Lost Girl 1x02 Review
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iariaWhere There’s a Will, There’s a Fae
This episode left me with a lot of questions. I think I’ve isolated what is going to be my biggest issue with this show – characters acting and behaving in strange ways and the weird plot holes. I spent a fair amount of time going ‘uh, why?’
• Bo’s casualness towards killing keeps surprising me. Once she gets hungry she’s pretty much willing to kill anyone (or any adult). Then you add in Bo’s dislike of Kenzi’s stealing and it sticks out even more. In the scheme of things killing still ranks above stealing on the list of wrong things even if it is for food. I suppose even with her angst over causing death it’s gotten to a point that she’s become desensitised about it. If her attitude about the stealing was just about keeping a low profile it’d make sense to me but Bo was displeased about the idea of stealing at all. Which, when you remember her using her power in the last episode on the waitress to get out of paying her bill, makes her attitude make even less sense. That is after all stealing.
• “Thanks for the cock block.” – Bo. First, hee. Second, so Bo’s hunger is firmly connected to her sexuality than?
• Why would Bo use violence to intimidate the pawn shop owner instead of her charisma/power? That makes no sense to me.
• “Oh, crap balls.” – Kenzi LOL! I think I’m going to have to start using that.
• Why would Lauren have the exact rarely needed serum right there? I’d like to think that it’s a subtle hint that there something more going on and Lauren knew that Bo was coming (even something as simple as Dyson having called her) but it’s probably just sloppy writing.
• Bo is awfully trusting. Even after Dyson warned her to be careful who she trusted she still continued to trust him unconditionally, she trusted Lauren enough to allow her to inject her with an unknown serum, she trusted Trick enough to sign the book (there is no way I would have done that. Names have power and while he said it was basically a login book that doesn’t mean it was), and she trusted both Will-o’-the-Wisp and Michael that they were telling her the truth. She doesn’t really know any of these people so why is she so trusting?
• “It’s more comfortable for us to remain a myth. But it’s difficult to do that especially when somebody keeps asking too many questions.” Bo responds to that by saying ‘meaning me’ and the implication is that she’s right. Except – that makes no freaking sense! And I think that’s my main issue right now. People react and act in ways that don’t seem entirely logical or understandable. I mean Bo is a Fae, who only just learned what she was, so it’s logical she’d be asking questions. If she were a human looking into the Fae and trying to expose them then Trick’s sentence would make sense. If she were trying to expose the Fae to humans his sentence would make sense. If she was simply running around asking questions indiscriminately than it would make sense. But Bo asking Trick to explain about the Fae in no way threatens the secrecy they’re trying to maintain. In fact it works for them to tell her everything she wants/needs to know just so that she doesn’t accidentally do or say something that might unintentionally reveal the existence of the Fae. Trick’s sentence makes no sense, works with nothing we’ve seen before (if Bo had been trying to slyly find out about the Fae by questioning everyone/thing including humans it would have worked as him pointing out he knew about it but she hasn’t been) and it really bugs me.
• “Bo be careful who you trust. There’s still a lot you don’t know and people will use it against you.” – Dyson. So tell her! OMG. It’s about two minutes after the above exchange and it’s leaving me feeling the same way. If he’s worried about her being ignorant about the Fae world then why doesn’t he fill her in?
• I was pretty surprised when the episode ended with Bo and Dyson sleeping together. I guess this show will not be going the will-they/won’t-they route with them which actually really relieves me. The sex was ostensibly so she could heal but it was not really shot that way. She was moving and talking well enough when we flashed to them even though she had been weak and in pain at the storage lockers and the wound didn’t seem that great. I suppose she could have healed the majority of the damage with a kiss as soon as she arrived at his place and then they decided to just keep going because they both wanted sex. Yeah, I’ll go with that explanation.
This episode left me with a lot of questions. I think I’ve isolated what is going to be my biggest issue with this show – characters acting and behaving in strange ways and the weird plot holes. I spent a fair amount of time going ‘uh, why?’
• Bo’s casualness towards killing keeps surprising me. Once she gets hungry she’s pretty much willing to kill anyone (or any adult). Then you add in Bo’s dislike of Kenzi’s stealing and it sticks out even more. In the scheme of things killing still ranks above stealing on the list of wrong things even if it is for food. I suppose even with her angst over causing death it’s gotten to a point that she’s become desensitised about it. If her attitude about the stealing was just about keeping a low profile it’d make sense to me but Bo was displeased about the idea of stealing at all. Which, when you remember her using her power in the last episode on the waitress to get out of paying her bill, makes her attitude make even less sense. That is after all stealing.
• “Thanks for the cock block.” – Bo. First, hee. Second, so Bo’s hunger is firmly connected to her sexuality than?
• Why would Bo use violence to intimidate the pawn shop owner instead of her charisma/power? That makes no sense to me.
• “Oh, crap balls.” – Kenzi LOL! I think I’m going to have to start using that.
• Why would Lauren have the exact rarely needed serum right there? I’d like to think that it’s a subtle hint that there something more going on and Lauren knew that Bo was coming (even something as simple as Dyson having called her) but it’s probably just sloppy writing.
• Bo is awfully trusting. Even after Dyson warned her to be careful who she trusted she still continued to trust him unconditionally, she trusted Lauren enough to allow her to inject her with an unknown serum, she trusted Trick enough to sign the book (there is no way I would have done that. Names have power and while he said it was basically a login book that doesn’t mean it was), and she trusted both Will-o’-the-Wisp and Michael that they were telling her the truth. She doesn’t really know any of these people so why is she so trusting?
• “It’s more comfortable for us to remain a myth. But it’s difficult to do that especially when somebody keeps asking too many questions.” Bo responds to that by saying ‘meaning me’ and the implication is that she’s right. Except – that makes no freaking sense! And I think that’s my main issue right now. People react and act in ways that don’t seem entirely logical or understandable. I mean Bo is a Fae, who only just learned what she was, so it’s logical she’d be asking questions. If she were a human looking into the Fae and trying to expose them then Trick’s sentence would make sense. If she were trying to expose the Fae to humans his sentence would make sense. If she was simply running around asking questions indiscriminately than it would make sense. But Bo asking Trick to explain about the Fae in no way threatens the secrecy they’re trying to maintain. In fact it works for them to tell her everything she wants/needs to know just so that she doesn’t accidentally do or say something that might unintentionally reveal the existence of the Fae. Trick’s sentence makes no sense, works with nothing we’ve seen before (if Bo had been trying to slyly find out about the Fae by questioning everyone/thing including humans it would have worked as him pointing out he knew about it but she hasn’t been) and it really bugs me.
• “Bo be careful who you trust. There’s still a lot you don’t know and people will use it against you.” – Dyson. So tell her! OMG. It’s about two minutes after the above exchange and it’s leaving me feeling the same way. If he’s worried about her being ignorant about the Fae world then why doesn’t he fill her in?
• I was pretty surprised when the episode ended with Bo and Dyson sleeping together. I guess this show will not be going the will-they/won’t-they route with them which actually really relieves me. The sex was ostensibly so she could heal but it was not really shot that way. She was moving and talking well enough when we flashed to them even though she had been weak and in pain at the storage lockers and the wound didn’t seem that great. I suppose she could have healed the majority of the damage with a kiss as soon as she arrived at his place and then they decided to just keep going because they both wanted sex. Yeah, I’ll go with that explanation.
