#eureka syfy

[ballpointbananana]

If they made the syfy show Eureka now, Ed Quinn would have a rabid fan base all calling him daddy/zaddy. I want to lick him.

[flowers-that-sing]

spoilers (obviously)

not the ones you think shouldnt have happened or the ones that made you most upset or the most tragic—i might make a poll for that later though

stupid as in like "wow. you survived xyz but died from a mundane thing???" or "okay that was just silly" or "that served no purpose and doesnt benefit the plot in any way" or "oh my god that character is so DUMB that was SO AVOIDABLE"

the ones that leave you going "wtf"

[erodingsinner]

Eureka's portrayal of autism is so weird and gross I know it was 2010 but come on. Kevin gets "cured" from autism AGAIN this time through time travel and Allison doesn't want to change the timeline back because she doesn't want to "lose her son again" what does THAT mean ??? You're not gonna lose your son he'll just have autism again why is she acting like he's gonna die. Like this autism free version of him is the only version she wants.

( Also how does time travel "cures" autism? Why is this show obsessed with "curing" his autism? Kinda weird guys )

[spockvarietyhour]

Excluding specifically Stargate SG1/Atlantis/Universe/, BSG, and Farscape (we'll get back to those and yes Farscape started in the 90s and SG1 had the first five seasons on another network in the 90s )

[frakyeaheureka]

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

I love binging only seasons 1, 2, 4, and 5 of a series.

At least season 3 exists somewhere. It's just, for some bizarre reason, the only one I have to pay for?

[serene-quill]

If I had a nickel for every time I was watching a Syfy show that killed a character named Nathan Stark, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but weird that it's happened twice.

[deadlydelicious]

being a fa of late 90s to early 2000s spec-fic is just interchangeably simping every time Christopher Heyerdahl or Matt Frewer show up in anything

[latentspaceofficial]

research tangent! scp x wh13

so this is something a little bit different than what i normally talk about. i'm putting on a different cap today. ok little nerd moment thats been living rent free in my head for days. ive got an antistatic bag on my desk thats been sitting here for a while and i noticed something familiar

that sure as hell looks like the scp foundation logo

which got me really thinking. so its very obvious to me that the scp logo takes inspiration from this iso or ansi symbol. but whats even more odd was looking at the timeline of the scp wikis birth. im a zillenial (god i hate that word) so my childhood was watching markiplier play scp:cb, scrolling the old wiki, fucking with cleverbot. fun stuff like that. i was still a drooling idiot. when sci-fi renamed to syfy. but i remember the switchover and not being allowed to watch eureka because there were some "goddamns" in there. but i was allowed to watch warehouse 13, in spite of steve's existence. i was way too into the steampunk and lore of warehouse 13 when it was relevant. so much so i had a fucking farnsworth ringtone on my lg shit phone and i thought it was the coolest thing. i'm also still gay as hell for h.g. wells and her fit.

but anyway anyway. the premise of warehouse 13 was finding dangerous "artifacts" that imbued special status affects on people and to neutralize them with "neutralizer grid polyethylene static bags" as they say. their motto being "snag it. bag it. and tag it." or something to that effect.

what im getting at is that warehouse 13 has a similar premise to the scp foundation, but more mainstream comedy and less psychological horror. there's a tangential link between wh13 with scp via anti static bags and the symbol. so i looked into this a bit. through cursory searches, i didn't find anyone really talking about this other than a similar premise. so i looked at timelines. in july 2008 the scp foundation wiki (idk which one) was started, while wh13 piloted on july 2009. with a year delta, it seems clear "who stole from who". but wait. writing, pitching, and filming takes quite a while. is a year really enough time? i can't find any trademarks registered by universal nor any evidence of a canadian filming license. so this is where i stopped typing on my phone and started researching. the waters are a bit muddy, so bear with me. wh13 was co-written by a handful of people and rewritten as well. but the original plot was announced by sci-fi here in october of 2007

according to wikipedia (the free encyclopedia), inspirations for warehouse 13 include the x-files, raiders of the lost ark, something called moonlighting, and this show from the late 80s and early 90s called "friday the 13th: the series". i'd never heard of it, but it shares the vaguest premise with both wh13 and scp to keep bad artifacts away from harming people.

