S05.E02: Secret Services

[maraleia]

While Pete and Myka investigate drowning incidents on dry land, Artie and Claudia try to find out more about Claudia's sister.

 

[EC Amber]

"Is that a new brown coat?"

I love the Claudia-Artie snark. I'll miss that the most. 

Claudia's hair looked so cute short, but I wonder if she's trying to look older. She seemed so young and innocent when this show started. Speaking of hair - wth is up with that mop on Pete's head? Between that and the "casual Friday" he's sporting I wonder if they aren't trying to make him seem younger. Which is weird, I like clean cut Pete.  

The weird sex-romantic vibe... they just couldn't help themselves. Can't have one single awesome show that doesn't have to "go there." That is disappointing. I do wish though that would let Pete just grow up. For the first time to memory he had a moment of being an actual grown up and he ran away. 

Little girl Claudia is cute as hell... but what an oddly emotionally flat child. I'm not sure how much I like the "Claudia is a special, unique snowflake" storyline. It makes sense given her connection to the WH, but it makes me wonder - was she born with some inherent connection or was her exposure as a child what fostered that connection. In a related line: What happened to her brother? Her parents are murdered by her sister and she's alone at home. Was he off at the university?? And of course she couldn't just leave things be with her sister. :-( 

I love me some Jinksy. 

 

[merylinkid]

Seriously Pete, do you think anyone will go out with you with hair like that?   Perfect form of birth control.

Oh look, marriage makes you fight with your spouse.   Did they NOT see how they don't get along before they decided to get married?   Thankfully he had a life threatening experience so she could realize he was her twu wuv and all the fighting didn't matter.   Except after a couple years -- yeah the constant fighting gets old and you want a divorce.

Show -- under no circumstances do you put Pete and Myka together as a couple.   They are good friends.   That. Is. It.

[EC Amber]

Did this episode give you the feeling that that is the direction they want to end this on a la Rebecca and Jack WH agents Season one? 

[FormerMod-a1]

Little girl Claudia is cute as hell... but what an oddly emotionally flat child. I'm not sure how much I like the "Claudia is a special, unique snowflake" storyline. It makes sense given her connection to the WH, but it makes me wonder - was she born with some inherent connection or was her exposure as a child what fostered that connection. In a related line: What happened to her brother? Her parents are murdered by her sister and she's alone at home. Was he off at the university?? And of course she couldn't just leave things be with her sister. :-( 

I love me some Jinksy.

I have similar concerns about Claudia and her missing brother. Plus, I'm just bored with the sister story. It came up last minute last season and this season is so short that I just don't care. They should have dropped it like Myka's cancer. But that can also be due to the fact that it also annoys me that her brother is never mentioned, even now with the whole sister thing. I can understand if they can't get the actor back, but at least mention him please. Why wouldn't Claudia call him? She moved heaven and earth to save him and promptly forgot he ever existed.

I was never a shipper (of anyone), but I find myself suddenly liking Myka and Pete. But I think they were dropping so many hints (anvils even) that it must be some kind of mis-direct. And I'm OK with that too.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Oh look, marriage makes you fight with your spouse. Did they NOT see how they don't get along before they decided to get married? Thankfully he had a life threatening experience so she could realize he was her twu wuv and all the fighting didn't matter. Except after a couple years -- yeah the constant fighting gets old and you want a divorce.

ITA - the bickering can be fun to watch on a tv show when there are witty writers behind the banter (see: S1-2 of Moonlighting) but constantly arguing and a pregnancy scare should not be signs that point to "GET MARRIED."

So the baby shoes are the Warehouse version of the Harry Potter pensieve?

There was too much time spent on Claudia and her sister, and it was really weird for them to spend all this time talking about her family and showing family flashbacks without a single mention of Joshua. If he wasn't available to film, that's fine, but they couldn't throw in one line from Claudia like, "Joshua needs to know that our sister is alive" or "I just called Joshua in France and he's freaked out too"?

I hate the Myka/Pete shipper anvils anvils. While I know it's definitely possible for two friends to suddenly realize that they're perfect for each other, that should be a show me, not a tell me. I don't want Myka and Pete to think oh hey, those other partners fell in love so maybe we're totally in love and we just don't know it! Blech. Please let them just stay friends. If they want to be BFFs who have a baby together, I don't have a problem with that, but I don't want some contrived romance.

Edited April 22, 2014 by ElectricBoogaloo

[Rhetorica]

I didn't enjoy this episode as much as last week. We only have four to go so I want every one to be awesome. I understand they're setting up relationships for the finale but it just seemed to be filler.

I think Claudia has always been destined to be a Regent of the Warehouse. Mrs. Ferguson has taken her under her wings several times and this episode shows us she had a link to the objects since she was small.

They certainly are telegraphing a not so subtle romantic ending for Mika and Pete

[Jediknight]

I was never a shipper (of anyone), but I find myself suddenly liking Myka and Pete. But I think they were dropping so many hints (anvils even) that it must be some kind of mis-direct. And I'm OK with that too.

I think they'll have a baby together.  But it won't be romantic.  Myka and HG will wind up together, want a kid, and Pete will be the sperm donor for Myka.  They won't turn the family vibe into a romance.

I think Claudia has always been destined to be a Regent of the Warehouse.

They've said that Claudia is going to be the caretaker, so it makes sense for her to have a commection to the Warehouse from an early age.  I think Pete's the one destined to become a Regent.  It's the vibes, the Regents not firing him after he tried to kill Valda,Valda giving him the key when they were in Egypt, and also the fact he immediately loved the Warehouse.

