Eureka 08/05/08 "What About Bob"

[Anubys]

I just finished watching last week's show and this one back to back...I like this show a lot...they kept all the humor and introduced new twists...the eco system half a mile underground was a bit much but that's to be expected...heck, I expected a tie-in with the movie Journey to center of the earth :D

[Anubys]

oh...and one more thing: I LOVE Jo...she is so darn pretty...and her line about the gun was very funny :up::D

[ruexp67]

The idea of the lab as a reality TV show was pretty funny.

The product placement was REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY painful this time. Followed by a comercial featuring the same actor IN CHARACTER. :rolleyes: Wow, just WOW. I almost feel like my tivo usage may have contributed to this sort of thing, I almost feel bad about it.

Almost. ;)

[Idearat]

The final scene was interesting. The nuclear test footage was nothing new, but the date on the can was: I think it said 1936. That put it way before the first bomb tests in WWI (1945) and even before Fermi's reaction experiment in Chicago in 1942.

Maybe that's why she closed the museum, unfettered access to the archives.

[dianebrat]

The final scene was interesting. The nuclear test footage was nothing new, but the date on the can was: I think it said 1936. That put it way before the first bomb tests in WWI (1945) and even before Fermi's reaction experiment in Chicago in 1942.

Maybe that's why she closed the museum, unfettered access to the archives.

That also was a very good attention grabber, clearly they're going somewhere with that, and it was an awesome touch

Diane

[Jonathan_S]

The final scene was interesting. The nuclear test footage was nothing new, but the date on the can was: I think it said 1936. That put it way before the first bomb tests in WWI (1945) and even before Fermi's reaction experiment in Chicago in 1942.

Maybe that's why she closed the museum, unfettered access to the archives.I think it actually said 1938, but that final charactor wasn't easy to read (at least on my TV)

So apparently all the changes in town (paying at Cafe Diem, parking meters, etc.) that later got reversed were just a cover to close the museum? (And keep it closed)

[jwjody]

So Henry probably plays into whatever this woman is up to. And are they going to drop the story line about whatever is inside the boy (Stark and the woman's son).

J

[Church AV Guy]

The final scene was interesting. The nuclear test footage was nothing new, but the date on the can was: I think it said 1936. That put it way before the first bomb tests in WWI (1945) and even before Fermi's reaction experiment in Chicago in 1942.

Maybe that's why she closed the museum, unfettered access to the archives.
On my television it looked like the mushroom cloud was in a pastel color. Quite a trick for a plack and white film. Her real agenda has little to do with corporate sponsorship OR book balancing. She is doing all that to keep everyone off balance while she is working her real mission. We don't know what that is yet, but as long as she keeps people stomping out fires that she sets herself, they likely won't notice her.

Hey, she got Henry back. That makes her only 99% evil. I wonder how he will serve her mission?

Fargo: "This is the best season yet!" I cracked up on that one.
Lupo: "I've been waiting for a guy to ask me that all my life!" Also very funny.

Lots of other good ones: "You've envisioned us naked together?"

Oh, and either in the season finale last year or the first episode this year, Stark said that the field was gone from their son. It did not get transferred with the matter transmittion of his body. It's dead, as a story line, at least for now.

[gthassell]

I kept waiting for them to realize that they could run the Reality TV show on broadcast / cable networks as a source of additional funding.

But of course, I was mistaken.

[danieljanderson]

Why was a hologram made of Carter?
If Henry could interact with everyone and everything thing as a hologram, why didn't they have Carter do it, so they wouldn't upset the experiment?

[Jonathan_S]

Why was a hologram made of Carter?
If Henry could interact with everyone and everything thing as a hologram, why didn't they have Carter do it, so they wouldn't upset the experiment?Well Henry could walk around and talk to people, but he couldn't pick things up. Might be a little hard to search for clues when you can't move things around to examine them. That said, it might have made sense to send in the holograms first and only give up and send real people in when the holograms weren't sufficient.

[Unbeliever]

Why was a hologram made of Carter?
If Henry could interact with everyone and everything thing as a hologram, why didn't they have Carter do it, so they wouldn't upset the experiment?

