And so, yet another episode of LG happened, and as far as LG
episodes went, this one was rather... confusing.
There were several plotlines all going at the same time. 1)
Bo is trying to save her friend Cassie, who’s an oracle; 2) Tamsin and Lauren
have brought Bo a birthday present – a stuffed cat, which gives Bo good luck,
but also transforms her into a cat, and curses Lauren with bad luck; 3) Mark –
Dyson’s son – begins to work at Trick’s, but has fallen with a bad crowd, which
includes Vex; and 4), the man behind Cassie’s kidnapping (as well as the theft
of Trick’s big book of Fae names) is another agent of Bo’s father Hades and mayhap
her own brother.
Sounds confusing? Perhaps, but Bo and the crew were able to
resolve all of the above about two thirds into the episode, leaving Bo and
Tamsin at the end doing nothing, other than reminiscing about how to deal with
Hades (Bo’s father, and Tamsin’s ex-employer), but that is because there wasn’t
a lot going on. Sure, there was plenty of secondary action, but otherwise, it
was more of a running in circles, metaphorically speaking, plenty of visual
gags, (Bo was sprouting a cat tail at one moment of the episode, for example)
and so on, but nothing specific or concrete. “Lucky Fae” acted more like a
filter or a pressure relief episode than anything else; other than the brief Valkubus
bit at the end, there was no character development per se.
Then again, there is Dyson Jr. or Mark. With Kenzi gone, the
LG crew and cast must have really felt a need for a young adult character, and
Mark is it. So far, Mark is shown to be a wastrel and womanizer, but what is
more important, his plotline feels tacked on; Mark himself feels tacked onto
the rest of the show. Sure, Trick’s big book got stolen on his watch, and the
thief (who is female, OT) is flirting with Mark and is trying to bring him to
the dark side of the force, but beyond that, Mark’s superfluous; Vex could’ve
done the same thing (and he’s been employed by Trick in the previous ep too, so
to speak).
Vex, incidentally, just might be evil still – never fully
reconciled with his brief flirt with goodness back in the previous season, his
motives for coming back to Toronto are still unknown, and his relationship with
Dyson is still rocky, to say the least. He is also appearing to be avoiding
Bo...or maybe that is just the LG scripts going wonky.
And speaking of tacked on, that goes for the entire oracle
plot line of this episode. Initially, Cassie and her family appeared in S1,
where she and her brother were played by entirely different actors. They
appeared in just one or two episodes, when Bo was searching more actively for
her mother (Aoife; so far a no-show in this season), and that was it. To have
those characters reappear and have the regulars act as if Cassie at least was
an old friend – or at least an old acquaintance – of theirs was just
cringe-worthy at best and WTF at worst.
So: Bo had a birthday party, a rescue of Cassie and other
two oracles, and Tamsin (in that order); Tamsin showed-off her cop skills
slightly, and bonded with Bo; Trick gave Bo a gift – a petrified finger; Mark
got laid and had another confrontation with Dyson; and Vex just smirked at the
sidelines. This episode was sort of fun, but not really good plot-wise.
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