So....some of you are forgetting how and why SGU came to be?
I never once forgot where the idea for SGU came from or why Stargate became a story about a ship lost far far from home, why the theme song was a tinkling piano, why hyperspace became FTL and why it was filmed with extreme shaky cam and had crippled gates. I remember when NuBSG was canceled and how the timing of SGU was designed to coincide with the ending of that show.
I think that some of you are retconning logic and creativity into the show when it wasnt there.
Just because years have passed since SGU was canceled does not mean it has become something different than it was: a cheap grab at the orphaned NuBSG audience. So, they put a gate on Destiny that is "short range" (except that it can be reached by using a special address dialed on a planet-powered stargate BILLIONS of light years away)?
. It does not make sense at all. Why would they send this ship out and forget about it after leaving Atlantis for earth? Why would they leave it out there during the time the Goa'uld were dominating the Milky Way and using stolen tech from the Asurans? Why would Destiny have shuttles on it and why did they have rockets on those shuttles?
SGU was not a "fantastic idea". It was derivative and it wasnt stargate. I find it easier to watch than dreck like Defiance or Dominion or The Leftovers, but that does not mean that after all this time SGU has become better or more worthy of being called Stargate.