It wasn't that Blink wasn't an interesting episode of Eureka, it was. It wasn't that there wasn't some solid character-relationship development, there was. It wasn't that the sci-fi subject matter wasn't based on relevant and real issues, it most certainly was. The problems that kept an OK episode from being great were scattered and uneven. Little things that added up to a big thing...this episode was very obliviously originally intended for broadcast well before its actual episode number (as can be seen by distracting statements made by the characters and relationships amongst the characters)...this episode had a gratuitous "crime scene" (which took away from the sci-fi vibe and pushed it into horror genre)...and it was difficult to LIKE the plot-required guest townsfolk (and if you don't like them at least a little, you don't really care what happens to them in the end). The best parts of Blink were Carter's love of baseball and humor and the unexpected tenderness shone by Stark in a season-long story arc element of the episode. Wouldn't skip this episode, but wouldn't be in a hurry to put it on the "watch again" list either.
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A hit and run with a difference
Tweekums25 November 2018
This episode sees Sheriff Carter called out to an unusual hit and run... the driver of the car claims to have been knocked off the road by an invisible man running at high speed! Soon afterwards a body is found; a subcutaneous chip suggests he worked at Global Dynamics and Henry's modelling of the crash show he was running at almost 600MPH! Elsewhere; at Global Dynamics two teams are being pressed to finish a project and Carter's Daughter, Zoe, has a new boyfriend... inevitably these either linked to or affected by the main story.
I rather enjoyed this episode even if it does cross over from science fiction to impossibility as characters accelerate/decelerate at rates that would cause instant death! Early theories about Bigfoot, rejected by Carter, are amusing and there is a good sense of mystery; first, who or what caused the accident; second, how they came to be moving so fast and who else is involved; and finally where they got the means to do it. The special effects are pretty good; the 'speeded up' characters were certainly better than similar things I've seen in other shows. A side story involving Jack's attempts to organise a baseball game has a resolution that is rather cheesy but still fairly amusing. Overall not the best episode but still fun.
I rather enjoyed this episode even if it does cross over from science fiction to impossibility as characters accelerate/decelerate at rates that would cause instant death! Early theories about Bigfoot, rejected by Carter, are amusing and there is a good sense of mystery; first, who or what caused the accident; second, how they came to be moving so fast and who else is involved; and finally where they got the means to do it. The special effects are pretty good; the 'speeded up' characters were certainly better than similar things I've seen in other shows. A side story involving Jack's attempts to organise a baseball game has a resolution that is rather cheesy but still fairly amusing. Overall not the best episode but still fun.
An idiot A plot and a cringe B plot
skribs7 January 2023
If there's two things I hate about a TV show, it's cringe and idiot plots. This lovely episode has both!
The A plot is just one big idiot plot. Something that happens a lot in Eureka is that for some reason, everyone forgets that they live in the town of the weird and the geniuses, and can't imagine that something out of the ordinary would happen.
There's a death that occurs because someone was running really fast and hit a car. I'm going to ignore that the speeds they're running are way too slow to make them invisible, and instead focus on how nobody believes Sheriff Carter when he suggests this, until they see it with their own eyes. It's not compelling that he's right and everyone else is wrong, because it makes no sense why they wouldn't at least entertain the idea.
The B plot is Carter wants to start a baseball team. And the town makes fun of him, because he stuttered through suggesting it when put on the spot in the town's virtual meeting. It's just cringe, and cringe isn't fun.
If the episode would have focused more on the speedster aspect instead of on Carter trying to convince everyone to listen to him, it might have been an interesting episode. Evil Flash is a lot more fun.
The A plot is just one big idiot plot. Something that happens a lot in Eureka is that for some reason, everyone forgets that they live in the town of the weird and the geniuses, and can't imagine that something out of the ordinary would happen.
There's a death that occurs because someone was running really fast and hit a car. I'm going to ignore that the speeds they're running are way too slow to make them invisible, and instead focus on how nobody believes Sheriff Carter when he suggests this, until they see it with their own eyes. It's not compelling that he's right and everyone else is wrong, because it makes no sense why they wouldn't at least entertain the idea.
The B plot is Carter wants to start a baseball team. And the town makes fun of him, because he stuttered through suggesting it when put on the spot in the town's virtual meeting. It's just cringe, and cringe isn't fun.
If the episode would have focused more on the speedster aspect instead of on Carter trying to convince everyone to listen to him, it might have been an interesting episode. Evil Flash is a lot more fun.
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