More plot holes. You're telling me the Air Force doesn't have some serious protocols and rules involved with their super-secret deep space program, especially regarding Ancient body-switching technology and the people using it?

Such that anyone can just go running around in someone else's body without someone else from the Air Force keeping a close goddamn eye on them, let alone being allowed to go off-base? Seriously?

I call bullshit.

All the lack of such makes for is cheap drama (and bad writing).

We watched "Time" as well. And, well, still waiting for SOMETHING to happen. I like Stargate. I do not like Stargate the big human drama soap opera. This is not what I watch Stargate for. Seriously. Character arcs. Yes. Mindless crap straight out of daytime television?

BORED NOW.

This is not science fiction. This is a contrived soap opera with spaceships. It is like watching the worst episodes of BSG. And "contrived" is the word I keep returning to most when thinking about the show.

The crew is aboard a ridiculously vast alien spaceship of Ancient design flying through galaxies billions of light-years from home, and we are constantly treated to trite, drawn-out bullshit Earthside, or overly-long (they're more "dramatic" that way, I assume) off-ship missions. All tied up with nonsense on why they can't make the ship work.

Right, the amount of Ancient technology the SGC has retrieved, cataloged, and figured out how to work (the whole city of Atlantis, anyone?) and these folks have barely been able to figure out how to turn the light-switches on?

I would buy that, if the group weren't in constant contact with Earth, and the brains aboard their ship just weren't ones all that knowledgeable about Ancient technology, language, etc.

But given the two-way communication, that is simply completely implausible.

For me, SGU has this season to rescue itself, unless it just keeps crawling along doing nothing, pretending to be dark, and complex, and interesting while actually being dull, banal, and thin, in which case it may not even have that long.

I have about had it with the Forge from a technical/usability standpoint. The vast majority of the time I try to log on to read posts or reply, I am confronted with 503 errors and timeouts.

It gets fixed for a couple days, then has issues again for weeks, which I find personally ridiculous. And the users are never told what's going on with the problems, why they keep cropping up, if anyone is actually doing anything about it or trying to get to the bottom of it.

So I'm pretty close to just removing it from my reading/posting list, given it took me fifteen minutes tonight to make one two sentence post.

Are there any other decent tabletop discussion forums out there (NOT Story-games, thank you) that might serve as a decent replacement for game and theory discussion, and who might host independent forums for small presses?