Lost Girl "Where There's A Will, There's A Fae" Review

"Where There's A Will, There's A Fae" introduced viewers to a different kind of fae. The pilot introduced the important faes to the mythology--the dark faes and the light faes--but not all faes are created equally, not all possess the same makeup and ideas about how faes should co-exist in the world. The fae world's fragile though. Bo's supposed to behave herself, avoid killing humans for food, and keep clear of anything that might infuriate The Morragan and The Ash. So, what does Bo do? Our badass heroine takes on an essentially innocent fae's case because he promised to tell her information about the parents who abandoned her. A semi-origin story ensues with fun and energetic action.

Bo's lived her entire life in the dark about her actual nature as a succubus. The old adage about the difficulty of killing old habits is apt for Bo in the episode. Bo needs to control her hunger and the use of her power lest she anger the more powerful faes. Bo TRIES to behave. Her and Kenzi spend the initial minutes of the episode buying furniture and hardware for their apartment, or loft; however, a fae randomly appears in their apartment accompanied, whose entrance is marked by a burst of green fire. The fae is Will (for the Will O' The Wisp re the fire). Kenzi and Bo are freaked. Will cuts to the chase lest he be killed by the kiss of Bo. A chest of expensive diamonds and jewels was taken by a man and the fae wants his treasure back. Bo resists until Will proves he can tell her what she wants to know about her parents.

The incentive's enough to spring Bo into action. Kenzi helps her investigate the trail of the treasure thief. The adventure's fun and energetic. The beats are familiar, but they're executed in an original way. Bo and Kenzi seem aware of the tropes they're involved in. For example, Bo and Kenzi break into the thief's trailer and find an open phonebook to the page of a diamond store, circled in pen ink. At the diamond store, Bo tries to be an undercover agent, but she's not good; she then uses her hands and threatens him to learn the information she needs from the store owner. Later, a headless assassin with a hard-to-remember-name-and-therefore-difficult-to-spell-because-my-memory-fails-me storms into the room where Bo and the thief are. Outside, in the car, Kenzi's reaction is apropos, "oh crapballs," especially because she witnessed the assassin remove his head before entering the room. Lost Girl can be wild, friends and well-wishers. Bo's similarly nonplussed by the intrusion. Kenzi rushes from the car to the room, grabs a broom handle, and hands it to Bo. Bo snaps the broom handle in two and uses them as two stakes to kill the assassin. Lost Girl is an endearing series when characters react like most people would to a headless assassin freely entering a hotel room to maim and destroy.

The case-of-the-week, or whatever one wants to call it, was about the complicated relations between a fae parent and a human child. In general, though, parental relations seem difficult in these crazy universe of Lost Girl. Bo's biological parents abandoned her as an infant. Trick told The Morragan and The Ash that he'd investigate Bo's origins last week. I, too, am interested in the depths of the fae world, its rules and the psychology behind questionable parent roles.

The treasure thief was none other than Will's biological son. Michael, the son, felt anger and resentment towards his father for abandoning him and his mother when he was born. Will calmly explained the complicated rules and dynamics of fae and human relations. Will didn't have a wealth information for Bo; it was more or less about what I wrote in the previous paragraph. Kenzi conveyed the most disappointment when she saw Will took the swag (treasure) when he and his son disappeared into thin air. We weren't going to learn about Bo's parents from a tertiary character anyway. I thought the writers handled Bo well in the episode; her semi-origin tale gave Bo emotional depth, and her case allowed the writers to show her off as a badass heroine once more.

The battle between the light and the dark faes earned a few lines of dialogue. Through Trick, we learned that a war between the sides has been imminent for a millennium. The faes have a bar they congregate at (It's basically Caritas from ANGEL). The faes are miserable bastards though. Bo needs to formally accept her nature or something to be accepted. Kenzi's by her side at the bar later and the scene briefly transforms into the dream-world of Inception with the pissed off subconscious glaring at anyone who's not the dreamer. Bo claims Kenzi because Trick tells her to; now, Bo's responsible for Kenzi's safety.

Lost Girl really is quite a silly show but I think I already love it. Ksenia Solo's presence no doubt makes me want to watch each week. There's a whole lot of pure genre fun, like headless assassins and tertiary characters with fun personalities. Next week's an episode about Bo and Kenzi attending a sorority college, which seems very awesome.

Other thoughts:

-Bo doesn't want to kill people in order to feed herself. At a trailer park, she would've killed a tertiary character if not for Kenzi's interference. We saw one pissed off succubus when Kenzi messed with her dinner. I'm certain we'll witness more I-will-suck-your-soul-out-of-your-body anger from Bo.

-Dyson came over to heal Bo. The healing session was more physical and sexual than your average trip to the pharmacy for antibiotics and band-aids and anti-infection cream.

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