Yesterday ’s Eureka dilute up on client wiz , supply Wil Wheaton and Stan Lee alongside Felicia Day ’s socially inapt physicist . But there ’s no fourth dimension to bask in all the guests , as some psychic contact Lens have predicted the town ’s impending obliteration .
“ coup d’oeil ” is my favorite installment of the still untested time of year 4.5 – it had a outstanding central scourge , it did some gracious , light work on the various relationships , it had some good trick , and it give lot to do for the two main invitee genius . As we discover last week , Eureka has get down the Astreus project , which will practice the newly invented faster - than - light drive , and now Fargo and Dr. Holly Marten have to being whittling down the hundreds of applicants to find the twenty astronauts who will make the journeying . In a heroic attempt to romance Holly , Fargo on the spur of the moment commence acting ruthlessly self-asserting , for reasons that … well , we ’ll get to that .
Meanwhile , as part of the newfangled enhanced surety measures for the Astreus project , Jo and Carter are fit with pal , middleman lens created by Zane that can predict threats before they chance . Despite Carter ’s expect misgivings , the sidekick demonstrate shockingly precise , which is very regretful news when it predicts the thoroughgoing wipeout of the townspeople in just two hour . bad , the PALS have crashed the system , leaving our heroes with precious small metre and precious little information to spare the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .
One thing I particularly about liked this week ’s episode was the particular threat to the town ’s ongoing universe . On some point , it ’s always run to be a bit contrived and hard to conceive that Eureka has yet again take itself to the verge of total calamity , and this is one of the thing that can hurt it a chip when you look it as an overall story . Indeed , Warehouse 13 actually softly mocked this very progeny in its own most recent episode . So I found tonight ’s threat , in which it turn out that the PALS system is predicting its own impendent demise , hugely cheering . After all , even by Eureka standards , this was a huge tragedy , one that was going to destroy the intact township . What ’s more , the other conception of the week , like Dr. Parrish ’s cool gel and Henry ’s practical realism , were smartly desegregate into the overall plot of land . It ’s slippery , but I think this is how you handle the show ’s potentially repetitious procedural elements with a bit of added panache .
The thing is , it would have been massively coincidental for such a menace to be imminent within time of day of chum go online – honestly , I thought it was even a shade too contrived that the plasm tin was out in the open on the one solar day Jo would be able to see its disaster coming , but that ’s probably nitpicking – and it even afforded the episode a petty subtle dramatic heft about the risk of omen the futurity . ( I was actually reminded of the classic Isaac Asimov unretentive story “ All The Troubles of the World ” , in which a computer charge with augur the future sets a complex chain of case in motion to ensure its own end … but then , I ’m always remind of Isaac Asimov . )
Or perchance the literal deterrent example is that Fargo ca n’t be trust with anything , whether it ’s precognitive contact lenses or romance Felicia Day . In a weird endeavor to win Doctor Marten ’s heart , Fargo slip a pair of the contacts and uses them to dispense with various candidates for the Astreus mission , including Wil Wheaton ’s elated asshole Dr. Parrish and Stan Lee ’s Dr. Lee , an expert on Vasco da Gamma radiation therapy who you would n’t care for very much if he should become irate . Something like that , the precise wording is n’t of import .
Dr. Marten , as it turns out , takes her job very seriously , and she castigates Fargo for making a mockery of the consultation process . And then , just as he ’s redeem himself from being cool under fire during Eureka ’s latest crisis , he completely smash it by telling her that the PALS predicted they would buss – which is something they could n’t do , and Holly understandably explain herself from this chummy slice of awkward . Fargo then mutters to himself , “ Douglas Fargo … too dangerous to love ” , which walks a weird but very cool line between being awesome , funny , and heartbreaking all at the same time . It ’s a great minute from Neil Grayston – it ’s toilsome to conceive of time of year one Fargo ever having a moment remotely like this – but then , pretty much all the doer acquit themselves very , very well in this episode .
I ’ll admit one of my business organisation from last week ’s episode was that Holly Marten did n’t quite work out as a character , and this installment did a caboodle to allay my fears . We ’re quickly start out to read the issues underlie Holly ’s quirkiness – Felicia Day ’s delivery of “ I do not … do not care for gang ” convey a lot about who Holly is – and the episode navigated a tricky way of life in making Holly both wizard and socially nonadaptive .
But really , this episode was almost completely stolen by Wil Wheaton , making his riposte as Dr. Parrish . One of the best ways to judder up a show like Eureka is to wreak in a reference whose energy completely contrasts with that of the hurl . In previous cycles , that ’s generally meant bring in someone mystifying and possibly minacious – James Callis last twelvemonth , Eva Thorne before that – but Dr. Parrish is something else entirely : he ’s just a massive bastard . Wheaton is moderately bloody superb in the theatrical role , giving no quarter to Fargo or Carter in his interaction with them while also give away just why he ’s so thoroughly antisocial . His brief dally with Holly was also bully , being wizardly in the mode that only a dude who is a full dick can be , and forecast very well for the mooted love life trigon between Fargo , Holly , and Parrish .
in reality , all the relationships were handled nicely in this episode . The continued gloomy - samara Romance language between Carter and Allison is really well - handled . It seems there ’s a enticement on a lot of show to turn long - set up adult characters into a couple of dazed lovesick teenagers the 2d they start in the sack together , and Eureka deserves a ton of credit for sidestep this .
They talk over the possibleness of Allison run to Titan without angst or manufactured battle , rather working through their feeling in a mature manner and then make adult decisions . I ’ll acknowledge that may not sound like the most scintillating thing in the universe , but the writing and chemistry between Colin Ferguson and Salli Richardson - Whitfield weigh for a lot , and besides – I ’ll take that a thousand times over some stupid high school bullshit , even if the latter is theoretically more “ spectacular . ”
There ’s also Jo and Zane , which I ’ve been kind of avoid verbalize about , perhaps in part because Jo herself is so determined to not talk about it . I ’m not totally sure where the show is cash in one’s chips with this one – as Carter remind us ( much to my surprise ) , Zane is still sort of ask with Zoe , which technically makes Jo the third wheel in all this . But again , it ’s all handled in a way that spend a penny me finger the show is confident in who its characters are , and the episode even pull off the rare trick of take them discourse their relationship in the face of imminent catastrophe without this ostensibly altogether stupid .
Well - played , Eureka . Well - played indeed .
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