Warehouse 13 There's Always a Downside Review!

Beware to Warehouse 13 newcomers! If you haven't caught yourselves up on past season episodes of Warehouse 13 then this episode may be a little bit confusing. I've watched the show since Season 1 but I have gone back myself a few times because with this series it can help.

Hmmm. There's Always a Downside was mostly filler to me (and not that much of a interesting filler) except for a few plot turning moments. It took a awhile for me to warm up to this episode. A character we've seen in a previous season, Hugo Miller is back. He introduces a new character Brady, his nephew (I also have nephew named Brady). Artie breaks up the dynamic duo of Pete and Myka. He also breaks up the Claudinks partners and does the switching game. Pete with Claudia to find an artifact that is causing people to be competitive and aggressive which somehow has led to Hugo Miller. Myka and Jinks are on the hunt to find an artifact that takes people's pain and sickness away. Interesting how Jink and Claudia complain about being separated. Awww. They want to be close. Well, we do know that Jinks is worried about Claudia. Don't think he wanted to have her out of his sight since whatever happens to him she feel now. He has so far kept this a secret. When Jinks is told that him and Myka must find such an artifact that takes pain away he objects to this at first. We can see that Jinks really wants to somehow take Claudia's pain away so this was hitting a little too close to home for him.

Anyway, with the new partners together, Pete and Claudia meet up with Hugo Miller and his nephew Brady. We learn about a bunch of magic marbles that are making the one who keeps them in their possession for too long dangerously aggressive. Hugo gave some of these marbles to Brady. A foolish thing on Hugo's part I might add even if he was training him to be a Warehouse agent. Hope Hugo doesn't need to go back to the loony bin like one part of his essence was for a decade or more. Brady gave four of these marbles to four of his friends and so the hunt is on to track these down before people get hurt.

Myka and Jinks head to New Orleans to track down the pain taking away artifact and it leads them to  a pretty cool antique looking bar. They meet a bartender, a girl who is in love with a sickly blues player. The team a little too quickly puts together the fact that the horn player's sickness is connected to everyone else being well.

Meanwhile, Artie has another visit from Brother Adrian (yay, I remembered his name!) and we have a little plot changing moment in what was a sort of weak episode for this week. Adrian brought a bogus object that is supose to help them find the astrolabe. Artie uses another artifact to melt this object while he has Adrian close his eyes and focus on the astrolabe  Adrian tricked Artie with this object. It was a fake and now he knows it's Artie who has what he's looking for. An argument begins between the two and it's clear that Artie doesn't want to give up the astrolabe. Adrian asks him how can the world be protected from the evil Artie has made. It beginning to look like Artie may be this season's unwilling or willing villain!

Jinks talks to the horn player and the horn player begins to take away Jinks' pain which at the same moment Claudia who's with Hugo begins to choke. Jinks screams to the horn player that he's choking Claudia and Myka hears him. Myka breaks up the moment and we find out it's a cursed cigarette holder. Myka is upset that Jinks hasn't told Claudia yet.

Pete and Claudia track down all the marbles except one which is in the possession of a school principal. He wants to hurt a gym full of students. With the help of the last marble, Pete saves the day. Claudia has a talk with Hugo about Brady becoming a future warehouse agent and the gang all come back together at the warehouse.

Artie finds out that the marbles were an artifact that was suppose to already be in the warehouse. He now thinks someone is trying to undo all his work. On to next week.

This episode wore on in the middle and took forever to get to a certain point. I was mostly waiting for the moment when Jinks got hurt and Claudia felt it. It finally somewhat delivered in that but I am now waiting for a better episode for next week.

Side note: The guy who played the horn player looked so familiar. I know I've seen him somewhere but can't  remember where. Anyone out there know?

A Little About Me: Why I Loved Growing Up in the 80s!

