I liked things about this episode, but the personal problems completely overwhelmed the admittedly lame main story. It was pretty much ice; Jo arguing; "boy, it's cold"; Jack and Abby arguing; snow; "oh, yeah, the deceased was a player"; Jack, Abby and Zoe arguing; Nathan and Allison arguing; dust storm; Jack and Abby arguing; not!Zelenka makes weird weather machines; high wind; "how does the weather guy know all this?"; Nathan and Allison arguing; not!Zelenka is inexplicably okay with his wife's affair; high wind; dramatic button pushing; "it's the weatherman"; and The End.

Did something happen to Jack's truck that I missed? Because this sure sounded like the freak tornado that destroyed his truck in Timeline A.

Henry knew something about Beverly's duplicity, because he saw her doing something on Kim's desk when he was obsessively going over the video of Kim's office.

When does Pushing Daisies debut for reals?

Early October.

On the other hand, my meteorology PhD friend is probably pumping his fist and yelling because you don't get to see many evil weathermen in science fiction. It's the physicists who get all the fun....

(Plus, Zoe's underage, so shouldn't they have some kind of custody agreement? Not just, "hey, I'm taking her now.")

they probably have a custody agreement, but it's based on Jack being in LA. Abby probably agreed to change it, but could ask the court to enforce the original agreement.

On the other hand, my meteorology PhD friend is probably pumping his fist and yelling because you don't get to see many evil weathermen in science fiction. It's the physicists who get all the fun...

he wasn't really evil though, was he? more of a glory hound.

but the personal problems completely overwhelmed the admittedly lame main story

I think if the weather plot hadn't been so convoluted (we really didn't need Monkey Guy who was sleeping with the whole town -- would have been easier to just introduce Not!Zelenka as a guy with a weather machine), the main cast's personal problems could have been given more attention and it would have made for a tighter ep. As it was, I still really liked it, but wow, crowded!

Finally got a chance to watch Eureka uninterupted, and something that I missed the first time, but thought was absolutely brilliant and way too short, was Henry translating what not!Zelenka was saying for Carter.

And the final scene with the wind and the button was priceless. I don't know how that sucked (or rocked) to walk into a wind machine, but that was pure gold.

Abby, next time your daughter has a birthday party, put the boobies away. IJS.

I guess Stark is still obfuscating about whether he knew Kevin was in the room when the Artifact blew, which, potentially annoying. Is it just for the storytelling ambiguity, or will we find out that Stark's under some kung-fu-grip security clearance regarding Kevin that even surpasses that of the director of GD?

Kix is for kids.

What the heck is going on with Allison and Henry? All I can guess is that Henry confided his suspicions of Beverly to Allison. She certainly seemed to be personally invested in getting Henry access to Kim's files and projects, but why? I know Bev betrayed Allison's trust last season, albeit "under the influence", but her brusque manner with her and the powerplay in her office with the "if you won't, then I will" and then not dismissing her as she made the call, seemed beyond that.

And if that's so, I'm so happy that Henry alerted someone else to Beverly's suspicious behavior.

And I can't believe Abby is pulling her kid out of school in the middle of the school year. Seriously? Seriously.

For a psychologist, Abby isn't the most grounded human being.

Especially because I get the feeling that Zoe is doing better in her schoolwork than before -- it also strikes me that Zoe is really fitting in with the kids of Eureka in a very good way.

Incidentally, I want to say, if I EVER get a chance to stand up in front of a wind machine, I'm going to do it. It looks like an experience!