A Really Nice Moment of Warmth and Irony from Last Night’s Warehouse 13

This is how you do character ontogeny , people . This second from last night ’s Warehouse 13 managed to stack a few canny bits on top of each other , while staying honest to the characters — and yanking the narrative rug from under us .

Last night ’s episode managed to equip in some real character development for all of the show ’s major role , in ways that feel deft and non - sledgehammery — and also made way for two fairly cliff-hanging artefact - of - the - week stories . And somehow the show made it seem well-off . Spoilers ahead …

So any show which starts off with an uber - obscure medico Who shoutout ( the “ I do n’t have to outrun the bear ” joke isstraight out of “ Survival ” episode 1 , except it was a lion ) is off to a majuscule beginning . And the instalment stayed strong throughout , from the creepy near - plane - crash to the lawfully - expect acoustic warbly montage at the closing . ( Act of Congress , all show must now terminate with acoustical guitar montages — blame Nancy Pelosi . That ’s why she ’s not Speaker any more . )

So the cartridge clip above derive from the episode ’s “ B ” plot , in which Claudia is pair with Steve on her first official assignment as a entrant factor , and she is a prodigious twit to Steve at first . Until she realizes he ’s gay , and he realizes that she ’s despairing to impress Artie and that ’s why she ’s so hyper and tries so cursedly severely . This in reality gibe with everything we know about Claudia , and it ’s gracious to get an acknowledgment that she owes Artie a lot , and it ’s not wholly unreasonable that she would want to move him . Steve reassures Claudia that Artie already is proud of her , which is why he send her out on this assigment — and then the irony ! Artie is actually keeping tab on her . But it ’s okay , because he ’s still majestic of her .

Meanwhile , in the story ’s “ A ” patch , Pete and Myka are back in action together , and Pete ’s acting a second uncanny . Myka keeps trying to find out why , but all Pete will distinguish her is snippets of famous movie negotiation . It ’s not until Pete is nuke with an artifact that erases memories ( and in the process , regress you to puerility ) that Myka earn Pete has major abandonment issue because his father die and his mom swallow herself in her work . And thank good , Myka does n’t come out and say to Pete “ hey now I empathize about your dada ’s end and stuff ” after he ’s back to normal . Instead , she apologizes for leaving the Warehouse without talking to him first — which is really a reasonable thing to apologize for .

I felt like all five of our tip catch some genuine characterisation this time around , and none of it felt bludgeony . Even Jinks , who is still being your stereotypical gay Buddhist living prevarication detector guy , is part to feel more like a genuine person . ( Oh , and yay for Syfy adding another prominent gay character , to supercede Sam Adama . Even if the “ you could be my gay best acquaintance ” affair is a bit creepy-crawly . )

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So both artifacts this time around were being used by hoi polloi to protect their families — in the “ A ” game , the mom is using Walter Winchell ’s tiepin to erase the computer memory of citizenry who could exonerate her son ’s best Quaker of a murder her son committed . And in the “ B ” plot , a guy rope steal Typhoid Mary ’s knife ( no , not the Marvel Comics character ) so he can transfer his son ’s cancer to himself . The “ A ” plot had some good investigator work and some credible ruby herrings — and you have to love Myka buck the promiscuous switch from 20 yards away , and then quietly bragging about it afterwards .

Warehouse 13 stick around happily in its pilothouse of quirky , occasionally sentimental action comedy , but when it ’s as character - drive and as well put down out as this episode was , that ’s actually a great thing .

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