'Eureka' Goes Even Higher Tech

By WAYNE HALL May-9-2008
Source: SciFiWire

So you thought "Eureka" had a lot of high-tech devices in its first two years? Just wait until Season 3, according to SciFi Wire.

"We take a lot of things that we find in tech magazines or online and sort of take it to the next level," said series co-creator Jaime Paglia. "We kind of 'Eureka-fy' stuff that's already in development. It is based on reality, and the idea of eventually exploring of the planets is great, but we get to take that to a whole new level."

For example, in the highly rated SciFi Channel show with automatic dog walkers and hovercars, Biosphere 2, an environmental project in the Arizona desert, becomes "a 2,000-acre preserve," he said.

What would happen to everyday events in a technologically advanced community like Eureka? Executive Producer Charlie Craig answers that question by bringing to life the town's dog show.

"Dog shows in Eureka [feature] dogs, but they're robot dogs, and they're trying to be perfect. They're trying to be dogs that look mangy and smell, and that would be a real success to make a dog. So we're doing that."

A lot of this comes from the backgrounds of the show's head honchos. For example, Pagia's father is a scientist, hematologist and pathologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. His dad served as one of the advisors for Biosphere 2. "I went out there as a kid with him, and I got to go in and see what that thing looked like," Paglia said. It's no surprise that the show revisited the concept, Eureka-style.

New episodes of "Eureka" begin on the SciFi Channel on Tuesday, July 29.

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About the Author: Wayne Hall is the former news editor for Airlock Alpha, writing from the Washington, D.C., area. He first joined the site in October 2004 as a staff writer, and wrote the monthly "Wayne's Worlds" column.
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