This is what my post 'I Am' was in preparation for. This post has been in draft stage since I started up my blog but I came to a sudden realisation which has given me the last push to finish it and publish it. This realisation I will reveal at the end of the post.
I want to talk to you about Lost Girl which is a TV show I watch but every time I begin to talk about it I get this conversation:
Me: I like Lost Girl
Person: what's that?
Me: it's a TV show about a succubus.
Person: a what?
Every time -_-
A succubus is like a sexual demon. In a female form it has sex with people and feeds off their energy. A male form is called an Incubus.
But don't freak out. Bo, the protagonist in Lost Girl is far from a demon (atm). Her story is that she was adopted as a baby into a Christian family and all was fine until she hit puberty. She went against her parents and had sex with a guy she was dating...only to wake up in the morning to find him dead. Finding out even her kiss can kill she was cast out by her parents and ran from place to place with a new identity each time because she kept killing people. Sometimes she was just hungry and sometimes she was in love. She is lost because she doesn't know what she is and has no home. Until the day she meets Kenzi (this is when the show begins).
Bo saves Kenzi from a rapist but coz the rapist spiked Kenzi's drink, Bo takes her to where she is staying hoping to be on her way to somewhere new by the time Kenzi wakes up. Except Kenzi wakes up early and it turns out she filmed Bo doing her succubus thing to the guy. Kenzi isn't scared as such she just wants to talk to Bo. We get this cute scene in a milkshake bar where Kenzi writes on a napkin a multiple choice question for Bo to answer because it would be weird to say it out loud: "I am...a) a demon, b) an alien" but Bo doesn't have an answer to that. When the bill comes up Bo shows how she can make the waitress seriously attracted to her so they don't pay. But as they are leaving, in an alley two cops turn up. One knocks them both out with his siren whistle and they take Bo!
Bo is taken to a nice manor of sorts where another guy called 'the Ash' questions her about killing on their territory and whether she is light or dark and loads of other stuff she hasn't a clue about. Then the other guy who abducted her threatens her and growls while baring his animal teeth! A woman walks in with her goons demanding the same things off Bo but the other guys aren't having any of it. Turns out the Ash is the leader of the light fae and the woman is the Morrigan, leader of the dark fae. Fae are creatures like we know from mythology and folklore. A lot of them blend in to society (this shows makes a lot of them able to do this) but some, called under fae, don't. After some tests by a human female doctor for the fae, everyone finds out Bo is a succubus. But all fae are aligned with either dark or light, but Bo being under the radar hasn't got a side.
They make Bo do this really old challenge. If she kills two under fae then they'll let her pick a side. Meanwhile Kenzi wakes up and uses her contacts to find where Bo is. Bo easily defeats the giant under fae with a little hint from Dyson (the cop who isn't a siren) but struggles with the other under fae - a pain eater. Kenzi fortunately finds her and tries to get to her but she is held back. Bo stills hears her voice though and breaks free. Challenge over Bo decides to pick the side of humans, making her known as the infamous unaligned succubus to the rest of fae-dom. So we then see her and Kenzi solving crimes committed by fae sometimes for a client and sometimes for the cops. Because she is unaligned she can mingle with both light and dark and step into both territories.
Throughout the show we see plenty of character development, especially for Bo trying to find out who her parents are, managing her love life and her increasingly growing power.
The main characters we have (from left to right are):
Trick - he is the bartender of the local way station who is very knowledgeable but also very mysterious, he has secrets constantly seeping out.
Hale - the siren who is a fae cop. He is very laid back and is of fae noble blood but he doesn't like his family. He always plays sidekick with Kenzi as Bo and Dyson do their own thing.
Dyson - he is a wolf-shifter and Bo's love interest, though he is usually competing with Lauren. He is another fae cop and works with Hale.
Bo - already explained her. She loves both Dyson and Lauren.
Kenzi - street smart and a survivor. She would do anything for Bo and always stands by her even though she is considered second class among many fae because she is human.
Lauren - the human doctor who works for the light fae. She is also Bo's love interest but also has secrets.
We also get introduced to other prominent characters one of my guilty favourites is Vex. He is a dark fae Mesmer which means he can control people like a puppet with his hands. When we first meet him I didn't like him but he grew on me. He's like Russell Brand but better. He still can make me go eww though, especially when he dresses up.
Then in season 3 we are introduced to Tamsin who is a Valkyrie. It is hard to explain her character as it changes so much but she is awesome and played by a Christian actress so I like her very much.
This show is underrated and fantastic. I find it the perfect show to chill out to and the characters are so good. I often don't mind telling people I like Lost Girl but hardly anybody knows what it is about. There is a little shame I have from liking it being a Christian but I realised the other day that it is really no worse than Game of Thrones which is far more explicit yet so popular, I even know some Christians who like and watch that. There should be no shame from liking a TV show or film that is explicit if it has quality writing which I believe both Lost Girl and Game of Thrones have. Lost Girl is in no way slutty, it is written too well to be that.
Lotty
xx
