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Season 4, honestly... was it meant to be 22 episodes long?

posted 10 years ago by dpcole7
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The season starts out wandering, no pun intended, as storylines feel aimless.

Then the season picks up. Wish I could remember more of it...

But then Hale had the bleeding ear develop, which was conveniently forgotten...

Then Rainor is introduced as a possible bad guy's bad guy, except he isn't and he's just an innocent pawn... the real baddie is Trick's son (from which marriage, if they wanted to think ahead to season 6) that we never actually see, and so on...

And, of course, the finale with the poorly staged fight scene - supposedly Trick did something to get the zombies to attack one another but it didn't really show through.

The last 6 episodes or so feel like they're rushing to move the season forward or to resolve standing issues, except little was accomplished and more questions came about.

Only the actors are why season 4 remained watchable.

And now Kenzi is gone.

I hope the actors who left got meatier roles, and I've missed the Kenzi/Bo dynamic for a long time now.

Was season 4 originally given the axe, hence the apparent rush job?

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[–] omcarter2-2 9 years ago

Do you know WHY this is the last season of Lost Girl? I think it could go on for years.

But one of the problems I had was understanding what happened between Bo's mother and Trick. She was about to kill him...then the season was over and when the next season started she was gone and no mention of her.
I also thought that since Dyson
soul mate was Bo...and she seemed
to feel the same...they would be
together. Not Bo and the doctor.

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[–] Morbius_Fitzgerald 10 years ago

To me, I actually didn't mind the first half of the season. It had some interesting ideals, the episodes were, for the most part, enjoyable and it did have a really great mystery as who The Wanderer was and why Bo became Dark.

Then...the second half turned into absolutely incomprehensible garbage. Specifically as soon as they introduced Rainer, the show went downhill. My review of the episode Origin basically outlines everything, especially since we never learn that much about him but Bo seems to trust him more than anyone. To the point where if she had to choose between helping her best friend get over the death of her fiance or save Rainer from dying, which she was warned would unleash hell on earth, she'd pick the guy she's known for less than 15 minutes. It also just feels like such a cop out. The Wanderer was built up in Season 3 BIG TIME, like he WAS this all powerful Fae that could very well have been Bo's father or the Fae Devil or something like that. Starting that whole Fae War (...thats the biggest plot point where its like "What the *beep* happened to this?"), killing Tamsin in that life cycle, kidnapping Bo and...he's meant to be a good guy? What the *beep*? Also, if they had any sense, they would've saved the reveal of both The Wanderer and Bo's Father (which I HOPED would've been the same thing) til Season 5.

I don't have anywhere near as big a problem with the Pirrapus, though (I don't know if I spelled that right). The main problem I had with the villain being the Pirrapus is that it was a Horse Demon thats also Bo's father...Did Aife *beep* a horse to make Bo? Secondly, Bo's parents was ALWAYS the story plot point driving the show forward. She wanted to find her real family to find out who she really was. So shouldn't Bo's father be, like, the final bad guy?

However, with Kenzi's death...I have no complaints with it. That is me being serious. It was a way to get emotional investment in the characters and what better way is there to do that than to kill off THE fan favourite?