Thread:Garr9988/@comment-5782071-20170715215246/@comment-1674153-20170916034258

An exposure-risk plot asks a really good question that touches upon one of the underlining themes of the Warehouse - the balance between information and ignorance. Artifacts were activated under both circumstances, with the users actively aware of or accidentally sucked into artifact shenanigans, or even aware but misinformed, and the danger was rough regardless of which scenario it was. The season villains were always very well informed about artifacts, which could lend itself to a thesis of the real power of being informed as the show's main point. In fact, given that we know the Library of Alexandria was a Warehouse-affiliated structure and how much history buffs bemoan it's destruction, I could conceive of a really neat bow to the series as a rebirth of the Library - i.e., a reveal of the Warehouse to the greater public instead of remaining a secret privy to a few informed individuals. A message about how everyone should be able to find endless wonder.