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Eureka: I Do Over
Filed under: OpEd, Eureka, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E04) "Ohh, dude." -- Jack Carter, on learning he would have to memorize a formula for the next time loop shift. Boy, I do loves me a Groundhog Day episode! No, I don't mean an episode of a show where they pull a helpless groundhog out of its hole in the cold of winter just to "predict" what's coming up in the next six weeks. I'm talking an episode that features some sort of time loop where a character or characters relive a particular day over and over again. As they go...
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Eureka: Best In Faux
Filed under: Eureka, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E03) We're still too early in the season to get too deep into the bigger picture mystery. In fact, the clues that were given this week where Eva's plans are concerned made the whole thing even more confusing. That's ok though, we've got lots of time for that story to grow. In the meantime, "Best In Faux" was another quirky stand-alone that got a lot of things right. The yearly dog show managed to dovetail with some crazy science, Zoey's homework, and some fantastic guest casting to deliver a very fun hour of television.
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Eureka: What About Bob?
Filed under: OpEd, Eureka, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E02) "This is the best season yet!" -- Fargo, speaking about the ongoing adventures in Lab 27. Now that the storylines for this season have been established by last week's season premiere, and the gratuitous product placement has been introduced, Eureka moved ahead with an episode that was straight out of a Sci Fi Channel original movie. Except, you know, more entertaining. Not that those Sci Fi movies aren't entertaining, mind you. You have to have a very broad imagination to make a movie about Noah's Ark holding evil spirits bent on destroying the world. But, I digress. What makes Eureka...
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More signs of the product placement apocalypse
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Psych, Eureka, Reality-Free 
Ah, product placement. It's a subject that's come up before. We have an award for it, and even as far back as those care free days of 2005, Karina was writing about the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild Of America protesting it. The telling quote from that piece, "Our writers are being told to perform the function of ad copywriter, but to disguise this as storytelling." And isn't that where most of us have always drawn the line in the sand? The placing of products into sets...
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Eureka: Bad to the Drone (season premiere)
Filed under: Eureka, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free 
(S03E01) With the return of Eureka, I think my summer viewing schedule is now complete. It's not exactly fall premiere season, but it's hard to complain about summer schedules anymore, given the amount of great programming available. When last we left our favorite eggheads, and Carter, there were two big questions in play. How would Allison respond to Stark's proposal? And would Henry go to jail? We got one of those answers, and a very short peek at where will be headed in season three.
Continue reading Eureka: Bad to the Drone (season premiere) Interviews, Eureka, Reality-Free, Comic-Con 
The word of the day at the Eureka panel on Saturday was 'awesome'. For some apparent reason everyone on the panel ended their sentences with the word 'awesome'. That, and a mention about doing their scenes in towels. That was actually an on-going joke coming from a revelation that the stars and writers presented to the audience as something that will be coming up during season three. Of course there's more than just certain people walking around in towels coming up n the new season, and the panel let the audience in on what they would see when...
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Comic-Con Countdown: Saturday, July 26th
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, The Simpsons, Animation, Stargate, The Office, Children, Eureka, Kyle XY, Heroes, Pushing Daisies, Chuck, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reality-Free, Comic-Con  Saturday -- a time of rest and relaxation. A time to put your feet up, grab a lemonade, open a book, and let the cool, summer breezes gently rock your hammock as a lazy July day passes. Of course, that's...
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Comic-Con Countdown: You ask Sci Fi the questions, we deliver
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, Interviews, Celebrities, Eureka, Reality-Free, Comic-Con  During the panels for the Sci Fi shows present at Comic-Con this year, we're being given a unique opportunity to have you, our readers, ask questions to the panelists. What shows are we attending and who will be there? Here's the rundown:
- Stargate: Atlantis (Joe Flanigan, Robert Picardo, Brad Wright, Jewel Staite, Chris Sanagustin)
- Sanctuary (Amanda Tapping, Martin Wood, Robin Dunne)
- Battlestar Galactica (Tricia Helfer, James Callis, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Trucco, Ron Moore, David Eick)
- Eureka (Colin Ferguson, Sallie Richardson-Whitfield , Joe Morton, Jamie...
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Comic-Con Countdown: The first day
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Battlestar Galactica, Animation, Doctor Who, Children, Eureka, Dexter, Torchwood, Reality-Free, Comic-Con For those of you attending Comic-Con in San Diego, my hat is off to you. After looking at the schedule for the opening day, Thursday, July 24th, it is a wonder that your eyes don't grow glassy and that vein on the side of your temple doesn't throb with all of the events listed for that day. For those of you not attending, you may be breathing a...
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Feeling Lost? Need Sanctuary? Sci Fi can help!
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Programming, Lost, Stargate, Eureka, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free  Friends telling you Lost is the best thing since sliced bread? Everyone laughing at you at work because you're lost when they talk about that wacky island? Don't know who Jack, Kate and Sawyer are and whether or not John Locke is more than just some old dead philosopher? Ridiculed for being a Lost-less moron but too cheap of a bastard to go out and pick up those DVD sets? Well, good news.
Rarely does a show hit television that's so serialized it's almost impenetrable to come late...
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