More on why you should be watching Lost Girl

[giandujakiss]

endcredits catches this interview with the creator, Michelle Lovretta, talking about her goals for the series, Bo's characterization, and Bo's relationship with Kenzie.

Comments

[ide_cyan]

Thanks for the link!

<3 Lovretta's answers, hate, hate, hate that the interviewer is using Dollhouse as a Strong Female Character reference point.

[giandujakiss]

Ooh, I missed that - yikes! Though actually, for the last few episodes, Echo did become a real character, so maybe that's what the reporter was referring to?

[elliemurasaki]

Aw, crap, I'm not gonna have to watch the second season, am I?

[giandujakiss]

I only watched the episodes once, so I'm really working from distant memory. I liked the futuristic episode, I liked how they started developing Echo but IIRC, the show finale (other than the futuristic episode) was kind of nonsensical.

Possibly I was bored and not really paying attention, though.

[elliemurasaki]

Yeah, I saw the future episode, that worked fine for me, and part of it was the five-year plan got cut short, but I missed like two-thirds of the season so I have no idea how much fail was plot concerns and how much was other concerns, or how much fail there was at all.

[ide_cyan]

You're more optimistic on that count than I am.

[elliemurasaki]

Looks to me like the point of similarity they're going for is less 'strong female character' and more 'female lead with female secondary lead', Buffy and assorted female friends, Xena and Gabrielle, Echo and Sierra or Echo and...what's her name, runs that Dollhouse. Bones might have worked but her secondary lead is obviously Booth, not Angela or Cam. Rizzoli and Isles doesn't have enough name recognition, far's I know. Fringe? The Closer? Gilmore Girls but mother-daughter is clearly not the dynamic they're after. And my knowledge of shows with female leads is now about exhausted.

[ide_cyan]

Lovretta brought up female friendships, not the interviewer.

[elliemurasaki]

Mm. That's still the best I can come up with for why the interviewer picked those shows to compare to, though.

[elliemurasaki]

I seriously need to catch up on that show.

[giandujakiss]

I am having a lot of fun with it.

[elliemurasaki]

I've just been distracted marathoning Gilmore Girls S1. So much is making sense now that I'm going through in chronological order instead of catching piecemeal on ABC Family.

[giandujakiss]

I loved that show for a while. It became sort of boring over time but then everything does. I rewatched all the eps when I became interested in Jared after SPN, though, and it was a completely different show - when I thought of Dean (Rory's Dean) as a secondary character, I wasn't paying much attention to him, but when I focused on what they were doing with him, his arc became very tragic and Rory became infinitely less sympathetic.