So after
the midseason finale (which lasted a bit longer for Fangs because we
totally forgot it was coming back – I blame Renee) Bo had just opened the big
bad box of daddy issues (said daddy issues being hurriedly manufactured because
Lost Girl has never been great at
keeping people’s motivations reasonable and stable) to try and save herself
from Nyx (I’ve read the House of Night
series I can understand this). Even Zeus was all “oh hell no” about dealing
with this angst (or possibly afraid of Bo’s daddy, one of the two). Alas Zeus
was stopped by the impossible barrier of a flimsy wooden door.
She uses the music box and unleashes a terrible evil – a door
to door evangelist talking about the end of the world. Well that was an anti-climax.
Hades was released, he just decided to go join Lauren and
Dyson who are all despairing over Mark the Pointless who has just been stabbed
by Iris/Nyx. With his help, alas, he lives.
Everyone is all happy about this (silly silly people) and
it’s even all family reunion before Bo turns up and tells them the nice guy is
her dad and she super duper hates him because Daddy Issues (actually she blames
him for Kenzi’s death. Which… may be true because does anyone have any damn
clue what happened in that train wreck of a season). With Mark alive they can
jog his memory to find out where Iris/Nyx has gone
We get a bit of elegant recapping with various characters
explaining exactly what the stakes are. Turns out Zeus and Hera put Nyx (the
dark end of all things) into her daughter Iris to use to destroy the world for
her own purpose. And yes, Nyx is going to destroy the world by growing and
destroying everything (except those marked by Hades – like Bo and Mark –
because Hades is just all that). Clearly they need to stop her, preferably
without killing Iris (who was just used and abused) or Cicely (the human woman
being possessed by Iris). Like that’s going to happen.
Unlike the Light Fae who aren’t – with both a random High
Fae with a super staff and even Trick with his special blood writing cannot match
the Ancients.
Bo and Hades wander around with a whole lot of resentful
daddy issues and tantrums with Bo repeatedly rewriting her history (she know
what it’s like to be used by her parents? What? She barely knew her parents for
most of her life. Since when? Oh Lost
Girl and their endless retconning)
Eventually they catch up with Iris who is super scary –
except in the hands of Hades who, again, is just all that. With Iris pinned and
minutes before the world ends Bo has once chance to save them all – she uses the
box Hades was imprisoned in to capture Nyx. That saves the world – but also
kills Iris and Cicely. Well, I called that one – wish I didn’t – but it was
almost inevitable as soon as a recurring Black character appeared.
During all his Tamsin has been captured by the Ancients –
which sounds like a plan but Hera is so emotional and she and Zeus spend so
much time bickering and hating that it all falls apart with just a few chosen
words from Tamsin. In the fallout, Zeus ends up zapping Hera into a coma and
Tamsin is released to be stormy and stompy (and leave some nice emotional barbs
with Zeus as well).
Of course, it is tempting to kill a helpless Ancient but
they belatedly remember the human she’s possessing. Which is also Alicia’s
husband (who is the woman hanging around Dyson and probably going to be all
romantic for the sake of MOAR ANGST)
Also Lauren is working on some kind of immortality
medicine so she can stay with Bo throughout her long, fae life. This may be why
she plays in traffic (really doctor, that’s not healthy) and, when she’s hit by
a car, she does the whole Succubus chi-sucking thing
Bo and Hades continue to have
monumental daddy issues. He desperately tries to explain why he has been a
terrible villain all along even though he loves her, honest. I feel for the
guy, he’s trying to explain the plot holes of Lost Girl which no-one should have to suffer.
