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This was the first episode of the new season where I can honestly say that I enjoyed every single Alice scene and not once did I feel the urge to hide my face in my gf's shoulder rather than watch her behavior on screen. So yay about that! But before I get into my Alice fixated ramblings I have to say something about the intro for this episode.
Nuns having sex through their clothing while riding on a bus and traveling through a tunnel with psychotropic flashing lights surrounding them and music that adds to the mood of driving you fucking crazy and not in a good way isn't really a great idea for an episode introduction. What the fucking hell, IC? I mean, seriously, what the fucking hell! You know what that shit was like? It was like the lesbian nun bus version of the wondrous boat ride in Willy Wonka. Except more disturbing because it involved nuns and buses. The only thing that could've made that scene more fucked up is if they had played the Marilyn Manson cover of that song. Brrr… that song is freaky. I love Marilyn Manson but that song fucking really does traumatize me. Not quite in a I just watched Audition and I'm scared of my own fucking shadow sort of way but damn close to it. And because of that I will share the song with you now.
Wondrous Boat Ride (Willy Wonka) by Marilyn Manson: http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3B6F4SH8V46CI34OYVMQD2JOKL
I also have a hilarious dance remix of all the Oompa Loompa songs which is way more happy and far less traumatizing. Just leave me a comment if you want to hear it. Anyway! That opening scene was hella fucked up.
Once again we got to see Helena and her psychic. The most dorky perverse fangirl part of me wants to ship those two. Hey, they've had a good amount of screen time together. Almost as much as Helena and Tina in S2! lol. Okay, not really but I dislike Tina so whatever.
My god the relief on finding out that the tire slashing and the dinner with the cardboard Dana standee were just minor flashback sequences. And quite hilarious ones at that. Leisha really is a fucking comedic genius and those scenes did prove that but I think what I loved most about that scene was the fact it seemed as if Alice was coming back to us. I mean, how she spoke and her reactions in that scene were to me a callback to how she was in S1 and S2 and that makes me really believe that this is it, you know? I know spoilers say that Alice is supposed to freak out when Dana wins that tournament and kisses Lara or whatever but I'm wondering how bad that fallout is really going to be.
SKIPPING WAY AHEAD: That preview for the next episode made me so happy but in a totally petty way because I giggled at Sharon snapping at Lara when Dana is struggling in her tennis game. What makes Sharon snap at her, I think, is the fact that Lara acted like she was going to rush down onto the court to help Dana or something. Okay. Hello, brain to peep! Dana is in the middle of a fucking tennis match! You can't help her. But I so giggled when Sharon snaps at Lara, saying that she obviously doesn't know Dana because her daughter is as strong as an ox. I know it's mean and stupid because I bet Sharon would've done that to Alice if Danish was still dating and if she had I would've been pissed on Alice's behalf but since it was Lara it made me giggle with glee. I know! I felt joy at the peep getting an unjust smack down from gloriously bitchy Republican mother Sharon. I'm evil! I still found it funny though.
But to get back on track I think the worst of Alice's "insane" moments are over and done with. Which is super groovy, thanks for asking. Also to reveal my true and horribly superficial nature can I say how much I loved Alice in that boy scout shirt thing she had on when her KCRW boss comes to talk to her? She looked fucking adorable! But still sexy. How does she pull that off? Hrm. I really hope that Alice doesn't have that blow up on the air in the next episode because I think she's made to be on the radio and I would hate to see her lose her job.
Speaking of that, probably one of the single best short scenes was the one with Dana at the hospital when Alice's radio show comes on. It was kind of weird to me because before we had the scene with Alice and her boss saying she has to stop talking about Dana for the good of the show and her own job. What perplexes me is that most producers don't care about anything other than ratings and making sure they don't get fined into oblivion by the FCC. The thing is, we're already in episode three and we've had two ocassions where random people confess that they faithfully listen to Alice's radio show. Revealing that she has fans not only once but twice is a good sign Alice's show has pretty high if not at least decent ratings. That being so, it doesn't make much sense for her to get fired. ::Sigh:: I know I'm being such drama queen about Alice possibly losing this job but I really do fucking love it. Alice was totally made to host her own comedy show. It's like her super cute calling.
I especially loved the face the nurse made when Dana left and she realized who she had just been talking to. Hee. That was great.
