*bam* Eureka!
Aug. 22nd, 2007 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intrikate88Now that I have spilled clear nail polish over myself and filled my wet hair up with velcro rollers I'm convinced will explode themselves in all directions as soon as I'm not looking, I feel equipped to review the pilot of Eureka, which I watched today. I might as well. Derek's going to be in the bathroom for the next half hour, and won't allow me to take out my lenses, so there you go.
I was distinctly not impressed with the episode. It was cracky, but y'know? I was raised on crack. I cut my fandom teeth on crack, I really did. (However, I would have to say that wank was my pacifier- I started in LOTR discussion boards, where I promptly immersed myself in a massive amount of lore and then was a troll to someone about their religion and got a well-deserved thrashing. Ah, those were the good old days.) However, after the advanced training I have gotten in crack after going through Alias, the entire Whedonverse, and Doctor Who, I still find Eureka falls a bit short.
It's the internal plausibility, really. F'rinstance, in The Lazarus Experiment, yes, we all know that the sonic thingummywhatsit reversing DNA and making Old Perv into Young Perv into Velociraptor into Torchwood Pet is complete and utter bullshit, but at least it seems, within the episode, to be consistent with the bullshit science and to make some sort of sense within that framework. Not so with pilot episode of Eureka!
Townspeople: We are brilliant freaks and can out-quantum-physics you, any day. Lo, young Jimmy (what is his name?) has gone missing! Start a massive search!
U.S. Marshall Jack: I want to investigate the crime scene.
DOD Woman: You can't. We're smarter than you.
U.S. Marshall Jack: I've dealt with missing person cases. There's chocolate on the wall. That means that Young Jimmy is hiding in this windowseat here.
DOD Woman, Townspeople, Sheriff: OMG. HE USED BASIC REASONING SKILLS. AND HIS EYEBALLS. CLEARLY HE IS A BRILLIANT MIND, NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH.
After that, I had difficulty believing that any of these people had the brains of a roadkill deer, which severely undermined my credulity of the next hour of the episode. And then, everybody pulled out guns! And since I've been watching more BBC and talking to Canadians than I have experiencing Kennesaw life (where it is actually illegal to NOT own a gun) I sort of spazzed. They were also ridiculously large guns.
ALSO WHAT IS UP WITH THESE AMERICAN ACCENTS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM.
That was basically my ideas. There was more, but it was mostly just a series of "...right. I don't think so. And this is Dexter's Laboratory type science."
Again, American accents = wtf. Okay, that's it. Will now find a wallpaper to post or something.
I was distinctly not impressed with the episode. It was cracky, but y'know? I was raised on crack. I cut my fandom teeth on crack, I really did. (However, I would have to say that wank was my pacifier- I started in LOTR discussion boards, where I promptly immersed myself in a massive amount of lore and then was a troll to someone about their religion and got a well-deserved thrashing. Ah, those were the good old days.) However, after the advanced training I have gotten in crack after going through Alias, the entire Whedonverse, and Doctor Who, I still find Eureka falls a bit short.
It's the internal plausibility, really. F'rinstance, in The Lazarus Experiment, yes, we all know that the sonic thingummywhatsit reversing DNA and making Old Perv into Young Perv into Velociraptor into Torchwood Pet is complete and utter bullshit, but at least it seems, within the episode, to be consistent with the bullshit science and to make some sort of sense within that framework. Not so with pilot episode of Eureka!
Townspeople: We are brilliant freaks and can out-quantum-physics you, any day. Lo, young Jimmy (what is his name?) has gone missing! Start a massive search!
U.S. Marshall Jack: I want to investigate the crime scene.
DOD Woman: You can't. We're smarter than you.
U.S. Marshall Jack: I've dealt with missing person cases. There's chocolate on the wall. That means that Young Jimmy is hiding in this windowseat here.
DOD Woman, Townspeople, Sheriff: OMG. HE USED BASIC REASONING SKILLS. AND HIS EYEBALLS. CLEARLY HE IS A BRILLIANT MIND, NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH.
After that, I had difficulty believing that any of these people had the brains of a roadkill deer, which severely undermined my credulity of the next hour of the episode. And then, everybody pulled out guns! And since I've been watching more BBC and talking to Canadians than I have experiencing Kennesaw life (where it is actually illegal to NOT own a gun) I sort of spazzed. They were also ridiculously large guns.
ALSO WHAT IS UP WITH THESE AMERICAN ACCENTS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM.
That was basically my ideas. There was more, but it was mostly just a series of "...right. I don't think so. And this is Dexter's Laboratory type science."
Again, American accents = wtf. Okay, that's it. Will now find a wallpaper to post or something.
