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LOST GIRL NOTES (Sofia Troop, Ali Liebert)

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Sofia Bloom as Harper in the film BLUR which had its Canadian premiere in Toronto on 16 July

Sofia Troop as Harper in the film BLUR which had its Canadian premiere in Toronto on 16 July

Sofia Troop (Kat, the fae with the forked, purple tongue in episode 5.5 of LOST GIRL) is Harper in the George D’Amato movie BLUR, which was filmed in Las Vegas. The story centers on Harper and Paul on a cross-country road trip in a purple Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible. Harper’s cell phone obsession blinds her to the vanishing intimacy in her relationship with Paul. The film’s tag line is: “Infidelity can hide in plain sight.” BLUR had its premiere at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto on 16 July.

Naomi Snieckus and Gavin Crawford in the 2014 film TWO4ONE

Naomi Snieckus and Gavin Crawford in the 2014 film TWO 4 ONE

TWO 4 ONE, Maureen Bradley‘s award winning 2014 dramedy co-starring Naomi Sneickus and Gavin Crawford, is now available on iTunes Canada. No indication yet when it will be available in the US. Sneickus (the talent agent in LOST GIRL episode 9, Fae Day) has small roles in two new films. She is Ellen in THE STEPS, which is about a New Yorker and his sister who visit their father to meet his new wife, only to hear the couple announce that they’re adopting a child to bring the family together. (Ellen is the social worker who interviews the family about the adoption.) Also in the cast of THE STEPS is Kate Corbett (Stacey the Valkyrie).

Ali Liebert in THE DEVOUT

Ali Liebert in THE DEVOUT

Describing HAPPILY EVER AFTER (aka IF YOU SEE HER), another film due out soon directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin, Sneickus told Talent Monthly: “A gal from a small town goes home to look after her sick father. She meets up with her old best friend and is thrown into living like it’s high school all over again. I play one of the ex-high school friends and get to wear too much makeup and purple taffeta.”

LONELINESS - Christine Horne in THE ENDINGS - photos by Caitlin Cronenberg in the Sunday New York Times on 19 July

LONELINESS – Christine Horne in
THE ENDINGS by Caitlin Cronenberg
(from the New York Times 19 January)

Ali Liebert (Crystal) stars in THE DEVOUT, a film that tells the story of Darryl (Charlie Carrick) and his wife Jan (Liebert) who live in a religious, rural town. Their faith is tested when Darryl starts to believe that his dying daughter was an astronaut in a past life. The story is based on true events, and was filmed last winter in and around Victoria, British Columbia. It should be released later this year. Liebert described her character to Michael D. Reid of the Victoria Times-Colonist: “We go through overwhelming stages of grief and her husband has become unreliable,” she said. “His belief is putting stress on our relationship.”

Caitlin Cronenberg is getting ready to publish a new book of photographs, and Christine Horne (The Keeper) is in it. It’s called THE ENDINGS, and is a collection of short stories, each told through a series of still images with no text. Actresses were chosen as the subjects of the stories so that emotion would be conveyed as it would be in a film. Cronenberg told Hannah Yakobi of FAJO Magazine: “Our first session was a local Toronto actress, Christine Horne; she’s just phenomenal. She really set the bar high. I won’t list everybody, but we’ve done Sarah Gadon, who is my favourite person in the world, Nina Dobrev, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charlotte Sullivan, Mena Suvari and Alison Pill.” Cronenberg’s previous book, POSER, can be purchased from her website for $55.

The second half of the fifth season of LOST GIRL will air on Showcase in Canada beginning
6 September at 9pm. It will air on SyFy (US) sometime in early 2016.

A New Valkyrie in Fae-town

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LOST GIRL – Season 5 Episode 2 – SPOILERS

Lots of sparkage between Stacey the Valkyrie (Kate Corbett) and Dyson, who is now a lone wolf

Lots of sparkage between Stacey the Valkyrie (Kate Corbett) and Dyson, who is now a lone wolf. STACEY TO DYSON: “Holy Odin, your jawline is insanely distracting.”

STACEY: Valhalla’s books are still unbalanced.
TAMSIN: So are my boobs, but I make do.

Some speculation in the previous post was incorrect. Evony is no longer the Morrigan, despite the medical clinic bearing her name. And disappointingly, The Leviathan has not returned.

Hannah Anderson as Persephone

Hannah Anderson as Persephone

Bo takes the elevator to the Tartarus sub-basement, where she encounters Puca (Alex Appel), who takes a bite out of her leg. Then Persephone (Hannah Anderson) shows up and Bo heals herself with Persephone sex.

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 where Trick and Stella share a kiss and Tamsin, far away in Brazenwood, is inspired to spontaneously kiss Bo at the same time.

Drawing (by Aife?) found by Bo behind some wallpaper in what used to be her nursery.

Drawing (by Aife?) found by Bo behind some wallpaper in what used to be her nursery.

