middle of the night is the morning after all

[serene]

my thoughts are mellow and middle-of-the-nighty
it's 3am
my connections are gone -- my internet, my lover, my edit button
you will not read this until the morning, or until
connection is restored
and by then I may regain my edit button
and who will be the wiser?

I don't do bachelorhood like a bachelor
I don't eat out of cans or put my feet on the furniture
or fart really loudly
or surf the web for porn

Instead, I bake bread and wash dishes
and listen to Nanci Griffith
and watch The L-Word (*)
and work
and do laundry
and stay up late
being a husbandless wife
and I see the lingerie with a new eye
and I touch myself halfheartedly
because I've forgotten how to be when I'm alone

Surprisingly, I like it
I didn't think I would




(* So far, I've watched the first two episodes of season 3, and I am irritated. I may end up saying why in comments, so don't read them if you are spoiler-averse.)

Comments

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I like it.

I've never seen the L-Word.

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

Season 3 really annoyed me on so many levels. Season 4 is not much better. I watch as I will watch a lot of things that aren't great as I spend a lot of time nursing the babe, and I am perversely fascinated with how bad that show can be.

What in particular irritates you about S3 so far?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

So much, but it all boils down to the caricatures that take the place of characters. Examples below, but I knew when I started realizing that Jenny was the sane one in this season, I was not gonna like it.

1) The adoption social worker. Um, you work in LA, you do adoptions for a living, and you not only have trouble wrapping your brain around what two lesbians are gonna do for a male role model, but you've never *heard* of attachment parenting. I feel like they needed something for Bette to be righteously indignant about, since it was so interesting with the fundies who engaged her in season (was it one?). Bah.

2) Kit's son. Again, over-the-top hostile, and in this case, it's out of character for him. No need for it. No subtlety at *all*.

3) The girl in the restroom. Yes, it happens. Yes, it sucks. Yes, it's an important issue. But "Boys Don't Cry" did it well. This treatment of it just made me cringe, and wow, was that a long way to go (with the whole "gasp! you have a gun!" scene) for the "fun" of having a taser scene for Jenny to do.

4) Alice. Oh. My. God. Could she be any more of a fucking cliche of the spurned lesbian? (I know she's not a lesbian, but still.) I thought they had already dealt really well with the stalker ex-girlfriend when Shane's little groupie went blitzo. Why did they have to fuck with Alice?

I liked some things. The sweet scene in the hotel between Jenny and Moira. The end of episode 2, where they're sitting around thinking of words for "cunt". But I'm already waiting for the new shifty-eyed nanny to be some sort of scary psycho. Bleah.

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the social worker and Kit's son were totally over the top. It was really unnecessary. Sadly, I see this type of over the top black and white crap with TLW a lot. There is more of this kind of stuff as the season wears one, just to warn you.

The bathroom/taser thing was just bizarre and, yeah, paled in comparison to "Boys Don't Cry."

And, Alice, yeah. I won't give it away, but at the end of season three Alice becomes a much more three-dimensional character again, though it takes a while. I thought they really fucked with her character too much.

The thing that bugs about TLW for me is the lack of character continuity (Alice's psycho-ness in season three, Helena suddenly being friends with everyone, etc.) and fucked timelines. It shows really poor writing when timelines are clearly horked and when even I can tell that something is up in a blur of all night newborn care. It's just sloppy. Also, Jenny really, really grates on me. I just don't find her sympathetic or even that interesting. Mostly I watch for Alice, Shane and Bette these days.

And, yeah, I know I spend too much time thinking about a TV show. ;)

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

The last series was crap, and the one before was meh, but I'm feeling slightly more optimistic about this one. Mainly because of the last ep, which was *decent*, despite one particularly annoying scene.