Warehouse 13 - SciFi TV series

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I'd guess the shield bubble wouldn't have been strong enough to contain the blast.

Hey hey hey.

Yellek and I started watching this a couple weeks ago.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Hey hey hey.

Yellek and I started watching this a couple weeks ago.

Same here. I'm enjoying it. Kaycee thinks it's okay.

I like the directions they've been taking to keep it fresh.

Plus Claudia is hot.

Almost done with season 2, really enjoying it. I actually have glommed onto this much more than Fringe. I just couldn't get past the terribad acting by Joshua Jackson and Ana Torv, and John Noble isn't enough to counteract them. While the acting on this leans towards camp/goofy, it at least is having fun and doesn't take itself too seriously.

I've also really been having fun with all of the nerd culture cameos throughout the series.

Nevin73 wrote:

Plus Claudia H.G. Wells is hot.

I have a crush on Myka.

nel e nel wrote:
Nevin73 wrote:

Plus Claudia H.G. Wells is hot.

Miss Pardon my Tits.

Ophelia Tetons

Oh interesting: Myka's actress also played vampire Bianca in the short-lived Dresden Files TV show.

LiquidMantis wrote:
nel e nel wrote:
Nevin73 wrote:

Plus Claudia H.G. Wells is hot.

Miss Pardon my Tits.

Agreed.

Did anyone else feel that there was a vibe between H.G. and Myka? Anyone else hoping they'd hook up (preferably on-screen)?

Definitely. It does get mentioned quite often - Myka is often the first to mention HG (even in the current series, where she's talking about people that they've lost or don't know where they are).

Talking of HG, I'm wondering whether they are still going ahead with that Warehouse 12 series - that looked like quite a decent idea, based upon the little taster of it we got in the episode from series 3 with the Horn of Jericho.

Warehouse 12 would be too much like Warehouse 13 except with a different cast (except for H.G.) if it's a spinoff, I'd much rather see warehouse 20. Set a couple of hundred years in the future or Warehouse 1, the start of it all.

I'm thinking Warehouse 12 would be an ideal steampunk type thing (particularly inside the warehouse itself) plus there would be the chance to tie in with real-life incidents....Tunguska, the Marie Celeste, Krakatoa et al. Plenty of scope there in a recognisable world.

Warehouse 20 would seem nonsensical as in theory the viewer would not be able to distinguish between the standard technology of the time and the effect of an artifact without huge exposition dumps. I'm also not really seeing what could be the hook around Warehouse 1, given that it would presumably date to early Egyptian or Greek times.

Which warehouse was in China?

Paleocon wrote:

Which warehouse was in China?

Not sure, I don't know that I've seen the China one. Warehouse 2 was in Egypt though.

Apparently Warehouse 7 was within the Mongol Empire (I think that was mentioned in passing in one episode).

Unless you are thinking of Sykes' place in the last episode of Season 3 ?

I'm really enjoying this as a light hearted cool off from watching a hell of a lot of much darker shows recently. After shows like Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and even Fringe to a certain extent, it's nice watching something a bit more idealistic.

My only complaint would be that it could perhaps be a little bit darker, I thought they nailed the tone pretty well with the first episode but pulled it back a bit over the first season into slightly more campy territory. This is entirely subjective of course.

The characterisation has certainly improved though, they felt a bit weak early on, but I'm actually finding all the characters pretty endearing coming into season 2. Pete and Myka especially, I feel like they're both really well rounded and don't fall into the usual "They Fight Crime!" buddy cop tropes.

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Oh, and MacPherson has to be one of the least exiting bad guys of recent times. The sword episode in particular made him out to be laughably ineffective. Claudia was more threatening as a decoy villain. So glad they killed him off and brought in H.G. Wells as the new antagonist.

Futher Edits: Better spoiler tag that.

It's fair to say...

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It does get quite a bit darker in season 3.

