By Lisa Fary
Warehouse 13 conflicts with Big Brother on Tuesdays, and in the summertime, I’m Big Brother’s bitch. Maybe if Eddie McClintock showed more skin, I’d be more motivated to watch Warehouse 13 as it airs instead of on DVR or On Demand.
Yes. I’m a pig.
Episode 3: “Magnetism”
The less said about this episode, the better. It was bad. We’re talking Flash Gordon bad.
Myka and Pete suddenly have no ability to work together, and there’s no artifact behind it other than the script and direction. They bicker like suburban cheerleaders fighting over who gets to be captain. Myka has become really whiny and Pete. . . well, Pete’s now a douchebag. I hope this lasts only for this episode – for a moment, I thought maybe the guillotine from the beginning or something in the warehouse was involved in the change, but nope. Just the writing.
The only thing compelling about this ep was Artie’s struggle with his hacker.
Oh, and this:
Then he went and put a shirt on and kept it on for the remainder of this episode and the next.
Episode 4: “Claudia”
Artie is my favorite character on Warehouse 13. He bakes cookies, acts like everyone’s twitchy uncle, but there’s some darkness there; a darkness that comes from seeing too much. Just watching him, it’s clear that in his years at the warehouse he’s seen some pretty horrific stuff, has seen people die, has seen people do worse than die. We get a peek at one of those instances in this ep.
Artie’s hacker is Claudia Donovan, a twenty-something girl with a grudge and an inventive engineering streak. Popular theory was that Claudia’s brother died in a teleportation experiment, but Claudia says he’s stuck in inter-dimensional space (which I guess is like the void where the Daleks hid the Genesis Ark at the end of season two).
Claudia’s brother has been reaching out to her from the ether. It has something to do with her being in the lab when the original experiment went awry – somehow his existence was tethered to hers during the teleportation event – now, that connection is weakening, and weakening Claudia along with it.
So, she kidnaps Artie to help her recreate the teleportation experiment and bring her brother back.
Meanwhile, Myka and Pete have to piece together what’s going on without Artie’s vast knowledge of the weird. They have some on screen moments, but for the most part, this episode is Artie’s show.
The show was back to form after episode three’s grievous misstep. I guess one out of four isn’t too bad.
Next week: Lt Colonel John Sheppard (Stargate: Atlantis) guest stars.
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Lisa Fary’s early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl. She thinks diagramming sentences is a fun alternative to Sudoku.
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
I really wanted to like this show but it seems to be getting worse and worse. Now they got little Ms. MTV. I think I'm done with this show.
The show is still finding its feet / groove / whatever, but it's had some good moments over the last few weeks. The bickering in 'Magnetism' was strange and kind of annoying, but I did like the payoff of their shared prank on Artie it led up to. I'm hoping that once we get a little further into the season the writers and actors will have settled in and the plots will improve. Every first-season show has its growing pains. I'm willing to stick it out for a while longer.
Perhaps your right Robin. I'll continue to watch. I just hope it doesn't go the way of Eureka. Another show I had high hopes for. I just want a good sci-fi show. Not something catering to air -head teens.