"The L Word" Recaps: Episode 5.12 "Loyal and True"

"I don't kiss girls who wear doilies"

Thanks sooo much for your recaps. Sometimes I may hate the episode but love the recap :)

9 & 1/2 months to go until Season 6.... <sigh>

Oh scribe,

You will be SORELY missed at AE, but so so so glad to see you will (likely) be returning to recap the last season. It just wouldn't be right if you didn't!

http://legallyout.blogspot.com

"I feel like this episode is a Choose Your Own Adventure book and I keep making the wrong choice and ending up abandoned in the desert or on a planet with a toxic atmosphere."

this was such an appropriate analogy! Episode 12 SUCKED!!!

"She does? Surely she hasn't said that this season; we've heard almost nothing from her. We may even have heard more from her mother. Not that I'm complaining."

The original line was "What starts in chaos, ends in chaos." and is from episode 7 of season 3. Dylan had Helena pressed against her office door and was trying to have her way with Helena, when Helena said it.

Bring back Dylan for season 6!

Like you've been told a gazillion times on this board, your recaps are better than the actual show. As I've said previously (don't expect you to recall, though): you can crack me up with ease but it's the poignant moments in your writing that really stick.

Best of luck at your new digs!

Xiomara

P.S. Here's hoping that Mama Chaiken doesn't kill someone off next year!

A final note — You know how Peter Brady once sang, "When it's time to change, you've got to rearrange"? Well, I'm heeding his advice: My time on the AfterEllen.com staff is coming to an end. No, I haven't been forced out like Jenny or bought out like Dawn Denbo — I was offered a new job I just couldn't resist. (Yes, I'm going to be Peggy Peabody's personal assistant! Uh, I wish.)

Although this is my last week as a full-time staffer, I do hope to recap the final season of The L Word, if I have time. Meanwhile, I want to thank you all for being the best audience ever. Your support and insights and hilarity have made me feel very lucky.

I hope that you do the recap next season as well....I was so looking forward to reading your recaps every week...I'm going to lose JB and Scribe? life is not fair :)

Good luck!  We'll miss you!

scribegrrrl, good luck for your new project :)

loved your recaps, hope you can eventually find the time to recap the final season :)

i think the reason we couldn't tell what the flying object was is because it was our very own deus ex machina, very subtle

and i think jenny totally earned that hug from bette because of her expression when jodi ignored her at the hammer--jenny turned to bette and just rolled her eyes and shrugged--awesome and hug deserving! 

On the boardwalk — Tasha and Alice are strolling along. I think they're talking about Tasha's job, which apparently she has quit. But I can't really hear anything because Tasha's tank top is occupying all my senses.

Oh that tank top was the best part of this Episode. Hot.

Was it just me, or did this final episode seem so much less entertaining than the first 10?

Shane Shane Shane...Real friends don't hump their BFF's Nikki's.

Scribegirrrl, I am going to miss your recaps. 

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-Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

Who doesn't blog these days?

Eugh now i can't wait for the next season. I love your recaps, even if the episode isdull, your recaps are amazing. they're so wristcuffy ;)

I hope you love your new job. I really hope you can recap for the next season :)

Jenny and Shane was a really disappointing ending. and i wish Adele would just disappear up her own a--...erm nothing =]

It was an ok season Finale, I LOVED the Helena and Peggy reunion, that made the episode for me ^_^

 Tina: What is this?

I told you; it's a fancy cigarette! I know it looks weird, but try to keep up.

I can't stop giggling over this one. Thanks, scribe. :D 

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Scribie....I will sorely miss your wonderful writing and fabulous wit.  I am so happy for you that you have gotten a new job and I hope it brings you all the opportunities you hope for.  Thanks personally for giving me my 'moment' on here.  Here's hoping you will still do the recaps.

Now...as to this season finale.  YIKES!  The only decent part of it was the wonderfulness that is HELENA, tan and tall and young and lovely, and the TiBette reunion.

Adele....What is her game?  We still don't know.  A little insight please IC.

Jodi....Secret voyeur?  That's industrial art?  Thought she was better than vindictive bitch.

Denbo's Demise......Anticlimactic

Cindy's awakening.....would have preferred her taking Kit's gun from the trash and doing in DD.

