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Season 6 Expectations

Discuss your hopes and dreams for the final season of the L word here. 

No spoilers please.


Xiomara's picture

No such luck. IC sez Helena returning.

[Note: This post is from another thread on the same topic...] 

 First of all, I'm glad that there will be closure.

Secondly, I'm glad Showtime has Mama Chaiken on a short leash (8 eps) so she can't get outlandish. No, really.

Thirdly, prior to shooting for the final season, pink slips have been given to  Helena, Cindi, Adele, Niki, Jodi, Phyllis and Molly. 

Lastly here are my final season storylines for the core characters. 

Bette and Tina are thrilled that Angie was accepted to a prestigious kindergarten. Angie's teacher Maya Kennedy is also biracial. Mama B and Mama T frequently tell Angie: "Miss Kennedy is just like you, Angie". Tibette befriend Maya and are drawn to her for different reasons. Bette sees Maya as a carbon copy of herself. Tina develops a girl crush on Maya, wondering why Bette can't be more relaxed like Maya and this causes friction between them. Things are complicated further when Maya and Kit become fast friends, prompting jealousy in Bette and resentment in Tina (she nags Bette on why Maya gets on better with Kit than Bette herself).

Alice and Lara (yes, the sous-chef) are living fabulously in the Hollywood Hills. Alice becomes lead moderator of "The Look" when Mary Lamm is fired for tax evasion. Alice is an instant hit, networks want to take a meeting with her for a possible Ellen-esque talk show. Through some finagling, Alice gets Lara a cooking show on the Food Network. They have money, loads of industry friends and have little time for Shane and company. Alice has become really judgmental "The Planet? You guys still go to that passe place?"

Shane is head stylist @ new West Hollywood salon Cheri's. Yes, she works for Ms. Jaffe but they have an "understanding" (read: open relationship). She stills lives with Jenny but hangs out Cheri's a lot, mostly because Shane feels a void in her life and Cheri is always entertaining so Shane never feels alone though that's precisely how she feels.  

Jenny is in a serious funk after Niki left her. She never leaves the house. She wastes her days calling people from her past: Tim, Marina, Robin, Lindsay, Stacey Merkin, Mark Wayland,  Annette, Luchi Santis. She destroyed all her laptops with the Razzie that "Lez Girls" won.

Kit has become a record producer via the help of old friend Dr. Benjamin Bradshaw who is now working in the music industry. He has hired Kit to mentor rising star Akiko, a teenager being hailed as the "Asian Christina Aguilera". (Yes she runs into Angus during one of Akiko's gigs but you'll have to wait until next year to find out if they reunite. tee-hee)

Max and Tom are co-habitating. Max is back working in IT but now for GHMC. Tom is teaching art to deaf students. They make love a lot. Max will be pregnant by Episode 808.

Tasha is a full-time student at California University. She and Kit keep in touch. Through Kit, Tasha meets Angie's teacher Maya Kennedy. They fall in love.

Dawn Denbo is 100% owner of The Planet. She and Joyce Wichnia have become best friends. They crack each other up all the time.   

And then I woke up. :p   

shelleyc's picture

Hee hee

That was good. Great ideas!

Shelley C

mony69's picture

that was great. i needed

that was great. i needed that laugh for the day. season 6 is soon approachin so we'll see.
lulu's picture

help

Hi,

I am from Brazil, I have an agency of tourism for lesbians and I am trying to lead a group of girls for the festival premiere of The L Word 2009, but here in Brazil failed to information about the event. I wonder if anyone could help me with information on dates of festivals, price ...

Thank you to all
Maureen Brill's picture

That was a freaky dream.

That was a freaky dream.  What did you have for dinner?
josienboodie's picture

That was very funny and

That was very funny and cant wait til season 6 cause i would love to see if any of it will come true and honestly believe you got a good bit of it on the nose!

Thanks for the great laugh!

Harpy's picture

chloe121212 wrote...

[Copied from a duplicate thread]

chloe121212 wrote:

Okay so I was just over at ourchart.com (*gasps* stone me later.  I like to watch what was going on in MAma chaiken's head when making an episode.   Afterellen.com is still a hundred times better!), and Ilene Chaiken hinted at the possibilty of Bette having the next baby.

Now I'm a TiBeter as much as the next person but seriously?  They've just got back together, (sort of).  And hasn't this already been done?  Can we say Melanie and Lindsay?  And then there's this: In season 3 when Jennifer Beals was pregnant and asked if that could be a possible storyline for Bette and Tina, the answer "Bette would never get pregnant" was given (I think I recall that from one of their many podcasts.)

Am I wrong to be so disturbed by the thought of Bette being pregnant (or them having another kid altogether)?  Any thoughts?

ag1268's picture

Harpy I would like to know

Harpy I would like to know your view on the whole Tasha and Alice relationship?  Do you think they should stay together or call it quits?

