I'm curious if you got into Warehouse 13 because its based on the same short story as the Librarian(s) or if its a wonderful coincidence?
my friend (@theboost) and i watched the librarians together because after we finished birds of prey we needed another show to watch and we're both fans of leverage (+ they already got peer pressured into watching the first two episodes of the librarians by a family member and i had tried to watch it in ~2017 and failed because i wasn't ready). we did the first two episodes, then the three movies, then the rest of the show. another friend (@averyho) who had seen most of both shows told me to watch warehouse 13 afterward and i ended up watching the first few (i think three) episodes with them and then finishing it on my own. it was technically a show i had been meaning to watch for a while because i knew i'd liked it, but i think i watched it at a good time because it gave me my magic building fix.
obviously the two are superficially very similar which appears to partially stem from an under-the-table okay from what would become electric entertainment (after the movies were made but while they didn't have the rights from TNT to the property of the librarian movies) to the people who made warehouse 13--it's hard to find official documentation of this, avery and i looked, but based on some outside information from someone familiar with the production it does seem legitimate. apparently there was a lot of animosity from fans of warehouse 13 toward the librarians because warehouse 13 ended the same year the librarians premiered (may versus december of 2014) which is sort of how that information came out. i didn't know that because i didn't watch either show live.
to be honest though i do really like comparing the more similar episodes to each other (w13's savage seduction and the big snag versus the librarians' and the silver screen, or the subplot in w13's queen for a day versus the main plot in the librarians' and a town called feud) and seeing what works for me and what doesn't (for example i hate a town called feud but the subplot in queen for a day was fun) and how different characters react to similar situations. i'm sure a lot of people are more negative toward those similarities and positive toward the differences, but c'monnnn, isn't it awesome that myka and eve both love noir thrillers but only eve gets sexual about it?? it's good! it's fun!















