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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 5141541" data-attributes="member: 5">We must be watching separate shows.  Thus far, this series has impressed me as one with a good sense of the big picture.  A series arc (getting home eventually) along side seasonal arcs makes good sense and seemed to be where this was going.  It seems this first (split) season will be about the infighting with a taste of the alien threat that, and I am sad to see them moving toward this cliche, will bring them all together so they can survive, like Voyager but with three factions instead of two.  Could have been better, IMO.  The only thing that makes it seem like a bunch of self-contined episodes is the checklist they have gone through early to pre-appease potential audience/geek complaints about certain necessities the characters would need consider but it has always been done with a sense of a continuous storyline.  There's nothing "self-contained" about the arc between Rush and Young and Wray, the triangle between Chloe, the soldier, and the brain, the steady decline of Eli morally as Young uses his tech ability to spy on everyone else.You seem to have also not read my post since I didn't suggest that this show should become like later seasons of SG1.  Neither do I believe it should become like early SG1, with "self-contained one-hour stories" centered around their missions through the stargate each place the ship takes them.  Doing that on occasion would be fine but building the series around that would be more of the same and fifteen years out of date.  No thanks.The problem of needing two shooting teams and the costs involved that Wycen points out might explain the backing off the expanded plot they set in motion.  There are a lot of holes in how they got everyone back together which leads me to believe that they were going in a direction similar to what I suggested above and were told to rein things back in, then scrambled to write something that did so.</blockquote>

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