I thought it was being within the circle. Hence, my fence.

I thought it was being within the circle

He looked at it and it got all wonky, which is why I thought it was set off by looking. Also, Myka or Claudia said something about them being sense-sensitive. Which is why I'd box them up.

I thought she'd said something about Pete "being in the circle." Though I could be remembering wrong what with all the snarking going on in our house.

I know Badger was taking Artie to task about artifacts being destroyed, but in the case of things so dangerous that merely looking at them can result in calamity, I'd think they would make an exception and do away with the objects rather than store them.

Did he break eye contact with the typewriter at any point? I think that the power of it didn't extend outside the circle, but I didn't think it was triggered until he looked at it.

I'd think they would make an exception and do away with the objects rather than store them

If there was any indication they were ever going to use the artifacts, or even investigate them once they'd gotten them, I could see the argument for keeping them, but they're just stocking what seems to be dangerous stuff. I mean, the dodgeballs kill, and they're just lying around like that?

I suppose it could be that if they destroy something, the energy that made it special will just manifest unpredictably somewhere else in a different new artifact, and therefore it's safer to have everything contained and unused where only people who know what they're signing on for are endangered.

But it does seem odd that there are all these mysterious regents overseeing the Warehouse, but only 3 people actually staffing it and making acquisitions (with one off-site supervisor, and whatever Lena's role is...).

I know I'm way behind the curve here, but....

Just watched the final episode of Doctor Who Series 4.

Saddest thing I've ever seen.

I didn't have allergies.

I wept.

I thought that Pete accidentally stepped into the circle, and was then entranced when he looked at the artifact. After all, he looked at the evil doll long enough for it to sneer at him, and he didn't get snared by that.

Maybe the Regents are scared to be in the Warehouse! And rightly so. You'd have to be a little crazy to stay in there. (I would never leave.) Maybe it's just that the more people are bumping around in there, the more likely a mishap becomes. As we have seen.

When they were going through the Dark Vault (play D&D much, guys?) I wanted to smack Pete. He knows how dangerous even the simplest ones can be, and yet he bounces around playing with every dang one of them. He's like a little kid. "Don't touch that! Come on, get away from that. Stop staring at it! Get over here - dangit, I said don't touch that! Here, give me your hands, just hold my hands, okay?" I've had that exact conversation with my BFF's ADHD daughter, as we made our perilous way through an antique shop. Adorable, and maddening.

I don't get why (aside from manufactured peril) they had to go through the Dark Vault, with all the time lost to electronic lockpicking and whatnot, rather than just travel around it by a couple hundred feet at the most.

Well, Matt, to go around the Dark Vault, you have to get past the Cave of Madness without waking the Fire Dragon, and don't pick the Golden Apples of Immortality even though they're shiny, really it's just a trick, and then the Sphinx will be asking you a riddle, and once you get past that, there's the Scylla and Charybdis... oh, what, you thought the replica boarding house was the only tesseract in the place?