But now I get it. Just recently, during our early weeks of writing season two, I grokked the show. There's a difference between writing on the first season of a series and the second. During season one you're busy figuring out what the show is, finding the tone and balance, and probing it around the edges to see what sort of stories you can tell. In season two you have that first season to look back at for reference. The show exists to tell you what works and doesn't, and what it's about.
And thanks to that altered point of view, I now have my own theory about what Warehouse 13 is. Why it's meaningful in this moment in history.
Why it's a hit; why it speaks to enough viewers to have made it the most popular scripted series ever in Syfy's eighteen-year history:. Warehouse 13 is about the collective, cognitive anxiety we're feeling, caused by the sudden collision between our primitive, analog selves We find ourselves living in a time when we have simultaneous and ready access to all history, culture, knowledge, news, music, TV, movies, stories — ever.
Need an image of a twelfth-century trebuchet, or maybe an historically-accurate recipe for how mille-feuille was prepared in Napoleon's time? Click; here you go. When was the last time you were talking with someone about a funny or formative TV moment, that you couldn't pull it up on the web to show them?
If you were so inclined, you could carry around every song you've ever heard in your life, in your pocket. And thanks to Facebook, that same random access exists for every friend, relative or co-worker you've ever known. We're all getting to experience Slaughterhouse Five firsthand.
Our lives are on shuffle. And all of this is both good and bad. In the proverbial definition of "crisis," the moment presents both danger and opportunity. We're all in input overload, struggling to stem the tide of messages coming at us by email, cell phone, chats, texts and tweets. The elusive holy grail of nerd pride has become the phrase "inbox zero. It's all moving too quickly for information to be reliable anymore.
Michael Jackson was dead, alive, and dead again many times over on Twitter before any citable sources started talking.
My wife and I were away from the news for a day, and missed an entire shared cultural event having something to do with a boy in a balloon And if you think this is all just ethereal chatter without real-world ramifications, let me dissuade you. As the world gets smaller and the increasing interrelatedness of everything gets too complex for us to wrap our heads around, "adverse interactions" really are increasing.
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Reddit Pocket Email Linkedin. And viewers who actually like quality science fiction have been consistently disappointed. And, after watching the first couple of episodes, there's nothing to indicate that my original review of the show no longer holds: There's no sense of wonder, nothing to spark the imagination — not even anything that's entertaining — in the premiere of "Warehouse It's not much of a spoiler alert to tell you that none of them dies.
Mostly it creates groans with lots of dialogue like this as the pair ride a zipline together: "Hey, if you're going to grab me like that, I need some sweet talk. Heck, it's not even the worst show on Syfy. Ah, well. This is two hours of completely wasted time. Mitt Romney says young people are key. Sign up for the newsletter Morning Edition Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email.
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