A New Valkyrie in Fae-Town
LOST GIRL – Episode 502 – Like Hell (Part II) – SPOILERS
Persephone
Bo takes the elevator to the Tartarus sub-basement, where she encounters the goblin Puca (Alex Appel), who takes a bite out of her leg. Then Persephone (Hannah Anderson) shows up and Bo heals herself with Persephone sex.
STACEY TO DYSON: “Holy Odin, your jawline is insanely distracting.” Lots of sparkage between Stacey the Valkyrie (Kate Corbett) and Dyson, who is now a lone wolf.
Persephone is the wife of Hades and, as it turns out, Bo’s stepmother. Odin (the Norse version of Zeus) is the brother of Hades and married to Hera, Hades sister. Odin may have assisted in Hades’ quest for Bo. Anyway, Bo’s dad is Hades, which is kind of cool, because a 1998 article by Margaret Matthews, titled IS XENA’S FATHER A GOD? YES! IS IT ARES? NO!, developed a quite well thought out theory that Hades was Xena’s father (and therefore Bo’s sister). Bo offers to help Persephone escape from the underworld, but when that becomes impossible, she takes Persephone’s moon candle and uses it to light the path home.
QUANTUM SEXUAL ENTANGLEMENT — Lauren, who is napping, has sex with an unidentified spirit at the same time that Bo is doing Persephone. Later in the episode, Lauren tells Bo that the ghost had some of Bo’s patented moves. This incident calls to mind the bit in “Fae-ge Against the Machine” (episode 3.8) where Trick and Stella share a kiss and Tamsin, far away in Brazenwood, is inspired to kiss Bo at the same time.
Drawing (by Aife?) found by Bo behind some wallpaper in what was once her nursery.
Lauren and Dyson dig up Kenzi. They revive her at the clinic, and Dyson returns to the gates of Valhalla to prevent them from closing and trapping Bo inside. Lauren and Kenzi discover that they have been followed by a spirit which writes ‘help’ on a steamy glass pane, making them think it is Bo.
Kenzi and Lauren trying to deal with a ghost is funny but the best part of this episode is Stacey (Kate Corbett), the Valkyrie bully from Tamsin’s school days. She and Dyson have chemistry, and potential, since Dyson is no longer involved romantically with either Bo or Tamsin.
Puca
When Kenzi tried to make the ghost she thought was Bo visible, she somehow gave it physical form. Later, when it attacks Lauren at the Dal, Kenzi shoots it. The ghost appeared to be asian, perhaps Japanese. The episode that follows this one is titled “Big in Japan”.
Kenzi is off to Spain to live a Fae-free life, because Hale left her some land. Home alone, Bo removes boards from a living room window and lights the moon candle, causing a lawyer (Amanda Walsh)in an elevator somewhere to be possessed by a powerful Fae, just before the elevator crashes.
Miscellaneous Info
Amanda Walsh as unnamed lawyer
in the ill-fated elevator with candle.
The lawyer, played by Amanda Walsh, looks more than a bit like Celesta from Xena: Warrior Princess when she’s holding that candle. In the Xena episode “Looking Death in the Eye“, Celesta (Theresa Healey) was Hades sister and the goddess of death, and was entirely invented). Hades had no sister called Celesta. His sisters were Hestia and Hera. Thanatos was the Greek god of death.
When Lauren (Zoie Palmer) has ghost sex she is wearing the same bra that she wore in Fae-de to Black (thanks to @Andreia90 for that observation).
Paolo Barzman, who directed LOST GIRL 5.1 and 5.2, also directs Episode 7 of Michelle Lovretta’s new series KILLJOYS. The episode is titled Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye, and features Sarain Boylan (The Warden in Caged Fae) as Dr. Bliss and Sarah Power (Siobhan the Banshee in Fae Day) as Pawter.
** — Revised. Originally published in 2015.