Happy Halloween! 2015 Edition

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Sorry for a quick and dirty post. Odd that it has to be a quick one since I've had all month to come up with something. I'm not sure what my original idea for some post was but I had an idea for something earlier this week but kept putting it off. To keep up with my minimum of one post per month I had to get something up. So here is a pick of me from Halloween 1986 (could be 87 but I think it was 86 because I don't think we were allowed to dress up for Halloween after that) when I worked at a toy store. The picture was taken in the stockroom area of the store near the front of the store if I recall correctly. The vest I'm wearing is the uniform vest employees wore at the time, you can see part of my name badge as well.

 I was a dead pirate or skeleton pirate. Yes I am wearing glasses over the skeleton make-up. This was before I started wearing contacts. I had borrowed the striped shirt from a friend. He said it was his uniform from when he worked at a seafood fast food place the rest of the costume was my own. Not sure what the white scarf is or came from, been too long.

Warehouse 13 Wednesday: Lost And Found

EPISODE 4.18 "Lost & Found"

Original Air Date: 24 June 2013

Artie: "You know how a ladder works, Right?"

 Warning: this review may contain spoilers

Wow what a FANTASTIC episode. This is the type of episode that makes me question why Syfy is canceling Warehouse 13 next season when it is still IN IT'S PRIME!

This episode barely had a B Plot, it was more of a supplement to the A plot. Things started out surprise with some minor bantering at the bread and breakfast (that is becoming too cliche' for this series now) when Artie rushes in telling the team they got a big ping on something he has been waiting for since he "borrowed" one half of a puzzle box, the other piece of the puzzle box. They must act fast and meet the black market seller who has the other puzzle piece in Buffalo, New York. The puzzle box was from a pirate Roaring Dan Seavy who had stolen from artifacts from Warehouse 12 off of a cargo ship that was transporting the artifacts during the transition from Warehouse 12 to 13. The mysterious black market seller of the other piece of the puzzle box turns out to be Charlotte Dupres. Reluctantly Artie, Myka and Pete agree to work with her to find the missing artifacts. The puzzle box reveals the longitude and latitude to where Seavy had hidden a clue that leads to where Seavy's body and his treasure are buried.

Meanwhile Nick Powell (Josh Blaylock) the kid from last episode turns out to be the 515some years old immortal son of Charlotte Dupres, who is in reality the immortal Countess of St. Germain (from episode 4.11 "The Living And The Dead" ). Using Franz Mesmer's Magnets which create a "whammy field that causes the victim to see hallucinations from the power of suggestion, Nick tricks Claudia to take him to the Warehouse thinking he is Steve, and tricks Steve into thinking he has an impossibly huge stack of report files to sort through.

Artie, Myka and Pete discover the main artifact, Aleister Crowley's Ruby Studded Universal Hexagram Necklace which creates a smoke monster spectral projection of the user that lasts well beyond the user's death. In this case Roaring Dan Seavy. With the help of Charlotte, whom they thought had been killed by the smoke monster, they manage to snag and bag the amulet.

Things come to a head, and a nice cliff-hanger when Nick releases Renaissance astrological alchemist Paracelsus (Anthony Head) from the Bronze sector of the Warehouse and they escape. Oh gee didn't we see this with Macpherson back in the Season 1 to 2 cliffhanger. Yes and No.

This is episode is now one of my favorite episodes of the second half of Season 4. There were a couple of sort of inside jokes that made me chuckle. The first is a true inside joke or rather fan query that seems to go unexplained and probably will stay that way concerning Artie's "Bag of Tricks". Pete asks "How come that bag always has exactly..." but Artie shushes him. The other inside joke is a little bit of dialogue that Pete brings up about Comic-Con, and Myka asks "What is Comic-Con?".

I give this episode 4.5 Warehouse artifacts ****.5