Top 10 Potential Warehouse 13 Crossovers

As we watch this week’s “soon to be famous” Eureka/Warehouse13 crossover event (starting tonight on Warehouse 13 and continuing this Friday on Eureka), I think it is time to speculate on what other TV and movie (and maybe even comic book) properties would do well to drop in on our friends at the Warehouse.

I probably should clear a few things up though…

When I say “crossover” I’m really only gonna talk about the Warehouse 13 side of that event. I guess I’m really suggesting “guest stars” but if it went the other way and Artie showed his face on some other show… would I complain? No. No, I would not, sir. Dreaming up our favorite potential crossovers is what we fanboys do best!

Also, even though this is a “Top 10”, I’ve organized it in order of viability, which is to say that I put active SyFy properties first, and more outlandish, outdated or cost ineffective ideas later. So its really just a “10” list… but that’s not nearly as commercial a blog title so live with it.

If you have any other ideas on dream crossovers (not including The Globetrotters), post a comment below. I’m totally willing to hear more. And as it would be a minor miracle for any of these proposed crossovers to happen… well its not like I can say anyone’s idea is less feasible then any other! So here we go:

Sanctuary

Ok, here’s a great show with almost the exact same premise, but just replace abnormals with artifacts and you have a show about finding a “thing” and bringing it back to the “place”. So why not have two things, one alive, and one an object and both teams bump into each other while in pursuit? Considering that the fan-tactular response to anything Amanda Tapping does on SyFy (she has a show next season where she just reads the phonebook) well… it’s a good idea! I’m not sure television could even support this, but it could even be a 2-part 2-sided episode, continued from one show to the other, and thus cross the audience… OR just piss people off. Anyway, a Pete and Helen Magnus love angle would make some internet oooohs and awes… and Claudia could ramp up some of the Sanctuary’s non-lethal weapons. I’m already down.

Caprica

CALM DOWN! I know that this seems impossible, but let me talk you through it. If Caprica is the prequel to Battlestar Gallactica and Battlestar Gallactica ostensibly ends with the crew (and SOME of their stuff) landing on early human Earth… well that means we have an abstract connection. So an artifact that’s a robot head that projects a beautiful girl hologram and gives advice (and takes over machines or something) is still viable, right? Honestly, I just think that Zoe and Claudia deserve some screen time to pal around and compare their fractured family lives. Now, obviously it takes twenty steps to get there… but I, for one, think it would be worth it. A Caprica/Battlestar Gallactica artifact, even if it’s just on a shelf in the warehouse is a must in my book. A MUST!

Haven

This show is just starting out, so a crossover could only do it some good. I think I’m more interested in the producers “crossing over” the cast with people who speak with authentic Maine accents… but I digress. Dragging the warehousers (is that right?) out to the town of Haven and having them bump heads with all of the interesting (if wildly inaccurate) Maine characters… Hell, we could probably see a Warehouse 13, Haven AND Sanctuary crossover at some point. Claudia and Audrey could talk about not knowing their parents… and Myka and Nathan could do a little “I can’t feel” twisted romance. This is, of course, assuming that Haven lasts long enough to make this possible. Everyone should check out some later episodes of this show. It is Stephen King inspired, and that counts for something.

Stargate Universe

While I love SG-U, this is mostly a crossover with Eli, who deserves to get as much screen time as anyone in the SyFy extended show universe. David Blue ROCKS this role, and I’d love to see him in the Warehouse. Of course he’d be there in somebody else’s body (via communication stones) but we’d still get his unique whit. Its reasonable to assume that this is something Stargate Command might want and could ALSO be in the sights of the Warehouse. This is a good chance to really push Eli as a character with his ability to pretend to be somebody else. Perhaps he’d act around Myka and Claudia in a way he would always have hoped to, had he been a different person. If not in a crossover, I kinda want to see David Blue stretched with that type of acting endeavor sometime soon. To be fair, I like his acting enough that I’d have him on the show outside of continuity as some random walk on character… so hashtag #DavidBlueOnW13 if you get a chance.

Sharktopus

Wow, my spell-check didn’t like that one (editor’s note: or the rest of your article). Anyways, I haven’t seen all of Sharktopus yet, but what I was able to watch at Comic Con makes me think that Sharktopus is probably the coolest thing to happen since Saber-Toothed-Eagle or some other hybrid movie. I can’t help but wonder if the creator of the Hippogryph sued for copywrite infringement. ANYWAYS (again), I’m not going to give you too much on this one. But take the famous Jaws “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” moment and insert ANY Warehouse 13 cast member, and tell me you wouldn’t pay $$$ (or sit through a bunch of ads) to see that! I see Artie looking over the edge of a pier while waiting for Claudia to get back in order to continue looking for the artifact and under the water swims Sharktopus and… GOLD! It’s fucking GOLD!

