Colin Ferguson, who stars as Sheriff Jack Carter on SCI FI Channel's original series Eureka, told reporters that the second season will see a change in the dynamics between the characters, building off of the events of the first season finale.
"I think second season ... picks up right where first season left off," Ferguson said in a news conference in Vancouver, Canada. "One of my concerns off the top was 'Are we going to be one of those shows that sort of take a season finale like that and just ... sweep it under the rug and ... pretend like that never happened?' And we're not. I mean, it grabs that show, and it ... tees up the second season. We deal ... immediately with the ramifications of that, and I think that's ... the start point for all the character development that happens over the course of the second season."
The finale gave viewers a glimpse of the town of Eureka in the year 2010, where Sheriff Carter is happily married to government liaison Allison Blake (Salli Richardson), and Henry Deacon (Joe Morton) has taken over as head of the town's top-secret research facility, Global Dynamics, from the ousted Nathan Stark (Ed Quinn). But when it's discovered that the timeline has been dangerously corrupted, Carter must travel back in time and change the past in order to save the future.
At the news conference, Quinn said that the second season will challenge what the audience thinks they know about the characters. "Everyone seems to have each other's secrets," he said. "There's a big shift. It's almost like everybody turns the characters on a dial a number of degrees, and everybody all of a sudden looks at each other in a different way. And the way you would think—the almost stereotypical way the characters would react to different situations, different power shifts—the opposite is true. And different relationships form, different bonds form. And different conflicts, too."
Morton agreed, adding: "I think you'll see that a lot of the characters sort of shift positions. There are big changes for all of us. So instead of being exactly the same as we were last year, it's all very, very different. So, as he said, last year tees [up] this year. It really sort of hits the ground running." Eureka airs Tuesdays 9 p.m. ET/PT. —Cindy White |
