dswallow said:
I really wonder how much hearing Ron Moore didn't like it affected people's opinions of the show if they heard them first.
Valid to wonder, but in my case, I really was curious if my opinion would be different than his and I believe I honestly went into the epsode with an open mind. I just don't believe my reaction would have been different.
Probably only a handful of people read that first, as I spoilered the first mention and didn't post this thread until less than 1 hour until the show...
It felt to me that this show crammed in the whole Black Market issue in a nice compressed tidy time frame. It's the kind of thing that we should have seen developing for a while. It just really felt forced to me, like they said "hey, this is a neat angle to explore, but we've go to do it and wrap it up in one episode."
The boss seemed like a cliche to me. The flashback scenes were so devoid of context that I was annoyed by them.
Perhaps I was also annoyed by the complete attention to the Black Market and the absence of substance in other areas, such as the Cylons, Sharon, the baby, the quest for Earth, etc. Usually that doesn't bother me, but what they did focus on just wasn't holding my attention.
I haven't gone back to listen to the rest of the commentary for the details, I only heard the intro that summarizes the fact that he was disappointed.