‘Eureka’ Season 3 Steps Up The Romance
Colin Ferguson with his new 'Eureka' love interest, Jaime Ray Newman
The good people at io9 have spoken with Eureka co-creator Jamie Paglia and star Colin Ferguson (aka Sheriff Carter) about what fans can expect from the new season and it seems the answer is “romance”.
From io9:
How is the story arc going forward?
Colin Ferguson: From an acting perspective, what’s really nice is about these episodes is that I have these emotional lines, mostly with Jordan, whether she is or isn’t going to go to college. Also there’s dealing with Salli (who plays Allison) in more of a friendship capacity than in a lover capacity, because she’s pregnant. I enjoyed that, and being able to dig deeper on the friendship angle of our relationship.
Jamie Paglia: We wanted to bring in a new love interest for Carter, and change the dynamic that we had traditionally [featured, which was] the two alpha males battling over the alpha female. We wanted to bring in a new character, with the actress Jamie Ray Newman who playing Tess Fontana — who has a history with Allison, they are old friends. But that gets a little tense, when she and Carter begin to develop a romantic connection. Which was really fun to play, and to give Carter a real honest love interest.
Colin Ferguson: Yeah it was a nice change of pace to be both receiving and giving of love with the character, than with the relationship I played with Salli, which is sort of unrequited and confused most of the time. It was nice.
Jamie Paglia: We wanted to bring in a romantic quality of the show…We wanted Fargo to get a girlfriend, which we’ve finally done. We wanted to step up the relationship with Jo and Zane and challenge it. Is it a short term thing, or is it something more? And also for Zoe and her boyfriend Marcus, who’s at an age now where they are talking about college and whether or not they are going to go to the same place. We got a chance to deepen those connections and relationships.
Paglia also confirms that the new bad guy of the show isn’t necessarily going to be a guy or even a person for that matter.
Jamie Paglia: We wanted to have another Big Bad, but we wanted it to be something different and have it sort of tie in some how to the historical aspect of our characters and the town on a personal level. So it’s not necessarily a person, its a thing. We don’t know what it is. But the question is, is it from out there? Is it man made? But it is coming towards Eureka, and we have to deal with it.
Read the full interview at io9.
Eureka will return with all new episodes on the Syfy channel on July 10.
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