Disbelief about to crash, please make your way to the emergency exits.

[daibhidc]

H. G. Wells really invented the stuff in the books! No problem with that, it's one of my favourite plot devices.

H. G. Wells was frozen by the U.S. Weird Stuff Agency du jour! Um, sure, why not?

H. G. Wells was a woman! Sorry, what?

I missed the first season of Warehouse 13, is it always completely freaking insane?

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[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

HG Wells was a woman? No, sorry sense of disbelief not suspended.

H.G. Wells was a woman from the future who time travelled to avoid the Morlocks and had to pose as a man due to Victoria/Edwardian social mores...now we are talking.

I firmly believe the cause of most failures to suspend disbelief was that the writer just didn't push things far enough. They settled for just a bit unusual instead of going for the truly absurd.

Oh, and it sounds like you caught W13 on one of it's saner episodes.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I'd add that the Morlocks are pursuing her; that gives her a reason for creating an entirely fictional backstory for her male persona at the National School and Normal School of Science.

(Which was what bugged me; this woman is the "real" Wells, and the guy with the moustache is her brother Charles. So Charles attended various academic institutions under an assumed name so that she could write under it years later? He married twice under that name[1] - once to a cousin, who you'd think would have known? It seems a lot of trouble to go to - C.L. Moore didn't need a brother, she just wasn't a public figure!)

[1]Obviously, in your version, this bit's simple: Amy Robbins, Isobel Wells, and all the women H.G. had affairs with were lesbians! The kids are a bit harder to explain, but if you've got time travel, you can get 22nd century medical advances.

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

see once you start pushing things far enough it becomes self sustaining. Long live the absurd, long live the the giant flamingo moth of Mozambique and the cannibal granite quicksand of Plockton..

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Even just saying she used to be male but the cryogenic revival/rebuilding technique had sex reversal as a side effect, or the rebuilder machine couldn't find a sufficiently uncorrupted Y-chromosome left because of the flakiness of 40s-era freezing tech, or some such, would have worked.

Technobabble: use the power for good!

[gordon-r-d.livejournal.com]

Yep. :)

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

It is too stupid for words. I didn't watch beyond the first cliche-ridden episode. I did check out details online, and didn't like what I read, so then I felt pure about sneering at it. :)