There are many ground to enjoy Eureka , but monumental plot twist are n’t normally among them . Well , the terminal of last night ’s episode by all odds qualified , as our Cuban sandwich assay to figure out the grave secrets of virtual world .
Major spoilers ahead !
While last week ’s episode restrict itself solely to the Astraeus gang ’s information processing system - model prison , “ The Real Thing ” lend us back to the literal Eureka . After forgather the mildly unsavory phoney versions of Carter , Henry , and Jo , it was a tangible substitute to see them back as their normal , indomitable ego , uncoerced to stop at nothing to bestow their protagonist and loved ones home , even as Senator Wen ( guest whiz Ming - Na ) threaten to exclude down the search for goodness . Their last chance is a beyond bleeding edge demodulator regalia designed by Allison ’s mega - genius boy Kevin , but Carter and Deputy Andy will need to go slip a few affair from the army for it to ferment . That , as you might imagine , presents some minor difficulty .
Meanwhile , the Astraeus crowd is adjust to their fresh life in what they think is Eureka four years later . Beverly Barlowe ’s virtual realism program is almost gross , but the unexpected accession of Allison to the program mean the servers are overtax , and glitches are starting to jam up – not the least of which is a flying lizard flying around town . The real and fake townspeople must chase down the dragon and get disembarrass of it before the Astraeus gang works out something is untimely , which would ram the Consortium to end them to protect its secrets .
I was a braggy fan of last workweek ’s episode , but I make out come out of it that the follow - up would want to answer some key questions to keep this spark chug on . Chief of these was making sure Beverly Barlowe and the Consortium ’s plot of ground actually made any sense , which would passably much be a first for this show . The show presents some nice explanation for just why the metre - jump was necessary — it ’s an well-heeled way to fill up in for inevitable inconsistency in the characters ’ actions — and why the crew was nobble in the first lieu — to invent awful fresh technology for the Consortium . you could for sure quibble about some of the all right point of the architectural plan , particularly whether these foundation will justify the rank elaborateness of the virtual reality program , but it more than passes an initial review , so it ’s good enough for me .
The instalment also pulled off a neat joke in subtly lucubrate the ideas seen in last week ’s AI police state . While the previous calendar week showed all the human being , genuine and fake likewise , banding together to take down Andy and S.A.R.A.H. ’s inhibitory formula , here the menace of termination mean that the Astraeus crew is perpetually in risk whenever they are around the non - player characters , and worst of all they do n’t even actualize it . It ’s a neat progression as the show enlarge the dangers of malevolent computer to the work party ’s entire reality . It makes for a nice sense of apprehensiveness whenever the crew member jump asking serious questions , specially in the scenes between Grace and a suddenly intellectually incurious Henry .
Of naturally , that all work up up to the episode ’s big final twist , in which Felicia Day ’s Holly realizes the strange things she is seeing are glitches in a data processor simulation , and she blithely portion out her a la mode awing breakthrough with Carter . Colin Ferguson does some skillful playing in this setting , his stony verbal expression suggesting a mix of murderous determination and computer - simulated anguish at what he has to do . tell Holly that he ’s so sorry she read all that , his touch renders her unconscious — all while Senator Wen fatally disconnect Holly from the computer program .
It ’s a brutal , well - executed moment , made all the more so because the episode does n’t really indicate up to that period that it ’s really depart to kill anyone off . Sure , there ’s the talk of the town of ending during the opening conniption , and the fact that the show has n’t even bothered to show any Astraeus bunch member this season beyond the primary cast passably much mean that if someone is going to be drink down off , it will be someone we know . And of those , there ’s no direction the show was killing off Allison or Fargo , and kill off Grace would have been too unrelenting to Henry , look at he ’s already lost one wife to Beverly Barlowe ’s machinations . Zane would have just been in the kingdom of opening , and would have been the even gutsier move . But really , if someone was decease to pass away , Holly was the only logical choice .
Still , I did n’t really think the show was snuff it to do it , specially not in such a free-and-easy manner . evidently , this is n’t the first time Eureka has killed a major player — there was the death of Nathan Stark back in “ I Do Over ” , and considering that ’s easily my favourite episode of the show , it ’s not something I ’d easily bury . But everything about that death made sense — that full episode had a vaguely funereal tone , Stark ’s death quite possibly saved the total universe , it made for a lovely fibre minute between Stark , Carter , and Fargo , and it just broadly serve as a nifty heroic sendoff . ( It also removed a character who was inextricably obstruct the romance between Carter and Allison , so it wrote the show out of a mo of a niche . ) Basically , if Eureka was ever choke to bolt down off an significant character , I expected plenty of procession poster and a nice heavy consequence .
That ’s pretty much the exact opposite of what we get from Holly ’s death . Her demise is n’t a heroic sacrifice — if anything , it work as a tragic byproduct of her sodding inability to keep her bright ideas to herself , turn one of her ridiculous quirks into something lethally serious . It ’s great in a completely different way from Stark ’s death , and it ’s howling grounds that the show is playing for support in its last season . Still , much as this is definitely the correct narration determination , I ’ll admit some sadness that we do n’t get a nice cock-a-hoop sendoff for Felicia Day , who has done some gravid , charming work as Dr. Holly Marten and won me over after some initial dubiety .
Honestly , after all that , there is n’t quite so much to say about the veridical world plot of land , but it is nice to see “ our ” Carter back in action after a week aside . This whole side of the installment underscore why it was so hard to buy into last hebdomad ’s hypothesise fresh reality — Carter simply does n’t ever , ever give up , and the belief he and the rest of the townspeople put in Kevin ’s detector is a great affecting moment . It also makes for the comic highlighting of the episode , which is Carter and Andy barely managing to complete their heist of ground forces equipment .
It also allows Carter the chance to do some legitimate detective work , as he reckon out that Senator Wen is the treasonist that allowed the Astraeus to be highjack . I ’m not totally certain how I feel about that particular character revelation , honestly – there has always been something a little untrustworthy about Senator Wen , but I liked last time of year ’s suggestion that that was simply because , well , she ’s a politico . Still , I care that Carter got to work out the truth all by himself , and I ’m delirious – and more than a little trepidaticious – to see how the show handles all the radioactive dust of this hebdomad ’s craziness in next Monday ’s episode .
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