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by **Freezer-TPF-** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:40 pm

I watched the first one last night. It had the usual roughness of a pilot but it wasn't bad. It could turn out to be pretty good if they can build a decent mythology and improve some of the line delivery, especially on the comedic bits.

by **Remus West** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:08 am

I watched S1/E1 last night and started in on E2 before noticing the time and realizing I needed to go to bed. I liked it a lot. Seems like it will be a little campy but fun. I can see it being a big guilty pleasure. I have E2 and 3 on DVR so will watch them and E4 is set to tape next Monday. Absolutely enthralled by the eyes of the "sidekick" actress.

by **Smoove_B** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:59 am

She's in E3 way more and her eyes are indeed out of control. Also, this week's Fey creature took me back to old school - mid 80s AD&D. If invoking nostalgia is part of their plan, it's working.

Spoiler:

by **LordMortis** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:06 pm

Or mid 80s AD&D made for TV Movies.

It's still being TiVo'd but I'm not sure it will make the cut. I can't tell if it's my mood or the show right now, so it's still getting a chance.

by **Odin** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:17 pm

Lost Girl is definitely on my list of shows I look forward to and enjoy watching.

by **Smoove_B** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:46 pm

I'm enjoying it, but if my TV time was filled with tons of other shows right now, I could easily see me dropping it. Another good scheduling decision by SyFy I guess -- I remember thinking the same things about Warehouse 13 and Eureka. This show has held my interest more than Terra Nova and Alcatraz, so that's something.

by **bb2112** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:27 am

I agree the acting is a little rough and the production values have been a lacking, but I think it has a lot of potential. My wife actually likes the show better than I do. It may have something to do with that werewolf character, but that's ok, I'm waiting for the lesbian action. But we are both big Buffy fans, so hot supernatural chicks are cool by us. Maybe Joss Whedon can come in and help the scripts a little.

by **bb2112** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:31 am

Smoove_B wrote:I'm enjoying it, but if my TV time was filled with tons of other shows right now, I could easily see me dropping it. Another good scheduling decision by SyFy I guess -- I remember thinking the same things about Warehouse 13 and Eureka. This show has held my interest more than Terra Nova and Alcatraz, so that's something.

I have Alcatraz taped, but haven't had a chance to watch it yet. However, I do love Terra Nova. Probably my favorite of the new shows. The leader of Terra Nova makes the series.

by **Odin** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:26 am

bb2112 wrote:
Smoove_B wrote:I'm enjoying it, but if my TV time was filled with tons of other shows right now, I could easily see me dropping it. Another good scheduling decision by SyFy I guess -- I remember thinking the same things about Warehouse 13 and Eureka. This show has held my interest more than Terra Nova and Alcatraz, so that's something.

I have Alcatraz taped, but haven't had a chance to watch it yet. However, I do love Terra Nova. Probably my favorite of the new shows. The leader of Terra Nova makes the series.

I've got Alcatraz in "record now, watch someday" mode. I'm actively watching Lost Girl and continuing to enjoy it. Although this week I confused it with "New Girl" on my DVR - that was a bit of a shock.

by **Remus West** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:18 am

Smoove_B wrote:She's in E3 way more and her eyes are indeed out of control. Also, this week's Fey creature took me back to old school - mid 80s AD&D. If invoking nostalgia is part of their plan, it's working.

Spoiler:

Damn it. I think I fell in love when she did the little happy dance after seeing Dyson in the bathroom and then for some reason my DVR - which said it had the full hour taped suddenly decided it only taped 12 friggin minutes of the show and quit.

Anyone know where to find full episodes online? The shows main page doesn't have them and they are not available from Amazon. Are they out on DVD in Canada?

by **bb2112** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:40 am

Remus West wrote:
Smoove_B wrote:She's in E3 way more and her eyes are indeed out of control. Also, this week's Fey creature took me back to old school - mid 80s AD&D. If invoking nostalgia is part of their plan, it's working.

