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Yes, yes, YES! Tonight is the return of Eureka on the SciFi Channel (oh, right, it's Syfy now. :bush: )

I love this show so much. It's witty and the characters are so great. It's been way too long since the last episode.

I don't get SciFi anymore (fuck 'em all; it's SCI-FI, dammit) since Comcast commenced their "Let's act like douchebaggy assholes" plan, but I fully intend to... borrow...this episode from my friend, Torrent. I mean Tori. (Shit!) aranoid:


And yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I didn't like that they [spoiler:lmxbmf00]killed off Nathan Stark[/spoiler:lmxbmf00], but I'm interested to see where they go from there.

Thank you! I knew I could count on the board to alert me.

*checks on Season Pass*

Too little, too late. Honestly, it was a fairly decent show but the writers strike has basically doomed this show.

I mean the Season 3 dvd will be released in stores, before the "season" is even completely aired on scifi.

When other shows like Lost or 24 come up with better ways to have handled the strike, middle level shows like this can't afford to be off the air for this long. Personally done with it myself.

The Eureka TPB is pretty entertaining. They did a good job capturing the show; one of the creators wrote the story, I believe. Although the preview for the next one didn't intrigue me since it focuses on the daughter, whom I don't care for much.

I had no idea R.L. Stine created Eureeka's Castle. Way before the Goosebump series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureeka's_Castle

Learn something new every day. And this was spawned from reading the thread title and remembering the children's show which prompted me to do some research.

Never watched Eureka but I may give it a shot.

Steve said:

Never watched Eureka but I may give it a shot.

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I recommend starting with the first season.

ZenMonkey said:

I recommend starting with the first season.

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Which can currently be found on Hulu

figmentPez said:

ZenMonkey said:

I recommend starting with the first season.

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Which can currently be found on Hulu

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Awesome. I'll definately start watching. This forum has got me hooked on so many shows it's not funny. You all have good taste.

Holy crud says season 1 will remain up until the 10th. *looks at calander* I've got some shows to watch.

Personally while I thought the show looked like it was a great idea waiting to happen, there were a few things that really bugged me a lot about it. Can't recall what they were tho.

I love the show. Loved this episode. One of my favorite shows and I'm happy as hell that it is back with new episodes. Not pleased about them running it opposite Pysch or Monk when they come back but I'm sure I'll figure out a way to see them all.

ARG! missed it! please be on hulu! otherwise i'll have to resort to "other" methods.

I wish Sci Fi wouldnt fuck around with this schedule so much though

Dusty668 said:

hilariously unsubtle point

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Yeah, it's pretty bad, but given that the show is probably fairly expensive for a cheap-ass channel, I don't begrudge it too much.

Steve said:

This forum has got me hooked on so many shows it's not funny. You all have good taste.

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I agree, I've enjoyed many recommendations from the forum I would never have checked out otherwise.

ZenMonkey said:

Dusty668 said:

hilariously unsubtle point

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Yeah, it's pretty bad, but given that the show is probably fairly expensive for a cheap-a** channel, I don't begrudge it too much.

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Aye, what ever helps em pay for their special effects budget. Personally I like my monsters to look like monsters, not like men in rubber suites. I know they pulled it off really well in alien, but not every director has the same understanding of subtlety eh?

Although they seem to do alright with shows like battle star galactica, it seems to me that BSG would be very expensive to produce, why would they need such flagrant product placement in eureka but not in BSG? This is a genuine question btw, did some buddy else foot the bill for bsg and then it was just shown on sci fi where as eureka is made in house? Or am I missing something.

I didn't mind the product placement. It kept a good show on the air and was worth it. The commercials were pretty funny as well.

Tonight's episode reminded me how formulaic this show is.

Random Scientist -- "Hey Jack, check out this awesome new technology we're working on that's years beyond the rest of the world, but which we're using for something totally mundane."

Things go wrong.

Later, Jack says, "Hey, Random Scientist (or more often, Henry, who seems to know everything about everything), can this awesome new technology you told me about earlier be used to stop this thing that suddenly went awfully wrong?"

Random Scientist (or Henry) -- "You know, Jack, I think it could."

Everyone else -- "Wow, how great that the "dumb-guy" sheriff thought of away to save us all!"

rly:

The show has its moments, don't get me wrong (the season 1 finale was fantastic, I thought), but it's been on a downhill slide since pretty much the beginning.

Dubyamn said:

I love the show. Loved this episode. One of my favorite shows and I'm happy as * that it is back with new episodes. Not pleased about them running it opposite Pysch or Monk when they come back but I'm sure I'll figure out a way to see them all.