Its a plot device. "If you show a gun in the first act, you better use it by the second."

AKA, "Chekhov's Gun."

--Carlos V.

[DrWho453]

The final scene was interesting. The nuclear test footage was nothing new, but the date on the can was: I think it said 1936. That put it way before the first bomb tests in WWI (1945) and even before Fermi's reaction experiment in Chicago in 1942.

Maybe that's why she closed the museum, unfettered access to the archives.

Yea, I caught that too, I missed it the first time but I know when they showed that film can that it was significant so I paused it to read it. I though it said 1929 but whatever it was, it was way early for the atomic bomb to be around. BTW, it was WWII not WWI ;).

Of course I also thought it was interesting how they talked about the biosphere where the guy running it said they used it to support the Mars mission and Carter corrected him saying future Mars mission but you could see on his face and by the way Allison shook her head that it was not a mistake so now its "oh we already have people on Mars and we are just waiting to catch the outside world up before we tell them about it". Sort of like not telling the world we have a Stargate and we have been traveling around to different planets and galaxies for 10 years.

[EvilMidniteBombr]

Good episode.

I still don't like how whatshername made a commercial division of GD "to make money" when all they would really have to do is patent and sell some of the stuff that they have already made!

I'm not wild about Allison & Stark's relationship. I'm hoping it's only a matter of time before it's exposed that he is only doing it to distract her or keep an eye on her. I really don't care if her & Carter hook up.

Good story though.

[Bierboy]

That also was a very good attention grabber, clearly they're going somewhere with that, and it was an awesome touch

Diane

I just REALLY dislike the actress playing her part....:down::down::down:

...oh, and it definitely was 1938 (according to my old eyes and my 51-inch Hitachi).

[meglet]

Watching the final scene, with the older than "official" dates on the nuclear tests, I thought I remembered a conversation from the first season about that. I seem to recall a conversation between Allison and Carter that Eureka had developed the nuke years before it was officially tested. Maybe in one of the first two or three episodes, when the smart people were still using small words to explain the town to Carter?

Another interesting piece is that Allison has previously talked about Eureka being created at the end of WWII, but if the new lady was watching tapes from 1938, and one of them had soldiers arriving in Eureka, what does that mean? Foreshadowing, or production error?

I guess I need to go skip through the first couple episodes of season 1 again.

Also, maybe it was just my TV, but that colored nuke explosion looked very similar in color to the bottle of mystery substance that was at the end of the previous episode.

[Anubys]

Also, maybe it was just my TV, but that colored nuke explosion looked very similar in color to the bottle of mystery substance that was at the end of the previous episode.

I noticed the same thing as well...almost like a living thing in there...

[drew2k]

So Henry probably plays into whatever this woman is up to.I have a feeling he doesn't really play into her plans, just that she observed how close Carter was with Henry, and knew reuniting them would cast her in a good light with Carter and keep his eyes off of her as he rekindled his bromance with Henry.

[IndyJones1023]

I can't believe they named the guy Bob Knob!

[Dennis Wilkinson]

I can't believe they named the guy Bob Knob!

Apparently (according to the far-less-entertaining-than-when-Colin Ferguson-did-them podcast) they wanted "Bob Rob" or "Rob Bob" but neither name cleared.

[Anubys]

they did also consider Rob loblaw ;)

[Martyp]

I can't believe they named the guy Bob Knob!

Bob's knobs are a type of screw that makes adjusting a telescope easy .

[IndyJones1023]

Bob's knobs are a type of screw that makes adjusting a telescope easy .

There's another meaning....

[Anubys]

There's another meaning....

:confused:

I don't get it...can you explain it?

with pictures, if you have to :p

[Bierboy]

:confused:

I don't get it...can you explain it?

with pictures, if you have to :p

I confess....I'm clueless...:confused:

[IndyJones1023]

This is a bob knob:

http://www.emediawire.com/prfiles/2004/04/28/122261/ponytail2a.jpg

[Hunter Green]

Its a plot device. "If you show a gun in the first act, you better use it by the second."

AKA, "Chekhov's Gun."

--Carlos V.

Though in this case it's more like the opposite: if you're going to use a gun in the second act, show it in the first act.