Eureka S3 question

[tielan]

I don't get it.

They pretty much dropped the Carter/Allison interaction in S2 in favour of focusing on Carter's relationship with his daughter Zoe and the Allison/Stark interaction over Kevin and the artifact, so why are they playing it up now that she's gotten engaged to Stark again?

Comments

[ninja007.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to figure out anything they've been doing this season. I'm about to stop watching...

[tielan]

I'm not at that stage yet; I have kinda been enjoying it - on the other hand, it feels a little out-of-the-blue.

I just finished 4.04 - I Do Over which was good. But still...it feels heavy-handed compared to the way they've been doing it before this.

[chyti.livejournal.com]

from what i understand the writers wanted to break up the carter/allison connection thinking it came to fast and let them find there way back to each other slowly. the allison/stark connection was more of a re-connection over her son and the artifact imo but stark never stopped loving her and it was apparent from the moment he started the show.

[sjhw-tolerance.livejournal.com]

Seems reasonable; since his first appearance you've known Stark still had it bad for Allison and Allison always played it friendly with Carter, he seemed to be the one more taken by her.

It didn't seem unreasonable for Stark and Allison to get back together after everything with Kevin, especially since the whole AU (bastards!) where Carter and Allison was married never transpired.

[tielan]

Not having much luck with the AUs are we? :(

I guess that there were more UST moments between Carter and Allison in S1 (the one that comes to mind is the magnetised fence in...oh, around 1x10 or 1x11). And they seem to have been bringing them back - particularly in the episode What About Bob? (biosphere with snake regression), but also in Best In Faux (dogs and volcanos)...

It just seemed a bit abrupt to up the Jack/Allison interaction all of a sudden in S3.

But I shall keep watching to try to see where they're going.

[tielan]

let them find there way back to each other slowly.

I guess that it doesn't feel very 'slowly' to me. They hinted at the tension between Jack and Allison a little over S2 but in S3, it's like they hit the throttle and roared it into life.

[rhianona]

I think Carter's jealousy over Alli's relationship with Nathan was always there, he just hid it in favor of the person most important to him: his daughter. I haven't watched season 2 since it aired in the US, so I may be misremembering, but I think that Alli was also avoiding Carter. My belief, is that after the whole lock down thing and almost losing her son, she started rebuilding her friendship with Carter.

[tielan]

That's a good take on it. I'm just a little surprised that a show that does 'subtle' so well suddenly started beating people over the head with the attraction/angst angle.

[rhianona]

well it was only the first few episodes that they did it; but I find it understandable since Stark and Alli were getting married. I don't know if you've seen later episodes, but it's practically non-existent now.

Are you still looking for the back end of season 2?

[stacy2002.livejournal.com]

Carter decided not to pursue a relationship with Allison for a number of excellent reasons (Nathan's constant c**k blocking, Alison's obvious connection to her ex and her confusion about her feelings for him come to mind), but he still cares - you can't turn your emotions off, I guess is the point. And her engagement to Stark would be the obvious catalyst to get feeeeelings, wowowoah feeeeeelings all stirred up again.

[tielan]

to get feeeeelings, wowowoah feeeeeelings

*giggles*

That's brilliantly classic.

I see your point; I'm just a bit surprised at the bluntness of it, since they really toned it down in S2.

[live-brave.livejournal.com]

I don't want to give away any spoilers, so I'll just say keep watching and it'll start to make sense.

But there's also the possibility that they wanted to look at the love triangle from both angles. The first season it was sort of Stark on the outside, being jealous of the relationship (friendship or whatever) between Jack and Allison. Season two started to switch things over, and season three has far more of Jack on the outside. But, yeah, keep watching and things will start to become clear.

[tielan]

Well, I just watched I Do Over, although I'd realised the spoiler since someone pointed out the internet petition to "save [insert character here]!"

I can see why they did it; I'm just a little surprised at the style in which they've done it.

[live-brave.livejournal.com]

True. I'm curious about how early they learned about a certain someone's departure and whether that shaped the reason for the change in the triangle. It was pretty abrupt, which I wasn't entirely happy about. I wish they had dragged it out a bit. The guys vying for Allison's attention was always one of my favorite things.

[ninja007.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to figure out anything they've been doing this season. I'm about to stop watching...

[tielan]

I'm not at that stage yet; I have kinda been enjoying it - on the other hand, it feels a little out-of-the-blue.

I just finished 4.04 - I Do Over which was good. But still...it feels heavy-handed compared to the way they've been doing it before this.

[chyti.livejournal.com]

from what i understand the writers wanted to break up the carter/allison connection thinking it came to fast and let them find there way back to each other slowly. the allison/stark connection was more of a re-connection over her son and the artifact imo but stark never stopped loving her and it was apparent from the moment he started the show.

[sjhw-tolerance.livejournal.com]

Seems reasonable; since his first appearance you've known Stark still had it bad for Allison and Allison always played it friendly with Carter, he seemed to be the one more taken by her.

It didn't seem unreasonable for Stark and Allison to get back together after everything with Kevin, especially since the whole AU (bastards!) where Carter and Allison was married never transpired.

[tielan]

let them find there way back to each other slowly.

I guess that it doesn't feel very 'slowly' to me. They hinted at the tension between Jack and Allison a little over S2 but in S3, it's like they hit the throttle and roared it into life.

[rhianona]

I think Carter's jealousy over Alli's relationship with Nathan was always there, he just hid it in favor of the person most important to him: his daughter. I haven't watched season 2 since it aired in the US, so I may be misremembering, but I think that Alli was also avoiding Carter. My belief, is that after the whole lock down thing and almost losing her son, she started rebuilding her friendship with Carter.

[tielan]

That's a good take on it. I'm just a little surprised that a show that does 'subtle' so well suddenly started beating people over the head with the attraction/angst angle.

[stacy2002.livejournal.com]

Carter decided not to pursue a relationship with Allison for a number of excellent reasons (Nathan's constant c**k blocking, Alison's obvious connection to her ex and her confusion about her feelings for him come to mind), but he still cares - you can't turn your emotions off, I guess is the point. And her engagement to Stark would be the obvious catalyst to get feeeeelings, wowowoah feeeeeelings all stirred up again.

[tielan]

to get feeeeelings, wowowoah feeeeeelings

*giggles*

That's brilliantly classic.

I see your point; I'm just a bit surprised at the bluntness of it, since they really toned it down in S2.

[live-brave.livejournal.com]

I don't want to give away any spoilers, so I'll just say keep watching and it'll start to make sense.

But there's also the possibility that they wanted to look at the love triangle from both angles. The first season it was sort of Stark on the outside, being jealous of the relationship (friendship or whatever) between Jack and Allison. Season two started to switch things over, and season three has far more of Jack on the outside. But, yeah, keep watching and things will start to become clear.

[tielan]

Well, I just watched I Do Over, although I'd realised the spoiler since someone pointed out the internet petition to "save [insert character here]!"

I can see why they did it; I'm just a little surprised at the style in which they've done it.