                                                                         


                                                      Bring Back the 80s video

                                    Me age: 3 in 1982

      Hmmm. The 80s. Even today it sometimes feels strange to think that time period was 20 to 30 years ago! Back then it was the moment, youthful and carefree for children growing up during this time. I for one was born in 1979. I was 10 years old in 1989. Most of my childhood was in the 80s. There are moments that stick in your mind when thinking back at your childhood. Also, those moments where you think you don't remember until you see an old toy, movie, song, or just a picture you haven't seen in forever and suddenly you're right back there. Feeling that moment you first played with a gooey, plastic octopus and threw it onto the fridge to watch it slowly crawl down until it unstuck and fell to the floor. Even your parents thought they were icky and gross but sort of cool! Well, I know my mother did.

                                         

     Now I know this is a science fiction, fantasy, and romance blog and believe me the 80s had plenty of all three! As a little girl growing up in the 80s I saw the likes of Transformer toys, great music, E.T. the Extra-terrestrial(a little later from when it first came out because I was only 3 at the time of it's theatrical release),The Neverending Story, The Princess Bride, Back to the Future (which I actually got to see at least one or two of this trilogy series in the actual theater), teased hair, colorful clothes...well colorful everything. Not to mention Nintendo with Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. My cousin had this game and I guess I was a little envious of her but I do remember playing a few times on it and it was awesome. Well, for a kid of that time that is.

                                                   Me age: 6 with Shawn my brother in 1985

When I was 5 years old back in 1984, my mom's boyfriend gave me four or five big, toy race cars. One of them had the Mountain Dew logo on it and I loved them! Tony, my mom's boyfriend was afraid I wouldn't like them because I was a girl. Well, back then us 80s girls weren't all girly girls. Well, at least I wasn't. If it was a cool toy I loved it. Didn't matter if it was for boys or girls. Actually, I think I loved boys toys at that age more than girl's toys personally but I really liked basically any toy that could spark my imagination. When I was six I had a bucket of Cowboys and Indians. They were yellow and red but those little guys were by far not the the only things in the bucket. Probably some Happy Meal toys, army men, Bambi toys, etc. I'd imagine elaborate adventures with them all the time but mostly they'd end up fighting in some good vs. evil battle or fall in love and get married.  I could spend hours with those toys. I also had a purple, banana seat bicycle! It had purple flares on each handlebar and little beads on the wheels. It was my first bike and I learned how to ride on it. I'd fall and hurt my knee and run to mom and she'd say just go back out there and try again and that's exactly what I did. One of my neighbors had a huge box of original Transformers! Oh my gosh! Those were so fun to play with! They really could change from a robot into something else. I've wondered whatever became of those toys and if my neighbor ever cashed them in. LOL! They might be worth something by now if they're not in too bad of shape. Of course I had Barbies and a Cabbage Patch Doll. Always wanted a Barbie Dreamhouse and car but never got one.

    There was another time before my little brother was born when my mother and I would go to game rooms. I was five years old and I remember particularly one place that was filled with pool tables in the big front room but in the very back was a room filled with arcade machines. I wanted to play pool like my mom but she said I was too young so while she played pool with her friends I walked into the arcade room. I distinctly remember the song The Heat is On from Beverly Hills Cop playing in the big speakers at the front of the room. I didn't have any quarters but I would walk up to the machines and pretend I was playing them. I remember the Tron game, Donkey Kong, and one where a man is swinging from vines with alligators trying to eat him from below. That one was my favorite. I wanted to play that thing sooo bad! The first time I heard The Beverly Hills Cop Theme Song was when I was over at a relative's house playing with some children in a driveway. One of the older boys I think had a boom box outside and he was blasting the song.  I was also exposed to 80s country music back in the day because of my baby sitter. Every time I went out with her she'd have the radio playing on the country music station. I still love classic 80s country and 80s pop music to this day.

