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Eureka: Final Season (Discussion, spoilers, etc.)

How come every random SOB who shows up is more powerful than Director Fargo, when Director Stark could shake the foundations of the country at the slightest whim?

Holly's handwriting?

BAH!
 
That was lame. False jeopardy, unreasonable military types, rebellious righteous main cast bucking the higher-ups, an important secret that had no reason to be a secret. Cliche after cliche. The conflict could easily have been solved by TELLING the soldiers that a person's pattern was still in the matrix and they needed to get it out first. The plot of trying to do that, possibly with Holly's pattern degrading, rather than the false deadline imposed by the cliche "bad guy" soldiers, could have been just as tense.
 
Forbin said:
That was lame. False jeopardy, unreasonable military types, rebellious righteous main cast bucking the higher-ups, an important secret that had no reason to be a secret. Cliche after cliche. The conflict could easily have been solved by TELLING the soldiers that a person's pattern was still in the matrix and they needed to get it out first. The plot of trying to do that, possibly with Holly's pattern degrading, rather than the false deadline imposed by the cliche "bad guy" soldiers, could have been just as tense.
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I've gone back and forth on this one, but I can't completely discount Fargo's belief that the government would contain and dissect Holly. The soldier might not have been a bad guy, but he would definitely have told his superiors about the situation.

Guy Gardener said:
How come every random SOB who shows up is more powerful than Director Fargo, when Director Stark could shake the foundations of the country at the slightest whim?
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Keep in mind the timeline change. Also, I always assumed Fargo had been chosen for that position because higher-ups felt he could be controlled. Political power doesn't always transfer based solely upon position or title. It's often the relationships built over years and decades that matter.
 
Forbin said:
That was lame. False jeopardy, unreasonable military types, rebellious righteous main cast bucking the higher-ups, an important secret that had no reason to be a secret. Cliche after cliche. The conflict could easily have been solved by TELLING the soldiers that a person's pattern was still in the matrix and they needed to get it out first. The plot of trying to do that, possibly with Holly's pattern degrading, rather than the false deadline imposed by the cliche "bad guy" soldiers, could have been just as tense.
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That's what really irked me. Why on EARTH didn't they just tell the soldiers? It made no sense. There was no rational reason to keep it secret to begin with.
 
auntiehill said:
Forbin said:
That was lame. False jeopardy, unreasonable military types, rebellious righteous main cast bucking the higher-ups, an important secret that had no reason to be a secret. Cliche after cliche. The conflict could easily have been solved by TELLING the soldiers that a person's pattern was still in the matrix and they needed to get it out first. The plot of trying to do that, possibly with Holly's pattern degrading, rather than the false deadline imposed by the cliche "bad guy" soldiers, could have been just as tense.
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That's what really irked me. Why on EARTH didn't they just tell the soldiers? It made no sense. There was no rational reason to keep it secret to begin with.
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Since the 1947 incident, the regulars had begun to regard the DoD as the enemy. And that has only gotten worse. Senator Wren seemed to be closely tied to the DoD, perhaps on some oversight committee. Even though she went rogue, what happened probably still leaves a bad taste where the DoD is concerned.

It's almost ingrained within them to distrust the DoD. So I wasn't surprised at all that they wouldn't, or even couldn't, trust them.
 
These idiots are all temporal dopplegangers who murdered the real cast of Eureka.

They should be far more careful not to rock the boat.
 
They don't trust the DoD, they're in the wrong freakin' business - the company is a DoD contractor.
 
Guy Gardener said:
These idiots are all temporal dopplegangers who murdered the real cast of Eureka.

They should be far more careful not to rock the boat.
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You got it backwards. Those idiots are all the originals who replaced the rest of the town with temporal dopplegangers.
 
Well, I'm glad they saved Holly, anyway. Keeping her a secret from the DOD didn't ring entirely true, but it was justifiable. That's good enough.

Also, we finally know that Sarah's okay.
 
I didn't really have that much of a problem with them not trusting the soldiers, there really was no way to know for sure how they'd react.
Overall I thought it was a pretty good episode. No real big complaints or compliments.
 
RJDiogenes said:
That's good enough.

Also, we finally know that Sarah's okay.
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We already knew she was okay since the Chrstmas episode "Do You See What I See?" is actually episode 11 of the current season. A dead giveaway its a later episode is that during the live action sequences Alison and Jack are wearing wedding rings.
 
Aha. I didn't notice that. So no worries about that scene from next episode then. :D
 
Last night was Episode 5:08 In Too Deep.

Allison and Carter become trapped in a leaky sub at the bottom of a lake.

I haven't had the chance to watch it yet, but if you have, what did you think?
 
Meh. Good thing the cast has a high likeability factor, and the hot Latina J-Lo impersonator looked smokin' in that outfit, or this would've been a snore-fest.

Perhaps one for the ladies, what with the in-the-nick-of-time-marriage and Holly stuff.

Although I do enjoy the Holly character.

Meh.
 
^^ No, they had to construct it.

This was pretty good. The on-the-fly marriage in the midst of deadly peril was appropriate for a Eureka wedding. The bickering was cute, but hopefully it's all out of the way and won't happen again.

The Holly sub-plot is interesting. Looks like saving Holly will be Shane's big moment as the series draws to a close; this will give him status comparable to the other main characters. I also liked the scene where Deputy Andy caught on to what Fargo was doing.

Also loved Feynman Day and all the stuff going on in the background, especially the girl with the big cubes on her hands. :rommie:
 
AFAIK, that prototype in the Director's bunker, the one they put Kevin through, was stated to be a banned technology.
 
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