The L Word
Jan. 19th, 2004 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpThere was so much hype about the show, and hey, it was a show about lesbians, so of course I had to check it out. Jen, Missy Goodtimes and I drove out to suburbia to visit Cari and borrow her television and her comfy bed. It was... okay.
Jen made a good point that the plot, storyline, and dialogue of the show is actually significantly better than a lot of lesbian movies - and this is very true. The dialogue isn't nearly as flat as, say, Go Fish, without a doubt. The characters may have some sort of substance but this hasn't really been fleshed out yet. The good thing is that this is a weekly series rather than a movie, so we can expect further developments. Hopefully they will be good ones.
I was annoyed because all of the women looked the same. I realize they are probably trying to sell this show to a mainstream audience and that it is being produced by mainstream people, but really - couldn't we have had a little variation? Lots of waifish women with long, trendy hair, metropolitan business clothes, and lots of makeup. I kept looking for additional glimpses of the occasional punk or butch extra. Heck, the one character admonished in the show for looking "like a dyke" really just looked like half of the hair stylists at my salon (Studio Posh).
So yeah, I don't know. And what was with the phenomenon that was one character repeating what another character had just said? Did we not have script writers that day? *shrug*
I guess it didn't seem terribly realistic to me. I mean, I can't imagine sitting around a coffee shop with 6 of my closest and most identical friends, talking about nothing but "gay" this and "lesbian" that. Then again, I don't have a lot of queer friends that I see on a regular basis... but I can't imagine hanging out at Peas and Sarah's place and being sure to use the word "lesbian" every two minutes. I'll have to try it sometime.
I want the show to put some big tough butch hottie on it... or at the very least some sporty tomboy. Come ON, people! (At least that Marina chick had a really sweet ass...)
p.s. I hadn't seen Cari's kids in like four million years and they are now freakishly tall. There is something SERIOUSLY WRONG with having someone's 12-year-old daughter tower over you. Oy!
Jen made a good point that the plot, storyline, and dialogue of the show is actually significantly better than a lot of lesbian movies - and this is very true. The dialogue isn't nearly as flat as, say, Go Fish, without a doubt. The characters may have some sort of substance but this hasn't really been fleshed out yet. The good thing is that this is a weekly series rather than a movie, so we can expect further developments. Hopefully they will be good ones.
I was annoyed because all of the women looked the same. I realize they are probably trying to sell this show to a mainstream audience and that it is being produced by mainstream people, but really - couldn't we have had a little variation? Lots of waifish women with long, trendy hair, metropolitan business clothes, and lots of makeup. I kept looking for additional glimpses of the occasional punk or butch extra. Heck, the one character admonished in the show for looking "like a dyke" really just looked like half of the hair stylists at my salon (Studio Posh).
So yeah, I don't know. And what was with the phenomenon that was one character repeating what another character had just said? Did we not have script writers that day? *shrug*
I guess it didn't seem terribly realistic to me. I mean, I can't imagine sitting around a coffee shop with 6 of my closest and most identical friends, talking about nothing but "gay" this and "lesbian" that. Then again, I don't have a lot of queer friends that I see on a regular basis... but I can't imagine hanging out at Peas and Sarah's place and being sure to use the word "lesbian" every two minutes. I'll have to try it sometime.
I want the show to put some big tough butch hottie on it... or at the very least some sporty tomboy. Come ON, people! (At least that Marina chick had a really sweet ass...)
p.s. I hadn't seen Cari's kids in like four million years and they are now freakishly tall. There is something SERIOUSLY WRONG with having someone's 12-year-old daughter tower over you. Oy!
