Warehouse 13 airs Monday on SyFy at 9/8C.
Highlights:
Mark Sheppard's return as Valda - He makes an awesome villain in any circumstance but he's especially clever here. I admit I am thoroughly prejudiced towards Mark Sheppard, but he does a stellar job in this episode. I'm glad they've made him the last warehouse enemy.
All the action - There is barely time for the audience to breathe, much less the characters, as they race from one place to another trying to save the world…again. The plot is mostly tight with only a few shipping slowdowns thrown in to stop the forward momentum.
Warehouse (and Mrs. Frederic) back story - I think I learned more about the warehouse in this episode than in an entire season combined. I've always been fascinated by the underpinnings of the warehouse and this left several questions answered. Plus we get to a part of the warehouse never discussed before, as far as I can remember.
Smart Pete for the Win - I always enjoy when Pete gets to use his brains and he does so in a huge way here. In fact, you could say that Pete's smarts save the day.
Other notable events: Pete pantses Myka, agent down, the return of MANY artifacts, steampunk eyewear, and a twist I didn't see coming.
Episode Awards:
Grade: B+ (with a full letter grade demerit for the shipping. Without it, this would have been one of my favorite episodes of Warehouse 13.)
Best Scene - working towards the twist
Best Return - Mark Sheppard
Best Reason to Watch - lots of information on how the warehouse works and a new part of the warehouse
Best Reason to Fast Forward - shipping nonsense
Least Surprising - Claudia's plan
Smartest - Pete's great plan
Best Physical Reaction - Pete to spiders
Biggest Aww Moment - **** cries
Best Character Interaction / Best Hug - Artie and Steve
Best National Treasure - the bar
Artifacts (Used or Mentioned): There are 15 artifacts in all
Brigadier General Laverlong's elephant walking stick
Chuck Yeager's record
Donner party jar
Durational Spectrometer
Hiram Abiff's setting maul
Julius Wilbrand's lab coat buttons
Ship's wheel
Sir William Perry's inuksuk
Spine of Saracen
Sticky string
Best Quotes:
Fed Ex and takeout
"Bring your favorite teddy bear and a night light. Come on."
"Don't let your feelings for her be your blind spot."
"Don't you have access to Wikipedia? Look it up."
"If I put my back any more into it, my kidneys are going to explode."
"No, there's no plan D."
"Outsourcing, huh? This guy gets more evil by the minute."
"Right. There it is. I knew there was some bad news in there somewhere."
"Velma, Daphne, let's go."
"What happens if we destroy it?" "Happily accepting guesses on that."
Screencap by SpoilerTV
Cut out the last 10 minutes and this would have been a perfect series finale (if they cut out the shipping).
ReplyDeleteSo...good episode for people who actually do ship Pyka?
ReplyDeleteI Saw this and the series finale yesterday :) the last one was weird and unique for a series finale but it was not a bad end episode like HIMYM :D
ReplyDeleteIt was just a very good W13 episode, really. Disgruntled shippers aside, of course.
ReplyDeleteWhat, no "Fork you!" in the Best Quotes?
ReplyDeleteLucky I'm not against Pete/Myka. I've actually seen some possibility for them since the Alice mirror episode back in season 1, even if the kiss was technically between Pete/Alice. Him calling Myka beautiful back in the model episode in season 2...and other little things.
ReplyDeleteIt's not like I'm looking for ships left and right. I just judge on what I'm given.
I root for non-romantic friendships. I think it's narrow to think guys and girls can't be friends, especially when they're both attractive people.
I am in no way a shipper. I find it ridiculous that almost every single show feels the need to pander to shippers. it's so far cliched right now that male and female partners have to hook up that the real novelty would have been if they hadn't thrown this in at the last minute.
ReplyDeleteThat's the problem though. So many people see writers changing their minds and think they're pandering. It seems like if a show's writers don't stick with the ideas they had at the very beginning of the show, fans throw a hissy fit. Especially about Pete and Myka.
ReplyDeleteMyka had a near death experience and started to reevaluate what she wants out of life. That's very common in near death victims. And as for Pete, he's had a thing for Myka for a while, he just didn't act on it before because Myka didn't seem interested. Right now, a complete moron could see she's interested, even if only a little.
If it feels like they're rushing it, that's because they are. They had a six episode final season to squeeze stuff in, and from what I remember they didn't know it was the last season until AFTER they finished the previous one. They probably had plans to spread Pete and Myka's growing relationship over an entire season or two, then suddenly had to put it into six episodes instead.
If Myka didn't have that near death experience, Pyka probably wouldn't have gone beyond friends, but she did, and now it looks like they are. The writers are allowed to change their minds because they feel like taking things in a different direction. That doesn't mean they're pandering to a certain crowd.
I envy you. I'm dying to know how it ends.
