Eureka: Season 1

[meganbmoore]

Visitors and New Residents guide to Eureka:

1. Yes, the 7 year old is scrawling a physics formula on the sidewalk that people have been trying to figure out for far longer than he's been alive.  This is normal.  This is also good, as it will later be used to save the world at least once.
2. Yes, the jocks are scared of the nerds and the cheerleaders are discussing quantum physics in the hallway.  This, too, is normal.
3. Don't worry about the guy with the weapons rack in his armored jeep.  It's the local vet.
4. Yes, he's engaged in a never ending war with the local stray, you'll get used to it.
5. Yes, the local stray that made you wreck your car by running in front of it is the world's smartest dog.
6. Don't worry about the giant wormholes, they're normal. 
7. Don't worry about the noises, flashing lights, floating things, explosions and projectiles coming from the mechanic's garage.  Again, normal.
8. Don't worry about the giant death ray that will bounce off mirrors on the moon and destroy large cities.  The local sheriff has an answer for these things.  Like hitting the giant death ray gun with his jeep, causing the death ray to miss the mirrors on the moon, thus saving the world from world war 3.
9. Don't go near fence, most of them are magnetized.  If there's a member of the opposite sex around who you're attracted to, this will lead to a VERY awkward situation...especially if you're the sheriff and your deputy is there to mock you.
10. Yes, the deputy looks like she could break you in half.  Then move on to 5 biker gangs and do the same to them without breaking a sweat.  This is because she can.  Just don't piss her off and you'll be fine.
11. Don't worry about the "domestic dispute" coming from the sheriff's office that half the town can hear...it's just the sheriff and his deputy arguing over who gets which gun.  They like their sci-fi-style guns.
12. Your house may be sentient.
13. If it is, it may develop a crush on you.
14. Absolutely do NOT promise your house you will be home at a certain time and then be late.  If you do, it may scold you and lock you out.  It will definitely do this if it makes you dinner.
15. If this happens, grovel, it may work.  Especially if your house really does have a crush on you.
16. Do not be despondent around your house.  It may cause your house to lure several friends and enemies to you and take you all hostage until you work out your differences.
17. Please cooperate.  If you don't it may expose its other, super-military interrogator personality and impose many levels of psychological torture on you.
18. It may also vaporize the pizza boy if he tries to leave during one of your many escape attempts.
19. Don't worry about this, as the deputy and vet will launch a commando raid to rescue you.  Unless they get sidetracked by making out.  Even if they are covered in paintball paint and in the sewer.  If this happens, you're on your own.
20. If you find this disconcerting, please visit Beverly at the B&B, she's also a psychotherapist and sex therapist.  Watch what you say, though.  She moonlights as an assassin.
21. Should a stray machine hurtle through your wall, crash into your car or almost decapitate you, call Henry or Spencer at the mechanic's shop.
22. Please ignore all offers made to show you movies that have not been released on a large screen plasma TV.  This practice is illegal and is absolutely not endorsed by the town of Eureka. Call Spencer at 1-123-456-7890 for movies.
    

Note to flist:  The next time you want me to watch something and Salli Richardson plays one of the main characters, let me know.  It won't exactly shoot it to the top of my list, but it'll make it more of a priority.

Eureka, for those who don't know is about US Marshall Jack Carter, who crashes his car to avoid hitting a dog while transporting his runaway daughter across the country.  He finds himself stranded in Eureka, a small town that looks normal on the outside, but is secretly a haven for all the most brilliant minds in the world.  After helping to save the world from going BOOM! When the space/time continuum is threatened, Carter gets reassigned to Eureka as the new Sheriff and regularly saves the world from things like death rays, nanobyte-thingies, evil plants and radio waves that turn you into paranoid psychos.  Can keeps the universe from being un-created on a semi-regular basis.

It's great and I plan to get my own copy...uhm...soon(must get the Dresden Files set and the new William Powell/Myrna Loy set first.)

It is very mean in the last episode, though.

After 11 episodes of light, quirky fun and hijinks, it decides to go around killing people and causing pain.  Oh, sure, random extras got vaporized and such throughout, but they were extras and thus unimportant.  Then they have to have one of the lovers who were reunited after saving the academic world from her evil, memory stealing husband, she dies in a lab accident.  He travels back in time to save her and 4 years later, they learn that his doing so is causing the space/time continuum to unravel(again.)  So, naturally, his best friend must travel back in time to stop his past self from saving her, thus resulting in angst and character death and crying.  Meanie show.