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The L Word: recaps: Episode 2.01 "Life, Loss, Leaving" (page 6)
by Scribe Grrrl

Alice and Bette Ivan  
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Jenny's drama — Robin tends to Jenny, who seems to have fainted. That's because she hasn't eaten in about eight years. They talk about Jenny's apartment hunt, and Robin says this horrible thing: "Why don't you move in with me?" Oddly enough, Jenny has the sense to say she can't, but then Robin says she thinks they could be happy. You could be what? Happy? With Jenny? Have you actually met Jenny?

The Planet — Alice asks Bette to be out of the house for a couple of hours so Tina can go by and get some things. Bette is — surprise — not terribly cooperative. She and Alice go back and forth about the whole Candace mess. Alice is not sympathetic. At some point Bette says Tina was "completely wrapped up in herself" — oh, you mean, after the miscarriage? 'Cause I dunno, I think maybe she should have been wrapped up in herself then. Anyway, I don't like this pointless analyzing; I just like the way Alice is getting all rrwwwarr:

Bette: "[Tina] completely shut me out."
Alice: "For how long?"
Bette: "Two or three months."
Alice: "Out of seven years? I think you coulda waited."
Bette: "She abandoned me as much as I abandoned her. We both did it."
Alice: "Yeah, but only one of you was having an orgasm."

So Bette says "fuck you" and walks off. Yeah, that word is gettin' tossed around a lot tonight.

Oops — Kit goes by Ivan's place. She has the key, so, you know, she just goes in. Ivan has a nice place, and some loud music — so of course, he doesn't hear Kit, and doesn't know Kit is snooping and has found his strap-on. Well, I suppose the proper term is prosthesis; anyway, Ivan enters the room, wearing boxers and little else, binding his breasts as he walks, and when he sees Kit he naturally freaks out. He pushes her out of the room and tells her to go. Kit tries to apologize (and, um, get the money for the down payment), but it's just too much.

That was cool — not the sort of thing that gets explored much in general, let alone on TV — but I have to ask: didn't Ivan consider the privacy issue before giving Kit the key? I'm just saying.

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