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Lost Girl 1.12 (or so wiki tells me)
Also, there is only one more episode. 13 episodes. :/
I have vaguely thinky thoughts.
1. Lemme get the squicky out of the way. Saskia controlling Dyson, and, well, Bo using her powers, too. Sigh. This is the one aspect of the show that I'm really annoyed by, but it's somewhat easy to get over because the rest of the show is WOMEN HAVING AGENCY AND PLOTLINES AND SHIT. Which is really fucking rare, these days.
Usually, it's like, oh, Sanctuary, where it's about Helen, but only because Teh Men are Doing Shit. sigh.
er, anyway.
2. I had this thought while thinking about the episode. Trick doesn't want Bo to know, Dyson is gonna spill the beans and... randomly, Saskia decides tonight is the night to go after Dyson. Is it possible Trick set Dyson up to take the fall so he could cover his tracks before Bo finds out about herself? And does this tie into his power-play for the leadership of the Light Fae? (has he had it before? The Blood King makes it sound like he has, and I wish Gloris had said more than hints, as it makes it so frustrating to be playing with half the deck where some of the cards are fuzzed so the other side knows every move you make)
Is Bo the product of a Light and Dark Fae union of some ridiculously high rank? (The Morrigan and the Ashe, hypothetically, would produce a fae child)
Is Bo's coming into being going to be what starts the war? Because I think that's really what Trick is worried about. He's expecting a war that's been lurking around for centuries, and he knows Bo is the catalyst, because she was the pawn he set into motion. Or one of them, at least. (ok, that's the other squicky bit: the way Trick doesn't tell her the truth about herself, because he knows he's right)
3. Why did Dyson call Saskia Eva, and why has he been looking for her, or was that her way of simply gaining dominance of the situation/stating her intentions?
4. I do like the way the show constantly points out how wrong the whole "humans are food" thing is, especially since Kenzi gets to be snarky.
5. Meow-Meow. REALLY? Oh, Kenzi. THE JOKES ALONE.
6. However, I do sort of wonder if Kenzi has some history of... well, not-so-happy-sex. and I don't mind, and I think that's because the show has never been "This is Kenzi, she was sexually-abused, and that makes her Quirky" about it. (Nikita is ok at that, too. The whole Alex was a sex slave for years thing is mentioned, and it's there in some of her emotional reactions--especially to intimacy and touch--but it's... it's not the thing that defines her, if that makes sense). === and all of the Kenzi thing is speculation and guess-work given she was living on the street, and not actual fact or something picked up in an interview. And either way, it doesn't matter.
7. Kenzi, however, was rockin' in this episode. she and Hale are the best break-in buddies ever, even if Hale was sort of creepy about it at one point. ALSO. That hairdo. OH KENZI YOU ARE THE BEST AND MY FAVORITE FOREVER AND EVER (dear show, please get the memo about how putting Kenzi in danger is the stupid way of bringing tension to things, though. It's also the easy-Joss-Whedon way, which makes it super bleh)
8. Oh, god. I haven't really talked about the episode, have I. Er. It was sort of set dressing for the rest of it, and not, um... as compelling as it could have been. I don't know. I think I've seen too many "fake married" plots for this one to be interesting? And, um...
9. Can I take back saying I anti-ship Bo/Kenzi? Because if this is the way the show is going to do Bo/Dyson, I might need a barf bag soon. Show. Show, can we have a talk about how limiting it is if your lead female is all "you are my one and only" at a gruff male who's all possessive alpha male? Because. Um. It's boring. :/ And also limits the "Bo likes sex and gets lots of it now that she doesn't kill people afterwards" potential.
10. And also limits the Dr. Lauren make-up-sexing. (which is another aspect of the politics that makes me wonder--if Trick defeats the Ashe, does that free Lauren?)
11. Show, I am also disappoint at your treatment of Saskia. Unless this is part of some long, drawn-out Lovers' Quarrel thing. In which case, I might forgive you (is shipping Saskia/Bo/Lauren/Dyson sort of an ouroboros?)
Huh. For an episode that... wasn't that great, I have a lot of thoughts. *ponders*
I have vaguely thinky thoughts.
1. Lemme get the squicky out of the way. Saskia controlling Dyson, and, well, Bo using her powers, too. Sigh. This is the one aspect of the show that I'm really annoyed by, but it's somewhat easy to get over because the rest of the show is WOMEN HAVING AGENCY AND PLOTLINES AND SHIT. Which is really fucking rare, these days.
Usually, it's like, oh, Sanctuary, where it's about Helen, but only because Teh Men are Doing Shit. sigh.
er, anyway.
