The Bonobo Superheroine
So, you know how I sometimes post about tv shows that only I appear to enjoy? Here I go again!
Canada's production of "Lost Girl" is fiendishly fun to watch. As far as I can tell, it's the closest thing to Buffy out there--it's a bildungsroman with a story arc-- but with more cleavage and polymorphous perverse sex. There's a succubus, see, who grew up sheltered from the entire fey world and her own nature, so she doesn't know who her real parents are, and has no idea how to handle her powers, and accidentally kills human men with her polterwang. (Don't worry, Bo learns self-restraint.) Luckily she teams up with a streetwise joke-cracking Russian thief girl (human) who repeatedly saves her and the series. And this waif/ sidekick can act. And she's gorgeous. Exhibit A:
Ksenia Solo plays Kenzi the thief in Lost Girl
The Fey world is a bit like America with a strict two-party system: one can either be Light or Dark Fey, for life, and there are no actual party platforms, and you have no actual chance at any real power, but you are expected to declare your side to do anything or go anywhere. Our succubus, Bo, refuses to pick a side or die, so the Powers that Be keep trying to turn her or wipe her out, afraid she "will give the other lemmings ideas." I'm starting the second season (there are three), and Bo is beginning to think she will have to take down the two-party system.
There's a Giles-type character who runs a bar with a library under it. There are two love-interests for bisexual Bo, a wolf-man with a surprisingly watchable wooden acting method and a human female medical doctor.
I suppose comic books have hinted at this kind of superheroine, but this is the first time I've seen sex as a superpower used for the common good. Bo has gotta be short for bonobo. If you try it-- and you should-- I read about this on i09 and they said it picked up around #8 and that is so.
Canada's production of "Lost Girl" is fiendishly fun to watch. As far as I can tell, it's the closest thing to Buffy out there--it's a bildungsroman with a story arc-- but with more cleavage and polymorphous perverse sex. There's a succubus, see, who grew up sheltered from the entire fey world and her own nature, so she doesn't know who her real parents are, and has no idea how to handle her powers, and accidentally kills human men with her polterwang. (Don't worry, Bo learns self-restraint.) Luckily she teams up with a streetwise joke-cracking Russian thief girl (human) who repeatedly saves her and the series. And this waif/ sidekick can act. And she's gorgeous. Exhibit A:
Ksenia Solo plays Kenzi the thief in Lost Girl
The Fey world is a bit like America with a strict two-party system: one can either be Light or Dark Fey, for life, and there are no actual party platforms, and you have no actual chance at any real power, but you are expected to declare your side to do anything or go anywhere. Our succubus, Bo, refuses to pick a side or die, so the Powers that Be keep trying to turn her or wipe her out, afraid she "will give the other lemmings ideas." I'm starting the second season (there are three), and Bo is beginning to think she will have to take down the two-party system.
There's a Giles-type character who runs a bar with a library under it. There are two love-interests for bisexual Bo, a wolf-man with a surprisingly watchable wooden acting method and a human female medical doctor.
I suppose comic books have hinted at this kind of superheroine, but this is the first time I've seen sex as a superpower used for the common good. Bo has gotta be short for bonobo. If you try it-- and you should-- I read about this on i09 and they said it picked up around #8 and that is so.