Lost Girl 1x09 Review
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• I wish that we had heard about the Blood King before this episode. He appears to be a major figure in the history of the Fae and if we’d have heard of him before, especially over a series of episodes, then it would have made the reveal that Trick is Blood King all the more surprising. So is he the Blood King or is it just a title? I had sort of gotten the impression that he was Light Fae so is that wrong then? I can’t image a figure like the Blood King picking a side but then we don’t actually know all that much about him. I really want to know who knows he’s the Blood King. I think The Ash and The Morrigan probably do but is it common knowledge? It can’t be.
This may be an erroneous conclusion but I got from this episode that Trick, the Blood King, may be Bo’s father. Oh, I hope I’m right. I love the idea that Trick is Bo’s father for so many reasons and it just kind of makes me gleeful. Of course Dyson asks at one point ‘when they’re planning on stopping keeping Bo in the dark about who her mother is’ and if Trick is her father wouldn’t the pertinent question be more about when they’re going to tell her he is her father? As it is it seems Bo’s mother is the most important missing fact. Hmm. But then when Dyson pleads with him to tell Bo more he replies “I’m not ready.” as if he is intimately involved.
• When Trick tells Dyson that he chose to get emotionally involved Dyson basically accuses him of not being so (“Maybe you should too”) The thing about that though is that I think Trick is emotionally involved whether he wants to or not (and regardless of whether he’s her father or not). He isn’t as obvious as Dyson but only because he’s better at pretending to keep a distance. I mean he was going to use his blood to save her. That is not being uninvolved.
• Bo and Kenzi spent much of the episode apart but they still got some excellent scenes. I liked Kenzi helping Bo with the Ugalom and how Bo just trusted Kenzi enough to follow her lead/request even though she didn’t know what Kenzi was planning. I really liked the final scene with Bo comforting a grieving Kenzi.
I loved the scene at the end as they walk out into the alley congratulating each other. Even though Dyson, Sean and Liam are there following them it’s all about Bo and Kenzi and their relationship. It’s adorable. I love the physicality between them – Bo puts her arm around Kenzi’s shoulder and they walk down the alley like that with Kenzi playing with the fingers of Bo’s hand. I love it. Their exchange during this scene reached whole new levels of adorableness and the way Kenzi ends it by clasping Bo’s face in hands made me go XD.
Kenzi: Sundown Bo, you saved him and you beat the Banshee.
Bo: We beat the Banshee. It was a fifty-fifty effort.
Kenzi: Well if we’re being honest I’d peg it more as thirty-seventy cause let’s face it all you did was read from a book.
Bo: Oh, so who was the one who put her life on the line?
Kenzi: Who was the one who didn’t know that she was putting her life on the line? Hmm. (they laugh)
Adorable! ♥
• I love that Kenzi saved the day.
• I knew as soon as Kenzi started to bond with Sean that he would die. I mean a cute Fae guy who is a Noble and doesn’t look down on her for being human? He was clearly going to be the one the Banshee screamed for. Pretty much from that first scene I was going ‘poor Kenzi’. I mean she deserves loving too! But the show actually went beyond that and by the time he died I was sad as well. I want more Kenzi/Sean adorableness! I loved Kenzi’s first reaction to Sean revealing his power and “I trade wealth” and how she got immediately all hot and bothered... and then he revealed he worked for charities and it was like all that sexual tension just completely disappeared. LOL. Oh, Kenzi. I loved that the show ended up going far more in a friendship direction than the romance one I was expecting. There was the kiss, and if he’d lived I could see them going for something romantic, but in the episode I think it played more as them become close friends and bonding strongly in the short amount of time they had and I think if he’d lived they would have remained really good friends. And I love that. I loved how Kenzi pushed him to not only not give up but to branch out of his comfort zone. The fact that the first thing she took him out of the building to do was to steal a car is just so Kenzi. “What are they going to do execute you?” Heh.