Persephone is the wife of Hades and, as it turns out, Bo’s stepmother. So Vex was correct (early in Season 4) when he described The Pyrippus as a boogeyman made up to frighten children. Odin is The Wanderer, and Odin (the Norse version of Zeus) is the brother of Hades and married to Hera, Hades sister. His assistance may have been obtained 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. Bo offers to help Persephone escape from the underworld, but after it is explained that she can’t do that for another few millenia, Bo takes Persephone’s moon candle, and uses it to light the path home.

Persephone and Bo

Persephone and Bo

Earlier in the story, 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 steamed up glass pane, making them think it is Bo. One wonders why, since it turns out not to be Bo, it writes ‘help’ on the glass.

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. What does one call this ship? Dycey? Dyson is free now, because Tamsin and he have declared themselves to be nothing more than friends.

Stacey is upset when Tamsin insults her hair.

Stacey is upset when Tamsin insults her hair. In this scene, Stacey is somewhat reminiscent of the Kitsune from previous episodes

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 in an elevator somewhere to become a vehicle for a beast from hell. The lawyer, played by Amanda Walsh, when she’s holding that candle, looks more than a bit like Celesta from Xena: Warrior Princess.

When Kenzi tried to make the ghost she thought was Bo visible, she gave it physical form. Later, when it attacks Lauren at the Dal, Kenzi shoots it. The ghost seems to have been Japanese, setting up the next episode, “Big in Japan”.

Amanda Walsh - unnamed lawyer in elevator with candle

Amanda Walsh as unnamed lawyer
in elevator with candle

NOTES

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).

Thresa Healey as Hades sister and goddess of death Celesta, (who was entirely an XWP invention). Hades had no sister called Celesta. His sisters were Hestia and Hera. Thanatos was the Greek god of death.

Thresa Healey as Hades sister and goddess of death Celesta, (who was entirely an XWP invention, and also carried a candle). Hades had no sister called Celesta. His sisters were Hestia and Hera. Thanatos was the Greek god of death.

Paolo Barzman, who directed LOST GIRL 5.1 and 5.2, also directs Episode 7 of M.A. 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 the
recurring character Pawter. KILLJOYS is currently
filming, but as yet has no definite air date.

Amanda Walsh is Charlotte in the film MERCY, which was released in the US on 7 October, and is based on GRAMMA by Stephen King, a story written in 1984 and set in the Cthulhu mythos. MERCY can be streamed on Netflix (US).

Kate Corbett (Stacey) is Victoria and Lara Jean Chorostecki (Ianka the Opera Singer in Of All the Gin Joints) stars as Jacqui in the soon to be released film BARN WEDDING, about a couple who must reschedule their summer wedding to the dead of winter.

It’s Always High Noon in Valhalla

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LOST GIRL – Season 5 Episode 1 – SPOILERS

Tamsin's axe crashes through Kenzi's hotel room door.

Tamsin’s axe crashes through
Kenzi’s hotel room door.

LAUREN: You need to tell me everything you know about the underrealm.
TAMSIN: Eat a sack of tits.

Season five opens with Bo (Anna Silk) climbing a crag, singing “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain”. Reaching the top, she stands and admires the view, then plucks the missing hell shoe from a large bird’s nest. She begins to descend, slips, and falls quite some distance.

The Three Rednecks, played by Tyler McMaster, Trent Pardy, and Zach Apostoleris, find Bo apparently unconscious after her fall.

The Three Rednecks, played by Tyler McMaster, Trent Pardy, and Zach Apostoleris, find Bo apparently unconscious after her fall.

“She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain” has its roots in an old gospel song about The Rapture. The ‘she’ in the title refers to the vehicle returning the saviour to earth to pass judgement on the living and the dead. It might mean that Bo is the vehicle destined to bring salvation to the Fae.

Freyja (Michelle Nolden) sends an uninvited guest (Rachel Blair) to some unspecified place by opening a portal behind her

Freyja (Michelle Nolden) sends an uninvited guest (Rachel Blair) to some unspecified place by opening a portal behind her

After her fall, Bo is found, apparently unconscious, by three unwise men referenced in the credits as ‘rednecks’. Bo drains their chi to heal herself, but leaves them alive. (We know this because she stomps on the crotch of one of them to discourage further pursuit.)

Back home, trying to get Tamsin to help rescue Kenzi, Bo asks: “What happened when you delivered Kenzi’s soul? Whether it’s hellfires, evil dragons, sexy dragons. I don’t care. I can handle it.” The only sexy dragon Bo could be thinking of is Leviathan (Jennifer Dale), who lost a riddling contest to Bo in episode 4.9. Leviathan is often depicted as a serpent, and a dragon isn’t far from that. Could that line foreshadow another appearance by Levi?

The Helskór are invisible on Bo's feet.

The Helskór are invisible on Bo’s feet.

