User Reviews

The warehouse has been destroyed but thanks to H.G. Wells, Artie, Myka and Pete have survived the blast. Returning to Leena's, they find that Mrs. Frederic has died. Of all the artifacts destroyed at the warehouse, the one with the worse results was the destruction of Pandora's Box for within the box was the Spirit of Hope. Throughout the world there are riots and an outbreak of suicides as people succumb to despair and depression. But Artie has a watch that can reverse time; the thing is, it's missing a piece; a piece that is being held by successors to the Knights Templar. So off to Europe the team goes to retrieve it. Fortunately, the team (Artie, Pete, Myka and Claudia) is not affected by the hopelessness that is overcoming so many people. The leader of the Templars, Brother Adrian warns Artie that his reversing the time will unleash great evil. Obviously we have A new story arc beginning here. I was looking forward to seeing Brent Spiner as Brother Adrian but he really doesn't have much to do in this episode. Artie is the focus of this episode and Rubinek pulls it off very well. A couple of loose ends are nicely tied up in this episode but we are also left with a sense of foreboding. An excellent season opener.

This is the episode where Warehouse 13 jumped the shark. After the clifhanger in S3E12 I was wondering how the series could possibly come back but the way the writers chose to do was over the top even for WH13. The whole Brent Spiner subplot and the Jenks/Claudia thing just completely ruined the show for me. I kept watching it because I wanted to see how they wrapped everything up in season 5 but it was painful to watch. Sad to watch one of my favorite series self destruct like that but then after the whole total destruction of the warehouse and killing so many characters what else could they do? I really enjoyed the series but became very ill part way through season 3 and lost the thread. Watching it on FreeVee was nice but it was uncomfortable watching S4 and S5.