Comments on: Warehouse 13 1.2 – Resonance http://www.tvverdict.com/2009/07/16/warehouse-13-1-2-resonance/ Cutting through the vast wasteland of television with style and verve Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:52:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Pavlich http://www.tvverdict.com/2009/07/16/warehouse-13-1-2-resonance/comment-page-1/#comment-3504 John Pavlich Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:16:56 +0000 http://www.tvverdict.com/?p=2721#comment-3504 I agree with pretty much everything you've said about Warehouse 13 (in both articles). Personally, any time the show takes place in/around the actual warehouse, or a scene involves Artie in some way, that's when the show is entertaining, inventive and fun. It reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode (from the run produced by Wes Craven in the 80s') called "Wong's Lost & Found Emporium". I wish the show would focus more on that sort of whimsical tone of magic and wonderment. The warehouse seems to be so vast that it's actually endless, or merely defies the laws of physics, time and space. Either way, more time should be spent there. I'm not so interested when the two leads keep going off on these fleeting, outside adventures, away from Artie and the warehouse. When you have such a creatively fruitful location/setting with such a charismatic and delightful character actor in Saul Rubinek, it's not a good idea to be constantly separating from all that with two main characters who are, quite frankly kind of dull and uninspired (the actors are fine, but not much is given/required for them to be anything more than that). I'll keep watching, sure. Anything to support decent to good science fiction TV on a network that seems intent on turning its back on the very thing that put them on the map, so much so that they feel the need to change their name (don't get me started). I just hope that as things progress, we'll get more localization and face time with all the characters in one place (preferably the warehouse), working together to solve a problem that's actually interesting, and not just a minor nuisance of the week. P.S. Perhaps Tricia Helfer (as well as her character) should have been Lattimer's new partner? Just an idea. :) I agree with pretty much everything you’ve said about Warehouse 13 (in both articles). Personally, any time the show takes place in/around the actual warehouse, or a scene involves Artie in some way, that’s when the show is entertaining, inventive and fun. It reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode (from the run produced by Wes Craven in the 80s’) called “Wong’s Lost & Found Emporium”. I wish the show would focus more on that sort of whimsical tone of magic and wonderment. The warehouse seems to be so vast that it’s actually endless, or merely defies the laws of physics, time and space. Either way, more time should be spent there. I’m not so interested when the two leads keep going off on these fleeting, outside adventures, away from Artie and the warehouse. When you have such a creatively fruitful location/setting with such a charismatic and delightful character actor in Saul Rubinek, it’s not a good idea to be constantly separating from all that with two main characters who are, quite frankly kind of dull and uninspired (the actors are fine, but not much is given/required for them to be anything more than that). I’ll keep watching, sure. Anything to support decent to good science fiction TV on a network that seems intent on turning its back on the very thing that put them on the map, so much so that they feel the need to change their name (don’t get me started). I just hope that as things progress, we’ll get more localization and face time with all the characters in one place (preferably the warehouse), working together to solve a problem that’s actually interesting, and not just a minor nuisance of the week.

P.S. Perhaps Tricia Helfer (as well as her character) should have been Lattimer’s new partner? Just an idea. :)

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