Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) Frozen (2002) User Reviews

Lelu made over

[Mischief810 · 7/10 · 21 July 2014]

If you've ever seen The Fifth Element, you'll see some similarities in this episode. In Fifth Element, a mysterious, beautiful, and ancient woman is discovered and shown to have powers beyond human comprehension.

Indeed, these powers could have the ability to save humanity.

In Frozen, "Ayiana" is "Lelu" made over.

However, there are some differences that make Frozen worth watching. For example, the Antarctic setting of the episode is nothing like the futuristic setting in Fifth Element. And while Richard Dean Anderson plays his usual, sarcastic and sardonic character of O'Neill, there's no Bruce Willis type character in this story.

Unlike many SG-1 episodes, this story takes a while to unfold. While it takes it time getting there, boy... once it does... it really gets there.

This is not an edge-of-your-seat, action-packed episode, but there's enough action and heroics to keep you interested. This is one of those story lines for which you have to sit back while it unfolds.

Entertaining Episode

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 19 April 2017]

After three years of research in a base in Antarctica, Dr. Francine Michaels, Dr. Osbourne and Dr. Woods find the frozen body of an ancient woman. O'Neill, Sam, Teal'c, Quinn and Dr. Janet Fraiser go to the station to return with the scientists before a blizzard. When Dr. Michaels defrost the body, the woman surprisingly revives. Quinn gives full attention to the woman and they call her Ayiana. Soon there is an outbreak of an unknown virus affecting most of the people and Ayiana uses a healing power to cure the victims but is deeply affected leaving O'Neill uncured. What will happen to them?

"Frozen" is an entertaining episode of "Stargate SG-1", with a story in Antarctica in an environment of "The Thing". Ayiana could have been better used since she is an interesting character. However the episode is too short and loses most of the good ideas. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Frozen"

Ayiana - great tie in to other episodes

[maharlow · 8/10 · 25 October 2023]

For all the low rated reviews I am thinking they don't get the tie-ins of this episode to the rest of the series. They compare it to other (non-Stargate related) movies however the point is, Ayiana is an Ancient and sets up the entire Ancient story line. I rewatched this episode and had to do a double take as I realized that she is the Ancient seen at the beginning of Stargate Atlantis when the city of Atlantis leaves Earth to go to the Pegasus Galaxy. From there she would have been one of the Ancients who return to Earth through the Stargate and, with others, contracts a virus before being able to ascend. In the long run of the Stargate franchise this is actually a very important episode. Rewatching it explains a lot.

Very good, underrated

[tomasajdari · 10/10 · 27 June 2018]

Ayana is mysterous and beautiful, the setting is quite exotic and the story is OK. One of the TOP 10 episodes of SG-1.

again

[jesperprahlsimonsen · 6/10 · 21 February 2022]

I know other people are having issues about the 50 million years, i do think thats a bit to much,between 100000 and 50000 years would have been better. But the main problem here is the same as with many episodes, they start up with a good idea, but it mounts to nothing and we never hear about it again, so there is no point in this story, so typical for the show. When you look at the 2 season , lets just say they where bad and they where runing out of ideas, they could have take up some of these storys and make something out of them.

It's alive!

[Calicodreamin · 6/10 · 9 March 2022]

SG1 once again runs headfirst into who knows what and gets their comeuppance. The storyline was pretty basic and anticlimactic, the new character self contained and the science shaky. Not the best episode.

Procedural medical drama

[McKealty · 6/10 · 3 March 2019]

I've never been a fan of overwrought hospital drama where all the tension is just listening to someone yell medical terms (milligrams! intubate! he's crashing! stat!).

Probably my least favorite episode yet.

Thawing a limb out of the evolutionary tree :P

[owlaurence · 5/10 · 3 June 2010]

I don't really know what to think of that episode. The first ten minutes manage to seriously shake several fundamental tenets of the Stargate series (and of natural history in general)... and completely forgets about them for the last 30mn. Is the mysterious young woman an Ancient? Why was she found frozen near the site of the Antarctic Gate? Why was she sick? Why is she able to understand everything and to use words, but never tries to actually *speak*?! (seriously: not even "multipass".) And for that matter, why is it always a beautiful young woman? Did one of the scriptwriters have a fixation on Sleeping Beauty?

The ending is not much better: it leaves all those mysteries completely intact since the young woman brutally dies (here again, without any of the usual warning signs), unfortunately without curing O'Neill. And after spending 10mn ascertaining that O'Neill would rather be dead than blended with a Tok'ra, Carter needs about 20s to convince him otherwise.

So, in case you didn't get my point: this episode is far too ambitious. It raises some very interesting questions but cannot possibly solve them within 40mn while having the characters interact AND fight with their environment. You would need at least a two-parter for that. So as far as I am concerned, this is a waste of good ideas --mystification instead of mystery.

A cold husk of a borrowed narrative

[mrwoks · 2/10 · 11 November 2021]

Worse than any Stargate episode that preceded it, "Frozen" is full of nonsensical plot, poor acting (Reminded me strongly of milla jovovich) & comdically poor directing. Each to their own but I struggle to fathom how this episode would please the average Stargate fan.

The Simpsons reference was particularly egregious and out of character for Jack. A poor blip to a season that had a very promising start.

One of the worst episodes.

[dkmookie · 2/10 · 27 August 2018]

Very unscientific, and very un-StargÅte. Like someone else pointed out and no doubt most people watching - 50million year old human like beings?! No thanks, not plausible for Sci Fi, space opera maybe, this show is usually all about representing the sciences, but this episode was written by a moron who either doesn't care about actual science or the awesome Stargate mythos. Low point of the series. Avoid.

I cannot believe that this episode was rated so highly.

[cmv32261 · 2/10 · 7 April 2016]

Really humans 50 million years in the past, sorry!, but archeology, paleontology, and geology have proved humans evolved on this planet, my opinion has absolutely nothing to do with any religious beliefs, merely rational deduction, seeding of a planet would mean humans my have some genetic similarities with race that contributed the basic DNA building blocks, but there would be noticeable physical characteristics.

I never did buy into that existence of the ancients story line, even more unbelievable than pyramids being used as alien spacecraft landing pads, or mere uncivilized humans overthrowing the Gao'uld, if it were not the way that 1 distinguished the base plot line from episode plot line and the portrayal of the individual characters SG, that is SG-1, Atlantis, and SGU would not have had any redeeming qualities at all.

Ridiculous

[frederickremonrobinson · 1/10 · 13 February 2021]

As I was watching this, I was thinking how did they even sell this to the producers? This is absolutely absolutely based on white idealism of being intimately connected to the human family. I totally understand that tv will take liberties on history, but this episode is as fantasy as birth of a nation.

Total Ripoff of "The Thing"

[Easygoer10 · 5/10 · 2 August 2020]

Both director John Carpenter and author John W. Campbell should get full credit for this episode. Especially the latter. He wrote a novella titled "Who Goes There?" From this, "The Thing From Another World" (1951) was made. In 1982 John Carpenter directed "The Thing". The plots are 90% the same. I leave the rest to you.