anim8rFSK sent the following on 6/13/2012 8:21 AM:
They should have had the guy wear a red shirt. And yeah, the fact that
he gets fired while Wheaton's character is still employed seemed more
than a bit unfair to me, as well.
> Jo's on again off again catsuit was a major misfire, given that you
> could barely tell it apart from her regular clothes; really, people,
> make it bright red or something!
And they had to work pretty hard to keep those camera angles above the
waist. Cerra is getting quite Kardashian in that regard, which is really
weird in that nothing *above* the waist has filled out one bit.
>> So will Holly be fully resurrected?
>> I think so as Eureka has super-scientists with magical
>> superscience.
>
> I think so too, but the problem is, I really don't care. She wasn't
> enough of regular for me to really pine for her. I'd just as soon see
> Fargo with Claudia from W13.
Maybe it's me or maybe it's that they didn't do a good job of showing
the passage of time or her character bonding with various people, but I
just didn't buy the whole ceremony bit. From what I've seen, I would
expect a handful of people to mourn her loss, but she seemingly wasn't
around for long and wasn't exactly a socializing type, so it all just
didn't work for me. Or maybe I'm just projecting my own dislike of the
addition of Day to the cast to begin with.
> BTW, who the Hell is running GD while Fargo's out anyway?
No one! And that's part of the reason why, in the previous episode, we
saw a new security system being installed while the head of security and
the head of GD itself were both clearly clueless about how it operated.
Either no one has been in charge for a long time or no one bothers to
read memos and return phone calls anymore.
> I think part of the problem is that I *still* don't care about the post
> 1947 reality.
>
> This all might work better if it was Henry trying to save either of his
> loves.
>>
>> In this episode Jack doesn't save the day as he usually
>> does. Instead he is saved.
>
> But he came up with the clews that enabled others to save him.
On top of everything else that I haven't liked since the addition of
Berg to the production ranks, I'm not seeing the sort of gelling that
I'm used to seeing between cast members. It's reminiscent of some of the
STAR TREK movies where it was clear that the actors were no longer as
familiar with each other as they had once been when they worked together
every day. But in the case of EUREKA, there's no such excuse, so I'm not
quite sure why the timing seems to be off so often. But it's definitely
a different vibe than it used to be, at least from where I'm sitting in
my comfy chair.
And lastly, the emphasis seems to have shifted from plot to characters
in a big way. In the past, the approach seemed to be more of a "this is
the plot that we want to run with for this episode, so let's consider
how events would affect the characters" type of thing, whereas now is
really seems to be more of a "this is what we want to have happen with
the characters, so let's come up with a plot that will make it happen."
And since the show wasn't officially cancelled yet when these episodes
were being made, this shift from plot- to character-driven can't be
written off as being due to the writing team wanting to work towards
closure for all of the main characters.