new show with the same feeling as The Lost Room..
Check out Warehouse 13.
It has a feeling much like The Lost Room and it's very good.
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Warehouse 13 is similar, but a lighter show with steam-punk elements. It does have "Artefacts", which are a lot like "Objects". The difference is these are created by all kinds of things rather then by the event/room, so the show focuses more on the objects then what they mean collectively (as they are from different sources, so don't tend to mean anything collectively). There are ongoing, long term plot threads but no overall mystery. It is however rather good. If I can't have a full series of this I will take Warehouse 13 instead. :)
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thanks for that!!! will definately check it out. i just finished watching the lost room and LOVED IT! was hoping there might be a chance that a series was made from it. but oh well.
thanks for the info about W13
I started watching the first episode one time but I got bored... Maybe I gotta give it another shot xD
shareWhen I was watching The Lost Room, I thought that it was like a longer, less funny and more serious version of Warehouse 13 (Love that show), I can just imagine one of the agents walking past the whole motel room inside the Warehouse.
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Unfortunately, comparing The Lost Room with Warehouse 13 is like comparing Law and Order with Bones.
I'll keep trying to watch Warehouse 13, but it will always pale in comparison to The Lost Room.
Started watching warehouse 13... went up to the 3rd episode and stopped... really not as good
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The key difference between the two is that The Lost Room did an excellent job of creating a serious and believable mythos around a great concept. Warehouse 13, on the other hand, settled for taking a lighter approach and using that as an excuse to make a truly AWFUL series with bad acting, awful writing, lousy characters, contrivances, and so much more.
shareI agree with svenjins. Lost Room was spellbinding. Warehouse 13 I barely made it through an episode.
Dang! Would love some more quality stuff like this from SY FI
Is this not a reasonable place to park?
Warehouse 13s got nothin on The Lost Room! Whooooo!!
shareWarehouse 13 is more comedic but still great. Here's what SyFy President said regarding the two shows:
"And the thing about the objects was that their arbitrary powers were also problematic. The fact that you picked up an alarm clock and you had no idea what it would actually do. I think the success of Warehouse 13 is we've tried to give all of the objects a real kind of mythology and a history that actually stacks up that makes some sense either historically or scientifically, etcetera."
I recommend Persons Unknown (2010) if you want a similar show.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333050/
Rest of that interview:
And I think that's why Warehouse 13 works. And I think that's probably why The Lost Room didn't work for us. It was one of our lowest rated miniseries ever. And I think that's pretty much - I think answers your question.
Funny how they say The Lost Room was so abysmal, but it seems the general consensus is that TLR was much better than Warehouse 13. Not much stuff gets above an 8.0 on IMDb.
Personally, I didn't like WH13 at all. Some other users pointed out the main flaws, but I didn't really like how we were just thrust into a mythos with no explanation, and it was never really explained, even throughout the entire first season (that's when I stopped). Everybody except for the main two characters were way too secretive and mysterious and opened so many questions that took WAY too long to get answered. And that's just what hasn't been mentioned yet.
As for TLR, when I first started, I noticed a shocking resemblance to WH13 and groaned to myself, wondering if this was gonna be more of the same crap, but was pleasantly surprised because of the explanations and quick-moving story. It also felt like one congruent story, as opposed to 12 individual mystery cases with a very weak tie-in to keep them all together. share
I hated Warehouse 13 well maybe not hated but I didn't take to it, it didn't have the same unity and mystery as TLR imo, but to each his own.
I had actually seen this in '06 when it first came out, forgot about it, then W13 came and went in the process, now after going back and watching this again I can't help but think how much better this would have been as an extended series than what W13 was. I give this a 9/10 overall.
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