"Eureka" God Is in the Details (2007)

Director:

Mike Rohl

Writers:

Andrew Cosby (creator) &
Jaime Paglia (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Eureka" (2006)

Original Air Date:

11 September 2007 (Season 2, Episode 10)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Zoe and her friends lose their voices, but whatever is causing the symptoms has an even worse effect on Allison and her only hope comes from an unusual source. |

Plot Keywords:

Town Name In Title | Small Town | Place Name In Title | High Tech | Science Experiment

Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)

Colin Ferguson	...	Sheriff Jack Carter
Salli Richardson-Whitfield	...	Allison Blake (as Salli Richardson)
Joe Morton	...	Henry Deacon
Jordan Hinson	...	Zoe Carter
Ed Quinn	...	Nathan Stark
Erica Cerra	...	Deputy Jo Lupo
Neil Grayston	...	Douglas Fargo
Niall Matter	...	Zane Donovan
Teryl Rothery	...	Diane Lancaster
Chris Gauthier	...	Vincent (as Christopher Gauthier)
Barbara Eve Harris	...	Reverend Harper
Adrienne Carter	...	Pilar
Christopher Jacot	...	Larry Haberman
Alan Legros	...	Seth Osbourne
Meshach Peters	...	Kevin Blake

Runtime:

44 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Company:

NBC Universal Television

Goofs:

Continuity: When Christopher Jacot's character Larry Haberman is on a date with Deputy Jo Lupo, Deputy Lupo mentions the time when Haberman attended MIT at the age of 15. In the Season 2, Episode 8: E-MC...? The sheriff, when looking up Haberman's police record, mentions that he attended MIT at the age of 13.

Quotes:

Marshall Jack Carter: Ok. Bottom line: If Reverend Harper is responsible, we're in for a lot more.
Henry Deacon: Yeah, like a plague of locust, or a fiery hail ... or... or... or... total darkness.
Marshall Jack Carter: [all the lights go out] You had to say it.

Movie Connections:

References "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)

Ignorantly written

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I have enjoyed most of Eureka's episodes (as evidenced by the fact that I've bought the entire season in iTunes), but this one had some serious issues. I felt that overall, this particular episode did a disservice to people of faith. The beginning started out okay, with the church pastor depicted in a positive manner and I thought that this might end up being a thoughtful episode about the conjunction between faith and science. Instead I felt that the show made people of faith look like stupid bumpkins who because of their belief in something that is intangible, are willing to believe just about anything if it starts to resemble a miracle. I personally believe in the possibility of miracles, but I am also a rational person (and quite skeptical). This means that I generally apply Occam's razor to most situations--if there is an easy and human-based explanation, then I'll tend to come to that conclusion first. In this episode, it seemed obvious that there was a human-based cause to all of the events that took place, especially when they started uncovering solid evidence that they were related. Yet otherwise highly intelligent characters began to immediately jump to the conclusion that the events were miracles, with no good reason for doing so, particularly since this kind of thing happens in Eureka every single day! This smacks of insult, that whoever wrote this episode believes that if you have faith, you have a large part of your brain that simply isn't rational. The show reached its low point in the church when the Sheriff wanted to take the reverend in for questioning and people immediately started to rise up against him, like medieval villagers or something. Please. Again, another insult to people of faith. I acknowledge that there may be people of faith out there like the ones in the episode--ignorant, ready to ignore rational explanation for ones of faith, ready to chuck all science away in favor of their "superstition." But in my opinion, they are in the minority. This kind of stereotyping of faith-filled people is a huge insult. I honestly expected better of Eureka's writers, and I was disappointed.