Spoiler:

Damn it. I think I fell in love when she did the little happy dance after seeing Dyson in the bathroom and then for some reason my DVR - which said it had the full hour taped suddenly decided it only taped 12 friggin minutes of the show and quit.

Anyone know where to find full episodes online? The shows main page doesn't have them and they are not available from Amazon. Are they out on DVD in Canada?

We still have it. If you want to come over you, can watch it here. We wouldn't mind seeing it again.

by **Asharak** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:59 am

Remus West wrote:Anyone know where to find full episodes online? The shows main page doesn't have them and they are not available from Amazon. Are they out on DVD in Canada?

The show's Canadian Website has all of them, although I would find it delightfully perverse if you Americans had to suffer from the reverse of the region-blocking that makes so many American web video services completely useless to us Canadians.

- Ash

by **Smoove_B** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:03 pm

Wow -- that's the first time I've seen that! They are hosting the episode, but I was advised that I cannot because of my country of origin. :shock:

I would be amazed if SyFy isn't airing it again between now and Monday.

by **Asharak** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:02 pm

Smoove_B wrote:Wow -- that's the first time I've seen that! They are hosting the episode, but I was advised that I cannot because of my country of origin.

Muahahaha. :twisted:

Now -- I'll trade you access to Lost Girl for, say, being able access all of Hulu or a version of Netflix that doesn't manage to both suck and blow at the same time. Deal?

- Ash

PS> More seriously, I'm sorry it doesn't work. That said, while I'm not too surprised that it doesn't, I would be very surprised if they have anything like Hulu's anti-proxy setup in place, so if you really want to see it, it might be worth trying that route. And hey, if that works, there's no reason you can't keep going and watch the rest of the first two seasons...

PPS> More generally on topic, yes, Ksenia Solo is absolutely captivating.

by **theohall** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:09 pm

Asharak wrote:
Remus West wrote:Anyone know where to find full episodes online? The shows main page doesn't have them and they are not available from Amazon. Are they out on DVD in Canada?

The show's Canadian Website has all of them, although I would find it delightfully perverse if you Americans had to suffer from the reverse of the region-blocking that makes so many American web video services completely useless to us Canadians.

- Ash

Being a hockey fan, I already knew this "reverse" region blocking exists - no CBC or TSN online broadcasts available via the internet in the US of A. Discovered this years ago when trying to find hockey games online before atdhe fixed the issue.

Smoove_B wrote:I would be amazed if SyFy isn't airing it again between now and Monday.

SyFy is re-airing the first three Lost Girl Episodes tonight starting at 10pm ET.

by **Remus West** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:52 pm

theohall wrote:SyFy is re-airing the first three Lost Girl Episodes tonight starting at 10pm ET.

I set the DVR to grab any episode aired so it should grab it but I must remember to double check so I don't miss it.

edit: also, I've been able to find hockey games. I'll have to double check my bookmarks at home and if I can point you somewhere helpful (they may just be Red Wing sites and I doubt you'd be interested in those. :wink:

)

by **Remus West** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:53 pm

amazon.ca says they will be out in March. Any Canadian OOers willing to order them for me? Any issues with playing Canadian DVDs on American dvd players? I don't think they'll hit the international issues there since both are North american region but I admit to ignorance.

by **hepcat** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:57 pm

Remus West wrote:amazon.ca says they will be out in March. Any Canadian OOers willing to order them for me? Any issues with playing Canadian DVDs on American dvd players? I don't think they'll hit the international issues there since both are North american region but I admit to ignorance.

Canadian DVD's are actually Betamax tapes. They're working on the tech though.

by **Remus West** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:38 pm

hepcat wrote:
Remus West wrote:amazon.ca says they will be out in March. Any Canadian OOers willing to order them for me? Any issues with playing Canadian DVDs on American dvd players? I don't think they'll hit the international issues there since both are North american region but I admit to ignorance.

Canadian DVD's are actually Betamax tapes. They're working on the tech though.

