Warehouse 13 (SyFy) gets new gay character in Aaron Ashmore (Smallville's Jimmy Olsen)

[WillParkinson]

http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2011/06/aaron-ashmore-gay-on-warehouse-13

Well, we finally have a solid reason... other than Eddie McClintock's pecs... to follow Warehouse 13.

Actor Aaron Ashmore (Smallville's Jimmy Olsen) and show creator Jack Kenny sat down with OUT to discuss Ashmore's new character: ATF agent and human lie detector Steve Jinks.

Jinks has been recruited to the Warehouse 13 team because of his unerring ability to tell when people are lying. A nifty skill! Thanks to a suggestion by SyFy network execs, the character also happens to be gay. "It's just a part of who he is, it doesn't define the character."

Don't count on Jinks' love life getting a major exploration right away. Says Ashmore, "These people's lives are crazy trying to save the world, so there's not a lot of time for love. I think when he interacts with some people, in the back of my mind as an actor, I'll decide that he thinks a guy is cute. But it doesn't play into how he does his job."

Interestingly, Ashmore envisions his character as not really being "into muscles." So tough luck, gym bunnies!

(Clip at link)

[Occulus]

1. Given the history of the show thus far, my guess is that the character

will be "into" just ordinary guys, probably someone else in law enforcement, either another ATF agent, police officer, or someone in intelligence. Regardless, it'll almost have to be someone good at keeping secrets, someone who either already knows about the Warehouse or who can keep quiet about it.

If any of you have never seen the show, please do yourself the favor of watching a few episodes. In Warehouse 13, a small group of "IRS agents" act as caretakers for (and hunters of) Artifacts possessing strange and often dangerous or easily misused properties. The reason for these properties is usually "explained", but the "how" of their workings is almost always a total mystery (as is true for most of the other items in the Warehouse).

The Warehouse Artifacts are not your typical sciencey gadgets. Most of the time, they're seemingly-innocuous everyday objects- Harriet Tubman's Thimble, for example, is able to disguise its wearer as someone known and trusted to everyone that sees them, and the Baylor Dodgeball, which bounces in place on its own, propels itself at the 'player' when they're not looking at it, and divides in two with each hit; it was brought into the Warehouse after it killed five Air Force cadets.

Some of the Artifacts are actually plausible. The lights that illuminate the Warehouse were puportedly made by the Shelby Electric Company and supposedly never burn out; the same company was the manufacturer of the real-life Centennial Bulb, currently still burning at Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department in Livermore, CA. Many of the bulbs made by the same company still burn today.

Warehouse 13 is a fun show. I'm looking forward to the new season :)