Lost Girl – Lauren takes a stand

This week’s  Lost Girl centers on a fae serial killer who is not feeding on her victims, which seems like a fine premise, but the episode is strangely bifurcated. For a while, it looks like the killer is from the world of rich, young party-givers: a snake fae named Lita who successfully sells accessories made from her skin to humans (Eww). This part of the story is fun.

The story then veers into being about Maganda, a tree fae who is trying to get her pieces of her poached tree back; she is vaguely Native American, and it seems like the show is trying to make some point about consumption and capitalism. Show, this is not your wheelhouse–you are way too lightweight for cultural critiques. Instead, stick to light banter and supernatural mythologizing. The serial killer part of story never really comes together for me, which is a shame, because the parts with Kenzi and Bo going undercover at the party were amusing.

Unfortunately for me, much of the rest of the episode seems to be setting up a triangle between Bo, Dyson and Ciara. Of course, to make it all extra-angsty, Bo and Ciara are becoming friends. Dyson, however, is starting to seem less like a reanimated corpse, and is getting a certain gleam in his eye again when he looks at Bo. So is he regaining his ability to love her, or was his ability to fall in love with her again not taken away? I am curious to know how this is possible, but beyond that, I am indifferent.

Bo finally seems to be getting past him, too, even though Kenzi wants to hate Ciara on her behalf. Look, I am all for shipping, but the show seems to have cheated a bit by putting a seemingly definite end to Bo/Dyson and now trying to walk it back. I know supernatural shows can do this kind of thing, but… meh. Kenzi and Bo are my non-sexual OTP, anyway. I’d rather see Bo have some more fun succubus sexytimes than get sucked into the Dyson black hole again.

In other news, Lauren is trying to get more info about Nadia’s condition from The Ash, but he just wants her to keep investigating what is happening to some dying faeries. The strain is too much for Lauren. She finally snaps and tries to break her servitude to The Ash, who of course merely locks her up for her trouble. These scenes, while seeming disconnected from the rest of the action, are intriguing enough. The Ash seems desperate to keep the Light Fae alive — maybe so he can eat them? But what does keeping Lauren bound to him have to do with that? I am glad she finally stood up to him, though. Someone needed to.

Notes and Quotes:

• Bo knows enough about fae now to guess that Lita’s a snake fae. She must be doing her homework.
• Heinze tries to sell stuff from what he calls “Darkest Africa.” Uh, what century is it?
• Hale, trying to  convince Bo and Kenzi to go undercover: “One word: hot tubs.”
  Kenzi: “That’s two words, dinkus.”
  Hale: “Okay okay okay. Hot tubs filled with Cristal.”
  Bo: “Ooh, those are five really good words.”
• Kenzi, upon waking up: “Just what every girl needs, a matching set of dead guys.”
• Kenzi, defending her rap sheet: “Mine was a troubled youth, officer. The orphanage … then I became a governess for Mr. Rochester.”
• Bo, on where she was during the murder: “I am in the kitchen trying to pretend that I am not dressed like Succubus Barbie.”
• Dyson as Wendell: “Darling, please, I also have my golf shirts. Which I wear for golf.”
• Dyson, to Ciara: “I will give you everything that I can and do my very best to make you happy.” Just the ambiguous statement of devotion every woman is dying to hear!

Clacked by Christina Furtado
on Jul 03, 2012 @ 02:38 EST5EDT