I'm totally with you on the embarassement thing. I download episodes from thi internet and can therefore stop and click forward and I've yet to watch the moment they tell Rodney he's not the new boss (I really don't think he should be and I really don't think he'd want to be either it was kind of like the writers made that up to have that horribly embarassing comic relief.) I also had to stop like every 4 words through Sam's "speech" because the whole scene was so ridiculous. (I mean there were like 20 people there?) I was close to skipping in the flower scene when Ronon came in (thankfully!, even though I think he was a little over the top too. Not in the essence of his actions, but in the "acting" itself.

I like Sam too and I'm not dreading to see how things develop. (I've seen ep4)

I thing 3.03 had this potential to be a very dark and sad episode, but the writers put in too much comical stuff that didn't really fit.