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Anybody watch?  Something kind of big happened.  :awesome_for_real:

Last I saw was the mummy episode on Hulu.

yep.  big fan of it.  l

Yeah I watch but I haven't seen the newest episode yet.  Last I saw was the Mummy.

Well the big thing kind of happened the episode before!  I guess everyone already knows then?

You are making me feel like I missed something!   :ye_gods:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Bah cant do invisible spoiler with the grey backround, no fair.

Not sure if that's what he's talking about.. that was like the second episode I think.

Im sure thats what hes talking about.

Spoiler!

I agree with you.

Great show, one of my staples. (I only have 3-4).

Don't get your hopes up Haemish. It is rock solid insofar as
Liked it, don't know yet if I like the revamp as well.

Downloaded this season of Eureka from iTunes in HD quality and the picture is quite good.

Only watched three so far, but the plot / episode-arc for this season is starting off slow.

Probobly my favorite show on TV.  Also one of the few shows that I got into right from the beginning.  This season is pretty good, maybe a little better than 2nd season.  I was pretty surprised with the plot from the spoiler above, but I think Henry is working on a fix, maybe for the last two-parter episode.  Maybe.

With the newest episode it looks like they are going to start ramping up the overall story arc for this season.

The conversation at the end between corporate bitch and Sheriff Carter was brilliant, even down the surprise Carter had on his face when the only answer was "No." I love this show.

Good show, but i never get a chance to catch it.  :cry:

I'm glad that the show didn't forget that Carter was an US marshall and not the bumbling village sheriff he is made out to be. That no is the red flag he needs to dig into it.

Yep.  It'll be interesting to see if they really let him bust out the law enforcement chops or not.

Another good episode, although it did feel like they were REALLY bumping up the corollaries with the new sponsor, Degree. That almost got annoying.

Thoughts with the season mid-finale?

I think it's a solid addition to the series so far.  Better than last season, on par with season one, imo. 

Crap, I totally forgot that this show doesn't run on normal network TV time and had already been going on for a while.

Guess I'll have to wait for Sci-Fi to run a Eureka marathon.

Finally got current.  Good finale, ending was   :ye_gods: and good setup for when this starts again.

New season (kinda) starts on Friday on 'Syfy'.  It takes place right where season 3 left off, in fact it's being titled 3.5 because of how the writer's strike affected it. 

Awesome. I really enjoyed this series.

Finally, they just don't push out enough episodes of this show fast enough.

I even like these and I don't seem to like much!  It really is good fun.  It's so much fun that if it were a Fox show it would be canceled by now.

I'm totally looking forward to this starting up again.  It's even a bit of fun to follow http://twitter.com/_s_a_r_a_h_ as she likes to drop in-character hints and teasers.

Same old Eureka, like nothing has ever changed.  And that's a good thing. 

Warehouse 13 was worth watching afterwards, too.  Kinda two parts Xfiles, one part Friday the 13th the series and a dash of Raiders of the Lost Ark. 

RISE!

So the new season started last Friday. Right off the bat they make a change to the status quo, actually multiple changes. That's one of the things I love about this show, it's willingness to completely switch things up and go in a different direction.

My wife and I were sitting there like he looks familar for abot 3/4's of the episode before she figured it out.

I didn't figure it out until reading about the episode after I watched it  :oh_i_see:  The 40s accent is a touch thick, but I can live with it.

Second new episode was great too.  This is a fun show. 

Been a fan or Eureka for a long time. I am not sure that I like the current direction. Going to have to see a few more episodes to decide.

One thing the new direction does, makes sure the stories and character interactions don't get stale. They'll probably still go with "invention of the week fucks up" stories, but all the character relationships we're used to got tossed up in the air and landed all jumbled. Extremely risky, but I think it'll pay off well. I love that they brought Sheriff Andy the robot back.

I'm loving it that Eureka and Warehouse 13 have been brought back. Both goofy little bubblegum shows that provide a pleasant hour of silly escapism. I loved the concept of the Escher Vault on W13.  :drill:

There's gonna be a Eureka/Warehouse 13 crossover later in the season.

Up to now I love the new season, its wicked fun. I expect great things from Gaius Balter, Eureka Founder. And Andy the Deputy, the earnest puppy dog robot.

Andy is awesome!

Best line of the series so far: From the Ex-Files: When Grant (James Callis) is asked who he's seeing when he hallucinates, "Tall, leggy blonde, slinky red dress..."  :drill:

Oh oh oh ...


NOW I get it....


 :awesome_for_real: :heart: :awesome_for_real:

Necroing, but new episodes start Monday - July 11 at 8pm.  Along with Warehouse 13 right after.

And Eureka gets shitcanned (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/eureka-canceled-syfy-reverses-decision-220656).

Enjoy it while it lasts, the winter 2012 season will be its last.

WTF.....

The Syfy Channel .  :uhrr:

Isn't warehouse 13 the same production group?

Don't know. Warehouse 13 got picked up for another season, but Eureka gets axed. I don't get it.

They need more money to make movies like Giant Snail vs Mega Seagull.   :why_so_serious:

Welcome to how Farscape fans felt.

You'll see W13 shitcanned as well in the next year or so.  Probably in favor of more wrestling.  The channel will then change its name to SF

Seriously.  WTF.  Syfy's only ratings all year round from our house come from Eureka and W13.  This actually fucking pisses me off.

