Last night ’s Eureka delivered on the huge hope of the former episode , exploring the repercussions of our fighter ’ time - traveling by showing us an alternative timeline that ’s adequate parts well , worse , and just plain different than the one they left behind .
It ’s clean-cut that this season ’s alternating timeline arc needs three installment to do the needed heavy lifting to establish the new condition quo . Last week ’s premiere explained how the timeline got interpolate , this hebdomad ’s episode explain what it means for the affected characters , and at some point later I bear there ’s going to be at least a partial reset which restores the world as it was … or something like it . This episode also made it utterly clear-cut that that reset is n’t coming for a while , with Henry pronouncing their time bridge fry and the space - prison term continuum stuck as is for the foreseeable future .
plainly , that ’s a lot of overarching tale to deal with , and once again the episode ’s ostensible conflict – what to do with that dangerous positronic lightning ? – felt like an afterthought . Or it would , if not for the fact that it ’s even more substantiation that its Maker , the alternate timeline Fargo , is quite possibly a tyrannical , unapologetic , superweapon - make bastard . ( Although alter - Fargo still had “ Dougie the Vampire Slayer ” as his word , so he ca n’t be all spoilt . ) The other four time travelers seem as though they were pretty much the exact same mass in this young timeline , but Fargo chance himself in a world where he ’s feared and hat . Of all the alternate storylines , that ’s in all probability the one I ’m most interested in seeing where the show can go with it .
In any event , the majority of this episode revolved around the clock time travelers figuring out what had changed and how they now fit in . The alteration range from bad to bewilder to wonderful – Jo ’s would - be fiance Zane is unreformed and has no sake in her , Henry is marital to a cleaning woman he does n’t have it away , Jack is back with Tess after he had made pacification with the fact that they did n’t make for as a span , and Allison ’s Logos is no longer autistic . This episode mostly focalise on those last two development , play up the humor of Jack not jazz what Tess was saying “ yes ” to while focusing on the pathos of Allison meeting her Logos for what was really the first time .
And then there was Gaius Frakking Baltar , back again as Dr. Trevor Grant . It turn out he did indeed connive to station himself onward in time , showing enormous technological know - how and refutable scruples in the process , which admittedly sound nothing like characters James Callis has played before . Anyway , once Dr. Grant get to 2010 the installment did n’t seem to have all that much for him to do , in all probability feel the focus of this installment was best get out on the regulars and what the timeline change means for them . I suspect we ’ll get a better sense of him in the next few episodes , but for now he ’s still mostly a nought , albeit what seems to be a basically decent sort of cipher . Either way , that “ American ” stress of his is growing on me .
What stimulate me so much about this discharge is that it ’s something we have n’t really seen before – a long - course exploration of living in an neutered timeline that ’s not horrifying , just different – and there are so many opportunities to explore mostly uncharted emotional territory . How will Henry deal with this mysterious cleaning lady who calls herself his married woman ? As howling as it for Allison to know her Word , can she really get to know him when they ’ve only just met ? Can Fargo settle himself with the man he obviously was / is / would - have - been ? ( Altered timelines are absolute murder on nomenclature . ) This is the sort of fabric that could transform this season into something really special , and Jo ’s distressing reflexion on the fact that she never got a second chance to say yes to Zane ’s proposal suggests to me that Eureka knows exactly what it ’s doing .
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