Eureka: It Ain’t Easy Being Green

By Jeff Nieves

This week on Eureka, the boys (and gals) of Area 51 showed up from their annual bowling match with the Eureka crew. Apparently there’s a bitter feud between the two top secret facilities that’s punctuated by with many pranks and bowling balls that magically split in two. On an almost totally unrelated note, Lexi dealt with her Baby Daddy, whom she sent packing, for no reason, last week.

I had high hopes for a great episode (why not? I’d loved the last two).  Unfortunately, this week’s episode was perhaps the most boring episode of Eureka I’ve ever seen.

The Area 51 team story-line seemed promising but really fell flat.  There was an awesome opportunity for a great prank war. Instead, we got Area 51 turning Fargo and his bowling team’s skin green and accidentally creating a radioactive gak monster-thingy.

While the evil slug story-line was kinda boring, Lexi’s story was truly sleep inducing. She spent the entire episode telling her Doctor Baby Daddy that he couldn’t be in the life of his children. Who gave her the right to decide that?

This episode gave me flashbacks of the rage that I never truly exorcised from a Gilmore Girls story-line.  Does anybody remember when Luke found out he had a daughter?  If  you have no idea what I’m talking about, I’ll give a quick re-cap:

Luke finds out that his girlfriend, Anna Nardini, got pregnant and never told him.  He found his daughter because she was doing a DNA test as a science project and came to ask him for a sample.  What annoyed me about this was that GG treated Anna not telling Luke about his child as not really that bad a thing to do.

She barely said sorry, and really wasn’t repentant at all. Not a single character seemed to have a problem with what she did.  Well, Luke did, but even then Anna totally shut him down.  Rory went to visit Anna’s store and thought Anna was cool because she sold  cute bags!

Anna’s reasoning for not telling Luke was that he was grumpy (or rather he didn’t like kids).  That’s not a reason.  Him being an alcoholic would be a reason.  Him being a cannibal. . . that I’m fine with, but him being grumpy?  There was more shock in Rory breaking up a marriage than in this woman denying Luke the chance to raise his own kid (or even to know his kid), for no reason.

Now the Gilmore Girls aficionado might say, “Well, in Season Seven Luke look sues Anna for joint custody rights and wins.”  That is true, but Season Seven wasn’t run by Amy Pallidino, and it was a pure abomination. Luke growing a pair was the only cool thing that happened all season, to me at least. Maybe Amy Pallidino would have made things right? Who knows?

This episode, the Eureka episode, annoyed me the same way that the GG story annoyed me.  Unless she had a really, really good reason, Lexi shouldn’t have been able to tell her boyfriend he can’t be a part of their kid’s life and remain sympathetic.  Of course, it all works out in Eureka and they walk into the sunset, but it still annoyed me.

I realize this has had very little to do with Eureka. Oh well…

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Jeff is an assistant to an indie film producer in NYC and aspires to…err…um…something hopefully. Oh, and he likes TV.

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