Eureka’s power surge makes for interesting relationships

Carissa’s back Guest Clacking for us again, after sharing her thoughts on The Glades with us last time.

Tess is in town and sees Carter and Allison sharing a special moment. She lays into Allison. Zane tells Jo that he’s making a mistake with Zoe and is going to let her down easy. Carter walks into the Sheriff Station to a smug looking Nathan Stark. Now I understand the comments from last week’s post. Eureka indeed! Carter notes to Stark that he’s undead … Stark looks into the mirror and sees himself, “Nope, not a vampire!” Nice little nod to his most recent work on True Blood. Fargo, meanwhile is being followed around by a little girl sporting a huge lollipop calling him a coward.

It’s not a convergence of the timelines, which was my first thought, but a power surge messing with a gizmo Grace made so she and Henry could share memories. Since it was created with a specific person in mind, the minds of the others created their own. Carter got Stark, Allison got Tess, Jo got “her” Zane, Fargo got the little girl (his 5th grade nemesis, Jessica Lansky who calls him Farto), and we soon find out Grant got Beverly’s father, to remind him why they wanted Eureka in the first place. Jo gets this worst of this, since Zane is right there in town. She never knows whether she’s talking to real or faux Zane. In order to get rid of the hallucinations, they have to come to terms with why their mind created them.

Ed Quinn kills as Stark. Carter imagines him as this suave, snarky, downright funny adversary for Allison’s love. I wish I could show video clips of his comments, because they really lose something without Quinn’s delivery. When sitting next to Allison, he mouths to Carter, “She’s so hot!” Carter says he hopes they fix the hallucinations because he’s sick of hearing about the shoes he has to fill. Stark looks around the room with his hands on his waist, “Size 13! Just sayin’.” When he see’s Grant, he points at him and screams, “Who the hell is this?” Every time he opened his mouth, magic came out. Much like the “Not Even Close … Encounters” episode of Psych, this one is staying on my DVR for multiple viewings.

What I enjoyed most about the hallucinations was the insight provided. Fargo’s faced his fear of the General, so he should be a bit stronger going forward. Carter bounced his own ideas off Stark to save the day. He may not have the vocabulary to express the scientific mumbo jumbo, but he is much smarter than he gives himself credit for being.

Jo mistakenly talks to real Zane telling him she’s been romanticizing what they had and that’s why she hesitated when he asked her to marry him. She knew they didn’t fit. She gives him back the engagement ring, and he’s dumbfounded as to why she had it.

Allison admits to Carter that she’s crazy scared he will die like everyone else she loved. He has been madly in love with her since they first met, “Are you too scared to take a chance on us?” He suggests dinner, she thinks breakfast. They’re finally going to have sex! I really hope TPTB don’t come in and muck it up with some stupid memory stunt. There really are times when a couple should be together and not kept apart to the annoyance of viewers. With such a huge cast of characters, there is nothing to be lost by keeping them together.

Outside the hallucination shenanigans, Beverly Barlow talked Grant into stealing a weapon from Global Dynamics. The Consortium needed the power source to recreate the Bridge device. They are going to send Grant back to the ’40s to stop the creation of the A bomb. If it works, and he succeeds, the amount of sci-fi in Eureka the series could really change. They’ve been pretty brazen so far and I think it would be a real coup to change things up beyond our wildest imagination. Next week is the Season Finale, so anything could happen!

Clacked by Guest Clacker
on Aug 30, 2010 @ 10:00 EST5EDT