# Too soon for a Warehouse 13 thread?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 9, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867 "2011-06-09T16:16:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/141 "2011-10-04T01:02:13Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#):
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> 2 hour season finale tonight. I dunno, to me it never really felt like this season got off the ground, which was kind of disappointing because it’s one of only three shows I watch regularly and if it continues to suck next year I’ll be down to two.
It’s been ok, but not amazing. Decent stand-alones. I don’t need a major arc story in this show.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/142 "2011-10-04T01:16:18Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#):
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> Yeah, it did! Plus there was the way he kind of smiled and shook his head when she texted him later. I think it’s pretty obvious they’ve been setting him up to be contacted by the baddies; Mrs.Frederick and the Regents never struck me as the types to systematically destroy an ex-employees life, even if he did pull a gun on one of them.
Yeah, it would be incredibly stupid to burn Jinx’s credit, etc. - you want him to go back to his old life and forget all about his brief experience as a Warehouse agent or you want him dead. You do not want him to have nothing to lose and every reason to want revenge…
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/143 "2011-10-04T01:56:23Z")
Still watching - like it so far - but I do wonder how much crap Claudia can possibly go through before she’ll have to make another trip to the happy home.
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/144 "2011-10-04T03:15:45Z")
YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! AH, DAMN YOU!
Ahem. Sorry.
That was…sudden. I mean, superbadevilvillain guy went kind of lame right there at the end, I thought, letting himself get squished by a portal like that. I did like seeing H.G. again, bless her kickass little heart. And Mrs. Frederick - whoa. On the one hand I really hope that watch Artie is holding at the end does what I think it does and turns back time; on the other hand that would be too damn easy, plus I think it would totally contradict the “science” of the show, such as it is.
I wonder when the Christmas episode will be set; they had a brief trailer during the episode but I don’t remember if Jinks was in it or not. Or maybe they’ll set it AFTER this episode and we can have Metronome Zombie Jinks, that’d be cool.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2011, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/145 "2011-10-04T11:28:17Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#):
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> On the one hand I really hope that watch Artie is holding at the end does what I think it does and turns back time;
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> I wonder when the Christmas episode will be set;
I rather imagine Artie or HG Welles has the Time Machine.
When will the Yom Kippur episode air?
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2011, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/146 "2011-10-04T13:02:38Z")
Wow, y’all got a much different experience from anyone watching on iTunes. They’ve split it into two one hour episodes (the second of which hasn’t been released yet). Mine just ended on Steve in the chair, upstairs.
Intense!
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/147 "2011-10-04T13:23:22Z")
I hope my DVR didn’t screw up again, so I can actually watch this one…
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/148 "2011-10-05T01:32:39Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#):
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> That was…sudden. I mean, superbadevilvillain guy went kind of lame right there at the end, I thought, letting himself get squished by a portal like that. I did like seeing H.G. again, bless her kickass little heart. And Mrs. Frederick - whoa. On the one hand I really hope that watch Artie is holding at the end does what I think it does and turns back time; on the other hand that would be too damn easy, plus I think it would totally contradict the “science” of the show, such as it is.
It really bugged me that HG put the forcefield around Artie and the gang… instead of putting it around the bomb. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/149 "2011-10-05T01:33:06Z")
Wow, just watched it. Did not see the final moments coming. Was Mrs. Frederick somehow tied to the Warehouse? Its destruction = her death?
Did Claudia keep that thing that can bring back the dead?
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### Author:  [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/150 "2011-10-05T02:08:59Z")
Mrs. Frederick described herself as the warehouse’s caretaker last season, but I’ve been wondering if she isn’t actually the warehouse itself - a walking, talking avatar that the warehouse uses to interact with its support staff. It would explain why she went all mummified when it exploded, and why she seems to have been around since the beginning without aging.
Claudia did indeed keep the metronome. Whether she’ll use it or not will probably be a major plot point in season 4’s first episode. A more pressing question to me is, did Trailor the dog get out?
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/151 "2011-10-05T03:29:49Z")
> [@Lightnin](#):
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> It really bugged me that HG put the forcefield around Artie and the gang… instead of putting it around the bomb. :smack:
No time. She did say it would only work on that particular spot.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/152 "2011-10-05T04:07:42Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> Wow, just watched it. Did not see the final moments coming. Was Mrs. Frederick somehow tied to the Warehouse? Its destruction = her death?