Not as good as last week's, but I liked it.

Edited April 22, 2014 by Jediknight

[EC Amber]

So... 30-40 years into the future:

Claudia is Ms. Frederick 2.0
Pete is Vlada 2.0
Myka is Artie 2.0
And Jinks... doesn't need to be anyone because he's awesome all on his own. 

[futurechemist]

1 little thing that annoyed me about this episode was the beginning.  Pete and Myka are investigating a murder at the actual crime scene.  And that's the perfect time for catching up with old friends?

Also was Mrs. Frederick out of character?  I don't recall her ever acting un-business-like before.  So it was kind of weird to see her having tea with Myka gabbing about babies.  That would seem like more of a Leena conversation, well other than that Leena is dead.

Otherwise the episode was fun, nothing memorable, but not boring either.  And I'm glad Pete and Myka are still just friends.  I'd have thought they'd be moving the arc along a bit seeing as there's only 4 episodes left, but I guess not.

So does Jinks ever get added to the opening credits?  He seems pretty well integrated to not be part of that establishing shot overlooking the warehouse.

 

[Happy to be here]

Mostly I didn't enjoy this episode.  Stunk to much of Myka/Pete shippage for my taste and the Claudia stuff was boring (and I have NEVER called Claudia boring before).  If the show does end up pairing Myka and Pete I might revolt in a major way.  Murder/Suicide Pact before pairing them up even for baby making purposes please.

On a side note:  It is good to know that I am not the only one who has to stifle laughter when I hear the word "Fracking".

Claudia was always going to be caretaker.  I think Myka was going to have Artie's job.  I am not sure what they said about Pete (I think he is going to be a regent or something.)   Warehouse 13: THe Next Generation.  (or would that be Warehouse 14 ~ because we all know Warehouse 13 is gonna blow up)  

Edited April 23, 2014 by ChaosTheory

[CPTSockPuppet]

This episode just started pissing me off. Do they have to push the Pete/Myka like that? As much as I'd like Myka to get with HG I always realistically knew that wasn't going to happen, but this Pete/Myka thing is obnoxious. Why not at least leave it all open ended? They might not have the balls to go the Myka/HG route, but why force something now that never seemed like an option before? 

[rainsmom]

The Pete/Myka thing just doesn't work. Really. Truly. They work great as best friends, but they have zero romantic chemistry. Please let this be a red herring, and have her end up with HG. 'Cause Myka and HG have all kinds of chemistry. BE BRAVE, SHOW!

[ramble]

And Jinks... doesn't need to be anyone because he's awesome all on his own.

I so agree with this! And I'm agreeing with what y'all are saying as well regarding too much Pete/Myka ship-like stuff this episode. I don't care for it. We have so little time left & that is not what I want the focus to be.

[merylinkid]

If Pete and Myka have been end game since at least the time travel episode where they went back and were the agents from the 1960s, then they needed to set it up better.   Among other things, Pete needed to grow up a lot more.  Sure, he is a great guy that you can count on when things get tough.   But day to day he has the maturity level of a 12 year old and no smart, capable woman like Myka wants to be married to that.   They could have kept Pete as funny and a bit goofy while still having him grow up.   But this is the guy who LICKS spilled food off the videophone.  

So if they have decided in six short episodes to finish it off this way, then it is an epic fail.   

[LoneHaranguer]

I really couldn't get invested in Claudia's sister knowing that alt-Valda is running around, a guy from a timeline where they actually study the artifacts and know what they can do.

[shapeshifter]

So it seems like these remaining episodes are going to be channelling the writers' stages of grief. If so, this one was anger--meaning they would likely be angry about having to finish up plots that were supposed to go on for a full season, and perhaps stretch others that were filling up gaps of plots they axed. Poor viewers. Poor writers. Poor actors. Poor characters. Poor story.

[pcta]

I liked much of this episode. Pete and Myka. The sperm offer seemed fine to me. I have known gay men who have donated sperm to their lesbian friends so this doesn't seem like a totally strange notion to me. I am sure that there are straight men who would do the same for their best friend (few and far between perhaps but I am sure they do exist . . . and Pete has always shown a feminine/emotional side). I am agnostic on a Pete/Myka pairing. You know HG has found a partner with whom she seems quite happy so I wouldn't want her to leave that life for Myka.

Since Mrs F, herself, had a child and since she has gone through a highly emotional change (being severed from the warehouse and then being reunited), I suppose it is reasonable for her to be interested in life choices.

My guess is that Claudia's sister was introduced when the show runners thought they would have a whole season to play with it. They couldn't just drop it but I suspect everything will be compressed with only 6 episodes.

I am interested in what's up with Valda - hope to see more soon.

[Slovenly Muse]

Finally caught up on this episode!

 

Loved the drownings on dry land, but was surprised they weren't caused by a cursed tuba from the Titanic that causes anyone to hear it to "drown in the icy waters of the North Atlantic." Or maybe I'm just getting flashbacks to The Middleman, the show that did it better. (May it also rest in peace.)

 

Agree that a Pete/Myka romance is completely the wrong direction to take. They are so much better as friends and partners. That said, I can totally see them having a baby together in a non-romantic way. That would be perfect. JINKS is the one I'd like to see hooked up romantically before the end! Come on, writers, you've ignored this poor guy long enough!