Yup, the Meteor Light is quite long. Overall I'm quite happy with the tent; I've had it for almost a year now. The tent itself is symmetrical, although the fly is not, so it dictates which door is the front and which is the rear. But the tent doors themselves are the same size; one on each side, which makes entry very easy. It would be quite snug with two persons; I like to have lots of room for gear, so for just me it's great. Otherwise, with the gear in the front (very spacious) or rear (small but adequate) vestible, room in the tent would be comfortable for two full-sized Thermarest pads.
Since more than 1/2 of the tent body is mesh, ventilation is excellent - very little condensation in even the thick of winter. But, for the same reason, the tent is not very warm in winter (it's good for a 3-season tent). I've used it a few times in the summer with no fly, and if you can get past the relative lack of privacy (because of the amount of mesh) it's very comfortable (and I love seeing the stars at night, while retaining the bug-proofness!). It's possible to set up the tent without the body - just fly and groundsheet - although I haven't tried this. Mosquitos buzzing around my head at night drive me mad so I can't see using this feature.
There is one drawback I've found - and it's minor. The ground sheet dimensions do not seem to match the tent body perfectly, so it's under less tension than the the body / fly. The result is that the ground sheet does not stay clipped to the tent if you lift it off the ground - the poles slide out of the ground sheet's grommets. With the fly in place, you can clip the fly to the ground sheet instead of to the tent body, so that helps... but it's a bit of a pain when setting up though. Other features more than make up for that though - I really enjoy the 'stowable' doors - unzip a door completely and it stows into a neat mesh pocket at one side. No more climbing over unzipped doors or having them get in your way inside the tent. And, because the doors have 2 zippers that complete their track at the top, you always know where the zipper is when the doors are zipped.
Finally, the 'bathtub'-style floor ensures that no water ever enters the tent. This works amazingly well. On a trip to Twin Islands (Indian Arm) in the late spring, we arrived shortly after dark, and the only reaonably good site left to set up turned out later to be on something of a small river-bed as the rain increased. Water was literally flowing under the tent, but not a drop made it inside. Campers in their department-store tents, set up under tarps and on wooden tent pads, complained that everything inside their tents was soaked. But I, sleeping soundly while floating on a creek, remained toasty warm and dry. 8)
