Fenno also went on to praise other points of the episode, stating she also enjoyed the overall episode for its "just outdoorsiness with Michael and Dwight, and infighting among the rest of the staff".
The National Enquirer revealed key plot points of the episode, like Hawkeye's nervous breakdown and Father Mulcahy's losing his hearing after the camp is shelled.
But that's one of the points of the episode".
Dean's farewell with Benny and Sam's with Bobby were both perfectly played and gut-wrenchingly moving, and undeniably the high points of the episode.
Patrick Burns of The Atlantic was also unimpressed, especially "because the main plot points of this episode are otherwise so effective"; his colleague Fallon was brief and to the point: "Blergh".
With sleep deprivation one of the major plot points of the episode, actor Edward James Olmos William Adamaa) liaised with an expert on the subject and the crew to best depict the actual effects realistically.
He criticised two major points of the episode: he thought the beetle prosthetic did not look convincing, and undermined Donna's questions of why people were looking at her back; and he thought the episode was Davies' highlight reel, reminiscent of someone reminding the viewer of an event and then moving to the next slide.
Nick Setchfield of the science-fiction based magazine SFX opined that the high points of the episode were that it was "high on shivery maritime atmosphere," and the Doctor for not being "in instant possession of all the facts, but who reloads his thinking as events unfold".
The strongest points of the episode for him were the acting which he felt to be "uniformly better than usual and on occasion almost incandescent" and the dialogue which was "so natural it didn't actually sound like "dialogue" at all".
Michelle Erica Green, reviewing the episode for TrekNation was undecided about whether the main point of the episode where Captain Archer is expected to lead the Vulcans back to their main path of logic was a "wonderfully progressive concept or just regressive Trek in which humans have all the answers".
