Tediam, I'm not sure really. Maybe it's because I come from Belgium, lived there and travelled through that particular area lots of times and because as soon as I got the DVD set, I watched that episode first. I had heard lots of great things about the series and that episode did not match my expectations. I realise that we're following a particular unit through time and that, at times, well, those men were not necessarily involved in the most exciting ('exciting' is not really the 'right' word in this case!) fighting. But I had been hoping for 'more', maybe 'more' in terms of the actual way the soldiers and civilians in Bastogne lived that harsh winter. Granted, the Ardennes region looks very much like it was portrayed in the episode, and obviously lots of research went into making sure the whole thing looked like it should have looked in the Ardennes.
All in all, difficult to say why I feel that way about that episode...