 Charlie McCollum for the Knight Ridder newspapers said that the first half fell flat on promises made to rejuvenate the series , adding that " Storm Front " represented " a confusing premise , flat production and recycled stories . " Jamahl Epsicokhan , at his website Jammer 's Reviews , gave both parts two and a half out of four stars . He wrote that the episode " inherits so much nonsensical time @-@ travel baggage from previous episodes ( including last season 's final 60 seconds ) that the premise is all but indefensible " and ultimately the episode " breaks down the entire temporal war ( at least I think it does ) to a single battle in Earth 's past , that revolves around a single sci @-@ fi MacGuffin : Vosk 's conduit that the Nazis are constructing for him . " 
