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zarathustra94 and turdburgler's. Its amusing enough, but the interface is confusing as hell. I mean, it seems the intention is to mimic the dancer on the screen, but they also have stick figures at the bottom right indicating the movement you should do. And some times they don't mesh. Like I'll see the stick figure and be all, "WTF, are they telling me to do?" when I'd be better off just ignoring it and copying the person on the screen.
Still, I'm awkward and stiff, so I'd still much prefer singing Katy Perry or Lady Gaga than dance to them.
TV commentary:
Lost Girl- That was an effing confusing way to do an episode! I mean, you have two parallel storylines going on, Bo's, and Dyson/Lauren/Kenzi's. Which is fine, if they were temporally parallel! But the Bo stuff at the beginning was basically after all the other stuff in the ep, and all her scenes in this one were just flashbacks to the train.
The non-Bo storyline was straightforward enough, mer-people as the baddies. I found Kenzi's egg-citement over mermaids and quoting Little Mermaid hilarious, because that reaction seems legit- like I see on tumblr all the time people breaking into Little Mermaid whenever anything even remotely connected to mermaids comes up. Well, that or whenever people talk about being part of someone else's world.
Also, I totally did not recognize Erica from My Babysitter's a Vampire/Sally from LWD as the mermaid sister at first. Like fresh out of the pool and all wet, I was thinking, I wonder who that is. And then I looked it up and saw it was her, and I was skeptical. But then she totally looked like herself when they wheeled her in.
And they talked about getting legs so they could walk on land, but what about the other parts down there?
Anyways, we finally see what transpired on the train. Raynor was actually disinterested in Bo, skeptical that she's the one he's been looking for. Though honestly it seems like he wasn't actually as interested in finding her as the show seemed to indicate before. That, and since he has some memory issues, I don't even think he knows why he's looking for her. But then he figures out she is the one, and she also gets stockholmed, and we found at the stuff with the singer and the package of smoke and the dark contract were all clues left by Bo so she could remember things after she left the train.
Amusingly enough, even Raynor asks if it is wise to break him out, since he could be a monster, but she tells him if he is, she'll kill him herself then. So they confront the Unamens, and it seems like they could've defused the situation if they were nice. But nope, they had to go threaten Kenzi and Lauren and Dyson and everyone else she loves. So at that point, she's committed. Oh, I forgot to mention Raynor's power is foresight in battle. So, since the Unamens reflect people's powers back at them, they cheat it by having Raynor guide Bo, which I'm not sure that should work, but it does.
So, they kill the Unamens, although the one lady one says if she does this, Bo will suffer an even worse fate than her mom. Which, that's not going to dissuade her, given you told her if she doesn't kill you, then you'll kill everyone she loves! She had no choice at that point. Interestingly enough, I don't even think Raynor is doing some manipulation here, I think he still has memory issues and doesn't have any far reaching plan. He just knows they cursed him, and again, if he doesn't kill the council, they'll kill or re-curse him, so he's just plowing forward like Bo trying to save himself rather than have a particularly devious plan.
Which brings us to the beginning of the ep, where Bo and Raynor were cleaning up after the fight, which like I said, confused me when the ep started, because I was all, when would they have gotten into a fight? At first I was thinking maybe the gang wasn't willing to let her walk away like the end of the last ep, and she and Raynor had to fight their way out of there? Which I assume was the show's intention to have people think, what with Bo's head echoing with the voices of them.
But then they cut ahead to the Dyson/Kenzi/Lauren part, and they were all fine, so obviously there was no fight between them. But the case was after the end of the last ep, but before the beginning of this ep, which again, why would you do the narrative like that? Anyways, in the end, Trick shows up, unfortunately after the slaughter, begging Bo not to kill the Unamens, as then all their power will condense into "the origin seed" (which was stolen from Trick long ago) which would be too much power for any one person to have. Oops! We don't Bo get to say "Too late!" and Trick's reaction. Its interesting, because one would think its Raynor who stole the seed. But we see the power go back to the seed, in a dark cavern, and a bloody bandaged hand getting ready to grab it, but it doesn't seem like Raynor's.
zarathustra94 and turdburgler's. Its amusing enough, but the interface is confusing as hell. I mean, it seems the intention is to mimic the dancer on the screen, but they also have stick figures at the bottom right indicating the movement you should do. And some times they don't mesh. Like I'll see the stick figure and be all, "WTF, are they telling me to do?" when I'd be better off just ignoring it and copying the person on the screen.Still, I'm awkward and stiff, so I'd still much prefer singing Katy Perry or Lady Gaga than dance to them.
