# Eureka starts tonight!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eureka-starts-tonight/411280>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 10, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eureka-starts-tonight/411280 "2007-07-10T23:35:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eureka-starts-tonight/411280/21 "2007-07-12T17:35:25Z")

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Shows like this have to walk a line between stand-alone episodes and overall plot episodes. This, obviously, was an overall plot episode. I’d be very surprised if next week isn’t a stand-alone. Series which integrate both types will always have fans of the overall plot complaining of the lack of forward movement in stand-alones, and fans of the stand-alones glazing over in the plot episodes.

They could have really kick-started the innkeeper’s conspiracy plot; I think they missed an opportunity. Had she been discovered in the future, then Carter would have known in the past and could have confronted her, only to have his mind wiped and knowledge of the plot erased. Yet innkeeper would still think that Carter knew, and it would have introduced some nice tension.

I, too, don’t like the kid. But Allison is definitely a MILF.

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**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eureka-starts-tonight/411280/22 "2007-07-12T17:40:13Z")

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Innkeeper? You mean the therapist?

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eureka-starts-tonight/411280/23 "2007-07-12T17:44:32Z")

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Same same. The therapist runs the local B&B.

The word I have from various sources is that the season starts out angsty, then lightens back to normal by about episode 5 or so. Colin Ferguson is really jazzed on the way things have been going so far, so that’s a plus.

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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eureka-starts-tonight/411280/24 "2007-07-12T17:46:38Z")

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Innkeeper. Therapist. What’s the difference?

ETA: X-Files used to do this. Start the season with the big gov’t conspiracy plot, move to stand-alones, interspersed with one, maybe two conspiracy episodes, then finish the season with the conspiracy.

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**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eureka-starts-tonight/411280/25 "2007-07-12T18:13:45Z")

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How many eps will we get this season? 12?

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