Runaway Review

Overview

This post contains a review, Altador Cup Update, an art piece, and a Housekeeping section, in addition to a slight format change to include this overview. The review will be first after the spoiler warning and then everything else will follow in order.

SPOILER WARNING

If you did not see last night's episode of Warehouse 13 and do not wish to be spoiled, please skip the following review... or leave, watch the episode, and come back later. My reviews are always lousy with spoilers.

Warehouse 13 - "Runaway" - Review

I am officially tired of Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius related stuff. There was that episode of Doctor Who from a couple years ago, something I was watching more recently (I think it was Fringe), and now this... yup, I'm pretty done with it. I didn't think the amphora was even a particularly interesting artifact. The story surrounding it? Boring to the nth degree.

If you've read my blog with any kind of regularity, you'll know I'm big on connecting to characters. I didn't connect with any of the characters in the A Plot nor did I like them or care what happened to them. The father trying to save his son from a gang by breaking out of jail and killing his accomplice and several other gang members in the process was convoluted at best. Left a nice little trail of bodies for Pete, Myka, Jinks, and Jinks' Ex to follow. Speaking of whom, I honestly didn't care about Jinks' Ex. I should have cared that he and the father were going to die via lava, but I didn't. I was more worried about Jinks during that scene. Also, Jinks' Ex figuring out The Warehouse stuff as quickly as he did was ridiculous. Add to that the shoe-horned in conversation in the car... the only scene I even remotely cared about him was in the interrogation room with Myka. I thought that bounced off each other and had more chemistry than he and Jinks did.

During the "tense" scene with the lava lake, I was honestly more distracted by the heat-defying cars. A little scientific accuracy here would have been nice. Those cars should have melted to slag and killed Jinks and the Ex. I mean, I'm glad they didn't, but it was ridiculous.

The B Plot was much more interesting. I really like it when Artie and Claudia get a chance to work together. They make an awesome team and it was nice to see their father/daughter thing in action again. The only part of that plot that I thought was overly ridiculous was the guy they essentially threw off the second floor. He was annoying, idiotic, and stupid.

I'm not really going to comment on the ending scene of the episode... except... I would not have known who Cherie Currie was if I hadn't watched The Runaways... possibly the only good thing to have come out of my Twilight obsession...

Altador Cup Update

Today is a "bye day" in which you play the Jelly Chia practice team, get no points for doing so, and wait for the next bracket change.

Shenkuu finished 5th in the Alabriss Bracket this time around. I am disappointed... and less involved than I should/want to be.

Art

I was feeling generally blah this afternoon... tired and stuff from not enough sleep and doing chores... so I took a Blind Bag Rarity toy and gave her a new paint job.

Before

After

If you'd like to see those pictures better, check out my deviantART by following the link in the header.

Housekeeping

Tomorrow... I'll be putting up my Fringe, Season 3 review. I'll also probably be keeping this format of having an overview because... I'm getting tired of pointing out that there's stuff below my reviews in the Spoiler Warning. The only posts this definitely won't happen in are the Initial Reactions posts because those are long enough as they are.

Love ya, Jessie.

Initial Reactions - Warehouse 13 - Runaway

SPOILER WARNING

If you have not seen tonight's episode of Warehouse 13, please leave the blog and come back later. Initial Reactions, like Live Tweets, usually contain spoilers.

Warehouse 13 - "Runaway" - Initial Reactions

• Episodes that start in prisons never end well.
• Weather artifact?
• Giant lava monster?
• Dude, let Artie plan the dang party already.
• Ow...
• Mad clock is mad.
• Ouch.
• Pete biting his tongue is kind of amusing.
• How very astute.
• That's very trippy.
• This is a good point.
• Claudia is very touched.
• Clowns are creepy, Artie!
• Well that's interesting...
• Nope, someone without an artifact who just happens to be doing artifact-y things... she says sarcastically in response to Pete's comment.
• "Hillbilly Spa Resort" pretty amusing line there.
• Way to be obviously weird about the ex, Jinks.
• Myka, you're such the best girlfriend ever.
• Lol, Pete.
• Way to be un-subtle about talking up Steve, Myka.
• Prisoner in the background is kind of distracting.
• That's kind of ridiculously cryptic.
• Ya'll are over-thinking it.
• I think someone wanted an excuse to use the the fish-eye lens.
• It's a Vesuvius related artifact.
• That's a crappy cover story, Pete.
• Hey, Pete's gotta eat.
• And apparently so does Myka.
• Of course you're gonna do it now, there's no reason he'd be in the episode otherwise.
• So hard on yourself there, Jinks.
• Yay for family connections...
• Guy in the idiot shirt is obviously an idiot.
• Dude, go get the guy, Claud!
• Go Claud!
• Gotta love those gang initiations...
• Well that landed in a horrible place...
• And late to the party, our intrepid heroes, Myka and Pete.
• Yup, jump on top of the extremely melt-y car.
• Okay... that was an interesting end to the idiot guy...
• Car surfing? Why are the cars not melting quicker? I mean, it's a nice idea and everything, but really?
• Well that lava cooled quickly.
• Gotta have those "family" moments with the characters who mean nothing to the audience...
• As if there was any doubt the kid was going to go talk to his dad after that.
• Pete never does listen.
• So true!
• Dude, Bradley Copper looks good in most anything, even trash bags.
• The Prius survived? What is this nonsense?!
• Everyone gets all kind of creepy on Jinks-y.
• See, Artie fraking rocks! And no clowns!
• That song was better on electric guitars.