Eureka on SciFi in HD - Page 18

OK, so Holly is really gone. I saw a teaser for her guesting on some show the other day. And Salli Richardson-Whitfield already appeared on an episode of "The Finder" a couple of weeks ago. Life goes on, post-Eureka, for these performers. I hope to see Colin Ferguson in a good project soon. I've gained great respect for him. Joe Morton will be busy, I'm sure.

I really liked this episode. I found it surprisingly moving.

I'm almost inclined to believe this version of Beverly is a good guy after all... and that this reality's Eureka isn't as "good" as the original one.

Still half-thinking they might end up fixing the timeline before going off the air this season.

Now THAT would be a heck of a re-boot. Would they go all the way back to before Henry tried to save his first love?

I could have sworn that I saw Nathan Stark talking about timelines in one of the previews for what's coming up in this season of Eureka. That leads me to believe they will end up trying to go back to a different timeline at some point. However, I don't know if they will ever go back to the original one before Henry messed stuff up since it really seems like they have forgotten about that timeline. After all Henry is the only one that should still know about it, and now he seems to be all about Grace and doesn't seem to ever mention Kim. Although I guess that might be a good reason for him to go back now that he is over Kim, he can look for Grace in the original timeline.

I saw Stark in the 'upcoming season' previews too. Been waiting on that. I thought he was going to show up in the construct.

I saw that preview too... and it fed into my speculation/guesswork.

Originally back in the first time-alteration... only Henry and Jack remembered the alternate future... but Jack was mindwiped by Henry so he wouldn't pine over the lost future. Now that Jack is with Alison anyway, it would be ok for Jack to remember that alternate future again.

It has always been left nebulous as to whether Henry just let go of that future OR if he mindwiped himself at some point. I used to look for signs that Henry remembered... but haven't seen any in a while.

To be fair, though... they did fix that time-travel episode in the end. Henry from the future had gone back and saved Kim... thus creating the alternate future... this alternate future then was fixed when Jack went back and stopped Henry... though Jack and Henry then had memories of both timelines... but the original one had been restored by story's end in that case.

After he cleared Jack's memory, Henry smashed his device and said, very emphatically, "I will never forget!"

I have the DVDs.. but it has been a while. I might watch some of those early episodes again.

Felicia Day guested on "Supernatural" last Friday. Got to display more acting chops than on "Eureka".

Yes, it wasn't a "deep" role.

If the old timeline is restored, Fargo might be reunited with Julia, so there's some hope for a geek gets the girl resolution. A real long shot is for him to move to Warehouse 13 as Claudia's love interest again. I'd say the chances of that are very slim, though.

Um, are you joking? It was the exact same quirky character, just in a different setting.

I had forgotten Fargo and Claudia had a little spark. But yeah, probably very slim chances of that happening.

I'm still confused, weren't 20 hooked up to the machine? last episode only the ship's crew were in.. so last episode was just Zane's "dream-reality" to convince him that yes he was in a simulation but he successfuly escaped, fixing that part of the program.

wa?

The ships crew was the 20 people.

How can Salli Richardson-Whitfield possibly be that beautiful!!?? I still haven't caught my breath.

I really liked this episode. The "Oh, boy" Quantum Leap nod. The possible return of Holly, maybe as a virtual version so Fargo gets to say a proper goodbye. The curly fry ring and proposal.

When the sexual tension is broken by two central characters hooking up, it often doesn't end well in series television. But the Jack and Ally romance is really working for me. The on-screen chemistry is still strong.

All I can say is "WOW!" When she got out of that bed with those abs, Wow.

This was a very good episode. Every actor got do their Jack Carter impression which they probably have down by this time in the series.

Well, we know it has already been cancelled, so there isn't much they can do at this point to make things worse.

Some random Eureka thoughts...

I went back and watched the season one finale... the one where Henry loses his love interest (Kim) and goes back in time to save her, but screws up the universe so then Jack goes back and stops him. Some interesting things worth noting about the episode itself (new thoughts + reminders) as well as some intriguing similarities to now.

