I loved your meta about the dissonance between female empowerment & what LG has become. I'm curious about your thoughts on the The Wanderer then -- especially since they turned it romantic and she picked a side because of it?
I really can’t say. After two episodes of screwing him after slaughtering the Una Mens, Bo declares to Kenzi that with Rainer “its bigger than love, it’s destiny, yadi yadi.” What was truly difficult to understand was why the move from long lost butterfly soul mate of my life to…oh he’s just my politically arranged marriage? And then to unceremoniously kill him off with no impact felt like a complete mindfuck and plot swap. Bo spend the entire season screwing him on a train, because plot, ignoring her family, and then spent the rest of the season trying to break into her elaborately designed memory plot. Something Bo could never conceive of in the first place (she’s not that smart). And then he dies, and it’s like no one grew or went ANYWHERE, character speaking. The women were ALL reduced in S4. I liked Lauren’s arc the best, and even she is left cowering at the foot of madmen as the price for her intelligence. It was maddening.
In my mind, Lost Girl did not like the label being associated with it from S3—-> as LGBT groundbreaking. They didn’t want to be that show, and pulled in new man candy to stick around longer and putz with the triangle. However, it looks like Rainer’s actor probably had other plans and bowed out early, leading them to kill him off. No one takes seasonal cast pictures of someone they only plan on having for 3 episodes. And they took a bunch of pics of this guy.
Anyway, the final episodes 4.9-4.13 seemed like editing and narrative nightmares from last minute changes to the script. So it’s impossible to tell what they meant with him. But imo, it stems back into a behind the scenes fight for control, and it’s been plaguing this show since S1. The inability to balance Bo as a warrior with the damsel in distress they need is overpowering the story. And someone in control of this show has serious male inferiority issues.
