Rachel Luttrell also said during the panel that she really wasn’t away of “the impact of Stargate SG-1″ before she signed on as she was younger and “naive” about the franchise.
It’s like you are the annoying younger sibling until you find your own way with the fans.
In general though, it has to be difficult to pick up the mantle as a spinoff of an already successful franchise.
Once she realized what she’d gotten into, the “pressure did kind of settle in.”