While I disagree with them and don't think the episode is bad (although it's far from my favorites) the writers and producers and even the episode's director didn't like it that much either and thought most of it didn't lad as they intended and that includes the O'Brien/Munoz relationship.
So I don't blame them for their feelings about the episode, if they didn't like it, they didn't like it, that's okay but it doesn't make it fun to listen to especially with their tendency to be overly nitpicky and being unable to move on for 5 minutes once they found each other little detail that annoys them.
I listened to the Melrose Place rewatch podcast a few months ago before they went on hiatus (due to Daphne Zuniga filming Spaceballs 2) and the difference is like night and day. They actually remember things about the show, they talk about guest stars, appreciate things that were good, laugh at things that were bad (like Amy Locane's character in the pilot telling Ian Ziering she "doesn't date teenagers" despite him being ten years older than her and looking his age and how absurd that scene felt), they have guests (cast, producers etc.) and they all tell interesting stories both personal and professional.
I learned about "double ups" for example when a few times a year they would film 8 episodes in 4 weeks to make the long seasons the network wanted possible, the producer in charge of that was on and talked about the logistics, how he counted locations, cast members and storylines to figure out if filming two episodes at once was even possible and then how many episode they could realistically do. The cast talked about how those weeks were exhausting because they would race from location to location and sometimes having no idea which episode they were currently in but how they also loved it because it meant twice the money (because actors get paid by episode).
They talked about Heather Locklear being the sweetest person who had the diet of a 15 year old boy, when Heather Locklear was on she remembered really loving some weird smelly tuna slob on set which feels like an irrelevant detail but it adds so much to the podcast.
They talked about how production dug a hole into the studio floor to build the swimming pool and how in the first season they didn't have a "sky" in the courtyard set so the camera angles were always pretty flat as they avoided filming above the apartments despite supposedly being outside.
Laura Leighton talked about how after she she and Doug Savant started dating he was in the hospital for something and one of the nurses was really nice to him but gave her weird looks and they later figured out it was because she watched the show and didn't trust "Sidney".
This was a really fun podcast to listen to and the Delta Flyers isn't anymore. I enjoyed them doing Voyager but DS9 doesn't work for me.
