By John Keegan and Paul Pearson
A weak A-story has unfortunately become par for the course when it comes to "Lost Girl", and the episodes subsequently live or die based on the sideplots and character threads woven around them. Pleasantly, this episode was very strong in the latter category, creating an unusually strong feeling that what happened to the characters in this episode would have profound effects on the show as it unfolds in the future.
A weak A-story has unfortunately become par for the course when it comes to "Lost Girl", and the episodes subsequently live or die based on the sideplots and character threads woven around them. Pleasantly, this episode was very strong in the latter category, creating an unusually strong feeling that what happened to the characters in this episode would have profound effects on the show as it unfolds in the future.
I'm really loving how "White Collar" is refusing to brush aside the consequences of everything that's happened in the past few episodes. Ever since Peter gave Neal the go-ahead to run from the law in the previous season finale, he's been finding himself going further and further outside the bounds of authority. And now he's paying for it. With plenty of people in the Bureau gunning for him, Peter is re-assigned to perform menial, repetitive tasks in an evidence warehouse, lorded over by his new boss (played by one of my favorite TV actors, Brett Cullen).
One of the special guest stars this season on Warehouse 13 is the great Brent Spiner, who many fans probably know as the android Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. On Warehouse 13 he plays the character of Brother Adrian.
The first season finale of "Alphas" brought a game-changing moment with the public announcement by Dr. Rosen that Alphas exist. It was the kind of plot twist that the writers simply couldn't take back, and the question was how the series would be able to move forward. The second season premiere handles that question perfectly well, while maintaining the grounded nature of the series in the process.
At the end of the third season, Warehouse 13 was utterly destroyed, killing H.G. Wells and Mrs. Frederic in the process. Artie, Pete, and Myka were left standing the rubble, wondering what might come next. Meanwhile, Claudia was struggling with Jinx's death, and what she may or may not be able to do about it, given her access to various time-bending artifacts. It was one of the darkest moments in the show's history.