madbaker | Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!

We started watching Eureka, a TV series from about 10-15 years ago. The premise is "A U.S. Marshal becomes the sheriff of a remote cozy little Northwestern town of Eureka where the best minds in the US have secretly been tucked away to build futuristic inventions for the government which often go disastrously wrong."

It's not bad. Fluffy, which is good right now. However, my not-so-inner critic exploded at a few things.

It's supposedly a half day's drive from LA. Yet it's in the Northwest, somewhere vaguely Oregon-ish. LA scriptwriters apparently have no concept of driving distance outside the LA basin.
Poison ivy is not native to this coast. ETA: maybe the scriptwriters are East coast? That answers both points.
The inventors' focus seems to be primarily on weapons. That's lazy screenwriting. Inventions shown in the first few episodes include such game-changers as a portable fusion generator. That's far more useful to the military than a bulky personal force field (also in the first few episodes)! One, it's enormously valuable commercially and they are supposedly operating through a commercial company that would be jumping all over this to sell. Two, it destabilizes unfriendly despots who are dependent on oil revenues. Three, think of the space you save on warships and submarines and how much longer you can stay out on patrol...

We'll keep watching it, but I reserve the right to yell at the screen.