Lost Girl, Dec 15 - Of all the Gin Joints

Last week’s LG episode was delivered wonderfully, as LG usually does. For the record, it was Vex and Tamsin’s turn to be absent for one reason or another, so let us not speak of her for a change. 

As for the other Fae... “Of all the gin joints” introduced the Alkonost, which was one of Russian birdwomen, who sang, supposedly, with such joy that people just died from happiness. One can see her connections to the sirens of the Greek myths – and to Hale, who is a siren himself. Curiously, his sonic skills so far are depicted as sonic beams with which to stun his opponents into unconsciousness. Ah well, no one has called LG’s Fae depictions canonical...

The other Fae included the Buraq, named after a winged – and human-headed steed of Mohammed, upon which he flew over the universe before launching the Islamic religion and the Kemazon, which is basically a corrupted version of the Amazon, who already appeared back in S3. 

That is the new Fae. What about the already established ones? Bo and Dyson are reigniting their relationship, and while the physical part of this ‘ship are proceeding as it always does – smoothly, the rest of it – not so much. Dyson simply has problems with commitment; he may not be as bad as Angel from BtVS may, but he would rather do anything than talk about his feelings, or about anyone’s feelings, or about anything at all! Maybe it is because he is behaving as a stereotypical male does, or because he is a werewolf – and when was the last time that an average werewolf quoted Lord Byron or Leo Tolstoy? – but still...

The peak of this Dyson character trait comes at the end of the episode, when the Una Mens make their reappearance just when Bo was having her mental breakthrough and Dyson went on the offensive. Considering that the Una Mens are protected against physical attacks, Dyson’s strategy is really thoughtless and will only result in him getting hurt – but we will have to wait until the next episode to see.

Bo, on the other hand, has had a breakthrough – she realized that it was her father who sponsored her entry into the dark Fae – and she is not happy about it. That prompted Dyson to comment, that among the Fae the light and the dark are just labels..., which is true – this whole system is based upon folklore’s Seelie and Unseelie courts, whose relationship to each other was enigmatic, but to humans they were equally unfriendly and occasionally lethal. That said, quite a bit of LG world-building was built on the supposed antagonism between the light and dark Fae, so Dyson’s statement was probably OOC rather than canon...which is why the Una Mens may have come – but again, we’ll see in the next episode.

Mr. Trick, admittedly, did appear here, but mostly as a secondary character, preferring to stay in the background, so let us keep him there this time too. Hale and Kenzi, on the other hand, were very much in the foreground, as they finally admitted their feelings to each other... it is about time. Their ‘ship, while not exactly absent, usually was barely present, so, again, it is about time for them to resolve their relationship – are they a couple or not? And it looks like they are, at least for now...

Finally, the second plot line, Lauren is moving out of her old digs and the Morrigan is there to help. I have to admit – that was unexpected, and Lauren probably agreed: her interactions with the Morrigan were wary to say the least, but the Morrigan did get Lauren to commit to work for her and the rest of the dark Fae as a doctor, so go team dark. Lauren, on the other hand, got the Morrigan’s DNA (or maybe a tissue sample) so go team dark Lauren as well.

Crystal – Lauren’s former co-worker at the diner – was absent this episode, which makes one wonder what is up with her. Fae-human interactions are unpredictable, so Crystal could have been simply eaten for all we know, but Lauren’s nonchalance about her is still strange...

So: Kenzi and Hale have a relationship breakthrough, Bo remembered some of her recent past, Dyson is about to get hurt and Lauren is reinventing herself, with the Morrigan’s help. As the previous episode had spoken, let the dark times roll!