     Play Donkey Kong for free here: http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/donkeykong.htm

     I think the first time I ever saw E.T. the Extra-terrestrial I was with my babysitter. I LOVED it so much! Seen it so many times since and every time I do watch it I get a craving for you guess it...Reese Pieces! It was so strange watching that brown, long fingered hand picking up the candy and hearing that crunching sound. Boy, did thye know how to advertise! The first time I saw the Gremlins I fell in love with Gizmo and I remember looking and listening to on of the Gremlins children's books on tape. You know the ones that used to start "This is the story of The Gremlins. You can read along with me in your book. You will know when it's time to turn the page when you hear the chimes ring like this." Well, with the Gremlins book it was probably Gizmo saying Bright Light! lol! I've cried with Bastion and Atreu from The Neverending Story and often wondered if they'd EVER make another film. Sadly, they did. Two more times but they were awful. I loved Fred Savage in The Princess Bride and the love of Wesley and Buttercup. We still think of this film and grin whenever someone says "As you wish." Hulk Hogan and of course Andre the Giant were awesome! I think I did watch a little wrestling back in the day mainly because of these two. To actually watch Back to the Future in the theaters is an experience one NEVER forgets. You have no idea how popular this show was unless you actually experienced it.

Wow! This is the actual book I used to have! Here is Part 1 of the story!

     I remember selling colored wrist bands to people for a quarter when I was 10 years old. I remember listening to New Kids on the Block and playing with all five of their dolls over at my cousin's house. Believe me, she was a fanatic when it came to that band. She had the covers, curtains, dolls, posters, and etc. I remember watching Moonlighting and hanging out at one of my friends' houses who's bedroom was filled with heavy metal hair band posters! She introduced me to David Bowie as the Troll King in Labyrinth and I will be forever thankful to her for that! Still love that movie to this day! See, kids of the 2000s and up, we didn't have the internet but we did have fun! I'm 32 years old now and I know many of us 80s children have children of their own now. I may not be one of them but for those that do when you tuck in your child with their new little Glow Worms of today, tell them we had one too but we also had David Bowie. There are somethings your children may never understand about us because the 80s were special and some of those 80s days should remain a mystery if only for the nostalgia of it all! :)

In my opinion the best Labyrinth music video on YouTube! Right here 

Warehouse 13 Personal Effects Review!

Okay, here we are again. This one was not the best by a long shot but it wasn't the worst either. I now see the use of why Jinks was brought back. Everyone can be paired off now. Also liked the fact that Leena seems to be having more airtime in this season already than all the others put together...except for the that MacPherson story line but even so. Personally, I like to see Claudia and Artie together better than Jinks and Claudia but Claudinks has it's own thing going too. Hmmm. Leena and Jinks as partners could be an idea for sometime later. Maybe soon. Okay, lets really get down to the artifacts biz!

Well, it appears that we're STILL not through with Sykes and it comes to knowledge that this wheelchair bound dude was carrying a very, tiny version of a warehouse in one of his spare houses. Ugh, how many places and artifacts did this guy own? If he had that many artifacts at his disposal the warehouse and everyone should be gone now with no possibility of bringing it back?! Ugh! Actually it just a box of artifacts...THAT CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND DEADLY! Pete and Myka are on the hunt! Only one little snafu. Someone has already broken into Sykes' house and stole them all. I see a major artifact treasure hunt on the way! Well sort of.

The guy in question has brought all the artifacts to a pawn shop of course. Oh, and taking into account what Pete and Claudia say later about pawn shop tv shows,  wouldn't it be so funny to watch a spoofed episode where a patron tries to sell one of these artifacts, suddenly the thing turns someone into a beast or something and the price goes way up? Well, that doesn't happen here. The pawn guy thinks it's junk and our mystery guy sells all of it except a strange white pipe which can alter the weather. Oh so that's the reason for all our strange weather here in the States! Thought it was that Walter guy from The X-Files. Well, Pete and Myka find out from a dumpy guy who loves tomatoes that our mystery man sold most of the stuff to a pawn shop. Explosion at pawn shop and now the gang's all here.

Artie makes a list of all the artifacts that were sold from the pawn shop, tears off pieces it, and gives them to all three pairs. Pete and Myka on the pipe trail, Claudia and Jinks on the sunglasses, bird cage, and waffle iron trail, and Artie and Leena on the violin and golf clubs trail. I sort of like that we have three separate story lines going for this episode and sort of didn't. It can be kind of complicated if you don't hang onto every piece of info that we're given. Again I really didn't like the main artifact story. The pipe was too much of an already done story line from other tv shows. Like that X-Files episode I mentioned earlier. Out of all of these artifacts the best ones were the golf club because that one moved the ongoing plot of this season forward and the bird cage one which also moved the main story forward. I'm a little worried about that. Not too much yet but just a little. The main story is great but the smaller story lines need to be at least almost as interesting and so far they haven't come close in this season.

