There’s a ton of awesome chemistry amongst the cast in seasons 8 through 10, which more than makes up for the Ori storyline IMO. The Farscape reunion, Shanks’ wife as the doctor (she’s great in her own right, I only recently found out they met on Andromeda), the fact that they never really had to break-in General Landry, he was agreeable from the start, Teal’c coming into his own with all the Jaffa, etc.
They had the formula nailed down to a science, and you could tell they were having a lot of fun.
I’m deep into a long-overdue rewatch in case you couldn’t tell…