Mad scienceis get quirky and lovable once again on the Syfy Channel , as Eureka returns for the long - delayed second half of its third season . We ’ve seen the next two episodes of this crazy - townspeople show . spoiler out front .
Faithful Eureka viewing audience will commemorate that at the ending of the most recent sequence , Jack Carter got fired as sheriff by the Department of Defense , which gets some veto power over the town ’s affaire because of all the sensitive zaniness that pass on there .
So the first episode back , “ Welcome Back , Carter , ” pick up right where this cliffhanger left off — Jack is taking a task with the Department of Homeland Security , which hires him in spite of his unfitness to say anything much about his previous job . Meanwhile , the township of Eureka gets a new automaton sheriff named Andy , who ’s just as good natured as Jack , but lacks a certain … suspicion .
Andy , the android sheriff , starts out as just sort of a one - note antic , but he actually sort of produce as a character over the course of the sequence . He ’s just as much of a slaphappy screw - up as every other character on Eureka , but he ’s no worse — and the show lift up showing not just his congenital politeness , but also his dignity . He ’s given some chances to prove that he ’s more than just a tool or a equipment , and to show that he actually has a choice about being a defender of the town — he ’s not just following his programming or instructions .
The actual plot of ground of “ Welcome Back Carter ” is fairly flimsy but entertaining — trees fall down in a very random , yet organized , fashion , and Jack mistrust that something weird is expire on . ( Because , duh . Something weird is always go on . ) But the new Sheriff , Andy , refuses to believe that anything unusual is befall — until more objects start falling in random , yet apparently targeted way .
One affair that jumped out at me about both “ Welcome Back Carter ” and the 2d episode , “ Your Face Or Mine ? ” was the fact that the somebody who ’s behind the somewhat disruptive shenanigans does n’t really get punished . In both cases , the malefactor causes a ton of hoo-ha and some price , but meander up apologize , and gets let off the hook , more or less . Because Eureka is such a good - natured show , even citizenry who fracture the law and cause havoc get a slap on the wrist , pursue by an understanding hug .
At its core , of course , Eureka really is a show about law enforcement , and the terminus ad quem of carrying a big pin . Our main character reference , Jack Carter , is the town sheriff , but he ’s regularly force to deal with weird and random occurrences that go way beyond slip cars and violation . It ’s not just that everyone in Eureka is a genius , except for Jack and his deputy , Jo . It ’s also that the “ crimes ” Jack confronts are ordinarily at least part accidents , and they usually stem from abuses of science . And skill , the show seems to hint , was made to be abused . Science hump it ! skill is strapped to a bed wearing fishing net stockings and Groucho Marx nose - glasses , begging for more .
Eureka is frequently compare to The Andy Griffith Show , which is one of my favorite shows of all time because Griffith really is all about the abuse of police baron . The central dynamic in many Griffith episodes is the debate between Andy and his deputy sheriff , Barney Fife — Andy ’s reaction to any place is a dab on the shoulder and a kindly public lecture , but Barney regularly wants to lock everybody up , and on those rare occasions when Barney gets to hold a gun , he ’ll shoot first and think about it a few days later . The Andy / Barney moral force is like a debate over the limits of heavy versus soft force — do you keep order in the Ithiel Town of Mayberry through awe and lowering - laterality , or through a sorting of gentle folksy paternalism ?
And Eureka seems to demand alike questions , only about science . ( To some extent , Jack ’s deputy Jo seems to be more of a strong - ass than Jack , but it ’s not quite the same as the Andy / Barney thing . ) Eureka , the township , is an encapsulation of the scientific community ( if only all scientist were geniuses ) and the scientific catastrophe that happen so on a regular basis you could set your watch by them stand for our tough fear about skill . And every week , Jack show that science can run amuck , it ’s okay , as long as there ’s an reason , kindly authority number there to pat it on the articulatio humeri every now and then .
Jack is much less laid - back and all - knowing than Andy , of course — in the 2nd fresh episode , airing next week , Jack gets put through a series of test designed to ensure he ’s still fit to be sheriff , and he fetch enough flustered and demoralized . He ’s not just our authority design , he ’s also our everyman , scratch his head at what the whiz - kids see primed to throw at him .
That instalment , “ Your Face Or Mine ? ” , is train by starColin Ferguson . So the “ series of mental testing ” sequence is designed to polish off Jack from the main storyline , so he can be behind the tv camera rather of in front of them . Meanwhile , Deputy Jo Lupo has already aced the series of tests — further adding to Jack ’s distress when he ’s struggling with them — but in the primary part of the episode , she faces some difficult tests of her own . Which involve gettingErica Cerrato wear out a red dress and act all vampy on top of a piano , among other things .
Eureka ’s been aside so long , I ’d forget how much fun it could be , and how voluminous and surprising its storylines are capable of being . Neither of the two forthcoming episodes goes where you call back it ’s going , and that ’s really a harder exploit than you ’d expect . The tale are mostly excuses , though , for our fighter to face Brobdingnagian and bizarre challenges , and to prove that in the end , the human spirit is weirder and stronger than any crazy science . And that ’s not a regretful message to spread .
Eureka ’s back on Syfy , starting tonight at 9 postmortem examination .
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