Eureka 8/26

[kelliem]

Huh. So I was sorta right.

There was something up with Alison's necklace. Just not what I thought. Ah well. That was kind of heartwrenching. I'm so glad they're not glossing over what happened to Nathan, it's really nice to see some continuity. Thorne continues to be smarmily evil, but at least it's clear she has more of an agenda than it first appeared. That would have just been annoying, without being interesting. Speaking of being annoying and not interesting...

Does anyone else think Eureka's Degree product-placement crap sucks huge yellow radioactive rocks? What the hell made them think that would be a good idea? When it was just commercials I sort of found it vaguely amusing but then it actually turned up in the show and frankly it's turning me off completely, and I'm a loyal viewer who has loved and pimped the show since the first episode. Way to alienate your viewers, Skiffy! (Smallville did something similar with some kind of chewing gum last season and it was just as annoying, fortunately I quit watching SV regularly years back.)

It's going to be really hard to keep up with what I want to watch this fall. There's too many things on at the same times! I ended up making a spreadsheet showing what I'm hoping to watch. Since I don't have a DVR or Tivo, this is going to be tough.

Comments

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

They've done it several times-- the most egregious was in the first ep when Thorne shows up with a couple of pallets of Degree in the background and talked about Eureka's new partnership with Degree. Then their bodywash shows up in Carter's shower in the last ep. Then they started having the characters (like Zane, last night) in the commercials for it. It's horrible and even worse, seems to be a trend.

[kymbr.livejournal.com]

Ah, I do remember Zanes commercial and I guess now that I think about it, Carter did have some kind of bodywash that he kept finding empty. I just wasn't paying attention to WHICH brand it was :)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I think Zane was wearing a Degree t-shirt in an ep, too, now that I think about it. I think that first instance was so horrible and blatant that now I am supersensitive about it.