Warehouse 13

At the moment I’m watching Warehouse 13, which reminds me a bit of The Librarians (but with a less catchy name). The things that bothered me about the former series, still bothers me about this one, and a few more things.

However, I’ll start with the good points.

It is a rather entertaining series at best. The artefacts that are being ‘snagged, bagged and tagged’ by the agents are often fascinating. There’s some humor in it too, and sometimes (it’s not easy to please me…) it’s actually funny to me.

What I don’t like is the fact that the writers seem not to be too serious about the plot. Everything is a bit silly.

I also don’t like the fact most characters are women and the few men aren’t good looking. The ‘new’ guy (in season 3) is ok looking, but it took him long enough to show up. To be fair, there’s sometimes a good looking guy in one of the episodes (not a recurring character or if it is – he only shows up very rarely) as if the creators want the female part of the audience to have something to look at.

I don’t want to give the impression that I only care about male good looks (no, really, that’s NOT all I care about LOL). However it does say something about the series or movie or whatever you’re watching, that is, how much they value the entire audience, not just the teenage boys.

Some actors known from other science fiction series (or at least other ‘speculative’ series) show up once in a while (Rene Auberjonois is a typical example). That’s always fun.

I suppose I might add which of the characters I like best.

That’s Mrs Frederick, who is a very tough, cool old lady (apparently much older than she looks), Artie – who can be really funny and Claudia, who’s very young, quite funny in her own way and very brilliant. Like I may have mentioned earlier (LOL), I also like the relatively good looking new guy, Steve, who is quite nice too and not nearly as silly as the other two agents.