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beccaelizabethI got the season 1 box set of Lost Girl the other day, and today I started watching.
How much am I liking it? I have the kind of headache that, even after painkillers, would really quite a lot suggest I should curl up in a dark place quietly and maybe not move so I don't feel quite so sick, yet instead I am watching Lost Girl.
I am up to the start of the third episode. The plots aren't, like, profound or astounding or very surprising at all, but I really like these characters. There are women. There are lots of women. There are women being smart and sexy and with careers or just about homeless and fighting with knives or with phones. Women doing different things and having opinions and personality and all sorts. So many women it would be very difficult indeed to not Bechdel pass. Plus there's black guys who haven't died yet, and plural black guys in one episode, and a black guy who is a leader. It's like the world has variety and humans happen in many sorts.
:-)
Also you can't tell who is evil just by looking and if the dead people are meant to be a selling point then it starts with a white guy getting dead because he drugged a woman's drink and was going to assault her so I can kind of live with the moral alignment so far. I mean, she's not happy about the killing people parts. That would be annoying, if she was just going around killing for the lols, but she's trying hard not to be random murder girl. But if she's going to kill people, that was clearly a creepy people.
And her story is about finding out who (and what) she is and (Fae) people telling her to choose a side and fit their rules and serve and her going no, nope, I choose humans, and not incidentally freedom and being her own person. It's about a woman struggling to be the boss of herself. Yaays.
Also it's pretty cheerful about sex so far, even with the sex=death powers she's got going on. She finds there's people she won't kill by shagging so then she has lots of sex. As you would.
Plus she's very equal opportunities and there's plenty of sexual tension with women too.
:-)
So I'm hoping I can continue to like this show. Because I like it a lot right now.
I'm trying not to just get worried it'll start doing all the things I hate later. but TV has me trained.
But right now it's a kick arse urban fantasy sexy happy place.
How much am I liking it? I have the kind of headache that, even after painkillers, would really quite a lot suggest I should curl up in a dark place quietly and maybe not move so I don't feel quite so sick, yet instead I am watching Lost Girl.
I am up to the start of the third episode. The plots aren't, like, profound or astounding or very surprising at all, but I really like these characters. There are women. There are lots of women. There are women being smart and sexy and with careers or just about homeless and fighting with knives or with phones. Women doing different things and having opinions and personality and all sorts. So many women it would be very difficult indeed to not Bechdel pass. Plus there's black guys who haven't died yet, and plural black guys in one episode, and a black guy who is a leader. It's like the world has variety and humans happen in many sorts.
:-)
Also you can't tell who is evil just by looking and if the dead people are meant to be a selling point then it starts with a white guy getting dead because he drugged a woman's drink and was going to assault her so I can kind of live with the moral alignment so far. I mean, she's not happy about the killing people parts. That would be annoying, if she was just going around killing for the lols, but she's trying hard not to be random murder girl. But if she's going to kill people, that was clearly a creepy people.
And her story is about finding out who (and what) she is and (Fae) people telling her to choose a side and fit their rules and serve and her going no, nope, I choose humans, and not incidentally freedom and being her own person. It's about a woman struggling to be the boss of herself. Yaays.
Also it's pretty cheerful about sex so far, even with the sex=death powers she's got going on. She finds there's people she won't kill by shagging so then she has lots of sex. As you would.
Plus she's very equal opportunities and there's plenty of sexual tension with women too.
:-)
So I'm hoping I can continue to like this show. Because I like it a lot right now.
I'm trying not to just get worried it'll start doing all the things I hate later. but TV has me trained.
But right now it's a kick arse urban fantasy sexy happy place.
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Date: 2014-04-03 07:34 am (UTC)so now my brain has xovers
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Date: 2014-04-03 12:21 pm (UTC)I can also tell you that the Lost Girl actors I've met (Kenzie and Dyson, plus a guy called Vex who you haven't met yet) are all really nice people. Ksenia Solo (Kenzie) is especially amazing. :)
I'm just wishing I could afford Starfury: Faebles in May so I could meet Trick.
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Date: 2014-04-03 06:06 pm (UTC)Yes Bo's sexual power can kill people, but after she learns to control it, it becomes a very lifeaffirming gift. Succubi on this show make people feel good about themselves.
And I love how all the different characters are just people - people with powers and handicaps, or rather ordinary, but all worth respect. The Ash is a black man and the Morrigan a white woman, but that doesn't matter, because mostly they are politicians and leaders and that defines their placees in the story.