Bo's Busy Day

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This week on Lost Girl: it's Bo's birthday. She appears to have Buffy's luck with birthdays.

However, this week I mostly want to talk about Lauren! Lauren, who starts the episode not in the dungeon anymore, and being brought in front of the Ash. She's all indignant and THANKS YOU JERK, THE DUNGEON WAS AWESOME, PS I HATE YOU. The Ash, because he is a little bit evil, is all, "Well. That's a little bit irrational. I just wanted you to calm down. PS: go back to work."

Lauren is, understandably, not having any of it.



But oh oh, then he starts explaining that he ~read the old Ash's journals~ and has found out that the old Ash ordered a curse on Nadia, and also that he knows how to cure it. And god, god, this is awful to watch, all of this. Lauren is so clearly furious and hates being powerless, but the Ash knows what information he needs to provide and in what amounts to keep her around. GUYS I AM REALLY HOPING THAT A) HE IS EVIL, AND B) SOMEONE SETS HIM ON FIRE. HE IS NOT A VERY BENEVOLENT RULER.

Anyway. Lauren leaves, setting her jaw and holding in her outrage because there's a possibility that the Ash might cure Nadia. My heart goes with her.



So then there is this whole thing with Bo and the Ash. He's all, "Look. You need to go to the Congo and meet with a shaman who cursed Nadia. But you can't tell anyone about it, and especially not Lauren, because there is a rule that if you go to a shaman to ask them to remove a nail from someone you have to do it selflessly. And nothing is more selfless than never telling Lauren, ever, that you helped resurrect her coma-girlfriend. PS: here is my travel agent's card, she will teleport you there."

Possibly I am just angry because he put my favourite in a dungeon, but I am like 90% sure that everything he's saying is not true, or only partially true. Anyway, Bo is all, "Fine. W/e. I'm on the case."

There is a substantial portion of the episode that involves Bo having to teleport to the Congo and then back to Toronto and then to Madagascar with Dyson to get a mask back and then back to the Congo, etc.

In the midst of it all, slsdfkjlsdk we get this scene with Lauren and Nadia's ~mystical sleeping bag~, where she is so sweet and hopeful and a little sad, GOD I COULD HARDLY HANDLE THIS. SHE GETS PUT IN A DUNGEON FOR FOUR DAYS AND THE ONLY PERSON SHE CAN TELL ABOUT IT IS UNCONSCIOUS. SHE HAS GOTTEN LAID EXACTLY TWICE IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS. HER HAIR IS ABSOLUTELY RADIANT.



ALSO there is this amazing subplot with a ~booooy~ named ~Naaaate~ and Kenzi liiiiiiiiiikes him. I like the faces she makes when she's into him, somehow her flirtiness and vulnerability endears her to me. Also he has apparently mastered Learning Guitar to Get Laid.





Basically: Bo gets the shaman to remove the nail. Nadia wakes up. And AASDLFKJSF; LAUREN. LAUREN AND HER FACE. SHE LOOKS SO HAPPY. SHE IS NOT IN ANYBODY'S DUNGEON. KISSING. KISSING FOR LAUREN.

And I mean, also: Bo is there, looking shocked and stricken, but managing to quietly leave them to their ~reunion,~ because her love is deep and selfless and also she didn't even notice when Lauren was locked in a dungeon for four days, jeez. It's actually kind of sweet, in a way that gives me approximately a hundred feelings. Some of those feelings are for Bo and her heart, because she is obviously really into Lauren in a mature way and that is a big deal for her. Most of those feelings are ♥_♥ LAUREN CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT BEING MISERABLE, I HOPE THIS LASTS FOR YOUUU.



THIS IS A GOOD TIME FOR A SURPRISE PARTY FOR BO, I THINK!



Oh god, and Lauren shows up with Nadia wearing a dress, which is the most ridiculous/inappropriate thing ever but clearly her girlfriend being awake has given her some sort of lapse in judgement/she is so excited over getting to be Lauren Lewis: Ridiculous Power Lesbian again that she does not care.

I actually really love this moment. Lauren's holding Nadia's hand, clearly beaming because HER GIRLFRIEND IS BACK ETC, but she still gets even smilier at Bo and says, "Hey, you," in this totally sweet voice. LAUREN HAS TWO GIRLFRIENDS KENZI HAS THREE MOMS, I PLAN TO ENJOY THIS FOR AN AWFULLY LONG TIME.

Hilariously, Dyson is the only one who is not weird about Lauren bringing her coma girlfriend to this party. Possibly because Lauren already texted him about it, since they're bros.



Anyway. Lauren and Bo take a ~minute~ and Lauren gives Bo her birthday present. It. . .is a really fancy looking weapon, which starts off a train of ~my friends don't know me, all I get for my birthday is swords~ angst. EXCEPT: BO YOU ARE IN MORTAL PERIL AN AWFUL LOT. I THINK MAYBE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE JUST WANT YOU TO NOT DIE.

Also this whole scene is infused with sad, awkward angst. THIS SHOW HAS SO MANY ISSUES THAT COULD BE RESOLVED BY THREESOMES, AND YET SURPRISINGLY FEW THREESOMES. IT IS SUCH A SHAME. PROBABLY SOMEBODY SHOULD WRITE ONE.



There is also this whole thing with a bracelet that some mysterious stranger gives Bo. And Bo's all, "hmm, jewelry from a man I don't know. And it's got runes on it. NOTHING CAN GO WRONG, I SHALL WEAR THIS AS I MULL OVER HOW MUCH ANGST I HAVE RE: THE STATE OF MY LIFE."

BO: PART RAHL, PART ARCHIBALD. I HAVE FIGURED OUT WHO HER PARENTS ARE.

Nnnskfdsj; and speaking of poor life choices: Lauren re-commits herself to the Ash, for saving Nadia's life. IT IS REALLY DEPRESSING AND CREEPY, BUT CLEARLY DONE FROM A PLACE OF DEEP, DEEP LOVE. I JUST. ALL OF THIS WILL END IN TEARS I KNOW IT. AND LAUREN WILL BE DEVASTATED AND IT WILL BE AWFUL EXCEPT MAYBE BO WILL ~HELP HER FEEL BETTER~ DURING HER TIME OF CRISIS.



Guys, look. The Ash is pretty sneaky. There is almost certainly a reason that he refused to let Lauren read those journals but read them himself, then quoted select passages back to her, and I am pretty sure it's because of evil. Like, "The Ash wanted a cure for the fae plague but also Nadia eats puppies" or something similar. IDK.

DISCUSS, LIVEJOURNAL.