{"id":2426,"date":"2011-08-24T01:18:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?page_id=2426"},"modified":"2011-08-24T01:18:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:18:02","slug":"closing-the-gates-on-americas-favorite-little-town","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/blogs\/janelles-eye-view\/closing-the-gates-on-americas-favorite-little-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the gates on America’s “favorite little town”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Okay so by now you have all heard about the cancellation of the show about our favorite little town; SYFY\u2019s Eureka.\u00a0 To us, this was a shot to the heart out of the clear blue sky and we had no idea to suspect such a disaster was coming.\u00a0 Since the day I heard about the proposed cancellation, I have been doing research online.\u00a0 I have looked high and low for information from SyFy themselves explaining what the deal is, if this is truly happening and if so, how far off can we set the clock to count down.\u00a0 Unfortunately, all I could find were articles on other people\u2019s entertainment websites expressing how upset they were to hear about the decision, but no concrete reason or statement from the network.\u00a0 I thought, well maybe this is just a horrible rumor, I mean… Haven is still on for crying out loud… how could Eureka be cancelled if Haven is making it just fine?!<\/p>\n

Finally, I found a single page that listed the statement from SyFy directly.\u00a0 It\u2019s not pretty, and it\u2019s not what I wanted to hear to say the least.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what it says:<\/p>\n

“After painstaking consideration, we have had to make the difficult business decision to not order a season six of\u00a0Eureka<\/em>. But\u00a0Eureka<\/em>\u00a0is not over yet. There is a new holiday episode this December and 12 stellar episodes set to debut next year, marking its fifth season and six memorable years on Syfy.<\/p>\n

“The 2012 episodes are some of the best we\u2019ve seen, and will bring this great series to a satisfying end. We are very grateful to Bruce Miller and Jaime Paglia, their team of incredible writers, and an amazing cast and crew who have consistently delivered a series we continue to be very proud of. We thank the fans for their support of this show and know they will enjoy its final season in 2012.” <\/em><\/p>\n

So there it is.\u00a0 After all these years of excellent entertainment and never once letting its audience down, a mysterious \u201cbusiness decision\u201d has prompted the end of the best show SyFy has produced.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 I have emailed them to see if I can find a more direct answer, but who knows if they\u2019ll get back to me directly or just send me a \u201cthank you for your input\u201d form letter.\u00a0 I figured it was worth a shot.<\/p>\n

Eureka perfectly blended the intelligence and comedy of the geek culture while honoring its roots with frequent, respectful references to Star Trek, Star Wars, Halo, World of Warcraft, Comic-Con, role playing and so many other aspects of the culture it\u2019s difficult to name them.\u00a0 There are bonding moments in this show that allow people who are in no way fans of the geek universe to join with those that live within it and find a common ground.\u00a0 In fact, I began Eureka night at my parent\u2019s house and it has become a family gathering ever since.\u00a0 I will be sad to lose this show and every person I\u2019ve spoken to is more than disappointed, they\u2019re angry.\u00a0 SyFy has undergone several changes in the last few years and taken on somewhat of a different face and personality.\u00a0 In some ways, we love the changes and in others, well\u2026 not so much. (No offence, Sharktopus)<\/p>\n

One more aspect of Eureka that really brought new demographics to the geek culture; a love story.\u00a0 A heart-wrenching, yearning, hit and miss, almost there then things fall apart love story.\u00a0 Not one, but several major subplots which included love, loss, time travel, dimensional shifting and timeline changes that were both gut-wrenching and exciting and filled the story with warm fuzzy feelings fluffy enough for any girl with a longing for a good tale of romance and woe.\u00a0 These storylines brought in the girls who may not have taken a second glance at a show like Eureka and brought to the culture a whole new kind of fan; the chick flick girls.\u00a0 Sure, at first they watched it for their boyfriends and husbands, but soon enough it was easy to see the hot boys and the love affairs, the scandal and the love lost, found, lost again and back around to melt even the hardest of hearts.<\/p>\n

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All in all, Eureka gave us and continues to provide a meeting ground of all types of people from every culture, not just the geek culture.\u00a0 It was able to bring intelligence, heart, wit and the spirit of adventure and discovery into a world where every one of all types could comingle in agreement\u2026 Eureka was the little town that brought a whole world of people together.\u00a0 We can\u2019t hope for the experience to be recreated, we can only be thankful that it was.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s that, folks.\u00a0 I now leave you to enjoy what\u2019s left of the series at our weekly, Eureka night, a fairly new practice that has become a highlight of my family\u2019s new traditions.<\/p>\n

Hope you all enjoy the rest of this amazing show to see how many more times Jack can say, \u201cthat can\u2019t be good,\u201d to see how many times his car is destroyed, how many more amazing discoveries Allison and Henry can make, to see if Fargo will ever fall in love, if Jo and Zane get over themselves and get married already and maybe someone will finally put an end to Beverly and her quest to destroy Eureka.\u00a0 All we can do is watch and wait.<\/p>\n

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We would love to hear from you on this- what is your favorite Eureka moment?\u00a0 Favorite Jack-ism?\u00a0 Favorite disaster?\u00a0 What is it you love most about the show?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay so by now you have all heard about the cancellation of the show about our favorite little town; SYFY\u2019s Eureka.\u00a0 To us, this was a shot to the heart out of the clear blue sky and we had no idea to suspect such a disaster was coming.\u00a0 Since the day I heard about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":573,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2426","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1opIU-D8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2122,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/blogs\/ajs-side-panel\/nooowwww-waaaaiiiitttt-a-minute\/","url_meta":{"origin":2426,"position":0},"title":"Nooowwww waaaaiiiitttt a minute!!!!!!","author":"AJ","date":"July 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Ye know you make me wanna SHOUT!!! 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