When I watch the show I get the distinct impression that it was poorly edited. It seems to rush through the story without ever really telling the story. The viewer is left to guess and wonder what they missed. Perhaps its a DVD ploy, you know, to promote the sales of the DVD's so that people will go back and watch the show to try and pick up the peaces they missed that were never really there.
I do not want the Sci-Fi channel to get their hands on an ICON from Star Trek like Enterprise. They would dog tie the production staff, cheapen the show, do to it what they have done to Stargate SG1 and Andromeda - make them appear rushed without any dedication to acting. (In otherwords the cast are just doing a job, a job that was once fun but has been morphed into a living hell.)
They would only buy 20 episodes when Star Trek set the standard at 26. (Well 24 for these last two seasons.
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Does it strike any one as a bit odd that Carter went from book worm scientist in all of the previous seasons of SG1 to sex symbol this season? I mean come on she is an attractive women, but you can clearly see that she is not at all happy about being pimped out like this. She is by all rights one of the more adoptive characters to be on TV in years, for her appeal as a women, both in looks as well as in intelligiance. Amanda Tapping, (Sp) has done a brillant job with the character but now that the show is on the Sci-Fi chanel, they have altered her character in a vain and very visible attempt to make her a sex symbol. That just irks me to no end.
The episodes have seemed rushed, almost hacked together at times, with the actors looking less and less like they enjoy what they are doing. In all honestly they have the appearance of people who just want to move on in life because they are bored with what they are doing and it is coming acrossed through their acting.
I love the show, and would love to see it go on for another seven years, but in all honestly, if the actors didn't need a job, I am sure they would agree that some things should be allowed to pass into history before they become less than they were.