Lost Girl 1x04 Review
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This episode is a little schizophrenic for me because on one hand I loved parts of it so much but on the other hand I hated parts of it just as much. So I don’t know quite how to classify it. Hmm. This episode is one I will probably re-watch but it’ll be a selective re-watch concentrating on all the Bo/Kenzi scenes because they were amazing this episode. The writer of the episode is Jeremy Boxen – I’m not sure if I should anticipate or dread further episode from him.
Loved
• I ♥ Bo/Kenzi. I’ve been a little slow to warm up to them which has confused me. The pieces were there and I wanted to love them but I just didn’t quite feel that way. Or at least I didn’t until this episode. They were amazing this episode and I love them. They are adorable together. Kenzi is adorable. Kenzi somehow makes Bo be adorable. I just want to smush them together and go ‘awww’. I loved them for the first time in the opening scene, which I thought was great, and then continued to love them throughout the episode.
• I love how... handsy/affectionate/demonstrative/touchy... they are with each other. I’d noticed that they touch a lot in other episodes but in this one it was kind of ridiculous. If they were in a scene together they were touching in some ways. So many of those touches were affectionate and caring – Bo kissed Kenzi several times, Kenzi was constantly embracing Bo and the one that really sticks out to me is how Bo holds Kenzi’s head against her shoulder after the explosion.
• “Oh, you. You are the Kenziest Kenzi ever!” – Bo (kisses Kenzi on the head). Awww!
• “I’m not too clingy or anything?” – Kenzi
“(pause) You make me want to be a better Fae.” – Bo
♥ Just so much love.
• I love that Bo’s issue with having a relationship with Lauren is not that she’s female it’s that she human.
• Holy crap there was a canon threesome! Canon. Threesome. Squeeeee! And it was hot and wasn’t about a guy being with two girls and there was no negative implication on any of them about it and eeeee. It was completely unexpected and made me gleeful. What happened afterwards doesn’t really decrease my delight with it any. I want more of this!
Neutral
• Bo never having been rejected makes sense considering what she is and it amused me. I wish they’d delved a little more into it.
• I really want Kenzi (and/or Bo) to learn how to use that sword.
• I wish that Bo had decided to get together with Samir and Olivia before Dyson showed up.
• Trick told Dyson to break it off with Bo so he wasn’t too personally involved with her and thus when the truth finally came out she wouldn’t feel betrayed and side with the dark Fae. So how does starting a friends-with-benefits relationship with her do that exactly? I have a feeling someone is going to be in trouble with his boss.
• I wonder if Bo having only a friends-with-benefits relationship with Dyson means that we’ll get to see her being with other people as well?
• It occurs to me that Bo’s solution to being able to be in a relationship with a human is for her to also be in a relationship with a Fae. That way she could be with her human love, feed mostly on her Fae love and if she ever got out of control she’d have her Fae love there to stop her. Kenzi/Bo/Dyson end game, yes?
• Samir lost a few points with me when his first words to Bo were “Woman as lovely as yourself shouldn’t be drinking alone” She clearly wasn’t alone, Kenzi is right there, and I really hate him dismissing her like that. It’s like if Bo is there with another woman then clearly she’s looking for company because it’s men that matter? (Okay, that seems harsh – I mean there’s this implication I feel that if women are out at a bar/party they aren’t with someone unless it’s a guy. Sometimes friends want to hang out. Sometimes there aren’t guys involved, needed or wanted.) Then after the episode I realised it wasn’t about Kenzi being a woman it was about her being human. So not sexism so much as racism (um, specism?)
• This is the first time I really paid attention to Bo and Kenzi’s place. It is really rundown! Do they have the entire building to themselves? I hadn’t even realised that they were living on two floors. It does make me wonder even more how the hell Kenzi didn’t know that Dyson slept over in the last episode. Even if Bo wasn’t as loud and enthusiastic with him Kenzi still should have known.
• Why exactly was The Ash so mad at Dyson over the whole Olivia/Samir situation?
• Hale being a Siren is unexpected but I like it. It is so much more interesting than a werewolf!
