Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.

'Safe'


Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon  

A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.

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Fay - Sep 23, 2008 11:04:38 pm PDT #4839 of 30001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I'm afraid I thought she was a bit nondescript, to be honest. Pleasant enough, but not the great beauty and consort of legend. Not yet, anyway.

Ah well. Glad to hear she wasn't a vortex of suckitude: sounds like she's had to work very hard to get to where she's at, so it's nice that she's got a mainish role in a BBC thing with well-known people. Go Team, and all that. (How are they working in the fact that she's biracial? Is it just not being mentioned, tra-la-la, in the manner of Stargate, or are they going for a The-Celts-are-darker-skinned thing? I'd quite like it if they were trying to show different ethnic groups from back in the day.)


Fiona - Sep 24, 2008 1:57:41 am PDT #4840 of 30001

How are they working in the fact that she's biracial? Is it just not being mentioned, tra-la-la

This. As far as the first episode is concerned, at any rate.


le nubian - Sep 24, 2008 3:23:02 am PDT #4841 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ita,

"Why?"

because nearly everything in the show - the relationships between people, events (lead character's bf's funeral) were all things I would have expected would happen directly after the pilot. Even seeing Molly Dodd again for as much as we saw her.


sumi - Sep 24, 2008 4:26:09 am PDT #4842 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

So you think that the stuff about her having handled only 3rd cases, etc - was all tacked on later?


Topic!Cindy - Sep 24, 2008 4:34:18 am PDT #4843 of 30001
What is even happening?

I couldn't watch last night's Eureka, because we're having a cable/TiVo disagreement of epic proportions (the detailed whine is better suited for a blog). I'm dying, here. Allison's pregnant? Jack's been fired? Aye de mi.

But it is taking the pie theme a bit far.

*Checks URL*

* That said, I hope they don't fix this too quickly. We can get fresh new stories with a new sheriff, or the complete lack of one, mayhaps even some cross-country marshalling stories. I like it! Fresh dynamics!

I'd bet folding money Michael Muhney's available, not that I'd ever want him near Eureka. Sorry. I just got a whiff of former sheriff with cute, smart, blonde daughter is caught up in small town intrigue and you know the rest, because you went there, too:

Eva traveled all the way to Farmington LA on the Shield where she is Beaver's mother. (from Veronica Mars)

Heh.

I know we're all "Oh Noes, how can they take Carter's job? How will there be a show?" But honestly, for a guy working in a super-dangerous town where people are dying left and right, who just had to face the prospect of his daughter dying of old age in a month? Getting kicked out and relocating to a safer town probably wouldn't seem like all that horrible a price for saving his daughter and letting one of the people responsible for her cure escape arrest.

The thing is, I think it's Eureka -- despite all its physical dangers -- that has saved Jack and Zoe's relationship, and arguably Zoe's future. Out in the "real world" Jack was a workaholic who couldn't/wouldn't be there for his family because his job required so much of him, and his daughter was headed for huge trouble. In Eureka, he can be the father and man he was meant to be, and she has the sort of environment, and the tools that can help her become the woman she can be.

Our world today is so physically safe, but it wasn't always thus for humanity. In some ways, living in Eureka is like living in a more primative world (albeit with lots of awesome toys) than a modern day Western city. Okay, so the dangers in Eureka are a by-product of the technology (and the humans that invent it) that allows people to escape the wolves, lions, pestilence, and the lack of ability to find sufficient food and shelter, but they're physical threats all the same.

I guess I'm circling around my point -- which I think is that Eureka is dangerous in a different way than say Los Angeles or New York, or Boise, but the world is a dangerous place. You take Zoe out of Eureka, and she's safe from crazy scientists, but she's much more likely to fall prey to any other number of things that could kill her (or ruin her life; or keep/distract her from reaching her potential), and Jack's more likely to be dragged off from doing his most important job -- being her father.


le nubian - Sep 24, 2008 4:35:52 am PDT #4844 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

So you think that the stuff about her having handled only 3rd cases, etc - was all tacked on later?

yeah, I do. I think they must have cut out a scene and swapped it with last week's ep so something would make sense, but the overall feel of the ep was that this was originally intended to come after the pilot.


Jon B. - Sep 24, 2008 4:56:25 am PDT #4845 of 30001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I am ita w.r.t. Carter's role in Eureka. I fully expect him to be reinstated as sheriff by the end of the next episode. I mean, they brought Henry back and he was in freakin' prison (and then they made him Mayor!).


Fay - Sep 24, 2008 6:08:45 am PDT #4846 of 30001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I have achieved Books 2 and 3 of Avatar!

Yay!

...now I just have to figure out when the hell I'm going to ever have any spare time ever again!


Polter-Cow - Sep 24, 2008 6:13:32 am PDT #4847 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

yeah, I do. I think they must have cut out a scene and swapped it with last week's ep so something would make sense, but the overall feel of the ep was that this was originally intended to come after the pilot.

le nubian, I can definitely see where you got that impression. But, yeah, other parts were clearly put in to make it fit as the third episode.


§ ita § - Sep 24, 2008 7:23:30 am PDT #4848 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

other parts were clearly put in to make it fit as the third episode

The scene with Molly and tall dark and ambiguous was episode 3, because wasn't the job offer to Olivia episode 2? And the knowledge that they worked together?