Lost Girl - season 2

Since season 1 began way back in September 2010 I have to admit to being slightly obsessed with this show.  Not that I live week to week to see what happens or anything.  Before I go into season 2 so far lets take a little look back to season 1 for those of you out of the loop.

 

Lost Girl is a supernatural drama which focuses on a succubus (bear with me) called Bo.  Not knowing why her kiss literally sucks the life out of people could get a girl down, that is until Bo realises she is part of a underworld of beings called the Fae.  Still with me?  The bottom line of season 1 is that Bo, a bisexual, is in the centre of a love triangle involving a Fae police detective, Dyson, and a rather sexy human doctor, Lauren.  Season 1 sees a lot of Dyson action but season 2, now that is all about the lovely doctor and our sexy heroine.

Of course we can’t forget Bo’s human best friend either, Kensi, the funniest character on TV bar none.  As sexy as Anna Silk (Bo) and Zoie Palmer (Lauren) are, Ksenia Solo’s Kensi is comedic gold.

Season 2 kicks off with a travelling circus and continues on with episodes involving witches, werewolves, characters inhabiting one anothers bodies and all manner of Fae goodness.  However, it is learning Lauren’s back-story that keeps us hooked.

What we know is that Lauren is enslaved to The Ash, the leader of the light Fae.  What we don’t know is why or how this happened.  When a new Ash is elected in episode two the plot thickens.  It is clear that he sees humans as objects to be owned and Lauren is in for a tough time.  Episode six however, It’s Better to Burn Out Than Fae Away, is where it all kicks off.

The Morrigan, leader of the dark Fae, employs Bo to do an investigation and in return promises her information on freeing Lauren.  When Bo is successful the Morrigan gives her a small box and says it’s the key to saving Nadia.  Who?  Exactly!  Turns out Lauren has a girlfriend.  So who is this Nadia and does Bo have a right to be peeved that Lauren never brought her up?  Well yes, I think she does.

Lauren explains that Nadia is in a coma, she has been for 5 years.  While in the Congo the doc and her photographer girlfriend came across an illness, turns out it only affected Fae and our hero doctor found a cure.  However, Nadia also got ill and The Ash offered the doc a deal.  He will give her all his resources to find a cure for Nadia but only if she enslaves herself to him.  I know, nasty stuff but lets all swoon together at Lauren’s loyalty.

When Lauren and Bo open the box given to them by the Morrigan it contains a nail.  What does that mean, who the hells knows, but I am hooked!

It’s actually really moving as Lauren is truly torn between the two.  Having spent 5 years as a slave and coming up empty on a cure for Nadia, she genuinely cares for Bo.  Good lord these writers love a good triangle, issues anyone?

It turns out that the nail is the Morrigan’s way of telling our ladies that Nadia isn’t ill, she has been cursed.  Why and by whom we don’t know yet but I have two theories.  Either she did something to piss someone off or, more likely, The Ash saw how talented Lauren was in finding the cure for his people, and set her up to become his slave.  

This season’s big bad is the Garuda, basically a creature of immense strength that feeds off anger.  Lachlyn tells Bo that he is a Naga and his venom is all that will kill the Garuda, he asks her to be his champion and she agrees.  In order to deteat their enemy they must band together and take him on with Bo leading the way.  Lachlyn however knows that the Garuda will be most vulnerable if he thinks he is indestructible so he gets Lauren to extract a sample of his venom and allows the Garuda kill him so he thinks all the venom is gone.

In the meantime we see Nadia acting a bit odd, she is trying to suss out Bo and at one point our suspicions are confirmed when we see Nadia cut herself and taste her own blood, she’s not herself, to say the least.  Nadia has been taken over by the the Garuda!  Bo comes over to Lauren’s when she gets home to find Kenzi has been assaulted by Nadia.  She Lauren and Nadia all seem to realise what’s going on at once and Nadia asks Bo to kill her, which she does.  Nothing kills a flame like killing your ladies girlfriend whom she enslaved herself to try to save.  Bo slinks off and Lauren is heartbroken, she thinks about leaving the place together but ends up going to help Lachlyn with his plan.

The writers place Bo in some pretty interesting scenarios, like going undercover at a school as a sub teacher and being the sexiest teacher ever seen.  They also know what they have in Bo’s best friend, Kenzi, the funniest character on TV with the best one liners I have ever heard.  

The final two episodes are the battle between the group and the Garuda.  Bo, Lauren, Kenzi, Trick, Dyson, Hale and Ciara are all focused on the battle ahead when Dyson gets a vision from the wolf spirit and thinks it is he who is chosen to fight, typical man eh!  He was wrong and Ciara gets it in the guts, her death and that of Nadia means our love triangle is back on track, now both Dyson and Lauren are free agents.

Bo asks the Nain Rouge (an observer of events) what she need to do to win the battle and she is told she must unit dark with light, in other words she needs a dark fae on her team.  Bo decides to enlist Vex, I love Vex, he’s a great recurring character and will no doubt come in useful in a battle.

Bo discovers that Trick is her grandfather and I love this, it was kind of obvious, but it was well done and now we can see that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.  Trick’s power comes from his blood and Bo discovers she can control people with hers.  she asks the Fae members of her team to allow Lauren to inject them with her blood, this will make the circle stronger and eliminate any anger within the group, the Garuda’s food source if you will.  However Vex spills the blood as he is being injected and so the circle is not complete.

So where is the Gaurda?  Well he has kidnapped Trick to try to fool him into rewriting the laws he wrote to end the war.  His hide out is of course an insane asylum, where else?  Hale’s sister Val joins the team and off they all go to save the world.  They split up to look for Trick, Bo takes Kenzi and Lauren with her, lets hope she is playing favourites.  When Dyson and Vex meet a few bad boys Vex is injured and as they run back into Bo, Lauren insists she must stay with Vex in case he goes into shock.  Bo is all “I’m not leaving you” and kisses her, awwww.  Kenzi also gets herself hurt and it ends up with Lauren trying to hlp her and Vex with Hale and Val there for moral support.  Eventually Lauren realised Vex didn’t take the blood and forces him to do so, immediately every fae in the group gets an injection of power, especially Bo – go Lauren.  She also realises that Hale can save Kenzi with his sirens call, by cauterizing the wound.  Nice to see someone brought brains to the party.

Eventually they all end up in the Garuda’s layer and he takes over Trick as he did Nadia.  He tried to rewrite the laws himself but Vex holds him off while Bo injects him with the venom.  He heads off but Trick seems lost, Bo however gives Trick her grandmothers life force which he had given her to take if the darkness within her became too much.  Trick is fine but that darkness does kick in and Kenzi has to sever the ties between the group to free Bo from it.  However at the very end we see Bo looking into a mirror and her eyes seem like some darkness remain. 

There are a few things left to sort out.  Kenzi come to the rescue and got Dyson his love back from the Norn, but in doing so something spilt on her arm and at the end of the finale it looks like something is going on with her arm.  However, as I said, the writers definitely left the season with Bo more into Lauren than Dyson.  Last season ended with Dyson giving up his love to save Bo but this season ended with some sexy looks between our ladies and although Dyson suggested to Lauren that now the Ash is dead she could leave, there is no way his manipulation will make Lauren walk away.

Next time I'll tell you something about the third season of the Lost Girl. Until then, I strongly reccomend you to watch the both seasons of this show.