Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer...

Yet, we never really got any and the ones we got didn't end up mattering in the end?

That still confuses me. Like, they made such a huge deal with the build up only for it to be tossed aside easily. It's almost as if they didn't know how to execute it thoroughly so they completely half-assed everything, and it shows. It's so frustrating.

Like, both of those things seem like pretty big deals in the scheme of things, especially the former, but it all gets swept under the rug and used in a...setup for a petty revenge plot?

While Lauren isn't my favorite character, I'm quite offended that they didn't take advantage of expanding her storyline. They could have gone to so many different areas with her, from her backstory to her impressive skills to be put into good use plot-wise, but instead they missed that great opportunity and underused her, greatly. We didn't even get to see what she was doing while she had sided with the Dark; like we kinda understood a little what she was doing, but there could have been so much more. I would have preferred that over all this Rayner/memory loss nonsense that happened for more than half of the season tbh.

It would've made more sense for Tamsin to have sacrificed herself, since she had set herself on a sort of redemption arc and they dropped hints all around, like this being her last life and whatnot.

I know, and it's the one thing I dreaded because I love Tamsin so much and I didn't want her to die, but at the same time it did make better sense than what the show decided to do. What happened with Hale hit me hard, and with Kenzi it was still sad, but it didn't really hit me as hard because we all know that this show was built around the friendship between Bo and Kenzi; without one there cannot be the other. So it truly is emotional manipulation because we know one will definitely be saved while the other probably not. And it sucks, it really, really does.

I think Lost Girl, in general, kind of forgotten its footing in this season. I liked the way things were setup in the previous seasons, there was an obvious plan of action and it worked well. But for some reason, the fourth season just didn't work, which doesn't make sense since, as you said, it should have been a continuation of S3. It just seemed like they had too much to deal with, and yet did so little with it at the same time. Like, those last few episodes was like a literal infodump that had so many things happening left and right and I got completely lost and confused, it's almost as if they had forgotten they had all this stuff before the season ended. I'm just disappointed because this show, as ridiculous as it can be, has always been on point at least in terms of their storytelling. Here? It was all disorganized and one huge mess.