Eureka...

[fajrdrako]

I watched the pilot episode of Eureka, an American TV show that started a few weeks ago. It's sort of ... light science fiction. Actually, I'm not sure what it is. Comedy? Drama? Light adventure? It wasn't quite funny enough, or quite exciting enough, to keep my interest through the whole episode, and I found all the characters sort of artificial... I kept wanting it to be more tense, more like X-Files, more substantial. But the dialogue was fun, especially in the beginning, and I like the way the story kept twisting - even if it did become predictable about halfway through.

So it wasn't exactly a love-at-first-sight kind of show, but it was fun. Most TV shows, I either love them or hate them, and this one was pleasantly amusing.

Comments

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

Pleasantly amusing is mostly how it plays, as of a few episodes in. I'd call it Northern Exposure meets the X Files -- more quirky than sinister, but with a hint of shadows lurking in odd corners. I was sorry that neither Maury Chakin nor Greg Germann return after the pilot, more sorry that they don't seem to be showing the eps. in the right order -- there's not usually a tight continuity to disrupt, but it makes the character development seem kind of one step forward, two steps sideways, which is a shame.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I wish they would always show episodes in order - it usually makes a difference to the characterization and the themes, if not the plot. "Norhtern Exposure meets the X-Files" is a good description, but I find the characters less real and less interesting than in either of those shows. Mind you, being crazy over Fox Mulder helped....

Love the show

[idiotgrrl.livejournal.com]

I totally like "Eureka" except that from time to time they do something really stupid. Like leaving a very young and often clueless employee alone in an office apparently not used since the Cold War - where there is a control console. Excuse me, boss, you KNOW he's going to play with the thing. Bad management, very bad management.

P.S. I had a boss once who left me without guidance for a period of months. And no control panels involved.

Re: Love the show

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

from time to time they do something really stupid. Like leaving a very young and often clueless employee alone in an office apparently not used since the Cold War - where there is a control console.

What fun!

I had a boss once who left me without guidance for a period of months.

Did the world survive?

Re: Love the show

[idiotgrrl.livejournal.com]

The world survived. I didn't. I got written up for not doing what she had never told me to do, which had been specifically forbidden - in writing - by the top brass of thelast administration. Dispute Resolution sided with her.

OTH - there is no Grey Ceiling in her department any more!

Re: Love the show

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

LOL - call it the results of a fully-lived life. And life, as we know, is never fair.

Grey ceilings are overrated!

Re: Love the show

[idiotgrrl.livejournal.com]

Not when you're one of the "overaged, overpaid, too !@#$^&* independent" workers being forced out!

Re: Love the show

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah. What a pain.