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Life Is But A Dream

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 28/09/2018 by pixel5130/01/2019

KILLJOYS – Season 4 Episode 10 – SPOILERS

Hannah John-Kamen

Dutch finds one of Khlyen’s red boxes in the green. Initially it is empty, but later it contains what appears to be an apple

Aneela, John, and D’Avin re-enter the green to free Dutch. It is understandable why Aneela needs D’Avin on the mission, because he has a unique ability to repel the green goo. And she does try (unsuccessfully) to persuade John to stay behind. (John is quite vulnerable to manipulation from The Lady and therefore completely useless in greenspace.) Remember back in Episode 3.2 when Zeph was the only one to figure out that “fake fire doesn’t burn”? One can’t help thinking that Zeph is the only one who could entirely refuse to accept The Lady’s artificial reality. John almost succumbed to a facsimile of Pawter. Zeph would never believe an artificial-Pip. Continue reading →

Posted in Killjoys, science fiction, TV | Tagged A Shoe Addict's Christmas, Aaron Ashmore, Cardinal, Dayle McLeod, Hammer, Hannah John-Kamen, Kelly McCormack, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Luke McFarlane, Mark O'Brien, Nose to Tail, Oluniké Adeliyi, Patrick Garrow, The Parting Glass | 3 Replies

A Cube With A View

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 18/08/2016 by pixel5105/12/2018

KILLJOYS – Season 2 Episode 7 – SPOILERS

Sabine (Tori Anderson) seen through bloody glass holding the head of Turin's creepy interrogator (Chris Hoffman)

Sabine (Tori Anderson) seen through bloody glass holding the head of Turin’s creepy interrogator (Chris Hoffman)

Sabine is able to feel again after sex with D’Avin, but it won’t last forever. She’s like Charly in Flowers for Algernon but it is her emotions that are artificially heightened, and doomed to eventually diminish. And apparently the medicinal effect of Sabine/D’Avin eroticism works both ways. Back in episode 1.4, Dutch called D’Av a “big muscle-y distraction” and since he arrived on Lucy, that has been an apt description of him. He’s been a nice, pretty, but not too bright Jaqobis brother. After Sabine, D’Avin finds the ability to criticize Dutch’s methods.

Dutch searches Sabine's room and finds a dreadnought and a phone

Dutch searches Sabine’s room and finds a dreadnought and a phone

He convinces Dutch to let Turin conduct Sabine’s interrogation. (When Dutch asserts that she is an “expert on torture”, his reaction is “ewww”.) And when Dutch tells him “She’s not some wounded animal we found by the side of the road. You don’t get to fix her and keep her. She is a weapon meant to be used against us. And once we get what we can out of her, we’re getting rid of her.” This exchange follows:

A Black Root Lieutenant finds Dutch in Sabine's room and gets a dreadnought in the ear for his trouble

A Black Root Lieutenant finds Dutch in Sabine’s room and gets a dreadnought in the ear for his trouble

D’AVIN: “You want to go back to being Yela? Red Boxes and assassinations? You’re better than that. We’re not murderers.”
DUTCH: “We’re at war.”
D’AVIN: “With who?”
DUTCH: “I don’t know because your little bang buddy won’t tell me.”
D’AVIN: “Then treat her like an enemy combatant. There are conventions, and you don’t get to break them. Find another way.”

With Sabine gone, will D’Avin’s new clarity of purpose diminish over time like Sabine’s emotions?

Sabine and D'Avin take a virtual trip to the woods.

A virtual trip into the woods. Sabine is 89, so the green go not only heals, but also prevents aging.

Up till now, Johnny has been the bright brother, but he’s busy doing stupid things in Old Town. He takes out a solitary warrant (over the objections of Bellus) and after failing to exercise caution in his investigations, he gets busted breaking into secret stuff in Jelco’s private office. He is put on display in what looks like a high-tech cage in Spring Hill.

D'Avin and Sabine, last evening together

D’Avin and Sabine, last evening together

Besides a new and improved D’Avin, other things the Killjoys acquired from Sabine are a brain-stabbing device (called a dreadnought) that effectively kills Sixes by causing instantaneous massive brain death. (Dutch sticks a Black Root dude in the ear with it), and a very long list of undercover Sixes in The Quad.

Sabine and D'Avin - hot tub data transfer

Hot tub data transfer

After all this we still are not sure just what Sabine is about. She’s Black Root, for sure, but is she working for or against Khlyen? She leads Dutch to a safe house on Leith (a mirror cube standing on it’s corner) prepared for Dutch by Khlyen. It contains a heart-shaped silver box with a single piece of jewellery in it, weapons, memorablila from Dutch’s youth. and a red box identifying another assassination target. Since Dutch most likely wasn’t supposed to find that red box just yet, killing the target it identifies (Aneela) would probably be premature. Why does Dutch leap to the idea that Aneela might be the other version of her that D’Avin saw on Arkyn? Green goo memories?

