Eureka

Is anyone going to watch? It's gotten some good reviews and looks to be a
lot of fun.

Mark Nobles...

I'm there. The promos are intriguing.

ravenlynne...

Me too...

Anim8rFSK...

Me three.

EGK...

Kinda looks like Men in Black combined with Northern Exposure.

Bill Steele...

Great description.

karl...

From the promo I thought it was derivative of the X-Files.

All depends on where they go with it. "Scientific disaster of the week"
could get old just as fast as Smallville's "Kryptonite monster of the
week."

One minor quibble: It makes sense that a town full of scientists and
engineers would have a lot of bright kids. But how come the DOD agent's
kid is so smart?

Anim8rFSK...

next week we meet the kid's father, who I'm guessing is a native.

patty1...

In fact, according to SciFi's website...

(minor spoilers ahead)

"Nathan Stark is a Nobel-prize winning mathematician, Eureka's head
researcher and Allison Blake's estranged husband."

And I agree that Allison is no dummy anyway.

swangdb...

How come she is so annoying? Sorry, Zoey must go. Maybe she could get

patty1...

Bill wasn't talking about Zoey; he was talking about the DoD agent's
kid, the autistic boy who re-created the formula needed to shut down
the machine.

Bill Steele...

When did they establish that he was autistic? But that explains it.

Anim8rFSK...

When hero guy comes to DOD girl's house and says 'nice kid I talked to
him in the park' and DOD girl gets all angry/defensive and says 'my son
is autistic; he barely speaks to people he knows'

sucked into a "vortex of the week."

Okay, okay, I guess I need to see a few more episodes.

Laddy...

How did we go from the 8 year-old son of the DoD agent to the teenage
daughter of the U.S. Marshall? I like the girl's character. She needs to

swangdb...

Oops, since I'm not a genius I'm mixed up the two kids.

swangdb...

She's schizo, kinda sweet one second and annoying the next.

Laddy...

Never had a tween/teenage daughter/sister I take it? :)

swangdb...

I had a teenage sister. She was never like that.

Barry Margolin...

Was she also upset over her parents' divorce, and dealing with feelings
of abandonment?

I had two teenage sisters in a stable family. One was relatively
pleasant, the other (the middle child) very moody.

stay.

Anim8rFSK...

Yes. I was afraid at the end that she was gonna be left behind with her
mother (bringing her back is pretty much of a stretch, really).

I was also disappointed that we didn't get to see them pass themselves
leaving.

EGK...

I was expecting that last bit and was surprised it didn't happen. I thought
it might to play in to why they decided to stay in the town.

Anim8rFSK...

Yeah, except they left, and now they're going back. Weird.

Anyway, I'll watch anything with Matt Frewer, even if I can't understand
him.

Callen in VA

Frank Swarbrick...

I quite liked it. Some rather "obvious" dialogue, but I found it to be
cute and pretty enjoyable. And with Debrah Farentino as the bad guy...
well :-)

jankey...

(so i take it DF got a facelift? i barely recognized her...... haven't
seen her since earth2.)

Anim8rFSK...

Wasn't she the bad guy there too? Certainly she was in Hooperman. And
in her marriage to James . . .

wdstarr...

No, in Earth2 she played the leader-organizer of the colony mission.
The resident bad guy was the group's doctor, played by Jessica
Steen, but even she got sick of Team Bad after a short while and
changed sides.

Anim8rFSK...

'twas a feeble attempt at humor. She wasn't a bad guy INTENTIONALLY in
Earth 2, but stiil . . .

I'd forgotten the real Weir was even in it.

But what was up with Matt Frewer's terrible Australian(?) accent!

Callen Molenda...

Yeah, I liked the storylines, liked the actors and I'll watch again. But I
couldn't understand a word Frewer said.

Callen in VA