Damn! I didn't see this post, else, I'd have stuck that article link here itself instead of a separate post.
I think a lot of us are upset with the sudden references to Ram, Sita, Kaikeyi, etc., and that too soo blatantly.
What most of us dig about this serial is it's SUBTLENESS - suddenly, that subtlety missing is like a slap in our face and hard to digest, sort of, I guess for a lot of us.