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On top of it all...I don't think they ever really recovered from Lauren's betrayal during Kenzi's kitzune-napping.

And then we get to final straw that broke the camel's back...when the young delinquent beat the crap out of Lauren....something that had nothing to do with Bo except once again, highlighting how the fae have caused an endless mountain of grief for her.

I've read on some boards how some yearn for a real relationship between them for next year...a reunion that will showcase how they're totally OTPs.  

And my question for them is...have you seen season 3?  Because I have.  And as a former doccubus fan, it proved to me that they are about as incompatible for a long term relationship as you can get.

Some argued that only Lauren can make Bo happy...which is categorically and provably false.  It also misses the point.  

Bo didn't break up with Lauren...it was the other way around.  In fact, Lauren sideswiped Bo, told her she wasn't happy and that she felt she'd always be asking from Bo things she cannot give.  

But she doesn't ask Bo for time for them to be together to work things out.  She instead dumps this emotional waste on Bo, who is clearly flummoxed and left reeling from this spewage and simply ends them, leaving Bo with a sad little cardboard box and living in denial about them just being on a break.

Bo has no say in the matter, just like with Dyson.  Except here, it was Lauren's choice.  

Now the thing is, I agree with Lauren's conclusions...but I think she was entirely unfair in how she had this talk.  I'll give her a bit of a break because she was a mess because of the beat down.  But in truth, neither of them had been especially honest with each other and both focused on completely meaningless things rather than on the trust and entirely necessary foundational elements of a relationship.

They didn't communicate. They didn't discuss things ever, really.

Lauren's scene with Bo and Taft kind of emphasizes this point.  Yes, I know Lauren was putting on a show for Taft's benefit so that she could make up for her role in what was happening with Dyson and the other fae who were kidnapped and murdered by Taft... but I think she injected enough truth in it to keep Taft going...such as talking about how the fae ruined her life and teasing the fact that her name isn't Lauren.

Highlighting the fact that Bo doesn't really know her like she thinks she does.

The thing is though, that's on Lauren's head just as much as Bo's... in fact more so.  She's had more experience with relationships and it was her truth to tell.  But she doesn't tell Bo.

Then again, she lied to Nadia endlessly too about her feelings for Bo.  

So while I give Lauren props for being extremely talented and I think she has a good heart for caring for those in need, she suc-cubusses at relationships.

Look...I don't hate Lauren.  She's had a tough go with the fae, living as a slave essentially and sometimes literally in bondage.  I think she is at times poorly written though and right now, I don't like her a whole lot for how she yanked the rug out from beneath Bo and left her staggering in the wake of a completely unexpected breakup.

I hope the Karen Beattie thing isn't as lame an arc as what they did with her Nadia arc...with how quickly it came and went...but like I said at the start, the writers have not done her character any favors with how they've written her.  It's like a series of different writers wanting to take her into completely different directions with no sense of continuity.

Looking ahead, I anticipate that there will be a reunion of sorts, they'll work out some of their stuff... but other than a random dalliance or tryst now and then, I do not see them getting past what I think are fae-tal flaws.  

Bo will always be succubus.  And Lauren will always want more than Bo can give...which in this case I think is normality, monogamy and humanity.

I think that they will always love each other...but as the song goes, "Sometimes love just ain't enough."

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In Brazenwood, we have the fact that Tamsin is with her to begin with...that she dressed up for her to take her to lunch, that she stayed with her throughout the entire event.  We have the back and forth and Tamsin flirting and we have the kiss.

I concede the kiss was directly related to Trick and Stella...but those who are using that as an excuse to blow it off are missing three very key points.

First... the machine affected Bo, not Tamsin.  So it might have juiced her attractiveness quotient to eleven to make her irresistible, but that only merely confirms the base attraction between them both that they try to ignore for a wide variety of reasons.

Second...Tamsin may have initiated the kiss, but Bo reciprocated.  It was not one sided.  Bo did not push Tamsin away but rather Tamsin came to her senses and was the one to pull back.

Third...we do not see unscripted moments.  It's not like we have a hidden camera and are catching these things unaware.  

If they had wanted to, they could have had Bo kiss Dyson in the spin the bottle scene.

They could have had Bo be fully energized when searching for Kenzi and had Lauren at her side.

Bo could have been with Lauren when approached by the Spriggan and she could have been the one with her in Brazenwood.

But the writers put those moments in for a reason.  They are scripting these events to give us the viewers insight into something happening between them that cannot be fully realized because of the mountain of roadblocks between them.

Tamsin is drawn to Bo, is perplexed by her, is attracted to her and has feelings for her.  And it is this understanding that adds so much more depth to the Wanderer storm...because she's not just a mark.  Because she has feelings for Bo.