House

Ok, now we’ve clearly jumped off the SyFy wagon and into the rest of television. So this probably can’t happen even if we wanted it too, but when a good friend (gamer-girl Cricket Lee) suggested it, well I couldn’t say no. It’s too amazing to consider a scene in which the great Dr. House and Artie go at it over some minor quibble while Claudia looks back and forth like she’s watching a tennis match. Plus a medical drama and a procedural drama fit together well!

Fringe

Here we are, still in a land of impossibility, and yet everything is called impossible until it becomes possible. These two shows have enough in common that it would be cool to see the teams play off each other in pursuit of a common goal. A little friendly competition between the teams would be pretty fun to watch, with both frantically calling back to their respective Arties and Walters to see if they have stopped pontificating in order to become any sort of help. Peter and Pete could take turns trying to one-up each other in a competition of brazenness. Oh, the things we’ll never see.

Brimstone/Dresden Files

These two canceled SyFy shows would be even harder to crossover with… because they’re canceled. Still, their collectively good dynamics with a strong lead and even stronger mythos make them great fodder for a crossover. These two shows more then anything seem to be a good backdrop for the Warehousers (I’m determined to make this term work) to travel to, but not necessarily the other way around. Imagine Pete in Dresden’s workshop playing with the hockey stick or Myka going on a date with Ezekial Stone only to find out he only has the… what was it? Under $20 he had left in his wallet at time of death? The careful folks in the Warehouse 13 props department should get the car from Brimstone and the Hockey Stick from Dresden files into the warehouse stacks someplace at the very least. Also add to your tweetouts #BringBackDresden and #BringBackBrimstone! Can ANYONE actually tell me a devil that has been played better then John Glover? Also is John Glover available? I mean for drinks. I LOVE THAT GUY!

Farscape

Oh the heads that just spun from that one. If you remember your extended Farscape canon, the crew DID visit earth in our time for a bit (Editor’s note: Of course I remember… I named the website after this show!). I wouldn’t suggest a pure mixing of story lines, but John Crichton being the guy who gets involved with the Warehousers but seems to be a little too cool and skeptical with the supernatural would be great. Hell, it could even be Ben Browder’s Stargate character and it would accomplish the same feel! Really, what I am saying is that Ben Browder needs to visit the Warehouse! Come on, SyFy! You LOVE to keep it in the family! Just keep on keeping in! Claudia Black could use some attention to… and she’s just as amazing! I kind of have a crush on Claudia Black… and a man crush on Ben Browder. Best 3 way ever? Oh wait… did that get creepy?

The Lost Room

If you didn’t see this one coming then I’m surprised. This mini-series, which clearly draws from a very similar wheelhouse to the Warehouse 13 universe, is both the most and least applicable crossover. It’s a good idea because it deals so much with the same topics that the characters and ideas fully translate. It’s a BAD idea because each plot muddies the other, and the real history and effect of the artifacts/objects is a little less clear after such an event. It wouldn’t be all that hard to do, and some of the characters, like perhaps Margaret Cho’s “finder of objects” could guest in, and not really be all that disruptive. The idea that the “room” or the “key” could somehow be artifacts based on the W13 rules is a harder sell. As a long standing SyFy fan I would probably like to see it referenced somehow, if only as a stab to the critics who think any two similar ideas must somehow be derivative of the other. The Warehouse 13 prop masters should have at least one hotel key on the shelves, if just as a “fuck you” to the haters.

Not mentioned here: While a full on crossover is not possible, I would say that some great shows of the past at least deserve a cast or item reference in the warehouse. I wouldn’t mind a WNYX or WKRP microphone at some point or maybe one of the cast of the Friday the 13th television show could guest (btw, the Friday the 13th / Warehouse 13 thing… we should talk about). Either way, with the amount of dialogue based references to the rest of pop culture, we’ll take actors and items too. You gave us a Firefly reunion so lets keep pulling.

I act like I am talking directly to the controlling factors of the shows here… but maybe I am in the fans and Warehouse loyalists that are reading.

None of this would be possible in the first place, of course, if Warehouse 13 wasn’t amazing, and didn’t provide a sandbox that is open to play from all sides. Crossovers, references, guest spots or not, it’ll be watch-able and interesting for seasons to come. I continue to wonder who and what the characters will hide on those shelves as we pan across so quickly. I’ll obviously be watching to find out.

So those are my 10 shows I want to see crossed over with the Warehousers (is that 3 or 4 times that I’ve used that?). What do you all think? If you do one thing after reading this, it should be to tweet #AllisonScag4Cassie.

If you watch Geekscape, you know what this is all about. And if not, do it anyways.

If you do TWO things? You should comment on this article, AND THEN tweet #AllisonScag4Cassie.

If you do THREE things… you should tweet out some of the hash tags I invented here (add an @SaxCarr so my insecure ass can I see) and THEN comment on this blog, and THEN tweet out #AllisonScag4Cassie!

If you do FOUR things, you need a life… but then again, I’m the one daydreaming about crossovers that may never be realized.

Yours in Red Lantern-esque anger directed towards pop culture: Sax Carr.