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I was very pleased with myself when I was proved right and it turned out the last Ash had Nadia cursed in order to trap Lauren into enslavement.  Who wouldn’t want to enslave Lauren you say, I hear ye!  So the new Ash (Lachlyn) tells Bo he knows which Dark Fae Shaman set the curse and facilitates her in finding him, however she can never tell Lauren it was her who fought to free Nadia as it must be a selfless act.  Wouldn’t you just know it, poor Bo goes off and frees Nadia and she can’t even get the credit.  When Bo goes to see Lauren she sees her with Nadia and goes home all sad and lonely.  At this point every lesbian/bi women in the world hates Nadia.  It’s weird to dislike an out and proud character so much but there you go.

While this is going on we learn that Dyson, who sacrificed his love for Bo in order to help her, can’t ever love again but we don’t give two hoots.  We do care however when Ryan enters the picture and Bo starts having “no strings” sex every five minutes with him.  I know she’s a succubus and has needs but Ryan, really?  I can’t see it.  He remains an irritant throughout most of the season but thankfully before the end he is kicked to the curb.  One moment I must talk about was when he and Bo had a threesome with a women he knew from a restaurant.  In and of itself this was no big thing for Lost Girl, but it really irked me how it was done.  Bo was with the woman and then Ryan was invited to join them.  I have always admired the show for how it deals with sexuality in general but I felt they handled this one badly.  Call me pedantic but if the three of them had started off together, like a scene from season one, it wouldn’t bother me but there’s something about two women inviting a man in that just gets on my nerves.

Anyway, back to the show.  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 altogether but ends up going to help Lachlyn with his plan.

They know what they have these writers.  They 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.  Here’s a small sample:

Learn to enjoy your shit already, you can frickin’ control people by touch, and not in a creepy hand job way. That is awesome.

Not everybody here is a nookie-powered Amazon

Uh-oh, if she gets hungry she could kill a whole NBA team – with a WNBA team for dessert

I’m human, remember? We drive SUVs and we dump raw sewage into pretty lakes and we will burn this planet to the ground if it means just one more cheeseburger

They also know they have something with the chemistry between Bo and Lauren.  I think it really becomes apparent as this season comes to a close that the writers know which side their bread is buttered. There is no way they were going to send Lauren packing, and with the death of Nadia we see the chemistry between Bo and Lauren reignite.

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, but the others don’t know that – bold dark fae – tut tut.

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 remains -  dun dun dun.

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.

I can’t wait for next season already.   It’s being filmed from April 11th and I am confident it will have in or around the same number of episodes as season 2 which had 22 although some reports say it will be the same as season 1 which only had 13.   It has become Showcase’s highest-rated drama series and I am hopeful it will run and run.  Although the season 3 premier date is yet to be set there is plenty to keep us going, the season 1 boxset will be released in Canada on April 15th and there are tons of YouTube channels etc to give us our fix.

So what did you think of season 2 and where would you like the story to go?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FWIRXfdNI4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-LHXWOuzC0

and finally some chat with the actors before the finale aired in Canada (you can skip to 0.53 to get to the good stuff)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq3SRQAbAiw

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