Dutch and the mirror cube

Dutch enters the mirror cube that Sabine led her to, which seems like it must be more than a simple safe house

The first thought that came to mind after seeing that cubic safe house was a Tony Rosenthal sculpture, but the first relevant thought was Heinlein’s short story “-And He Built a Crooked House-“. This is wild speculation, but what if that cube is a multi-dimensional structure that enables Dutch to step between worlds? What if it takes her to the homeworld of the Creatures of the Green Goo?

Dutch goes full Wynonna Earp on Sabine, dropping her with one bullet to the center of the forehead. She could have used the dreadnought on her to make certain she was dead, but did not because she “deserved a fighting chance”. Sabine will most likely be back, but maybe not this season.


NOTES

April Mullen

April Mullen

April Mullen directed this episode. Her most recent film, 88, can be streamed on Netflix (US). Her next feature will be BELOW HER MOUTH, which stars Erika Linder and WYNONNA EARP’s Natalie Krill as Dallas and Bridget, who have a weekend fling that quickly escalates into a life-altering relationship. Mayko Nguyen (Delle Seyah Kendry) is also in the cast. “It was very sexual,” Mullen said, describing the making of BELOW HER MOUTH. “The women who were involved in the film had to be very brave and for that we got an all-female crew top to bottom to help with the honesty and the raw connection that they had to find with each other, so I was constantly searching for those really frenetic moments, and for them to feel comfortable enough and let their guards down enough so that I could capture them on film.” BELOW HER MOUTH will have its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

CAVEBOY - Michelle Bensimon (Lead Vocals, Guitar, Synth), Isabelle Banos (Synth, Bass, Backing Vocals) and Lana Cooney (Drums, Backing Vocals)

CAVEBOY – Michelle Bensimon (Lead Vocals, Guitar), Isabelle Banos (Synth, Bass), and Lana Cooney (Drums, Backing Vocals)

One of the songs playing while D’Avin and Sabine drink and share stories is In the Grottos, track two on CAVEBOY‘s self-titled EP. CAVEBOY’s next live appearance will be at the Rifflandia Festival in Victoria, B.C. on 15 September.

Oluniké Adeliyi in DARKEN

Oluniké Adeliyi in DARKEN. She was also Suri Middleton in
LOST GIRL episode 5.10, “Like Father, Like Daughter“.

Oluniké Adeliyi (Artura Senbek) will be Amina Nour in BOOST, a film that describes a critical 72 hours in the lives of two teenage boys (Hakeem and A-Mac, from Montreal’s Little India neighborhood) after a car they are stealing for the mob is involved in a fatal accident. The film should be released sometime later this year.

Adeliyi also has a role in the indie horror film DARKEN, in which a young woman is accosted in the street and given an incantation that opens a doorway and propels her through it into a violent, oppressive, maze-like world. In her attempts to escape, she finds allies in people rebelling against the religious despot Mother Darken. The cast also includes Christine Horne, who was Dr. Lyra Grange in KILLJOYS episode 1.5. DARKEN is slated for release in 2017, and can be pre-ordered online.

Posted in Killjoys, science fiction, TV | Tagged 88, April Mullen, Below Her Mouth, Boost, Caveboy, Christine Horne, Darken, Killjoys, Oluniké Adeliyi

Kenzi Returns in an Artful Episode of LOST GIRL

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 18/09/2015 by pixel5112/02/2019

LOST GIRL – Season 5 Episode 10 – SPOILERS

Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) makes a spectacular return to LOST GIRL.  (She heads back to Spain at the end of the episode)

Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) makes a spectacular return to LOST GIRL. (She heads back to Spain at the end of the episode)

Anna Silk in black leather breaking into an art gallery vault immediately brought to mind fictional spy Emma Peel. Diana Rigg portrayed Peel in 51 episodes of THE AVENGERS, which aired from 1961-1969 on ITV. (For those who haven’t seen it, The Avengers – The Complete Emma Peel Megaset is available on Amazon.)

Bo (Anna Silk) looking like Diana Rigg as she prepares to negotiate a maze of security lasers

Bo (Anna Silk) looking like Emma Peel
as she prepares to negotiate a maze
of security lasers

Lauren (Zoie Palmer), after experimenting on herself, can now channel the powers of any Fae with whom she is in physical contact, which raises at least one interesting question. If, while in contact with Dyson she were to change into a wolf, would she need to touch Dyson again to regain human form?