It seems like Sharmen has replaced Danish as the new cute couple but more and more I'm not sure I like Carmen. The way she treated Moira was shitty and I totally get why Moira left that dinner party. And once again, I didn't really appreciate the way Carmen treated Alice when they were in her apartment and then the fact that Shane hinted about the shrine. I guess that clears up our questions on that though. Shane and the others knew about that fucking Dana shrine and let it exist. So yeah, Helena is pretty much Alice's only good friend at this point. The rest are content to let her just go completely insane.
When it comes to that dinner party and it got to the fucking topic of Moira being a Midwestern butch then Bette goes on this whole, "That's all she knows. This is her identity and in the Midwest she had to pick femme or butch and blah blah…" There was a HUGE collective groan at our L Word viewing party at our house. I'm in St. Louis, right? I grew up here but I've lived a ton of other places from NYC to LA to New Orleans to Las Vegas to Chicago. But I love St. Louis and I love the Midwest. People here, to me anyway, are so much more honest and down to earth and far less judgmental. Now people will start spouting shit like, "You're in the bible belt how can you say people aren't judgmental down there?!"
Maybe because of how Moira got treated at that fucking dinner party, that's how. She wouldn't have been treated that shitty in St. Louis, I can tell you that much. I dunno. No matter where you go you're going to be judged but having lived in all these different places I think the judging you get here is more about... who you are as a person and not about how you look. In LA and NYC you get judged immediately on your looks and it's kind of hard to move past that if you're pegged as uncool or whatever the fuck they say in the trendy gay club scenes there. Whereas in the Midwest there's not a lot of fixation on having the right clothes or whatever. I think that's why I like it here so much because I am so far gone from being a fashionista as you can get. I did okay in NYC and LA but only because I was going through my punker phases then and chicks like dyed hair and retro clothes. But that whole scene burned me up because it reminded me of countless ignorant ass encounters I'd have with fucking snotty poofters like Bette who would proceed to fucking tell ME, the person who grew up in the Midwest, how evil this area is to live in if you're a gay person. It's like, okay fucker, you've never gone past the state of Nevada and you're going to tell me what it was like growing up in Missouri as a dyke? You have no idea!
I don't have a chip on my shoulder about being from the Midwest but I've heard shit like this so often that it irks me. Especially since I love living here. But the introduction of Moira is fairly amusing because honestly, though a lot of people are sort of mocking her for being a stereotype or whatever she pretty much is an accurate depiction of what a lot of Midwestern lesbians look like. But you really can't judge, there are stone dykes everywhere. I am entertained by the fact that the people who first complained about the L Word in S1 saying the characters were too glitzy and too femme and blah blah they didn't look like real lesbians, well, hah, not to be judgmental or whatever but how much you want to bet a lot of them look like Moira? lol. So now IC has transplanted an example of the women who bitched about the L Word into the actual show itself.
Whooo! Fun!
I'm not sure who is more annoying though. The people who bitched about how the show doesn't accurately portray lesbians or that goddamn discussion they all had about what it's like being gay in the Midwest when they've never gone to this area themselves. Fuckers. You come here and see for yourself. If you can live a few days without your trendy ass clothing stores and I'm better than everyone else attitudes. That's right, imaginary characters! Come here!
My god I'm insane.
The scene in the bathroom left me strangely hopeful for Danish. Their relationship is truly fucked up right now but honestly… that was a good scene. I wish we knew a bit more about how Dana broke up with Alice. If she in fact did do a clean break instead of waffling and ending their romance that way. It left me mostly hopeful because of that final line from Alice about how Dana washes her hands is really cute and Dana looking quietly pleased at that compliment. But I think what bodes well for the Danish fans, besides the fact that Lara is not supposed to be around after episode six or seven, is that Lard scene at the end. Lara goes to hug Dana and I guess make the moves on her by cupping her breast and Dana shuts down completely and blocks Lara out. Something that Lara allows and climbs into bed.
That scene coupled with the preview for next week where we can see that Sharon has no great fondness for Lara doesn't really put that relationship in a good place. Plus there's that whole thing with Lara not being around after those episodes I listed above. Recently there's been some imdb spoiler posts about how Dana doesn't in fact die and her funeral is all a dream. Which is why Tonya and Tim are there. That would kick ass and make sense in a way.
