Warehoues 13: Burnout

Warehouse 13 has slipped right past the awkward stage and into familiar comfort in just a few weeks. This is both good and bad. This show feels well done and not like the first season of many shows that feel as if they are still learning.

The negative is that by not feeling like the writers are still learning about the characters and struggling to understand them you also feel a little less like it is fresh and new. It’s like buying a car without the new car smell. It’s still new, but it doesn’t feel the same.

One of the interesting things in this episode was that they examined the history of old Warehouse agents. We got to learn quite a lot about the type of people who have worked there in the past not just from learning about him but also from searching the archives.

The artifact itself was interesting but nothing terribly special. It needed to be there but mostly served as a plot device without a great deal of its own personality.

Perhaps what excited me most though was the preview for next week.I have said since the beginning that what the show needs is another group doing the same thing. Whether it is some rich businessman who wants the artifacts or another government by having their be competition for the artifacts it will simply make everything feel more important and give them a real, human, ongoing villian to face. It appears that may be what they are giving us next week.