LOST GIRL - 2x06 - It's Better to Burn Out Than Fae Away

[fembuck]

Fucking, Lost Girl! 

Haven't the PTB ever heard of a fucking honeymoon period?  Like, damn!  Couldn’t Bo and Lauren have gotten to do it at least one more time before you twat-blocked them?!?  Shit, I wanna punch someone in the face like I'm a Doctor of Ass-Kicking!



This show, this show man ... It gives us that cute as hell opening Doccubus scene. It gives us dreamy, protective Bo. It gives us a hot ass sex scene, and sweet morning after gazing, hair-stroking and kisses. And then ... LAUREN HAS A FUCKING GIRLFRIEND?

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK SHOW? I reject this coma-girlfriend! I reject her suspended animation ass! I reject her glowing Cylon Hybrid glowing milk bath and all of the emotional baggage that comes with it! I want her to get the hell off of my screen!

Ugh! I wanted Doccubus to bang more! Lots, lots more. And all urgent and desperate like they were this episode. At least once in the kitchen! Maybe in a washroom stall at Trick's bar!

Y even did you do this to me, show?

Anyway, based on that last scene I’m thinking Lauren was involved in something shifty/risky/Fae-related that got Nadia hurt, and out of a sense of honor and/or guilt Lauren sold herself to the Ash in order to get access to the resources she’d need to save/resurrect Nadia. I’m interested in what’s going to happen, but still shit show! Couldn’t they have had a weekend feeding each other strawberries and taking a bubble-baths before you dropped the Nadia-bomb?

Comments

[liberty-stewart.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch the episode tonight cause I'm still caught up in the Halloween season. However this summary now has me curious. Finally we get to know something about Lauren and it's that she has a girlfriend. And Emmanuelle Vaugier is back? Okay that's always a plus. I guess I'll be looking forward to the reruns this Thursday.

However I'm just not feeling it all that much for Lost Girl these days and there seems to be 3 reasons for it.

1) The season has been mediocre at best.

2) Halloween season took my attention away, but the biggest reason of them all is...

3) I'm still mourning the loss of that other much, much, MUCH better gay show. You know which show I'm talking about.

http://vimeo.com/30155176

^^Why must you leave my life so early? That series showed us that we don't have to put up with mediocrity. Then we loss it after a mere 3 episodes.

Now it's hard to watch other gay shows because they feel so cheap in comparison. I mean really, I didn't thought it was possible, but that series managed to obliterate any interest I had in shows with other canon lesbians like True Blood and Lost Girl.

This is like those special ones that get away. It wins over your heart, you became really attached in such a short period, then the next day it's just gone with a huge gaping hole it left in you. It doesn't matter how much you try and fill in that void, it just makes you miss it more. If I could kill Lost Girl, and my number 2 & 3 fave new shows of the fall season in order to bring back that show, I gladly will. I'll probably be watching those 3 again within the next two weeks. Now I feel like getting back into my corner and moping again.

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

What show are you referring to?

[liberty-stewart.livejournal.com]

The Playboy Club. The title is very misleading in what the show is about.

I thought it was easily the best new show of the fall season. Fembuck has seen the show too and several other users whose LJs I visited feels the same way about the show as I do.

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Ah. (Earlier I couldn't play the video, which makes it obvious which show is being talked about)

I have to say, I thought the pilot episode of Playboy Club was just about awful, terribly paced with way too much plot and not nearly enough characterization, and with so much other TV to keep up with I bailed on it, though I did hear later episodes were better.

Fundamentally I think the Playboy tie-in was a bad idea. It attracted people who didn't get what they were hoping for (boobies), and turned off people who might have liked what the show really was. I also think Eddie Cibrian is terrible casting when you know the direct comparison people are going to make is to John Hamm.

I'd have just made a show about the women working as staff in a swanky Chicago nightclub in the period. Dump the Playboy stuff, dump the bunny costumes.

[liberty-stewart.livejournal.com]

I liked that their was alot going on in the first episode of the show. It was basically a setup for the characters. Later episodes definitely had more character development and characterization to it. Heck just the 3 episodes of Plyaboy Club had more development and a better understanding of the characters than the entires series Lost Girl gave us so far.

Episode 2 had like a good 1/3 of the episode being focused on the lavender couple. They even found a way to make the part of the show I found most uninteresting (Eddie's mob/political story) interesting.

The Playboy name definitely caused problems as far as attracting the wrong viewers to it. I don't watch Mad Men, so the Jon Hamm comparisons never entered my mind. But I could see the problems with him. He's the actor in the whole cast that gets the most complaints and he's also the weakest of the bunch. I have seen Jon Hamm and January Jones in other things. Although I agree Jon Hamm > Eddie Cibrian, however it's Amber Heard > January Jones.

I don't think they could have done a simple 60s Chicago nightclub series on it's own because most likely the Playboy name was what got the series greenlit. Rather ironic the name was both it's upbringing and it's downfall.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

There are some good aspects of this episode, but there's also some typical Lost Girl WTF. The Nadia reveal could be good, but with this shows track record I'm so scared.

And while the Playboy Club wasn't perfect, I do miss the shows serious and respectful treatment of the gay storyline (I can't believe they gave me Cassidy Freeman as a gay and then took her away! Francis Dunhill was the Queen of my pants - and Alice's lol).

Considering the shit that is still on the air, it does hurt that Playboy Club got axed so quickly. It's sad, but I think I've actually gotten used to most of the shows I love being taken away from me (though this one was taken away much earlier than most)

[liberty-stewart.livejournal.com]

The Nadia reveal could be good, but with this shows track record I'm so scared.

This. If a show has a history of disappointing you, don't expect it to change overnight or anytime soon for that matter.

I do miss the shows serious and respectful treatment of the gay storyline

Hence my remark about Playboy Club showing we don't have to put up with mediocrity when it comes to gay characters. Now the best thing I got is the TV version of the Hollows and 2 Brokeback Girls.

(I can't believe they gave me Cassidy Freeman as a gay and then took her away! Francis Dunhill was the Queen of my pants - and Alice's lol).

jetgirl78 feels the same way. She got excited that Tess was a gay character who was about to get it on with Alice, then the series got yanked before it was about to happen.

Considering the shit that is still on the air, it does hurt that Playboy Club got axed so quickly.

Well it goes with the saying of mine that the only good TV is cable TV because network TV is where crap reigns supreme. Which just makes me hope by some miracle a cable network does pick up the series.

It's sad, but I think I've actually gotten used to most of the shows I love being taken away from me (though this one was taken away much earlier than most)

Same here. You know that line "Misery, misery, misery. That's all you've given yourself" that Green Goblin said in the first Spider-man film? That basically sums up my experience with network TV. Anything I have an attachment with I can expect the worse for and anything I hate will live on forever.