• Bo using her power on Jenny was well-intentioned. She saw Jenny in pain and wanted to help her by lessening it a little. I understand the impulse. But it also felt like Bo not knowing how to deal with a crying and freaked out person and choosing to power it away. Plus even if she hadn’t put a ‘little too much oomph into her zing’ it would still have ooky overtones to it. Using her abilities to mess with people’s emotions is... well, it’s what she does all the time. But in this case it felt rather more creepy and wrong to me.
Hated
• The whole episode would have played so much better without the explosion. I mean first of all why the hell did Bo and Kenzi go running out of there like that? If there was a timer I’d have understood it but taking off without at least grabbing the detonator made no sense. The Fury sisters were distracted and Jenny was down so there was no reason for it. At that moment Bo was actually the one in a position of strength.
• Giselle and Aida dying in the explosion pissed me off. Yeah, they tried to kill Kenzi and were pissed off but they were also grieving and just wanted revenge for their sister. Their deaths added nothing to the show – well, beyond pissing me off. It just left a really bad taste in my mouth. I mean they weren’t wrong to be angry and grieving.
• The whole situation was wrapped up by Dyson telling Bo that he ‘scored big points in the cop world’ for breaking the whole Jenny serial killer case. Um, what case? The killer and the evidence went up in flames. Okay, so there was the burnt skulls but would that have been enough? I really feel that it would have worked much better if we’d had Dyson arresting Jenny.
• Generally this show seems to do well with its female characters but it really rubbed me the wrong way this episode. I think it was everything piled on together that made it not work for me. It was just too much. We had the serial killer who was so obsessed with love, the jealous murderous wife, the murderous sisters... I love that women get to be anything on the show. But for all of them to be ‘bad’ and then die at the end? Yikes. You know, this is what it’s like to be a male character – you can have the episode full of male ‘bad guys’ who move the plot and you don’t think anything of it because that’s normal. Having all those roles be women is awesome and actually what I want (this episode really could have been the gender-swapped episode I keep wanting) but since the world is how it is all those roles being women isn’t the norm and when it does happen, like here, having them all be evil/bad/murderous and then die is... not good. A lot of this could have been improved so much if that explosion had never happened. Olivia and Samir would still be dead, victims of the episode, Jenny would be behind bars and Giselle and Aida would be alive.
This episode is a little schizophrenic for me because on one hand I loved parts of it so much but on the other hand I hated parts of it just as much. So I don’t know quite how to classify it. Hmm. This episode is one I will probably re-watch but it’ll be a selective re-watch concentrating on all the Bo/Kenzi scenes because they were amazing this episode. The writer of the episode is Jeremy Boxen – I’m not sure if I should anticipate or dread further episode from him.
Loved
• I ♥ Bo/Kenzi. I’ve been a little slow to warm up to them which has confused me. The pieces were there and I wanted to love them but I just didn’t quite feel that way. Or at least I didn’t until this episode. They were amazing this episode and I love them. They are adorable together. Kenzi is adorable. Kenzi somehow makes Bo be adorable. I just want to smush them together and go ‘awww’. I loved them for the first time in the opening scene, which I thought was great, and then continued to love them throughout the episode.
• I love how... handsy/affectionate/demonstrative/touchy... they are with each other. I’d noticed that they touch a lot in other episodes but in this one it was kind of ridiculous. If they were in a scene together they were touching in some ways. So many of those touches were affectionate and caring – Bo kissed Kenzi several times, Kenzi was constantly embracing Bo and the one that really sticks out to me is how Bo holds Kenzi’s head against her shoulder after the explosion.
• “Oh, you. You are the Kenziest Kenzi ever!” – Bo (kisses Kenzi on the head). Awww!
• “I’m not too clingy or anything?” – Kenzi
“(pause) You make me want to be a better Fae.” – Bo
♥ Just so much love.
• I love that Bo’s issue with having a relationship with Lauren is not that she’s female it’s that she human.
• Holy crap there was a canon threesome! Canon. Threesome. Squeeeee! And it was hot and wasn’t about a guy being with two girls and there was no negative implication on any of them about it and eeeee. It was completely unexpected and made me gleeful. What happened afterwards doesn’t really decrease my delight with it any. I want more of this!
Neutral
• Bo never having been rejected makes sense considering what she is and it amused me. I wish they’d delved a little more into it.
• I really want Kenzi (and/or Bo) to learn how to use that sword.
