In all of the “Agents”-related excitement one forgot that LG
S4 has aired last Sunday. What can be said about it?
Due to difficulties outside the shooting set (Anna Silk-Bo
had a baby boy) the season had to start with Bo’s minimum presence on screen.
The cast and crew handled it wonderfully, by opening the episode “In Memoriam”
in a world without Bo – somehow everybody forgot about her completely, and...
well, that elevated Kenzi into the position of the most desirable female, something
that is not her thing. No, seriously – while Bo gets out of one sexcapade and
into another, Kenzi has stayed chaste...at least on screen and in canon (the
past before Bo and others is probably
another story), so her suddenly forming a triangle with Dyson and Hale was
something else.
Well, not exactly. Among fanfiction there are enough cases
of Kenzi being paired with both men – “In Memoriam” only showed that the cast
and crew of the show listen and keep an eye on their fandom at least from time
to time. A second point to them.
And the first point for masterfully presenting the world
without Bo, where Kenzi is something of a thief, or maybe a minion for Trick
and Hale is no longer the Ash. This, actually, is something of a sticky point –
Hale’s predecessors on the show (S1 & 2) have left their office only when
they died: does this mean that the posts of Ash and Morrigan (the latter is now
occupied by Vex of all people) is temporary rather than permanent? The previous
seasons (especially the first two) tended to indicate otherwise – a case of
changing canon, perhaps, and not for the better.
The same goes for Una Mens – a group that has supposedly
taken over Trick’s old job as the Blood King: introduced on a web episode in
October, it is hard to figure out how they fit with the rest of the Bo-verse,
with the council that decides who gets to be the Ash and Morrigan and all. This
is a case of too much back-story already, not too little...
Finally, Vex. Frankly I am thinking that Paul Amos (who
plays him) must have bribed someone in the crew to make him a more permanent
part of the show as opposed to a one-ep villain from S1. Even at the end of S2
there was no reason to make Vex a part of the main cast and now that he is the
leader of the Dark Fae...yes, he is not the man for the job and he knows it. I
cannot say that it will be interesting to see what happens to him next, but it
will be unavoidable, most likely.
Incidentally, Lauren was not in “In Memoriam” at all, though
there was a waitress called “Amber” at the end of the episode – maybe that is she.
Who knows?
Aoife. It is reasonably certain that she is back in town and
without memories of Bo either. Considering that the end of S3 left Bo with her
father, it is possible that the latter does not have any fond memories of Aoife
also and did his best to distance her from the rest of the family. Sadly, this
left Mr. Trick out; considering that Aoife went at him with a knife at the end
of “In Memoriam” this leaves a rather interesting cliffhanger to end the
episode.
Finally, the guest star from “Star Trek”, the Underfay
collector. Considering that he was made a naga (a snake-man from Southeast Asia
and India) the second mouth on the end of his tail was overkill – otherwise he
was very impressive, until Dyson killed him with a spear to his second mouth/head.
So much for him.
And so, the first episode of LG S4 went very impressively,
showing quick thinking by cast and crew and some amazing special effects and
acting. Considering that the final scene had Bo’s eyes glowing blue – a clear
tie to the previous season – it is obvious that LG S4 shall be amazing.
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