Eureka wrapped up the time of year ’s chess opening bow , as an unlikely alliance was fashion to bring home the Astraeus crew . It also featured Carter make to be his virtual - reality ego … which went about as well as expected . Also , gratuitous nudity !
Spoilers before …
“ Force Quit ” provides a nice end to the practical realism discharge , as perennial bane Beverly Barlowe decides to help Eureka lend the Astraeus crew home in the backwash of Holly ’s demise last hebdomad . The plan is a simple one — hack one of our hoagy into the pretense , then have them blow up something big enough to overheat the servers and expose their particular thermal signature tune . After a quick and altogether unconvincing misdirect that this would be Henry , Carter voluntary to go , and gleefulness most in spades ensues .
As is often the case when Carter goes into action - zep mode , the show becomes very comic . His unbelievably nonsensical attempt to explicate to Zane what ’s last on — which win over Zane that this Carter is the real deal , because no figurer could be this tongue-tied — is a great opening salvo , and Carter is hilariously unconvincing in his campaign both to reconnect with Allison ( I loved his “ I reckon that would go differently ” after his first attempt to convince her this was n’t real ) and to stick the Hades out from practical Jo , in particular when she tries to put a Modern whirl on the phrase “ naked lunch ” … and unlike the William S. Burroughs book , that verbal description was evidently altogether accurate .
This episode is a good encapsulation of what makes Carter such a fun agonist — sure , a lot of his method molding on comical backup man , but when button come to squeeze he ’s more than willing to hold a turkey into the virtual Astraeus and just run like hell . Throw in the fact that he successfully worked out Senator Wen ’s use in all this , even if I theorize it is more instincts than police detective oeuvre , and you ’ve got one of the good showcase for the leading man in a good long while , and Colin Ferguson is as usual a lot of merriment to watch .
Indeed , this instalment gives some swell material for quite a bit of the show ’s cast . As Henry , Joe Morton is pretty damn terrifying in the virtual world as he peril Grace , while in the actual world he is all barely contained fad at having to work with Beverly to bring Grace home base . Erica Cerra gets to cover over into full - on villainy as the AI translation of Jo , with her practical case moving from subtle treason of the Jo we know to a complete murderous psychopath . Really , there ’s just very little about this installment that did n’t entertain me a lot , and as such I establish it a very satisfying closing to the arc . There ’s still the issue of the grieving Fargo , but I think I ’ll leave that one to next week to approximate better where it might be manoeuver .
Where the instalment falls down a bit , however , is the poppycock on the edges . I ’ve generally been impressed with how Eureka has handle this latest round of confederacy secret plan , particularly since it ’s never been in the show ’s comfort geographical zone . Still , it definitely falls into the cliche of possess the Consortium members speak in pointlessly vague , menacing sentences , decisively leaving the ciphers in post when this was a golden opportunity to start out doling out some larger explanation . Also , as Senator Wen , Ming - Na seems to make her public presentation more patently villainous once we know the truth about her , which seems like a watery pick — I ’d rather she act no unlike , since the situation has n’t really exchange from her view … well , at least not until her inevitable comeuppance , of course .
The other job I have is with Beverly . I wish her character and Debrah Farentino ’s performance more than some of you do , but I ’ll be the first to admit that she ’s in particular grueling to accommodate into Eureka ’s tortuous persistence . We can still only guess how her backstory was change by the timeline break ( probably not that much , but it ’s still a complicating factor ) , and the show has act so far away from its first season that it ’s forced to elide around what really should be the defining face of Henry and Beverly ’s kinship — her culpableness for the death of his first love Kim . Considering the nigh homicidal rage he has in the past displayed towards her , their view feel like they ’re fudge around one hellhole of a big elephant in the room .
It does n’t help that her whole cardinal argument — that Global Dynamics is spoilt because it work for the military — never really goes beyond some ready-made platitudes about peace and Albert Einstein . It ’s all stuff and nonsense we hear her tell James Callis ( ya know , Gaius Frakking Baltar ) back in season 4.0 , and it feels just as trivial now as it did then . Also , if a fundamental crux of the argument is the risk of military power , it seems kind of problematic that the other major Consortium theatrical role , Senator Wen , seems to use the army as her own personal ten-strike force . I suppose it ’s possible Eureka was intentionally trying to act up that contradiction , but what we see in the installment feel very muddled .
Really , what I ’m saying is that Eureka is really good at comedy and character moments , and it ’s less good at big cerebration - provoking drama . That really should n’t fare as a surprisal to anyone at this point , and the show is certainly a tidy sum better at the latter stuff and nonsense than it has in previous seasons . The time to sop up everything together into one massive five - year story has in all probability long since hand , at least from a tale standpoint — this is a show well see one instalment at a time , with previous persistence really only play in on a rigorously as - necessary base .
And sure , it ’s one of the matter keeping this show from turn over enormousness , but I ’m OK with that . Because , as we head into the final eleven episodes , what “ Force Quit ” does suggest is we ’ll get a rich end from a character perspective . And really , it ’s the characters and the goofy sense of fun that keep me coming back to this show , so that ’s all fine by me .
telly
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