Eureka Season 3.5
Dalboz
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I know there are a few fans of this show on here. The third season of Eureka is scheduled to start on the SciFi channel this Tuesday night. I find it to be a fun and generally lighthearted scifi show and I'm curious as to how the third season is going to turn out. The individual stories in the second season were good, but the season-long underlying story I felt didn't play out in a satisfying way. It will be curious to see how the third season will do, especially since the season has been extended from it's usual 13 episodes to 21 episodes (I'm guessing that there will be a mid-season break, similar to BSG, because that's just what the SciFi channel does).
Anyone else looking forward to this? What are your expectation for the third season?
Anyone else looking forward to this? What are your expectation for the third season?
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Anyhoo, I didn't catch much of Season 2, but what I did see makes me glad there's more on the way.
I dont understand why so many writers have this need to put in an overall plot line for every season. Sometimes, a show is better with a true episodic plot.
MWO: Adamski
It just felt "meh"
bringbackfarscape
But if Jack Carter could somehow end up on Moya... :P
I enjoyed the first season's "wacky problem of the week" a fair bit, and I really liked the first season finale, which was imo a good example of how this show needs to incorporate dramatic stuff. (Wasn't super fond of crazy therapist lady, but it was mostly just a background thing.)
So, what do they do in season 2? They throw in about 4 more dramatic story arcs on top of the wacky plot of the week. Result being none of the story arcs worked (Henry fighting Carter ended up with basically nothing changed, Carter's ex-wife showing up was entirely pointless, and oh god the kid/artifact plotline was awful and required nearly all of the characters to act like complete idiots) and the flipping back and forth from wacky plot to overly dramatic plot arc made the show really weirdly whiplashy.
PSN : Bolthorn
good stuff.
I really do like this show and I'm curious about how things will progress this season. I really hope they bring Henry back quickly as well.
If I'm going to do the thing, I want to do it right.
I got the whole first season on my Zune for like 20 bucks.
The first season is 30 or so on DVD.
Ok episode, curious whats in that vial but mostly I hope the artifact storyline is just completely over.
They just
DId not see that coming at all.
The end did come together far to nice and smooth for what they were facing, but that's kind of what this show does it seems so I'm ok with it.
I'm getting old...
Yea really, they've made her very unlikable.
I do like the way they are playing out Thorne though, especially after she simply refused to tell Carter what was going on.
And having just seen the next episode preview she's still there. And I have a feeling she will be until either the father or the baby appears. Which is bad news for them because she alone is really putting me off watching the show.
When a character makes you want to punch through the screen to get to her, they've really done a bad thing.
Yea, I mean, I get it, she's all new age-y and independent. They can tone it down now.
What was worse was Carter ignoring it when he should be telling her off. He did make a stand about her going to school but he allowed Zoe to walk off pissy and let the sister tell him off for it when shes his daughter. He did eventually tell her off near the end but, and I don't know if its just me, she seemed more concerned for Zoe this ep than Carter did. The emotion seemed off this episode there.
But still, he let her walk over him a lot and call him out on things when the guy is a god damned hero in Eureka and shes a hippy who thinks yoga is better than an education at one of the best schools on the planet. I haven't disliked an add-on this much since Nadia in Alias.
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Its why Lisa from the Simpsons has become so irritating to me. I hate when characters are pushed as positive and good when really they just want everyone to agree to their way of thinking, otherwise they're bad people and they should feel bad.
blech
The sister is an annoying whinny twit, and the sherrif is apparently a rent-a-cop for the giant tech company.
Remined me of a book I read back in HS about some small town that got a big tech company to move there. The company started hooking up the police with laptops, radios, etc., then when they were all wired up, the company took control of the town. The company name or owner's name was Striker, or Stader or something?
In a town of geniuses the guy with the average IQ is always going to be looked at askew. At least, that's what the show would have you believe, and that's part of the framework that makes the show a success as a weekly mystery.
The thing that happened at the end of season 1 keeps getting mentioned, but is never brought up or resolved. They seemed like they were going to answer it at the end of season 2, but it turned into more "lol artifact" bullshit.