Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) Prototype (2005) User Reviews

He's back...sort of.

[uncleoyster · 9/10 · 1 February 2011]

This is back to some classic SG-1. Retelling the episode is just boring, so here's why I'm pleased with this episode:

• They're keeping the Ori arc going in the background by using the threat of the Supergate to explain why they HAVE to go to a specific planet.

• Carter gets to show off her intellect again by finding a way to get through the "blocked" Stargate, something we've missed since she spent the first 6 episodes of season 9 off-screen. Also, this leads to her getting to be part of solving the Khalek problem in the end.

• The scene with Daniel in the control booth and Khalek strapped to the table, where Daniel exposes him as the spawn of Anubis, and Khalek does his "holy crap I'm evil"-speech is just chilling. I actually got goosebumps. Props to Neil Jackson.

• Woolsey, who usually is the writers' tool for preventing the good guys from doing what needs to be done, gets to have a semi-good point. Don't get me wrong, I hate the guy and want him to die, but what he tells Landry is sort of a good point and Landry acknowledges that. Still, Jackson is of course MORE right. And the conversation between Daniel and Woolsey at the end of the episode is dead on.

• Khalek is awesome. His nonchalant demeanor towards Woolsey ("Dick"), his efficient, deliberate movements when he starts breaking loose and neutralising everyone around him... I'm very pleased. Even his death is awesome; first the surprise bullet from Daniel and then the barrage from him and Mitchell? What a way to go!

• Anubis was my favourite Gua'uld, and even though Khalek wasn't HIM, it was good to revisit that particular villain.

• Ascend-o-meter! Giggle.

All round, this is the way I want my SG-1 episodes: Suspenseful, exciting, ancient tech from strange planets and no Jaffa!

Anubis´ Clone

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 25 September 2019]

Sam and the SG-5 travel to a planet to observe a black hole that seems to be forming. However they are sent to another planet. Sam finds that the stargate is programmed to send intruders to another stargate and fixes the problem. Soon they discover a laboratory and Mitchell accidentally activates a system that reanimates a man in stasis. They bring him to the SGC while Daniel researches and finds that the man is a prototype called Khalek and made from Anubis' DNA. Further, he is a danger to Earth and must be destroyed. But the government represented by Richard Woolsey does not agree.

"Prototype" is a predictable episode of "Stargate SG-1" with a screenplay full of clichés. The situation are not original and the viewer can anticipate what he or she will see. The conclusion is also without emotion. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Prototype"

Slightly strange couple of episodes

[fig-75275 · 7/10 · 26 September 2020]

The last two episodes have been a little strange. Babylon was good, although it clearly borrowed the central part of the plot from one of the classic TOS episodes. It was good to see the writers acknowledge that though.

Prototype similarly takes an idea from elsewhere (without, unfortunately, casting Scarlett Johansson in the title role). However, I didn't think Prototyoe was as good as Babylon, and I thought the ending was very unsatisfactory. I was hoping they would do more with the idea that human potential could be literally limitless. It would have been much better if Khalek had decided he didn't want to be as he was made to be, like Hugh from Star Trek: TNG, or even like the robot from the Iron Giant, but we didn't see any of that here. It was more like the TOS episode Where No Man Has Gone before, but alas, nothing like as good as that.

Season 9 started very well, but these last two episodes haven't been up to the same high standards, IMO.

Suspenseful for Dummies

[fcabanski · 2/10 · 3 October 2015]

It was pretty clear from the moment they found Kalek what was going on. Strike that. it wasn't pretty clear, it was crystal clear.

You mean he wasn't an innocent guy abducted from his own planet? Whaaaaaaaat!!!!??? The overacting when Daniel tells Khalek, who can read minds so wouldn't really need to be told, is awful.

There are episodes that don't advance the ongoing story. The Ori are coming. They are powerful. How can we stop them? But now, this.

Then there are even worse episodes, like this one, that pretend to be connected to the main story by mentioning it in passing. "Oh yeah, Ori. But now, this." On the good side, Wolsey is once again shown as a good guy whose doing what he thinks is best.

The way Sam, Daniel and Cameron take out Khalek is nice. Sam could star in "Are You Smarter Than an Ancient"?

SG save a life

[Calicodreamin · 5/10 · 10 April 2022]

A tale as old as time, SG sees someone in stasis, decides they need to be saved, and then it backfires. Decent twist ending, but I was too bored by then to care too much.