And so, lo and behold, another episode of LG has occurred.
One could expect it to be called excellent, but sadly, this is not so.
Let us start with the main plot line. A young Fae comes to
town, pursued by a Hunter, and turns out to be not just a shifter, (LG stand-in
for the more mundane werewolves), but also Dyson’s son that he did not know
that he had. Fair enough; Dyson offers to take Mark in, but he refuses, so
Dyson instead kills the Hunter who had been stalking Mark and killing anyone
that came close to him. What is wrong this picture?
Everything. Firstly, it clashes with the LG canon that had
been established in the previous seasons; in this case it is S2, when it was
shown that Dyson had problems of committing to Bo because of his earlier love
to Ciara, a Fae woman that conveniently appeared in modern Toronto during the
same season, and got killed by the Garuda at the end of it. Dyson’s unrequited
love for Ciara and a more casual relationship with Mark’s mother just are not
very compatible.
True, there had been other shows that had problems with
continuity; Primeval of IP was notorious for it, Sinbad – or rather the version
made also by IP – had such problems too; but even Primeval messed mostly with
its’ characters, not the plotline and continuity itself. LG does, or rather –
it had started too back in S4, and since then it developed problems that were
not there initially...
Back to LG. This particular episode had Dyson act OOC as
well, when he killed the Hunter. True, he did it to protect his son, but it is
still jarring, especially since he had Vex to help him as well.
Vex deserves a mention of his own, since this is the episode
when both he and the Morrighan have returned to LG. Vex, in particular, had
returned from England, and no one’s really happy to see him, due to his
involvement with the late Massimo the druid. Vex, of course, is unrepentant,
and will not back down even before Dyson, even though the latter is the
stronger Fae out of the two. That, and the fact that Vex just cannot shut up,
almost resulted in the Mesmer getting shot, but almost doesn’t count, so now it
seems that Dyson have gotten himself a new sidekick instead...and it is a dark
Fae. (Vex was always dark, do not forget it.) This, in conjunction with Dyson almost killing
Vex as well as actually killing his son’s stalker, makes Dyson a ripe candidate
for joining the dark side ala Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader style.
As for Mark himself...he just does not appear to fit in very
well with the rest of the crew. There is no one in his age bracket, for a
start. If Kenzi was still around, it would be different, but now there is just
Tamsin, and Tamsin still does not fit in Kenzi’s role, or mold, very well – a minor
plotline of this episode is that the two of them argue about various aspects of
their professional relationship all the time.
Bo, of course, sleeps with Mark, because he subconsciously reminds
her of Dyson, among other reasons. This, of course, creates a nice awkward
scene at the end of the episode, when Dyson praises Bo for being a good big
sister to Mark...yeah, when Bo was a big sister to anyone? Well, maybe Kenzi,
but Mark is not Kenzi, though he may be filling her role, if Tamsin will not
cut it...
Finally, there is Lauren, and her frenemy relationship with
Evony the Morrighan. Firstly, her attempts at a British accent are truly
cringeworthy, whether on purpose or not... Secondly, why exactly would she want
to cure Evony? She turned her into a human in the first place in order to get
revenge on all Fae in general so why the sudden change of heart?
Then, thirdly, we learn that Evony has married...either a
human or a Fae, but also a man, rather than a woman, who does not really know
about Evony’s Fae past either. And finally, because Lauren appears to be at
least unmotivated to create any sort of a cure for Evony’s humanity, Evony left
some sort of a thingamajig with some sort of a monster inside in Lauren’s lab
as a motivator. Considering that S4 showed that Lauren can resourceful and
ruthless herself, a mere monster, small enough to fit into a large box,
probably won’t be much of a challenge...unless LG S5 will disregard all of her
character developments from S4 as well – we’ll just have to wait and see.
So: Dyson has found and lost his son, (who may or may not
stick around), Vex is back, Evony is back and is at loggerheads with Lauren
once more, Bo and Tamsin are still working things out, and, oh yes, Trick is
still the acting Ash, while Amanda Walsh’s character appears to be killing
people with lightning now, the same lightning that manifested when Dyson put
three different parts of a tattoo into one, a fancy-looking triangle of a sort.
What will of this amount to? We will find out next week, most likely!
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