Found this tidbit on wiki

And sanctuary gets to live.  :uhrr:

Sanctuary is done against a green screen, so has very little in the way of set budgets.  :)  But I agree, Eureka > Sanctuary in terms of entertainment.  

The most annoying part of this is how they did it - the people involved found out about it through social media at the same time the fans did.  

Edit: I am inequality sign challenged!

Emphasis mine. If they pull this off, I am ok with the cancelation. I HATE shows that end a season on an obvious pitch to get renewed for another season (Reaper, Lie to me, Flash Forward and many many many many many many more.]

Not that I am bitter or anything.

I really liked Lie to Me, stupid Fox.

From what I've read the cast and crew found about about the cancellation with only two or three weeks left on the shooting schedule for season 5. Coming up with a good ending in that time frame are really bad.

The cancellation is still bullshit, but just saw this come across twitter from one of the producers

jaimepaglia
Thrilled that our network and studio are giving us another episode to make a #Eureka series finale. The fans and show deserve it. Thank you.

After my initial froth, I decided that I'm okay with it ending as long as they do the end justice.  It *has* been on for a few years now. 

Over the past few years I have been whittling down the number of shows we watch, with Eureka/W13 in the summer and House/Fringe the rest of the time.  With House likely going into its last season next year, and Fringe teetering on cancellation every year, I suppose this is the reasoning I need to just start cutting out cable in the next year or so. 

I'm not ok with it, its a fun show that always makes me smile, no matter how stupid it gets. I don't want more "Reality" TV, or ghost shows or wrestling.

A-fucking-MEN. What the hell happened to the evening sitcom or the prime time drama? Replaced by human cartoons.

Human cartoons are extremely cheap and get as much or better ratings.  Why the hell would any tv network spend more money for less viewers.

Those complaining about the shift to 'human cartoons' forgot or never learned that TV is an advertisement delivery system.  It's not about the shows as much as we'd really, really like it to be.

What does this have to do with it? A good show gets ads, regardless if it's a caricature of some homeless orange people with silly accents, or a comedian with a show about nothing. I will agree that profits mean cutting shows with bigger budgets. I miss the days of the sitcom: Cheers, Night Court, hell even M*A*S*H ... Things took a turn after Seinfeld though... I blame the Real World and normal tv's bastardization of it... hell even Mtv's bastardization of it after the second season.

Don't care!

I had revenue in there at first and changed what I was saying to take it out. I should have left it, it made more sense.

Yes, it's all about the Benjamens.  Jerry Seinfield & the Friends cast were getting millions per episode. Millions that could have been kept in the company's sphere instead each week.  Not only that but with reality you also get to delete writers and cut a lot of the set designers, costumers and other overhead as well.  It's all-around win for the company.

It'll stay this way until people stop watching or there's a shift to something else we haven't yet conceived.  I wouldn't expect to see the return of the days of the sitcom any time soon, though.

Oh I don't know... how else do you explain Two and a Half Men being still on the air?  :why_so_serious:

I figure it's mainly due to the fact that there is no other sitcoms out there and people are clinging to the last vestiges of an antiquated design.

And by the way, I completely understand why TV has gone to shit in programming, I agree with what you are saying. I am more pissed off that society accepts this drivel and continues to follow it unconditionally. Sometimes I wonder if I am missing something - I watched AN episode of Jersey Shore. I was open-minded about it as well but still did not see the draw at all to it. Nothing about it was salient with me, though most of the facebook people on my list remark about it, and other empty shows, all the fucking time. The only thing keeping me from dropping them off my list is the fact that they post other shit I am slightly interested in and the fact that I have some nostalgic strangle hold around my throat for well over 25 years.

See....  I don't think there has ever been a better time to watch TV.  The explosion in cable channels moved away from three big networks shooting at the lowest common denominator and gave us the era of niche TV.

FX has been producing great shows for years.  The Shield, Rescue Me, Sons of Anarchy, Sunny, Justified, Louie, Archer, the League and so on.  AMC has given us Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, and Mad Men.  HBO and Showtime have both been churning out well regarded shows for a decade, from the Sopranos and the Wire to Game of Thrones or Californication or Dexter.

Any of those shows would have never gotten the green light under the old system.  Reality TV has basically killed off many of the filler shows... the bland sitcoms and many of the me-too! dramas which used to be cut in the first season or two. 

The draw of Jersey Shore is "i wish i was them so i could party all the time and everyone would pay attention to everything i do".  Specially that shaved ewok, teenage girls look at her and think "if a fat ugly obnoxious midget can be rich and famous why can't i".  It's pure escapist fantasy.

It see as the total opposite.  It's the same reason Springer was so popular, its a modern day freakshow, with grotesque personalities rather than deformities.

Eureka > Jersey shore.

Alas, in the ratings wars, Jersey Shore utterly decimates Eureka and just about every other show people around here enjoy watching.

Just a quick glance at http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/category/weekly-tv-ratings-rankings/nielsen-weekly-top-broadcast-tv-show-ratings/ (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/category/weekly-tv-ratings-rankings/nielsen-weekly-top-broadcast-tv-show-ratings/) listed Jersey Shore as last weeks top cable show, and four of the five top broadcast shows are all reality tv as well.

I am embarrased to admit it, but the only thing I know for sure that I'll be watching on TV tonight is Big Brother.

Traitor!  :mob:

Futurama and Ugly Americans is tonight.

Great. But I'm sure they'll order 500 more episodes of Ghost Hunters: Up Your Fucking Ass.

I'm done with fucking TV after this year. Yar Har Fiddle Dee Dee.