I am not even touching the “start in the middle” opening
scene because they get on my very last nerve
After the loss of Trick and Bo coming out of Oz Bo then
gets two new shocks – Vex with his throat slit (his vocal chords – he can’t
talk but he is alive. Of course since the whole point of Vex on this show is
sassy quips, him being unable to talk is virtually death) and Tamsin has been
kidnapped by Hades. Naturally Dyson responds with instant push for violence but
Bo, to everyone’s shock, insists son thinking rather than just attacking the
super powerful guy who will just kill them all.
So she decides to go after Priapus, Hades’s fire breathing
scary horse. As an aside, Ares is the one who had firebreathing horses, Hades
had 4 horses and none of them were called Priapus. Anyway this means checking
in Bo’s midwife who they’ve, randomly, decided must have the answers (because
everything is all about Bo so all the answers must be revealed by Bo’s birth
and we’re not so much logical leaping here as logical plummeting). Thankfully Vex
knows who this midwife is (because reasons) and directs them to Evony – who is
now rocking life as a human with lots of money and a whole lot of passion and
effortless awesomeness because she’s Evony and it’s what she does.
Directed to her stable hand who was once a Midwife, they
go to see Mary Lou and her various creepy horses (and a flatulent unicorn)
until they find Hades’s horse (we also have her sad story but, sounding callous
and all, he sad past of a vanishingly minor character is pretty irrelevant).
The horse is wild and dangerous and needs to be tamed and broken which no-one
can manage – except Bo with her succubus touch
Yes, there are strong bestiality implications with this. No,
we’re not going to think about this. No we’re not. No.
Only then they discover the big horseshow Hephaestus made
them doesn’t actually fit the horse – time for some more logical plummeting!
The Peripus isn’t actually a horse it’s a metaphor and is really Bo! (What,
does the show fit her or something? That doesn’t make the horseshoe make any
sense! What do you do, hit her in the head with it? Problem solved!) and to
extend the metaphor still further, Hades needs to break and tame Bo
This reminds Bo and Kenzi of all the times Bo has had super
powers, sucking chi from multiple people and this is proof of her naughty dark
evilness inside, especially since she can’t control herself when she’s all
peripussy.
So she decides the only solution is to surrender to
Hades. Not even exchange her life for Tamsin, just flat out surrender. I hope
there’s some kind of plot here
Of course, Hades isn’t all that interested in Bo now
since he has plan b: Tamsin pregnant with his baby to make a new Peripus. So Bo
has to prove herself – by burning down the clubhouse and all her friends.
I reaaaaallly want to know what possible plan she could have that would justify this.
Meanwhile Dyson has actually had a good idea and wants to
FINALLY summon all the fae elders so they can use their awesome powers to fight
Hades. This could have been done much more effectively when Trick was alive but
no-one thought of it
Mark decides they need both the Light and Dark fae
because Dyson is just being provincial and prejudiced and small minded and Mark
may become Dark anyway – did you think of that, dad?! Honestly he’s actually
talking sense but in such a melodramatic whining teenager manner that it’s hard
not to see the sense as coincidental to his actual point, getting in Dyson’s
face.
Of course, there is a downside to summoning the Light and
Dark Elders – without an Ash or a Morrigan, there’s no way to stop these two
groups from arguing incessantly
Thankfully Mark times this moment to have his first
change, which inspires and motivates Dyson to actually make the elders work
together – in the name of Trick, the Blood King, the man who could have used
his awesome power to kill them all but opted for peace instead. It’s a good
moment and really a much better send off for Trick than the last episode ever
was.
Mark also implies he’s not going to chose between Light
and Dark fae, just like Bo.
Tamsin, sadly, is just suffering endless abuse. Captured
by her rapist, he mocks and taunts her while her resistance (though often
excellent – she refutes the idea she’s supposed to the put the child’s life
before her’s or that it’s “his” child since it’s her body) is pretty
ineffectual and she ends up pretty broken by the end. Good messages but no
power behind them. We also learn that Valkyries die in childbirth – and why
didn’t Tamsin mention this before?!
