They trying to grab new audience with this series, its got a lot of drama, that's really the problem.. its got to much, it not in the middle ground they were aiming for to get new people to watch and keep the old ones, I still get excited when new episodes come out, but after watching SG1 since it started I'm a die hard fan, so anything Stargate is just exciting, but when it comes down to it at the moment there are few reasons I watch Universe, the enjoyment is mainly from built up experience from the past 2 series, but the feel of the show is way off, its surviving of the spark from Atlantis and SG-1 , its still hasn't created its own.

Take Atlantis for example, it was based a lot on SG-1 they even tried same personality's in the team , but you enjoyed it for what it was, it branched of SG-1 and created its own spark you loved to watch, when both SG-1 And Atlantis were on, you were killing for both story lines and then those special eps were they were joined were just amazing.

Universe is still missing a lot, and that does have alot to do with well, Aliens, they don't need a big enemy but there needs to be something, at this point the exploration is so low, that one of the great things of the Sg series and there is like none in SGU, its all about the characters, i'm sitting here on my waiting to learn more about the ship or the planets out there, not worry about some love child baby that's dead, or wait not dead its on some other planet, or was that a dream, wait what was that.. some crazy drama that seriously did nothing good for the show.. yup.

Stargate is Great, Atlantis is Great, Stargate Universe.. well its still growing.. very slowly.