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The L Word: recaps: Episode 2.07 "Luminous" (page 9)
by Scribe Grrrl

Carmen and Jenny after The Planet Carmena and Jenny the next day

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Shane and Jenny's place — Carmen and Jenny are still flirting, only now Jenny's wearing some sort of gigantic scary fur coat — what happened, did they go bear hunting on the way home? Carmen puts a strawberry in her teeth and leans against the fridge, and Jenny takes the cue and kisses the strawberry away. They start to make out on the countertop, and I have to slap myself for finding it sexy. Actually, Carmen could probably make out with Joyce Wischnia and I would find it sexy. Almost.

Just in time, Shane shows up, with twins. Yes, she's brought some vacuous twins home. Shane, what is wrong with you? Carmen stops in her tracks again, and Jenny feels weird and lights a cigarette, and it all goes to hell.

Jenny: "What was that?"
Carmen: "I don't really think I wanna know. You know, maybe we should call it a night. Let's just take a breather, and then we can visit it again in the cool clear light of day."
Jenny: "I understand."

Jenny kisses Carmen on the cheek. Sniffle.

What Mark sees — I still really hate the Mark stuff, but I have to recap this one. He's watching Shane and the twins, but he has to pause and rewind because he sees that Shane is snorting something. Great, another Oxy moment.

The twins are rolling around on the bed and begging "Shawn" to come play with them, but Shane's not interested. I don't want to know what the twins are going to do to amuse themselves.

The morning after — Carmen goes to see Jenny. Carmen wants to know if this is the "cool clear light of day." Jenny invites her in. Look at all the sexy lesbo pictures on Jenny's bedroom walls: they're kinda weird. And sort of exclamatory.

Carmen's trying to figure out why she freaked out.

Jenny: "I think because you like Shane."
Carmen: "I'm not someone who falls for fucked up unavailable people."
Jenny: "I don't think that we have a choice in the people we fall for, Carmen."

Carmen doesn't know what to say, so she just takes her shirt off. You know: sorta like Jenny did with Dana, but it's sexy instead of funny. Way sexy. Carmen = sexy.

But then something weird happens. Well, first there's the weird way Jenny flops on the bed and says "here," as if she's offering Carmen a snack. But then they kind of claw at each other. And then there's the slapping. Jenny slaps Carmen, and Carmen slaps Jenny back, and then again and again, and then they struggle a bit, and, well, then Carmen sort of curls up and looks as if she wants to take a nap on Jenny.

Huh?

It's not really violent; it's just weird. Perhaps they're saying "I'm fucked up, and so are you, so let's be friends." I dunno. It may also be that Jenny's saying "I'm mad that you don't want me," and Carmen's saying "I'm mad that I don't want you," and then the whole thing grows tiresome so they really do need a nap.

Somehow, I still kinda like the two of them together. I must need a nap myself.

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