Warehouse 13

So I've started another blog for today that was somewhat more topical and much more passionate but I think I need to do some proper research with statistics and the like before I start putting those opinions out there. Today then I want to do a little blog about one of my favourite programmes of all time the last ever episode of which airs tonight in the UK; Warehouse 13.

This show is a Syfy original and it's bloody spectacular. The premise is that certain emotionally charged and exceptional events create artefacts that give the user a special ability but more often than not there's a downside. For example you could wear Mahatma Gandhi's Sandal's to calm you down but they would eventually stop your heart.

Kitten Pete and Myka

The two main protagonists are Pete and Myka, who the two most gorgeous kittens in the world are named after. They start off not knowing anything about the Warehouse and get fully ensconced in the Warehouse life. It starts off being a bit old hat with Myka the bookish beauty and Pete the foolish Jock and their struggles with each other but once you get over the clichés then it turns into something beautiful. There's even the overbearing Jewish figure in Artie who, that's always got to be worth something eh?

The actors are truly magnificent. Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly are perfect protagonists together. Nobody else in the world could have played Artie with such aplomb as Saul Rubinek. And Allison Scaggliotti and Aaron Ashmore play their troubled characters with such sincerity and humility that it has been an absolute joy to see them develop.

It's also had some of science fiction's greatest bit part actors in it, James Marsters, Anthony Head and Mark Sheppard to name but a few. If you don't know who these people are then I insist you relinquish your geek card immediately.

Anyway I will miss it and clearly the actors will as well. Eddie McClintock has been furiously tweeting about it's demise since it was announced it would be cancelled. I think it will live forever I the same way that short lived series which are cancelled do. I hope it does because it is so ridiculously clever and clever TV isn't something which I come across as much as I'd like to.

So well done Syfy and I say this in truth and sarcasm. Well done for producing one of the best TV shows I've had the pleasure to come across. And well done for killing something which could has got the legs to run for a long time – seems perfectly legit.

Now go and watch it. It's on Netflix. You never know they might bring it back...

Until next time.