<P> Writer David Weddle comments on Boomer's motives: "It's difficult to say someone who did that loves the Chief, and yet in her damaged way, I think she did and still does love him ." </P> <P> Due to the musical focus in this episode, composer Bear McCreary was involved in production of the episode from the earliest drafts . While attempting to compose a new song together with Kara Thrace, the piano player (Slick) moves his fingers across the keyboard searching for a melody, a riff which Thrace recognizes as sounding similar to a classical piece called "Nomion's 3rd Sonata, 2nd Movement" which in actuality is the opening fanfare to the original Battlestar Galactica: a piece called "Exploration" written by Stu Phillips . </P> <P> Alan Sepinwall of The Star - Ledger found that the episode was an excellent showcase for both Katee Sackhoff and Grace Park, and praised director Michael Nankin who "(infused) this episode with the qualities of a nightmare ." Michael Saba of Paste Magazine called the episode an "exercise in building tension through omission" and felt the episode was "excellent". IGN writer Eric Goldman praised the writers of the show for the plot turns in the episode, in particular the fact that Boomer's returning to the fleet with Ellen Tigh was in fact just a ruse . Goldman felt the subplot involving Kara was "a bit meandering" but that Katee Sackhoff and Roark Critchlow gave strong performances . Cinema Blend felt the writers "threw a neat little curveball" with the Roark Critchlow piano playing character being Thrace's father . Marc Bernardin of Entertainment Weekly felt the Boomer storyline was "awesome" but was less impressed by the storyline involving Thrace, feeling "that it didn't tell us anything new" and that the writers had written a very obvious ending to the subplot . </P>

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