Max's suspenders....only thing holding this character up

Tasha and Alice.....Too many core differences

Shane and Molly....Too soon to end

Shane and Nikki....What were they thinking?

Jenny.....thought for sure SHE was going to take the plunge over the edge.

IC.....where IS she going with this?

Scribe's Recaps.....PRICELESS

Thank you, thank you and thank you scribegrrrl. Your writing has made us laugh, be proud and even moved me in so many ways. You're such a talented person I'm sure you're going to be amazing at whatever you choose.

Y'know I've not even seen all episodes of The L word. This little kooky show was like a side-kick to your writing.

Scribe, your recaps made watching TLW infinitely more fun.  Hope you have a major media job and keep entertaining/informing us in some other capacity.  And thanks for never missing an opportunity to point out a good tank top.  (Ah, we know what your weakness is.)

Shane clearly set it up so that Molly would leave her.  That's the noble Shane.  Shane with Nikki was so un-noble, such a betrayal, that it was unbelievable.  Shane would never do that to a friend, especially Jenny. 

And Bette with the baby comment?  Huh?  A bit presumptious?  Hope Bette was suggesting that she, not Tina, get pregnant this time.  I definitely do not want another Tina, the little woman, barefoot and pregnant (and in those awful clothes they made her wear in the first two seasons.)

"If I can't dance (with either Tina or Bette -wow)- I don't want to be part of your revolution."

scribegrrrl - you have made a great job. I don't know what to do with the rest of the year. What a finale and now it's all over and we have to wait. I hope we hear from you soon...

scribegrrrl great recap as always, I liked the recap much better than the epsiode (that's not new though).

Good luck with your new project, you'll be missed! I hope you find the time to recap next year's season ^^

Personally I think IC went, "How can I give people what they want and still piss them off?" for this finale.

Great, there pulling Lana moments now.

That is a T-shirt waiting to happen.

Well that is one reaction. Personally, I guffawed.

Aww, please come back and visit, OFTEN.

"Bad jokes are us, ur me."

Thank you for another hilarious recap and for sharing your wit and humor with us. You'll definitely be missed. 

"Karma! It's everywhere you're going to be!" - Anonymous

My hypothesis is that in light of the season 6 extention, Episode 12 was recut/reshot to not tie up loose ends, but to create loose ends. Since the whole of it was originally shot in LA, it wouldn't take much to reshoot certain scenes to change it. Lousy job in any case.

Scribe, love your entertainment sensibilities! They will be missed, since I usually agree with you. I'm hopeful, you will be able to squeeze in the time to recap the final season for us, since yours is a unique voice in pop culture funny. And I get the best vocabulary lessons from you. Not to mention so many other references. It's like a whole course in pop culture actually. Good luck to you and your endeavors!

PS. Those extended shots of the scenery...probably a love letter to LA from IC.

PPS. Jodi's project requires a suspension of belief so impossible that it makes the Golden Gate Bridge look like tinkertoys. The art style is not her style and the auditory clips are wrong on so many levels but most importantly because she CAN'T HEAR them to edit them not to mention how would she have gotten the clips in the first place even if she could hear!?! Ridiculous. I love me some fantasy (especially of the lesbian variety), but come on!

I'm going to miss you! I discovered AfterEllen through your recaps, and I've read every single one of them (both TLW and Bad Girls - only started watching BG because you were recapping!). You're definitely my favorite blogger/recapper on AE. Thanks for making this silly show bearable and for making me laugh. A lot. And for introducing me to the magnificence of the Mahna Mahna Muppet. I still smile everytime I see your avatar. Hee.

Ok, i agree with everyone else, lol. Your recaps make watching the show in all it's insanity and hilarity 10 times better. Seriously. I'm really gunna miss your writing and i sincerely hope you do get to finish of the recaps for the final season :)

GOOD LUCK!! :D 

"If you should see her...tell her I miss her still." -- Galinda. 'Wicked'

So I have a few comments (besides the fact that I'll miss your recaps!!!). I was thinking the same thing during the Shane/Molly photographing scene. It was exactly like high art and since when does Shane like taking pictures? We've seen her with a camera (the Max/Alice fiasco) and it wasn't pretty.

