TV Series > Warehouse 13 - Season: 3 > The Greatest Gift

It's Christmas-time at the Warehouse, and Pete is stuck manning the fort. Of course he has to mess something up, and thus ends up in another dimension where he never existed.

Which Christmas is this? That's the problem with these specials, we have no idea where in the time-line they fall into. Sure, they are stand alone episodes, but some clue of when this is would have been great. They didn't mention Steve, so it could be either before they met him or sometime in the middle of the next season, we just don't know.

Anyway, the episode starts off with Pete and Myka fighting an artifact that was terrorizing residents of a house by making decorations come alive. This rudolf's nose artifact would of been a great episode... why didn't we get this instead? I think it would have been a much better Christmas themed episode.

The main story involves Pete touching Philip Van Doren Stern's upholstery brush and ended up in a dimension where he never existed. I wonder how many viewers even knew who Philip Van Doren Stern was. I know I had to look up the name.

So, he finds that MacPherson is now leading the warehouse, and immediately goes all Pete by blowing everything out of proportion and blabbing about everything. After he escapes the jaws of the evil bad-guy, he goes on a mission to go find Myka, then Artie, and finally Claudia. Through the events of him rebuilding his team, which includes getting Artie out of jail, we find out that they are all in the places where they would of been if Pete didn't help Artie in that very first episode. I really like the way we got to see this other path that everything could of taken if events happened differently.

During the events at the warehouse, there was only one thing that really bothered me, the infinity trap. First off, the effects were just awful. Did they hire a student to help them make the episode? Second, it was so obvious that they were running on the spot that it made the bad effects look even worse. Would it of been so hard to have them run on a treadmill? Lastly, that snap-back looked so bad that I have seen better acting in high-school plays. This was really, really disappointing.

At the end, Pete gets his way back home and goes all mushy with the rest of the crew, and even hugs Mrs Fredrick, then they all sit down to watch TV. It's Christmas, sp of course we would get a happy ending.

The episode had it's good spots, but I think if they stuck with the first artifact, it might have been better. It was a neat concept, but didn't really keep me entertained. Perhaps some more comedy would of helped break the seriousness of the episode.