One kind of maddening thing over the past 3 seasons: I wish they'd stop pointing a Tesla at someone and saying "Stop!" or "Drop the gun!" or "Drop the artifact!" It's a goddamn Tesla, just SHOOT THEM! A stun gun so non-lethal that H.G. Wells' mentor demonstrated it by shooting a fellow warehouse agent. Just shoot the f*ckers already!

Tesla first, questions later. A motto we can all live by.

Wembley wrote:

Tesla first, questions later. A motto we can all live by.

Agreed. Stun gun first search for weapons and artifacts and then question later.

I like Myka's fashion choice of see-through shirts in season 3. But sometimes her hair was BIG. That's a huge pendulum switch from the very straight hair of season 2 (humorously ref'ed by her sister).

Quintin_Stone wrote:

One kind of maddening thing over the past 3 seasons: I wish they'd stop pointing a Tesla at someone and saying "Stop!" or "Drop the gun!" or "Drop the artifact!" It's a goddamn Tesla, just SHOOT THEM! A stun gun so non-lethal that H.G. Wells' mentor demonstrated it by shooting a fellow warehouse agent. Just shoot the f*ckers already!

Given both their backgrounds, I'd say it's a training thing.

Don't Tes me, bro.

LiquidMantis wrote:

Don't Tes me, bro.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

One kind of maddening thing over the past 3 seasons: I wish they'd stop pointing a Tesla at someone and saying "Stop!" or "Drop the gun!" or "Drop the artifact!" It's a goddamn Tesla, just SHOOT THEM! A stun gun so non-lethal that H.G. Wells' mentor demonstrated it by shooting a fellow warehouse agent. Just shoot the f*ckers already!

Agreed. Also despite having been both a Marine and a Secret Service agent, Pete comes off as a huge pansy in a fight. I think that they tend to take the comic relief with him a little too far.

AnimeJ wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

One kind of maddening thing over the past 3 seasons: I wish they'd stop pointing a Tesla at someone and saying "Stop!" or "Drop the gun!" or "Drop the artifact!" It's a goddamn Tesla, just SHOOT THEM! A stun gun so non-lethal that H.G. Wells' mentor demonstrated it by shooting a fellow warehouse agent. Just shoot the f*ckers already!

Given both their backgrounds, I'd say it's a training thing.

Nah, it's a dramatic plot device overused by the writers, because every time it happens, the suspect does something to escape.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
AnimeJ wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

One kind of maddening thing over the past 3 seasons: I wish they'd stop pointing a Tesla at someone and saying "Stop!" or "Drop the gun!" or "Drop the artifact!" It's a goddamn Tesla, just SHOOT THEM! A stun gun so non-lethal that H.G. Wells' mentor demonstrated it by shooting a fellow warehouse agent. Just shoot the f*ckers already!

Given both their backgrounds, I'd say it's a training thing.

Nah, it's a dramatic plot device overused by the writers, because every time it happens, the suspect does something to escape.

This.

Any excuse to see an artifact do something cool is fine with me. Even if it becomes a running gag.

Paleocon wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:
AnimeJ wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

One kind of maddening thing over the past 3 seasons: I wish they'd stop pointing a Tesla at someone and saying "Stop!" or "Drop the gun!" or "Drop the artifact!" It's a goddamn Tesla, just SHOOT THEM! A stun gun so non-lethal that H.G. Wells' mentor demonstrated it by shooting a fellow warehouse agent. Just shoot the f*ckers already!

Given both their backgrounds, I'd say it's a training thing.

Nah, it's a dramatic plot device overused by the writers, because every time it happens, the suspect does something to escape.

This.

While it certainly is, they *do* train cops to shout stop first; what you're seeing is proper use of force. If they run, so be it. Training tends to override logic in those situations.

So, yea, it's definitely intended to be a silly plot device to raise tensions etc, but from a standpoint of realism, what they're doing is treating the tesla as a service sidearm.