• “It happened over a thousand years ago. It’s more myth than fact.” I’m having a problem with this line of Dyson’s. A thousand years is a long time – for humans. And even for humans I wouldn’t say that it necessarily falls into myth/legend territory really. But it certainly shouldn’t be considered long enough to become myth/legend when there are very possibly Fae who were actually there! I’m sorry that just does not work for me. Thousands would work because it’s open – it could be two or ten or twenty. The fact that this is said in an episode where we get numerous casual mentions of age and how time doesn’t work for Fae the same just makes it stick out more. I mean not long after this Dyson scene we have a 900 year old Fae shown and while he is acknowledged as old even for Fae (or at least that was the impression I got) he is 900 year old. And I just don’t see that as being something all that remarkable among the Fae. The other moment that really stuck out to me is two part: 1) Liam’s revelation that he waited 80 years to get revenge on Sean, and 2) that Sean and Liam are something like 100 years old and look late twenties. So 1000 years just doesn’t seem far enough back.
• This episode gave us a lot of info dumping and beyond the Blood King, and the possibility of him being Bo’s father, the thing I am most interested in is the ‘Five Families’. Are The Morrigan and The Ash a part of them? Dyson pointing out that Bo might be one of them makes me think that she is. What’s really interesting is that the Banshee wail for not only Five Fae Noble Families but also Five Human Nobel Families. Hmm. I find it very interesting that human nobles are included considering how most Fae seem to regard humans. Was there a time when Fae and humans had a closer relationship?
• There were two female characters this episode that interest me. I liked Siobhan the Banshee and I hope we see her again. She was bitchy but in an amusing and understandable way. Then there was Mylene who acted as Bo’s assistant during the ceremony and while she wasn’t given a name in the episode she did get one on IMDB which I find interesting. I mean she didn’t even have any lines so why would she get a name and be listed in the guest stars unless she played a significant role? I have a feeling we’re going to be seeing her again.
• Someone we didn’t see was Lauren which I guess fits considering how she and Bo left it between them in the last episode but at the same time it feels weird for all of it to be ignored. I mean Bo was right back to flirting and getting along with Dyson and no mention was made of Lauren.
• I’m surprised that Kenzi was allowed to stay for the ceremony and not only stay but she was allowed to help Bo with the book and then was allowed to speak without censure when she confronted Papa Kavanaugh.
• I wish that we had heard about the Blood King before this episode. He appears to be a major figure in the history of the Fae and if we’d have heard of him before, especially over a series of episodes, then it would have made the reveal that Trick is Blood King all the more surprising. So is he the Blood King or is it just a title? I had sort of gotten the impression that he was Light Fae so is that wrong then? I can’t image a figure like the Blood King picking a side but then we don’t actually know all that much about him. I really want to know who knows he’s the Blood King. I think The Ash and The Morrigan probably do but is it common knowledge? It can’t be.
This may be an erroneous conclusion but I got from this episode that Trick, the Blood King, may be Bo’s father. Oh, I hope I’m right. I love the idea that Trick is Bo’s father for so many reasons and it just kind of makes me gleeful. Of course Dyson asks at one point ‘when they’re planning on stopping keeping Bo in the dark about who her mother is’ and if Trick is her father wouldn’t the pertinent question be more about when they’re going to tell her he is her father? As it is it seems Bo’s mother is the most important missing fact. Hmm. But then when Dyson pleads with him to tell Bo more he replies “I’m not ready.” as if he is intimately involved.
• When Trick tells Dyson that he chose to get emotionally involved Dyson basically accuses him of not being so (“Maybe you should too”) The thing about that though is that I think Trick is emotionally involved whether he wants to or not (and regardless of whether he’s her father or not). He isn’t as obvious as Dyson but only because he’s better at pretending to keep a distance. I mean he was going to use his blood to save her. That is not being uninvolved.
• Bo and Kenzi spent much of the episode apart but they still got some excellent scenes. I liked Kenzi helping Bo with the Ugalom and how Bo just trusted Kenzi enough to follow her lead/request even though she didn’t know what Kenzi was planning. I really liked the final scene with Bo comforting a grieving Kenzi.
I loved the scene at the end as they walk out into the alley congratulating each other. Even though Dyson, Sean and Liam are there following them it’s all about Bo and Kenzi and their relationship. It’s adorable. I love the physicality between them – Bo puts her arm around Kenzi’s shoulder and they walk down the alley like that with Kenzi playing with the fingers of Bo’s hand. I love it. Their exchange during this scene reached whole new levels of adorableness and the way Kenzi ends it by clasping Bo’s face in hands made me go XD.
