So this show isn't perfect, and yes, they have veered off the usual SG path, but you have to give the writers the benefit of the doubt. Atlantis was good, but 5 years on there wasn't much more to go on. It fell prey to the same as SG1. This at least is a new take, plus, you have to realize, they wanted a new version of Stargate and Battlestar = this, for better or worse. It comes to whether or not SG fans want to have even a remnant of the original show left on the air. As a partial Trekkie, I can say that I stuck by Voyager and even Enterprise to keep the story lines somewhat intact. Without SGU what would we have? Even though I have not seen every episode, I return to the story eventually because it is still better than most of whats out there!