Freed of the demands of its own mythology, last night's Warehouse 13 went back to its original formula of "Pete and Myka hunt down the Mysterious Object Of The Week," and the results were... well, more enjoyable than last week, if nothing else.
Let’s get this out of the way first: Warehouse 13 definitely knows how to fill an hour of television. Last night’s season premiere, “Time Will Tell,” was so packed with reveals, climaxes and, yes, pretty frustrating deus ex let’sjustundothisbecausewedon’tknowwherethiswasgoing-ses that it felt more like a season finale for a series that wanted to pull out all the stops than the beginning of a sophomore season for Syfy’s most-watched new show in years. Here’re 13 thoughts about last night’s episode.
You’ve gotta love Warehouse 13. It can go from supernatural to silly to suspenseful in the span of only a couple seconds.
It’s hard to think of a TV series that matured as dramatically, or successfully, as Warehouse 13. When it debuted last July 7th, it had the mystical artifact thing going for it, as well as the governmental conspiracy thread. But then it took The X-Files and mixed in a whole lot of Moonlighting and Bones. [...]
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010