Ha. I have a Betamax player. :mrgreen:

by **Odin** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:54 am

Now it's my turn to play the ignorance card, but can you not simply order from Amazon.ca? I know I've bought stuff from the UK Amazon in the past (though admittedly that was like 10 years ago).

by **Odin** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:34 am

More on topic, I just watched this week's episode and I remain firmly hooked. It's a little cheesy at times, but overall the characters are interesting, the acting's decent, and the fae monsters-of-the-week are consistently fun.

by **Remus West** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:40 am

Odin wrote:Now it's my turn to play the ignorance card, but can you not simply order from Amazon.ca? I know I've bought stuff from the UK Amazon in the past (though admittedly that was like 10 years ago).

Don't know. I figured if Canadian TV was going to cut me off for being American so would Amazon. I'll give it a shot though.

by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:46 am

I know that when I tried to order a copy of EA Sports Cricket from .uk, I could have it overnighted to Liechtenstein, but not delivered to the US due to software export restrictions.

by **Terrified** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:48 pm

Remus West wrote:amazon.ca says they will be out in March. Any Canadian OOers willing to order them for me? Any issues with playing Canadian DVDs on American dvd players? I don't think they'll hit the international issues there since both are North american region but I admit to ignorance.

We are both region 1 so there should be no issues playing them. And if you're unable to find a way, I'd happily be your Canadian source. Let me know if you still don't have a source come March and we can work out the details.

I'll reiterate that I'm not claiming Lost Girl is the greatest thing since sliced bread. (If you could only watch one TV series, I could give you a few I'd watch ahead of this, including Game of Thrones) But I am really happy to see a Canadian production doing well for itself and it is a fun show.

by **hepcat** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:18 pm

Fun is the selling point for me. I still watch Supernatural each week and this show reminds me a little of that. However, I like the change of pace from shows like Supernatural in that they don't spend 10 minutes showing the leads researching the villain of the week (not that I dislike that, it's just a nice change up is all). Hopefully, as the show goes on, we'll see an even more humorous side to the leads like we do with the brothers in Supernatural.

And like Remus, I can't get enough of wig chick. rowwr...

...yeah, "rowwr" struck me as creepy even as I was writing it. :oops:

by **Remus West** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:55 pm

She is 25. I need to keep telling myself that in an effort to feel less creepy.

by **Remus West** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:55 pm

Terrified wrote:
Remus West wrote:amazon.ca says they will be out in March. Any Canadian OOers willing to order them for me? Any issues with playing Canadian DVDs on American dvd players? I don't think they'll hit the international issues there since both are North american region but I admit to ignorance.

We are both region 1 so there should be no issues playing them. And if you're unable to find a way, I'd happily be your Canadian source. Let me know if you still don't have a source come March and we can work out the details.

I'll reiterate that I'm not claiming Lost Girl is the greatest thing since sliced bread. (If you could only watch one TV series, I could give you a few I'd watch ahead of this, including Game of Thrones) But I am really happy to see a Canadian production doing well for itself and it is a fun show.

Thanks. I'll let you know when I try to preorder tonight.

by **$iljanus** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:06 pm

I found out this piece of happy news:

SyFy picks up season 2 of Lost Girl

I'm really enjoying the show. The cast is starting to gel, the plots are more interesting and the low-budgetness doesn't bug as much. Also our friends to the North were kind enough to provide us with a complete season 2 so SyFy will be airing it right after season 1 ends in the US. Between this and the SyFy version of Being Human, I can almost forgive the SyFy channel for cancelling Caprica!

by **Remus West** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:15 pm

by **Odin** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:18 pm

$iljanus wrote: Between this and the SyFy version of Being Human, I can almost forgive the SyFy channel

Agreed! Those two shows are EXCELLENT and along with Eureka! and Warehouse 13, make up for a lot of the Sci-fi Channel's mistakes over the years. Well, a few, anyway.

by **Pyperkub** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:40 pm

Wife and I enjoyed the first two so far. In fact, after the pilot she asked if we had another... so we watched that too. I'm just concerned that I may have missed an episode, as I tivo'ed the 3 episode marathon, and then we didn't watch for a few days before I actually setup the series recording. We picked up at least one more, but I'm not sure if it will be #4 or even later with a gap.

by **Shinjin** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:05 am

Enjoying the show overall, but does Woody the Werewolf get any better?

by **Zenn7** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:09 am

After reading this thread, I dvr'd the 3 episode marathon to watch with the wife. Not really sure what to expect, but we're both enjoying the ABC show "Once Upon a Time".