Jinks and Claudia go after invisible sunglasses man and have a few jokes thrown in while they're doing it. The   Ghostbusters line from Claudia and the Revenge quip from the store lady was cute. Who actually watches Revenge anyway?! Sadly, not me. Sorry to all those Revenge fans out there! If I'm not mistaken Jinks is hit in the shoulder by "Hollow Man" before they catch him. Claudia complains a little about her arm. UH OH! SIDE EFFECT!  Later Claudinks go after the bird cage with some strained comic effect and Claudia feels Jinks' bird attack! Creepy! Are we going to see a future Jinks all icky and bloody but feeling just fine while Claudia is down for the count in some hospital?! That's could be interesting. I don't know how yet but could that stuff with Claudia stabbing Artie with the dagger somehow be connected to keeping Jinks and herself alive? How far would she really go? Would she kill one friend to save another? As Artie once said she shouldn't go down that path!

Artie and Leena go after a violin and get out of an awkward situation by saying they're from disease control or something. "Wash  your hands." lol! Artie's other joke here is walking a fine line. Later they go after a gold club that brings out anger in whoever holds it. This was interesting because Artie lets some things slip when he has his hands on it! Poor Artie. He wants so bad to tell people but that's exactly what he was told not to do? We're always wanting to do exactly what we're told not to do? Hmmm. Could that be some reverse psychology our friend Data is working on our lovely Artie? Leena is worried and Artie of course quickly shrugs it off once the artifact is deactivated.

Meanwhile, after a mishap with a bank truck, Pete and Myka follow Pipe Guy to the hospital and we find out Pipe Guy has a little brother with a heart infection. He stole money from a bank so the hospital could perform surgery on his brother. He kidnaps Dr. Mom From E. T. the Extraterrestrial up to the roof of the hospital and tries to take hospital and all to the Land of Oz! Too late for surgery for his brother he needs a heart that's "a complete match" but of course Pipe Guy's  not listening. A little invisible action from the Pete the sunglasses wearer and some quick thinking from Myka because Pete almost screws it up of course and at least the weather crisis is averted. Myka finally pushes the message through the Weather Boy's thick skull about his brother and what does he do next? He grabs the pipe one more time and kills himself so his brother can take his heart and live. Now, who saw this coming a mile away?! Another predictable ending. Ugh. Later, Claudia, Jinks, Myka and Pete go after the last artifact on the list, the waffle iron but sadly the camera guy is left behind during this adventure. Darn! We're all missing out! Who else wanted some waffle action?

Back at the warehouse Artie secretly calls some stranger to help him find an artifact "before it finds him." What could that be? The Dagger of course!

Oh, and isn't Trailer the smartest and cutest dog EVER?! :D The End and onto to next week!

Red Dwarf X 2012 Fall Trailer!!!

Red Dwarf was a science fiction comedy that spanned almost a whole decade. It formed a LARGE fan following and now it will be back with the same crew this Fall! Here is the trailer for the upcoming series!

Doctor Who 2012 Fall Trailer PART 1

Doctor Who 2012 Fall Trailer PART 2!!!

New Beauty and the Beast TV Series Trailer!

The CW has a new series loosely based upon the 80s tv series Beauty and the Beast coming this fall! Very loosely based. It has characters named Catherine Chandler and a guy name Vincent Keller. Other than that it has a more updated twisted storyline. If they have tunnel dwellers in this series like the old ones I'll be surprised. Check out the trailer here:

LOOK WHO'S COMING TO STORYBROOKE!!!

We'll be having a new character in the next season and it looks like Storybrooke is still here so that settles the theories about WHERE they'll be going I presume. Well, maybe!