Warehouse 13 on Syfy - Page 20

You are right, but for some reason it felt to me like they were setting it up to be Claudia. Just the feeling they were feeding me.

I was thinking maybe we'll see a Stay Puff cameo...
Edited by Scott Sollars - 7/27/12 at 2:01pm

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Now THAT would have been funny! I'd vote for it as a plot twist. Maybe they were an artifact that was the actual bag of marshmallows used in the movie.

I think Claudia will be a red (redhead??) herring.

My guess is they want us to think it is Claudia... but one possible guess is... the thing Claudia uses to bring back Jinx, ala Pet Sematary style he will be brought back wrong somehow.

Yeah, as they said on last episode, they don't know the "side effects" of that artifact yet, either Claudia becomes evil or Jinx will...

Nice Star Trek memories there with "Data" and "Janeway" I wonder if they exchange a few words on set..

Season #3 is available on Netflix streaming.

Also Artie guest starred on an episode of STNG as a rare object collector who collected Data himself!

It's stuff like that which makes me wonder where some of these show ideas come from. For example, did the premise of Warehouse 13 come from the creator watching that episode of ST:TNG right after the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark?

"Hey, there's an episode of TNG coming up on SciFi"

Changes to the channel...

"Oh, look, it's the end of Raiders...I love that scene..."

As well as the 2 guys in the diner calculating the relative strength of Klingons and Vulcans!

Warehouse 13 probably owes most directly to the SciFi channel (yes before the name change) mini-series "The Lost Room"... but there are other influences to be sure. But the basics of the plot, "magic" artifacts that do random things and can be combined to do other things and people running around looking for them... that's the Lost Room in a nutshell.

You're forgetting the grand-daddy of them all: Friday the 13th: The Series.

It was a show that revolved around collecting haunted items sold from an antique store. It had a team of investigators that met at the shop, which resembled a small warehouse for all the evil stuff.

I got hooked on Friday the 13th when I watched my first episode. I also remember "back in the day" "The Night Stalker" with Darren Mc Gavin but that's another thread. Didn't he find both artifacts and evil creatures?

Nope, just monsters and people acting like monsters.

Friday the 13th was much closer to the premise and far more successful, lasting over 3 times as long as Kolchak.

I didn't forget about it... I just didn't mention it I used to love that show. I even picked up season 2 for $6 at Big Lots a couple of years back and am waiting to find seasons 1 and 3 cheap somewhere so I can re-watch them. I missed about half of season 2 and most of season 3 I believe.

The reason I cited Lost Room, though, is since it was on SciFi and very recent prior to Warehouse 13. I believe Lost Room was probably influenced quite a bit by Friday the 13th the Series... so the connection is there in the chain. The only difference being the semantics of "cursed" objects rather than artifacts that apparently are imbued power through emotional connection of the owner, though not a curse per se.

At the core, though, all three of these (Friday, Lost Room, Warehouse 13) are kind of the same show... magic objects causing trouble that need to be found and secured, and sometimes the people looking for them trip over their own feet. I suppose Warehouse 13 is more like Friday 13th, though, in that it is a team looking for the objects and has the buddy-comedy feel at times, whereas Lost Room was more of a solo-thing with the guy trying to find his daughter.

Anybody who missed Friday the 13th who likes Warehouse 13 really should give it a look. It ran 3 seasons and was mostly under the radar.

Just one nit...

Friday the 13th was actually very successful in syndication, second only to Star Trek:TNG at the time among syndicated fare. I can't find anything that gives a reason why it only lasted 3 seasons, though. Aside from the good ratings, it was also a relatively inexpensive show. The only thing I can figure is the cast either wanted more money to do a 4th season or they simply wanted to move on.

The Night Stalker movie was a bit better in my opinion. They turned his character into a more "bumbling type" when they wrote the TV episodes.

That happens a lot in TV - even between the pilot and the rest of the series.

