If I recall correctly , a comment complaint levelled against SG 1 and Atlantis toward the end was that the characters were too good . Too good in the sense of being extremely competent , moral , levelheaded people rather than more flawed , nuanced , human characters . I think it ' s an overblown but not entirely unfounded claim , and bear in mind this was an era where nuBSG , human drama , and flawed characters were becoming a big thing at least in TV scifi . Stargate Universe attempted to reverse that trend by giving us characters that didn ' t always get it right , that had vices and issues and flaws . Some people really liked that . Personally I think they went too far they succeeded in making them more human but also made them incompetent in a way that doesn ' t make sense in context .