SGU gets better every time
Started the current rewatch back in August, just finished "Incursion, Part 2."
This show is unquestionably the easiest of these shows to watch. And it's the easiest to binge. Nearing the end of Atlantis it felt like a chore to get to the finish line, and "Enemy at the Gate" isn't the finale worth celebrating.
There's no question that it's the most different, and that it introduces elements that the other shows didn't include, mostly for the worse.
But the pacing, the acting, the mystery, and the progression of knowledge and understanding of this ship and the circumstances they are operating under are just too good to pass up.
This show has more characters to manage, and more individual plots to track, but the main plot and the overlap of multiple people doing multiple things simultaneously to achieve the main goal is of equal caliber to the best that SG-1 and Atlantis have to offer. This is despite having nearly twice the characters to track and less writing freedom to create niche 'setups,' such as any episode that involved pre-existing off-world politics a la Jaffa or Genii storylines.
There's no question that it was the 'darker, edgier', more BSG-styled things that caused this show to get the reputation that it did. But the main plot writing and progression is on par or better than some of the SG-1 peak, even for the first season.
The main plot and science/military writing was the best this franchise has to offer, even in Season 1. It's just that despite its strengths, it couldn't carry the weight of the 'drama'.
As for the binging part, it really helps the viewer get past the weaker parts when you can, just...watch the next episode right away instead of lingering on it week-to-week. It's so easy to just get through this show - not as some race that you're desperate to finish, but as a book you just can't put down.
I've been a more vocal SGU fan from the beginning, but truly, it gets better every time.