Kenzi: Sundown Bo, you saved him and you beat the Banshee.
Bo: We beat the Banshee. It was a fifty-fifty effort.
Kenzi: Well if we’re being honest I’d peg it more as thirty-seventy cause let’s face it all you did was read from a book.
Bo: Oh, so who was the one who put her life on the line?
Kenzi: Who was the one who didn’t know that she was putting her life on the line? Hmm. (they laugh)
Adorable! ♥
• I love that Kenzi saved the day.
• I knew as soon as Kenzi started to bond with Sean that he would die. I mean a cute Fae guy who is a Noble and doesn’t look down on her for being human? He was clearly going to be the one the Banshee screamed for. Pretty much from that first scene I was going ‘poor Kenzi’. I mean she deserves loving too! But the show actually went beyond that and by the time he died I was sad as well. I want more Kenzi/Sean adorableness! I loved Kenzi’s first reaction to Sean revealing his power and “I trade wealth” and how she got immediately all hot and bothered... and then he revealed he worked for charities and it was like all that sexual tension just completely disappeared. LOL. Oh, Kenzi. I loved that the show ended up going far more in a friendship direction than the romance one I was expecting. There was the kiss, and if he’d lived I could see them going for something romantic, but in the episode I think it played more as them become close friends and bonding strongly in the short amount of time they had and I think if he’d lived they would have remained really good friends. And I love that. I loved how Kenzi pushed him to not only not give up but to branch out of his comfort zone. The fact that the first thing she took him out of the building to do was to steal a car is just so Kenzi. “What are they going to do execute you?” Heh.
• “It happened over a thousand years ago. It’s more myth than fact.” I’m having a problem with this line of Dyson’s. A thousand years is a long time – for humans. And even for humans I wouldn’t say that it necessarily falls into myth/legend territory really. But it certainly shouldn’t be considered long enough to become myth/legend when there are very possibly Fae who were actually there! I’m sorry that just does not work for me. Thousands would work because it’s open – it could be two or ten or twenty. The fact that this is said in an episode where we get numerous casual mentions of age and how time doesn’t work for Fae the same just makes it stick out more. I mean not long after this Dyson scene we have a 900 year old Fae shown and while he is acknowledged as old even for Fae (or at least that was the impression I got) he is 900 year old. And I just don’t see that as being something all that remarkable among the Fae. The other moment that really stuck out to me is two part: 1) Liam’s revelation that he waited 80 years to get revenge on Sean, and 2) that Sean and Liam are something like 100 years old and look late twenties. So 1000 years just doesn’t seem far enough back.
• This episode gave us a lot of info dumping and beyond the Blood King, and the possibility of him being Bo’s father, the thing I am most interested in is the ‘Five Families’. Are The Morrigan and The Ash a part of them? Dyson pointing out that Bo might be one of them makes me think that she is. What’s really interesting is that the Banshee wail for not only Five Fae Noble Families but also Five Human Nobel Families. Hmm. I find it very interesting that human nobles are included considering how most Fae seem to regard humans. Was there a time when Fae and humans had a closer relationship?
• There were two female characters this episode that interest me. I liked Siobhan the Banshee and I hope we see her again. She was bitchy but in an amusing and understandable way. Then there was Mylene who acted as Bo’s assistant during the ceremony and while she wasn’t given a name in the episode she did get one on IMDB which I find interesting. I mean she didn’t even have any lines so why would she get a name and be listed in the guest stars unless she played a significant role? I have a feeling we’re going to be seeing her again.
• Someone we didn’t see was Lauren which I guess fits considering how she and Bo left it between them in the last episode but at the same time it feels weird for all of it to be ignored. I mean Bo was right back to flirting and getting along with Dyson and no mention was made of Lauren.
• I’m surprised that Kenzi was allowed to stay for the ceremony and not only stay but she was allowed to help Bo with the book and then was allowed to speak without censure when she confronted Papa Kavanaugh.