ReplyDeletewait how you guys watch it already, some privilege right or something for review purpose?
ReplyDeleteExactly like I feared it would turn out. ANOTHER Show ruined by idiotic
ReplyDeleteshippers. Go watch any of the other million shows on TV and leave al
least ONE for people who care about believable plotlines and character
growth and not about forcing two people together in the last five
seconds of a show.
I'm glad the show is over because theses threads would have looked like the ones of Grey's Anatomy or Once upon a time *sigh*
I'm also kinda happy it's ending. I won't have to deal with all the people whining about shippers anymore.
ReplyDeleteWell...for this show at least.
SpoilerTV received screeners for the entire last season.
ReplyDeletePete/Myka shippers is such a small subset of Warehouse13 fandom/fans that it's patently ridiculous to say the W13 writers pander to them. If anything, would it be more logical to pander to the fandom juggernaut non-canon pairing Bering/Wells?
ReplyDeleteBesides, the writers never said they wouldn't bring Pete and Myka together, they said the show was not about the shipping/romance. And it wasn't.
It has been leaked episode 5 and 6 are in a DVD-DEMAND RIP on piratebay and other sites :D
ReplyDeleteYeah I found that out last night and decided to watch them. I'm pretty satisfied with the ending. It was an odd final episode, but Syfy enjoys those.
ReplyDeleteBy pandering to shippers I mean the current TV culture that seems to think that every single male-female partnership must be romantic. It is not at all realistic and yet the shipping cultue is so pervasive, especially on social media, that you cannot escape it for over 90% of the shows. Shoving Myka and Pete together is a lame way to appeal to that culture, probably more with a mindset of future Netflix viewers than curent fans. It is badly timed, cliched, and not at all believable. It also is ruining what was a happy, non-shipping show for me. Shippers have everything else. Why not go bold and not pair anyone off?
ReplyDeleteWhen over 90% of shows pair off male and female co-stars, then it is indeed pandering to a pervasive shipping culture that has taken over TV and not left anything for the rest of us, who have been stuck watching one partnership after another turn romantic for no reason at all. This is the worst because it was strictly platonic and familial before they decided to rush this in with only 6 episodes left. They had plenty of forewarning that the season would be very short. Instead of cramming in everything under the sun, they should have stayed true to the characters, simplified the plot, and told a great story. instead we are getting wacky episodes, plot that are begun and ended too quickly, and a relationship that a majority of people did not want nor expect. That's trashing your own show for the sake of Netflix.
ReplyDeleteShipping has only been a really big deal over the last four or five years. It existed before then, but it wasn't really called that and wasn't nearly as...pervasive as you put it. This thing about men and women falling in love, especially partners, has been a common trope for decades. Blaming shippers for its existence is silly.
ReplyDeleteAnd like it or not, shippers give the shows WAY more attention than non-shippers. After Tiva was ruined, the NCIS comment sections on this very website became significantly less active. Almost all fanvideos are about relationships between characters, a significant amount of spoilers are about relationships, most tweets and tumblr posts are about ships.
It's funny how much people like to say shippers are in the minority here, but when it comes down to it, they're far and above more active in the community than non-shippers. Every single thing that shippers do promotes the show...for free! It would be absolutely idiotic for any show to outright ignore them.
Why is it that you consider writers putting two characters together as pandering, but you also wish they were pandering more to the non-shippers? Because it really seems like you wish that's what they were doing. Pandering to the non-shippers instead of pandering to the shippers.
Do non-shippers want more of the focus in their shows, with a man and a woman just remaining friends or whatever? Start being more active in the fan community! Actually do SOMETHING to get the writers to listen to you. Because sitting back and complaining isn't going to do a damn thing. Because so far, the non-shippers are only doing just that. The writers aren't going to listen to that.
The anti-Pyka shippers seem pretty deadset against it, but have they done anything more than scream into a tumblr page or a forum post? Because I have yet to see it. But the shippers? They're writing stories, a disturbingly large number of them the size of a freaking novel. They're making fanvids by the thousands. They're tweeting like crazy. They're sending in questions. They're making fandoms with thousands of people talking with each other about it every single day.
It doesn't surprise me one single bit that the writers would rather listen to the enthusiastic crowd of people, and ignore the people who constantly complain.
wow, calling someone idiot because he is a shipper is too much I think but if that is how you want to do it, ok. I have never shipped Pete and Myka but well, writers changed the direction of their relationship and I'm ok with it, I'm not going to blame anyone for it, and let's face it, the whole shipping thing started a while ago and you could have seen some hints in all seasons. And now, I don't exactly "ship" them but I've changed my mind a little bit and I like how it turned out between them at the end. It was nice, loveable and would be pretty funny if the show lasted for at least one more season. (yeah, I confess, I have already seen the finale and a little advice, bring a lot of tissues)
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