Yay *flails* It's time! It's time!

[fembuck]

Friends, I am sorry to report that there is no Dr. Hot Pants in 1x09 "Fae Day" (<- download).

It is a very entertaining episode however, and for the Kenzi fans out there she gets a lot of positive face time.

Bo practicing with a sword is hot ... even though she looks like she's about to head out to yoga class.

Bo:  I really need a break from the Fae and their shit.
[Bo and Kenzi show up at Tricks for one drink - only we all know it's never really one drink]
Kenzi: And cue the Fae and their shit.

Aw, Bo needs a Fae-cation, lol.  Sounds cool, typed out it looks like something completely different.

Banshee's are such party-poopers!

Nice to know that Bo has been freezing Dyson out over his shit.  It also seems as if Bo never told Kenzi what happened between herself and Lauren.  Can't blame her there really.  Kenzi, we love her, but she's not exactly tactful or known to drop things no matter how much someone asks.

Kenzi:  You go.  This food isn't going to eat itself!  LOL

Dyson:  Bo, read a book.
OMG DYSON!  WHY ARE YOU SUCH AN ASS!?!?!

Seriously show, do not have Dyson talk about his super-special feelings for Bo and then have him be a complete asshat for no reason.  It does not add tension to their relationship, it just makes me want to punch him repeatedly in the face until he dies.  Dear Lost Girl, stop trying to wooby-fy this guy!  But if you are incapable of doing that at least do it right and not have him act like a class-A douche most of the time.  *appreciates the Legend of the Seeker writers and deftness with which they handled their characters even more - and I already appreciated it plenty!*

Aw, Kenzi's met someone as tactless as her.  I hope they make out.

Projectile vomit?  Really Lost Girl?  Really?  What's next?  Fart jokes?  It felt like I was watching an episode of Merlin for a minute there. 

Guy to Kenzi:  Joking about accounting fraud is like joking about a bomb on a plane
LOL,  heh.  Maybe not a match made in Fae heaven after all.

And ... saw the Sean reveal coming a mile away.

Based on how douchey Sean's Dark Fae brother was, I'm thinking Dyson chose the wrong side.  He'd fit right in with that asshole.

Kenzi:  Fancied?  Oh my god.
LOL.  Ksenia, you slay me.

Sean:  You're very odd and special. 
That's a pretty damn good description of Kenzi.

Kenzi:  Oh yeah.  Sounds like a disaster.
It's all in the delivery (and Bo's smirk)

It's 9:30 and there's been NO LAUREN AT ALL!  SO SAD! SO VERY VERY SAD!

You know, I think that if Kenzi met Parker from Leverage that they would be BFFs.

Day time drinking, Dyson?  You get more charming every time you're on-screen.

Aw, I hope Sean doesn't actually die.  I like him.

Bo talking about how much she trusts Dyson.  Nice anvil dropping show.  I mean that.  Bo is going to lose her shit when she finds out that he's been lying to her.

Nice parting line Kenzi.  Sean's dad was a clot-pole.

LOL Bo.  "I read it in Trick's book!"  Too bad you didn't read the whole thing, smarty pants.

Speaking of pants, it's 9:40 and there's still no Dr. Hot Pants!  So very, very, very, very sad. 

I wonder if those circles were already carved into Trick's floor, or if defacing his property was one other favor Bo asked for.  Bo is such a high maintainance friend.  For real. 

"Great!  Then, smoke 'em if you got 'em!"  LOL.  Very professional Bo.

Bo:  Gee, thanks.

Bo and Kenzi, you two are adorable.

Well, show you legit managed to surprise me with that alley scene.

Bo/Kenzi snuggles ... both tender and heartbreaking.

So Trick has magic blood?  Interesting.

As for Dyson conflictedness ... no1curr!  Okay, I'm sure some people do care, but I'm not one of them.  Dyson is totally Trick's bitch and lies constantly, and I don't like that he's given all of this screen time to make the audience sympathize with him, while Lauren who is vulnerable and victimized in a way that Dyson isn't, doesn't get the same treatment.  Dyson needs a sassy gay best friend to tell him



Because wolf-boy doesn't have to lie.  Trick isn't going to kill Dyson if he tells Bo the truth.  Trick doesn't own Dyson.  If Dyson tells Bo the truth, you know what will happen ... Bo will know the truth and Trick might act a little bitchy.  That's it.  So why does this Trick's boy get all of the sympathy and benefit of the doubt, when the human slave who faces actual consequences for disobedience (as opposed to losing surrogate daddies love) gets shat on left, right and center.

