Kenzi is pretty panicked about being buried alive (which
I really don’t blame her for) and, thankfully, Dyson and Lauren dig her up and
get her medical help. Some necessary snark follows before Kenzi tells them what
happened to Bo.
She has traded herself to a mystery person, probably her
father, and was dumped in the lift and has now arrived on her floor – dimly lit
stone tunnels with a fancy fountain and a rather out of place bouquet. It’s a
maze. She walks through it chasing echoes and blurs – when one of those blurs
cuts her leg; it’s a woman with pointy ears, teeth and claws and a skill for
voice imitation (called Puca). Seeming to be on Bo’s side comes a bird that
turns into another woman, lacking the pointy bits. Like any good guide, she is
completely vague but talks about “defeating your doubts” and “Puca’s true voice”
which is cryptic speak for “give Puca a kick” because that defeats the maze.
That’s a pretty crappy maze you’ve got there.
They’re in Tartarus, that hidden hell realm Trick
mentioned, and Bo has déjà vu about it (probably because it’s just the Valhalla
set with the lights turned off. C’mon Lost
Girl that’s just cheap). The woman warns Bo that Tartarus will look for a
way to keep her but Bo wants to see daddy dearest.
Lauren gives Kenzi a full check up (or tries to, Kenzi is
a very very very annoying patient) which turns to vodka – and something moving
a beaker and breaking it without apparently touching it. Poltergeist?
Telekinesis? Heavy lorry driving past? Apparently a ghost – which writes “Help”
in the condensation on glass; naturally they assume Bo. But we didn’t see Bo
doing any ghostly writing
Perhaps confirming that, when Kenzi reunites with Trick at the Dal, he warns her that it could be any number of things, but gets her a spirit board anyway. Because Kenzi conjuring the spirit world won’t backfire at all.
In Tartarus the woman tries to treat Bo’s bleeding leg
and Bo decides to go for her own healing instead – kissing her to drain chi to
heal, then having sex with the woman (as much as one can while fully clothed.
So, less sex and more kissing and light massage). While she does, in the real
world Lauren is sleeping on a bed and the ghostly spirit parts her clothes (to
reveal the bra she, presumably, wore in the shower)
The stripping does convince Lauren that the ghost is Bo.
In Tartarus, Bo learns her lover is Persephone of Greek Myth, Bo’s step mother.
Which means Bo is the daughter of Hades. More importantly, it means she just
got it on with her step-mother which is just icky except it’s pretty tame as
far as the Hellenic gods go. Bo definitely wants to talk to daddy now, despite
Persephone’s protests about what a bad man he is. Bo doesn’t exactly trust
Persephone either.
She enters her old nursery, remembering from a past
vision. There she sees the cage where her mother was kept and Persephone
explains the terrible way she was treated. Bo feels terrible for her mother
especially as she learns that she sacrificed herself to free Bo and while she
is sad, Persephone talks about Hades’s plan for Bo to be uber powerful and that
his own power was weakening.
Now Bo and Persephone are all bondy and happy, she tells
Bo how to leave the underworld with a special candle and Bo heads to see dad.
Which leads her to a huge black space where we can see nothing and Bo ranting
at her father – telling him how little she needs to see him, how little he
matters to her and if he does want to see her, it will be on her terms. After
some dramatic threats, she leaves with the candle.
She gets in the lift and an arm grabs her by the throat but Bo fights him off and the doors close. Once the lift is moving she collapses in a corner, crying.
Once out she tries to bring Persephone with her (with a
nice line that she has never been just her, it’s always been her and the people
with her that have made her so special) but Persephone can’t come – all she can
do is give Bo another candle to light to reassure her family
Dyson goes to the gates of Valhalla to try and keep them
open – and Valkyrie Stacey arrives at the gates. Dyson threatens her, she’s not
impressed so he flirts with her – which is much much much more impressive and
she happily spills her mission; find a soul to replace Kenzi; someone close to
Bo’s heart. Dyson pretends not to know Bo so he doesn’t get murdered and Stacey
can go on drooling over him and bring him along on her soul hunting mission.
She even leaves the gates open.
