History Fridge / Eureka

* Does the new timeline have two copies of Zane's grandmother's ring? Surely, Jo brought the one she has from the old timeline, and Grandma Donovan still has hers because Zane never wanted it to propose with?

** Worse, Jo notes at one point that Zane is "anti-anything that damages his brain," so having been apparently experimented on in this way taps straight into his worst fears.

* Zane's plight in "Liftoff". Fargo brings him up on being three weeks late with the Ion Damper he was supposed to make for the test rocket, and when Zane does deliver the thing, he didn't make it himself as he said but stole it from the BCE. This is pretty out of character for Zane, who while irresponsible is usually pretty dedicated to his job. Later, it becomes obvious what the problem is; he is ''freaking out'' over the fact that his memory has apparently been tampered with, to the point that he doesn't remember getting engaged.

* Zane's plight in "Liftoff". Fargo brings him up on being three weeks late with the Ion Damper he was supposed to make for the test rocket, and when Zane does deliver the thing, he didn't make it himself as he said but stole it from the BCE. This is pretty out of character for Zane, who while irresponsible is usually pretty dedicated to his job. Later, it becomes obvious what the problem is; he is ''freaking out'' over the fact that his memory has apparently been tampered with, to the point that he doesn't remember getting engaged. Worse, Jo notes at one point that Zane is "anti-anything that damages his brain," so having been apparently experimented on in this way taps straight into his worst fears. He's in constant freakout mode and probably not sleeping; making high-tech gizmos is clearly out of the question. He needs answers to avoid getting fired from the job that's keeping him out of prison.

** Because she already knew they were from an alternate timeline so was likely unfazed by any inconsistencies mentioned by them amongst themselves.

* When Beverly hijacks Allison's brain, she doesn't bat an eye at repeated mentions from the Founder's Day time travelers that she is becoming Director of Global Dynamics AGAIN, even though in this timeline, Fargo succeeded Stark instead of her.

* In ''Series/{{Eureka}}'''s "Once in a Lifetime", it seemed like a joke to have Zoey be valedictorian in a future that will never happen. But to be valedictorian, she had to smarter than a school full of geniuses; a subtle way to hint that Zoey is smarter than she gives herself credit for. We later learn this to be true when she scores a 157 on her IQ test, but tells her dad it was 112.
** And how did Zoey end up with a super-genius level IQ with average parents? Well, that sort of thing ''can'' happen, but Jack mentions his IQ score was 111, which he was quite proud of because he didn't know it wasn't out of 100. However, he ''also'' mentions he "wasn't even trying". What sort of person can half-ass his way through a test and earn an average score without paying attention?
*** This right here supports my theory that Jack is actually highly intelligent, it is just his knowledge pool and mind are geared toward investigations.
*** It's all but stated that Jack is actually a lot smarter than just about anyone gives him credit for. He just doesn't grasp a lot of Eureka's science (which would throw a lot of real-world top thinkers into headscracters). Probably because he just isn't that interested in raw science, once it becomes clear it's essential to performing his job, he adapts and learns fairly quickly (witness several "future flashbacks" where Jack is a lot more knowledgeable about what's going on in the town, and several times where he surprises Allison and Henry by grasping advanced science in concept, to respond to their shocked looks with "I learn stuff!") While he never really matches the geniuses in Eureka (as that would undermine the OnlySaneMan humor of the show), that's probably more likely due to him having neither the time nor interest in catching up to all the various sciences that are super-advanced in Eureka, especially when he has Henry and Allison to "dumb it down" for him as needed. So yes, it seems fairly confirmed that Jack is reasonably intelligent, Zoe's mother doesn't seem at all dumb, so it's quite plausible that Zoe has the raw potential to be a genius in her own right, and the environment of Eureka allowed her to explore that side of herself. It could even be argued that Zoe's rebellious streak early in the show was do to her being bored and insufficiently challenged, while lacking the environment of social acceptance of high intelligence, in regular schools.

** Seems to be all but stated in the actual show. One doesn't get to be a US Marshal (one would assume) without some kind of ability to think and reason logically. Jack just ''looks'' dumb because he's literally surrounded by people who are off-the-charts smart, working on tech so advanced the brightest minds of the age in the real world wouldn't know what to make of it. Jack certainly doesn't have the learning and education of Eureka's scientists, but he trumps them all when it comes to on-the-fly problem-solving.
** Goes back all the way to the ''third'' episode, when he keeps failing the written exam for access to Eureka's advanced weapons. At the end, Jo gives him the test in a hands-on, practical way under the guise of some tutoring, and he passes with no problem. He's not dumb, he just learns and thinks differently from many others.

* In the episode "Reprise", one of the songs seen being acted out in the background is Nena's "99 Red Balloons" which is very blatantly about nuclear annihilation. Eureka is a town where citizens can casually own antimatter. So the clean-up that got glossed over at the end of the episode probably involved stopping somebody from nuking Eureka.
** "I Melt With You" (the song that convinces Henry and Grace to build the stasis device to "stop the world" for each other) is also about nuclear annhilation, and Carter mentions "TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt," stating that this is a town full of people who can make it happen. The episode runs mostly on IsntItIronic, but there were certainly a few people doing decidedly less harmless or amusing things because of their musical taste.

** Using a shock to get out was a dangerous technique and no one knew that Henry was unconscious. If he'd been conscious (as they would reasonably have assumed) it would have been a lot safer for Zane do what he tried to do (get the crew out and contact Henry to have him get Carter out). Shocking Carter out only really makes sense because we know things the characters did not.

** Just because they were sharing some memories of the each other’s timelines doesn’t mean they were sharing ALL of them, from what it looked like they were only sharing the memories that they thought about and Grace probably wasn’t thinking about the Consortium and possibly actively made sure not to think about them while wearing the neural network device.

* When Beverly hijacks Allison's brain, she doesn't bat an eye at repeated mentions from the Founder's Day time travelers that she is becoming Director of Global Dynamics AGAIN, even though in this timeline, Fargo succeeded Stark instead of her.
** She may have been confused by it but, in the interest of preserving her cover, she couldn't exactly acknowledge that confusion (since anyone who mentioned Alison being head of GD obviously expected Alison to know about it). In addition, Beverly might not have known the specifics but she knew about the time travel (when she contacted Grant she mentioned knowing he'd travelled forward in time with people from the present). Given there were descriptions of the people he'd escaped with, she probably already knew who was involved and that this Alison was from an alternate timeline..