Warehouse 13

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Or: Yorick's problem with Network TV.

There are very few things that I love more than a TV show that's totally character driven, and has an overall arc to it. While there are shows that have an arc throughout a season (Dexter has been particularly good at this), there's still a bigger picture that I like to see, too. Babylon 5 is absolutely perfection when it comes to this. Having things in mind years in advance allowed JMS to do some absolutely great foreshadowing that you can not pick up on after quite a few rewatches.

Almost a week or so, Warehouse 13 wrapped up its first season. It was recommended to me by someone that thought I would like it, and they were right. It started off feeling like a modern kind of X-Files. The male lead reminds me of Tony from NCIS, which is great, too. And there's an interesting amount of science lingo in there too.

The show is centered around this idea of America's "Attic". Which is to say, they have all kinds of gadgets that exist, and maybe be somewhat supernatural, that are stored in this warehouse to keep people safe. One example is, Edgar Allen Poe's pen and notebook, with which you can write anything down and cause it to happen. So the show follows these two Secret Service agents and their quest to find some of these artifacts.

Here's where the problems come in. The last, let's say 4 episodes of this season, basically completely rip off another show that just recently wrapped up it's first season - Dollhouse. By which I mean:

Dollhouse: Alpha - a former member of the Dollhouse - has been tormenting the Dollhouse for quite some time using their own technology, manages to infiltrate the facility, destroy shit, steal Echo, and escape.

Warehouse 13: MacPherson - a former agent of the Warehouse - has been tormenting the Warehouse for a few episodes using their own technology, manages to infiltrate the facility, destroy it, "kill" a main character, and escape.

This is something that irked me, but not necessarily was that big of a deal. Yes, lots of shows have similarities, and yes I suppose it could just be a coincidence kind of thing. There are enough differences, I suppose.

But then I read this interview at If Magazine - which does contain some finale "spoilers". But what stands out is that this Executive Producer has in mind for Season 2. It seems like he actually has no idea whatsoever where the show is going, and like he's discovering the characters just as much as we are.

And having no sense of direction is something that I find worrying for a show, for fear that it becomes stagnant or just constantly contradicts itself and writes itself into a corner to the point where it has to have a gigantic cop-out (like Battlestar Galactica).
 
Haven't heard of it either, but from what Yorick describes it sounds like they might've gotten the idea from the ending scene of Raiders of the lost Ark, with that giant warehouse filled with topsecret stuff.
 
what is Warehouse 13...never heard of it

It's a show that SyFy premiered and ran over the summer, it just had the season finale last week.

In a nutshell: Two Secret Service Agents are relocated to the middle of nowhere in the US to work with a secret organisation that runs a Warehouse where strange artifacts have been made that for one reason or another must be kept away from the general populace. The two agents have the job of tracking down and locking away said artifacts. Insert complications here.
 
I watched the first episode and sort of lost interest afterwards.
 
Love the concept and while the show was good on some aspects the acting comes off as forced with some of the characters. The artifacts aspect is cool and the show effects of them come off cool as well.
 
I am usually a sucker for syfy shows, but the characters were not very appealing for me to get into this.

I do enjoy Eureka however, no matter how shitty the plot has turned, T_T
 
Sorry to bump this old thread, but i just started watching this series on the Internet.

Watched the first 5 episodes back to back and I find it rather entertaining.

However there are some things that piss me off.
For example almost all the artifacts are completely made up. I thought they would at least be based on real legends/folklore, but no they produce them out of thin air. The only thing I've seen so far that is loosely based on real life folklore is that Tesla weapon the agents use.

It also bothers me how they try to come up with all these pseudo scientific bullshit to try and explain how some of the artifacts work, when just saying it's paranormal/magic/whatever, would have sufficed.

That aside, the show is entertaining, even if it is stupid entertainment.
 
Am I the only person on the planet that simply likes the show for what it is & doesn't have a need to pick it apart? Oh well. To each their own I guess. I enjoyed the first season & am looking forward to Season 2. I just hope what happened at the end of Season 1 wasn't final.

"Phoenix"

Oh & if anyone is interested, you can watch the entire series for free over @ Hulu.com.

-MRG
 
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