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Harpy's picture

Free13 wrote...

[Copied from a duplicate thread] 

Free13 wrote:

That's it.  No description really necessary.  I don't want a Shenny in Season 6!!!  It's weird!  They're best friends. Period. 

 Well.

They were.  Until Shane got caught givin' Niki balco-lingus. 

parc's picture

i want it to end happy but

i want it to end happy but maybe not for eveyone because thats not how things work....maybe alice should be happy after everything with dana but i dont think it will be with tasha. 
but i agree no shane and jenny thats a little too strange, i want shane to actually figure out her issues and that and maybe settle down or be in a normal relationship with someone prehaps molly...
i dont really like jenny as a character so i dont really have any thoughts on that...



you're too much for one head, We're Too much For one bed...
shelleyc's picture

Hmm well considering

Considering 8 episodes hmm...I think I'd like to see things go this way

TiBette - Happily Ever-after having a commitment ceremony on the beach. That is until Bette freaks out and pulls a Shane, jumps into Jenny's digny from season 4 and drifts off to a deserted island where she lives a la Tom Hanks in Castaway where she perfects the lost art of cave drawing and talks to a pelican she calls Coco. Meanwhile Tina cries for about a week gets over it and takes over Disney. Okay I really only want the happily ever after thing but I couldn't resist a crazy alternate reality.

Shenny - I know I'm a minority, but I think it would work and I really do think they're setting us up for it. Shane re-opens opens a new hair salon with the money from the fire and Jenny writes a new book called "The Snake: The True Rise of Adele Channing" which gets adapted into a movie so then we'd have meta inside a meta inside a meta. whoo hoo.

Alice gets the job on The Look, but gets fired after she "outs" the wrong person and gets tangled up in a major lawsuit. Forcing her to move in with her Mother whose now a successful massage therapist in Palm Springs but is taking a break to come to LA and support her daughter.

Tasha breaks up with Alice because they are too different and feels that they've grown apart and as becomes a cop fast-traking her way to a robbery/homicide detective. She ends up hooking up with fast-talking Assistant D.A. played by Jill Bennett. Oh come on how hot would that be?

 

Shelley C

debjordan's picture

awesome

I'm hoping for Shenny, and I like your style.
Harpy's picture

How about...

2-hour long episodes?  :D 

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Watch out for the pokey-ball! OMG!
Meke's picture

Yes

That is what I need

 

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Sometimes keeping it real goes wrong, Bitches

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Zed's picture

Hmm...

*Squee* I can't wait for season 6! What I'm hoping for is a good final season. I think a lot of mistakes have been made in the past during The L Word, but it is a good show overall, and it deserves a good send-off. To echo Harpy, 2 hour long episodes would be ace! Hehe. I know I should just be thankful that there is going to be a final season, but the episode numbers being cut by a third is a bit disappointing. It would be great if the last ever episode was feature length or double length or something at least...I'm not sure if 8 episodes will be enough to wrap everything up...

But anyway, I would love to see a happy TiBette in season 6. Now that they've finally gotten back together, I'd like nothing more for them to remain together through season 6. It would be nice for one relationship to end on a high note...

I'd like to see the Jenny and Shane friendship NOT being ruined. I don't know if this will be possible after the whole Shane/Niki fiasco, but I hope it will be.

Above all though, like I said above, I just hope TLW ends on a high. It's bad enough that it's going for good, but to go out not in style would just be lame!

Low-Ren-Zo.'s picture

i think

With the isurance money she gets from Wax, Shane buys an endless supply of coke and ODs with Cherie Jaffe.

Tasha's gonna get killed in the line of fire.

Bette and Tina will get back together. Tina will have changed for the better, while Bette will not have learned much from her mistakes and will accept the fact that she's an inherent cheater.

Alice gets gaybashed by straight people and hated by gay people for being the resident gay and ultimately the butt of all jokes on The Look.

Kit meets a woman who wants to join forces with the Planet to open up a cafe/bookstore that sells gay-friendly literature. She eventually puts the moves on Kit, and she has a moment of gayness..kinda like with Ivan except more follow-through on the gay tip.

helena..well she already made her big finish by buying out all those clubs so. blah.

Jenny kills herself. In the suicide note she requests a Viking funeral so that her ashes may drift down to the manatees below.

Uh Huh Her sings the theme song on the very last episode instead of Betty.

 

I got a dick like a mule...with a big dick.

Harpy's picture

Soul-city wrote...


[copied from a duplicate thread]

soul_city wrote:
I would love to see one of our great women singers do a cover of the beatles song, here there and everywhere to be used in a scene involving Bette & Tina.  I just think it would fit perfectly.    Showtime have a policy of not listening to ideas, because they get so many.  Shame.

lucky charms's picture

I can't take the l word series

I have personly never wached it cause I don't have the channal that it comes on but I have read some of the re caps on this site. One of the charderts ummm her names betty I think I just can't get passed the fact the she bears a starong simarty to my mother.....

