Episode Reviewed: Warehouse 13: A New Hope

I was so excited for this episode that I actually came up with two opening lines:
1.  Star Wars reference for a title! Woo!
2. Yes, someone is STILL dead.

In A Nutshell:
Alright, so the fourth season premier of the only good on the SyFy channel for the last three years (even if it is kind of giant Prius ad) picks up right after the end of the third season, with the Warehouse destroyed (but the Prius parked outside is in one piece, thank God) and HG, Steve, and Mrs. Frederick all dead. But, the good news is that MacPhearson's watch (you remember that thing, right?), tells Artie that there is an artifact they can use to turn back time to before the Warehouse was blown up, but they've only got 24 hours to do it before the bad artifact juju released by the explosion rips the world apart. And Brent Spiner and his little cult/army of knights is going to do anything to stop them.

The Good:
I've been waiting for this episode since the third season ended last October, and this absolutely worth the wait. The episode goes at a really fast, enjoyable pace that you're all gonna love. The begining is honestly pretty solemn, which is understandable given what's just happened, but after the team realizes their situation, they put their despair and pissed off-ness behind them to save the day. Pretty much everything we've all come to love about the show is here in this episode: Pete and Myka kicking ass, snappy and often hilarious dialogue/banter (seriously, there were a lot of great jokes in this episode), the whole nine yards, along with the darker, more serious tones and implications season three's finale gave us. Plus, we find a little something out about the football that's every long time fan is gonna get a kick out of. This whole episode was really just for long time fans. I'm so proud of this show, it's officially had an episode that would make no sense to someone who's never seen it.

Then the episode ends, and the implication that is most likely going to be set up for this season's story arc/main villain, made everyone watching collectively piss their pants. I don't want to spoil it, but I can pretty much guarantee that this season's villain will be better then Sykes. The problem with Sykes as a villain was that he was kind of generic, and most of the team didn't really have any personal connection with him. What made MacPhearson and HG great was that certain team members were, at one point, friends with these guys. With Sykes, the closest the team came to a connection was a three minute conversation Pete's mom had with him when he was ten. I'm not saying he was a bad villain, I'm just saying he wasn't AS good as his predecessors. But the team is VERY connected to this season's big bad. If you've seen the episode, you know what I'm talking about, and it's probably making you just as excited for this season as I am.

The Bad:
A couple things that happened in the last ten minutes or so came across as a tad plot convenient. Other then that, my only problem with the episode was that it was only 45 minutes long. A two hour premier would've been great.

Final Rating: 95%

So, have you seen the season premier of Warehouse 13, and if so, what'd you think of it? Comment below, let me know!