I have to admit, the series was a bit hit and miss for me. I just recently watched it, having missed it when it was on air. I didn't mind the puppets, and after a time, didn't think of them as such very often. The cast really rotated a lot, with every season seeming to change up the crew (and the bold move of splitting the crew up in one season). There were characters that drove me up the wall though. I hated Stark when he was all crazy. I just wanted him to go away, and I wanted to stop watching, but then another part of the story would happen and I would calm down. It was overly silly at times, but that grew on me. It was just sort of fun at that point. I mean, they even had a full on animated looney-toonseque episode. All in all I liked the series by the time it was done (although I found the peacekeeper wars a little lacking but was a decent closure to the series). When Browder and the other chick came on to SG1, I thought "they hired that Farscape guy?" but now I kinda get it, although I did like him in the other series, but hated her character. I actually liked her in this one, which was a rough road because of how much I disliked her character on SG1 and how they kept letting her be a part of the team.