Eureka (TV Series) You Don't Know Jack (2009) User Reviews

Filler Episode

[GunnersMate · 6/10 · 24 May 2018]

You Don't Know Jack is a filler episode, pure and simple. It fills an episode slot in the season with a minimum of new scripting or story and the episode is filled clips from previous episodes. The good news is that the clips are largely funny and fun, the bad news is that the clips outside of their relative stories lose a lot of their emotional and entertainment punch...though there are a few smiles and chortles along the way. There is also a crisis-of-the-week, and it is ridiculously contrived. Even within the narrative, there is no reason for the crisis to exist except to support the clips from previous shows. One great big "new" event occurs, but we have been waiting for it for a long time, so while there is some lovely emotional impact, it is largely muted by an unnecessary flip side relationship development in the opposite direction. Even within Eureka, too many things didn't add up for this episode, it was a "watch once and done" offering.

Memory bubbles

[ctomvelu1 · 6/10 · 27 September 2009]

In an episode filled with flashbacks, this starts off with people losing their memories bit by bit, the result of something Fargo has done in his lab. Meanwhile, Jack and Allison are trapped in the GD facility just as it is to undergo a sonic cleaning. And unfortunately, the cleaning can liquefy all living organisms. As if things aren't bad enough, Allison goes into labor. Believe it or not, a (highly predictable) kiss between Carter and his latest flame, the sexy blonde scientist, will help rectify the whole shebang. Too many flashbacks spoils the soup, as it were. You may safely skip this episode. That is, unless you ant to see what happens to Allison.

Worst Episode Ever

[amzavareei · 2/10 · 11 September 2009]

Wow, what a waste of time. A clip show. Who really wants to watch a collage of episodes past? I've already seen every episode. Most of them are pretty entertaining. Yet here I get rewarded for my dedication of watching every episode with a rehash held together by a flimsy and weak plot device.

Spoiler: Memory balls? They are recording everyone in Eureka's memories for posterity. When people start losing their memories, it takes them at least ten minutes of screen time to figure it out. Really? You don't think it could be the memory balls all over town causing all the memory problems do you? In a sci-fi show I can suspend my disbelief when it comes to some of the scientific liberties taken, but I can't believe with this town of geniuses how stupid they can all be sometimes. I don't suffer fools gladly.

Did they shoot the original writers or did Canada deport them? Please, Carter's kiss unlocks memories just in time to save everyone's minds? So the memories are transferred, but they magically reappear if you are kissed? OK, I get it. Brilliant, did you just graduate film school that mommy just paid for? You must think I Dream of Jeannie is really thought provoking, and intriguing to ponder.

Clip episodes are a sad waste of time for any series fan. They might be OK sometimes for people that just catch an episode here or there. However in this case everyone should avoid it if they wish to not tarnish their opinion of this otherwise once great show, now apparently going down the tubes. If you do have to watch it, at least you can scan through all the memories to get to the show's weak plot, as they are irrelevant filler.

Positives of this episode... There is no Zane! Wow, he is lame. Is Jo Lupo blind, or just desperate? They don't even mention why he is gone... Please wipe my memory of him. Oh yeah, another plus... Allison finally gave birth... will she regain her striking figure? Will her baby have superpowers? Will Nathan stark return from another dimension to save the world?

Tune in and find out!

Or just watch Fringe.

I hate clip shows

[Tyypo · 5/10 · 5 September 2021]

I really enjoyed Eureka while is was on, and its sister shows to a somewhat lesser extent (Alphas and Warehouse 13). I've been going through the show on Prime Video in order for the first time since it was initially televised. It's been fun, but I'm finding that I like it a *little* less than my first exposure.

This particular episode suffers from being heavy on flashbacks at the expense of good storytelling. What's worse is that the flashbacks aren't really that interesting, and they're shoehorned in with a very forced premise. Additionally, they don't represent the best of the show, they don't really give the viewer much of an insight into the characters, and they don't further the story at all in terms of relevance. One noteworthy thing happened in the episode, and I'll not mention it as it could be considered a spoiler.

Clip show

[b-c0ll3ct1v3 · 1/10 · 7 November 2021]

It's a clip show.

Clips bound together by some story as clip shows work.

Kinda like I need some more characters to fill the needes 150 for the review to be submitted.

A unique idea for a clip show with horrible execution.

[oldblackmagic · 2/10 · 24 May 2023]

Good on them for trying to make a clip show still interesting and adding a Eureka spin to it. This show is usually pretty good about maintaining its believability amongst all the crazy science and technology by making sure the logic stays intact. Unfortunately, they didn't do that so well in this episode. The crazy technology this time is a machine that uploads individual people's memories as videos to create a time capsule for Eureka, thus the clip show. Buying into this premise, each clip had to have come from a person who was there. So, when we're watching the collection of clips of Carter and Allison, that means either Carter or Allison uploaded those memories. No one else in the town obviously wouldn't have them. But we know Carter never used the machine, and Allison used it once to record one memory, and we saw another clip. In other words, neither Carter nor Allison uploaded the collection of memories videos, and they were the only people who could. And this is only one example of this same kind of inconsistency happening in the memory videos. There are a few clips with Fargo that we know he didn't upload, so who did, and many more. I'm fine with believing any crazy thing this show needs me to believe as long as they maintain logic within the world that they have created.