Beauty and the Beast: Season 1, Episode 11: On Thin Ice

 Vincent’s wandering around during the day now, look at him getting all daring. He drops in on Catherine to help her with her physical therapy after being shot (she’s frustrated at being on leave because of it). Awkwardness happens when Alex calls and they not!discuss their non-relationship.

Wow, Vincent, you spend your life hiding in the dark with only one friend and you still manage a love triangle. Behold the power of CW. If CW did the story of the last man on Earth, he’d still manage a love triangle.

He goes on to Alex’s to find that she seems to have covered nearly every flat surface with pictures of them both together – in a totally-not-creepy-honest way. He also seems not very happy by her stripping naked. Don’t take it personally, Alex, Vincent is never ever happy.

Catherine has to go to a therapist to deal with her being-shot trauma and instead dumps her relationship drama on him. He’s better man than I, there’s a window right there and he makes no attempt to leap out of it, but does try to steer her towards talking about the whole being-shot thing. He then does the aggressive therapy thing to make her all questiony and uncomfortable. Personally I think if someone asks “who are you really protecting” when you use the “serve and protect” line you should really have “the public” ready as a response. Really.

As she leaves, she sees Alex – who is surreptitiously taking some drugs out of a storage room and hiding them – and then lies about them to Catherine. Oooooohhh, love rival may be evil.

JT joins me in being confused how Vincent has 2 potential girlfriends despite being a legally dead shut in. Ah JT, doubt not the power of the CW! JT apparently went to Alex to tell her he couldn’t see her again because finding out about Vincent ruined JT’s life and Catherine’s (what, so he’ll take Catherine because her life’s already ruined by the big secret? Wow… that’s romantic). But instead decides that maybe he can see Alex and just not tell her that he’s a mutating manimal who has been known to lose complete control and rip people into teeny tiny shreds with lethal government agencies with massive powers hunting him down!

Uh… someone slap him. Please.

This is when Catherine arrives – she doesn’t slap him but does tell him that she saw Alex stuffing a bag full of drugs and that there’s an open narcotics theft case going on at the hospital and the police in charge will find out. Vincent insists they don’t know if Alex is guilty (sure, she could have a perfectly innocent reason for illicitly stuffing a duffle bag full of drugs like… like… damn, even in the name of snark I can’t think of one. Let’s assume she’s getting pills for her sick aunt. Aunts rather. It’s a big family). Catherine asks if Alex knows how care she has to be about keeping Vincent’s secret – and Vincent says no. Catherine still doesn’t slap him.

At the police station, under dire threat of manipedis, Catherine makes Tess tell her about the case she’s working. Noah Hawkes, super rich guy who went sky diving with his wife who died when her parachute (and back up) were both tampered with by a left handed person 24 hours or so before the jump. Catherine begs to be allowed on the case but Tess says no – Jo has laid down the law.

Lost Girl Season Two, Episode 14: Midnight Lamp

Midnight Lamp kicks off the second half of season two and I must say, it really didn't feel worth the wait.  With Kenzi off on tour with her new boyfriend, there was some real zing missing.  For me, Kenzi and her antics are the heart of the show.

The Ashe has asked Bo to be his champion, and her first task is to find a genie for him, because he needs some questions answered.  They have agreed to work together, because the future of the fae is at risk, and because The Ashe has agreed to revisit Lauren's enslavement once all of the ongoing issues have been resolved.

The Ashe sends her to go and see Ryan Lambert, who incidentally, is the same man who crashed Bo's birthday party to give her a bracelet from an admirer. It turns out that Ryan was that admirer, quel surprise. He is slightly miffed when Bo asks him for a lamp to catch a genie, because she did not contact him to say thank you for the bracelet, but he gives hands her music box, which is a supposed updated lamp and charges it to The Ashe's account.

Dyson is moping at the bar, because he realizes that he admitted to not being able to love, instead of not loving Ciara.  He heads off to see the norn, in the belief that she took more than he had agreed to.  It seems that since wolves mate for life, and he had bonded to Bo, that he no longer has the ability to love anyone.  Okay, more angst and also, how did he not know this before he made this deal?  I very distinctly remember him telling Bo that wolves mate for life.

Bo and Ryan end up getting stuck in the music box with the genie.  Nothing ever works as planned I suppose.  Enter Hale to use his siren magical negro abilities, long enough to get into contact with Bo, to get the skinny on what is going on.  Are they ever going to give Hale something to do, other than to service Bo and Dyson's needs?  Even Kenzi got a love interest, but it seems that Hale, though he is fae royalty, isn't worthy of more than being there for the purposes of inclusion cookies. I wonder if Hale is saving up his Black sidekick points?

Bo finally remembers that Ryan mentioned that all she had to do was mark Sadie, in order to control her, and so B gives Sadie a kiss on the neck, thus marking her with her lipstick.  Ryan has the genie tunnel down and release her power in order to free them from the lamp.  Once all three are out, Bo delivers the genie to The Ashe, and leaves after forcing him to promise to release Sadie, once he is through with her, 'cause she is not down with slavery.  Oooh isn't that sweet.

When Bo and Ryan return to his place, he tells her that this is the best time that he has had in a decade, and leaves it open for her to call him.  This of course is after asking personal questions about what happens to her power when she masturbates.  Umm yeah, why is she even remotely attracted to this guy again?  They of course end up in bed, and when the sex is over, Ryan admits to being dark fae.  This concerns Bo because she has not had many positive experiences with the dark fae. Ryan smooths it all over by telling her that since she is not aligned, it should be no problem and they kiss.