Before finding out about Lauren’s new powers, Bo believes that she brought Lauren back to life after the doctor was hit by a truck. Bo tells Dyson that the last time she breathed life back into someone was when she resurrected him (in episode 3.9) and
she had to breathe in a whole roomfull of chi to accomplish it. This means that Evony (Emmanuelle Vaugier)
must not have been entirely dead when Bo breathed chi into her in episode 4.13.

Lauren after singing Zee away by channeling the powers of Hale's granddad

Lauren sings Zee away by channeling the siren powers of Heathcliff Santiago (Hale’s granddad, played by Julian D. Christopher). Unknown to Bo and the gang, Hades has rewritten the song, thwarting the banishment of his brother.

Dyson claims Alicia (Lisa Marcos), and introduces her to the Fae world. He didn’t want to do that, but Mark (Luke Bilyk), still grieving over the death of Iris, told Alicia everything and forced his hand. One wonders what will happen if her husband wakes up and is no longer possessed by Hera? She’s going to want to tell him about all this. Will Dyson claim him as well? A hint as to further developments between Alicia and Dyson might be found in the music playing in the Dal. When Dyson informs Trick that Alicia has found out about the Fae, the song “Holding On” (track 2 of the first album by Toronto folk band The BelleRegards), is playing. When Dyson brings Alicia to the Dal to tell her he has claimed her, we hear another BelleRegards song, “Fare Thee Well”.

Earlier in the episode, when Mark and Kenzi displayed signs of mutual attraction, Dyson intervenes to prevent anything from developing. It seems that the wolfman may still have feelings for Kenzi.

Bo, Kenzi and the Wellie of the seven deadly sins

Bo and Kenzi discuss things at the
Art Gallery of Ontario

All the artworks featured in the episode are LOST GIRL originals, which means that headless blue statue with the halo, as well as that Wellie with the seven deadly sins and the heading “Greed is Good” (a quote from Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film WALL STREET), might someday be up for auction as show memorabilia. According to the Showcase commentnary, the painting about which tour guide Kenzi invents a story is designed to resemble “Voice of Fire”, a minimalist work by American artist Barnett Newman that was commissioned for Expo ’67. (It’s purchase by the National Gallery in 1990 for $1.8 million was a bit controversial.)

Dyson and Alicia (Lisa Marcos)  at the Dal.

Dyson and Alicia (Lisa Marcos) at the Dal.
Alicia is a very suspicious character.

Bo penetrated the museum’s laser defenses only to find Persephone (Hannah Anderson) had gotten there first. Having imprisoned Hades, Bo gets to free Persephone from captivity, though presumably both of them needed to exit the vault through the laser grid, which would have been more difficult than entering because of the need to transport the painting. Most thieves would have removed the painting from its frame to make things easy, but Bo did not do this. When Bo shows the painting to Hades, it was still in its frame. Had she removed it, she would have discovered the second canvas underneath with the painting of the Pyrippus. One wonders if Hades plans to summon the fire horse, and, if so, to what end?


Oluniké Adeliyi as Suri Middleton, the first germaphobe Bo has encountered.

Oluniké Adeliyi as Suri Middleton, the first germaphobe Bo has encountered.

NOTES

Oluniké Adeliyi (Suri Middleton) will be Mrs. Rice in the film GROUP HOME, which tells the true story of a single father with two sons, who runs a home for abused children in early 1980’s Toronto. Also in the cast is Shauna MacDonald (Dean Peretti in LG 1.5). GROUP HOME stars Lyriq Bent of ROOKIE BLUE and may eventually become a TV series.

Beneath The Vanishing, another painting, this one of the Pyrippus, is revealed

Beneath The Vanishing, another painting, this one of the Pyrippus, is revealed. Trick has a print of the Pyrippus painting, which we saw at the end of episode 3.9

Ksenia Solo will star in PET, a film by Spanish director Carles Torrens. The film follows Seth, an animal shelter employee, who develops an infatuation with Holly (Solo), the waitress he has admired since high school. Failing to win her affections by conventional means, he locks her in a cage at the shelter where he works. Holly has deeply troubling secrets of her own, and, as the story progresses, it becomes difficult to tell who the real victim is. PET is due out sometime next year. Solo recently cancelled her scheduled appearance at OZ COMIC CON because she is beginning work on another film (no details are yet available) in Ohio. She had to have her hair cut short for the role.

LOST GIRL Season 5 will premiere on Syfy UK Tuesday 13 October at 9pm.

Posted in Lost Girl | Tagged Anna Silk, Group Home, Hannah Anderson, Hannah Emily Anderson, Julian D. Christopher, Kris Holden-Ried, Ksenia Solo, Lisa Marcos, Lost Girl episodes, Oluniké Adeliyi, Pet

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