Season 5, Episode 1
Allison and the Astraeus crew find themselves back on Earth after a disastrously short take off, but they find things aren't as they seems. They've been gone for 4 years and Eureka is a vastly different place.
Fargo: Gangway. First!
Zane: That's mature.
Fargo: Douglas Fargo, first human being on Titan, baby!
Jack: If it makes you feel any better the terrible twos lasted til she was five which was brutal.
Holly: Ooo, looks like the crown of an orc king.
Parrish: And this is just the scale model. The big one could turn the entire orc army into bunch of pussy cats.
Holly: Whoa. This is intense.
Fargo: What the frack happened?
Zane: Carter stole my girlfriend.
Fargo: Seriously?
Carter: No. Well....Zane! Bigger issues.
Comments:
1) I'm just going to consider Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day and Kavin Smith as part of the regular cast of the show and not mention them as guest staring in the episode descriptions.
2) Oh Fargo. Why'd you have to be that annoying person that tries to say/post "First" instead of contributing.
4) Damn, Kavin Smith does creepy well. Maybe it's a little because we're so used to Andy always being cheerful and helpful, but this twist makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Wil Wheaton does a great job of it too. That over the top cheerfulness makes one think an alien is going to burst from his chest or something else shocking.
5) I remember Kevin Grazier, the science adviser for the show, talking about it on a panel at Dragon*Con (in 2007 I think). It was the first year for an Eureka panel at the convention so there weren't any actors there. He commented that the writers were going to make "Jack work to get Allison" and that it probably wouldn't happen until the very end of the series. I wonder if that is still the plan and that Allison and Jack will end the series together.
6) Do the Martha drones look cylonish to anyone else?
7) Highlight for spoilers: [ I rewatched the last half of season 4 about 2 weeks ago and wondered if Beverly Barlow had anything to do with the Astraeus vanishing. How are they going to have this all work? Are they only going to show the false world that exists in the crew's minds or are they going to overlay this with the search to find them in the "real" world? The writers do like to take this show to extremes in terms of reality and seem to like alternate timelines. It should be exciting to see how it all plays out. ]
8) I'm going to be a bumbling mess when the last episode airs. Eureka has a huge place in my heart. It's going to be painful to let go.