Newman doesn't want to talk about the plan in the basestar dev thread so i thought id start one here.
I have no problem discussing it here, though :)
I guess it all comes down to what your expectations were. I knew from the start that at the time of the actual filming of new material for "the plan", that all of the sets had already been dismantled. Therefore I didn't really expect something razor - like; I knew they'd rehash some of the old material, combine with some new that doesn't need to use the sets, and be done with it. That said, my expectations weren't too high, and for me "the Plan" delivered more then I had expected from it.
I enjoyed seeing the fleet of Valkyrie type battlestars being shut down by the Cylons. I loved a closer look at some of the pre-fall colonies. It was pretty interesting seeing Cavil and Ellen on Caprica... I loved the basestars rotating into planetary bombing configurations and dropping MIRVs on the colonies. And throughout the whole thing, there's lots of Cavil and his cynical comments, and that's always good too. It was cool seeing some events that were only mentioned in the series (like the capture of Leoben on a civilian rtf ship).
See, this is exactly what "the Plan" was supposed to do - not get us more new stuff with large space battles, just offer a fresh perspective on what we've already seen, and for me, it accomplished that mission perfectly. It was never meant as a completely new addition to bsg, it was always intended just to expand and offer another view on one of the most interesting periods in BSG - the fall of the colonies and events that follow immediately afterwards. And as such, it delivers. Don't get me wrong, I'd have loved another "Razor" like thing, or another "Hand of God" or "Resurrection ship" type episode, but at the time, the budgetary and time constraints only offered a choice between "the Plan" as it is or doing nothing at all. And for me, a bit more BSG is better then none at all.