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alexandral ([personal profile] alexandral) wrote2011-12-30 11:30 pm

Warehouse 13: I love it!

I am still mostly doing RL things: spending the time with the family, eating cakes, shopping and enjoying myself. Tomorrow is the New Year Eve, the biggest holiday of the year in Russia. This year we are not going to Russia for the New Year holidays, we will be going there this summer instead, hopefully in time for the mushroom picking season (I LOVE MUSHROOMS).

I am just dropping by to post a happy ramble about "Warehouse 13". I tried the show last year, but for some reason the first season didn’t call to me immediately and I dropped it. This year my daughter wanted to watch the show together on holidays, and after dragging my feet a little bit I agreed! And how happy I am now that I did, especially after the two biggest let downs of this month: I mean the ending of "Hunger Games" book trilogy (I hopefully will tell you more once the good cheer period is over) and the ending of the season 3 of "Misfits". Now, the ending of the season 3 of Misfits was a Very Bad Ending of The Season, but really, I wasn’t too invested anyways.

But onto happier things! Unexpectedly, "Warehouse 13" is such a delight: gender balanced, funny, feel-good and stereotype-avoiding! Well, there was that one episode about Moscow, but I am going to forgive the show because otherwise this is like the good old times of good assembly cast shows! The abundance of fabulous and various female characters is particular nice. The abundance of characters that aren’t young and gorgeous, but are still interesting and engaging is very welcome too. Plus there are so many non-standard relationships in the show! Even women are having meaningful friendships! :D

This is exactly the kind of thing that makes my holidays perfect (we are already in the middle of the season 3) and makes me forget the disappointments of yesterday (Hunger Games, I mean you). All is not lost. If Sci Fi channel is continuing a show like this year after year – I have hope in the future of TV. :D And it is not as if there is anything particular special about "Warehouse 13" (apart from the gender balance which is indeed a rare thing).. It is .. just good fun!



PS: My daughter says that I am like Irene Frederic, and a little bit like Myka. :D And she sees herself as Claudia.

[identity profile] timescout.livejournal.com 2011-12-31 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
I love Warehouse 13! I'm currently waiting impatiently for it to come back with S4 so I can enjoy my time with the gang again and to see how they resolved the cliffhanger. Unfortunately I'll have to wait till July for that..... :(

WH13 one of those series that have been constatly enjoyable throughout all 3 seasons. The cast is great, I love the dynamics between all of them. The 'visiting' characters, whether recurring or onetime only have been good as well.

How far in are you now?

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2012-01-05 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the show and it seems that all the LJ people I always share my likes and dislikes with (like you and bluocean) like WH13 too. I haven't gotten to the cliffhanger yet (I have been watching my Korean dramas) but I am sure I will be breaking my brain too. We just finished 3.08. :D THE DOG - I hope he stays!

Did you say something about Ojakgyo Brothers? I gulped 38 in one go (I am still on holidays). I have such a crush on Joo WOn, it is insane!

[identity profile] timescout.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
So, are you back to k-dramas.....?

Re. 'Ojakgyo Brothers'.... I might have mentioned it somewhere, I like it. I've been watching it in chunks whenever I've amassed enough subbed epis. I guess I'm as far in as you now. Joo Won.... I can't say I've got a crush on him exactly (that'd be Suh Joon Young in 'Just You' right now ;P) but he is a qutie and I'm looking forward to more of him in dramas. His next one (Mask? premiers in May... I think) sounds like tons of fun. In an angsty kind of way, LOL!

I've been watching bit of this and bit of that, rotating my currently airing dramas with some older stuff (Chosun Police 3 was love, I need to do a piece on it) and western shows thrown in (Body of Proof is back from hiatus \o/).

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I crushing on Suh Joon Young always. It is a pity "Just You" is so long.. a bit too long for me. Joo Woo does angst extremely well and I can't wait to see him in "Mask.."

Body of proof didn't strike a chord with me at the beginning of the season 1 but I might get to it sometime too, if it is good..

[identity profile] timescout.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been watching 'Just You' raw (and now re-watching the subbed KBSWorld episodes to see what I missed, heh) and oddly enough it hasn't bored me yet. LOL! It might be 100+ episodes but they are short and the story moves at quite a brisk pace for a daily. So far anyway. I'm sort of surprised how much I'm enjoying it. Not that I won't drop it if it plunges into the usual makjangy hell at some point or if I just loose interest. SJY is totally adorable though. There's just something so instantly endearing in him. *g*

BoP didn't grab me right of the bat either but it's one of those shows that needed a few episodes to find it's groove. S2 has been love. I really like the characters and their interaction. Dana Delaney is great as someone who's not a paragon of virtue but always human. I also like the understated humour.