She seems to have everything under control until the hand in the box...and then she gives herself over and allows her feelings to morph into hate because that's so much easier for her to manage.  It's so much easier to destroy when you can't stand the person you're going after.

And then comes the despair and desolation.  The bathtub scene.  And I'm sorry, but a platonic friends does not get into their platonic friend's bubble baths and tell them how perfect they are.  This is yet another moment that, had the writers wanted to do so, could have been written in an entirely different way, in an entirely different setting...where Tamsin and Bo could have had a similar conversation with a totally different emotional resonance.

As an aside, I've wondered about what Bo was seeing in Tamsin's energy during that scene.  Broken Tamsin is pouring her heart out as best she can and is pressed against Bo's knees and Bo asks her what she's doing.  Interesting parallel...when Lauren kissed Bo leading up to the spybang, Bo asked her what she was doing too.  But in that case, Lauren was fully on and engaged.  Here, Tamsin is self-destructing and full of despair.  Could Bo see beyond that?  I'm not sure...she seems to be puzzled by the entire encounter but I'll bet she relived it several times thereafter, trying to make sense of all the signals she was picking up from Tamsin.  (Is it just me or does she look kind of like she was expecting Tamsin to kiss her at the end there?)

Next we have Tamsin living at Lauren's.  Again, this is scripted...not an accident.  The writers created yet another major interaction between Bo and Tamsin, leading up to them going to rescue Dyson, Tamsin taking a bullet for Bo and Bo learning of Tamsin's imminent betrayal, which must have confused the heck out of her given all the signals she had been receiving from Tamsin.

Little things like kisses and bathtubs and taking bullets.

A key interaction is Bo insisting she rescue Dyson and Lauren and Tamsin yelling at her, "why do you care so much?"  And you know she's thinking about how Bo went after Kenzi and how Bo asked about the dark coma fae guy when she learned she didn't kill the blonde hottie...and any number of other moments where Bo proved her perfection, even though she was blind to it herself.  

The virtuous succubus.  An impossible being.  An oxymoron.

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Then Bo learned that Tamsin was at the end of her lifecycle and is distressed by it.  And Tamsin finds out Bo knows about that and is upset...why? Because she doesn't want Bo to know her weakness?  To think less of her?

In Taft's cell, Tamsin seems genuinely distressed when Aife talks about Bo's father, perhaps she experienced that reality herself (being killed, revived and killed again over and over) or may it's an anvil for Season 4 for Tamsin...or maybe she just witnessed it in others.  But she clearly blanched when Aife was talking.

And she seemed to hurt for Bo...I don't think she was faking here like she did when she took Bo's hair.

The last character/relationship beat isn't the betrayal itself that falls flat when the potion doesn't work, nor is it the fight...but rather post fight when Bo sees through to the fact that Tamsin doesn't want to hurt Bo and that perhaps she's using Bo as that "sweet out" given her situation.

"You're more alive than anyone that I have ever met."

And here, Tamsin has a choice...and she makes it, even though she knows she's going to pay for it.  She joins Team Bo, and plays along when Bo speaks of a safe place because she knows there isn't one on earth.

"You're not like anyone I've ever met in any of my many lifetimes."

And Bo takes a step towards her, and to me it feels like energy is pouring off of her in waves leading up to a possible kiss...and Tamsin doesn't know what to do with it and so they move on.  Tamsin to her Thelma & Louise act with Dyson and Bo to a puff of smoke at the Dal.

Most if not all of these beats are how Tamsin has been affected and changed by Bo.  Mostly because Bo had been in a committed relationship and, even through the finale is still fairly preoccupied with it.

But Tamsin gave Bo things that neither Dyson nor Lauren did.  She trusted her when she shouldn't and no one else did and helped her save Kenzi...and she was honest with her in ways neither Dyson nor Lauren ever seemed to be able to be.

I think Tamsin has the potential of accepting Bo for who and what she is in ways that neither Dyson nor Lauren could and I think she holds keys to unlocking Bo's potential and her past and help propel her storyline forward.

In other words, I think Dyson and Lauren were important steps along Bo's journey...but I think she has out grown them...whereas I feel Tamsin embodies both her past and her future.

I think the writers have done a good job "setting the table" for a relationship in season 4 and/or beyond but who knows if that relationship is a long term romance or if seeing it only proves incompatibility, like seeing Doccubus realized did for me.

Will they follow through on what they set up?  Who knows?  lol  But I cannot imagine them writing all the beats...some of them sexually charged...without any intention of playing it out in one form or another.