36. The fundamental corruption of federal authority and its intrusion into every vein of society including the military-industrial complex, and the federal take over of traditionally state and local powers is actually magnitudes worse than anyone imagines. Eureka is the confluence of all that is unholy, where a county sheriff is "promoted" from a federal job but under the jurisdiction of a city elected mayor taking orders from a private company president who is an employee of the Department of Defense and takes orders from a General.
36a. The competition for mayor is fierce, but sometimes years go by without anyone even holding the job. 36ax. Jack find out about a lot of annual events for the first time, even years after he moved to Eureka.
37. Eureka is the tippiest of top secret, to the point that if you're fired, within an hour a cleaning team will wipe your entire presence clean from the town and send you packing with the threat of death if you return. But if a globe trotting hippie or any old fling wants to wander into town for any extended stay that's cool too.
38. Nothing ever makes it to market. But "scrapped" projects seem to work pretty damn well.
39. Invisibility and teleportation are impossible and illegal. Except when they aren't.
40. Nearly every problem Eureka faces kills off brilliant scientists who are virtually irreplaceable. Nearly every catastrophic event is the result of 2 simultaneous experiments coming together that only Carter can figure out. Yet at no point does anyone propose an idea of keeping track of simultaneous events and potential collisions, nor does anyone question the wisdom of repeatedly conducting mass death causing accidents due to proximity when all these experiments could be conducted safely and separately.
41. People constantly cause the deaths of others through lies, deception, secret projects, and simple negligence. Nobody is ever arrested because mistakes are OK in "science".
42. On the other hand if you pull harmless pranks you'll end up in jail all the time.
43. It would be more detrimental to the space-time continuum if you send one of the world's most important scientists back to his own time knowing about the future, than it is to remove him entirely before he does any of his more important work.
44. You can't just use the memory eraser (plot)device you invented already that can pinpoint exact memories and send the scientist back not knowing anything about the future thus fixing everything.
45. If you go back in time again, but waste time hiding and never make contact with anyone, you must conclude the past can't be changed, except when it can.
46. Jack must suffer.
47. When Jack isn't suffering, he is being set up for even grander suffering.
48. If Jack falls in love with a Eureka resident, and she reciprocates, she must be written out of the show inexplicably, or have her wiped out in a time line change.
49. We must be constantly reminded, either by flashes of memory from Jack or from a flashback episode that Henry hates Jack, blames him for Kim's death, will never forgive him, will never forget, and wiped Jack's memory. But Henry plays it so cool doesn't he? As if the plot had just dropped right into a black hole.
50. If people constantly mock Jack and call him stupid and laugh at him when he gets seriously injured trying to save people, Allison will tell Jack and the other person to "knock it off" or "get along you two" because Jack is being childish when someone mocks him and he tries to stand up for himself.
51. Jack's sister is the nicest person in his family. And she mocks him constantly. The rest aren't even worth visiting at Christmas.
52. When the woman you fall in love with suddenly moves to Australia claiming she's out of a job at GD even though she obviously could still work at Section 5, take the hint. She's just going to virtually dump you in a "previously on" cut scene inexplicably and then two episodes later you'll be claiming you dumped her after "realizing after a year of dating you weren't meant to be" even though you'd only been dating a couple months and you were completely in love 2 episodes back.
53. Genius is contagious. If you're average and move to Eureka, you won't leave average.
54. Moms who love their daughter and ex husband are totally cool with the dad taking their little girl forever. No way a doctor could find a job in Eureka to stay near her daughter. Because L.A. is just too great a place to live to abandon for your child.
55. The children in Eureka make more groundbreaking discoveries in their free time than the handsomely paid, extremely well educated and massively more experienced adults do with years of research.
56. Eureka has cured nearly every disease, can end world hunger, can fix any environment, can restore habitat, and do many other things that would make society and Earth great, but they only give these inventions to employees and pretty much the only items that ever leave Eureka are weapons and space research equipment. But Eureka is totally about helping people.
57. Eureka is the ultimate hipster town. They invented it before it was invented.
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