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Finally got to see last Wednesday's episode last night (Tuesday), which at least means I don't have long to wait till the next one. Yayy!
Okay, well, hooray. This season is really hitting its stride now, and this post is going to be long and scattered, so I will put in sub-headings to aid your reading.
Why I Hate Carmen
Because she is very like my bad ex - let us call her the Thornlady - who similarly turned on people and crushed them if they didn't conform to what she thought was the Only Right Way to do emotions. As Tangent very perceptively put it, she was the type who said we need to talk (always, of course, at a time and in a place of her choosing) when what she meant was there is a very specific thing I want you to tell me, and if you don't guess what it is straightaway, that can only be because you are a really bad person, so I will be entirely justified in explaining to you at length what a bad person you are and how blameless I am. And Carmen really reminds me of her - I mean, if you see that someone's hiding from you, you don't walk in on that person unless you actually have something to say to them that might help the situation, rather than just bothering them. That's why I'm so overjoyed about
Mark Being Shane's Samurai Servant
Joy! Genuine selflessness; someone who is actually going to do what Shane needs, not, in the manner of Carmen, try and force her into talking "for her own good" as and when it happens to suit Carmen. That's what my girl needs. The difference between them, for me, was really summed up in the priest's line at the end of Shane's confession, about how she might find there are people who don't want anything from her "except to know her" - dude! Don't you know that's totally the scariest thing you could ever want from anyone, particularly a hidey butch? And that's what Carmen keeps demanding from Shane - that she lay her emotions and fears and stuff right out there for Carmen to look at and tinker with, and really, why should she? I'm with Shane on that one. Keep hiding, Shane!
I find it a bit hard to articulate quite why I love it being the straight boy who is Shane's knight, but I really do.
(What was that? What will happen when Shane finds out about the hidden cameras? Well, in answer to your question: la la la I can't hear you shush.)
Shane Is A Hidey Butch
I have just invented the term "hidey butch" for a butch who doesn't want to talk about it, which is a valid lifestyle choice - I mean, obviously, sometimes you do have to talk about stuff, but it's a question of style. It's just mean to make a hidey butch strip off all her layers of skin like Aslan and Eustace in the dragon-skin in Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Jenny - Victim of Homophobia?
I have to say I would probably have sacked Jenny for sitting on my sofa and saying "Oh, golly gosh, I never thought of my girlfriend as a tomboy - I just think she's bee-yoo-ti-ful" rather than watching any of my movies, so I'm not entirely sure that Burt Connor did fire her for being gay, you know? Though I did enjoy the Inappropriate Slash Summary of the movies ("I loved that one with all the hurt/comfort - it was so romantic!")
Nothing else of enough weight to have a sub-heading. Loving the Dana/Alice relationship and the evolving discussions about topping and strap-ons - I hope that keeps developing. Oh my God, and Lara is back! Squee! I just don't know what's going to happen there, but on the whole my fingers are in my ears and I am singing la la la about what a perfect couple Dana and Alice are and how they need lots more time to get to know each other better. (They are good at fighting, too, which is always nice to see on the telly.) Bette is hopefully on the up-swing from her 50s-husband low point - I only had to tell her off once this episode.... can't think of anything else... |
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