Meh. This episode didn’t do too much for me. We got everybody acting goofy, and Carter gets shot down in love for a bit, but that’s about it. I’m not worried about Henry quitting…it’s temporary at best.
Next week’s episode, OTOH…looks promising.
I didn’t mind because the “science gone crazy” aspect didn’t have me tearing my hair out with incredulity like some recent episodes. Mind-altering pollen? OK, I can buy that.
The girl-fight was kind of fun. Naked Taggart was funny, too.
Zoey sure has turned herself around, though, hasn’t she? Hard to believe she was ever a snot-nosed delinquent punk. I think it should have taken a little longer.
At least they had a bit of misdirection in this one –
It wasn’t the ominous looking cellphone tower causing the problem at all.
Far too often in Eureka, they figure out the MacGuffin way too early in the show and there’s no real mystery about what’s going on.
I had the pollen thing figured out in the first 10 minutes, mainly because my sinuses have been killing me all month and I was sensitive to the thought.
Now if there had been naked girl-fighting… 
I also liked that, with all the geniuses out of commission, it was up to Carter and Zoey to solve it by themselves, and they didn’t screw up.
Joked to my wife that I was surprised that Joe Morton (Henry Deacon) lasted in as long as he has in Eureka. He’s one of the pioneers of the ‘3 and out’ for working in ongoing series.
I’m sorry… I must’ve missed something in last night’s episode. All I can remember is Allison in lingerie. When did they have time for all these other plot elements you guys are talking about?
Damn, did you see those abs?
Isn’t that the theme of every episode? Scientists screw things up, and the “normal” guy (Carter) has to put things right.
Being a scientist myself, I can’t say I like that aspect of this series.
I don’t quite see it that way, myself. There is a bit of the ‘don’t rely on technology too much’ morality running through the show, I agree, but I see it more like this: Eureka’s a town where great minds can pursue their own projects. 95% of the advances in technology are perfectly safe and improve the quality of life, but there’s that 5% that gets away from people and cause havoc through no fault of the scientists involved.
The way Eureka’s written, the catastrophes the show deals with are always people-related, not tech-related. Sure, there was a doomsday laser that was going to destroy large chunks of the planet, but the real ‘problem’ the episode dealt with was getting the old scientist to come out of his senility and save everyone.
While the scientists on the show are wizards at figuring tech out, they’re not so hot at figuring people out - but Carter, having been a US Marshal and presumably having been in law enforcement for a very long time, is good at realizing motivations and other human-related issues. He can attack the problem where others may have a blind spot.
It’s a stereotype that scientists don’t have good people skills, I know, but Eureka is riddled with stereotypes and cliches and doesn’t appear to make any secret of it. What amazes me is that despite that, it’s still a very enjoyable show.
Regarding this latest episode, I’d actually chuck everything I wrote above. The only reason Carter was able to figure things out this time was because he happened to live in a hermetically sealed missile silo. The solution for this episode was very blunt and forceful. Anybody in Eureka could have done it, not just Carter.
What I still don’t understand about this episode…
What caused the Pollen to ‘suddenly start’ being a problem?
Was it the turning off of the music? or did they come into bloom finally?
If the former, then they needn’t be destroyed, since they seemed to have some beneficial aspects, and destroying them wasnt going to remove the already in the air pollens (just prevent more)… One would also assume that while this may have been the primary source, that there are probably more plants out there…
Also, isnt; it strange that the ‘only time’ Carter needs the mask is when he’s in the field, but while intown he’s immune? (and yet no one else was?).
I suppose that’s true, and why I still watch the show. Still, the show does a lot to enforce unfavorable stereotypes about scientists and intellectuals.
I think it was established that the plant releases pollen only at night. During those hours Carter and Zoe were seafely sealed up in their underground bunker, breathing filtered air.
What I want to know is why Carter had a mask but not wearing it when he got to the farm with a flamethrower.
simster, the plant only flowered at night; we’ll have to assume that the pollen’s potency didn’t last long enough to affect Carter and Zoe the next day (yes, I know, I’m stretching here). Also, maybe the plants just hit their bloom cycle in sufficient quantity. They wouldn’t bloom year-round.
Does that help?
ehh, a little… all I know is the affects of pollen on my allergies has little to do with when the pollen is released, and moreso on how much is in the air, and enough to affect the whole town would be hanging around a bit…
I’d like it better if somehow the music was preventing them from pole…poliniz… releasing pollen, and that the real reason it all happened fell back on whathisname pulling the plug on the speaker wires… seemed way to “cause and affect” as shown.