well what about the scp wiki? when did it form? well it's complicated. (i'm sorry for my poor cropping, it will happen again)

the scp wiki itself states that the original scp came from 4chan and that a lot of original organization happened on 4chan. indeed 4chan is the source of famous scps such as 173

posted on june 2007 is the original lore post about 173 and can be seen as the beginning of scps. which pre-dates the announcement of wh13. i don't know about you, but how fast you could go from trolling 4chan to a pilot script? at this point "some government authority retrieving dangerous magic embued items" was not a previously done idea and was indeed original. the x-files kinda did this before with balancing larger plot arcs with mini plot supernatural occurrences, not all aliens. but nothing about being an authoritative group that comes in and cleans up super natural mishaps. nah, mulder and skully just stayed in the basement or took an occasional road trip to see a whistleblower. i honestly love scp far more than wh13, but i'm going to be the devil's advocate and not give the new era spin on an old idea to the scp wiki just yet. 173 is an scp, but the idea of scps is not fully laid out yet. the thread was also deleted days later and thus only lived in the minds of active forum users of the time as fan derivatives were made. so there was a period of time where the fandom had started to form, but no official wiki existed. the semi official scp wiki formed in january 2008. later than the announcement of wh13 but before the pilot of the show ever aired in july 2009. so it's always possible the writers were 4channers and yoinked the idea. again, it's so fascinating how close in time and narrative the scp wiki and wh13 are. i personally doubt the writers were on 4chan at the time, but neither the wiki nor the show writers exist in a vacuum. i think it all warrants scrutiny and there's no smoking gun saying who inspired who, or if it's absolute coincidence. that is unless some ogs from the scp wiki or the writers of wh13 are able to speak on it. i'm curious what other people think.

[arbitrarygreay]

I miss Syfy airing shows in groups which not only facilitated crossovers, but also illuminated a lot of hindsight implications as to the culture's genre and irl preoccupations were at the time. We went from Farscape/Lexx to Stargate/BSG to Eureka/WH13 (/Sanctuary) to Haven/Lost Girl (/Merlin?) to Defiance/Continuum to Bitten/Z Nation to Dark Matter/Killjoys/Expanse/12 Monkeys (/The Magicians) to Wynnona Earp/Van Helsing, and each grouping has fairly noticeable common themes. That some years were entirely duds of single-season failures are analyzable for the fact that entire years tended to lose together (for various possible reasons). Unfortunately, the streaming age hangover has now broken the pattern and everything is 1-season duds. Industry is on fire, hoorayyyyy

[silviakundera]

blew through the first 3 episodes of cdrama White Cat Legend and it sorta reminds me of a very particular era of western television 2005-2014, when the Syfy channel was putting out shows like Warehouse 13 and Eureka and Canada had Lost Girl and a couple other series whose names are struggling to come to mind right now.

Bad CGI and hapless team members trying to solve problems & avoid getting in trouble with the bosses. Fantastical elements alongside regular people going about their routine. Meant to be easily consumed and no larger meaning included.

idk if I'll finish it but I was diverted. The episodes felt quick.

[kwebtv]

Chris Gauthier (January 27, 1976 – February 23, 2024) Actor best known for his roles as Neville in Need for Speed: Carbon and William Smee in Once Upon a Time.

Gauthier had a recurring role on the SyFy Channel series Eureka, as Café Diem owner Vincent. While filming the final ten episodes of season three of Eureka, he also filmed the 2009 CBS Mystery Event Harper's Island, in which he appears as Malcolm Ross, and in Freddy vs. Jason as Shack. His biggest claim to fame was in Smallville as Winslow Schott aka Toyman. He battled both Clark and Oliver, as well as set up Marionette Ventures aka The Legion of Doom. (Wikipedia)

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[kitkatt0430]

For your salty ask questions : 7, 20 and 22 love your options on things

7.) Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?

So the show Eureka. The fandom itself had issues while I was a part of it, though I did a pretty good job of steering clear of the worst of it until towards the end of the show's run.

Eureka was a SyFy channel show that aired while I was in college and for the most part I really liked it. But... one of the main characters, Allison, had an autistic child whose treatment by the show made me very uncomfortable for reasons I didn't really understand at the time because, well... I was pretty ignorant about autism at the time.

They basically treated this kid as a plot device. The mom didn't seem interested in figuring out how to communicate in ways the kid was comfortable with but instead being devastated that the only time he communicated in ways she was comfortable with was when he was semi-possessed by some science-magic-thing. That was killing him. The kid eventually creates an Einstein-Rosen bridge (wormhole) to facilitate his mom and some others to time travel in order to butterfly effect the future just enough that he's not autistic. Like, it's heavily implied that the kid did that. on purpose. after which he finally became a real character and not a plot device and his mom sabotaged the other characters attempts to fix the timeline because she liked this version of her son better.

... yeah...

