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by tink!

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Anyone watching this new show?

http://www.scifi.com/eureka/

I know there's other sci-fi geeks here. I thought the pilot was pretty good. The second episode wasn't bad, but parts were slightly predictable [i](to anyone who watches sci-fi stuff regularly)[/i]

What do you think?

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by jaqui

flash powered website gives blank page.

and the new season / shows don't hit up here until September.

by tink!

Not sure why the page isn't working for you. Works fine when I use it.

Ah well, if you're curious you can just go to sci-fi.com and you can check it out. The name of the show is actually Eureka.

by jaqui

flash.
I DO NOT INSTALL FLASH.

that's why I get a blank page.
sci-fi.com, same thing.
flash content.

by mickster269

It has a subtle sense of humor to it. I don't know how accurate it is to Real Life Science. But to me, I don't care.

It's kinda like my daily life- sometimes I will speak tecno-ese to someone who has no clue to what I'm saying, other times I'll have to have something translated into "Everyday" speech.

But it's good for a laugh, and at least it's a NEW idea for a TV show.

by mjd420nova

I don't get the SCIFI channel on this extended basic cable hookup I'm on now. Fifteen miles away it's on their lineup but not here. Moved two years ago and have missed scifi and speed channels since. I wouldn't even have the cable if it wasn't for the broadband internet. Not gonna pay double and get a dish as I have to have the extended to get the broadband as they can't lock them out individually. Or so they tell me. Lowest level of digital available is $105. monthly to start. That's all I need, another box on top of the entertainment control, and another remote.

by zlitocook

I thought the show was lame. I could tell what was going on in the first ten minutes. The SCI-FI channel needs to do allot more in movie making.

by Former member

So far it's not to bad. I got it set to record on the DVR, and i'll continue to watch it unless it just gets really lame, cuz there isn't any thing else to watch on a tuesday until all the new seasons kick off in September-ish.

by maevinn

Not really pleased that some of the best stuff always is in the commercials, and agree, some of it was a bit pre-determined, but what the heck--it's one of the first new sci-fi shows that doesn't happen X years into the future. Has some of the same elements as the early X-files, before it turned into a soap opera for geeks. I'm with holding judgement until episode 5.

by mt pilgrim

I've enjoyed sci-fi for more years than I like to think about these days. While the Sci-Fi Channel definitely has its share of "dogs" I must admit that I like the quirkiness of "Eureka." It shows (if you take the time to watch the character development...) a true side of "geekism" that has never been portrayed to any great extent on ANY screen. I can only hope that the producers, critics, et al will have the testicular fortitude to maintain this one.

by itgl72

I have recently started watching sci-fi channel although I am no newbie to sci-fi shows/movies. I have caught very little of this show but might make a run at it with my TIVO.

I must say as far as sci-fi channel goes, the one show I have become hopelessly addicted to is their Battlestar Galactica http://www.scifi.com/battlestar. I watched 3 episodes on re-run of their season 2 and wanted to know more about their original story line so I rented their mini series, and all the season 1,2 available episodes. Great effects, characters, and stories IMHO. Cant wait for season 3 in October.

by mt pilgrim

Being of "old school" sci-fi, I viewed the new BSG much the same as I did when the rollout for "Star Trek: The Next Generation" happened. It took awhile, but I'm glad that I did use my recorder. It would've been hard to find someone who could supplant/surpass Lorne Greene as Adama, but they did. I don't miss it and enjoy it enough to go back and find things I might have missed on the first pass. All I can say is hurry up with the start of the new season...

by tink!

I stopped watching shows like that after Star Trek: The Next Generation until Farscape came along. But unfortunately I didn't have cable for a while after the first season and lost track of it. I want to catch the rest of what I missed on that show.

by stress junkie

Those silly humans really got themselves into a fine mess at the end of last season. I think that Battlestar Gallactica is the best television show ever.

If it were a movie it would rank with "Apocalypse Now, Director's Version".

by tink!

Alot of the shows I like usually go off the air after 1 or 2 season. (First Wave, Surface, Invasion?? -- the guy who plays the sheriff on Invasion is being shown in commercials for Prison Break) Although I neglected to watch this week, I will check back as often as I remember. Hopefully it'll stick around awhile to allow the characters to develop more. There can be some very interesting character interaction if they just work it right.

by stress junkie

Yeah. That's a bad sign. Looks like Invasion won't be back if a main character has another job. Too bad.

Maintaining is not so difficult these days. They have drugs to help with that. The problem is that the drugs make you go blind. Mamma was right after all. :D

Eureka is okay but not particularly remarkable. Not like First Wave. I really like Rob LaBelle's character (Crazy Eddie, Larry Pazinski). The main thing that I like about Eureka is the deputy. She's a bit too butch for us to have a future together but I could do her a favor.

by mrcjd3

Like yourself, I've seen all of the shows, and yes the last one was predictable. All in all I give the show three stars out of five.

by pkiser1228

Eureka's entertaining. It doesn't have to be accurate for me. I find most of the characters interesting enough.

About the only "space opera" I did not like in the last 20 years or so was Babylon 5. I just couldn't get into it.

by itgl72

I subscribed to netflix.com just to catch up with BSG. I started way late, I started my interest in it after season 2 started to I went on a heck of a DVD BSG marathon for a few weeks :-)

by jaqui

the Pilot episode finally aired up here, 3 times in the last 12 hours.. on the same station.

tetrahedal bubbles?
clones?
levitating machines blowing up?
tachyon particle colliders causing a complete breakdown of the space time continum (sp?)?

what can they do to top the pilot episode after those impossibilities?

edited for typo

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