Yesterday, we got more of Bo and her world.
First of all, this time it was Dyson & Hale’s turn to
sit things out – Dyson was out looking for Lauren, unaware that she was back in
town, and Hale must have tagged along. Seriously, ever since he confessed his
love to Kenzi back in the second episode, he had been avoiding her – an episode
hook, perhaps? Anyways...
Bo is dark, but
she still has a window of opportunity - which is closing fast, admittedly – to get
out of the dark Fae...and into the light? Somehow this question is not asked in
this ep, but S4 is only just beginning, there is still time.
Incidentally, the Morrigan is good deal more formidable than
Vex is, as she can almost go toe to toe with the Una Mens. The latter appear to
embody the Fae version of laws and are as relentless and oblique as law should
be, allegorically (or metaphorically?) speaking.
This episode reveals something new about the Una Mens, too.
Initially, they were to number the Blood King (our favorite bartender, cough)
among them, but the latter just grabbed his holy papyrus seed and got out of
town; the penultimate scene of the episode indicates that it got stolen – or something
got stolen, at any rate, so the fact that Mr. Trick is an ‘acting Ash’ now
doesn’t improve things much, either.
Speaking of Ashes... how does that system work? The first 2
seasons of LG created an impression that being an Ash is a life-long job, not
unlike that of the Morrigan (who had outlived two Ashes at least, BTW). Now
Hale (yes, our Hale), who had been the Ash in S3 has resigned...and that is it.
No ceremony of shame, no nothing. Ergo, this raises the question – is an Ash a life-long
leader of Toronto’s light Fae, or some sort of an elect official...and where
does that leave the Morrigan? Can she be impeached, if push comes to shove,
maybe? And push will come to shove – two Alpha females, (the Morrigan & Bo)
will not rest easily alongside each other, simply because they have to be in
charge – and they do not tend to share.
Speaking of Alpha females and sharing... Karen/Lauren has
broken up with Bo. That is not surprising, the final episodes of S3 were
leading to this moment, but it also marks a change in the relationship of Doctor
Hotpants and the succubus – the former is not going to let anyone make
decisions for her, not if she can help it. In the relationship between the two
women, Bo was... if not the butch partner, but the domineering one for sure,
and Lauren had enough. As friends, team Doccubus was great; as lovers – not so
much. Now it seems that team Doccubus will have to work out just where they
stand in relationship to each other: Bo is not happy with Lauren’s decision and
Lauren is not backing down either.
On the other hand, we have team K/T on our hands as well:
Kenzi got Tamsin to rescue one of her dark Fae friends from being someone’s
slave – Kenzi does tend to do that, and this was clearly a secondary plotline
to the one where team Doccubus was capturing Vex – but what was Tamsin wearing? That was just
messed-up, especially when compared to Kenzi’s own threads...but that is not
the point.
The point is that the Fae society is deterministic – once you
are something, you are something, until someone (like the Morrigan or the Ash)
changes your situation. Human society is not like that, there is free will, at
least in theory. Kenzi is trying to teach Bruce that now he can be somebody
else – and Tamsin is eavesdropping on it with a smile. This raises a question:
is Tamsin going to be a main character of the show? Not unlike how Vex became
in S3? If so, then hopefully she will not get to be just Kenzi’s foil, a big
blonde to the smaller brunette...
And speaking of Vex, he actually proved more impressive than
he was at the beginning of S4. For once, he is wearing something respectable
and not transsexual. For another, he was evoking “sympathy for the Devil” here,
being the last one of his kind and all. Maybe he is, I do not dispute him,
but...
But the blade of Chronus was an annoyance of its own –
Chronus did not have a sword or scimitar of any sort, he had a sickle, an
agricultural tool shaped like a crescent moon with a handle attached to one
end. In more recent times it may be replaced by a scythe instead.
What the LG delivered was a jambiya, a one-sided dagger that
was used by Lawrence of Arabia in the last season of DW, BTW. It was not used
by Chronus nor is it a scimitar – it is a knife. Yeesh! Yet dagger, sickle, scimitar
or jambiya, Vex has lost his infected hand, which is odd, because the Una Mens
have poisoned him by stuffing another larva or grub down his throat. Oh well,
maybe Mesmer Fae anatomy works like that, who knows?
Finally, the Una Mens have appeared in the final scene of
the episode – they have learned the name slash identity of Bo’s
sponsor-initiate into the dark Fae and they are very upset. Considering that they
do not have any emotions this makes Bo’s new mystery man someone very troublesome
indeed!
And there you have it, people – an episode where Bo and
Lauren change their relationship, Kenzi and Tamsin bond, Mr. Trick gets a new
job and Bo and the Morrigan get up close and personal (though not like that).
Oh, a Vex has his hand chopped off. Hopefully, it will work out for him.
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