And usually this is where I'd go looking for fix fics and I did look for some because even with not knowing much about autism at the time even I knew that last part with the kid erasing himself from history to replace himself with a not-autistic and not-really-him version of himself was really bad writing. If you have to replace your autistic character with a non-autistic version in order to make him an active character in your show, you're a shitty show runner and/or writer.

But honestly I just wasn't finding any at the time. Maybe there are some now, maybe I wasn't looking in the right places. But I was starting to run more and more into misogynistic or racist treatments of Allison as I became less and less interested in fics that included her directly. At which point the show was over, I wasn't really enamored with either it or the fandom anymore, and it was time to move on.

To some degree I do miss it. It started while I was in high school and it was something I continued to watch on weekends with my parents during college (along with Doctor Who and a few other shows). It had a lot of really fun things going and I had a good fandom friend for Eureka and FF8 who I've since lost touch with. But in retrospect, and having since learned more about autism and why the quest to 'cure' it is basically eugenics... it's really hard to look back on the show without being appalled by how ableist it really was. So though I might miss it, I sincerely doubt I'll ever rewatch it or return to the fandom.

20.) What is the purest ship in the fandom?

Yeah I have no idea. I think 'purest ship' is kind of a silly metric because nothing is every going to be perfect or 'pure'. And with the rise of purity culture here on tumblr over the last several years, even though I would be just joking around to name a ship as the purest... it still feels like I'd be invoking the idea of moral superiority for shipping the pure ships. So honestly, the question makes me a little uncomfortable for how it's phrased.

If I were to rephrase it as the ship with the least baggage attached, then maybe Barrisco, Westhawne, or Snowest for the Flash. The characters still have to work out problems that arise between them over the course of the show, but these three have what feels like - to me anyway - the least amount of baggage weighing them down in their interactions together and canon relationships be they platonic or romantic. But I wouldn't call them pure ships because I really just don't think there's any such thing.

22.) Popular character you hate?

It's hard to think of one because even villains I tend to hate in a love to hate way. At the characters I don't hate in the love to hate way - like Mark Blaine - are more often than not fandom unfavorites anyway.

I don't hate Felicity, but I don't like her the way I used to either. Characterization marches on and all that.

I'll still pop in on the Supernatural fandom sometimes despite the show eventually making all the main characters kind of unlikable (or maybe it was the trauma conga line getting forever darker that made it feel hard to like anything while watching it anymore...) but the fanon versions of the characters are still enjoyable to me.

I don't hate Steve from the MCU but by the time he was written out of the franchise he was... very much not my Captain America anymore. Largely because they made him too much of a self centered hypocrite with never my fault/consequences avoidant tendencies that are at odds with what I like about the character from the comics I've read. (Admittedly not a lot of comics, as I prefer other marvel comics characters over Captain America like Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy as Ghost-Spider and Jane's run as Thor...) But honestly... what else could I expect when the movies were taken over by people who were on the record as hating all the characters? I may not like this version of Steve anymore, but I find it hard to hate a character I know was being deliberately written badly.

Gwen from Torchwood mind raped her fiance/future husband to avoid him leaving her for cheating on him and... I really don't like her for that but given all the shit the other Torchwood characters get up to it feels a little strong to say I hate her for it. I hate the way the narrative treated her as a morality pet but she was, in many ways, just another victim of the way working for Torchwood - even Jack's Torchwood - eventually eroded a person's sense of ethics. And the show runners trying a bit too hard to be edgy. (Though admittedly, sometimes I do hate her for it, usually when I'm rewatching that part of the show in the wrong mood.)

[angst-fairygodmother]

I've been really enjoying my nostalgic, mostly mid 2010s rewatches, and it's jiggling loose some of the cobwebs in my brain

[imtheiliad]

TEMPTATION TUESDAY

Rules: rules: share something about an idea you have/something that's speaking to you/an au you'd like to see and are considering writing/etc. etc. basically anything that is tempting you away from your current wips!

Tagged by: @honestlydarkprincess @alyxmastershipper @souschefdiaz @singlethread @cowboy-buddie @usercowboy @swiftiediaz

Okay so I have the memory of a Swiss cheese goldfish so these are ones I have mentioned before but has been awhile

Check please au aka college hockey au with stoic mysterious brooding captain Eddie diaz and happy go lucky pie making first year buck 💗

Eureka au based on the cheesy and kinda bad 2000s syfy tv show featuring time travel and silly pining idiots

Future fic/ another installment of grace Madeline universe in which she plays little league and buck and/ or Eddie volunteer to coach after an incident™️

Tagging: @buckleysibs @buckleysbee @spaceprincessem @buddiefication @princessfbi 🩷