I just can't believe they dropped it. It was such an easy set-up for four more episodes, and because, you know, the Atlantis crew desperately needed a ZPM. I just have to tell myself that Team Sheppard checked out those planets and didn't find anything interesting. Except if those planets were boring, maybe one would have made a good alpha site, which they said they couldn't find, and ARGGG. So maybe those other planets had fallen off the gate network and they couldn't get to them at all. There.

But, yeah, if the show were perfect, we'd be a lot less interested in making fanworks for it. :)