yeah, i didn't want her to take over either, but i thought effectively ignoring her was a bad move. i realise that i am heavily biased by my shipping preferences, but i thought that sam could have been show her value (at least in one ep) where she could save everybody with her genius. as much as i love mckay, it's getting old with him being the only one to technobable his way out of galactic destruction. i thought season five of sg1 had it pinned when carter and mckay went head to head on scientific issues, and you never knew which one was truely right. they didn't even touch on that at all in sga.