Eureka: What goes around comes Around

I haven’t loved the second half of this season of Eureka. It isn’t that it is bad in any way, it simply didn’t feel all that much like anything special was happening. In general the Episodes have simply become to predictable. The science changes but no matter what it is the odds are high that you won’t see it again and the next week there will be another scientific mystery.

As a season finally I didn’t expect them to change things all that much. At most you set up a change for next season in a finally and I am not convinced that they see the formula of this show as a problem the way that I do. But they did a couple things that I liked.

One of the major things that they were able to do was bring back on of the pieces of technology. There was no real need for the drones to make an appearance except that it was fun, and a hint that the writers recognize that at some point you might have to acknowledge the science you have shown them to have in past episodes.

The big change that I don’t know will happen next year or not is that of Zoe. She has been accepted into Harvard early and in some ways I think it might be good for her not to be on the show. She has been important to the show in some ways but once she grew out of the problem child role and became more of an adult she became less important. A reoccurring guest star role might simply be a better fit for that character now as well as shaking up a show that needs to be shaken up.

I will be watching Eureka next season but if I discover that it is simply more episodes that are the same episode with a new scientific problem I am likely to drop it to the bottom of my Tivo’s season pass manager.