"L" is for Lackadaisical

The season finale of The L Word was on last night and damn, talk about going out with a whimper. (Or wait, maybe that was just the sound of Tina mewling to her pussy wussy man.)

First we'll go over the rundown and, of course, I have a somewhat extensive list of complaints.

• Helena Peabody was a scheming evil ladystealer last season. Not only was she abducted by aliens over hiatus and turned into the kindly, benevolent rich lady, she's also lost her fucking mind. First she allows Mrs. Ellen to blackmail her, now she's handing over 10k to Shane's long lost loser dad, no questions asked? This is the biggest personality 180 since the Vicky/Nicky scenario featured on One Life to Live. No small wonder Peggy cut her ass off.
• As I mentioned, Shane's dad is back in the picture after how many years. Played by Eric Roberts, he's not a nice person. And because Shane's apparently been beat with the same dum-dum stick as Helena, she's also being a moron about the entire situation.

• Carmen, poor Carmen. . . it's not easy having your whole familia finally accept and then fly in for your girl-on-girl wedding, but then to be left at the altar? Ay caramba.

• Jenny once again made me yearn for that anvil that's always dropping out of the sky on unsuspecting (yet deserving) cartoon characters. Last night was especially egregious. First off, she went out to dinner with a bunch of Moira/Max's work buddies. As the conversation was not all about her, she got pouty and started playing with her food. When the group made an effort to include her, she started talking about how she was writing a story about how she was a compulsive masturbater when she was twelve. Oooh, Jenny, you're so bad! Yawn. I've been forced to sit through dinner with these types and it's always way more pathetic than shocking.

• The Tina/Bette situation is so stupid I won't go into much detail, but let's just say if Tina's going to go for men, she could at least find one who won't always be running off with her curling iron. And Bette could not be that stupid, could she? Perhaps it's the high Canadian altitude that caused everyone's IQ to drop.

• Again, with the Jenny. She is being so cunty to Max/Moira because Max/Moira actually likes her job and wants to fit in. Jenny looks down on this and doesn't hesitate to give her shit about it. The thing that makes Max/Moira so poignant is that you can tell she/he is a born-freak who has spent her/his whole life looking in from the outside. All she/he wants is to be normal and fit in. Whereas Jenny is a pretty girl from a nice suburban family who has had to manufacture eccentricities and, most likely, lesbian tendencies, in order to be thought of as an outsider. As hard as Max/Moira works to fit in, Jenny works just as hard to be an irritating jackass who should've gotten this out of her system by the 11th grade at the latest. Can I just once again say how much I loathe this character. Again, why Dana?

Comments

[rose]

way too much jenny and some lame ass sex scene that verged on very creepy with alice and dana's ex, the chef, made it all seem even a bit worse than even too much jenny can make it.
and what is up with jenny's hair changing in every scene?

[judes]

I can't even think about the Lara/Alice storyline. Hopefully that'll be forgotten by next season. Yuck. Lara is another simpering ninny, always with the concerned empathy face.

You're so right about Jenny's ever-changing 'dos. Perhaps she should give up writing about her wank habits and get a license to cut hair. She can assist Shane at the skateboard shop and then maybe some outraged client will jam the scissors into Jenny's throat as she yammers on about her tormented childhood for the eighty-billionth time.

[Ivan]

There's no such thing as lebians--only women who go to incredible lengths not to sleep with men.

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