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Warehouse - Pilot [HD]

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Ok.. It took me awhile to realise that SyFy was SciFi. I keep wanting to rewrite it... SyFi? :-)

Anyhow.. I really enjoyed this pilot. I caught it on USA and thoguht it was a new series. I noticed it was 3 hours and commercials weren't rolling regularly... That's when I decided it was a show of some kind... I searched cable for the next one and found nothing... so I went to the computer and kept seeing that Warehouse 13 was a new SyFy show.

I was confused.

I wondered if SyFy was a new USA name for a certain hour of TV. After a bit of searching (And visiting SyFy's website)... I realised that it was a new show. An awesome show.. that I'm looking forward to viewing regularly.

ABOUT THE SHOW:

- It reminds me slighty of XFiles... A little bit of Ghost Busters... and a little bit of your typical detective show.

-In the pilot.. the two detectives were just starting to warm up to the idea of working with eachother. They would find strange supernatural objects and neutralize them (this is the only ghostbuster aspect).

- I liked the references to past masterminds .. and the technologies supposedly created that were now being stored in the warehouse.

- The direcor created a great world to explore. I think there are an endless number of possibilities. (I was a little disappointed that all of the technologies weren't futuristic.... Actually.. some of them were down right dated).

- I liked the mystery behind all of the mind reading....

Apparently it's free on amazon :-) ... So you should check it out!

I will not cover so much on individual plots. Basically, it's a nice show to watch to pass time. Fans of X-files can watch it to re-live the guy-lady agent partnership investigating paranormal occurrence. This time round, they are working under the cover of the Secret Service agents. What they are hunting are not aliens but artifacts own by people triggering the occurrence.

All the artifacts are kept in a magnetic ziplog bag to be de-sanitised (the ghostbuster part) and ultimately store in the warehouse. Watching this show, one can't help feeling that the writers are trying hard to re-live through the old memories of past achievements by great Americans. Of course it's a little peppered with other artifacts from other cultures and nations. But somehow, their fates are intimately tied to the United States. So its like a nostalgic ride of history.

On another positive note, it does raise the hopes to viewers that you may have one day specialized on something and become someone great. For that matter, some intimate items you possess may capture your energy and aspiration, becoming an artifact with special powers for potential Warehouse 13 storage.

Overall, I give it a 3 stars for being a entertaining nice show. In terms of originality for paranormal, I think the X-Files still tops.

This looks like a good start to a series with some potential.

To the guy that said it looks like a pilot...duh. It's the first episode.

And Scifi (Syfy now) is putting out Stargate Universe this year, and Caprica, so there is your Stargate and Battlestar Galactica.

Looking forward to a new episode of Warehouse 13 though. Should be a great freak of the week show.

"Wharehouse 13" is my new favorite television / "On-Demand, Amazon" series!!! This is NOT a SCI-FI!!! This show is SO AMAZING!!! I love every character with their individual beauty, strength, weaknesses and humor. The dynamics of integrating the world of mystery in artifacts with today's culture is absolutely Brilliant! I am a VERY hard person to impress when it comes to watching programs. When I was a little girl I used to watch a TV program about an antique shop with a similar plot line as "Wharehouse 13." I thought it was so entertaining and creative. What I like about "Wharehouse 13" as opposed to the show 20 years ago, is "Wharehouse 13" combines the mystical and the human spirit in a lighthearted and adorable manner.

Congratulations.

Kindly,

Angela M.
New Orleans, LA

Bring it on! Great start to a sci-fi/mystery series. I hope they let their hair down.

This show is a lot of fun and excitement. I was held from the begining and plan to be a regular viewer.

It is very hard to resist being sarcastic when reviewing this pilot of Warehouse 13. My guess is that the writer(s) hope that we will be so drawn in by the actors that we won't notice the obvious flaws in the basic premise. That approach definitely works if the actors are likable enough. So the BIG question is, do these actors have what it takes. I found the host at the warehouse 13 guesthouse to be very interesting. I would enjoy seeing her character expanded. She seems to know a lot more then she says. She also seems a little bit of a tease... The lead male actor seems to be going for the "Jack" from Stargate image. Dumb, intuitive, kind, and adventurous. That approach can work as long as he appears sincere and well intentioned. So far it is kind of iffy if he is the type of guy we would really want to be with on a team. The lead woman actor seems to be going for the "anal retentive", well read, "poor little misunderstood childhood" image. That approach can work as long as long as she has some redeeming characteristic that makes us want/need her on the team. So far she seems totally replaceable. The warehouse manager's character makes very little sense at this point. However his character is based on the premise that we buy into the whole warehouse 13 concept. You have to be able to believe that the US government is so stupid that it would tuck away objects of proven earth shaking scientific value in a warehouse without a vast number of scientists studying them. The reader might say: The "stargate" was locked away in a warehouse for year and we seemed to buy into that. Ah, but we were given a loophole on that. We don't get to see the "stargate" stored away for years untouched with no one studying it after its power was seen. Once the purpose of the "stargate" was determined it was locked away because it was "too dangerous to be used"... Maybe the writers could use the "too dangerous to study" approach for warehouse 13... Bottom line: they need to do something to make the premise more believable. Or, they could go the other way and make the show an obvious joke. However, that is kind of risky because then it would only appeal to the slapstick audience.

This eppisode definitely seemed like a pilot, and i'm unsure of what direction this show will take. I was not pulled in to keep watching at all, and was thinking how it's a shame scifi doesnt continue running with the proven shows, like the stargate and battlestar series'. Not my favorite!!