First Impressions: Family Portrait (Spoilers)

I think they're probably done with the deaths. And it might even be that Bo wakes up from her catatonic state, goes Dark and tries to take enough chi from whoever is around to revive Trick and Aife, triggering her descent into the Dark Queen. Both times previous when she went all Galadriel it was after being pushed by grief to save someone she loved. In those cases she was able to come back to herself quickly, but Hades is free now and ready to pounce when she steps over that line again. Or not. Who knows with this show. I suspect they won't walk back Trick's death though. The oracle vision of his wife did say they'd be together soon. So I've been expecting him to die before the end of the season.

I feel bad for Bo that she didn't figure out Hades could make himself appear as her early enough to tell Aife she wasn't crazy. Each time they encountered each other it was filled with trauma or crisis. She never got to know her mother as a person. Would have been nice to have had an episode where Trick was telling Bo stories about Aife. But I have to call baloney on the idea that Bo thought Aife was dead this whole time, or that Dyson and Kenzi knew Trick had Aife in an asylum. (I'm also calling baloney on Bo's anger at it. Uh, did she forget that Aife is a complete psycho?? Of course she belongs in an asylum!) First, Bo shoved a chair leg in her mother's gut and watched her walk away. She was alive when she went with Tamsin at Taft's. Bo was not reacting like someone that just watched their mother, (even an estranged one), die in front of them. And if she thought her mother was going to die, she wouldn't leave her so she could die in the arms of a cabot fae she just met. It just felt like they realized they needed something to distance Dyson and Kenzi from Bo so she would feel completely alone and it was just as annoying as when in S3 they had Lauren lie about Bo's health to her but tell Trick instead. No way Lauren, as a doctor, would lie to Bo about concerns she had she was ill. But they needed everyone to be "against" Bo so Tamsin could be the surprising ally to find Kenzi in that episode and couldn't be bothered to come up with something that fit the character or her arc at that time and they didn't this time either. But I get what they were trying to do so I'm letting it go for now. Because the rest of the episode was very effectively done to really evoke just how much horror Hades can inflict and what they gang is really up against. And random girl moment, but loved Bo's hair down and simple. Wish they'd gone that route more, like in the original pilot. But woulda coulda shoulda.

I'm not sure how I feel about the pregnancy. Glad the show finally had someone react appropriately to a sexual assault. Too bad it happened in an episode where while they acknowledge what happened to Tamsin was a violation they then double down on the "seduction" label for what Aife did to Dyson. But, I get that Tamsin would be conflicted. She would finally have a real family of her own, but at the same time it's with someone so vile. (Not that I think Hades will be around for much longer...) But, she does know Bo and Bo is also Hades so that will probably influence her decision. Or, they're going to go ridiculous and the thing Tamsin is carrying is that stupid flaming horse. (This is a show about mystical creatures, so it could happen. Oh please don't let it happen though.)

The King is dead. Long live the Queen... you know, when she gets her mind back.