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So once again we foray into the Chaikenverse folks!
Keep that feedback coming - lovin' it as usual and really enjoying hearing
where you guys are all from in the world!
Fade up on:
PREVIOUSLY ON THE L WORD:
Tina gives Josh her card and tells him to call her.
MANgus tries to woo Kit by donning eyeliner and serenading her.
Moira tells Jenny that she's "not fish nor fowl"
Jenny gets Moira to dress up/drag up as a guy and thinks she's "hot" like
that.
Dylan and Helena scorch up the screen sitting down.
Alice 'gets on down' for a bite with Uta.
Dana tells her friends about the lump and her surgery.
Carmen tells Shane to act like she has a girlfriend after meeting Cherie.
Shane then promptly goes off to give Cherie a good seeing-to.
Fade up on:
A MUCH younger Bette sitting talking with a guy in a college dorm.
(Is that Siouxsie and the Banshees playing in the background? If so, our
Young Bette had TASTE!)
They are looking at a male nude B&W photo in a book by famous American
photographer, Mapplethorpe. (He was renowned for taking stylized, erotic
black and white portraits, flowers and naked guys. The cover pic on Patti
Smith's album Horses was by him btw)
Young Bette's (who is played by a different actress but still voiced by
Jennifer Beals) hand strays off the book and onto the crotch of her friend
(who turns out to be Coleman - Mr. Gay Cowboy - from last weeks opening
flashback scene) and finds him to be hard just from looking at the
photographs.
The two start to make out and very quickly are having sex.
It's all very wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am and soon Young Bette is looking off
to the side while Coleman plows away.
"You ok?" asks Coleman, stopping.
"You're fucking that guy in the photograph" states Young Bette.
Coleman promptly gets off her and sits on the bed, embarrassed.
"It's ok" says Young Bette......."I do it too" - referring to fucking one
person and thinking of another.
"You do? Who?"
"Professor Danica Palmer" answers Young Bette.
And I'm presuming from Coleman's expression that Danica is a woman's name.
Ahhhh, our Young Bette started out Young indeed! ;-)
OPENING TITLES
"Girls in tight dresses
who drag with moustaches......"
Let me tell you folks, ANY girl coming onto me in a tight dress, wearing a
moustache is gonna get mighty short shrift!
Just let's sing along and pretend the theme music is Breathe by Melissa
Etheridge shall we?
You know it makes sense.
FADE UP ON:
Our favourite lothario hairdresser, sneaking back into the house after
spending the night showing Cherie Jaffe just what you CAN do with a strap on
and some enthusiastic initiative.
But Shane is not to be that lucky, as Carmen is lying on the sofa waiting
for her.
"Did you fuck her?" asks Carmen, straight out.
Shane, much like a rabbit caught in headlights between a rock and a hard
place just stands there, trying to find something to say to justify her
actions.
She ends up just hanging her head in shame and defeat.
CUT TO:
A pile of books on a table next to a clock.
Btw, one of the books is Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, so I'm
guessing the person in this scene will be Bette.
Ohhhhh hello! It's BETTE! ;-)
sitting in bed next to Tina, early in the morning.
Well, I SAY "next to", but from the look of it, it has to be one of the
biggest double beds I've ever seen, cause in the middle of Tina lying there
and Bette sitting there, there's at LEAST 5 miles of space between them!
Oh. Ok. Maybe not 5 miles.
Maybe more like 5 feet, but still, I'm sure you see where I'm headed with
this...
How has the Bette/Tina relationship gone quite so wrong over this season?
It's so heartbreaking to witness the demise of their once-solid love for
each other.
"Have you fucked him yet?" asks Bette
Tina, rouses herself and eventually answers no.
They continue to talk about Tina's attraction to men/her internet dalliance
etc and all the while we see, literally and metaphorically, the distance
between them.
"So, is there a real man in the real world somewhere?" asks Bette, trying to
be all stoic.
Tina confesses that there is, and his name is Josh.
Bette recognizes that name and confirms that he's the producer that Tina is
working with.
Tina says she doesn't even know if Josh fancies her and Bette counters with
the fact she's heard her partner on the phone with him - you can't flirt
that much unless the other person in the conversation is flirting back etc.
Tina gets up and leaves the room whilst Bette sits there with all her anger,
doubts and fears. |
