LG: Big in Japan - Dec 22

And so, yet another episode of LG has come to an end. Isn’t it great?

Sadly – no, not really. After a very exciting two-part season starter, this particular episode of LG was not so good.

What was it about? Bo is in the dumps due to Kenzi’s departure and will not feed – on chi. She is a succubus, and so she needs chi to survive; without it, she will die. To make matters more complicated, she and Tamsin are hired by some Japanese Fae ex-samurai as bodyguards, while in the B-plotline Lauren goes to Dyson for advice on self-defense – boxing or whatnot. So?

So, the entire episode (“Big in Japan”) was primarily dealing with team Bo dealing with Kenzi’s departure on one hand, and on the other, the cast and crew of LG had to figure out the new dynamics with Ksenia gone as well. As a consequence, the entire “Japan” episode feels disjointed and rushed, with the characters having little motivation behind their actions, especially Dyson and Lauren. The two of them just do not mesh this great together, not at all.

Bo and Tamsin had a better time working out the team dynamics between them, but all of the Japanese stuff got in the way. Yes, the ‘Hel’ duology had plenty of terms of Norse and Greek myth in it, but LG took all of those terms – Valhalla, Tartarus, etc – and put its’ own spin on them. Here, in ‘Japan’ the Japanese myths, depictions, associations, allusions, etc are straight in the foreground, and are rather overwhelming on one hand, and pointless on the other. There just was not a lot of Japanese-Fae action in this episode, period; it just gave a feeling of procrastination to the team Bo resolution.

On the other hand, in the Dyson-Lauren plotline we had a nurse/assistant of Lauren’s, whose purpose was to be held hostage by a junkie of a patient at first and then to be murdered by Amanda Walsh’s character; this is the fastest introduction and disposal of a character that isn’t a red shirt in a Star Trek episode...

So: team Bo got over – sort of – Kenzi’s departure, and Amanda Walsh’s character is getting ever closer to Bo and her friends. That is good. Otherwise, this episode did not have a lot going on for it. Thus – a C+.