dalen
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2011-02-25 23-45-09
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I will come clean and admit that I have, and do, watch the horror that is the L Word. I don't feel it represents me, or 90% of Lesbian America, but yeah. I watch it. I KNOW, right? Anyone sick to death of this topic, feel free to click away, because I have some opinions. And yeah my opinions on it are just that. If you love it non-ironiy, or really think the women are hot, then more power to you. I think it's just another badly-crafted soap. The music and sound design suck (Betty? REALLY? Why not the far superior Wendy & Lisa?) the writing is awful, and most of the acting seems phoned in. Especially Pam grier, who I otherwise worship. The show has jumped the shark so many times, it should air on Animal Planet. The characters are, for the most part, thoroughly un-appealing, and the "hotness" of the women, with a few exceptions (Hello, Tasha!) seems very airbrushed, boring, Playboy/male gaze to me. I freakin' hated Season 1 - more het sex than faux-lesbian! - and when they added the Betty-spawned theme song in Season 2, I almost clawed my ears out. I actually hate the show. But yeah, I have watched it on and off. WHY, GOD, WHY!!!!???? I hate myself for it - but it's sort of like a train wreck for me - I cannot look away. But hey, I also loved the cardboard sets and whole-hearted, winky-cheese of Xena, Warrior Princess. So sue me. I don't pay Showtime for it, for what it's worth. It's just a TV show.
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