The Librarians... and the Drowned Book

"Well, there's something you don't see every day."

The Clipping Book summons Flynn and his fellow Librarians to a single event at the museum where he once worked. What connects a shipwreck, a Milanese chess set, a weather monitoring centre and a pair of pearl earrings*? What role is played by the smooth talking academic and the affable old caretaker**? And can the Librarians overcome their desire for independence and work together to overcome the threat***?

Our season 2 opener (SyFy UK once more poopoos the idea of running the two-parter back to back as the stateside broadcast does) is once more Flynn heavy, capitalising on Noah Wyle for as long as they can budget for him. The centrepiece is the flirting and bickering between him and Eve, the latter showing her chops as not only the muscle, but the glue that holds a team of intellectual egoists together. The other three Librarians are as charmingly dysfunctional as ever, with Cassandra still conjuring complex hallucinations to deduce that a scientist is going to accidentally turn herself into a goat, Jake the secret sophisticate, and Ezekiel creating apps for his phone to access his Clipping Book and the Library's magic door.

Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as pistols, science guns,
magic and snarky looks.

For most of the episode, the four Librarians solo it and are so distracted by squabbling that they completely fail to stop the rogue fictionals achieving their goals, before working together to stop a monster storm (or, if you will, tempest) using magic doors and a second sun. Hopefully we'll manage a balance between last season's no Library and regular Dei ex Libris conclusions, but this one was rather fun.

The Librarians are back. I am so happy.

* Shakespeare.
** They're fictional characters, brought to life and bent on world-domination.
*** Sort of.