I didn't plan to watch Lost Girl 4x04...

... but then we found the means and ugh.

How to watch "Lost Girl": Turn off your brain.

Unfortunately I'm not very good at that. I can't tell if the more taxing question is "Where do the problems begin?" or "Where do the problems end?" It's difficult to discern if the shift in narrative format to "serial with multiple plot threads featuring an ensemble cast" is creating the problems or exacerbating and highlighting narrative problems that were always present when this was simply "the Bo show told through Monster of the Week episodes." (AG pegs it as a distinct lack of structure/formula that should apply, more or less, to each episode.)

( I don't even know. I don't think the writers do either. )

"La Femme Nikita" (1997)

I didn't watch "Alias" when it appeared . . . but I watched "La Femme Nikita" (1997) when it first rolled around. Looking back, I'm pretty sure Peta Wilson as Nikita--the Aussie accent, her statuesque figure, her kicking ass and taking names in bomb ass black suits and boots and that whole spy genre attire--really, really ruined me. Her and Scully. I didn't see all of the seasons, but I was gifted with the Season 1 box set several years ago. I must've talked a lot about LFN for someone to buy me the box set. XD But I haven't watched it! AND NOW I AM AND IT IS SO NOSTALGIC. (And hilarious.) The LFN creators would go on to to make "24," so there must have been some magic in this team.

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