2. I had this thought while thinking about the episode. Trick doesn't want Bo to know, Dyson is gonna spill the beans and... randomly, Saskia decides tonight is the night to go after Dyson. Is it possible Trick set Dyson up to take the fall so he could cover his tracks before Bo finds out about herself? And does this tie into his power-play for the leadership of the Light Fae? (has he had it before? The Blood King makes it sound like he has, and I wish Gloris had said more than hints, as it makes it so frustrating to be playing with half the deck where some of the cards are fuzzed so the other side knows every move you make)
Is Bo the product of a Light and Dark Fae union of some ridiculously high rank? (The Morrigan and the Ashe, hypothetically, would produce a fae child)
Is Bo's coming into being going to be what starts the war? Because I think that's really what Trick is worried about. He's expecting a war that's been lurking around for centuries, and he knows Bo is the catalyst, because she was the pawn he set into motion. Or one of them, at least. (ok, that's the other squicky bit: the way Trick doesn't tell her the truth about herself, because he knows he's right)
3. Why did Dyson call Saskia Eva, and why has he been looking for her, or was that her way of simply gaining dominance of the situation/stating her intentions?
4. I do like the way the show constantly points out how wrong the whole "humans are food" thing is, especially since Kenzi gets to be snarky.
5. Meow-Meow. REALLY? Oh, Kenzi. THE JOKES ALONE.
6. However, I do sort of wonder if Kenzi has some history of... well, not-so-happy-sex. and I don't mind, and I think that's because the show has never been "This is Kenzi, she was sexually-abused, and that makes her Quirky" about it. (Nikita is ok at that, too. The whole Alex was a sex slave for years thing is mentioned, and it's there in some of her emotional reactions--especially to intimacy and touch--but it's... it's not the thing that defines her, if that makes sense). === and all of the Kenzi thing is speculation and guess-work given she was living on the street, and not actual fact or something picked up in an interview. And either way, it doesn't matter.
7. Kenzi, however, was rockin' in this episode. she and Hale are the best break-in buddies ever, even if Hale was sort of creepy about it at one point. ALSO. That hairdo. OH KENZI YOU ARE THE BEST AND MY FAVORITE FOREVER AND EVER (dear show, please get the memo about how putting Kenzi in danger is the stupid way of bringing tension to things, though. It's also the easy-Joss-Whedon way, which makes it super bleh)
8. Oh, god. I haven't really talked about the episode, have I. Er. It was sort of set dressing for the rest of it, and not, um... as compelling as it could have been. I don't know. I think I've seen too many "fake married" plots for this one to be interesting? And, um...
9. Can I take back saying I anti-ship Bo/Kenzi? Because if this is the way the show is going to do Bo/Dyson, I might need a barf bag soon. Show. Show, can we have a talk about how limiting it is if your lead female is all "you are my one and only" at a gruff male who's all possessive alpha male? Because. Um. It's boring. :/ And also limits the "Bo likes sex and gets lots of it now that she doesn't kill people afterwards" potential.
10. And also limits the Dr. Lauren make-up-sexing. (which is another aspect of the politics that makes me wonder--if Trick defeats the Ashe, does that free Lauren?)
11. Show, I am also disappoint at your treatment of Saskia. Unless this is part of some long, drawn-out Lovers' Quarrel thing. In which case, I might forgive you (is shipping Saskia/Bo/Lauren/Dyson sort of an ouroboros?)
Huh. For an episode that... wasn't that great, I have a lot of thoughts. *ponders*
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Any way I look forward to Kenzi and Hale shenanigans.
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KENZI. I could watch her read the phone book.
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I sort of wonder if the loveydoveyness was also a side effect of the Good Luck the Wight was spreading.
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Also, the lack of Lauren is very disappointing. I really hope they don't free her from the Ashe and then write her out completely.
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But, yeah, the Bo/Dyson stuff. sigh. I knew they'd go this route, and it's stupid and really really the easy way out (and this is me saying that as someone who ships Kara/Sam, who married after knowing each other barely four months or whatever and am entirely otp about them, but--)
I think a part of it is Bo's upbringing was Midwestern America (by inference) with that whole "all good girls get a man and picket fence, bla, bla."
And... That's really not what she is--and it's not what Kenzi is, either, which, well, I think Kenzi isn't all that impressed with the OTP-ness of Bo/Dyson.
(and typing it is making me hope it's all going to come falling down/crashing apart in painful ways
like with Dyson dying or something)er...
eta: I am so tired of dropping words, brain. Could we not do that, pls?
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I actually don't mind characters falling for each other in a short time period but I have to be able to believe it and with Bo/Dyson, I just don't.