Warehouse 13 – review

When you watch raiders of the lost ark and at the end you see it in a box in a huge warehouse did you even wonder where that warehouse was or what was in those other boxes? Warehouse 13 is not a sequil to raiders of the lost arc but it still answers the question, what do you do with all those strange artifacts and devices that you find but can’t quite explain. The answer is that they lock them all away in warehouse 13 along with technology from Tesla and anything else they can think of.

I’ll start by saying that i like the idea and the uses of real historical people to connect the artifacts they find at least in the pilot was good, it made it more grounded in reality.

Saul Rubinek was the standout to me, he plays Artie a man who has worked in the warehouse just a little too long and has lost a great many friends to the oddness of this place. The other two characters were both interesting as well and the comparisons to the X-files and Fringe will be inevitable but this has a differnt feeling.

This looks to me like it’s going to have tone more similar to Eureka than to the X-files with the mysteries being more about why the odd events are happening than who is doing it.

It is clearly too early to decide much about this show, pilots almost always have a different feeling from their series and perhaps the next episode will be even better, or perhaps it will begin to feel repetitive almost immediately. I’m not sure there are any shows that I currently watch that Warehouse 13 would replace but for a summer with nothing but reruns it is certainly good enough, so far, to tide me over.