The SciFi Channel has been advertising for Eureka's second season lately, which kicks off in July, and I'm starting to get excited. It's an enjoyable show, with some interesting characters, pretty good writing and unique stories. It takes place in the unreal town of Eureka, home to a super high-tech defense firm and uniformly brilliant denizens.
One of the guests at last year's DragonCon was the science adviser for the SciFi Channel, working on Eureka and Battlestar Galactica. This guy is living the dream - his day job is a big geek at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] working on the Cassini project, and he's got this side gig as science adviser to two excellent shows, one a major hit. Anyway, he was interesting to listen to on panels, and one of the things he said about Eureka is that its first season seems to be a lot of one-off episodes, with just the hint of any real story, but that it laid the foundation for arc development. He compared it to Babylon 5, in the way that that show's first season was full of seemingly innocuous events which were only revealed as significant further into the series. We can expect a similar revelatory experience with future seasons of Eureka. I also have a vague memory of him saying Eureka, like B5, will also be turning a bit darker as the story develops. I don't remember exactly, so maybe that's just wishful thinking. Though I like Eureka, I generally favour shows with a grittier atmosphere.
So, as we rev up to season two, I'm eagerly anticipating refamiliarizing myself with some pretty cool characters, and delving a bit deeper into the workings of this wacky little town.
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Yet another great show you've introduced me to. As close as black ops will let such speculation go. For a likely source of some of the technology in the show I reccomend the real life experiences of Colonel Phillip J. Corso, a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and former head of the Foreign Technology Desk at the U.S. Army's Research & Development department, who came forward to reveal his personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the Roswell crash. In his book, The Day After Roswell, he told how he spearheaded the Army's reverse-engineering project that led to today's: integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, and lasers and how he helped to "seed" the Roswell alien technology to giants of American industry.
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