This has been sitting on my Tivo since it aired, and I finally got a chance to watch it, or should I say, sit through it.
Yeah, it was bad. Not as bad as the first, but pretty bad. It definitely got the D&D feel at times, I'll give it that. And it named-dropped a ton of stuff (mostly 4e, so it didn't resonate much with me), so it did feel connected to d&d lore. But sometimes that went a bit overboard. I cringed when the shopkeeper asked if he wanted "heroic or paragon" armor. Really? Really?
The opening scene almost seemed ripped right out of the
Shadowborn novel, but I gather a lot of the story regarding the BoVD came from the 3e BoVD, which I have, but haven't read all of. That's a nice touch. But really, the major disappointment came from the summary on the Tivo:
"We're realistic heroes. We're not here to save the world, just nudge the world into a better place."