So, I'm going to take a moment to gush. I don't have a clue how many of you actually watch Warehouse 13, but I'm going to write a review anyway, because I watch it, and because at 1:30 last night I finished this season, and it was so epic that I can't even begin to describe how much it moved me. I told you in my last post about TV shows very rarely being able to make me feel sad when somthing petty like a break-up happens. Well, I also laugh off the pain and the sadness in the uber-dramatic episodes. Except not this time. Everything that happened in these final two episodes was so amazing I went to bed completely reeling.
I mean, the episode starts off pretty simply like a normal Warehouse 13 episode. Myka's being orderly and focused, Pete is taking orders but not lacking the comedic relief that his character brings, Claudia's working some of her techie hacking mojo, and Artie's being the boss. You don't really get into the episode until Myka has one of her rare standing-up-to-authority moments, and she completely tells off Pete's mom (aka SuperRegent in control of the Warehouse). They've found the source of a lagging in their computer system, these nano-bugs that send a feed to a computer from a file labled Atlantis 66. When Jane refuses to disclose the conents of the file (she claims that the Regents had a plan in place already), Myka gets angry, but what was really strange was when Pete sided with his mom. He leaves to "do inventory" and Myka follows to what Pete then reveals is his "Pete Cave," basically a garage-turned-male-hangout. Claudia follows too, but it turns out she already knew about the Pete Cave, and apparently she's the one that restocks it with cream soda. (Easily one of the most comedic lines of the episode.) With this exchange in the Pete Cave, as the three plan on going behind their bosses' backs to investigate, the mood of the episode really just seems to flow as buisness-as-usual as possible. But just wait.
Anyway, so Claudia hacks the file as Myka and Pete follow a lead to Wyoming, where they find Emily Lake. Here's where it gets kinda tricky. I'm assuming most of you haven't seen the show. Well, I'm not going to go into too much detail, but H.G. Wells (who's really a girl) was an agent that got seriously corrupted with greif and tried to kill the world. So the Regents seperated her conciousness from her body, enabling her to be of use without being a threat, but it's never revealed where the body actually is. Now we find out that, using the Janus Coin (an artifact), they were able to brainwash her body into beliving it was an American English teacher named Emily Lake who also happened to be a cat lady. So Myka and Pete are trying to talk to Emily, to no avail, when Steve and Marcus show up. Now, Steve and Claudia were partners and best friends before Steve got fired. Now Steve is working for the bad guy. Long story short, Steve and Marcus (who apparently can't be killed) kidnap Emily, and Myka and Pete return back to the Warehouse to get yelled at by Artie and Jane. And then they tell Claudia about Steve. And then Jane tells them about the aforementioned Janus Coin. And then everything happens kind of really really fast.
Claudia, Pete, and Myka go to retrieve the Janus Coin from the Regents' vault (hidden in a supermarket in some random state) and they bring out H.G's essence, so to speak, to tell her what's going on. Then they leave to go back to the Warehouse, but Pete veers of to the middle of the woods and, after a group discussion, with H.G's input, they decide to destroy the coin, even though it would destroy H.G forever. And just as Pete's about to do so, Marcus comes in with Steve and uses an artifact to control Pete and make him knock Myka out instead. Claudia grabs the coin and bolts, with Steve in hot pursuit. They argue, and Claudia says something along the lines of "If you want this coin you'll have to shoot me first." And Claudia is PISSED about Steve being a traitor like that. Cut to two shots ringing out, Steve running towards Marcus with the coin, Pete and Myka running towards Claudia, and a remarkably unscathed Claudia revealing all. Steve is a double agent now, everything he did against them was to infiltrate Walter Sykes' plans. (Walter is the bad guy.) I can't say I'm suprised at that, because it really was staring me right in the face, but I so didn't expect Steve to be a double agent, I'm not sure why.
Anyway, everything seems well and good, and then some really depressing music starts playing. H.G is put back into her own body, and Walter comments to Steve how it was all because of him, H.G coming back and all. Claudia, Pete, and Myka race to the secret airplane hanger location that Steve gave Claudia, but Sykes is gone. As they search the airplane hanger we come to my gushing moment. Pete finds Steve's body. He tries so had to keep his cool and get Claudia to leave, and just hearing her and seeing her find her best friend and the most brotherly figure in her life (her own brother is in Switzerland, so he doesn't count) just sitting in a chair dead....It was the greatest acting I've seen in a long time. It was brilliant. Claudia and Mindy are such different characters, it's kind of unbelievable that they're played by the same actress. She's so talented. Allison Scagliotti, my dear stalkers.
