Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Review - Warehouse 13 Season 1 Episode 3 Magnetism

This episode was by far the best episode yet. The dialogue between Pete and Myka while they were squabbling. The storyline for the artifact was still a little shoddy, but it did improve over the previous episodes. I think the writers should put more effort into the procedural element of the show as it is so basic and predictable, but they are doing a good job for everyone else. That being said, I don't think the task of finding artifacts is the draw of the show. To me, the warehouse itself and the characters are what makes the show fun.

In a small Colorado town, people are going crazy. A teenager that plays Bazzini decently smashes his violin, a nun thinks she can fly, and an old lady smashes a guy into the counter at a store. Obviously something is up, so Myka and Pete run over there. As they investigate, Myka meets a paramedic who is married. Out of the blue, he grabs her breasts and it appears he has the condition as well. He does this several times, and as I was watching, I was thinking how Joanne Kelly was feeling since he did it so many times. I know they're professionals, but come on...

Eventually, Myka starts hitting Pete whenever he makes her mad, and they figure out that people are acting out their subconscious. They backtrack their steps and realize that the only place Myka has been that Pete has not is in the church. The chair in the priests office has some crazy built up energy and makes people act weird after sitting on it. The sheriff comes in with a gun wanting to kill Pete (I guess everyone hates him) and is strapped with explosives. Pete hacks the chair to pieces, grabs the bomb, and detonates it safely.

My problem with the artifact collecting is that it feels so impersonal and detached. There is something that I can't pinpoint that is missing from the show. It know that this can't be like the usual crime procedural with cell phone traces, license plates, and forensics, but I would like to see some complexity to the story, maybe a villain, or a very dangerous object.

The other storyline involved Artie trying to figure out what the hacker is doing with the electrical grid. Leena is giving him a hard time about it, and I thought the dialogue was great. Leena doesn't say much using cryptic sentences while Artie can talk to himself endlessly. The episode ends with the power going out and the words knock knock appearing on the circuit breaker (?).

Score: 8.8/10

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