Founders' Day

James Callis pulls off the new character with ease and makes him unique and oddly likeable. Love the show but this episode is full of excitement. Excellent start to the best season!

Having finally gotten around to Eureka, I am enjoying the show, and really enjoyed this particular episode, my favorite so far. It's a great start to season 4 and has a lot of potential for good storytelling. One thing I like about this show is that the characters are generally likable and believable within the context of the show, and exhibit at least a modicum of sanity. In comedies it is all too common to have the characters act like total idiots just to get a cheap laugh.("Chuck" comes to mind.) Colin Ferguson does a fine job as the "ordinary guy" trying to make sense out of this very unusual town, and in fact all the actors are fine. The trope of this episode, time travel and possible effects on the future, has a lot of interesting possibilities. Well done!

You have to hand it to the creators of Eureka, they never rest on their laurels - there is always a new twist, and this one is a doozy. It's Founder's Day in Eureka, and in a way that can only happen in this town of borderline crazy geniuses, the very core or our townsfolk find themselves in a very different Eureka. How this crisis occurs, how they solve it, and the fallout of their methodology form this brilliant, romantic, heart-breaking, fast-moving, and wonderfully interesting re-re-reboot (yep, that's SOME fashion of reboot with each new season so far) of this clever show. Just when the viewer thinks they know their characters and their town, something wild and different pulls everyone in new and challenging directions. As an added bonus this season-start, the newest citizen of Eureka looks like he is going to be fun, fascinating, and infuriating. Can't wait to see it all unfold.