"Two networks, one sever."
Warehouse 13 is a show that requires a large suspension of disbelief and patience. It often takes large unexplained jumps in logic. One episode can hurl cliches at you and another will be original and highly enjoyable. This week, we reached part one of the second season finale and, unfortunately, I could not get over the level of stupidity that several things in this episode accomplished. But first, a summary.
The episode begins with three college students in Egypt. One sends a picture to his sister and another loudly exclaims 'Nobody's supposed to know we're here!'. Then they all shrivel up. Meanwhile, Mrs. Fredrick begins having head pains. This is soon linked to the event in Egypt, which apparently was Warehouse 2's defense mechanism. So the gang goes to Egypt to shut down Warehouse 2 before it kills Mrs. Frederick.
And the rest of the episode is pretty much National Treasure.
First off, the premise of this episode was ridiculous. Yes, this show is somewhat notorious for oddball premises with little explanation besides the fact that "the artifiacts did it" but this was just bizaare. I think it's a cool idea that someone activated Warehouse 2, but the explanation for it affecting Mrs. Fredrick lead to the bizarre idea that the Warehouses are actually alive, which is of course poorly explained with the statement "They're more organic than you think". Also, was the 'you can only tell one person about what you do' thing brought up before this episode? Cause if it wasn't, it's kind of late to bring that up. Not that it matters, because its existence is clearly just to create an emotional conflict for the characters at some point in the course of the show.
And they didn't wait till the second part to bring out a big twist and a big death. Unfortunately, neither were very big and the former was hardly a 'twist'. Let's start with the death. Does anybody really care? He's been in perhaps a handful of episodes and he was the rather one-note character of 'smart-ass english guy'. But apparently we were supposed to be distraught by this and so were the characters. Pete looked like he had lost a best friend. Meanwhile, I hardly remember this character at all. As for the big twist...really? Anybody who believed HG Wells' (I suppose I should refer to her as Helena) 'I just want to work for the warehouse again' act is extremely gullible.
On the other hand, there was some good stuff in this episode. Claudia almost having to become the new caretaker of the warehouse was fun. Watching the group solve all the traps in the warehouse was interersting, even if it did feel like National Treasure (but with some characters I care about). Unfortunately, the rest of the episode brought it down and I hope the second part will be better.
6.8/10
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