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Bo - Anna Silk Kenzi - Ksenia Solo Dyson - Kristen Holden-Ried Hale - KC Collins Trick - Rick Howland Lauren - Zoie Palmer 
OTHER LOST GIRL SEASONS Season 1 OTHER SUPERNATURAL HERO SHOWS Buffy The Vampire Slayer Angel Blade The Series The Dresden Files Blood Ties Moonlight 
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It's A Fae, Fae, Fae, Fae WorldThe Light Fae are in disarray and a travelling group of cursed Fae use this opportunity to seek out mystic weapons to sever the land from their control. Bo must stop them, but Dyson's return complicates matters with his strange attitude toward her. Cribbing its plot from the legends of Arthur (land linked to the mystical leader, swords and stones etc) this opening episode of the second season hits the ground running and makes no attempt to fill in any new viewers on just what's what. The plot is pleasingly complex, pleasingly gruesome in places, but is blessed with a massive anticlimax at the end, something that plagued the first season. The pace of the plot doesn't leave a lot of time for banter and character stuff, but that's likely to follow in future episodes. TopI Fought The Fae (And The Fae Won)The election of the new Ash is to be decided by a stag hunt, but the Stag is a light fae who has one last request to make and makes it of Bo. The main plot here is slight and at least ten minutes short of the running time. The rest it is made up hints about darker storylines to come (Trick's real identity, the struggle to get Dyson his love for Bo back etc) that fill out the rest of the running time with meaningless, pointless codas. Considering the build up that the episode gives to the hunt, it turns out to be a total damp squib and the way that the rules of the hunt are outwitted isn't half as clever as we might have liked. TopScream A Little DreamBo's investigation into why a whole building's tenants have lost their minds leads to bad dreams and brings her into conflict with the arrogant new Ash. The dream stealer is revealed early on, so the mystery here is fairly short-lived and the twists that it tries to hide until the end are predictable and dull. The supposed comedy around the house-tidying Brownie falls dreadfully flat and even Ksenia Solo's usually fun Kenzi can't make it work. TopMirror, MirrorPretty drunk, Kenzi calls on a witch from her childhood days and curses Dyson to be hated by all women. In the sober light of day, she has to enter the witch's realm to get the curse lifted. Hansel and Gretel gets a Russian updating in this whimsical, but oh so pointless story that uses the 'fairy tales are real' set up to little real effect. The ending is predictable and there isn't that much fun along the way. TopBrotherFae Of The WolfA pack brother of Dyson's from way back shows up looking for the scary Mongolian Death Worm. Cue flashbacks. The scary monster is an old lady who just wants her TV. It's the central joke in a very poor story and it falls flatter than a pancake under a steamroller. The twists of the plot around her are predictable and the action is dreadfully lacking. And then there's the flashbacks. Since BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL no supernatural being can come without a backstory to be played out in flashbacks full of dodgy wigs, accents and outfits. A whole cast of people that we never get to know enough to remotely care about are introduced and then killed off in the hope of giving Dyson some depth as a character. It's a tactic that fails completely. TopIt's Better To Burn Out Than To Fae AwayBo searches for a graffiti artist who is under the wing of the Morrigan, but dark fae politics muddies the case. Exactly what is going on in this episode is obvious as soon as the guilty party appears on screen, leaving little to excite or interest as the cast stumble towards the answer the audience has already guessed some time past. And the rest is really too tiresome to make up for it. Top |
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