But who the hell knows. IC is unpredictable. I'm just pleased to say that I've finally watched an episode in S3 where I loved all the Alice scenes. Yay!
Nuns having sex through their clothing while riding on a bus and traveling through a tunnel with psychotropic flashing lights surrounding them and music that adds to the mood of driving you fucking crazy and not in a good way isn't really a great idea for an episode introduction. What the fucking hell, IC? I mean, seriously, what the fucking hell! You know what that shit was like? It was like the lesbian nun bus version of the wondrous boat ride in Willy Wonka. Except more disturbing because it involved nuns and buses. The only thing that could've made that scene more fucked up is if they had played the Marilyn Manson cover of that song. Brrr… that song is freaky. I love Marilyn Manson but that song fucking really does traumatize me. Not quite in a I just watched Audition and I'm scared of my own fucking shadow sort of way but damn close to it. And because of that I will share the song with you now.
Wondrous Boat Ride (Willy Wonka) by Marilyn Manson: http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3B6F4SH8V46CI34OYVMQD2JOKL
I also have a hilarious dance remix of all the Oompa Loompa songs which is way more happy and far less traumatizing. Just leave me a comment if you want to hear it. Anyway! That opening scene was hella fucked up.
Once again we got to see Helena and her psychic. The most dorky perverse fangirl part of me wants to ship those two. Hey, they've had a good amount of screen time together. Almost as much as Helena and Tina in S2! lol. Okay, not really but I dislike Tina so whatever.
My god the relief on finding out that the tire slashing and the dinner with the cardboard Dana standee were just minor flashback sequences. And quite hilarious ones at that. Leisha really is a fucking comedic genius and those scenes did prove that but I think what I loved most about that scene was the fact it seemed as if Alice was coming back to us. I mean, how she spoke and her reactions in that scene were to me a callback to how she was in S1 and S2 and that makes me really believe that this is it, you know? I know spoilers say that Alice is supposed to freak out when Dana wins that tournament and kisses Lara or whatever but I'm wondering how bad that fallout is really going to be.
SKIPPING WAY AHEAD: That preview for the next episode made me so happy but in a totally petty way because I giggled at Sharon snapping at Lara when Dana is struggling in her tennis game. What makes Sharon snap at her, I think, is the fact that Lara acted like she was going to rush down onto the court to help Dana or something. Okay. Hello, brain to peep! Dana is in the middle of a fucking tennis match! You can't help her. But I so giggled when Sharon snaps at Lara, saying that she obviously doesn't know Dana because her daughter is as strong as an ox. I know it's mean and stupid because I bet Sharon would've done that to Alice if Danish was still dating and if she had I would've been pissed on Alice's behalf but since it was Lara it made me giggle with glee. I know! I felt joy at the peep getting an unjust smack down from gloriously bitchy Republican mother Sharon. I'm evil! I still found it funny though.
But to get back on track I think the worst of Alice's "insane" moments are over and done with. Which is super groovy, thanks for asking. Also to reveal my true and horribly superficial nature can I say how much I loved Alice in that boy scout shirt thing she had on when her KCRW boss comes to talk to her? She looked fucking adorable! But still sexy. How does she pull that off? Hrm. I really hope that Alice doesn't have that blow up on the air in the next episode because I think she's made to be on the radio and I would hate to see her lose her job.
Speaking of that, probably one of the single best short scenes was the one with Dana at the hospital when Alice's radio show comes on. It was kind of weird to me because before we had the scene with Alice and her boss saying she has to stop talking about Dana for the good of the show and her own job. What perplexes me is that most producers don't care about anything other than ratings and making sure they don't get fined into oblivion by the FCC. The thing is, we're already in episode three and we've had two ocassions where random people confess that they faithfully listen to Alice's radio show. Revealing that she has fans not only once but twice is a good sign Alice's show has pretty high if not at least decent ratings. That being so, it doesn't make much sense for her to get fired. ::Sigh:: I know I'm being such drama queen about Alice possibly losing this job but I really do fucking love it. Alice was totally made to host her own comedy show. It's like her super cute calling.
I especially loved the face the nurse made when Dana left and she realized who she had just been talking to. Hee. That was great.
