Yesterday, the network once known as SciFi (pronounced like sci-fi) became the network currently known as Syfy (still pronounced like sci-fi). Is it no longer a sci-fi based network? Well, no, it probably is. They, technically speaking now don't necessarily have to be, but they launched the new name the same day they launched a new series, Warehouse 13, which is most definitely a new sci-fi show for Syfy.
The easiest way to explain Warehouse 13 – to those who used to watch SciFi anyway – is to cross Sanctuary with Eureka. Imagine, if you will, that all those cool toys the folks on Eureka make in Eureka ended up in the sanctuary on Sanctuary. Said new sanctuary could be Warehouse 13's Warehouse 13.
No? Too goofy? Okay then, how about this – Warehouse 13 features some Secret Service agents who have been assigned to watch over the vast quantities of miraculous, magical, and altogether dangerous doodads that have been collected for over a century in Warehouse 13. You know, fun stuff like Pandora's Box (now empty), and Aladdin's Lamp (wish for something impossible and you get a ferret… seriously). The Secret Service agents get all sorts of fun toys to play with, stuff discovered by the greatest scientific minds ever – things like Philo T. Farnsworth's two-way video walkie-talkie, and a stun gun made by Nikola Tesla (who, of course, is a reappearing character on Sanctuary).
So, Warehouse 13 is essentially the exact sort of show that the SciFi Network used to make, and which one can only assume the Syfy Network will continue to make. One doesn't have to have watched Warehouse 13 to figure that out though, one only needs to have seen some of the truly swell and fun promos that Syfy used to help launch the change (and their new "Imagine Greater" tag). The various promos featured characters from SciFi shows which will now be on Syfy and upcoming shows like Caprica (which takes place in the Battlestar Galactica universe before the events on that show) and Stargate Universe (the next series in the Stargate franchise, the last two series of which of course aired – at least partially – on SciFi).
Article comments
1 - Scott Deitche
As long as they keep chruning out those awesomely bad grade-Z movies , they can call themselves whatever they want.
2 - DW
Hate it. Understand this may help them be more canonical; but this is just goofy.
3 - Jenny
Another soppy excuse for men to look stupid so that women can look smart and, of course, "strong." Not 10 minutes into the 2nd showing we had to hear about men and their balls. Give us break.