Starting to see a pattern in Eureka episodes

[dvandom]

1. Weird thing starts to happen.
2. No one can figure it out, but it seems relatively harmless, if annoying.
3. It starts to get less harmless.
4. A possible cause is found.
5. People scramble to solve it, and find that the cause isn't what they thought.
6. The problem becomes catastrophic.
7. The real solution is found, and for about ten minutes everyone scrambles to implement it before the latest doomsday kicks in.

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

You left out "Caused by those elitist egghead science types".

And "Solved using good ol' common sense by the non-genius, non-scientist, sheriff".

Otherwise known as "Reasons why I gave up on Eureka after a few first seasion eps".

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Well, the only alternative is, in order, "Caused by the ignorant sheriff" and "solved by those sensible and intelligent scientists," in which case, well, the show isn't much fun.

(And let's face it, if the ignorant sheriff isn't either causing or solving the problems, why have him at all?)

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Why have him indeed? (OK, because Sci-Fi dumbs down things for a desired wider audience and needed a "normal" viewpoint character. Me, I wanted Real Genius: The thirtysomething Years, and Real Genius the movie managed quite well and was a lot of fun with very, very, few non-genius characters, all in background roles (Offhand, I'm thinking only Mitch's parents and the students from the Wanda Troxler School of Beauty))

[loki-liesmith.livejournal.com]

Isn't there usually some joke along the lines of why don't you call a

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Isn't there usually some joke along the lines of why don't you call <insert highly technical name here> a <insert layman's term here> type of joke in every episode? i.e. "Why don't you just call the Hyperoscillating photon accelerator cannon a 'death ray?'" I think I've seen that in pretty much every episode I've managed to catch.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Maybe so, but anything that gets Matt Frewer more work is good by me. I blame him for my questionable career choices.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Hm. That would be the pattern I thought would be there from the first episode. It's like "Maybe the kid can save the Enterprise or something."

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

It was there, but I think first season mixed it up a little more with other types. More conflict based purely on interpersonal things and the like, not just macguffin of the week.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the Skiffy Network seems to be unable to do original series right.

I think it's the curse bequeathed them by the SoL when it crashed.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Also "thick as 2 planks sheriff puts two and two together to make 5 but this points the way for supersmart all-rounder to actually find the solution".

I mean, this was obvious from the pilot. But it's pretty well done. The comedy is good, the main characters fun, even the house :-)