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Eureka Season 5 Episode 1

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AIRED: Apr 16, 2012

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When the ship with the Astraeus crew returns to earth, its occupants discover that four years have elapsed and time isn't the only thing that has changed.

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Sad end to a show with great potential

1.0

By Jernaumg, May 10, 2012

Beverly is back and still as boring and annoying as ever. Worse yet, it's the same story on repeat as well. If only the writers gave a tenth of a shit this show could have been amazing.
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Way better, definitely! Excellent start of the 5th season!

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By trintv, Apr 19, 2012

Let's face it, Eureka was getting pretty cheesy and cornball. Granted, I still enjoyed it, but still. I think clearing off some of the shmaltzy stuff and throwing in some game changers was a great plan. I really enjoyed this episode. Let's see where this goes!
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Lost in Time

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By sh811a, Apr 19, 2012

This was a great start to the final season and it's probably one of my favorate episodes of the show. This episode is pritty dark, there really aren't that many laughs. Alison, Zane, and the others on that ship really are the ones that drive this episode, you really can't help but feel sympathetic toward all of them as we see what was a mere mater of hours was in reality 4 and a half years, it's kinda like in the movie "Flight of the Navigator" which was about a boy that was transported several years latter. But just like the kid in the film their disorented, 4 and a half years really is a long chunk of time a lot to anything can happen and it has. I really like how the episode has a bit of an unsettling mood, it's that feeling where everything looks the same but isn't and your just not sure of anything.

We see that Eureka has became a living Hell, it's similar to Orwell's "1984" conversations and emotions are constantly montored and if it's irregurar in some way then the persons emotional state is surpressed. And there are machines which can litterally take a persons free will away. I'll admit discovering these things really gave me a creepy and uncomfortable feeling inside, even though the totalitarian state of Eureka works it's evil.

The fact the group rebeled against that existance and triumphed really gave me a good feeling, even I can't live in that kinda existance.

But to me the one suprise that made me feel even more uncomfortable than I already was was seeing Jo and Jack together. Seeing that look and reaction on Alison's face when she saw them both kiss was the same as how I felt, like someone just kicked me in the stomach. From the performances of both Erica and Colin the couple up felt plasable because as I said 4 and a half years is a long time and both character do spend a lot of time together. I really felt sad for Alison and Zane because both deeply loved their significant others and can very close to tieing the knot with them, and now they have to be forced to accept and deal with the fact their together even though in their hearts it just doesn't feel right, it's kinda like when Ron and Hermime got together in "Harry Potter" it just doesn't feel right.

The twist at the end I thought was great it really pulls the rug from under you, in a strange sense it was a small sense of relief because it means Jo and Jack aren't really together and the show isn't pulling another directional stunt. It kinda like in the movie Ares Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) where we discover all of them aren't really in Eureka but their in a dream. The evil organization we see has highjacked the space ship and is using everyone's minds to power some sort of super computer. It kinda shows the extent of the evil organization's evil, but also that Beverly is getting sick joy out of hurting Alison's feelings with that programed reality.

In a way this ending is similar to a cliffhanger ending in a two parter, I can't help but wonder what's going to happen next. Well Jack, Jo, and Henry be about to find them and rescue all of them; are Alison, Zane, Fargo and the rest going to be about to escape dream land before it's too late. Well we'll just have to wait till the next episode.moreless
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Best beginning to a season this year!

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By logossun, Apr 18, 2012

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Man that was good!

First of all, Eureka got serious. Usually shows play that line between silly and serious and it's a tough needle to thread: this was a punch in the gut, and it's just what the doctor ordered.

In the first few minutes I though I was watching (the new) Battlestar Galactica and that's good on many levels. After that we had the fantastic drama of several people living in the world where only a few hour passed while others believed 4 years have passed. What's even better, it made for a great jump-start for characters that, quite frankly, had gotten very stale in the meantime.

The addition of Andy and the AI being complete dominating bad-asses was the icing on the cake.

If there is any complaint on the episode, it's that things were solved within the hour, BUT obviously, that was because an even greater surprise was waiting - a Matrix-like takeover of Eureka's people and their brains :-)

I fear that by the end of the season we'll have things back to normal (which, as I said, started to smell like old socks), but since that would be the end of the series, I think it will be a fun ride! Welcome back Eureka!moreless
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Jack and Lupo? Thats lupy!

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By Bujemi, Apr 18, 2012

[spoilers alert] So! it seems that season five is gone get pretty emotional! So many heartbreaking little moments just in the first episode. And so dark to be Eureka! But still it is not without it's sense of humor, i am referring here to Jack and his new biscuit, or rather Lupo and hers new jelly bean. In the beginning it felt so wrong, almost perverse, but hay! they really looked smashing together in their uniforms. They were sort of sweet, and i belived it, they have allways been there for each other before, so why not. Anyway it is going to be very interesting to se how everything is going to unravel, my heart really went out to Allison! And big props to Sheriff Andy for going over to the Dark side and making it so believable. I see a lot of potential and hoping for a great last season!!moreless
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Colin Ferguson	Jack Carter
Salli Richardson-Whitfield	Allison Blake
Joe Morton	Henry Deacon
Erica Cerra	Jo Lupo
Neil Grayston	Douglas Fargo
Niall Matter	Zane Donovan

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Jordenn Thompson	Jenna Blake	Guest Star
Martin Cummins	Dekker	Guest Star
Patricia Isaac	Med Tech	Guest Star
Kavan Smith	Deputy Andy	Recurring Role
Felicia Day	Holly Marten	Recurring Role
Tembi Locke	Grace Monroe	Recurring Role

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- Allison: Henry, are you guys okay?
  Henry: We've been better.
  Carter: All right, we're gonna get you out of there.
  Andy: Your predictable overconfidence is rather remarkable, sheriff.
  Carter: It's part of my girlish charm.
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- Zane: (while a technician examines him) Easy with that thing. I'd like to have kids someday.
  Jo: Ha. Oh, God, help us.
  Zane: Relax, Jojo. I said someday.
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- Zane: Read my lips. If you try probing me, I'm suing.
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- Original International Air Dates:
  Canada - April 16, 2012 on SPACE
  United Kingdom - May 16, 2012 on Syfy
  Czech Republic - September 9, 2012 on Prima COOL
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