Posts Tagged: Colin Ferguson

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25
Jul 07

Eureka, Season 2: Unpredictable

Warning: This post contains spoilers. If you haven’t seen this episode, don’t read and wait for a re-run or download from iTunes.

The weather takes some strange turns in Eureka and so do some people’s sex lives, as the case of the week turns up. A naked man’s death at a fission powered spa turns up a few affairs, including one with the wife of a scientist who literally creates microclimates. The case also reveals some creative meteorology.

Collecting evidence has never been so scary as when Carter and Jo deal with using a piece of the dead man’s body (after he’s been flash frozen and shattered) to ID him. How can they be sure one body part is a thumb?

Carter must deal with the ex-wife, who seems to like having tactical advantages over him. In this case, it is the custody issue regarding Zoe. Strangely, there isn’t much interaction between the ex and Beverly, the local shrink, even though she’s put up at her place. Beverly has an agenda of her own: prevent Henry from working for Global. She gets a phone call and Season 1’s finale hints she’s getting instructions from a someone in the future, perhaps Stark’s future counterpart.

Allison makes the executive decision to clear Henry, which may bring a “Once in a Lifetime” kind of timeline. Carter may find himself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife after all. Or perhaps not. Nathan Stark, handsome in his unemployed persona (no tie, more casual), doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to leave Eureka.

There is also some revelation of the Artifact that affects Allison on a personal level. Stay tuned.

No skin shots of Carter, but his uniform is more form fitting this week. Bad fashion choice at the end – beige sweater. His lack of fashion sense is just a surface indicator of what defines him against his opponent Nathan Stark, who is much smarter and more impeccably dressed, even in casual mode.

Eureka should be available some time tomorrow on iTunes. Next week, true to a Star Trek trope, people disappear into never-existence until only Carter is left. Before that happens, we get confirmation the diner chef is gay.

Update: Catch full episode of Unpredictable on the Sci Fi Channel. The episode is also available on iTunes.

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18
Jul 07

Eureka, Season 2: Try, Try Again

Just saw Eureka last night.

Fargo and a few other young upstarts fresh out of the PhD program compete for crappy jobs with their security clearances, and he finds himself in possession of a personal forcefield. However, he finds himself immobilized, and his ambitious, but less qualified rival takes advantage of the situation to steal Fargo’s basement receptionist desk. The mystery here is did this creep stoop as low as he seemed to get Fargo’s promotion?

Or, could the finger be pointed to disgruntled ex-employees?

Also, can Carter and Stark work well together to solve Fargo’s problem? Stay tuned for a re-run or the iTunes download.

As usual, unrequited love manifests itself in interesting ways.

I still suspect that Henry’s going to bring the “Once in a Lifetime” Timeline into being, though previously thwarted by Carter.

Is it me, or is Carter’s uniform looser than usual? I just enjoy it when the clothes fit him like a glove (or if there’s none at all). Fargo, who has no fashion sense at all, inappropriately wears a tan suit. Nathan Stark, on the other hand, is impeccably dressed even as he surrenders control of the company to his ex-wife. After becoming tie-less and disheveled, Stark is still hot.

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11
Jul 07

Eureka, Season 2: Phoenix Rising

I just caught the second season premier of Eureka last night.

In Season 1’s finale (Once In A Lifetime), Henry changes the timeline by preventing Kim from getting burnt to a crispy critter, only to have it restored because it threatens to unravel the universe. Season Two picks up after Kim’s tragic death, where two more people in Section 5 suddenly combust. Chili and a solar eclipse are the initial culprits in the the two scientists’ deaths, but the “Artififact” turns out to be cause and nearly claims Dr. Stark.

Henry and Jack Carter are the only ones with the memory of the alternate timeline, and this episode strongly hints that Henry’s actions will eventually bring about the “Once In A Lifetime” timeline. Facilitating that move is his “blinky-thinging” Carter Men In Black style to forget and seeking an official job at the laboratory.

The technology angle is definitely more Star Trek as Henry plays a holographic record of Kim’s death and Dr. Stark gets a burn treated with a dermal regenerator. Carter doesn’t miss the opportunity to quip about Stark getting a botox injection.

The ending leaves us expecting some stranger things regarding the “Artifact” to come.

As for hot men, we get treated to some skin shots with both Carter and Stark (not together, and definitely in the same scene). Carter takes a phone call from Allison while in the shower, only to have it be a video conference (a decision made by the Smart house when he expected audio only). Stark being only in boxer briefs is medically motivated, but he has a nice, fit body. He gets electroshock therapy to prevent him from suddenly combusting, so we get to see him “naked and tortured.”

Nathan Stark looks like he’s approximately 6’5,” which is hot. I’ve always been a thing for big, tall men.

The trailer for Razor, the two hour movie about more that happened in BSG’s “Pegasus” highlighted the suspense and action we can expect in TV movie coming up in the fall. Michelle Forbes will reprise her role as Admiral Cain. Though there’s been a lot of information out there that the Pegasus story line is expanded in the movie, why eludes me. Perhaps there is something from that period that connect to where BSG left off.

Season 1 Catchup:

  • Pilot: Something’s not right about this small town. One of them’s a temporal anomaly. Also, Carter gets more than he bargained for when he gets a “promotion.”
  • Many Happy Returns: Here, we’re introduced to the evilly sexy Dr. Stark, the new head of Global Enterprise, who’s obsessed with the “Artifact.” Problem of the anomaly solved for now. Also, the Smart house where Carter lives is introduced.
  • Before I Forget: Henry finds his romance with Kim has been erased, but rekindles it at the end.
  • Invincible: The “Artifact” enables a socially phobic researcher to heal himself.
  • Once In A Lifetime: Carter finds himself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife (Allison). However, it’s an alternate timeline created by Henry to prevent Kim from dying in a freak accident by the “Artifact.”