TV commentary:
Lost Girl- That was an effing confusing way to do an episode! I mean, you have two parallel storylines going on, Bo's, and Dyson/Lauren/Kenzi's. Which is fine, if they were temporally parallel! But the Bo stuff at the beginning was basically after all the other stuff in the ep, and all her scenes in this one were just flashbacks to the train.
The non-Bo storyline was straightforward enough, mer-people as the baddies. I found Kenzi's egg-citement over mermaids and quoting Little Mermaid hilarious, because that reaction seems legit- like I see on tumblr all the time people breaking into Little Mermaid whenever anything even remotely connected to mermaids comes up. Well, that or whenever people talk about being part of someone else's world.
Also, I totally did not recognize Erica from My Babysitter's a Vampire/Sally from LWD as the mermaid sister at first. Like fresh out of the pool and all wet, I was thinking, I wonder who that is. And then I looked it up and saw it was her, and I was skeptical. But then she totally looked like herself when they wheeled her in.
And they talked about getting legs so they could walk on land, but what about the other parts down there?
Anyways, we finally see what transpired on the train. Raynor was actually disinterested in Bo, skeptical that she's the one he's been looking for. Though honestly it seems like he wasn't actually as interested in finding her as the show seemed to indicate before. That, and since he has some memory issues, I don't even think he knows why he's looking for her. But then he figures out she is the one, and she also gets stockholmed, and we found at the stuff with the singer and the package of smoke and the dark contract were all clues left by Bo so she could remember things after she left the train.
Amusingly enough, even Raynor asks if it is wise to break him out, since he could be a monster, but she tells him if he is, she'll kill him herself then. So they confront the Unamens, and it seems like they could've defused the situation if they were nice. But nope, they had to go threaten Kenzi and Lauren and Dyson and everyone else she loves. So at that point, she's committed. Oh, I forgot to mention Raynor's power is foresight in battle. So, since the Unamens reflect people's powers back at them, they cheat it by having Raynor guide Bo, which I'm not sure that should work, but it does.
So, they kill the Unamens, although the one lady one says if she does this, Bo will suffer an even worse fate than her mom. Which, that's not going to dissuade her, given you told her if she doesn't kill you, then you'll kill everyone she loves! She had no choice at that point. Interestingly enough, I don't even think Raynor is doing some manipulation here, I think he still has memory issues and doesn't have any far reaching plan. He just knows they cursed him, and again, if he doesn't kill the council, they'll kill or re-curse him, so he's just plowing forward like Bo trying to save himself rather than have a particularly devious plan.
Which brings us to the beginning of the ep, where Bo and Raynor were cleaning up after the fight, which like I said, confused me when the ep started, because I was all, when would they have gotten into a fight? At first I was thinking maybe the gang wasn't willing to let her walk away like the end of the last ep, and she and Raynor had to fight their way out of there? Which I assume was the show's intention to have people think, what with Bo's head echoing with the voices of them.
But then they cut ahead to the Dyson/Kenzi/Lauren part, and they were all fine, so obviously there was no fight between them. But the case was after the end of the last ep, but before the beginning of this ep, which again, why would you do the narrative like that? Anyways, in the end, Trick shows up, unfortunately after the slaughter, begging Bo not to kill the Unamens, as then all their power will condense into "the origin seed" (which was stolen from Trick long ago) which would be too much power for any one person to have. Oops! We don't Bo get to say "Too late!" and Trick's reaction. Its interesting, because one would think its Raynor who stole the seed. But we see the power go back to the seed, in a dark cavern, and a bloody bandaged hand getting ready to grab it, but it doesn't seem like Raynor's.