It is a bit disdbering to be reading a show and see a pic with somthing that looks like your mother make out with some ramdom chick. What can I say it makes me giggle

mickeylxy's picture

expectation

I wish Shane and Molly should be together.
Valkyrie's picture

best couple

i really hope so too... go Shane and Molly... no more Cherri cuz she ruins Shane's progress all the time and Carmen is annoying. GO SHOLLY !
crazygreen1126's picture

SHOLLY ALL THE WAY!!

That's the only thing I care about next season. If Shenny happens, I refuse to watch, I'll pretend the show ended at season 5!!

 

SHANE & MOLLY NEED TO GET BACK TOGETHER, CLEMENTINE FORD IS SO HOT!!

crayon face's picture

i second that

I swear if they make THAT happen i will Find ilene chaiken And Slap her.. its just sooo wrong.. they treat each other like sisters its so wrong seriously...

 

Shenny should N E V E R happen

 

sharmen is what i want! ;D

JVS's picture

Shenny!

I want Shenny to happen, they've laid it out for it to happen, and then it better happen, because I can't handle any more loose ends. Also it would be hot. 2 hotnesses combined. It would bring the show up again for me. Plus, Kate Moennig herself thinks it makes sense.

And I want Alice to hook up with that english girl who was in Heavenly Creatures. I can sort of see them making weird inside jokes that nobody gets with eachother and then laughing hysterically.

And I need Helena to be on the show. Please?

made_up_name's picture

s6

dontdrinkpoison wrote:

And I want Alice to hook up with that english girl who was in Heavenly Creatures.

And I need Helena to be on the show. Please?

Melanie Lynskey is a kiwi ;o) and i hope she jumps back on a boat back down to her beautiful native lands before filming for season 6 commences too; sorry but just do not see them as a couple all, even leisha looked uncertain in their scenes together in season 5 too me.

But the beauitiful English lady should return for all the episodes, i agree with you there!

 I think Ilene should just do whatever she has planned, because I'm sure when she started the show she had in her head an ending worked out and she'll never please everyone so i'm hoping for funny episodes and heart wrenching too with a nice open ending...... for the film four years later ;o)

crayon face's picture

The L word Film

How great would that be... You could have leisha wearing a really ugly carrot Hat :D lol 

Just this whole ex-girlfriend becoming best friend things i mean its you and your ex, me and my ex its really my idea of some kind of nightmare lesbian dinner party. - Bette, TLW

leather914's picture

I agree Shenny needs to

I agree Shenny needs to happen. I believe that Mia Kirschner is the most talented actress on this show. If you think about it, she has had the most ridiculous and complex storylines with absolutely no continuity and I think has pulled it off beautifully. If I were an actress and had to act out this writing fiasco, my character would seem insane also. As for Shane and Jenny. For five seasons we have watched Shane destroy lives including her own, the only consistent thing has been her "love" for Jenny and their "friendship" If everyone wants to see Shane change her ways, it would only happen with Jenny. Loved Carmen but I felt Sarah and Kate had no chemistry on screen. All time favorite Sheri and Shane. Rosanna and Kate have amazing on-screen chemistry.
Spill Jill's picture

Season 6 Predictions

Alright, here we go:

-Bette and Tina decide to cheat once a week in rotating shifts to keep their love alive. Angelica eventually asks why they're never home and also why she's had 34 babysitters in less than a year's time. No one answers her except Kit, "Baby Girl...shebitches...oh hell no." The question obviously remains.

-Alice gets the job on "The Look" and continues to become more and more insensitive and destructive as a character, making the audience ponder, "When did this happen?" Once again, the quesion remains.

-Tasha realizes that she isn't Bette or Kit and therefore has been on the show too long for a minority. She takes her last paycheck and goes off to realize her full potential elsewhere.

-Helena continues to battle her uselessness on the show by becoming even hotter and even nicer. She's possibly diagnosed with a split personality disorder.

-Shane realizes her true calling and becomes Aladdin at Disneyland. There, she sleeps with all of the magical princesses and occassionally the apathetic girl who runs the teacups in the summer.

-Jenny sets off to find Marina and lives with her in a bungalow somewhere unrealistically tropical. They spend their days answering questions with questions and their nights crying during sex.

 

 

 

"I went to the doctor of philosophy and he was like, 'man, what are YOU doing here, you lesbo?!'"-Sarah Silverman (tSSP)

crayon face's picture

hahaha

Lmao..

 

"baby girl.. shebitches..oh hell no"

 

U missed out "what the fuuuck" that she always says xD

Luciana's picture

Hahahahahahahaha! Great

Hahahahahahahaha!

