I only just now got the title.  *sigh*  Okay, this romp wasn't quite as fun as the past few weeks.  The science fair subplot was all right, but the interactions between Zoey and her Dad felt forced except at the very end of the episode, and considering what a great rapport there usually is between the two actors, it felt off.  A lot of this episode felt off, really.

 

Things that were good: S.A.R.A.H. becoming the new K.I.T.T.  Taggert's goose calls.  Carter using the magnetic weights to retrieve the metal piece.  The fact that the first big meteorite was a zero-g toilet.  (What?  I'm twelve.)  S.A.R.A.H. offering Carter a massage, and at least she didn't offer him a "happy ending" because no.  Seriously freaky moment when Taggert twisted the goose's neck.  "It erased half the databases in Area 51."  "Area 51 is real?"  "No."

 

I liked Finn's complaints about having to stay and take pictures of the sky while his boss was in Hawaii.  I have been that embittered technician.  I liked it less when they kept emphasizing how the height of his career was the science fair.  I get the red herring.  I get the parallel.  I just thought it was overplayed.

  Megan's reveal with her mother, and the "coven," and the mother's lecture at the gym, and Zoey's reluctant camaraderie with Megan?  All overplayed and kind of annoying because I could see the seams in the writing.  Eureka should never play out like an Afterschool Special.  It should also not play out leaving us with the creepy image of Megan smiling cutely at someone twenty years her senior.  (Mr. Merlin watched this and indicated his opinion of what would follow via an obscene gesture.  Of course, he makes obscene gestures quite often, so it could be coincidental.)

 

I liked Henry and Stark watching the falling stars together right up until the point where Henry mentioned Kim.  I really did like Henry and Kim together, and I do want to see how the mytharc plays out, but again, it felt like the episode was written by the numbers: token mention of Kim, token show of Jack trying to impress Allison, Giant Hammer Of Whacking Over The Head in the parallels between Taggert's geese and Jack and Zoey.  Joe Morton has been giving a solid, consistent performance of a brilliant man trying to keep himself together while keeping a huge secret and also while carrying a deep and open wound.  It was wasted here, and that's annoying.

 

A few moments did save the rest.  I loved "112."  That's the Zoey I know: a bit smarter than we might think, but kind.  I also loved that Stark was the one watching Kevin for Allison during the meteor strikes.  There's a lot more subtlety in that dynamic than normally happens in shows with blended (or formerly blended) families.

 

So, not the greatest episode, a bit of fun, kinda routine, a lot of standard character moments and a few really good ones.  Next week: Jack has that dream where he shows up naked, and everyone else has the same dream too.