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Not only is it frustrating, but it doesn't make any sense to me. USA and SciFi are both owned by the same company (NBC Universal). Why would they want to compete with each other during the summer doldrums when there isn't a lot of other new content to watch?


Personally I didn't mind the product placement in Eureka, and I thought it was worked well into the plot. It wasn't subtle, but it wasn't meant to be subtle. The product placement in Heroes was far, far more annoying, and felt a lot more shoe-horned into the episodes. Yet I never heard anyone complain about "NISSAN VERSA!", "NISSAN VERSA!", "NISSAN VERSA!". Also, I wonder how many shows have been paid to have product placement, and you haven't caught on that the Macs they're using aren't there just because the prop department had them on hand. Did Dell pay for their monitors to be used on Bones? Did Alienware/Dell pay to have their laptops on Stargate? How many products in the BuyMore on Chuck are there because they're paid placement?

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cvgurau said:

The show has its moments, don't get me wrong (the season 1 finale was fantastic, I thought), but it's been on a downhill slide since pretty much the beginning.

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See, I think it's only gotten better since the beginning. While the plots are formulaic, I think the characters are anything but. There's a lot more depth to the characters than in many other shows. Take the most recent character, Sherrif Andy, there are a half-dozen established stereotypes they could have used for that character. However, what the writers did went beyond just being a gag or a plot device, but presented an honestly interesting concept that made Andy a character, and not just a cardboard cutout. I think that's true for many of the characters on Eureka. As predictable as the general events of each episode are, the characters are why I watch the show, and I think they're fantastic.

I was afraid Sheriff Andy would be the lifeless and stiff robot that have become cliche. At first, it did appear that was going to happen, but then they actually gave him some good scenes and the whole Dutch thing was great. Now, I actually want Sheriff Andy to come back, but as Deputy Andy under both Carter & Jo.

I was getting ready for work while watching this, so my attention was a bit off. Given that, I honestly didn't notice the product placements mentioned in the thread.

Still, I'm more than happy to have the show back. Yeah, it's a little formulaic, but a number of sci-fi shows are like that, too. Star Trek, for example (at least, TOS, TNG and Voyager), mostly had shows of "Meet new species, seems friendly at first, something else going on behind the scenes, battle ensues, polarity is reversed and all is well".

Like FigPez, I like the show more for the characters and kooky/funny concepts that occur. I'm wondering if the alien signal recieved is from the...what was that mysterious, powerful, behind the scenes villain that was introduced early in the show? The Consortium or something like that?

yea i broke down and watched it

it has it's comedy moments but as stated it's way to formulaic. i did enjoy the story arc of the first half of the season.

Oh and the foreshadowing of [spoiler:38g11jxn]aliens[/spoiler:38g11jxn] was pretty good.

Nice to see Sarah help out to.

It may be formulaic in the way that every procedural on TV is formulaic (everything from CSI to House), but when the stories are unusual, the characters are well drawn, and, as has been said, they throw curveballs like Sheriff Andy, I'm totally fine with it.

The show is about smart people doing imaginative things that often screw up, and then other smart people have to figure out how to fix it. I like that.

And I want a Café Diem franchise.

Welcome Back Eureka!

love this show. Even though its very formulaic, they don't go the super obvious route everytime, it may involve the obvious, but stretches out further.

Characters are great, i miss the old hunter guy though, and really hope Andy comes back again, as well as this signal they received being the same "aliens" from the first season...

Gadzooks said:

i miss the old hunter guy though

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I have a problem with that guy -- I adore Matt Frewer inordinately, but my god is his Australian accent horrible. HORRIBLE. The only way I can watch him is do what I did with Ocean's Eleven and Don Cheadle's "cockney" accent: decide that the character is actually American and only putting on an accent to fool everyone else.

If they'd made Taggart American he'd probably be one of my favorite characters.

Eureka is a fun show, it´s only problem is that it tends to have way to advanced technology but other then that it´s great.

How spoiler free is this thread? To be save I´m putting my thoughts on whats going in spoiler mode

[spoiler:d5qh8f8s]I somehow doubt that they are going the alien route with the show, it strikes me as being out of character but you never know. Perhaps it´s the creators of the artifact or someone looking for it. Alternitevily it could be some old research probe launched by some egg head in Eureka coming back with something dangerous. Third alternative is that it is Stark coming back from the future (assuming he was blasted into it by that machine). Alternative three might be possible since I read somewhere that Starks official status by the showrunners was upgraded from "dead" to "missing" but I don't know for sure if this is correct or not.[/spoiler:d5qh8f8s]