It seems like Sharmen has replaced Danish as the new cute couple but more and more I'm not sure I like Carmen. The way she treated Moira was shitty and I totally get why Moira left that dinner party. And once again, I didn't really appreciate the way Carmen treated Alice when they were in her apartment and then the fact that Shane hinted about the shrine. I guess that clears up our questions on that though. Shane and the others knew about that fucking Dana shrine and let it exist. So yeah, Helena is pretty much Alice's only good friend at this point. The rest are content to let her just go completely insane.
When it comes to that dinner party and it got to the fucking topic of Moira being a Midwestern butch then Bette goes on this whole, "That's all she knows. This is her identity and in the Midwest she had to pick femme or butch and blah blah…" There was a HUGE collective groan at our L Word viewing party at our house. I'm in St. Louis, right? I grew up here but I've lived a ton of other places from NYC to LA to New Orleans to Las Vegas to Chicago. But I love St. Louis and I love the Midwest. People here, to me anyway, are so much more honest and down to earth and far less judgmental. Now people will start spouting shit like, "You're in the bible belt how can you say people aren't judgmental down there?!"
Maybe because of how Moira got treated at that fucking dinner party, that's how. She wouldn't have been treated that shitty in St. Louis, I can tell you that much. I dunno. No matter where you go you're going to be judged but having lived in all these different places I think the judging you get here is more about... who you are as a person and not about how you look. In LA and NYC you get judged immediately on your looks and it's kind of hard to move past that if you're pegged as uncool or whatever the fuck they say in the trendy gay club scenes there. Whereas in the Midwest there's not a lot of fixation on having the right clothes or whatever. I think that's why I like it here so much because I am so far gone from being a fashionista as you can get. I did okay in NYC and LA but only because I was going through my punker phases then and chicks like dyed hair and retro clothes. But that whole scene burned me up because it reminded me of countless ignorant ass encounters I'd have with fucking snotty poofters like Bette who would proceed to fucking tell ME, the person who grew up in the Midwest, how evil this area is to live in if you're a gay person. It's like, okay fucker, you've never gone past the state of Nevada and you're going to tell me what it was like growing up in Missouri as a dyke? You have no idea!
I don't have a chip on my shoulder about being from the Midwest but I've heard shit like this so often that it irks me. Especially since I love living here. But the introduction of Moira is fairly amusing because honestly, though a lot of people are sort of mocking her for being a stereotype or whatever she pretty much is an accurate depiction of what a lot of Midwestern lesbians look like. But you really can't judge, there are stone dykes everywhere. I am entertained by the fact that the people who first complained about the L Word in S1 saying the characters were too glitzy and too femme and blah blah they didn't look like real lesbians, well, hah, not to be judgmental or whatever but how much you want to bet a lot of them look like Moira? lol. So now IC has transplanted an example of the women who bitched about the L Word into the actual show itself.
Whooo! Fun!
I'm not sure who is more annoying though. The people who bitched about how the show doesn't accurately portray lesbians or that goddamn discussion they all had about what it's like being gay in the Midwest when they've never gone to this area themselves. Fuckers. You come here and see for yourself. If you can live a few days without your trendy ass clothing stores and I'm better than everyone else attitudes. That's right, imaginary characters! Come here!
My god I'm insane.
The scene in the bathroom left me strangely hopeful for Danish. Their relationship is truly fucked up right now but honestly… that was a good scene. I wish we knew a bit more about how Dana broke up with Alice. If she in fact did do a clean break instead of waffling and ending their romance that way. It left me mostly hopeful because of that final line from Alice about how Dana washes her hands is really cute and Dana looking quietly pleased at that compliment. But I think what bodes well for the Danish fans, besides the fact that Lara is not supposed to be around after episode six or seven, is that Lard scene at the end. Lara goes to hug Dana and I guess make the moves on her by cupping her breast and Dana shuts down completely and blocks Lara out. Something that Lara allows and climbs into bed.
That scene coupled with the preview for next week where we can see that Sharon has no great fondness for Lara doesn't really put that relationship in a good place. Plus there's that whole thing with Lara not being around after those episodes I listed above. Recently there's been some imdb spoiler posts about how Dana doesn't in fact die and her funeral is all a dream. Which is why Tonya and Tim are there. That would kick ass and make sense in a way.
But who the hell knows. IC is unpredictable. I'm just pleased to say that I've finally watched an episode in S3 where I loved all the Alice scenes. Yay!
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But first I need to learn to repress my obsessive need to babble and fixate my writing in a more linear fashion. Or something. lol.