First, I think you should give it a second try ... it is a great show.
Second, the show is, generally, episodic, rather than arc-driven, so while there are elements of continuity that could be lost on you, on occasion, I think of Warehouse 13 more like Eureka, than like Fringe, so I don't think you'd be lost, starting to watch the series now.
If you want, you could do about ten minutes of reading and be pretty-much "caught up" on the continuity elements;
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/Myka_Bering
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Lattimer
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/Claudia_Donovan
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/Irene_Frederick
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/Arthur_Nielsen
And you really do need this next page, to catch you up to what you missed in the Season 1 finale:
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/James_MacPherson
If you've got more than ten minutes, you might also find these pages useful, but not necessary, to "catch up":
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/Warehouse_13
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/Artifacts
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tesla
http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/The_Farnsworth
Keep in mind that those pages will be updated over time - you want to read them as they are today, since they don't spoil anything coming up in Season 2 (yet).
[B]Jul 6, 2010[/B]
03:00 PM WAREHOUSE 13 ELEMENTS
04:00 PM WAREHOUSE 13 BURNOUT
05:00 PM WAREHOUSE 13 IMPLOSION
06:00 PM WAREHOUSE 13 BREAKDOWN
07:00 PM WAREHOUSE 13 NEVERMORE
08:00 PM WAREHOUSE 13 MACPHERSON
It was nice to have Warehouse 13 back. I wasn't actually as happy about it, though, as I wanted to be. The season premiere was a bit stilted imho. The characters didn't seem to have the same chemistry as I recall from the end of last season, and the explanations of how things worked out, after last season's finale, didn't really gel for me.
This was a two-hour premiere. I've read a lot of stuff about this show that has alternatively led me to believe something in-between "don't expect much" (on the positive side) and "bad bad bad" (on the negative side). I suppose I need to continually work to ignore the rampant curmudgeony that we encounter in such volume these days. It isn't a great show - I'm not going to expect to see Aaron Douglas nominated for an Emmy for his role - but it's a good show, better than a lot of the over-hyped, over-venerated crap that survives year after year. Yes, The Bridge is a little overly melodramatic and a bit over-the-top in other ways, but it has decent production values and looks at the often-ploughed subject-matter of urban policing from a perspective that is relatively uncommon (i.e., from the union's standpoint, and especially interesting, I feel, in the context of LA, given its history of enmity between citizens and police).
I'm not planning on checking out the Glades, but I will record it, and may sneak it in, especially if we encounter an unexpected fall-through of certain plans we have for next weekend. Beyond that, everything else that is starting up this week is something that we're going to be watching. (We're dropping Netflix down to the minimum, now that the "good" summer shows are starting up.) Rizzoli & Isles looks incredibly promising - on par with its lead-in, The Closer - and I'm betting that Covert Affairs will be better than White Collar was last year (and it was pretty good), so much so that I'm betting we'll be watching Covert Affairs each week, and leaving White Collar on the DVR until we have nothing better to watch.
