Invitation to Wonder

        The first two characters I will compare are the two who are known for creating an air of mystery. Irene Frederic, aka Mrs. Frederic, from “Warehouse 13” and Judson, from “The Librarians,” are both heads of the facilities where they work. Mrs. Frederic is the caretaker and director of Warehouse 13, while Judson is the head librarian at the Library.

Both of these authority figures have a supernatural way of traveling. Mrs. Frederic irritates and baffles the agents of the Warehouse when she suddenly disappears halfway through a conversation. Judson would appear in midair surrounded by a magical cloud throughout the movies “The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and Return to King Solomon's Mines.” In “The Librarian and the Curse of the Judas Chalice,” Judson communicated with Flynn Carson by possessing other people’s bodies in a barber shop in New Orleans.

To add to their air of mystery, both these characters have a prolonged life. Mrs. Frederic became caretaker of Warehouse 13 in 1898 and was shown in a black and white picture, in which her appearance had not changed, in 1950. It was suggested by Flynn Carson that Judson was 2,000 years old. Not only do Mrs. Frederic and Judson have prolonged lives but they seem to have an ability to escape death. When the Warehouse was destroyed in the episode “Stand,” Mrs. Frederic died, however, Artie prevented her permanent death in the episode “A New Hope.” During the pilot of “The Librarians,” it was discovered that Judson died, but his spirit remained in a mirror in the Library.

The last similarity is that these two characters gave a speech to the new agents and librarians which introduced them to the wonder of the Warehouse and the Library. Mrs. Frederic gave “an invitation to endless wonder” when she summoned Pete Lattimer to become an agent for the Warehouse. Judson told Flynn Carson, “you are about to begin a wondrous adventure from which you will never be the same.”