I thought this episode was a little too . . . cliched for me (in a Eureka sense). I mean, how many episodes have now involved some forgotten, bitter scientist and his discontinued project that all of a sudden becomes relevant and either the problem or solution?

And I, too, am tired of hearing them make fun of Carter every week only to have him hand them the solution while they sit around trying to out-intelligence each other.

And last, the space junk all happening to fall at the same time (except for the two nice little warning pieces that conveneintly fell earlier) was a little hard to swallow, too.

That being said, it was still enjoyable, which to me is the most important measure of success for TV.

I liked that at least Carter and Zoe referred to the Carter smarts as "street smarts." It's getting a little tired to see Carter make a suggestion week after week that ends up either identifying the problem or coming close to a solution, while the Eurekans continue to treat him as a half-step above the village idiot.

Zoe saying "112" was heart-breakingly sweet. I really like that father-daughter relationship.

And kudos to Colin Ferguson for whatever he did that made him able to collapse his body as he came out of the elevator. I must have rewound that 10 times, laughing hysterically the whole time.

I was actually really disappointed in this episode. It seemed somewhat ham-handed. Taggart's sage-wisdom-disguised-as-goose-navigation-musing (doesn't every show have that episode?) would have been much more effective if he hadn't been so over-the-top about being the geese's "mama" the whole show. It was like the writers were saying, "let's make absolutely sure the audience knows we're making an IMPORTANT POINT™ with this subplot."

Plus, there seemed to be too many cheap shots at Carter's expense. He works best when he's confronted by something totally out of his league but then shows that his "different sort of intelligence" makes him an even match for the GD geniuses. In this episode, they made him seem like a little kid tagging along with his older siblings, trying to fit in.

Kudos, though, on the "Heathers" reference.