I'm telling her, there's fey creatures in there. Fey? Like fairies and elves and such. Oh. So the only fey creatures she thinks of are literally fairies and elves and other general cute/nice/fairer types.

Enter: Lost Girl - succubus, werewolf, will-o-wisp.

Wife's got no idea what most of these creatures are. Two episodes in, she's done. Too dark for her. Definitely, not even close to Once Upon a Time.

Me: still looks kinda interesting, will have to check out more.

by **Remus West** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:28 am

Pyperkub wrote:Wife and I enjoyed the first two so far. In fact, after the pilot she asked if we had another... so we watched that too. I'm just concerned that I may have missed an episode, as I tivo'ed the 3 episode marathon, and then we didn't watch for a few days before I actually setup the series recording. We picked up at least one more, but I'm not sure if it will be #4 or even later with a gap.

I believe they have only aired 4 so far so you should be good.

by **Pyperkub** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:50 pm

Remus West wrote:
Pyperkub wrote:Wife and I enjoyed the first two so far. In fact, after the pilot she asked if we had another... so we watched that too. I'm just concerned that I may have missed an episode, as I tivo'ed the 3 episode marathon, and then we didn't watch for a few days before I actually setup the series recording. We picked up at least one more, but I'm not sure if it will be #4 or even later with a gap.

I believe they have only aired 4 so far so you should be good.

Nah, we missed 4 (and can't watch the showcase.ca version of 4 due to region locking. I did find one site streaming it, but it looked sketchy), dvr started with 5. Loved Kenzi in ep 3 - teh wife and I were rolling at some of her lines. Bonus was the Dollyrots "Because I'm Awesome" in the sorority. That song cracks me up.

by **Terrified** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:34 pm

Shinjin wrote:Enjoying the show overall, but does Woody the Werewolf get any better?

Are you talking about Dyson? The non-spoiler answer is yes, he gets better. But then he gets worse.

The spoiler answer?

Spoiler:

by **Terrified** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:40 pm

bb2112 wrote:I'm waiting for the lesbian action. But we are both big Buffy fans, so hot supernatural chicks are cool by us. Maybe Joss Whedon can come in and help the scripts a little.

Funny you should mention Whedon. In an interview with Anna Silk ("Bo"), she said
"I love that this show has a strong female lead," she says. She brushed up on other female ass-kickers to gain inspiration -- from Sarah Michelle Gellar's fearless' Buffy' and Kate Beckinsale's steely Selene in 'Underworld.'

by **Smoove_B** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:54 pm

Just watched episode eight last night ("Vexed") and I was pretty impressed. They're doing a good job of working in the larger story elements back into the series...for a few weeks there it was very monster-of-the-week focused...which was fine, but I'm glad they're back to filling in some of the blanks with the bigger story.

She's still ridiculous and I have given up trying to figure out what Kenzi's natural hair is.

by **Odin** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:04 pm

I still can't decide whether I think the addition of the Witchblade is cool or a rip-off, but I'm leaning toward cool (even if it is a rip-off). Still love the show, though. Anna Silk is amazingly hot.

by **$iljanus** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:12 pm

Odin wrote:I still can't decide whether I think the addition of the Witchblade is cool or a rip-off, but I'm leaning toward cool (even if it is a rip-off). Still love the show, though. Anna Silk is amazingly hot.

Heh, I knew that cool looking weapon reminded me of something. I also liked the Witchblade TV series and it was unfortunate that the lead actress had a drinking problem which led to the shows early demise.

I also still like the show, the supporting cast is stepping up rather nicely and this week's episode had more of the mysterious season story arc in it. But as much as I like our plucky Succubus she needs an episode or two where she's taught some humility by the fae powers that be for some good character development.

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