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Vortex - Sep 11, 2009 5:49:55 pm PDT #9950 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I don't REMEMBER the birth happening!

So incredibly ironic. the episode was about people in Eureka forgetting things because they'd used this machine that "sees" their memories and stores them in a database. Fargo worried that there would be memories of him doing stupid shit, so he tried to erase the bad memories from the database, but ended up erasing people's memories.


§ ita § - Sep 11, 2009 5:55:31 pm PDT #9951 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Why did the actress playing Allison leave Eureka? I thought she really had a baby, but maybe not.

Why did you think not? Yes, she was really pregnant--she was 8 months along when she filmed the birth scene.

Was it also the stuff about the shower (and the water)?

That was, I think, the episode before. Last episode was the clip episode in which she gave birth. She got trapped in GD with Carter and Zoe and it was being cleaned and they were going to die and whatsername saved them with Fargo at the last minute, but the big problem (amnesia which stopped Allison getting them out herself) was Fargo's fault anyway.

Can someone tell me a couple things:

What was the time frame of this episode? How could so much of it appear to be on Tess's first day if Zane needs to apologise to Taggart for his behaviour of weeks?

Did everyone who didn't get into the fridge die? Otherwise why would we care about the fridge so much? I mean, the ice age was enough that they needed a dogsled to get into town, but only Cafe Diem needed someone to open their tube system to vent fungicide?

I'm totally missing scope and timing here.


Zenkitty - Sep 11, 2009 5:58:29 pm PDT #9952 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Why did you think not?

Don't remember!

Yeah, I have the same questions about this episode. Especially the time frame.


Vortex - Sep 11, 2009 6:03:46 pm PDT #9953 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

How could so much of it appear to be on Tess's first day if Zane needs to apologise to Taggart for his behaviour of weeks?

I thought that Zane was in the Arctic with Taggart, getting the ice core, and had been for several weeks.


§ ita § - Sep 11, 2009 6:06:38 pm PDT #9954 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I thought that Zane was in the Arctic with Taggart, getting the ice core, and had been for several weeks.

Aha! So that's where his month had been. Thanks.

Now I just have a basic distrust that all of that (including the solution) could have happened in one day, but that's much more manageable.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 11, 2009 6:07:13 pm PDT #9955 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

How could so much of it appear to be on Tess's first day if Zane needs to apologise to Taggart for his behaviour of weeks?

I thought Zane was off on the retrieval trip with Taggert - the truck to bring the core was his doing.

Totally spacing on the "forgetting episode". Irony indeed!

Nice to have Taggert back, but I seriously wish they'd try and explain away his awful "Australian" accent. I guess I need to handwave like the science?

Congrats, Joe Morton, on directing the episode, though.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 11, 2009 6:08:18 pm PDT #9956 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Heh - inevitable Buffista x-posts.


Burrell - Sep 11, 2009 8:50:04 pm PDT #9957 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I thought Allison was just on maternity leave, as in fer reals.

That's a good question about the freezing, ita. But then again, everyone in GE seems to be alive. I guess the ish was access to a warm coat?


§ ita § - Sep 11, 2009 9:25:21 pm PDT #9958 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I guess the ish was access to a warm coat?

Oddly, there were those metallic emergency blankets at Cafe Diem. Or really large and flexible sheets of foil.

I'm going to try and not think about the science. Because if memory serves it was fungus that made ice grow more. And that's a bit....huh. I'm just impressed that the rampant ice growth completely failed to touch the core and mess it up. And impressed that the truck that brought it never had to turn any corners.


beth b - Sep 11, 2009 9:38:25 pm PDT #9959 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

never think about the science on eureka. DH isn't allowed to watch unless he has practiced his handwavium