Pickup! Yay!

Darker! Yay!

darker? *tingles*

Yeah, I can't imagine that on top of Henry's grief over losing Kim, the tortuous knowledge that he could have saved her, I would imagine knowing that Carter knowingly stopped him from preventing her death would send him over the edge into a very dark place. Poor Henry.

Poor Carter, too. Who's gonna be his buddy now?

Woo hoo for pick up news!

I was worried that Henry was just going to leave. I'm glad we'll see him next summer too.

Great news on the pick up CFerg. Thanks for letting us know.

Whoo-hoo, pick up!

I hope it doesn't get TOO much darker... the lightheartedness is one of the things I like about it. Darkness, I already got in spades.

I laughed when I saw that CISCO was running The Consortium

Bwah! Actually, before I told DH that CISCO was a real-world company buying ad space, he thought that the logo being in both places meant that Stark Industries was the Consortium of the future. Even though Stark Industries was obviously a manufacturer of green-screen background plates, judging by what was behind Stark's head.

Hooray for being picked up!

I loved this ep. Time travel! Messy personal relationships because of it! Yay! (Though I do have to agree that having the memories of the first alternate timeline makes this a third alternate timeline rather than the original one.)

Pickup!! Whoohoo!

I like the dark. I like the snark. I do not like the hair of Stark. Goooo, Eureka!

Nitpick, but anyone else notice the biohazard symbol on the door to the artifact? I thought that they should've put the one for radiation hazard on the door instead.

I can suggest a wank that lets future knowledge be there without causing too many unwanted plot bunnies. Take advantage of difference between short and long term memory. Mental time travel sends knowledge into the pasts short term memory. So most of it fades but not all. Bascially the most important things, plus what you go through in the "front of your" mind before short term memory fades. In short a fraction of the the four years gets into the long term memory, the rest fades before it can be kept. Which means that you can have Jack and Henry remember as much as you need them to for plot purposes but not more. Plus this is a different time line, so given the lack of detail the memories are not of much practical use - except occasionally if you can get a good plot out making something of use stick.

Oh and as for this being a third time line. The whole problem was a second timeline that diverged significantly from the first. The second timeline, being unstable to begin with has been eliminated. The third is so close to the first that any minor divergences can merge non-destructively. But maybe it leaves the area around Eureka a little more vulnerable to space-time disturbances.

Since Eureka more or less use magic science anyway these are close enough. I mean the short term vs. long term memory thing is actually the current science. And Time Travel, well you are pretty much making up your own rules anyway - so what I came up with is good if it serves the story, bad if it doesn't.

"Yay!" for the pickup! "Huh?" for the short summer season.

It would be great to see a more "normal" length arc. It feels like some critical plot development got cut out, especially regarding Bev. I'm glad she finished with a bang. She must have got hold of a copy of the memory wipe device from Anderson. That will be a pretty handy way for the Consortium to cover their tracks.

I like the ambiguous ending about whether Carter remembered the alternate timeline. He'd at least remember waking up that morning knowing he needed to stop Henry, but he may not remember how he knew. The "have a little faith" exchange with Allison leaves it open as to whether he actually remembered or just had an unexplainable moment of deja vu.

Poor Henry. This will decidedly make the next season darker. We'll need Carter's lightness to keep the quirky humor from being entirely purged from the show.