The L Word

[charmax]

So I have just finished watching this weeks L Word and my thoughts on the season are …

It was a pretty decent ending to the season with Bett and Tina finally having their baby. It finished off the pregnancy storyline whilst leaving open for next season Alice and Dana’s relationship issues, Jenny’s mental health problems and Bett’s unemployment.
Am I the only one though, that felt embarrassed at the horribly stilted lesbian politics discussion at the wake?
On the whole I have been quite disappointed with the writing this season, characters have behaved erratically and characters and storylines have disappeared without any adequate explanation. I love Dana and Alice and I find their insecurities quite endearing. Shane remains a good representation of a kind of dyke you find in the “real world” that never usually shows up on TV. 

Next season though I can only hope certain things happen/don’t happen

1. Less Betty and specifically less of the L Word theme tune popping up in weird
   variations during the show.
   
2. Less strange sound effects!! Was that “Shane Shane Shane” during that sex
   scene?! And didn’t Tina hear some “Bett Bett Bett” sound effects some
   time? rofl
   
3. Ok I get it – Jenny is an “artistic” type who’s driven her self a little crazy
   so no more friggin circus dream sequences! Please god!
   
4. Please please please give Jenny and Alice something decent to wear next season.
   
5. Please please please bring back that monstrous movie producer! I luvvved her lol
   
6. And please god let them handle the self harm storyline in a realistic and
   sensitive way.

So I will probably be watching next season in the hope that it improves.

Comments

Oh, now time for my thoughts

[xandra-ptv.livejournal.com]

I thought the entire season was slow and was disconnected from season one. I didn't buy the cop out of Tonya cheating on Dana, Tonya was a nut last season, she killed dana's cat and now they just forgot about it. Also i don't get what's going on with Jenny. It's pretty bad when they go an entire season and don't reveal anything about it that makes sense. I can't believe the writing has been so poor, but yet i still haven't been able to turn away from the train wreck. I just feel that they are trying so hard to make things easy televison that they forget to actually make it interesting. I mean the most interesting plot they were gonna have this season fizzled right at the start (Kit and Ivan) but they couldn't even leave it there, they had to make it even more contribed, Ivan had a girlfriend? wtf.