I hear you about AH's potential, as well as about wanting so badly for another show like SGA to come along (and yet not wanting to get sucked in again). I've actually been enjoying MAoS, though I readily agree that it's not as engaging or even as fun as I was hoping. That show also has an appalling lack of POC, but they have an equal number of men and women and at the moment I'm willing to cut them even more slack for that.

It's crazy how good SGA was, wasn't it? Especially for a show that seemed to excel in having the cast members being exactly as competent and foresighted as any given plot necessitated ("I will never forgive them for "The Long Goodbye" or "Michael"! Or for forgetting in "The Shrine" that McKay hated his parents!" she wails disconsolately.) But it was fun, and the cast worked beautifully with each other, and the continuity was (mostly) great and the sci-fi was way more than just a background element. I've never loved any show that much as an adult, and I doubt I ever will again. Alas.

Anyway, AH could have come close, at least. I dearly hope it still might. :)