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> Did Claudia keep that thing that can bring back the dead?
Last season there was the bit about finding the warehouse in egypt and mrs frederick was having issues and Claudia was going to take over her duties - In that episode it was explained that Mrs Frederick was the caretaker of that warehouse and they were linked - thats why they had to transfer that responsibility to claudia should anything happen to Mrs Frederick - I assume the reverse is also true, that something happens to the warehouse, it happens to mrs. frederick.
While I like again that they have Artie with an artifact, I do hope (to some degree) that they don’t just reset that ending into oblivian - and yes - the dog escaped - he’s out with the fish and the cow playing on the neighbors farm.
yeah, thats it.
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### Author:  [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/153 "2011-10-05T06:43:25Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> No time. She did say it would only work on that particular spot.
(WRT putting the force field around the gang instead of the bomb) All she had to do was say, “Put the bomb down there and step aside guys, I’m going to try something.” It’s not as if they’d argue with her.
Also, how did they happen to be standing in exactly the only spot it would work, without direction or coaching?
Overall, I LIKED this season, and will be continuing to watch next year.
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### Author:  [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/154 "2011-10-05T07:41:25Z")
Looking froward to watching Warehouse 14 next year. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/155 "2011-10-05T16:54:27Z")
I thought the confrontation with Sykes would go down differently. I thought that Pete would somehow manage to slip Collodi’s bracelet on his own wrist, using its ability to control his own body to break the effect of DeMille’s riding crop so he could overpower Sykes.
Having Sykes more or less go _POOF_ as the portal closed on him seemed a little too clean a death for him. He should have just had his arm chopped off.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/156 "2011-10-05T17:19:02Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#):
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> I thought the confrontation with Sykes would go down differently. I thought that Pete would somehow manage to slip Collodi’s bracelet on his own wrist, using its ability to control his own body to break the effect of DeMille’s riding crop so he could overpower Sykes.
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> Having Sykes more or less go _POOF_ as the portal closed on him seemed a little too clean a death for him. He should have just had his arm chopped off.
Well if they’re going to do a reset (or half-reset, more probably), then he’ll be able to get a much better offing in the next season.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/157 "2011-10-05T18:29:03Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#):
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> (WRT putting the force field around the gang instead of the bomb) All she had to do was say, “Put the bomb down there and step aside guys, I’m going to try something.” It’s not as if they’d argue with her.
The timer is already down to, what, 23 seconds? Just telling them where to put it would eat up about half that. She’s not even sure it’ll hold around _them!_
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/158 "2011-10-05T19:26:30Z")
Wasn’t she essentially creating a bubble that put the others **outside** the force field? The Warehouse would not have allowed her to do that to the bomb itself.
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### Author:  [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/159 "2011-10-05T19:32:06Z")
> [@Lightnin](#):
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> It really bugged me that HG put the forcefield around Artie and the gang… instead of putting it around the bomb. :smack:
Me too, that’s the first thing I thought of when she shielded them.
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-soon-for-a-warehouse-13-thread/584867/160 "2011-10-05T19:55:06Z")
Was anyone else sort of upset by the complete inability of the Warehouse 13 crowd to deal with 3 bad guys and a single artifact?
a. They lose H.G. Well’s alter ego and get zapped.
b. They lose the coin and get artifacted.
c. They lose the initiative in the stand-off in Hong Kong.
d. In the Warehouse (their home turf), they still get their butts handed to them by hostage taking bad guy. I mean, Sykes just wheeled himself in there with Pete for muscle. That’s not much of a master plan considering he should be facing a reception committee armed with zap guns and artifacts.
e. Lena gets taken hostage by the bad guy at the B&B, even though that is also their home base and should have some kind of security. (Specifically, the guy just drove up in a SUV towing a damned cannon and she was taken by surprise. Pretty much failing grade for situational awareness.)
I know that some of this is plot-driven ineptness, but these are secret service agents. Since when do those guys fall for the “put the guns down or I’ll shoot” line?
On a more meta-level, how come all the artifacts seem to have malign influences? Aren’t there any benign artifacts that the good guys could routinely use on their missions? Going up against magic-wielding bad guys every week armed only with guns and purple gloves seems like a real bad idea.
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