The Rodney/Radek scene was lovely. Not quite enough to make up for the rest of the episode, but still lovely. ^_^

I honestly don't mind them remaking SG-1 episodes (which are, themselves, mostly remakes of older sci-fi plots) as long as they do it well. I don't mind that this episode ripped off SG-1; I mind that it did it badly. And I fully agree with you about the first segment being much too long. You've got to take your viewers' savviness into account, and I imagine that most regular viewers twigged very quickly to what was happening.