On the Syfy Warehouse 13 site there is a history of the Warehouses which states that the first Warehouse was founded by Alexander the Great (which throws off your time line from the beginning, Sage Rat), and that the second was in Egypt during the Ptolemeic Dynasty. The seventh was in the Mongolian empire, which I agree doesn’t really make much sense.
D’oh! :smack:
The cast of Warehouse 13 seem to suffer of the same kind of stupidity as the cast of Eureka. H.G. Killed someone right before their eyes in cold blood, but now she feels bad so it’s all good. Welcome back Wells! Hold this knife while I turn around and tie my shoelaces.
For what it’s worth, I like your version better.
Yeah, I get the sense that in S2 they were told by the management staff to try and copy some of the “success criteria” from Eureka. Bad guys are never bad guys. Goofy is good, scary isn’t.
I thought they had a good formula on their own with true villains and truly nefarious artifacts – though presented in a fairly family-friendly manner. I’d much rather they focus on their special effects and leave the formula alone.
I thought it was funny that in the “time travel” episode, they were all “oh real physical time travel is impossible” when a few eps back they had a guy that actually has physically time traveled upgrading their computers. And then later he gave Claudia the machine that was responsible for it to store in the Warehouse. Not really a nitpick, because they don’t know Fargo time traveled, just amusing.
Per the background on Warehouse 9: the Regents move the Warehouse to the country with the strongest military and ruling party.
Yes, I had forgotten that. It was also mentioned in the background for Warehouse 13 that the Regents had considered moving it to Hitler’s Germany in the 1940’s. Now that would be an interest alternate history.
I would think the strongest army to protect it, but the most stable state to prevent the contents from being used.
England instead of France during the Napoleonic Wars, for example.
Um…I don’t think you paid much attention to that episode. He wasn’t time travelling. He inserted part of his personality into the warehouse’s system, and it never aged. The thingie he gave Claudia was what seperated the parts of his personality (right vs left brain) and later brought them back together again.
TBG wasn’t referring to the guy in the computer, rather the nerdy guy who came over from Eureka, Douglas Fargo.
Bingo
The season finale has aired tonight. And darn it, night pollen must be fierce out here because water started leaking from my eyes at certain points.
The Good
- Claudia and Artie’s 2 scenes. Those two are magic
- The continued family vibe
The Bad
- no word on season 3 for Warehouse 13
- HG’s evil plan
- Myka come back!
The WTF
- the entire resolution of the MacPherson/Wells arc
- the point of vet lady
- is HG crazy or mustache twirling evil?
- speech about how sucky the world is - we know it we live here thanks.
Not a great episode. Way too much to pack into one episode, and unless you’ve read the Wikipedia article on HG Wells, you’re not going to have any foreshadowing that he was pretty sour on technology and the world. Myka’s ability to talk lady Wells down also seemed to depend on their having a fairly romantic relationship – which they hadn’t really developed on screen.
Upsetting, I was expecting something more.
If only someone had given her a yellow crayon~!
I was hoping that HG would have shot Myka, only to kill herself (based on the twin vest) - it would have resolved it so much better (showing HG as truly ‘bent’, Myka making amends, etc.)
As it was, that was a pretty pitiful ending for that arc.
There’s a banner ad on their website announcing “New Episodes Return Summer 2011”.
I really liked the final episode. Not as big a cliffhanger as season 1 (and I thought Claudia’s asking Artie, “Are you going to die on us every year? 'Cause that’ll get boring” was hilarious) but I thought it set up a couple of good storylines - mainly Pete and the vet (the possibility of them working it out is still there) and Myka leaving. She’ll come back, I have no doubt, but I’m eager to find out how.
Claudia and Artie (withwhomI’mmadlyinlove) are my favorite characters and I loved the scenes they had together. Artie is pretty Papa Bearish when it comes to her; I anticipate some friction between him and Mrs. Frederick because of it, since Mrs. Frederick obviously intends for Claudia to inherit her job.
Since I obsessively watch and re-watch all the episodes, I’ve noticed that H.G., in her more communicative moments, actually had two themes she expounded on. One was her daughter; the other was how unfair and cruel the world was, and how nothing had really changed since her time. I don’t think the backstory on her daughter was a red herring, exactly; I think it was the final straw that drove her around the bend and turned her personal political and social theories into full-blown despair so that she thought destroying the world was the right thing to do. I think they could have done more to make that clear, though; that whole storyline was kind of muddled. I’m also amazed the Regents thought anyone who had been immobile yet conscious for a hundred years could possibly be mentally stable enough to be a warehouse agent.
I really don’t think Macpherson intended to use the trident to destroy the world; he was probably planning to sell it to Osama Bin Laden or something. Which would have led to a kickass fight between him and H.G., if the writers had decided to go that route. Two evil super-genius arch-villains in a battle of wits to the death? Hells, yeah; they probably could have done a whole spin-off series on that premise. Unfortunately Roger Rees was off touring the world with Ian McKellen while they were filming this season.
I’m looking forward to the Christmas episode. I gather from comments made in the podcast commentaries it’s a standalone episode that is set sometime after episode 4 or 5 in season 1, which means Myka will be there. Wonder how many people that’ll confuse.
the daughter’s story was a bit of a red herring - she planned for the destruction of the world since before she was bronzed - evidenced by the piece of the trident stored on her daughters coffin.
Hadn’t heard about this. So Eureka and Warehouse have Xmas episodes?
Cool…and very British of them.
Don’t watch Eureka but do love Warehouse - and I’m in love with Artie too! He’s practical, business-like, decisive, but every now and then there’s a twinkle in his eye and you get that he does have a sense of humor. And at first blush, he appears to be out of shape, but can dust it up with the rest of them. As for Eureka, hubby watches it, and I wanted to like it and tried, but just can’t get into it. It certainly has none of the humor, charm, or action that Warehouse does. None of the characters/actors of Eureka are appealing to me, except for the Romeo android (he’s funny).
What constitutes an Xmas Episode? Is there an Xmas party on the show?
Do the characters worship the baby Jesus?
