 According to Brad Wright, the show would "hopefully explor[e] the truly alien, and [avoid] the rubber faced English-speaking one[s]".There were aliens, but not a single dominant villain race like "SG-1"'s Goa'uld and "Atlantis"' Wraith.The series' first season has a score of 61 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic.