RW746 - MCU Rewatch - Deadpool & Wolverine

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan will not void their redemption as they discuss Deadpool & Wolverine.

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Our Favourite Trivia:

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman first met on the set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) which began their friendship. 

Deadpool 2 (2018) director David Leitch was approached to return for this movie, but he had already committed to The Fall Guy (2024). Tim Miller, the director of the first film, was not considered since he had ongoing creative differences with Ryan Reynolds. Shawn Levy was a natural fit after directing Reynolds in Free Guy (2021) and The Adam Project (2022), and previously directing Jackman in Real Steel (2011) and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014).

It was revealed that the day Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy were supposed to pitch Deadpool 3 to Disney, they hadn't come up with an idea they really believed in yet. That was until Hugh Jackman called Ryan that day and expressed his interest in joining the third film. After the call Ryan and Shawn developed a rough outline for the movie's plot and got Disney to greenlight Deadpool & Wolverine.

Hugh Jackman said he really was done playing the character of Wolverine after Logan (2017). He then said he regretted that statement after watching the first Deadpool (2016) and expressed to Ryan his interest in the two characters meeting on the big screen. When asked why he chose to return for this film, he simply said, "I just wanted to do it, and I felt it in my gut", adding that he wanted to have the best possible time ever on a movie set together with Ryan Reynolds. Likewise, Reynolds wanted to work alongside Jackman since the first Deadpool film and was saddened when he (Jackman) retired from the role.

Kevin Feige was originally against bringing back Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, as he was concerned that doing so would undermine the events of Logan, a movie Feige held in very high esteem. He eventually relented once it was confirmed that this film would focus on a different variant of Wolverine, combined with Jackman really wanting to return to the role. His only stipulation for Jackman coming back was that Logan had to be depicted in his classic yellow and blue costume.

The filmmakers cite the buddy comedies Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), Midnight Run (1988), 48 Hrs. (1982) and the sequel Another 48 Hrs. (1990) as an influence on the film.

After having his cameo cut in the first movie as a bathroom attendant, Nathan Fillion provides the voice of Headpool. Fillion and Ryan Reynolds worked together in the TV series Two Guys and a Girl (1998). Fillion and Morena Baccarin also started in Firefly (2002) but do not share any scenes in the movie.

Nicholas Pauley performed the dance during the opening credits, recreating *NSYNC's choreography for *NSYNC: Bye Bye Bye (2000). Pauley is credited as "Dancepool." He again danced as Deadpool at The Oscars (2025), during Conan O'Brien's performance of "I Won't Waste Time." Pauley confirmed that it was Ryan Reynolds who advocated for him to play "Dancepool" at the ceremony.

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With a net budget of $429 million, this is the most expensive superhero film (surpassing Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), $365 million), the most expensive R-rated film (surpassing Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), $200 million). It made $1.338 billion at the boxoffice.

Peggy the Dog makes her Hollywood debut as Dogpool.

The first R-rated movie directly distributed under Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, as opposed to one of its banners (e.g., Touchstone Pictures). Although meant for audiences of 17 years and over, Ryan Reynolds admitted that he showed the movie to his 9-year-old daughter and 70-year-old mother, and that they both loved it.

A shop sign reads "Liefeld's Just Feet". This is a nod to "Deadpool" creator Rob Liefeld, who is infamous for his artwork having abnormal body physiques, notably the feet.

Deadpool & Wolverine became the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time after 23 days in theaters. To celebrate the occasion, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige posted a photo of a thank you note to the fans. Beneath that note was a list of slang words for cocaine.

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Cap is back! Let's see how Mackie takes on the role in Captain America: Brave New World.

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RW745 - Eureka Rewatch S04E15-16 - Omega Mites

 

In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom let girl power show the way as they discuss season 4 episodes 15 & 16, Omega Girls and Of Mites and Men.

Omega Girls:

Written by: Eric Wallace & Jaime Paglia

Directed by: Salli Richardson-Whitfield

Original airdate: August 8, 2011

Synopsis: 

Fargo turns over control of GD to Allison/Beverly, and she immediately starts to put her plans into place.

After Alison/Beverly kisses Jack goodbye at GD, he notices something different about his girlfriend and asks Henry for his help in figuring it out. A check reveals that the local hospital and state police have no record of any accident or accident victims being treated. Henry turns to Zane to help him hack into the infirmary records but first Zane needs to create a computer problem so that he will be called in to work on the computers and thereby have access to all he needs. While he does that, he asks Henry about the complications of relationships after his time travel trip. Henry acts surprised as if he is clueless but opens up and the two have a heart to heart about it.

Once Zane gets into the records, they find Alison‘s scans which show the implant inside of her. Jack develops a ruse to get Alison down to his office which ends with him locking her in the cell. Unfortunately Alison/Beverly activates her plan B which puts everyone in the entire town to sleep, a result of having placed something inside of them during the Titan mission inoculations.

Meanwhile, Jo picks up Zoe to drive her into town and the topic of Zane is brought up and the two get into it with Jo not able to reveal to her about the time travel and alternate Zane she almost married. Their arguments are cut short when they arrive in town and find everyone passed out everywhere.

They get Jack and take him to GD, noticing a non-GD helicopter above. Jo goes to try and find Alison while Zoe tries to revive her dad. Alison/Beverly uses a stun gun Jo and locks her in her own jail cell, heading down to section 5 with her cronies, Dekker and Crony 1, who arrived on the helicopter, though she keeps suffering from feedback from the neural link as Alison tires fighting back from within her own mind.

Zoe tries contacting Jo but Alison/Beverly talks to her without the walkie talkie and tells her that Jo passes out like everyone else. As she talks to her, Zoe recognizes the way she speaks and calls her out as Beverly. Alison/Beverly sends Crony 1 to go and get her but Zoe outsmarts him and knocks him out. Dekker goes after her as Alison/Beverly breaks into the computer core and begins transferring data. Zoe manages to stun Dekker and get away, rescuing Jo who goes after Alison/Beverly while Zoe tries something new to revive her dad, which at first shows signs of killing him, but Jo encourages her, sparking an idea in her and she manages to awaken Jack. Jo catches Alison/Beverly and stuns her, saving the data but Dekker and Crony get away.

Henry later confirms the data is safe but they don’t know how much Beverly got or where she is. Zoe tells Jo she won’t stand in her way concerning Zane while Jack takes his daughter aside to tell her the truth about what happened in 1947.

Advanced Research:

Salli Richardson-Whitfield directs an episode this season and next. She directs a lot of one-off episodes, including shows like Agents of SHIELD and Black Lightning.

Martin Cummins played Dekker. He’s been 132/158 episodes of When Calls The Heart (Elizabeth Thatcher, a young schoolteacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west), season 14 premiering 2027. He was in the movie Boot Camp (follows unathletic Whitney Carmichael, who signs up for an intense summer boot camp to reinvent herself and falls for her personal trainer. She then finds the strength to embrace her true self and ignore the others' expectations). He was the Sheriff and Mayor in Riverdale for 78 of their 137 episodes. He was a lead in a number of Hallmark style mysteries as well as The Song To My Heart (an organic tea shop owner helps a music sensation write lyrics for a new solo album), Cold Zone (freezing storm coming), and Not With His Wife (with Jewel Staithe, Forensic accountant Monica Bolland tracks down white-collar criminals, but when her husband Josh, an undercover agent for the FBI, is killed, she goes undercover herself to find his murderer. She gets a bookkeeping job with a criminal cartel but her cover is blown just as she discovers the devastating truth about her husband and the forces that brought him down). He’s had a starring role in Poltergeist: The Legacy (a secret society of poltergeist experts locate, retrieve, confiscate, or otherwise do what it takes to fix haunting situations). He’s had some recurring roles in the new V series, Kyle XY, Dark Angel (21/42), he was in Painkiller Jane, Smallville, Stargate SG1, and Friday the 13th Part VIII.

The title "Omega Girls" is a play on the concept of a horror movie final girl, with Omega being the last letter of the Greek alphabet. It's also a reference to Omega Man staring Charlton Heston, the 1971 film based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Salli Richardson-Whitfield also appeared in the 2007 adaptation of I Am Legend starring Will Smith.

Of Mites and Men:

Written by: Terri Hughes Burton & Ron Milbauer

Directed by: Mike Rohl

Original airdate: August 15, 2011

Synopsis: 

Weeks have passed since Alison was possessed by Beverly and she is ready to get back to work. Unfortunately Senator Wen doesn’t feel it’s the right time just yet since some of her scans do still have some readings that are still off. Wen enlists Jack to take over for Jo while she participates in more Titan training. 

Jo, awakened in the middle of the night by commandos from GD, finishes up her written test of her training and then is sent to a lab in the lowest depths of GD where she sees Parrish, Fargo, and Holly also in the room. She enters, thinking that they were the ones that texted her to come there, but they thought that she was the one who texted. Suddenly the doors close behind them and Larry appears on a viewscreen informing them that he is in charge of their psychological test. Soon enough, Zane appears, having snuck his way in, wanting to prove his worth.

Wen meets with several scientists, telling Dr. Sanagustin to move to her timetable to finish building the ship. As they talk, Wen wonders where Dr. Fung is and he soon makes his appearance via view screen after his experiment caused a loud noise to break a number of glass objects as well as making the building shake. Sanagustin notes that Fung has had issues with his interstellar communication system.

Alison heads to her old office but it’s been taken over by Dr. Timmons, her temporary replacement who apologetically tells her she isn’t allowed to be there. He also meets with Henry and Grace about an experimental surgery that could take care of his atrial defect problem. Henry is so excited but Grace is nervous, and then hurt as he says it’s his decision. 

Back in the isolation chamber, they are each told to fold and wire up 100 origami cranes. 

As Fung’s system has another error, Alison and Jack argue due to him not supporting her in returning to work, but he almost falls into an empty elevator shaft and she saves him. Andy joins Jack to help with the investigation and Fung insists that his experiment did not cause the elevator to go missing. As they talk, another rumble goes off and the floor beneath begins to fall apart and they quickly get to safety. 

In the isolation chamber, the temperature gets hotter, the bathroom is broken, and Parrish takes shots at both Fargo and Zane but they continue trying to fold 100 cranes. Zane goes to try and fix the environmental controls but it ends up blowing their cranes around.

Jack finds out that the missing parts of GD were made of tungsten and questions Sanagustin about it because she needed tungsten for the ship build, but she says she didn’t even need the tungsten because the ship is done. When they check it out, they see a ship that is completely done, much to their surprise. She explains she got the work done by pushing her construction mites to a higher level. Jack mentions that there were tiny incisions in the floor that very well could have been made by the mites. When Jack tells her to turn them off, she is unable to, and the mites continue to devour their way through GD consuming whatever tungsten they come across. She tells them that the mites were programmed by Zane.

In the iso chamber, the little idiosyncrasies of each person begin to annoy each other as they try to finish the cranes. Larry starts playing songs to mess with them further. Holly asks Parrish for extra paper for the cranes but he says no because he wants to fish his own supply first and says that if they had tied up the stowaway Zane as he suggested, there would be enough paper for everyone. Fargo offers her his paper due to him not even coming close to 100 cranes.

Alison goes to Wen and asks to be reinstated but she insists that it’s too early, stating that they need to find Beverly Barlowe first and her technology to ensure that Alison is truly ok.

Jack and Andy discover that the mites are eating all of GD in order to build it into a whole new ship.

In the iso chamber, the power goes out completely and Fargo takes charge saying that they need to find their life support systems to take care of themselves. Parrish refuses to help saying no one will help him buy Jo and Holly decide to help him while Zane goes back to crane making, eventually finding a short and working to fix it. Jo says that when they get out she will request to retake the test, thinking that Zane hacked the test so she could pass. He goes to help with the controls, sending Holly and Fargo back to their cranes. He talks her up but when she fails to get the power on with her hack, he is surprised, and ends up revealing he was sent in to try and stress out everyone else as part of the test. He realizes that something else has happened outside and suddenly the mites attack more of the tool that causes the ceiling to fall down partway. Parrish continues to think it’s all just part of the test.

Jack asks Larry to patch him through to Zane but Larry is locked out of his controls by the mites rebuilding yet again. Larry tells him he has to go down to the level to manually get them out so he and Andy head down to level Q. Unfortunately once they get down there, the mites attack Andy and disable him.

Henry discovers that the mites’ signal transducers were destroyed which is why they can’t stop them. Jack realizes that Fung’s problems with his experiment caused the issue. 

Zane, Jo, Fargo and Holly try to work out a way to hold the ceiling up and Parrish reluctantly gives up his chair to help them. When a mite falls through the ceiling onto him, Parrish freaks out and screams and Zane realizes how dire the situation is. He manages to get the power source out of one of his mites and they are able to get the door open 8 inches. Holly tries to get through to the manual override but gets stuck.

Fung tells Wen he can use his sound waves to stop the mites but Alison steps in and explains that it would also disable much of GD’s essential systems. Alison comes up with the idea to use a localized pulse to knock them out since they’ve gathered around the iso chamber. They’re hesitant, even Jack, but he changes his mind and trusts her, throwing his support behind her. 

Alison helps Jack navigate through the new maze of corridors but when he reaches it, the mites are building up a wall in front of it. He rushes through but his tie gets caught and he’s stuck. Luckily, Parrish has finished his 100 cranes and they use the wired cranes, Zane’s bubble gum, and a magnet Fargo took from the room’s speakers to make a makeshift lasso and with Jack they manage to get the pulse activator and shut down the mites.

Jack and Alison celebrate her being reinstated, and he apologizes for being overprotective. Holly tells Fargo she was impressed with him and he makes her want to be a team player and kisses him, after which they start making fun of Parrish together. Henry tells Grace that she was right and that he shouldn’t make these types of medical decisions alone and she asks Henry to marry her. Zane tells Jo he is being recommended for a full pardon and that he feels good now that he knows he can go anywhere or stay in Eureka not because he has to, but because he wants to.

Advanced Research:

This episode has the third appearance of the song Car Wash by Rose Royce.

Dr. Sanagustin was played by Ellie Harvie. Lately she has been a higher up supporting  cast member in things like A Little Park Music (when a piano appears in the park gazebo, interfering with important work, city manager Allie joins forces with rookie cop Ryan to remove it, only to find both music and love are hard to resist), Sealed With A List (this holiday season, festive Carley sets out to conquer her list of abandoned resolutions from last year. Aided by coworker Wyatt, she finds love and the confidence to chase her dreams), her share of lifetime Aurora Teagarden mystery movies (with a bearded Niall Matter), a few Stargate appearances and has been in quite a few of Disney’s Buddies movies (Air Bud spinoffs). 

Dr. Fung was played by Ben Immanuel (Ratner) who is a “that guy” with 167 credits to his name. They include Travelers, Continuum, Stargate, Agent Cody Banks, Seven Days, the DaVinci series, and even Sliders where we saw him as Tommy Greenfield in Greatfellas (mob guy getting married, Remmy is part of plan to bust them, with Mel Torme).

Timmons was Peter Kelamis and he’s a “that voice guy” who has done a ton of voice work for animated shows, such as Whiplash (Iron Man villain), Rolf in Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Yoda, Polly Pocket, Krypto the Superdog (2005), Dr. Von Headnerd (Inspector Gadget) and Geo in Ninjago. He’s best known for playing Adam Brody in Stargate Universe.

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RW744 - MCU Rewatch - The Marvels

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan came for the team up and stayed for the girl power as they discuss The Marvels.

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Our Favourite Trivia:

Originally was scheduled for release in the summer of 2023 however it was delayed until November 2023 and re-shoots were done to change the story.

Nia DaCosta is the fifth woman to direct a Marvel film, after:

• Lexi Alexander - Punisher: War Zone (2008)

• Anna Boden - Captain Marvel (2019)

• Cate Shortland - Black Widow (2021)

• Chloé Zhao - Eternals (2021)

Nia DaCosta is a big comic person, she was constantly looking to the original comics for details on the Kree, the Accusers, and more.

Megan McDonnell, a story editor on the Marvel-based series WandaVision (2021), penned the script for The Marvels.

Director Nia DaCosta revealed at Dublin's second annual screenwriting festival, Storyhouse, that she had always wanted to direct a Marvel movie because she's a big comic book fan, but her experience working on The Marvels turned out to be less than what she imagined. She spoke frankly about the behind-the-scenes process at Marvel Studios and how she tried to lean into their style of filmmaking, which was very different from her own. In the end, DaCosta says that the finished product was not the movie she pitched to Marvel Studios and wasn't even the film she originally shot. She blamed the failure of the film on not having a finished solid script when they began production and the studio's push to finish the movie before its tight scheduled release date.

Deadline estimated that Disney lost $237 million from this film, and proclaimed it the biggest box office bomb of 2023.

The comic book version of Monica Rambeau was codenamed Captain Marvel, Photon, Pulsar, and Spectrum, among others, in various iterations. Photon, Pulsar, and Spectrum are all among the code names Kamala suggests for Monica in this movie.

Emperor Drogge, is another refugee Skrull leader who is seeking a new home through nonviolent means. In Secret Invasion (2023), Talos tells Nick Fury that Drogge's Skrull colony is the only one that did not migrate to Earth in secret.

SABER is an acronym that stands for Strategic Aerospace Biophysics and Exolinguistic Response. It seems to be an extension and continuation of Fury's SWORD initiative, an outpost that's meant to serve as an early warning and defense against space threats, and a hub for alien species such as the Skrull, who come into direct contact with Earth.

The film confirms the true nature of Ms. Marvel's bangles, as they are revealed to be the powerful Quantum Bands. Quantum Bands have been around in the comics since 1975 and typically belong to a version of Quasar. Building on the implications provided in Ms. Marvel (2022), the MCU's version of Quantum Bands are tied to Kree mythology.

Carol Danvers' personal starship is called the "hoopty". There was no reference to the name or where it came from in the movie, only as this was newly released as merchandise through Lego toys.

The training montage in the middle of the film, where Carol, Monica, and Kamala learn to work together with their entangled powers, is scored to the Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic." The track was their first single off their fifth album, Hello Nasty. The MCU is no stranger to the Beastie Boys; in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), the climactic action scene is scored to "No Sleep till Brooklyn."

Due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA Actors Strike, much of the pre-release marketing for The Marvels did not include the involvement of the film's actors. The settlement that brought an end to the strike was ultimately reached just a day before early previews for the film began rolling out. This was similar to the marketing for Season 2 of Loki (2021), which was also affected by the same strike. After the strike ended, Iman Vellani made a surprise appearance before a showing of the film at the El Capitan in LA.

What's Up Next?

Guess who's back? Well, it's their entrance into the MCU proper, so let's discuss Deadpool and Wolverine.

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RW743 - Eureka Rewatch S04E13-14 - Glimpse the Air

 

In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom predict they could just float away as they discuss season 4 episodes 13 & 14, Glimpse and Up in the Air.

Glimpse:

Written by: Ed Fowler

Directed by: Michael Robison

Original airdate: July 25, 2011

Synopsis: 

Fargo, with Holly’s help, begins interviews for people wanting to go to the Mars moon, Titan, for a special mission with everyone in GD vying for a spot.

Meanwhile, Jack plans a summer trip to the baseball hall of fame for him, Alison, Kevin and Jenna, with Alison loving the idea aside from her continuing headache. Zane walks downstairs, which reveals to Jack and Allison that he and Jo seem to be getting… closer. Later at work, Jo tells Zane that last night was the last time they will be together but she is clearly not sticking to that as she has said that exact thing to him several times over the last few weeks.

Zane introduces Jo and Jack to his PALS, Predictive Algorithm Lenses, a type of contact lens that has the technology embedded into them to scan the surroundings and predict where possible security issues could happen. Jo tries them out and it shows her issues with Zane, his past criminal history, history of aliases, and his narcissistic tendencies. Zane proudly shows off the giant well that acts as the data processing center for the PALS.

Jo and Jack head to Parrish’s lab where she sees with her PALS that ipe is going to burst, and lets Jack try and fix it, allowing the goo inside to break through and cover Jack as revenge for saying that he was a real cop and didn’t want the PALS.

Holly asks why Alison hasn’t put in her application for the trip to space, seeing as how she wrote the book The Blake which created and set the standard for space medicine. She declines, but Jack can tell she does want to try out.

Fargo and Holly begin their interviews but Fargo is super quick to cut people off and deny them access, especially Parrish, but gladly pushes Henry through to the next round. Holly and Fargo begin bonding and he asks her out for dinner and while at first she thought it was a working dinner, he clarifies it’s more of a date and she agrees.

Talking with Jack, Jo, via her PALS, sees Parrish and another scientist named Dillon arguing and causing an explosion when Dillon’s experiment falls. She quickly jumps in and catches the canister as the arguing scientists get out of control. The experience convinces Jack that he should give the PALS a try.

Henry checks in on Alison who is experiencing another headache. She drops some lore about how Kevin’s father died in their original timeline and wanted to turn her dissertation into a book. When Jack comes by and Allison says she really doesn’t want to go to space, he can tell, via his own PALS, that she is lying and wants to.

At Cafe Diem, Jo’s PALS predict Parrish choking on one of his banana slugs, and Jack intervenes to swipe the slug out of the air before it can happen. Next however, Jack and Jo see a prediction of Zane walking into the cafe followed by a huge explosion due to happen within hours. The PALS go offline and Jo quickly goes to Zane and asks why the PALS aren’t working, without telling him that it’s him in the prediction. Zane mentions that the PALS seem to be overtaxing his system for some reason. Jack goes to Parrish to find out if he’s responsible for the explosion due to his mention of nitroglycerin earlier but he manages to rule him out. His talk of the project however, makes Jack realize that it’s in her best interest if Alison goes on the mission to space.

Fargo and Holly ask what’s going on, seeing Jack and Jo’s distress, but Holly lets it drop that Fargo has been doing the interviews very quickly, almost like he has a sixth sense about people. That leads Jack to realize that Fargo also has installed PALS Into himself, and Zane explains that it’s Fargo’s unauthorized use of them that is now overtaxing the system. As they argue about what Fargo did, Jo accidentally lets it drop that Zane could die and he bumps his head, causing the injury that they saw in the PALS.

Alison suggests using the recorded information with Henry’s holographic projection project to better inspect the footage the PALS recorded. Jack tells Alison that she should go to space and says he will take care of her kids so she can have this chance at her dream. She promises to think about it.

Holly tells Fargo she’s really liking the way he took control of the interviews, and that it even helped her to get more comfortable with doing the interviews herself. Fargo tells Holly about his use of the PALS, that he wanted to impress her, but she gets upset because the project is very important to her and using experimental technology was not the way to go about preparing for the mission, leaving her to storm off.

With Henry’s help, they investigate the explosion and determine that the explosion actually didn’t start at the cafe, but farther away at GD. Fargo steps up and orders immediate evacuation for all personnel, working with Jo to make sure whine will get out safe, and puts Holly in charge of transferring the FTL drive. Fargo’s decisiveness impresses Holly who tells him she knew he had it in him, leaving him feeling much better after their earlier conversation.

Jo apologizes to Zane about not telling him about his impending death and when he tells her he wishes she could just see where things go with them, she reminds him that she knows they don’t work together. They’re interrupted by Zane’s system powering back on, but then it quickly starts to overheat to dangerous levels. 

Back at Henry’s holographic recreation, they find Dillon’s canister amongst the wreckage. They ask Dillon about it and he looks at the flames of the explosion and tells them that his canister wouldn’t have produced these particular types of flames and they realize that the flames could be produced by Zane’s PAL storage and processing core.

Fargo tries to get Parrish to leave but he insists he needs to save his banana slugs as they argue. Fargo promises to give him another interview and Jack comes in to find out why they haven’t left yet. Jack realizes that Parrish’s dormancy gel could be used to help cool down Zane’s processing core. Fargo begins the work of diverging the gel to the core, taking command again as he did earlier. Unfortunately the valve in the core isn’t responding and Jo climbs down into it to activate it manually. The core begins to collapse slowly but Jo can’t get back up because of the steam popping up around her, but Zane reaches down and helps pull her up to safety.

Later Jack advises Jo should let things just be whatever they are, without worrying about labels, since she obviously enjoys being with Zane. Holly and Fargo talk about the day's events and says he’d still like to take her to dinner and she agrees, revealing she’s fine with it being a date and not a working dinner. He confesses though that he saw a prediction with the PALS of her kissing him and she freaks out because it is obviously a security risk he saw and she leaves. Back at the bunker, Alison reveals that she isn’t going to go to Titan because she enjoys her life together with Jack and her children, that this is her new dream.

Jack then gets a call from Henry and he calls him down to the lab to show him one other prediction that popped up that they missed, a prediction that Allison is a 99.08% security threat.

Advanced Research:

Ed Fowler only has a very small handful of writing credits, however, he did write a TV mini series called 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust that follows a nurse being bitten by a vampire and slowly turning. It stars Shawnee Smith (The Blob and Saw), Ted Raimi (brother of Sam Raimi and Seaquest regular), and Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead). It also features Mimi Michaels and Christopher Allen Nelson who we were just discussing in ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2.

Stan Lee played Generalissimo. Born Stanley Martin Lieber, 1922, died in 2018. Worked at Timely Comics which would later become Marvel Comics. First used Stan Lee in 1941 for Captain America Comics #3 so that he could use his real name later on writing the great American novel.

He worked with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko to create the great heroes. Made heroes human like with flaws and money troubles and anxieties. He would outline a story, the artist drew the pages, and then Lee would later add the dialogue and captions. In the 40’s he was in the army and wrote training films with Dr Seuss and Charles Addams and Frank Capra.

The PALs analysis if Zane-

Up in the Air:

Written by: Kira Snyder

Directed by: Alexandra La Roche

Original airdate: August 1, 2011

Synopsis: 

The tryouts for the Titan mission continue with the candidates now going through their physical fitness training. Henry shows Carter his jeep, newly repaired and now coated with a special super-protective polymer that will stop it from being destroyed. Meanwhile, Jo begins her part of the training which is to put the candidates through rigorous exercises, including Zane who wants to be part of the mission.

Allison, doing her part of the checkups, suddenly experiences missing time, finding herself blanking out after seeing her supplies arrive only to wake up hours later, with all the supplies put away, with the staff swearing that she put them away herself.

Jack receives a call that somebody robbed a bank and while Jack is excited for an old fashioned bank robbery, he is soon disappointed as it seems that someone literally robbed the bank and the entire bank building is missing. Henry tells him that the bank is basically a block of osmium, the densest, heaviest material in town.

Fargo goes through his training, trying to get closer to Holly but discovers that she ended up having dinner with his rival, Parrish, who is also going through the training and taking every opportunity to one up Fargo. Jo talks with Holly about Zane who is trying out in each of the fitness groups and she reveals that Zane’s criminal record takes him out of the running for the mission.

Allison confides in Grace about how she seems to have lost part of her memory and Grace suggests it might just be because she’s overworked as a working mother. 

As Jack investigates the back disappearance, he learns that one of the safety deposit boxes had a vial of antimatter in it, realizing that it could potentially be used as a bomb. 

Fargo has to postpone his physical training to take care of GD administration items and talks with Alison. As she talks, she experiences another case of memory loss as suddenly Fargo is thanking her for coming up with the idea of putting her in temporary charge. Later, Fargo and Parrosh get into it again with Parrish throwing a medicine ball at him and causing Fargo to go flying away somehow.

Grace feels like she may not qualify for the Titan mission, but Henry assures her they’ll figure it out. Andy, having saved Fargo, now searches for the medicine balls that have floated away, and Henry theorizes that if the osmium medicine balls floated away, perhaps the bank somehow did as well.  At the same time, Jack finally tracks down the antimatter with Henry’s gizmo and finds the bank right in front of him. However when he gets out of the jeep, he finds out that the bank and his jeep are floating up in the air and he falls 50 feet down into the water.

Jo talks with Zane about his criminal record and he tells her he knows but is going through the training anyway to show people what they’re missing.

Back at home, Alison talks with Kevin and Jenna as she gets ready and goes outside to look for her tablet but suddenly loses memory again and finds herself walking in the middle of the street, almost being hit by a car. When she gets back to the bunker, Kevin says she’s been missing for hours.

Fargo discovers that the bank is gaining altitude, and that something is making their signals bounce around, with Holly theorizing it could be a disruption in the Higgs Field, the pervasive universal field that gives things mass. Jack tells them there was a Higgs Field Disrupter listed as being in one of the safety deposit boxes in the bank.

Jack talks with Alison and she talks about how she seems to be losing time. He’s concerned but they’re interrupted by Holly who has found out who owns the disrupter, Parrish. He maintains it is safe and inert, and should still be unless there was a source of antiparticle energy nearby which Jack reveals there is, the aforementioned antimatter.

Alison scans her brains and discovers the manmade implant inside of her.

Jack uses one of the medicine balls to float up to the back and get inside. He manages to get to the vault, secure the antimatter, which turns off the disrupter. However, as everything starts floating back to the ground, the bank is falling faster. Henry, Holly, Fargo, and Jo manage to discover a device in another safety deposit box that could be used to slow it down, successfully saving the bank and Jack from crashing.

Henry tells Grace that Alison discovered that Henry’s heart has an atrial septal defect which disqualifies him from the mission but Grace says that they make the impossible happen every day in Eureka and they’ll figure this out too.

Fargo takes up Holly’s suggestion that she would help him train and get caught up with the physical fitness he missed earlier, much to Parrish’s chagrin.

Jo and Zane talk and he tells her that she should be trying to be part of the mission too but she tries to play it off, thinking she’s not smart enough but he counters her arguments. She comments that her and the original timeline Zane never really talked like they are, as friends.

Jack and Alison talk at home and she suddenly reveals that she feels all better now. Elsewhere, Beverly is lying on a medical bed, hooked up to wires and machines, watching Jack on a monitor, as an assistant tells her that the Higgs disruptor is no longer causing issues. Beverly begins speaking, as her words come out of Allison’s mouth, revealing that she has control over her, as she tells Jack that she is feeling just fine and there’s no cause to worry.

Advanced Research:

Alexandra La Roche had a lot of TV directing credits to her name, but also has just as many credits as a script supervisor.

Further Resources:

Eureka IMDb

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