Season 1 episodes are also available on iTunes.

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9
Jul 07

TV on ShindoTV

Here’s some TV reviews for Monday. “Television turns me on” is an appropriate quote from the House of Love’s “I Don’t Know Why I Love You.”

Live Earth
I have to confess, I missed out on this whole event. On Saturday afternoon, I was dealing with my personal clutter and thus being environmentally responsible on a very local level. Plus, when it came time to watch TV, I watched Sex and the City re-runs instead. I then fell asleep a little after 10:30. I got a phone call from my friend Sharon, who’s been following this event, that Yellow Magic Orchestra (Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s old band) reunited and had the last performance. Unfortunately, I got her message on Sunday morning.

Great idea, but poorly promoted. Only on Bravo and the Sundance Channel? Only the truly devoted who have cable and are with it can tune in. However, the people who need to hear the message miss out and go on with their pollutin’ ways.

Eureka
I’m so looking forward to Eureka tomorrow night. Considering how hooked I was on Battlestar Galactica and that I’ve been experiencing withdrawal symptoms, this quirky dramedy is a nice subsitute. Though the small town with bizarre (supernatural) secrets is not original, the hot lead, the ensemble cast, and the writing make up for it (even though it tends to have shades of Star Trek).

Although there are not videos to catch up with Eureka on the Sci-Fi Channel, you can watch this brief behind the scenes vid about “The Science of Humor” and get treated to the scene of Colin Ferguson in a bedsheet.

Catch up with Eureka‘s First Season on iTunes.

Speaking of Battlestar, stay tuned during Eureka’s season two premier during breaks for the Razor trailer.

Guilty Pleasure
Charm School had its first class reunion last night, and it showed some of these girls need to be enrolled in a real charm school. Shatar of the bad weave at least took some time to get a new one, though she is as delusional as ever (descended from royalty my ass!). The slutatious (a Mo’Nique moniker) Brooke offers no apologies for her whoring around, though she is in constant danger of falling out of her dress. Sapphyri has her moment as a gracious winner, but runner-up Leilene maintains her aplomb throughout the reunion, given the easy temptation of of bitching out Brook (who counted on her being a pushover when they were in Charm School). The best is saved for last as the reunion sinks to a Jerry Springer low: the unrepentant Larissa shares some words with ex-friend Shay, Mo’Nique sternly lectures Larissa, and Larissa’s mother demonstrates the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree as she rushes the stage to confont Mo’Nique.

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30
May 07

Catching Up With Eureka Via iTunes


Eureka will be one of my science fiction fixes in the absence of Battlestar Galactica. I just downloaded a few episodes from iTunes, and a second season is due in July, so I have plenty of time to catch up. I just watched the pilot, so here’s my take on it.

The hot leading man is what lured me in. A lot of TV shows have hot men, but it’s often not enough to keep me hooked. However, Colin Ferguson is someone I can watch all day. He’s ruggedly handsome and he’s got a nice body (there’s a scene where we get treated to a view), and his suit fits him like a glove (I hate to use a cliché, but this one is very appropriate). He’s definitely charming in his role as Jack Carter, a U.S. Marshall who eventually gets a “promotion” to the sheriff’s office in Eureka.

For the straight male viewer, female eye candy comes in the forms of Allison Blake, an agent of the Department of Defense, and Beverly Barlowe, a sensuous and sympathetic town psychiatrist who is more than she appears to be. Agent Blake is a strong, professional woman who doesn’t want Jack to get any wrong ideas and reacts strongly to his jokes, hinting at some romantic tension and chemistry to come.

As far as pilots goes, the storyline is typical fare, though the events are not. Jack and his daughter Zoe come into Eureka by accident and wind up staying in the town in the end. Their relationship is anything but perfect. Jack meets the stereotypical county sheriff, a middle-aged paunchy man who turns out to be more than just a sheriff. Here and there, he encounters super-intelligent children, one being Agent Blake’s son. This kid gets to have a Wesley Crusher moment and helps save the day. Setting up the entire storyline (and making the Wesley Crusher moment possible) is the genius whose experiments in a temporal device go awry. Even though the main dilemma occurring from the machine is resolved in the end, there are still plenty of loose ends for the show to follow up on.

Is this show set in Eureka, California? Perhaps, as Eureka is on the way to Los Angeles, where Jack and Zoe are headed for a custody hearing. It’s vaguely hinted that Eureka is in the Pacific Northwest. This Eureka is a town created as a haven for the geniuses responsible for all the interesting technology from the Cold War and on. No one is who they initially appear to be, such as the sheriff and the mechanic who fixes Jack’s car. And for Jack to work there in the end, his security clearance is upped and he is given a “promotion.”

Overall, I loved the pilot and I’ll keep downloading episodes. It’s a quirky show, and even if some things appear to be borrowed from Star Trek or the X-Files, it works. And, I don’t have to wait long for Season 2.


Eureka - Eureka, Season 1
 Catch Eureka‘s pilot on iTunes.

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12
May 07

Eureka! (what more can I say?)

I would happily hold this man’s gun. I tried to find a picture of Colin Ferguson from More Tales of the City (some swimsuit action), but this will have to do.