This week’s Lost Girl is really full of headline news, as Kenzi puts it. Nadia wakes up, Ciara buys a house for her and Dyson, and Kenzi reunites with her childhood crush. Of course, the first of these is the biggest news, and comes about because Bo travels to Africa to get the shaman to remove the cursing nail … and then to another part of Africa to get a healing mask for the shaman. I was wondering how the show would portray those places on its budget, and the answer is that it really didn’t — just need a “fae travel agent” to sprinkle some faery dust, plus a couple of dark sets.
It seems (along with Dyson’s sacrifice of his love for Bo) that a lot of fae magic is based on the sacrifice of oneself in some way. For Bo, this mission is a double sacrifice: she loses Lauren and also can never take credit for it. Lauren makes a sacrifice too: in thankfulness, she re-ups her lifelong contract with Lachlan. This tendency to sacrifice, coupled with the Nain Rouge about the future, make me wonder if Bo will have to sacrifice her life at some point to stop the coming Fae-pocalypse.
The rest of “Masks” seemed like a throw-away story about Kenzi throwing Bo a birthday party, but the event does serve to show how alone in the world Bo feels, especially now that everyone is paired up. Self-sacrifice is a lonely, lonely thing, but she doesn’t even stop for a moment and wonder if she’d rather keep Nadia in the coma. I guess her prying out of the nails with her super-even-for-fae strength is meant to show us that her human upbringing has made her inherently more selfless than other fae, who have to be forced into self sacrifice in order to get stuff they want. Unfortunately for her, this loneliness and tendency to give things up probably put her in the perfect frame of mind to give herself up to save the world.
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