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Taggart Will Return

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So what happened to Nathan Stark?

I had to do it. I listened to the Eureka podcast for I Do Over. In the podcast “Eureka Episode 304 Commentary,” episode writer Thania St. John says, “Stark succeeded…. His photons moved back as well and ended up dissipating into the universe.”

Bummer.

I had it all worked out how Nathan Stark wasn’t moving forward in time like the rest of Eureka—so the backwards part I get. I also understand that since Stark wasn’t bathed in the Indigo Light, he wouldn’t be returning to the normal flow of time when he pushed the button to reset the out-of-sync photon that started the whole time loop. There were consequences and he suffered them.

I figured he might be in an alternate time-line somewhere doing just fine. I was sure the day would come when he would show up at some inopportune time to wreak havoc on whatever Carter was up to with Allison. I guess I was wrong. He dissipated. He is gone, dead, destroyed, ended, nonexistent. He is one with the universe. And there’s just a little bit of him left in that logic diamond of Ally’s for the rest of them—us—to mourn over.

Although…this is Eureka. It’s certainly not beyond the realm of possibility someone will invent something that’ll pull all of Nathan’s scattered photons back into a cohesive unit and bring Nathan Stark back to life.

Until then. :-)

Where’s Tag? Is Jim Taggart gone for good?

One guy I’ve been missing lately is the unique and colorful Jim Taggart, fondly known as Tag. Some of my favorite episodes have included Tag’s Australian accent, his hiking boots and hunting vest, his nude form and his obsession with Lojack, the dog that first put in an appearance in the 2-hour premiere.

Taggart is Eureka’s biological containment specialist and working veterinarian and he would have been a great asset to have around in Show Me the Mummy and even What About Bob?, and yet he never appeared. Season three of Eureka has been entirely Tag-less.

With Taggart’s fondness for mechanical animals (think geese from Duck, Duck Goose — Season 2), I imagine he would have had an awesome biomimetic dog for Eureka’s dog show (think Best in Faux — Season 3), but he never put in an appearance.

I spent some time searching online, but all I could really come up with was the fact that Jim Taggart’s actor Matt Frewer spent quite a bit of time last year working on the Canadian drama Intelligence. I’ve never heard of the show before now, but then again, I’m not Canadian and it’s not scifi.

What it comes down to is that the Eureka writers might have just eased Taggart out of the series. Although I would love to have the show address what has happened to Jim Taggart (because I haven’t noticed yet that they have), I’m afraid Tag is gone for good.

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Nathan Stark’s Future In Eureka

NOTE THE SPOILERS ‘CATEGORY’. It really does mean there are spoilers here. ;-)

So I completely freaked. I know–I run Eurekafan.com so I should keep up with the spoilers. But I don’t. I enjoy the excitement of not knowing what’s going to happen and if I did know, then I’m not sure I’d be such a fanatic for the show.

After watching I Do Over, I went on a spoiler hunt, but I didn’t really find anything about the “death” of Nathan Stark and whether or not it is permanent. However I did find this interview, which I’ll post the relevant bits of here and let you assume what you will. With, of course, a few choice comments from me.

The entirety of this interview with Ed Quinn (Nathan Stark of Eureka) can be found at this site: MediaBlvd Magazine

When asked if he saw himself as part of Eureka for the long haul….

Of course you say, “Yeah, I’d like to be a part of it from beginning to end.” But shows change, shows evolve. And sometimes characters don’t evolve with them. So you just go in every day and every season and just try to do your best work and see where it goes. The show is kind of organic and depending on where it goes and some characters can evolve with the show and some can’t. I think you’ll see this season that there will definitely be some losses of some supporting characters, and an introduction to a bunch of new ones.

A bad sign for the reappearance of Stark, in my opinion!

When asked if he had spoilers to share….

“I think the only ones that I’m allowed to talk about…”

Definitely a hint that Ed Quinn knows something he can’t discuss.

But there is a big, big reveal this season that I think will make the first eight episodes kind of memorable, then really send the show off into a different direction.

I have hope. Stark appears to die (or fade away as he is pulled backwards in time — my own personal theory for what happened to him until someone offers a better theory to me) in I Do Over. However, I Do Over is episode number 4.

Does this mean that Nathan Stark isn’t gone for good? Why would he know about the rest of the episodes and where the direction of the show is moving if he doesn’t have a part in it? Am I reaching? I really don’t know that much about how the world goes round in the tv business…

When asked about the dynamic between Nathan Stark and Jack Carter and if it would continue into season three….

Absolutely…. The creators thought that one of the funner relationships was the Carter/Stark relationship….because a lot of the story lines got resolved, the conflict got resolved. In season one, Carter and Stark were diametrically opposed. Carter and Stark just happened to have the competition of the love for the same lady. In season 2, Stark…didn’t have a dark agenda anymore…. So all of a sudden Carter and Stark had the same objective…. In the beginning of this season there is some more of that.

In the beginning says it all.

I think that wraps it up nicely. Decide what you will, but my opinion? Stark is gone.

And I am sad.

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