Eureka on SciFi in HD - Page 19

Damn. Now I gotta find it before the series finale. I have DirecTV too. Wonder why my receiver dropped the ball on this?

I really enjoyed this week's show. I liked the nice balance between humor and creepiness struck by the evil clones. Thought this one was one of the best.

Looks like it's on again next monday.

ANy chance someone was watching TV and told it not to change the channel to record? Or possibly you had a power outage/storm?

Whil Wheaton talking about Star Wars things.. indeed very weird Eureka moment..

The ends begins now, DoD taking over Eureka and shutting it down forever..

Try going to your series manager in the DVR menu and check to see if the priority was somehow changed. First run only is how I have my series set up. You are the only one using the DVR?

It usually tells you that the program didn't record if there is a power interruption IIRC?

One of my favorite shows, going...going...

I really hope SyFy produces some Eureka one-shot movies. They would be welcome.

I totally agree! This is (was) one of the best!

I'm gonna chalk it up to a ghost in the machine. I'm the only one who uses this DVR, my settings haven't changed and it's the only show I record on Mondays. I scrolled to this coming Monday and both last weeks and the final show are scheduled to record. Lets hope this ghost finds a different DVR to haunt. It's been a fun ride hangin' with the gang from Eureka. I wish they would have made the last episode a 2-hour finale. Followed by an hour of Q&A's with the cast.. You could call it Coffee Time at Eureka.

If your DVR screws up and misses Monday's shows, you can wait a couple of weeks and watch them at the SYFY website. The full episodes there are several weeks behind, but they'll catch up eventually. Season 5 episode 9 is the latest there, so it should be about 4 weeks before the finale is available.

And if your DVR fouls up again and you are REALLY anxious to see the episodes, the final season DVD box set hits shelves tomorrow.

What a fun series this has been, really gonna miss it and the characters. Funny seeing the appearance of the "special" characters (myth busters). What a great twist from the past

I loved this show and the series finale did not disappoint. Everyone ended up where they should be and that's a good thing, But what was up with the last scene????

My DVR also crashed before last week's episode, so I just caught up tonight.

Based on the buildup to the finale, I doubt seriously that the writers had time to give the show the sendoff they wanted to. I think they got word too late into the filming of this season to do it the way they'd envisioned. But given the time they had to work with, I enjoyed this episode. I liked seeing past regulars, and Carter's flight back through Eureka's past(s). I especially liked that they gave Allison and Jack their lost child from another timeline. I've played versions of that in my head many times. Since it was such a key element of the climax of this episode, I have to believe the show runners thought it was a defining moment of the series. I know I always have. For me, that episode in which Jack travels back in time to stop Henry from saving Kim (and thus loses his unborn child with Allison) was the most emotionally powerful of the series. Although it was obvious to me that the finale was rushed, it still moved me. I was close to tears.

I came late to the Eureka party, but I became invested immediately. It's been such a fun show! These will always be some of my favorite characters, and I will really, really miss them. I hope they produce Eureka movies, as was suggested here. And I'd pay a premium for Eureka Blu-ray discs. Are you listening, Syfy?

All in all it was a good wrap, people where they were supposed to be. The baby seemed a bit over the top, but did tie in with the earlier timeline.

I will miss the show, always enjoyed it.

A mirror image of the first episode. It was predicted by many during this last season.

Yes, they did it on a small scale at the end of the pilot. Jack and Zoe see themselves as they leave town (but before Jack is reassigned there as sheriff). The technique is known as "bookending." The idea is that the new context provides the viewer with a brand new set of emotional and intellectual reactions to the same event. They did it in Lost. The series begins and ends with Jack flat on his back on the island after the crash. It's not a new device in film-making (or literature). Directors have been using it forever. I like it. It almost always works for me, and it did last night, too.