I know it looks like I've finished gushing, but there is a whole other episode of the two-episode finale left. So I'm going to continue my gushing. Well, there's some really intense scenes to do with how they are all taking Steve's death. And my God, if I didn't say it before, Allison Scagliotti has officially moved up to one of my favorite actresses. She has this HUGE confrontational scene with Pete's mom. Imagine yelling at your boss' boss' boss about how its all her fault that someone killed a guy she fired. Granted, the situation was slightly more complicated than just that, but I would NEVER have the guts to do that. And I mean it was intense. Anyway, it turns out that Steve hid an emergency memory chip in a cigarette lighter, and gave the team the last clue to the puzzle on what's next. Pete and Myka fly to Hong-Kong to open the doors to a secret Regent sanctuary. Well, that's what they think it is. So they get there, and Sykes, Tyler (this hacker guy working for Sykes), and H.G are already there. H.G's purpose is revealed as she is told to tell Tyler three moves for him to win at chess. Well, he gets checkmated and his head is sliced open by an ax. H.G has no choice but to force Myka into the chair of doom, because Sykes has that artifact that controls your body. Myka wins on her last try by cheating, a little trick that the guy who invented this security system taught to H.G back in the 1800s. (I know, it's a bit complex.) The portal opens, and it leads back to the Warehouse. Sykes reveals that all he wants is the artifact, taken from him when he was a little boy, that allows his paralyzed legs to walk. Which I thought was a bit dumb, as far a motive goes, but his mind was corrupted by the artifact, so...
Meanwhile back at the ranch (well, B&B), Leena is attacked by Marcus, who sets off a canon to initiate a force feild caused by Jane's bracelet, which holds power and protection over the Warehouse. Jane escapes back through the portal to Hong-Kong in the midst of Skyes' attack, and Skyes dies as the portal is closed when he's only halfway through. Thank you, Pete. Claudia and Mrs. Fredrick save Leena just as Marcus is about to kill her, because Claudia found the artifact-metronome that was keeping him alive, and stops it. Claudia's face during that scene is priceless, especially when she tells Mrs. Fredrick that she's keeping the metronome to bring Steve back to life. (Her boss' boss and her boss' boss' boss all in one day...wow.) Then we discover that Sykes triggered a nuclear-bomb-type artifact that was underneath his wheelchair. Myka, Pete, Artie, and H.G rush to stop it, but all H.G can do is reposition some of the force feild so that Artie, Pete, and Myka are safe. And the bomb goes off in the most spectacular CGI explosion EVER. And then you see Mrs. Fredrick's age catch up with her as she shrivels into decomposed body. Then, once the explosion, restrained by the force feild, is finished, the Warehouse is destroyed. But Artie pulls a pocketwatch-artifact out of his pocket and reveals that maybe it's not quite over. End credits.
My brother and I came up with the idea that, if they do use the metronome to bring Steve back, the team is going to send Steve first into some dangerous situation, and when Steve asks why him, Pete's going to say, "because you're the one who can't die!" Steve: "Oh, yeah."
My GOD. And I have to wait until, like, June to find out what happens next.
Well, xoxo, my dear stalkers,
~M~
I mean, the episode starts off pretty simply like a normal Warehouse 13 episode. Myka's being orderly and focused, Pete is taking orders but not lacking the comedic relief that his character brings, Claudia's working some of her techie hacking mojo, and Artie's being the boss. You don't really get into the episode until Myka has one of her rare standing-up-to-authority moments, and she completely tells off Pete's mom (aka SuperRegent in control of the Warehouse). They've found the source of a lagging in their computer system, these nano-bugs that send a feed to a computer from a file labled Atlantis 66. When Jane refuses to disclose the conents of the file (she claims that the Regents had a plan in place already), Myka gets angry, but what was really strange was when Pete sided with his mom. He leaves to "do inventory" and Myka follows to what Pete then reveals is his "Pete Cave," basically a garage-turned-male-hangout. Claudia follows too, but it turns out she already knew about the Pete Cave, and apparently she's the one that restocks it with cream soda. (Easily one of the most comedic lines of the episode.) With this exchange in the Pete Cave, as the three plan on going behind their bosses' backs to investigate, the mood of the episode really just seems to flow as buisness-as-usual as possible. But just wait.
