Frozen
The best episode of Season Six. One of the Stargate Top Ten possibly. Not a lot of action in this episode, in fact none. There was not one explosion the entire episode and it was still great. Why? It was just so damned interesting. I’m so glad to see they’ve come up with an intriguing storyline like this, there really ARE good writers sitting around that table. Now the question is, will they run with it? Season Seven is all about the Ancients…
If you haven’t seen ‘Frozen’, well for starters you’re a git. It’s cool, dammit. But not in the usual Stargate kind of cool way. In the early seasons I used to really like the parts where Daniel would waffle on for ages about the history of ancient civilisations on earth and how that related to the Stargate lore. I’m sure there are fans who love the bits when Sam is waffling about maths and physics and whatnot, and there are some eps to tickle that fancy, Frozen is for the lore geeks like me. It’s hard to explain why. Here is a taste:
Sam: “So you’re saying this woman is…?”
Janet: “I’m saying she’s another example of an advanced stage of the potential human evolutionary process.”
Sam: “Leading to what?”
Janet: “Antarctic cod can live in water so cold, other fish would develop ice crystals in their blood. Now they’ve had 40 million years or so to adapt to the change in temperature and they’ve developed this protein that acts like anti-freeze…”
Sam: “They’re fish.”
Janet: “Given enough time, evolution can do some pretty amazing things. Look we know that humans can become much more powerful beings. We’ve seen it happen with Daniel.”
Sam: “Uh huh, with the help of other powerful beings.”
Janet: “Yes…we think this woman might predate human evolution on Earth by 50 million years…”
Sam: “Yeah, but that would put her behind us on the evolutionary timeline…not way ahead.”
Janet: “Unless…”
Sam: “Unless…our evolution isn’t the first time it’s happened. That’s not big, Janet…that’s huge!”
Janet: “Okay, look, it’s just a theory and we certainly don’t have any hard evidence, yet…”
Sam: “Yeah, yeah, but if you’re right…this woman could be part of the race that first invented the ‘gate.”
Janet: “One stage of that development, anyway.”
Sam: “A living Ancient…”
Janet: “And we look just like her…”
OK, that doesn’t really do it any sort of justice and I am ruining my case here if anything, but my point is (though if you are the type who just watches this show to sit back and watch stuff blow up you may not agree) that to my mind this is an extra nifty episode. Jonas even manages to be less annoying than usual. I won’t say endearing, but coming dangerously close to likeable. What am I saying?!!
Other moments of entertaining dialogue:
Janet: “Doctor.”
Dr. Woods: “Doctor.”
Dr. Osborn: “Major.”
Sam: “Doctor.”
Dr. Woods: “Major.”
Janet: ” Doctor.”
Jack: “Alright…that’s enough.”
Can someone please tell me who the actress playing Ayiana is please? I’ve seen this girl in something before and it is bugging the hell out of me not being able to figure out what it is. It could just be the resemblance to the portrayal of Leeloo (Fifth Element) but she’s so pretty, she must have been in other stuff.
I must say, I thought it uncharacteristic for Jack to accept taking a symbiote after he has been harping on for six years about how much as despises them. It seems odd for a mid-season episode to finish on a cliffhanger like that, but I suppose it is necessary to explain the arc developments. Tune in next week for Jack the Tok’ra. Hehe I can just see him in one of those sandy tunic things…
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