Warehouse 13/Fridge

• Fridge Brilliance I was wondering how it is that Jinks has the ability to tell without fail when people are lying, the Alphas episode Never Let Me Go explains it; Jinks is an Alpha!
  • Similarly the since forgotten vibes of Pete's, and Myka's Monklike sense of perception.
  • Forgotten? They are still being used as of the season 3 finale.
• Fridge Brilliance: MacPherson, the Big Bad of season one, was killed before he could make a Heel Face Turn, by H.G. Wells, the Big Bad of season two. And she was resurrected by the Big Bad of season three, Walter Sykes and later indirectly killed by him when earning her redemption due to her own Heel Face Turn. The Big Bad of every season is killed by becoming good due to the Big Bad of the new season!
  • Fridge Horror: In that case, wouldn't that mean Pete is going to become the Big Bad of season four, since IIRC, he's the one who closed the portal on Sykes, thus killing the latter?
• Fridge Logic I first found it as a shock that Jinks was a homosexual as of episode 2. However, if you think about the "Unresolved Sexual Tension" that is fostered between agents of the warehouse, it makes sense as Jinks was Pete's new partner.
  • In a recent episode, why didn't they just put the forcefield around the bomb instead of around the agents? then not only would Noone have died but the warehouse wouldn't have been blown up
    • Likely, the bomb is strong enough to break through the forcefield from the inside, but not the outside. Also, it was stated that the forcefield could only be put in one specific area, and the bomb probably didn't have enough time left to move.
      • The forcefield would have been strong enough to contain it, as it was a small extension of the forcefield surrounding the entire Warehouse. As for not having enough time to move the bomb, Wells activated the field, and had enough time to explain what she did and the reasoning behind it, complete with a few endless seconds of staring at each other while the timer counted down. Another relevant bit of fridge logic: how the hell did whatshisname know how to rig it to go off? He must have tested it at some point to make sure it worked, so why didn;t anyone notice the equivalent of a nuclear explosion?
    • One interpretation is that rebooting the forcefield around the agents effectively makes it so that they are "outside" the Warehouse-- it's not one forcefield and one bubble, but one single forcefield that contains everything except the contents of the bubble. Putting the bubble around the bomb would make the bomb "outside" the Warehouse, and the nuclear explosion would do much more damage.
    • Or... That's exactly what Artie is going to do once he uses the pocketwatch MacPherson gave him to reverse time, if that's what the watch can do anyway.
• Fridge Horror: Jinks' last moments. Imaging being The Mole and having the Big Bad tell you, "We couldn't have done it without you." How does his Living Lie Detector ability react to that statement? Does he die thinking the villain's going to win because of him? Does he have complete faith in his Nakama and their ability to foil the plan?
• Fridge Brilliance: This will obviously be very YMMV, but here goes: in the alternate timeline in The Greatest Gift, there is a brief shot of a portrait of President McCain in Myka's office (just as there have been similar portraits of Presidents Bush and Obama in the Warehouse 13 / Eureka / Alphas universe). As strange as it sounds, this makes perfect sense in the context of the series:
  • In the very first episode, Pete and Myka meet Artie while he was trying to retrieve the Aztec Bloodstone. In the altered timeline, Artie is caught and is known to the country as a man who attempted to assassinate the president. We can assume that the president in question is Bush.
  • Arresting Artie would not have stopped Professor Gordon (the guy who first discovered the Bloodstone) from trying to kill the President. Without Pete's vibes there to tell the President not to come into the building yet, he probably either succeeded in killing / injuring the president or came far closer than he did in the regular Warehouse 13 universe. He was no doubt thrown in prison for the attempt, and Artie was assumed to be his collaborator.
  • In the US, it is not totally unreasonable to assume that an assassination attempt would increase the popularity of the public figure in question (especially if they were injured - see Reagan and Giffords). As a result, it is possible that Bush's popularity increased after the events at the museum.
  • According to many commentators, Obama's victory was in part because of Bush's unpopularity. If Bush had been more popular, Obama could very well have lost.
  • Thus, the fact that Pete was never born could plausibly change the outcome of the 2008 presidential election and, as a result, of U.S. history. Whether this change would have been good or bad is obviously an exercise left to the reader.
• Fridge Brilliance: The Trojan Horse is a huge artifact, so how did it get into the Warehouse? Easy. One property of the Trojan Horse has to be it's ability to easily get into secure areas...