Eureka: There were a few nice moments, but there was a lot of badness. Mostly, I don't buy that Allison would do what she did. She's always been a play-by-the-book type.

I just wondered why Zoe was going to an 80s party. That outfit? Really?

Well longtime no writing....

ita has been on me to remember my password better, but I never do.

I'm about to watch the episode for the first time in it's finished form tonight. But I never get to see Warehouse because I'm back shooting in Canada....

I'll post again in a bit - hope the ep went okay. Hope everyone is well...

::purses lips::

I paid more attention to the B and C plots. I thought Zoe and Jack were very sweet (and he was very lucky), and although I'm still anti Jo/Zane, I liked the trust she placed in him, and how they worked together.

Learning that Fargo is a figurehead explains *so* much.

The bit where Allison jacks up the experiment was very silly.

And the continued Jack+Jo bonding is great. Let's have a good friendship here.

But I do want to know more about suddenly married Henly. His new reality must be the hardest to muddle through, and yet we see so little of it.

I think you integrated yourself better into the flow of the story this time, CFerg.

Hey, CFerg. Good to see your fonts. Liked the delivery of the episode, though, like others, I didn't buy that Allison would do that, even as freaked out as she is about the change to Kevin.

Loved the Jack and Zoe bits. Loved.

Great directing job, CFerg!

Thanks guys!

Me neither on the Allison front. At all. Ever. Never liked it. But it was strange to see two very distinct camps from the writers:

one that said it's horrible parenting and she would never do it and the other that said they both would and have done similar.

I lost.....

I finished watching it and have no distance on it. They wrote it 11 minutes long so whole scenes had to go and a lot of connective tissue... that's what I miss. A lot of jokes went...

Todd gets the credit for the edit though. Fixing an episode that is THAT long is really tough and we both broke our hearts losing some stuff.

I do hope it worked all in all though.

I also cared most about the B and C plots - which annoyingly puts me in agreement with ita...

I wanted to do the Zane/Jo plot line a bit more justice than it had been done so far. So it pleased me to see why they were attracted to each other again - for me anyway.

... and of course I love me some Jordan....always will....

I hope it worked all in all though. An Invisible oxygen cloud and space rockets doesn't give a guy a lot to shoot....

which annoyingly puts me in agreement with ita

Oh, you know I'm right about this shit. Ain't no shame in admitting that.

The idea of a tech-enabled helicopter parent is quite terrifying. No doubt Eureka would have some, but does it have to be one of our leads? No way is that sympathetic behaviour, even if she is adjusting from him being autistic.

If you have to do Jo/Zane again, maybe it can be done right this time. He doesn't have to be quite the dismissive ass he was last season.

Bummed that Jordan's show didn't work out, but really great to see the father/daughter pair back.

I should also say, that all I get to do is a director's edit.

The show is then passed off to the producers and to the network and they both have their way with it.

So the show that airs doesn't really resemble the show I shot in some places. How a second more here and there radically changes the mood of a character or scene.

Or how someone not liking something completely changes some poor actor's performance.

...it's a disclaimer.... but it's also true....