The season may be over, but the discussion is still going strong. Mahlers5th and Valksy collaborated once again to share their thoughts (and they have a lot of them) on the Season 3 finale. Click on “read more” for the entire piece.

“I don’t think it’s a good thing that I’m going to need to see S4 before I decide if I liked S3” – Tweeter @7of12

Valksy

Any analysis of episode 313 really must take into account the screamingly obvious. This was no “finale” and really should not have been pushed that way, since there are no particularly useful conclusions from the elaborate set up and just a further amplification of peril.  Is it disturbing to think that, if not for a season 4 pick-up, this might have been how it ended?  Certainly so.  We have been sold a concept of things never being what they seem since before 301 – but it is a story with no punch line, a book with no final chapter, and more questions than answers.

I find myself questioning if the choice to do this was a gamble, an ambitious masterstroke, or a chronic error.  At this point I am struggling to view the series as an adventure, and am dragged back outside the fantasy world to consider the show as a distinct entity in its own right, as a commercial and creative venture rather than pure story.

We have another collaboration by Mahlers5th and Valksy, who share their thoughts on the last few episodes as we all look toward the finale. Click on “read more” for the entire piece.

Trick: That’s how destiny works. One day you are you, the next day…
Bo: I’m a superhero.

Mahlers5th

The last few episodes of Lost Girl have been wrenching for us, the viewing audience.  Like many others, I have been left reeling and confused.  Where are the writers taking us? We fell in love with this wonderful gift they offered us in Doccubus (OK, not all of us – some ship DyBo or Coppubus, or just enjoy a good old urban supernatural fantasy). We’ve fallen in love with a show that tells us Love is Love and it doesn’t matter who you love as long as you love each other. What could be more powerful than that? And now, just like that, the writers have reversed direction and Doccubus is…well, on a break. We hope. We feel somehow betrayed, duped, and manipulated.  These once intrepid purveyors of love in a world where “sexual identity” is irrelevant have become capricious and unpredictable.

This week, we have an interesting and personal piece titled “The Poly Geometry of Lost Girl”, which we thank mangababe for sharing. Click on “read more” for the entire piece.

“Lost Girl is set in a fantasy world, but the relationships we portray are very real.”  – Jay Firestone

Yes, the world of Lost Girl is a fantasy, but I also see it as an idealized vision of how our world could be. This ground-breaking show is the first created around a strong female lead whose bisexuality and healthy appetite for sex is a given.  No grand pronouncements, no coming out angst, and best of all, no shame.

This week, Mahlers5th is back to offer her analysis of “The Dawning”, with contributions from Valksy. Click on “read more” for the entire piece. Hope you enjoy!

Mahlers5th:

I think it’s fair to say that Episode 309 of Lost Girl has been the most controversial to date for Doccubus fans. Many of us felt angered by what we experienced as an all-too-familiar and painful betrayal. We devoted ourselves heart and soul to a ground-breaking series that had the courage to showcase a genuine, mature love story that just happened to be between two women, only to watch that relationship scuttled — or so it seemed — in favor of the guy-loves-girl-guy-loses-girl-to-another-girl-guy-wins-girl-back-in-the-end heteronormative script that has dominated the television industry. As Valksy tweeted about the Dawning sequence in episode 309, “It was sold to us as the most important time of [Bo's] life, and she shares it & is usurped by fucking Dyson. Hate it.”

I decided to do what I usually do when I’m upset by a seemingly inexplicable left-turn in a story or a chatacter’s development. I went back to the beginning of the Dawning to see if I’d missed something, anything, that might have presaged this awful turn of events. I decided two things: the Dawning has not been meaningless, anti-climactic, or usurped by Dyson. And Doccubus is going to be just fine. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it unless the last four episodes prove me wrong. In that case, bye-bye Doccubus and Lost Girl. It was wonderful while it lasted.

We’re back with a new piece in our Guest Blogger Series. This one titled “The Evolution of Doccubus” is written by Mahlers5th (who was recently introduced to Lost Girl), with contributions from Valksy. Click on “read more” for the entire piece. Hope you enjoy their discussion of the Doccubus relationship.

Back in January, I was blowing by the SyFy channel hoping not to be hijacked by some gross-out scene from The Hills Have Eyes, when something caught my eye. Two women, clearly in love, were talking together in an intimate, urgent sort of way. On SyFy? Hm, this was worth a look. “It’s time,” one said, taking the lead, “Us.” The other woman, a blond in a lab coat, her eyes brimming with tears, responded in a tone that conveyed she hadn’t dared to hope for this: “Really?!” “I want to give this a real shot,” the first woman said. “To be together. Life is too short.” Then they embraced.

We’re back with a brand new entry in our Guest Blogger Series. We have a piece by blackindiaink (@blackindiaink), who shares her thoughts on the fandom. Be sure to click on “read more” for the entire article!

Chemistry, the interaction of one personality with another, or what makes the fireworks go off on screen. It’s necessary for any relationship on any TV show but what makes it the most special is when it is shared by the cast, crew, and show runners. When that magic that we see on screen creates a larger phenomenon with the public you have something even more than a fandom, you have a family. We have seen it before with other shows. Think Xena, Buffy, X-Files, these are all shows that garnered a cult following that went well beyond typical mainstream show dedication. Now we can add Lost Girl to that list. We have no only met the definition of fandom with a capital F we have transformed that into a Fae Family. It isn’t just Doccubus and our love for the ship that brings us together, it’s a cast and producers that devote time to their fans.