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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#26: Aug 24th 2013 at 7:39:59 PM

A friend recommended this series to me. Going in totally blind, what should I know?

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#27: Aug 24th 2013 at 8:04:57 PM

Nothing, just watch it? The show's pretty self-explanatory. Light fluffy tone, jokey hang-out vibe, unspectacular production values and the occasional great idea.

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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#28: Aug 24th 2013 at 10:55:49 PM

Oh, and really horrible cliffhangers. At least you won't need to wait over six months for resolution. Except with the end of season 4.

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#29: Aug 26th 2013 at 5:29:39 PM

[up][up]I'm about 5:38 into the pilot, and I don't think I've understood a word yet.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#30: Aug 26th 2013 at 6:02:19 PM

The characters don't know much either. A lot of the episode is explanation. Oh, and most of the artifacts will never make much sense. They're supposed to be really weird.

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#31: Aug 26th 2013 at 9:14:51 PM

Didn't help me any. I just finished the pilot, and I only have the vaguest clue of what's going on. Those two, I forget their names, are assigned to the warehouse. Some guy has a thing going on with Italian. Something that things are thrown into to stop them from doing bad things. A ferret.

edited 26th Aug '13 9:17:19 PM by Twentington

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#32: Aug 26th 2013 at 10:40:11 PM

The show does drop references to random historical figures without really explaining who they are. Like Lucrezia Borgia.

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#33: Aug 26th 2013 at 10:52:38 PM

I got that. It just felt like a LOT was thrown at me, and even what I did get, I'm still not sure if I get.

tparadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#34: Aug 26th 2013 at 11:03:42 PM

They overrely on the famous people/events. There was an episode where Mrs, Frederick took a character to see an Artifact being created, and she was a bit shocked that Artifacts could be made by people without a Wikipedia page.

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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#35: Aug 27th 2013 at 5:44:01 PM

[up]The references like that aren't what are bogging me. Just, the technology and science. Anything that comes up at all. Like the container full of purple stuff that they would throw things in to neutralize it.

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#36: Aug 27th 2013 at 5:54:46 PM

It's a container of purple stuff that neutralizes an artifacts power. That's all there is to it.

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#37: Aug 27th 2013 at 6:20:39 PM

I think my brain just locks up on this stuff because it's so unaccustomed to it.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#38: Aug 27th 2013 at 6:35:05 PM

No one knows how the artifacts work, and several of the tools they use to deal with the artifacts are in and of themselves, artifacts. The "Gooery" isn't spelled out to be an artifact, but it's pretty obvious.

tparadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#39: Aug 27th 2013 at 8:37:47 PM

Like Artie said, if a radio fell out of the sky and was found by Thomas Jefferson, he'd lock it up until he was sure it wouldn't hurt him. They lock up the dangerous ones, and the ones that aren't dangerous they bring along to use, but they still don't understand them.

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#40: Feb 18th 2014 at 4:17:28 PM

We have a final season date and preview. April 14th.

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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#41: Apr 15th 2014 at 4:31:15 PM

So the final season started airing yesterday. I liked the episode. Sort of. The effects budget is obviously larger, but it's kind of odd that the show gives this dichotomy between Don't touch the artifacts and EXPERIMENT ON RANDOM PEOPLE WITH THEM! and it doesn't really talk about anything in between.

Also...badly animated purple bird. That is all.

Eagal Since: Apr, 2012
#42: Apr 19th 2014 at 12:08:31 PM

They do use some artifacts beyond the original purpose. Claudia repurposes them all the time.

Problem with Paracelsus isn't that he was experimenting with artifacts, it's that he didn't have any reason for doing so. He was just doing it for the sake of seeing what would happen without any regard for the consequences.

And I would bet that he kept the Warehouse in Reed Richards Is Useless mode despite the focus on science.

And what was up with that bird...

edited 19th Apr '14 12:08:59 PM by Eagal

lancesolous13 from California Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Dancing with Captain Jack Harkness
#43: Apr 19th 2014 at 12:58:29 PM

For some reason, the episode isn't on my DTV? Is there an internet link?

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Eagal Since: Apr, 2012
stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#45: Apr 21st 2014 at 4:11:45 PM

Don't know if it's region locked, but it's on Sy Fy.com. It does have the "select and sign into your provider" wall though.

Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
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#46: May 19th 2014 at 9:16:07 PM

Well, I saw the series finale tonight, and listened to someone reading Eddie Mc Clintock's tweets. That was an awesome way to end the show. And the tweets were funny and cool at the same time. He even tweeted that he'd be back, he was helping his wife unload groceries. Respect for the man goes up a level.

lancesolous13 from California Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Dancing with Captain Jack Harkness
#47: May 19th 2014 at 9:52:53 PM

Haven't watched the Finale yet so I may be talking a bit early but I've been significantly ticked that there are only six damn episodes to finish off a 6 season series and how, after 5 seasons of consistently hammering in that Myka and Pete aren't interested in each other and Word of God saying that they are platonic life partners to every person who asked if they'd hook up, enough that an entire episode last season or so's main joke/plot was 'Oh crap. They hooked up because of an artifact and that's going to ruin their friendship'.

I'm also significantly bothered that Steve Jinks, while an interesting character, never really grew much out of his 'I can sense lies and I'm gay' character definition after his introduction season where he saw the most plot relevance. He's just sort of been there when they need a character for something... Which is sad because they had a great bad ass gay character that could rival Jack Harkness in being a poster boy for badass gay characters that aren't effeminate and a stereotype. That and his relationship with Claudia was fun, but feels one sided when Claudia gets all the fun character development and Jinks just helps her along.

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Eagal Since: Apr, 2012
#48: May 20th 2014 at 10:08:01 AM

I preferred his dynamic with Artie more than Claudia. Claudia's great and all but Artie's the best, hands down.

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#49: May 20th 2014 at 7:54:59 PM

My DVR cut off the very ending. What happened? I saw Claudia as the new caretaker, and she was about to do something to the table, and then my DVR cut off there. What happened?

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YamiiDenryuu Since: Jan, 2010
#50: May 20th 2014 at 8:00:34 PM

She just touches the table, smiles all nostalgically-like, and presumably starts watching some stuff from it- the camera just zoom/fades out as we hear clips of the cast saying "endless wonder". So nothing too important... really nice scene, though.


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