Being a long time fan of Stargate I understand the concern of alot of the viewers. I have been a devoted fan since the original movie and since the series began on Showtime! When I heard Stargate was coming to Sci-fi I was skeptical but I gave it a chance and it turned out to be a good show, when Stargate Atlantis was coming out again I was Very skeptical, but it had a good plot and great characters and it was good! Because I GAVE it a chance, no matter what anyone says, SGU is young very young for a TV show.To say the very least SGU is not a "bad" show it's just not taking the beaten path of the Stargate movies and shows, albeit it does seem like a rip-off of BSG LOL and saying rip-off is being nice about it. But lets think about it think about it, would it REALLY be all that interesting if the show had a serious protagonist like the Goa'uld or the Wraith now, it would just be following the same Stargate-Formula-Fiction, this show provides a story about Stargate from a different angle, indoubtably this show is geared toward bringing "new fans" into the series in an attempt to widen their fan-base... It worked for Star Trek with "Enterprise" and then with the 2009 movie.What I'm saying is nobody is trying to Kill SG at least not intentionally. Give this show a chance ^_^

You mean "antagonist". What concerns me is that the show may indeed lack a credible protagonist. They also need some reason for it to be cool for them to be there. The dust mites were a step in the right direction.Star Trek did not get off to this slow a start. Neither did BSG. I'll give it time; heck, I gave the XFL time. But as with the XFL, the clock is already ticking, and there will be no season 2 unless a whole bunch of fans are happy.

The concept of Stargate is SCI-FI based show. The primary viewers are the Stargate fans. To change the base means to go with a new show than startgate brand in jeopardy.

The premise of the show is rather clever, but it's made a ton of mistakes so far. As I see it, the communication stones make it 'too easy,' so to speak. What's the point of a show revolving around being stranded in a galaxy far far away when you have full communication with earth at your leisure? I just don't feel the stones add enough to the show to be worth it, and seeing all the crying family members adds yet another level of drama where there was already too much.Second, drama absolutely saturates this show to an incredibly annoying degree. I see Colonel Jack pop into a scene and I think finally, comic relief incoming, but he puts on his best disapproving face and bores me half to tears. Some of the greatest, shows out there thrived on both drama and comedy living together. X-Files' Mulder, Stargate's Richard Dean Anderson (among others), SG-A's Shepherd, Firefly's Mel, etc, etc.Third, Eli gets all the wrong air time almost every time. The writers seem to think he, the dropout, should be a hard working, charismatic guy that knows everything about the ship, but instead he should be a bumbling idiot that gets a ton of math problems thrown at him to solve. No ancient text, no amazing Carter-like ideas, just awesome math problems and a ton of comic relief. Lastly, saying, "there will be no more humanoid aliens" was a mistake. Unless "humanoid" is extremely vague, this is the best this show is going to get. There are only so many "get in trouble, find planet with needed resource, get away with resource barely alive" repeats until people start getting bored, and these characters are just too whiny to be put up with for long. I say the writers need to add something truly interesting to the show right-quick, or there will be no second season. Here's hoping.