So last week Bo pretended to go all evil – and of course
it was pretend. In addition to locking up all her friends in a burning buding,
she also left them the protect-against-Bo horseshoe and called Bruce – the huge
fae, to come knock down the wall and get them all out. Of course it’s only luck
that they weren’t all squished anyway during the fire – but as far as Lost Girl goes this is a genius plan
Step 2 on this genius plan is for Bo to pretend to drain
Tamsin to death by draining her chi – while actually sneaking her the key to
her cage allowing her to escape
The plan doesn’t last because Hades, calling on the big
dark awful inside her, and appealing to her rocky rocky oh-so-rocky
relationships and presumably doing some dark woo-woo (I’d hate to think Bo is
one weepy movie away from going all dark side) drives her over the edge to
unleash her inner evil and his master plan – to drain the entire city with her
chi sucking. The entirety of Toronto is being nommed on by Bo – including the
elders that have finally gathered to actually do something
Not only does Bo put everyone on the ground (including all the police who had conveniently gathered in one place), but Hades then raises these people as his own little slaves – I think this is raising the dead but not mainly because the show doesn’t want Bo to have actually killed the city of Toronto (because that would require one hell of a redemption train).
Of course the good guys are all kind of doubting and worried about what this means and Bo going dark – but Kenzi is adamantly pro-Bo throughout. Because she’s Kenzi and that’s who she is.
They’re also protected by this surprisingly multi-purpose
horseshoe which stops them being among the drained and enslaved masses and also
stops bullets fired by said drained and enslaved masses. It’s a pretty nifty
horseshoe but since it was forged by the gods we can’t exactly argue against
that.
Bo herself arrives to turn the tide and, despite an
emotional and nonsense laden appeal by Kenzi (honestly, Kenzi’s sarcastic
commentary and nervous babble completely makes this episode – as it always has.
Oh Kenzi you were missed), she drains her friends. In doing so she is hit by a
whammy of all the love and emotion she has shared with them – specifically Tamsin,
Dyson, Kenzi and Lauren – and the power of love shatters his control. Normally
I say that sarcastically but in this case it completely works, especially
following awesome pep talks from Lauren and Tamsin
Actually, aside here – this whole episode contains a lot of moments of Bo’s gang working together despite their previous squabbles (usually over Bo). Dyson and Lauren, Lauren and Tamsin, they all find a level together without any of the bad blood rising.
Bo is now back on team good guy and ready to fight just
as they have 3 different issues rising: Tamsin’s water breaks and she goes into
labour, helped by Lauren and Kenzi. Hades arrives and Bo confronts him. And the
possessed elders attack (who are held off by Dyson, Mark and Vex… which is a
little dubious that these 3 can hold off twelve of the most powerful fae…
except that we’re reminded that, under the comic relief, back in the early
seasons Mesmers were considered some of the most terrifying fae out there).
I also have to touch on the way the group split up along
gender lines – the three women handling child birth while three men turned out
to fight: it kind of emphasises that the humans (and therefore less physically
powerful) of the group are female. Of course, we have seen both Tamsin and Bo
be lethal fighters before (and Tamsin shows off her awesome power shortly
before this) and we have had a number of other dangerous women in this series. Lauren
and Kenzi also make it clear that giving birth is not exactly a weakness or
sitting out the fight
Bo faces Hades in what is probably the weakest part of
this episode – she makes Tamsin’s points about being good as well as evil and
about the importance of love… and that seems to banish him. I’m not entirely
sure what happened here or what was supposed to - I think we have the Power of
Love again: and this time all sarcasm is certainly intended.
Hades is banished, massive anti-climax. This leaves Bo
free to bring all the Hades minions back to life by restoring the Chi she
stole: the day is saved (sorry, massive anti-climax, it was something of a let
down to say the least)
But we still have tragedy: Valkyries die in childbirth.
So though we have a beautiful goodbye scene and Tamsin and Bo have a beautiful
moment and Tamsin’s death as she explains Valkyries call their last death “Rising”
is all so very very beautiful – she does die, leaving her daughter behind.
Which Bo entrusts to Kenzi to raise, safe among humans as
Trick did to her: but promising they would watch and care for her, that she
wouldn’t become a Lost Girl like Bo did.
Aftermath has Bo and Lauren finally sitting down,
acknowledging the problems they’ve had and recommitting as a couple – which is
excellent and something I’ve desperately hoped for
Fast forward a few years to that daughter as a teenager
(we don’t know how long as she ages rapidly like Tamsin and other Valkyries)
and, after making out with another woman (proving if there is another Lost Girl spin off, the number of
bisexual and lesbian women will continue) is brought into the gang, introduced
to them all: because Hades mark has appeared on her and he’s coming for her.
And lo this is the end of the last season of Lost Girl
I think the first thing to praise is the story. I don’t think it was GOOD, I think it got confused and lost a lot of times and it really ended anti-climactically and it has a lot of distracting side plots that didn’t help. But Season 4 was a hot mess. Season 4 was a disaster. Season 4 was a PSA on why script writers shouldn’t do drugs. Season 4 left season 5 with a complete, ill defined, clumsy mess to try and cobble together into a coherent plot
Going by what season 4 left them, season 5 was a
masterful act of storytelling. I still think the Olympians were poorly used and
Hades under-developed and established but it worked and we did get a coherent
story out of it without completely rebooting the last season and I really have
to praise that.
I’m also going to praise Bo and Lauren together – for a
long time Bo and Lauren’s relationship has been shaky. It started with a whole
lot of problems, their relationship being one of deception and coercion from the
beginning. Then there was Dyson repeatedly being presented as the better
choice, the death of Lauren’s girlfriend in a terrible manner and then Lauren
and Bo can’t possibly work because HUMAN (unlike Dyson). I didn’t expect it to
go well – and it didn’t – which means I’m really really happy that after so
many trainwrecks we do end with them together, against all the odds and all
expectations. Kudos, Lost Girl, you
didn’t leave us with Bo/Dyson as we expected.
I’m not going to praise Lost Girl for it’s racial inclusion though – it has never been good
and its only got worse. Mark was under-developed, Hale abysmally treated and
then dismissed and Nyx atrociously treated and used – the racial inclusion of
this world is terrible and has been for five seasons. There’s been no real step
up at all which is depressing to say the least.
I suppose I should mention Vex and Mark holding hands –
but really it’s not worth mentioning. In a show that has so much open and clear
sexuality between men and women and women and women, two men *gasp* holding
hands with zero relationship? Nahhh, not worth any points.