Psst, show.  You can't have an effective love triangle when 90% of the screen-time is devoted to one pairing,  Your bias is showing and it pisses me off. 

Preview for next week:

What everyone is the most interested in:  There was a shot of Dr. Lauren in the preview for next week, talking to Bo no less.  But there was only the one shot of her so I'm not sure how large a role she'll have.  One would hope that Bo and Lauren would have to talk about what happened between them in "Vexed" but with this show who the hell knows.  Lauren's curly-ish hair is back though, so that's something.  I liked her curly-ish pilot hair.

Plot: Next week however, there is another succubus in town and it seems like she'll make trying to mack all over Bo.  It also seems like maybe this succubus knows how to bring people back from the dead, which would be a pretty cool power for Bo to develop.  It'll heal something in my heart to be able to type the breath of life again.  Bo will still only have a fraction of Cara's bad-assness, but having the breath of life will be a step in the right direction.

It's seemed pretty obvious that Bo has only started to scratch the surface of what she can do as a succubus, so a Bo Goes to Succubus School episode seems like it should be pretty fun.

Also, the other succubus is a hottie, and the perv in me kind of wants to see Bo being topped.

Comments

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I think that under normal circumstances I would have liked this episode a lot more. Coming after last weeks much more epic episode, however, the whole thing was sort of jarring.

Jarring is such a good word for it. This weeks episode was like coming down off a high. It was like coming back from a feature film to watch one of those SyFy Original movies. It was ... jarring, and honestly a disappointment even though by normal Lost Girl standards it was a good episode.

It was nice to see her interacting with someone for her own sake rather than as Bo's sidekick.

This. It had been bugging me that Kenzi really seemed to have nothing going on outside of Bo for a couple episode, so seeing her with her own plot (that didn't involve her being incredibly stupid like in that foot soup episode) was really nice. Ksenia is good, she can do more than just comedy and the writers should use that.

And trying to keep track of their relationship - are they fighting? Are they friends? - even from one scene to the next makes my head spin.

Oh, I know. There is like no consistency to any of the relationships on this show other than Bo/Kenzi (if we ignore the insta-BFFs thing).

The only sort of positive thing I can note from the abundance of Bo/Dyson screentime this episode is that none of it was overtly romantic. I mean there was no Bo/Dyson nookie (which is like a first), there was no kissing, or overt sexual banter. I don't think they've been this platonic (other than Dyson's stupid, boring longing gazes) since the pilot. The Bo/Lauren shipper in me would like this to be because Bo's so hung up on Lauren that sex with Dyson isn't even registering with her at the moment.

Not to mention that Bo seemed even more clueless than usual. Almost dumb.

Bo, honestly, comes across as dumb most of the time. The only time she's ever been quick on the uptake was last week when she made the jump from Lauren saying, "I'm working on it, I just need a few more hours" to "The Ash ordered you to sleep with me, didn't he? Lying hussy whore!" Figures that would be the one time she didn't display the brain power a cashew nut.

But yeah, Dyson is so stupid that Bo would have to come across as being completely dumb in order for Dyson to seem 'wise'.

but at least a solid reference to what happened would have made a lot more sense.

I know, right. Something really little like Kenzi asking Bo if she Dr. Hot Pants was going to be at Trick's party and Bo glowering at her before muttering "I have no idea" or something like that would have been something. The angry sword swinging just didn't cut it.

Even if the writers have pretty much shelved pursuing a real "triangle" idea, a little more continuity would be nice.

Given that they aired that Lauren/Bo heavy demo I don't think they've shelved it. I just think that they are really inept about developing it (and are clearly more interested in Dyomghe'ssoboringican'teventypehisname and Bo) which is making the 'triangle' seem more and more like just a line leading to BoSon Land.

Maybe next season will have a chance to get a little more serious, and hopefully give Lauren some actual development outside of the lusty doctor role.

This statement is my dream.