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Fade up on:
PREVIOUSLY ON THE L WORD:
Dana starts losing her hair so gets it shaved off with Shane
MoiraMax won’t get her surgery paid for by her insurance
MANgus tells Kit he wants to marry her
Helena and Dylan get close n hot n heavy
Shane in the shithouse with Carmen cause she's still sore over her fucking
Cherie
Bette revokes Tina's "life-partner privileges"
Bitch On Wheels puts doubts in Tina's mind over continuing with Angelica's
adoption
Bette walks silently around and around her Buddhist retreat, oblivious
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A woman plays piano in the neighbouring house. Er, isn't that the same woman
and same song as 'The Chart Flashback' scene LAST episode?! Tracy Bonham
etc?! Weird.....
Then we see Dana coming out of Alice's apartment. OHHHHH I see, it's
ACTUALLY a direct follow-on from 'The Chart Flashback' scene last episode.
Fair enough. Oh but wait a minute!
The legend on the screen says LOS ANGELES - SEVEN MONTHS AGO.
In last week's scene when they broke up it said seven and a HALF months ago!
Are you trying to tell me that Dana has taken 2 WEEKS between picking up her
bag and walking out the door?!
Er.... *confused*
Dana shuts the door behind her and stands in the hall crying. Then she
slowly walks off down the hall. Alice comes out and stands there, watching
her walk away, just as The Chart Crawl comes on the screen. The white line
goes to Bette, through to Alice then up to Dana. The line then disappears
and Dana's name is left alone in the middle of the screen. In the meantime
she's walked outside and to a car that's waiting for her. With LARA inside
it.
Dana gets in and Lara sees she's very upset. "It's bad..." Lara states, not
even needing to ask it as a question. Dana nods and Lara strokes her hair to
comfort her. The white line crawls from Dana's name to Lara's. Dana says
Alice is distraught but Lara tries to comfort her, telling her Alice will
move on eventually. "We all do" she says. Dana adds that she "hates being
the hurter, y'know?" Indeed we do Dana. You're a NICE person. NICE people
feel guilt and remorse etc.
Horrid people just blunder from one ruinous relationship to the next,
cutting a swathe of misery in their wake.
Dana thinks it's worse for the hurter, than the one who gets their heart
broken. I think I should just clarify that by saying: NO, it's NOT. You
never hear anyone say, "oh she broke up the relationship, she was
heartbroken" But you DO hear people say, "her girlfriend broke up with her -
she's heartbroken"
EXACTLY.
Lara says Dana can't give up her happiness just for Alice and moves in to
kiss Dana, but Dana stops her. Dana explains she's not ready, and that she
broke up with Alice NOT for Lara, but because her and Alice weren't working.
Lara just smiles and says it's ok. She's waited for her this long, she can
wait some more. "We've got all the time in the world" says Lara happily.
*can hear the bells of doom sounding off in the distance somewhere*
oh. dear.
Here's a little tip for those not in the know: whenever a character on a
soap or a drama series says something like that, it usually means the
opposite with happen. i.e. we have all the time in the world = we WONT have
all the time in the world e.g. the party will be nice and quiet, just a few
friends = the party will be loud, with loads of people and they'll trash the
place. e.g. everything's fine - it's not you, it's me = everything’s NOT
fine and it's SO you, NOT me!
I call it TV Reverse speak and it's usually used more so in soaps, but, when
a character in a drama says "we have all the time in the world" to another
character who has cancer, then unless an act of God intervenes, I'd say the
other character is either pretty much a goner, or, the first character is
gonna get hit by a bus or something!
Mark my words, the bells of doom are tolling, even if YOU can't quite hear
them yet......
Fade up on:
OPENING TITLES
Ok, there must be something wrong with me. I just sat through the whole of
the opening title sequence WITHOUT fast forwarding it.
*takes own pulse*
Maybe it's something I ate.....
Fade up on:
Bette, walking around in a silent circle with everyone else at her Buddhist
retreat.
*yawn*
She doesn't look very 'centered' and seems distracted and unable to focus
etc.
Cut to:
A brassiere, where Helena and Dylan are having a meal with Helena's adorable
children.
Helena's (mega cute) daughter asks if Dylan can come to a swimming lesson
with them.
Helena says Dylan can come ANYWHERE she wants to with them and puts a hand
on her arm affectionately. Dylan shrugs her touch off though, saying "don't
do that". Helena looks confused and says her kids are fine with that sort of
thing, but Dylan is obviously uncomfortable with PDAs and says as much.
(PDAs = Public Displays of Affection) Helena deals with it and turns her
attention back to her kids to take her mind off it.
Cut to:
Alice and Dana walking down the street, loaded with bags from a shopping
spree. They're talking about what outfit Dana should wear to help commentate
on a tennis match for TV. These two are always so natural and great together
- such fun to watch! They stop to look in a shop window and Dana comments
"It's like looking in a mirror" Inside the window of the shop is a display
dummy with clothes and jewellery on, but no hair. "Well, bald IS beautiful"
says Alice and Dana agrees.
Dana turns to Alice saying, "Thanks for coming with me" She thinks it's fun
doing stuff with Alice - they are best friends after all. A slightly awkward
conversation ensues then, about the fact that Dana is glad they're back to
being friends etc. Alice asks Dana if she misses Lara, and Dana says she
does, but that it's different when she's with Alice. When you have a best
friend that understands you so well, it's hard to replace that with anything
- even a lover.
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