Anyway, so Claudia hacks the file as Myka and Pete follow a lead to Wyoming, where they find Emily Lake. Here's where it gets kinda tricky. I'm assuming most of you haven't seen the show. Well, I'm not going to go into too much detail, but H.G. Wells (who's really a girl) was an agent that got seriously corrupted with greif and tried to kill the world. So the Regents seperated her conciousness from her body, enabling her to be of use without being a threat, but it's never revealed where the body actually is. Now we find out that, using the Janus Coin (an artifact), they were able to brainwash her body into beliving it was an American English teacher named Emily Lake who also happened to be a cat lady. So Myka and Pete are trying to talk to Emily, to no avail, when Steve and Marcus show up. Now, Steve and Claudia were partners and best friends before Steve got fired. Now Steve is working for the bad guy. Long story short, Steve and Marcus (who apparently can't be killed) kidnap Emily, and Myka and Pete return back to the Warehouse to get yelled at by Artie and Jane. And then they tell Claudia about Steve. And then Jane tells them about the aforementioned Janus Coin. And then everything happens kind of really really fast.
Claudia, Pete, and Myka go to retrieve the Janus Coin from the Regents' vault (hidden in a supermarket in some random state) and they bring out H.G's essence, so to speak, to tell her what's going on. Then they leave to go back to the Warehouse, but Pete veers of to the middle of the woods and, after a group discussion, with H.G's input, they decide to destroy the coin, even though it would destroy H.G forever. And just as Pete's about to do so, Marcus comes in with Steve and uses an artifact to control Pete and make him knock Myka out instead. Claudia grabs the coin and bolts, with Steve in hot pursuit. They argue, and Claudia says something along the lines of "If you want this coin you'll have to shoot me first." And Claudia is PISSED about Steve being a traitor like that. Cut to two shots ringing out, Steve running towards Marcus with the coin, Pete and Myka running towards Claudia, and a remarkably unscathed Claudia revealing all. Steve is a double agent now, everything he did against them was to infiltrate Walter Sykes' plans. (Walter is the bad guy.) I can't say I'm suprised at that, because it really was staring me right in the face, but I so didn't expect Steve to be a double agent, I'm not sure why.
Anyway, everything seems well and good, and then some really depressing music starts playing. H.G is put back into her own body, and Walter comments to Steve how it was all because of him, H.G coming back and all. Claudia, Pete, and Myka race to the secret airplane hanger location that Steve gave Claudia, but Sykes is gone. As they search the airplane hanger we come to my gushing moment. Pete finds Steve's body. He tries so had to keep his cool and get Claudia to leave, and just hearing her and seeing her find her best friend and the most brotherly figure in her life (her own brother is in Switzerland, so he doesn't count) just sitting in a chair dead....It was the greatest acting I've seen in a long time. It was brilliant. Claudia and Mindy are such different characters, it's kind of unbelievable that they're played by the same actress. She's so talented. Allison Scagliotti, my dear stalkers.
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| "Sharks are my favorite ocean predator!" |
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| Somehow, Mindy Crenshaw turned into a genius techie rocker chick |
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| And then she finds Steve's body.... |
Meanwhile back at the ranch (well, B&B), Leena is attacked by Marcus, who sets off a canon to initiate a force feild caused by Jane's bracelet, which holds power and protection over the Warehouse. Jane escapes back through the portal to Hong-Kong in the midst of Skyes' attack, and Skyes dies as the portal is closed when he's only halfway through. Thank you, Pete. Claudia and Mrs. Fredrick save Leena just as Marcus is about to kill her, because Claudia found the artifact-metronome that was keeping him alive, and stops it. Claudia's face during that scene is priceless, especially when she tells Mrs. Fredrick that she's keeping the metronome to bring Steve back to life. (Her boss' boss and her boss' boss' boss all in one day...wow.) Then we discover that Sykes triggered a nuclear-bomb-type artifact that was underneath his wheelchair. Myka, Pete, Artie, and H.G rush to stop it, but all H.G can do is reposition some of the force feild so that Artie, Pete, and Myka are safe. And the bomb goes off in the most spectacular CGI explosion EVER. And then you see Mrs. Fredrick's age catch up with her as she shrivels into decomposed body. Then, once the explosion, restrained by the force feild, is finished, the Warehouse is destroyed. But Artie pulls a pocketwatch-artifact out of his pocket and reveals that maybe it's not quite over. End credits.
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| Creepiest dead body ever - I miss him already, and he isn't even real. |
My GOD. And I have to wait until, like, June to find out what happens next.
Well, xoxo, my dear stalkers,
~M~