You also mentioned Eden Riegel, Bianca from AMC. I used to watch that show all the time until she disappeared. At least she disappeared with Maggie. But they never showed them together much, and now I think they're Splitsville. Meh.

As for Clea and Alice, I don't get why Alice is so amazed about riding on an electric scooter when she rode on her girlfriend's motorcycle so much. Motorcycle > Scooter. My favorite line in the episode would have to be "I didn't give you anything. You stole it." So true. I cheered at my tv on that part. Seeing Niki and Shane have sex made me sick and it was totally unShane to do that. She's too loyal to Jenny to suddenly not give a f---.

There is NO WAY Jodi could have gotten all of that video/audio footage of Bette unless she had cameras hidden everywhere.  And if she did shouldn't we have been let in on it?   Completely impossible. 

I've also had enough of fuck'em and forget'em Shane.  Her behaviour is getting REALLY old.  Most women quit being players by the time they're 30.  Have a girlfriend or don't but make up your mind.  Even the Fonz settled down a little.

Good luck Scribe! 

Jenny should sue the a-- off Adele (invasion of privacy, interference with contract, whatever) AND press criminal charges for extortion.  Unlike the studio or Niki, Jenny has nothing to lose, and I'd bet on Tina for backing Jenny up and being a witness.  Hey, let's get Joyce to handle this!  (Isn't Jane Lynch actually charismatic in this role?)

Why don't they let me write some of the scripts for next season?   Or, scribe, is that your undisclosed next job?  (I wish!)

"If I can't dance - I don't want to be part of your revolution."

Wow, talk about tossing salt on a wound, Scribe!  First a sort of lackluster L Word finale and now you announce you're leaving? 

Thank you for all of the time you've dedicated here to improve The L Word episodes for all of us.  Really, you do make every episode so much better without having a thing to do with the production of the show itself.  That's saying a lot.

Take care and definitely do not be a stranger even if you are unable to re-cap next season. :)

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I certainy think the last episode may have been re-cut to leave open endings bc it may have been shot to be the last episode of The L Word if it did not get picked up for another season.

Regardless, I think it's important to say that this season IC really spoke out to the viewers. I think she showed her skills, ya know? What a wonderful show to have the privilege to follow. I feel a very big absence coming after the L Word goes off air. Maybe HBO will make a lesbian entourage, lol. I'm dreaming, why oh why would lesbians be funny instead of OVERLY dramatic all of the time.

Man oh man, when my girlfriend and I were watching the last episode we just cracked up. When Shane starts hooking up with Niki I turn and say "Nooo! C'mon, Shane knows her sh*t. Chicks before...uh...other chicks?" lol What should that phrase be, bc suddenly we decided we could see where Shane became confused (I'm kidding) she's uneducated after all. heh.

Ummm did anyone else see the major problem of Alice dating a cop? Helllllo how much drugs have we seen on this show? I can just SEE how well this convo would go. Alice: Hey guys Tasha decided to become a cop. Shane: Ummm....does that mean we can't hang anymore? Alice: Looks like we're having hiding time. heh

so here's my hopes: I hope that IC leaves the integrity of Bette and Tina's relationship intact. I hope there is no more relationship scandal between them AND: I REALLY REALLY hope they don't go right into having another kid. Especially if Bette carried it, it would make me yawn and rub my eyes wondering if I'm watching QAF reruns. I mean, I'd like to see them be the happy couple. I'm in that relationship ya know, the old wise happy couple that our friends get tired of bc instead of drama we fight about napkin and silly things, lol. I hope in the end there's happiness. I guess that's what us in the real lesbian world are waiting for ultimately. The right to the pursuit of happiness. I know the show can't grant my every wish (the show will suddenly become more inclusive to the spectrum of lesbians and gay men and straight characters) (Dana!) (Alice leaves The Look to join a rock band) (everyone just gets perfect wardrobes, lol no more doilies) but I hope it leaves me hopeful. There's not a lot of hope in this world it seems.

Ahhh Scribe! It seems you've been taking too many notes on IC! Where will you go? Where will you write? We still want to read! :(. I looooove the way you write. Tell Carmen hey for me in the character wormhole to the real word.