dead ship with Mal falling into frame - seaming dead - with the soundtrack, is just a great way to start an episode. It grabs your attention, and just makes you go 'Hang on - huh?', but then also answers that question.

I often think show runners should be nailed to a chair and have people tell them why an episode worked, to be honest. Not the good ones, as the good ones understand. But if somebody had sat down with the people at Charmed and said LOOK, THIS IS A FUCKING GOOD EPISODE AND THIS IS WHY, they might have actually produced a decent run of episodes. Sadly, I don't think anybody did.

so you answered your own question.

Charmed ran for like, 7 seasons. The showrunners have no reason to think they were doing a crap job since they kept getting renewed.

Charmed ran for like, 7 seasons.

And I think only about 45% of their plotlines were stolen outright from BtVS.

Cole was way sexier than Angel, though.