Published on June 2, 2013
Season 4 of Warehouse 13! If you've made it this far, it means you somehow survived the double Kempo kick to the heart of 3.11: Emily Lake and 3.12: Stand. Way to go! If it's still "too soon" or you feel 90% ready, but still have good and bad days, I would
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caution you with starting up 4.01: A New Hope just yet. Take some time; heal. Some common therapies in the Bering and Wells fandom: alcohol, drugs, watching 2.07: For the Team on repeat as if that is the last episode you can remember airing, or reading smutty/fluffy Bering and Wells fan fiction, where the ladies enjoy an aggressively high amount of sex, while also caring for their adorable artifact-created offspring. All good choices; all methods I have employed myself. Emily Lake who? Stand what? I have no idea what you are talking about.
The reason I caution jumping back into the Warehouse 13 season 4 fray, without a mental health check first, is that the show makes no attempt to start the new season off in a gentle |
"Coping"
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"we know you're still healing" manner. Like not at all. So if you're not at least slightly medicated and you haven't fully accepted the fact that Bering and Wells = pain, you could end up with the part of the fandom that never truly recovered from the season 3 finale. Somewhere out there are those lone Bering and Wells shipmates sitting in a dark room, rocking back and forth, still mumbling something about "apples" and the price being "too high." May Jo have mercy on them all. Pray for them, but, please, do not join them.
With that said, we're here for a reason, the optimistic masochists that we are, so as our Captain H.G. once quoted: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
As I referred to above, just when we thought we were emotionally stable enough to confront another season of Warehouse 13, the first thing we are greeted with in season 4 is a "Previously on Warehouse 13" recap of horror, showing all of the soul-crushing moments of 3.12. Apparently, video montages are not just for weddings or happy events; they're also for showcasing tragedy and the shattering of dreams. How lovely.
With that said, we're here for a reason, the optimistic masochists that we are, so as our Captain H.G. once quoted: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
As I referred to above, just when we thought we were emotionally stable enough to confront another season of Warehouse 13, the first thing we are greeted with in season 4 is a "Previously on Warehouse 13" recap of horror, showing all of the soul-crushing moments of 3.12. Apparently, video montages are not just for weddings or happy events; they're also for showcasing tragedy and the shattering of dreams. How lovely.
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After that PTSD trigger, we have to confront the reality of all that happened in the prior season's finale, and a lot did happen. By our last count, 1) Jinksy was gone, murdered by Walter Sykes; 2) Mrs. F became a human Shrinky Dink and shriveled into a mummified-esque skeleton (read: super dead); 3) the Warehouse was obliterated; and...I think, I think that's it. Well, of course, there was H.G.'s sacrificing of her life to save Myka (and Pete and Artie). Otherwise, yeah, that's it. *deep breaths
4.01: A New Hope opens up exactly where the show left off at the end of 3.12 - with a massive, smoking crater where the Warehouse once stood. Survivors Pete, Myka, and Artie (the "H.G. 3" or just "HG3") are standing amongst the ruins of the
4.01: A New Hope opens up exactly where the show left off at the end of 3.12 - with a massive, smoking crater where the Warehouse once stood. Survivors Pete, Myka, and Artie (the "H.G. 3" or just "HG3") are standing amongst the ruins of the
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Warehouse, while bleak, ominous music plays in the background. The camera suddenly zooms into a closeup of Pete, who is openly crying, and upon the sight of a heavily charred and twisted Beatrix Potter's tea set amongst the rubble, he flashes back to happier times when Myka and he goofed around in the Warehouse after the tea set's successful snag, bag, and tag. Well, this is uplifting.
The camera then fades into a closeup of sweet, baby angel Myka's face. And God help us all, she is also wearing a tear-tracked face of bottomless grief, which makes my hand involuntarily start reaching for the closest bottle of alcohol. Then when it's time for Myka's Flashback of Pain, it seems like a random |
Bering and Wells shipper somehow commandeered the Syfy channel for a few seconds and slipped their fan video into the show, as Myka's flashback consists of:
- 2.07: For the Team - Myka looking at the Post-It Note "Keep it[.] You can owe me." while she puts H.G.'s grappler away in the Warehouse
- 2.07: For the Team - H.G. using the grappler to save Myka's life and looking down lovingly at Myka
No, folks, this is not a dream. This is real life. Jesus, take the wheel!
Before our minds can comprehend what just happened, it's Artie and his eyebrows' turn for his Flashback of Pain, which consists of the first time he introduced Pete and Myka to the Warehouse in 1.01. I'd like to note I don't see any tears on his face, and he seems mildly unhappy, whereas Pete is a hot weepy mess and Myka looks like she will never smile again...ever. Hey Artie, we've all boarded the "cry" train years ago; it'd be nice if you'd like to join us and show you care.
More importantly, though, let us rewind. Pete flashed back to: Warehouse + Myka; Artie flashed back to: Warehouse + Pete + Myka; and Myka flashed back to: H.G. So, while the others were mourning the Warehouse's destruction, all Myka cared about was the loss of the "one person who kn[ew her] the best." Myka's flashback was also not just any random interaction between her and H.G. No, she remembered the turning point in their relationship, where Myka went from being suspicious of H.G. and always prioritizing work over everything else to putting all of her love and trust in H.G., even over the Warehouse.
In the words of Jack McFarland, "How much do I have to eat before the pain goes away?"