r/warehouse13 • u/floranhatesguilder • Aug 01 '25
HG Wells
Currently rewatching the show for the umpteenth time and every time I find that I just love HG. I kinda hate how they made her to still be somewhat the villain and then fade away after everything. The actress is so great at bringing her to life and I love what she brings to the team (Artie’s attitude aside lol). I’m sure her and Myka kept in touch after she leaves for good, but I wish she had stayed with the team. Maybe one day we will get that reboot and she will come back 🙏🤞🏻
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u/melophat Aug 01 '25
TW: self-harm teferences
I see what you're saying and the first time or 2 that I watched it, I felt the same.
However, I have come to think of her as the most realistic character on the show. She was a warehouse agent and through the flashbacks showing her time as an agent, we very much get the impression that she is, at her core, a good person. But we also know that her daughter's death really messed her up mentally, as it would to almost everyone who has had to go through that scenario.. it messed her up to the point where she actually ASKED to be bronzed because of how bad her headspace was.
At the time that the regents granted her request to be voluntarily bronzed, they didn't know that people were actually still awake while in the bronzed state, causing her to essentially endure decades of self-torture.. so when she was unbronzed, she was ready for revenge on the world.. to the point where she was ready to end her own life in the process of getting that revenge..
I think that at this point, that is a pretty realistic and unfortunately common scenario that people have gone through (minus the bronzing aspect, of course). Good people who go through something that messed them up to the point where they take actions that they never would otherwise. Think about an extreme case where someone who had never in their life had thoughts of self harm, but then get sick with a very painful disease that they will have to live with for the rest of their life and decide that they'd rather end their life than live with that excruciating pain.
All of her actions after her initial introduction arc are helpful and good, so we can assume that she's mentally back to her normal core self for the rest of the show. Even to the point of sacrificing her own life to save the team, ironically completing the self-sacrifice arc from one end of the spectrum (selfish death) to the other (selfless death).
Of course, that self-sacrifice is kind of negated by Magellan's Astrolabe, but still..
Sorry for the long rambling response.. essentially my point is that I initially agreed with you, but thinking about everything that happens with her through the whole show, I now appreciate her character and how they handled her arcs and I think she's one of the most well done and most fully-fleshed out characters on the show
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u/floranhatesguilder Aug 01 '25
I agree, and that’s why I love her. She still ended up redeeming herself after everything and was able to find happiness, and that’s why I wish she had still been able to stay as an agent, or at least make more return appearances. Myka and Pete are so good together but HG is more on Myka’s level as far as their personality types and they challenge each other. Plus HG is just a freaking genius and badass overall.
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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast Aug 01 '25
I wanted SO BAD for there to be a Warehouse 12 series featuring her and her crew of misfits in steampunky type adventures.
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u/floranhatesguilder Aug 02 '25
That would be amazing! I’d also love to see at least a few episodes about warehouses 1-11 as well. I’m currently on s2e11, the one about warehouse 2. I wanna know more about the other ones and why they shut down and moved.
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u/abolynn Aug 03 '25
They so missed an opportunity with having a Warehouse 12 show and her adventures. There could have been endless spinoff shows in time lik the Star Trek Franchise about the various Warehouses in other times. Would have been amazing.
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u/floranhatesguilder Aug 04 '25
Absolutely. All we can hope is that one day someone will see the light and reboot it or make a spinoff!
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u/Embarrassed_Ant_4217 12d ago
I'm watching the show again n I can't be the only one who thought that HG and myka would have made an excellent couple, their chemistry was amazing.
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u/Signal_Engine6895 Aug 01 '25
She and Claudia are my all time favorite characters. I really wish they would have done more with HG at the end of the show. I also hate that her story basically ends with her being normal and not a warehouse agent anymore, like that’s such a waste of talent and expertise. I hope they do reboot the show, with all the random crap being brought back, this show DESERVED so many more seasons