The L-Word 2.9: Late, Later, Latent

[chicken]

I've discovered another thing I don't like about Jenny. When she says the word "fucking" as an adjective, as in, "you are so fucking pretentious" or whatever, she just sounds so earnest, like a 50-year-old I once knew who was trying to sound "hip" around the young 'uns by inserting the word "fuck" awkwardly into conversation. It's like, "hi, by the way I use expletives, you can tell I am such a damn liberated person, when really, I'm still this weird fucked up idiot."

In more happy news, Bette + Tina = hottt, finally, again. And it's as if they are no longer trying to make Helen three-dimensional at all. Any attempt has been abandoned in favor of making her unequivocally a control freak. Not that I'm complaining, because it gets Bette and Tina back together, but it isn't the most super writing in the whole world.

Mark's storyline is still disturbing how they're trying to make him relatively sympathetic compared to the other stupid straight guys. What's their ultimate purpose here?

Broody Shane is losing a bit of her veneer, but she's still interesting. And the Jenny/Carmen peeing thing made me go, "ew" -- not sure why.

I did love Dana's awkwardness around sex toys -- it was very cute. No Dana, it's not a bisexual thing, it's a lesbians pleasing themselves and each other any damn way they want to. And yeah, you should have practised putting that thing on a few times before the big moment, so you would seem smooth and together. :-) Adorable and funny. And of course Alice is still the funniest, all, "oh, I'm allergic to that one".

Comments

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Right, and I think people cannot be faulted for brain glitches, but they should try to be less careless, and I think people know the difference and are more than willing to be forgiving about carelessness.

I find that the people on Whedonesque have gotten much better about Spoiler labels over the last 18 months. When I first joined during the end of S6 Buffy, there were a lot of problems with people not Spoiler-tagging things when they should have, and the international members (who in Britain and Australia would be as much as one or two seasons behind, sometimes) really pushed to reform people's habits.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

It's a matter of self-governing of a fandom board and a certain level of civility and awareness that most Jossverse fans I've had the good fortune to know are willing to learn. With the L-Word boards, people took a personal affront to being asked to LJ-cut for even *a few days* past the episode, as if it were, not even an incredible burden for them, but downright outrageous to even suggest they do such a thing.

It was that attitude, more than anything, that sent me scampering back to my own Flist for L-Word discussion.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

But WHY do they have that attitude? Using a cut is a very simple task, not a burden! And it is mere courtesy to do so in many situations in which an image is too big, a poll breaks people's f-lists, or a post is simply too long, let alone spoilery.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I have *no* idea. It seems pretty darned basic to me, too. But the attitude turned me right off from those communities.