(S02E01) Eureka's return answered some questions from the finale and brought along a new set of questions to get things rolling. After a recap session, we find out that Jack and Henry both retained their memories from the future.
As Jack and Henry discuss the possibility of knowing the future, a bit of spontaneous combustion starts diverging things from the alternate time line. While Jack gets rolling with his investigation, Henry starts showing some real changes in character. Last season he was full of enthusiasm. His obsession with the loss of Kim and Jack's return to stop him seem to have taken a serious toll.
Between Jack's aching heart, and Henry's darker character, the show just didn't have quite the fun overtones that it pulled off last season. Taggart exploding skin grafts all over Jack was entertaining to watch, but just doesn't... stay fresh if you think about it ever again.
It's going to be very interesting to see what Henry gets up to as the season progresses. His erasure of Jacks memories is probably for the best - I had the feeling that he might make enough mistakes that he'd have to explain what happened to Allison or Jo. With the erasure, he can get back to normal, but we're left wondering just what Henry's real motivation is.
Last season we found out just what the artifact was, but now that's taken a new turn. It's suggested that the energy from the artifact might have transferred into Kevin. Considering that a piece of the thing made the time travel possible in the first place, Kevin could end up with all sorts of odd things. (I wonder if he might somehow find out what happened with the second time line and further warm up to Jack as a result)
The second season of Eureka is definitely going to be an intriguing one. Once again the plots just keep getting thicker. I think we'll see a bit of the shows humor return as things progress, but the secrets are certainly getting darker.
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7-11-2007 @ 6:03PM
Tim UF said...
I was glad to see Jo back, i swore i had read somewhere that the character wasn't returning...
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7-11-2007 @ 6:35PM
Hiram K said...
I think Henry took a job at GD to get closer to allison, as he wants to make Jack Pay for stopping him from Saving Kim, it all sounds Soap Opera-y but it would make for some interesting character development.
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7-11-2007 @ 7:47PM
Bill said...
Yeah it wasn't a bad episode or anything, but the dark direction they seem to be heading might take away a lot of what made the first season fun. But I'll trust them to know what's best for now.
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7-11-2007 @ 10:50PM
az1324 said...
Henry obviously still wants to figure out a way to save Kim. Now that Jack doesn't remember there isn't anyone to prevent him from trying again.
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7-12-2007 @ 12:26AM
Cat said...
I'm so glad Eureka's back! Despite the show's darker tone, I'm still loving it. I feel bad for both Carter and Henry, it was heartbreaking that Carter had to lose his happy memories of "Ally". It'll definitely interesting to see where they take this season, but I bet we retain some of the humor from last season.
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7-12-2007 @ 12:29AM
Piper said...
Wait, what was the artifact again?
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7-12-2007 @ 2:12AM
Mark W said...
Holy mother of God, what a stupifyingly awful hour of television--and this coming from someone who was a fan up until now. Yes, last season had its ups and downs, but even the clunky episodes had consistent characterization and wit. This was a pale imitation of the best of last year, and poor Colin Ferguson in particular is clearly struggling to deliver wretched, witless, by-the-numbers dialogue. ("I guess that's why he didn't answer his phone." "Well, that's new." Jeebus, the writer has a real gift for not knowing when to have the characters STOP TALKING.) Henry erasing Carter's memory will come as a shocking twist to anyone who's wholly new to the concept of, oh, say, foreshadowing; I have no idea why Beverly was at the lab to begin with when her main purpose in being there was to be ordered TO LEAVE; and the "big reveal" that Allison got the job couldn't have been more aggressively telegraphed throughout that scene if she'd been waving semaphore flags the whole time. And so on. Wow...I so loved that first season, too.
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7-12-2007 @ 8:35AM
Erik said...
I agree that replacing Stark with Allison was so obvious that I found it painful to watch her tell him, but I do like the darker tone... however it would have been much more interesting to have Jack with the memories throughout the season. It was the only advantage he had over the whole town full of Brainiacs. Now he'll just go back to being Sheriff Andy Taylor ... "Jeez, what should I do now, Barney?"
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7-12-2007 @ 9:32AM
Ian said...
Hmmm. This show needs the old humor back and Henry being a bad guy doesn't sound good. If it goes on this darker way I see it ending this season.
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7-12-2007 @ 11:02AM
Rafita said...
I've just seen last week all the episodes from season 1 and I was hooked but there's one thing that's been bugging me:
Why didn't Kim protect herself from the artifact, I mean she could have been behind the glass with Stark controlling the REMOTE robot. She might as well drilled the artifact by herself!
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8-01-2007 @ 1:10PM
vacelts said...
I don't think that Henry remembered the future. Remember, he didn't go back from the future, that was his current self. I think he just knows what Jack told him and that Jack stopped him from saving Kim.
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