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.
Review of Blink
