On 26 Jul 2009, at 18:56, Max Battcher wrote:
Gary Nunn wrote:
Warehouse 13 - After two episodes, I'm not impressed or hooked yet,
but I'll
give it a few more episodes.
I got a kick out of the first episode and I think that it might have
staying power. Certainly it is "yet another monster of the week"
program (albeit substitute gadget/oddity for monster), but it is
playful and fun. I really like the bits of steampunk in the
Warehouse itself. Certainly there are some fun things in thinking
about such a crazy project that it would bring such (later in life)
enemies as Thomas Edison and Nicolai Tesla together to build such a
bizarre facility...
It reminds me of the (cancelled) _The Middleman_ series.
There are neat hints that a deeper through-storyline is building and
with Jane Espenson helming I've got a feeling that we can expect the
show to cross a few boundaries that we might think are "set in
stone" in the formula even though we've only seen a few episodes
thus far.
I guess most importantly is that it plays very well in a duo with
Eureka (which thanks to the magic of Hulu end up scheduled on the
same nights for me) and I think its good to have more "science is
awesome" in television, even if it is pseudo-science as most of
Warehouse 13 appears.
Speaking of "science is awesome" on television, please tell me that
you all are watching Better Off Ted? It's like The Office meets
Eureka (with a dash of Arrested Development and a dash of Pushing
Daisies); it's a fun comedy about (R&D) middle management at a "mega-
science" corporation, Veridian Dynamics, that builds crazy things
like weaponized pumpkins and hover shoes. It's definitely the
funniest program with two major show-stealing characters that happen
to be scientists that I've seen.
I'll have to try that show.
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