Is Nathan Stark Dead?
Wednesday August 20, 2008
In the final moments of Eureka's fourth episode this season, "I Do Over," Nathan Stark (Ed Quinn) seems to vanish into time, and the characters think he's dead. Fans reeled: Why kill off Nathan, a character that has grown in interesting ways since his introduction early in season 1, and who worked so effectively as a counterpoint to Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) and Henry (Joe Morton)?
Is he dead? Does this leave the way clear for Carter and Allison (Salli Richardson) to get together? Is this a good thing for the show? Is it another case of killing off the third wheel, a phenomenon I discussed earlier in the year?
Check out the preliminary thinking here.
Is he dead? Does this leave the way clear for Carter and Allison (Salli Richardson) to get together? Is this a good thing for the show? Is it another case of killing off the third wheel, a phenomenon I discussed earlier in the year?
Check out the preliminary thinking here.
Comments
I don’t think Nathan will be “dead” for long.
In “I Do Over,’ Nathan gives Allison a necklace at the wedding. In photos for next week’s episode, ‘Show Me the Mummy,’ Allison is wearing that necklace.
I think that somehow that necklace will be a connection to the return of Nathan.
There’s just something about that Logic diamond. The diamond was very prominently in “Best in Faux” and “I Do Over,” with very long lingering close ups. It got more close ups than the Degree product placement. So I think that if Nathan’s essence is still alive it’s stuck in that Logic diamond that Jack had on him when Nathan was deleted from space time. We haven’t seen the last of Nathan.
I believe the previous emails, that Nathan’s not dead. He’ll problably return when it’s most inconvience, just when Sheriff Carter and Allison are just getting close.
O.K. I meant inconvient at my last message. Also, in the real world, perhaps the actor has another project and he wanted to get out of his contract. Anyway, even if I’m wrong, He had the best death scene I’ve seen in a great many years. It was sort of “the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few…or the one.” But he really seemed to do it for Allison.
The logic everyone is providing makes sense. I really like the idea of the diamond holding his essence. I only HOPE he’s not dead, because Stark is one of the best parts of the show. It would be foolhardy to write him out.
On the opposite side, I hope Ed Quinn hasn’t left the show for some other work. It would be great to see him other things. But I really hope he hasn’t left the show!
If you listen to the audio commentary for the episode or go to any of the interviews with the show writers and Ed Quinn himself, you’ll see that he left to find more lucrative work and because of the heavy workload (I think Eureka typically has a shorter time frame to film their episodes than most shows).
So he really is dead, at least until the studio coughs up more money to pull him back.