But it's unfortunate that they weren't given sufficient time to set it up in the Eureka finale. I don't blame the producers. Well over a year ago, I was following Colin Ferguson and the Eureka writers on Twitter. If I understand the chronology, earlier on in the shooting of the 5th season, they were told there would be a season 6. They were deep into season 5 when Syfy changed its mind and canceled the show. I didn't understand how they'd have time to wrap things up properly. As it turns out, they didn't. I'm sure the producers had a much more cohesive series bookend in mind for us. We'll just have to use our imaginations.

My understanding was, that they rather sudenly announced that there would be no follow on season, but gave them one additional episode than was originally planned so they could write an ending. I thought that they did pretty well under the near impossible constraints they were under.

Sanctuary never even got the option of a final episode. It didn't end, it just stopped.

Oh, and Jack had the perfect line summing up the whole series. Alison said she didn;t want him to jump into that wormhole with the strong force amplifier() and he replied "that's what I do." EXACTLY!

Yeah, that was a great line. At some point I intend to go through Jack's "wormhole journey" in ultra slow-mo. It had a little bit of everything from the show - all the on-going characters and key events from all the timelines. It centered on Jack and Allison's relationship, as I think it should have. That romance was central to the evolution of the series. IMO Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Colin Ferguson always made it work. Along with Joe Morton's Henry Deacon, they were the anchors for all the "silliness." They're so good. Joe Morton has been strong in everything I've ever seen him in. Salli R-W is stunningly beautiful, and when given the opportunity to "stretch" the part, she was always up to the task. Colin Ferguson does "quiet strength" unlike any actor I've ever seen. For me, these were Eureka's pillars, raising the show well above what it might have been with lesser talents.

I had given up on Eureka last season (I got sick of it's formula), but I watched this season just to see it wrap up. For a show that I basically lost touch of, I really loved the ending (Carter & daughter seeing themselves arrive from the pilot). It does give you a sense that the writers had some big ideas that they had in mind for the show from start to finish.

Even though I stopped watching the show in the past year, it's sad to see it go. I hope all involved find something new & fun to move forward with.

I enjoyed the finale and was sad to see it go. I wish it would have been a 2-hour episode. Jacks trip thru the wormhole was great. I wonder if there was a clip from every show? And how about that dress Ali was wearing. Sssssmokin'.

Yeah, I think some of the feeling that it was rushed is genuine.

I gather they originally thought they had a season 6... so last week would have been the season 5 finale. But then they were canceled, and thought they were going to get a half season to tie things up... then that fell through and they just got the 1 episode. I think if they at least got a half season they would probably have revisited and tied up some other stuff.

Sorry, I don't have that much confidence in writers and showrunners. I would guess either business as usual with the same panicked final episode, or a 2 episode story draaaaagggging out over a long, slow, boring season.

Farewell Eureka, I will miss Alison, she was looking uber-hot this last episode, I hope she does more TV (preferably Showtime, HBO or Starz)

Based on what, though? Writers and showrunners almost never know their show is about to be canceled until they are already filming episodes and structured the season. It is VERY rare that a show goes into its final season knowing that it is a final season. On those rare occasions, we usually get a stronger finale that has been planned better.

I just watched the last two episodes today. Sorry to see it end. Was there any word on plans for a future SyFy Eureka movie or two?

 

Yep.  After the cancellation was announced there was a ton of fan outcry and SyFy was "kind" enough to offer up an extra episode for the writers to try to wrap things up.  Honestly I think they wrapped things up plenty good.  There really aren't any dangling major story arcs or anything, especially considering most of the series was "disaster of the week" type stuff.  And they set things up nicely for a movie or future stories should the opportunity to present itself.  All in all a great ending.

Except we'll never know the real secrets of Level 5.

I fully agree. Given the constraints that they were under, they did an excellent job. It was a very satisfying ending.

Did I miss Stark? I thought (from the S5 previews) that we'd see him. I didn't see him except in Jack's flashback during the final episode. Did he appear somewhere else that I just happened to FF through?