Lost Girl: 3x13, "Those Who Wander" (Season 3 Finale)
I don't have many thoughts regarding the "Lost Girl" Season 3 finale. It was, in my opinion, anticlimactic in true "Lost Girl" fashion. To the point where I kind of wanted to bang my head into the wall and just ask the writers: Why? Why did you bother with introducing this plot element in the last third of the season when you had a MUCH MORE
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Re: Kenzi's rash. I do believe it's gone. As far as I can figure, the kitsune (kit-soo-nay, dammit, show, it's a Japanese word!--don't even get me started on all the [stereotyping] race issues on this show that have become even more glaringly obvious as I've rewatched it with someone else) reclaimed her glamour powers from Kenzi, which was what the rash was. How, who knows? But the conversations post-kitsune imply that Kenzi could have had fae powers while she had the rash but that she currently does not have those abilities/that potential anymore.
The "goop in a bottle" thing was also something that had a lot of build up but was kind of lame in resolution.
I now understand that being a Lauren fan is analogous to being a Hyo fan. I'm actually trying to wrap my mind how the significant other of the main character manages to get less screen time than the two other prominent supporting characters. (Kenzi doesn't count. She should get as much screen time as she does.)
Lauren is this double-edged sword. Her mystery adds to her complexity, so sometimes you don't want the show to drop extraneous bombs like the "Karen Beattie" bit--because, seriously, it's like the writers didn't think about the fact that Lauren is only 30-some years old and would have had a hard time doing all the things that the show implies she has done (note that they only ever imply she has done things, as with the Afghanistan bit: the assumption was that she went there in some military capacity, but then if you think she was some kind of protester and/or terrorist, it could mean she made a trip through Afghanistan for completely different reasons). (I would not have minded a different pre-Fae identity for Lauren--I think that makes sense--but the implication that Lauren was some kind of terrorist, maybe? I don't get that. The Interpol thing was just the sort of ludicrous that this show is.)
On the other hand, even without an overly complex past, it surprised me that the show backed off of Lauren's dicey predicament in Season 3: that is, that she is, in fact, a slave to the Light Fae and is in love with/dating an unaligned, problematic political figure. It surprised me that they didn't try to test her loyalties being split again and was gratifying that they let her choose herself--I just wish they hadn't made her do it in such a completely stupid way that cast Lauren in a bad light. It makes sense for Lauren to run; I just wish it had been done in a more intelligent manner?
(AG and I are reaching the end of Season 2 now and I was surprised to see that Lauren had been planning/getting ready to run in Episode 20, "Lachlan's Gambit." If Lauren had had some vague plan at that point in time, I'm disappointed she didn't seem better prepared to make this move.)
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