• I wish that Bo had decided to get together with Samir and Olivia before Dyson showed up.
• Trick told Dyson to break it off with Bo so he wasn’t too personally involved with her and thus when the truth finally came out she wouldn’t feel betrayed and side with the dark Fae. So how does starting a friends-with-benefits relationship with her do that exactly? I have a feeling someone is going to be in trouble with his boss.
• I wonder if Bo having only a friends-with-benefits relationship with Dyson means that we’ll get to see her being with other people as well?
• It occurs to me that Bo’s solution to being able to be in a relationship with a human is for her to also be in a relationship with a Fae. That way she could be with her human love, feed mostly on her Fae love and if she ever got out of control she’d have her Fae love there to stop her. Kenzi/Bo/Dyson end game, yes?
• Samir lost a few points with me when his first words to Bo were “Woman as lovely as yourself shouldn’t be drinking alone” She clearly wasn’t alone, Kenzi is right there, and I really hate him dismissing her like that. It’s like if Bo is there with another woman then clearly she’s looking for company because it’s men that matter? (Okay, that seems harsh – I mean there’s this implication I feel that if women are out at a bar/party they aren’t with someone unless it’s a guy. Sometimes friends want to hang out. Sometimes there aren’t guys involved, needed or wanted.) Then after the episode I realised it wasn’t about Kenzi being a woman it was about her being human. So not sexism so much as racism (um, specism?)
• This is the first time I really paid attention to Bo and Kenzi’s place. It is really rundown! Do they have the entire building to themselves? I hadn’t even realised that they were living on two floors. It does make me wonder even more how the hell Kenzi didn’t know that Dyson slept over in the last episode. Even if Bo wasn’t as loud and enthusiastic with him Kenzi still should have known.
• Why exactly was The Ash so mad at Dyson over the whole Olivia/Samir situation?
• Hale being a Siren is unexpected but I like it. It is so much more interesting than a werewolf!
• Bo using her power on Jenny was well-intentioned. She saw Jenny in pain and wanted to help her by lessening it a little. I understand the impulse. But it also felt like Bo not knowing how to deal with a crying and freaked out person and choosing to power it away. Plus even if she hadn’t put a ‘little too much oomph into her zing’ it would still have ooky overtones to it. Using her abilities to mess with people’s emotions is... well, it’s what she does all the time. But in this case it felt rather more creepy and wrong to me.
Hated
• The whole episode would have played so much better without the explosion. I mean first of all why the hell did Bo and Kenzi go running out of there like that? If there was a timer I’d have understood it but taking off without at least grabbing the detonator made no sense. The Fury sisters were distracted and Jenny was down so there was no reason for it. At that moment Bo was actually the one in a position of strength.
• Giselle and Aida dying in the explosion pissed me off. Yeah, they tried to kill Kenzi and were pissed off but they were also grieving and just wanted revenge for their sister. Their deaths added nothing to the show – well, beyond pissing me off. It just left a really bad taste in my mouth. I mean they weren’t wrong to be angry and grieving.
• The whole situation was wrapped up by Dyson telling Bo that he ‘scored big points in the cop world’ for breaking the whole Jenny serial killer case. Um, what case? The killer and the evidence went up in flames. Okay, so there was the burnt skulls but would that have been enough? I really feel that it would have worked much better if we’d had Dyson arresting Jenny.
• Generally this show seems to do well with its female characters but it really rubbed me the wrong way this episode. I think it was everything piled on together that made it not work for me. It was just too much. We had the serial killer who was so obsessed with love, the jealous murderous wife, the murderous sisters... I love that women get to be anything on the show. But for all of them to be ‘bad’ and then die at the end? Yikes. You know, this is what it’s like to be a male character – you can have the episode full of male ‘bad guys’ who move the plot and you don’t think anything of it because that’s normal. Having all those roles be women is awesome and actually what I want (this episode really could have been the gender-swapped episode I keep wanting) but since the world is how it is all those roles being women isn’t the norm and when it does happen, like here, having them all be evil/bad/murderous and then die is... not good. A lot of this could have been improved so much if that explosion had never happened. Olivia and Samir would still be dead, victims of the episode, Jenny would be behind bars and Giselle and Aida would be alive.