1. The episode was a 2006 episode. The future bits took place in what was then future Eureka 2010. That was an alternate future, though. Season 4 also takes place in, you guessed it, 2010. Neat.

2. In alternate 2010 from 2006, Kevin appears to have something on his ear... and he is behaving like a normal kid. Apparently in that future he had somehow been improved. In season 4, we get a similarly normal Kevin. Not entirely sure if Kevin in the new continuity was always good OR if he too benefited from something scientific.

3. Henry over the course of the next season goes to some dark places and is a bad guy of sorts, working with Beverly at one point... We just found out this week that the new continuity Henry + Grace were working with Beverly. Interesting... two different alternate Henry's went bad.

4. Jo and Taggart... 2010 alternate future and the season 4 new continuity... Jo had no Zane relationship.

I guess what I'm saying is that there are a LOT of similarities between the 2010 alternate future created in 2006 by Henry AND the continuity they are in now. That can't be an accident.

Meanwhile... I also watched the first episode of season 2... and by the end, Henry erases Jack's memories of that alternate 2010... then destroys the device. As far as I can tell, Henry still remembers that alternate timeline plus another that I'll get into in a moment.

That season one finale... it hinted at something that was not explicitly stated or shown. The way the timeline seems to have gone is:

Kim dies... Henry spends the next several years trying to figure out how to go back and save her... Henry goes back in time and saves Kim... then relives those next 4 years again only differently... and it is that Jack who travels back and corrects the timeline.

So... at the end of that timeline... we have a Jack and a Henry from TWO DIFFERENT timelines. See how this works? Jack is from the timeline where Kim didn't die because Henry had saved her... but Jack goes back and stops the Henry who had agonized for years over Kim's death... so the Henry left at the end is the original Henry + years of grief and future memories... Jack, however, is from the alternate timeline where Kim lived.

Of course Jack gets mindwiped so that all went away... but they should have left it going longer because Jack and Henry were at that point from two different timelines.

Also of note... Jack (mindwiped to forget) lost a baby and caused Kevin to not be cured... the baby is still lost, but Kevin got cured due to the recent timeline switch.

And last but not least... we have all been speculating on Stark's return this season because of the teaser trailer Syfy has ran that shows Stark in it talking about alternate timelines... The thing is... while most of the teaser trailer is from season 5 stuff... that particular Stark scene is verbatim from the season one finale! So... either its a red herring "previously on Eureka" thing OR at some point before the end of the show, we are going all the way back to the beginning!

Whew!

I just want more Allison in lingerie shots.. LOL

So did they made Holly "fully functional" or not? the body seemed like a manequin at first...

That's another crazy thing... If you go back and watch an episode from season one and then one from the current season... I swear Allison looks younger in the new episodes sometimes!

That's some seriously thoughtful analysis, HDMe2. I'm really looking forward to how they wrap up the series. I hope they had time to do it justice. It deserves it.

Amen to Allison in anything skimpy. She's one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen - perfect for HD closeups.

Oh, and I retract my retraction. We hadn't seen the last of Holly after all.

Yeah! Holly + Fargo!

Something else I forgot... comparing season one to now...

Back in season one, Alison was complaining about not liking the sonic showers... how she preferred the real ones.

Now suddenly this season she hates the real shower in the cabin and only wants a sonic one.

The times how they change...

I think they said a solar shower. Which would probably be a shower with a solar-powered water heater. Still water though.

You might be right... I may have mis-heard that.

A couple of Star Trek moments tonight...

One with the inevitable "shoot me, no shoot me" which-one-is-real scene...

The other was all the running around in the dark as a distraction with the baddies chasing... very reminiscent of "The Game" on Star Trek TNG... which is fitting since Will Wheaton is on both shows.

Was there an episode tonight? My DVR didn't record it.

Yes there was a new episode. Both of my DVR's recorded it I am using D* without a problem.