Tamsin is uncooperative, but tells Bo that she has given the other hellshoe to Trick. After going to the Dal and getting the second Helskór, Bo visits Lauren at the clinic. (Lauren runs the Marquise Technical Clinic, and from this we might infer that she is still with The Dark, and that Evony (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is probably still The Morrigan.

When Bo puts on the hellshoes, they become invisible on her feet and she vanishes.

Bo brings Tamsin under control with a choke hold.

Bo takes Tamsin by the neck
to bring her under control

Upset by this turn of events, Lauren goes to visit Tamsin, who tells her to “eat a sack of tits”. This is not the first use of the word ‘tit’ on LOST GIRL. In La Fae Epoque, Cassie (Vanessa Matsui) told Lauren “Trick can suck my left tit” when she refused to aid any further in Bo’s exploration of Dyson’s unconscious mind. We later learn from Trick that Valkyries are blood-bound not to reveal anything about the afterlife. If they do that, they die.

Freyja (Michelle Nolden) initially mistakes Bo for the florist.

Freyja (Michelle Nolden) initially mistakes
Bo for the florist.

Bo enters Valhalla, and in that place it is always High Noon (either that or the clock in the Royal York Hotel lobby is broken). She meets Freyja (Michelle Nolden) who is quickly revealed to be quite dangerous when she dispatches an uninvited guest (Rachel Blair) to a place of implied undesirability through a portal of some sort. Bo avoids further official contact and instead seduces a maid and appropriates her uniform.

Freyja has an assistant named Stacey (Kate Corbett), a bully who apparently has known Tamsin (and been her nemesis) for a long time.

Freyja's assistant Stacey (Katie Corbett) reluctantly prepares to take a call

Freyja’s assistant Stacey (Kate Corbett) reluctantly prepares to take a call

Kenzi, when Bo finds her, is not at all in distress. Freyja is arranging Kenzi’s wedding (to Hale), but Bo’s arrival throws a wrench into the works, and makes Freyja send Hale back (to where we are not told) and cancel the nuptials. The goddess is ready to feed Kenzi to the evil dude that keeps phoning the hotel when Bo intervenes and takes Kenzi’s place. Freyja, after promising to return Kenzi to her body) opens a portal and Bo finds herself in the hotel elevator (lined with 1617 buttons according to the Showcase commentary) on her way to meet someone who may be her father, or The Wanderer, or The Pyrippus, or all three.

Kenzi is returned to her body, which is in her coffin. Fortunately, she is still wearing the wedding dress (?) and has the matches (something new) and the knife (something borrowed) that Bo (who would have been her Maid of Honour) gave her. That’s more than Buffy Summers had when she clawed herself out of the grave after her resurrection.

OBSERVATION: Lauren uses Bo’s last name (Dennis) when expressing confidence in her ability to control the effects of the Helskór. Later in the episode, Bo uses Kenzi’s last name, saying: “I claim Kenzi Malikov.” Neither character has been called by her last name very often.

NOTES

As Lauren reads the Norse invocation to reveal the gates of Valhalla, "True Love" is written on the wall behind her. Thanks to @the_atomic_mess for noticing this

As Lauren reads the Norse invocation to reveal the gates of Valhalla, “True Love” is written on the wall behind her. Thanks to @the_atomic_mess for noticing this

Michelle Nolden (Freyja) stars as CIA Agent Carmen Reese. and Damon Runyon (Roman the Bacchus in Faes Wide Shut) is Agent Fisher in PRISONER X, a film by Gaurav Seth about a time traveller who, in his attempt to change history, falls into the hands of the CIA. The film’s Indiegogo page is offering LOST GIRL set props (they aren’t saying which) as incentives for donation. PRISONER X should be released sometime next year.

Rachel Skarsten (Tamsin) will be Patricia in THE COVE, which was filmed earlier this year in Malta and is now in post-production. THE COVE was written by CONTINUUM story editor Raul Inglis and Mario Azzopardi, who is the father of Lara Azzopardi who co-authored LOST GIRL episode 5.12.

Stephannie Hawkins, The blurry shot on the left is from her DARKNET 5 appearance.

Stephannie Hawkins, The blurry shot on the left is from her DARKNET 5 appearance.

Stephannie Hawkins (Skarsten’s LG stunt double for Season 5) will be Shelly and Kyle Schmid (Rainer) will be Aster in the film ’88’ in which a young woman (Katherine Isabelle) finds herself in a roadside diner, with no knowledge of how she got there. She embarks on a quest to find the person responsible for her lover’s death. Hawkins also did stunt work on the final Seaspon 2 episode of ORPHAN BLACK.

Kate Corbett (Stacey) will be Tracey in DENNIS, a 15 minute short film about unsolved Newfoundland murder mysteries, which will star Katie Boland (the Seniatta in LG 2.6).

Ksenia Solo (Kenzi) was interviewed by Chris Jancelewicz for THE HUFFINGTON POST in an article titled: Ksenia Solo On Leaving ‘Lost Girl,’ Her Fans, And What She’s Going To Do Next.