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Nathan Stark Pays a Visit to Eureka in The Ex-Files

Spoilers for The Ex-Files episode!

I was never more happy to see a character show up than I was to see Nathan Stark return to Eureka. For anyone who has watched the episode The Ex-Files, you’ll know that his visit wasn’t real, but I loved it anyway. As someone who has always loved the chemistry between Stark and Carter, the byplay was excellent, even if he was just a figment of Carter’s imagination!

Stark is probably dead in this universe too, but I have noted that it’s never been explicitly stated, so although it might not be the smartest thing to do, I’m okay with keeping my hopes up that we see him again sometime. :)

You can download or watch online if you missed it, because it’s an episode that really shouldn’t be missed: The Ex-Files.

Another interesting note (fangirl moment here): Ed Quinn / Nathan Stark goes shirtless in one spot and the episode is worth watching just for that! ;-)

Friday, September 10th is the Mid-Season Finale of the series. Mark your calendar! I don’t’ know about you, but I certainly won’t be missing that one. (Actually, I don’t miss any of them. LOL.)

Eureka Season Three

Welcome Back, Carter: Andy steals the show

4 Days Until Eureka Returns

Revisiting older Eureka episodes

From Fear to Eternity

Here Come the Suns

Phased and Confused

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. :-)

Show Me the Mummy

When I watched Show Me the Mummy the first time, I knew it wasn’t going to go down as a favorite of mine. I liked the mummy theme and I liked the logic diamond. I even liked Eva Thorne in this one quite a bit more than usual.

But there were a few things about the otherwise great episode that I couldn’t get out of my mind later.

Eureka must be getting lax with its security

Lexi is an interesting character, but considering what Jack Carter had to go through in the first episode to get “in the know” about the town, I’m a little amazed at how easy it is to get people in these days.

Does she not know what’s going on? Did she have to sign a confidentiality agreement? Was there any red tape to getting her settled in the town? I would love it if the show addressed this as some point. Maybe they can allude to how she got clearance to live in Eureka when her beau comes ’round—because you know at some point in the future, he’s going to come ’round. :-)

Whether or not they eventually address the security issue isn’t going to make or break the show for me, but it would be a nice touch.

The law of attraction is not absolute

Show Me the Mummy was a good episode. I don’t know about the validity of the science involved, but I do know about common sense.

My common sense tells me that no music, no matter how attractive it is to the bugs, is going to draw every single bug right to it, right away. That one short moment, when Carter is rushing to get those bugs into the fusion-powered mega-freezer, was the moment I knew I couldn’t call Show Me the Mummy a EurekaFAN Favorite. :(

What did you think about the episode? Am I being too hard on Eureka?