@LukeAlmighty I'm the biggest Stargate fanboy you'll ever meet, but I could write a book-length diatribe on how awful SGU was. The story got better in S2 (too little too late, IMO), but the writers seemed to hit all of my pet peeves. The overused sex scenes were almost as bad as the characters that only existed to check off diversity *and* trope boxes: whiny rich girl, tough black guy, paraplegic genius...
And to bring it back to the original topic, Rush is a perfect example of a character I hate that pops up everywhere: the guy who knows everything, tells nothing, and expects everyone to bow down to him. He's the "expert" we're supposed to trust blindly.