For example, the original Knight Rider started out pretty dark in the pilot, then became a "buddy" show between the Hoff and KITT after that. The first episode aired of Firefly started out appearing to be Bonanza with space ships, then developed into a tight character dram that happened to take place in space.

That's why I never base whether I watch a show on the pilot. I always give it 3 episodes:

1 - The pilot. I assume things might have been tweaked since the pilot wwas finished, which might be a year or more before the series was greenlit.

2- This sets the tone for the direction the series will likely take once all the setup from the pilot is finished.

3 - This episodes decides whether I'm liking the direction or not. By that point, whatever formula the show will use each episode ought to be apparent.

If I like enough about the show despite some dislikes, it stays on probabtion for a bit longer. That gives me time to see if a character I don't like gets toned down (like Gary on "Alphas") or even eliminated before I give up on what might otherwise be a show I might enjoy.

However, I never subscribe to the "it gets better in episode 6" thing (like was touted in "Dollhouse"). I figure, if the writers can't spend the time to find a way to grab me by episode 3, it's not worth my time to appease them.
Edited by NetworkTV - 8/8/12 at 9:32am

What's up with Myka's hair this season? Don't they have a brush on set? It's so unkempt that it looks ratty.

Well, if I lived around a warehouse where brushes can age you fifty years or wipe out your existence, I might give up brushing hair, too.

While this is not unusual, the MOST egregious example of this was the very short lived X-Files spin off of the lone gunman group. They were serious guys and a serious team on the X-Files, but they were like bumbling idiots on their own show (name?). They were regularly made fun of, insulted, and humiliated. I expected a serious show, and I got The Three Stooges Take On The Government instead.

Completely agreed.

I was so looking forward to the show delving into the kind of paranoid stuff they dealt with when Mulder wasn't around and maybe learn a bit more about them. Instead, we got what amounted to "Jackass Meets Revenge of the Nerds" - that is, if the jocks had won and the nerds had ended up getting swirlies and wedgies at the end of the movie - all while the Lambda Lambda Lambda guys do the Safety Dance.

Anyone else happy to have Jinxy back???

I agree, it looks ridiculous, it looks like she just got out bed, who ever it is in the production team that thinks that looks good needs to have their head examined.

It appears the metronome artifact has some kind of symbiosis affect on him and Claudia?

Maybe she'll keep Marylin Monroe's one to be blonde all day.. (I don't remember the side effect on that one though)

Little detail last episode... the glasses side effect was making you blind for twice the time you wore them... Pete wore them like 30 secs but he was blind for several minutes..

Another thingy... guy kills himself to donate heart to his brother... huge risk electrocuting himself with lightning directly into the chest, it didn't fry the heart?

 

First thing I thought.  But I let it go, I can't get too serious on a show like this and just go along for the ride.

The bigger question is, why none of the staff attempted to revive him. That's the first thing they would do and they would only declare him dead after all measures had been taken to save him. Further, even if they didn't think he could be saved, they should have immediately begun heart compressions to keep things going until they could get him prepped for surgery. The heart becomes non-viable very quickly without blood pumping through it.

I agree. It's very unattractive, and that's a hard word to type when describing Joanne Kelley!

Last season, I complained about him. He just didn't seem very interesting, and upset the dynamic amongst the other characters. However, now that he's back, I like him! Also, I'm guessing that Scagliotti wanted more to do than sit around the Warehouse w/ Artie, so now Jinxy is partner for Claudia and she can "get out of the house."

It seems they're also giving Lena a much bigger role this season, and that's a good thing. It seems she'll now be Artie's partner/main researcher in the Warehouse. While she's doing that, who's managing the B&B?

I'm not sure there have been any guests at the B&B for quite a while. It seems more like it's become a facade where they simply pretend to have no vacancy (which they might not since adding so many people to the program). It's become somewhat like the "International Film" facade that was used in "Scarecrow and Mrs. King". A business sign in front merely justified all the people going in and out of the brownstone.

Re: Mica's hair - what a mess - get a brush girl!

Sooo glad to see Brent Spiner again. Glad to see him join the cast - hope he stays on board!