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