Welcome Back, Carter picks up the midseason break with a very pregnant Allison and a job-searching Carter. The DoD has made a decision regarding the new Sheriff of Eureka and how this affects the resolution of the crisis-of-the-week is supposed to be the focus of the episode. The real focus is, however, the people of Eureka - which is terrific. Carter's interactions with everyone in his town are what make this episode fly. The crisis is simply a means to the end of refreshing our knowledge of why we watch this show, the best thing about Eureka is its heart, its Sheriff, Jack Carter.
3 Reviews
Carter gets put in Time-Out, sorta...
lynnwengland22 April 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Well, Carter helps the nice Little old (107) "lab assistant" and General Irritating shows his appreciation by giving him the boot. But wait, the title is "Welcome BACK, Carter" (a nod to the sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter") so he's not R-E-E-L-Y fired. We meet robot-cop "Sheriff Andy", another nod to a popular sitcom who is Jack's replacement. But who could replace Jack? Andy gets sliced and diced several times and the poor old Jeep gets squashed again. If you haven't picked up on it by now, trashing the Jeep is a running gag throughout the series. If you look closely during one of the Café Diem scenes, you can see Zoe making out with her boyfriend behind Jack's back...get the symbolism??? All in all, this was one of the most disjointed episodes to date. It was very confusing and rambled. Of course the actor with top billing isn't going to be written out of the show. Come on!
Leagues below every Eureka episode before it.
mrhillis29 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
There were so many ridiculous ideas in this episode, I had a hard time understanding how someone gave this episode the green light.
Eureka doesn't always stick to logical scientific fact, and the show sometimes bends reality to fit a narrative. I am fine with that, as long as it appears like the show has some scientific coherence in other areas.
This episode was one silly idea after another, it just seemed like it was trying to add as many scientific ideas as possible without putting any thought into what those ideas where. It feels like the writers wanted a bunch of scientific jargon, but were just happy that they were using scientific words and didn't care if any of it made sense.
Spoiler.
So, they have an android suddenly pop up in this episode. Out of nowhere they have an advanced AI android that looks exactly like a human. If they had been working on that kind of technology, they would already have androids all over the place from previous versions. And they didn't even bother to test the android before it was assigned to take over Jack Carter's position as sheriff. I get that Carter was already being fired, but that just seems pretty crazy that this android is just finished right as Carter is getting fired. I'm assuming they had just finished the android because like I said, they would have field tested it with human supervision first before it took over the position of two people (Carter and Jo).
There are so many other ridiculous ideas I'm not even going to get into.
Eureka doesn't always stick to logical scientific fact, and the show sometimes bends reality to fit a narrative. I am fine with that, as long as it appears like the show has some scientific coherence in other areas.
This episode was one silly idea after another, it just seemed like it was trying to add as many scientific ideas as possible without putting any thought into what those ideas where. It feels like the writers wanted a bunch of scientific jargon, but were just happy that they were using scientific words and didn't care if any of it made sense.
Spoiler.
So, they have an android suddenly pop up in this episode. Out of nowhere they have an advanced AI android that looks exactly like a human. If they had been working on that kind of technology, they would already have androids all over the place from previous versions. And they didn't even bother to test the android before it was assigned to take over Jack Carter's position as sheriff. I get that Carter was already being fired, but that just seems pretty crazy that this android is just finished right as Carter is getting fired. I'm assuming they had just finished the android because like I said, they would have field tested it with human supervision first before it took over the position of two people (Carter and Jo).
There are so many other ridiculous ideas I'm not even going to get into.
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