I gave this show a look based on the positive comments in this weeks TV Wasteland article. I have to say, I was underwhelmed.

The main characters themselves are plain boring. McClintock has no personality what-so-ever and the things that come out of his mouth that are intended to be witty come across dry and forced.

Ms Kelly isn't much better. Not particularly interesting, not particularly tough, not particularly pretty. Putting here on the same screen with Tricia Helfer was as bad an idea as I've ever seen. All it did was make me wish that they add 'Number Six' as a series regular and let the others take a back seat to her. It was like watching Dwayne Wade play on a team with Summer League rookies.

The whole thing seemed piece-meal and cliched to me. I watch a couple shows that aren't as good as they could be in hopes that they occasionally hit one out. Smallville and Dollhouse, to be specific. I know they have the potential to be great shows. But I don't see much potential in this series at all. I can't imagine a situation in which I would start to care about these two dull, uninteresting characters.

 To correct myself, it was last week's review that prompted me to watch this week's ep.

McClintock comes off as a David Boreanz knockoff to me. I mean, he sort of looks and tries to act like "Angel" when he was being silly, except "Angel" was able to pull it off. I thought the pilot was okay, I was able to download it for free from the PS Store. I'll check out the 2nd episode on Hulu when I feel like sitting at the computer for that long since we can't watch videos on Hulu from the PS3 browser anymore. And i'm definitely not gonna spend $2 for it on the PS Store. I wouldn't even do that for Lost knowing I can watch it for free somewhere.

The similarities to Joss Whedon and Angel are warranted given that Jane Espenson is one of the show's creators.  I'm sure her time working with Joss on his shows is rubbing off onto this a bit.

Rob, it wasn't a mirrored ping-pong table at the beginning.  It was the Looking Glass from Lewis Carol's Through the Looking Glass resting on a table, so Lattimer could play ping-pong with himself.

I do think this week's show was better than the pilot.  Still not totally sold on it, but I did have to laugh toward the end when Myke said the person she fought was a woman because she "felt" her and Lattimer replys, "You touched her boobie?"

The show works right now because there isn't much else to watch this summer.  It would never survive against the shows in the fall but such as it is I'll keep DVR'ing for something to watch if I'm bored.

I actually enjoyed last week's episode a little more than I did this week's.  Tricia Helfer's role was little more than a ploy to boost ratings...  She really served no functional purpose.  I also thought that the character development that made last week's episode work well for me was put on hold here in this episode.  I'll still be giving this show a chance for the summer, though.  I want it to be good...  just not sure if it will be.

Everybody seems to want this show, on it's second episode, to have characters as compelling as the X-Files did in season 7.  Think about how you felt about Mulder and Scully when you saw episode 2 for the first time and didn't know anything about these people.  Were they really  that much better?

I agree that Tricia Helfer was pretty much wasted.  But it was a one off guest appearance so how much can you expect.

I do see a lot of potential in the series.  I like the lead actors and the characters they portray.  I like the idea behind the series (though it's not particurlarly original).  The use of the idea seems clever.  And they are pulling in plot threads to expand the characters. 

With the whimsical quality of the series they seem to be trying to duplicate the success of Eureka (and is nobody going to review Eureka  this season?)  It remains to be seen how well t hey ulltimately succeed.

Kara S

 Everybody seems to want this show, on it's second episode, to have characters as compelling as the X-Files did in season 7. Think about how you felt about Mulder and Scully when you saw episode 2 for the first time and didn't know anything about these people. Were they really that much better?

I think the X-Files is more the exception than the rule. I can't think of any other recent show that started out with characters this bland and ultimately ended up successful. For me, Lost, Heroes, BSG, The 4400, Fringe, Chuck, Monk, even Dollhouse; all gave me characters that were intriguing- interesting- entertaining enough to get me to tune in for a second and third time as they began adding layers. This shows characters don't intrigue or interest me at all.

And their few attempts to create character depth fell completely flat, in my opinion. Berings line about her boo-hoo daddy issues felt contrived and cliche. It was a miserable combination of uninspired writing and unmotivated acting.

If anyone likes this show, that's fine. I'm not going to tell you to stop watching. But anyone trying to sell this show as having X-Files-like potential is not going to get far with me. I don't see it personally.

I can't compare it to Eureka because I've never watched it but I've heard that more than once that it's like Eureka.

I can make the comparisoin to X-Files.  It's personal taste of course but X-Files was one of my favorite shows when I was younger and I can say without a doubt I was more engrossed with the characters by the 2nd episode than I am with Warehouse 13. 

I like Warehouse 13 characters, they are fun but are two dimensional at best thus far and they lack the depth of Mulder and Scully.  Now saying that I don't have a problem with that because I wasn't looking for the X-Files when I started watching this show but X-Files was much further along by episode two than this show is.

Well maybe it was.  The X-Files is so far in the past and I've seen the eps so many times that it's difficult, at this late date, to judge.

Hobbs, you should try Eureka.  It manages to be light and whimsical and meaty in the scientific sense at the same time, a difficult juggling act.  The plots often hinge on twisting science in some new direction and the technobabble is sometimes pretty dense.  But somehow the local eccentric geniuses who take individualism to extremes don't make it seem very difficult at all.  Those folks are so darn likable that I look forward to spending time with them, wether they are accidentally creating a white dwarf star in the gym of the local high school or preparing Egyptian relics for a national museum tour or electing the town mayor.