Dyson takes Stacey to the Dal (and the fae are all happy
with the deposing of Evony and the removal of the Una Mens) and he introduces her
to Trick then has to convince her that Trick doesn’t care about Bo. Why bring
her to the Dal of all places? He also has to hang up on a call from Lauren. He
decides to throw Vex to the Valkyrie, basically giving Vex Dyson’s history.
Before they can set up, Tamsin arrives to hiss at Stacey and tell Dyson about
Bo’s dad.
Dyson is briefly annoyed by Tamsin betraying Bo but is more concerned about kissing Tamsin’s sister. New plan, Dyson to the gates and Tamsin to follow Stacey.
Dyson holds the gates open with wolfy strength and Bo
arrives, only letting them close when they’re through (kind of – super cheap
set means Dyson actually has to close the gates and pretend he’s holding them
open)
Back to Lauren and Kenzi who are holding a séance for Bo
which involves black pudding. Because Kenzi. This ends up with a spirit board
possessed with an angry spirit that probably isn’t Bo and Kenzi and Lauren
cowering behind a sofa. Because. They manage to burn the spirit board in the
fireplace. Trick is going to be miffed.
Which is when Stacey arrives looking for a soul – Lauren’s
(she checked Dyson’s phone who apparently has texts about Lauren). Kenzi is
knocked unconscious with the Valkyrie eyes but Tamsin drops in before Stacey
can kill Lauren; Tamsin eloquently makes it clear that Valhalla will have to
deal with unbalanced books. As they square off and insult each other, Kenzi is
just revelling in it. Stacey runs off in tears because Tamsin makes a mean
comment about her hair…
…
.. Ok let’s just run with this. Valkyries have hair
issues, Lost Girl has ceased to even
pretend to be anything other than silly.
Time for a group dinner because they’ve won. So it seems
anyway. Bo refuses to talk about the Afterlife. But Kenzi and Dyson do talk
about Hale.
Then we realise that burning a spirit board doesn’t burn
the ghost within – it releases it. It leaps at Lauren – and Kenzi shoots it
with a shotgun. Lauren asked how she knew and Kenzi says, completely randomly “that’s
the thing with the fae, it’s never over.” I’m not even trying to keep up any
more, or how Kenzi found a ghost-killing shotgun
This is a clumsy segue to Kenzi saying she needs to step
back away from the fae – because it cost her both the love of her life (Hale)
and her own life; she has a second chance and she needs to spend it as a human,
not a vulnerable extra among fae. She can do this because Hale left her land in
Spain as part of his will. She and Bo have a surprisingly rapid but touching
good bye and she leaves.
Alone, Bo lights the candle for Persephone and somewhere
else, in an office building, a woman holds that candle in a crowded lift – then
the lights go out and we hear flesh tearing and screams.
Am I the only one who thinks this show took an abrupt
turn? Almost a retcon? For seasons now we have worried about the “Wanderer” and
there were Valkyries related – basically everything was pointing towards Odin
in particular and Norse mythology in general. Even following that through we
ended up in Valhalla. But now Reiner was
thrown in the path of all that world building, thrown away in the confused hot
mess of the last season and now the Greeks have hurriedly hopped into the void?
Why is Hades hiring Valkyries? It feels clumsy and kind of phoned in.
I also am not really sold with Bo’s daddy issues –
because we’ve gone from minor rumbling to full on raging issues somewhere along
the line.
And while I agree with Kenzi’s decisions and think it’s
excellent to show people actually having the agency to say “I love you, but
this is not a healthy situation for me”, it also felt abrupt. But it was a good
scene and an important one – because loyalty shouldn’t completely overrule
self-care and self-preservation. Kenzi is not on par with the fae around her,
it’s a source of constant risk to her and there’s very little she can do to
protect herself.
But this also added to the sense that this episode had a
lot of random stuff tacked on, especially at the end. I kept expecting the
credits to roll and then something else would happen.
Y’know I was all set to complain about, Stacey, Valkyrie,
agent of Frejya, on a field mission to replace a soul in almost unprecedented
circumstances being derailed by a hot guy. Then she stormed off in tears
because of the hair comment so… yeah. Lost
Girl.