Great predicitons!

Chris's picture

lol

The Jenny and Marina prediction is so true....lol

Teratouwaka's picture

Funny, funny, funny

'Tasha realizes that she isn't Bette or Kit and therefore has been on the show too long for a minority. She takes her last paycheck and goes off to realize her full potential elsewhere. '

'Helena continues to battle her uselessness on the show by becoming even hotter and even nicer. She's possibly diagnosed with a split personality disorder.'

'Jenny sets off to find Marina and lives with her in a bungalow somewhere unrealistically tropical. They spend their days answering questions with questions and their nights crying during sex.'

So funny I spained my face - please let these thing happen!

yellow150's picture

bahah

this made me laugh so much!
crayon face's picture

My predictions... dun dun dun duuuun

 

Alrighty..

 

Alice wakes Up from a Looong coma where she realises that Dana is A) Still ALIVE and B) Hotter than ever and C) has Killed Lara with a tennis racket.

Alice and Dana then Spend the remaining 7 episodes Making *Howt* Sex and having there inevitable hilarious scenes.

Shane is Still with Carmen and they accidently Kill jenny in a wild love making scene...

Bette and Tina Spend at least more than 15 minutes with angelica in the Whole Season.. and Brush her hair  at least once i mean comeone People can u not see it? !! 

and... Hmm... helena Will Continue to be hot, and funny.

Luciana's picture

"Bette and Tina Spend at

"Bette and Tina Spend at least more than 15 minutes with angelica in the Whole Season.. and Brush her hair at least once i mean comeone People can u not see it? !!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ariana's picture

Rofl..

By far the best prediction!!...

 

Oh so funny...and of-course what i really wanted! 

"T. Obia"'s picture

Season 6 will go as follows...

Shane dies, since it has become pretty apparent that her character "development" is more of a broken record than anything else. She is immortalized in myth as a lesbian sex goddess and her grave site becomes place of pilgrimage for Shanaholics everywhere. Women pray to her for children and a holiday will be enacted in reverence of her sexual prowess.

Tasha, although not a "popular enough character, will suddenly disappear once she commences a healthy and fullfilling relationship with another female of color. Thus, she is no longer interesting, since there is no dynamic as far as Ilene Chaiken is concerned. Most likley Alice will have guilt about their precarious relationship and try to get her back, in order to allow Tasha some last minute air-time. When Alice finally destroys Tasha's newfound love, she cheats on her -- again -- just a couple episodes before the season finale. From then on, Tasha leaves and we hear nothing of her ever again.

Helena has A LOT of smoking, slippery, unbelievably intoxicating sex with multiple women to compensate for lack of interesting story lines. In essence, Helena becomes Shane 2.0, but she's still in the BETA stages. She's new to the role, but she'd give it the justice that Shane never could.

Bette and Tina... sigh, I'm sorry. Since season one I never much liked these two together. But, I agree that Bette and Jodi weren't exactly a hot item either. I suggest, not predict, that Bette should, hmmm... I dunno, date another women of mixed race and ethnicity? Then she wouldn't have to deal with any more foibles concerning her "women of color" issues. I kid, I kid... no really.

Kit becomes Foxy Brown and goes out saving lost souls via her power bitch slapping and random 1970s funky, Blackploitation vernacular. She finally bitch slaps the crap out of Jenny who suddenly post-bitchslap has an epiphany, finds Christ and joins a remote Utah commune. She ends up having 5 children from a man she shares with ten other women, all of whom she regularly "visits" at night.

Nikki becomes uber famous. She dyes her hair jet-black, goes extremely goth, wears a vile of her brother's blood on a necklace, goes around the world promoting universal awareness of humanitarian issues, adopts multiple non-white children, and finds Brad Pitt.

Angelica finally commmneces kindergarten, fully traumatized.

Adele becomes Ilene Chaiken and creates "The P Word."

onedimpledcheek's picture

And what, pray tell, is

And what, pray tell, is "The P Word"?

:D

mylifestory's picture

i think

Tibette they've come a long way,i think they should be happy together at the end...

i really don't get Shane and Jenny together after all that happened.Shane was always loyal to her friends,but i don't think that best friends fucked your ex... Jenny has a hard time and she did it to her..so i think Jenny starts writing new book ,Shane moved from house to Alice 'cause she is no longer with Tasha ,maybe Shane finally realize that she miss Molly and try to get her back..

helena and kit owns planet and shebar ,they have great time,but there is still something with Double D..and lover Cindy..

Alice is in The View ,she has a hard time after spliting with Tasha but after all she realize that it was a good thing to do,beacause they were way too different...

first scene should be from the premiere of Lez Girls,where are everybody expect they're not friends as they used to be ...

ysma's picture

Tibette Wedding!

for crying out loud,IC! Too damn lazy to put siggy.
Harpy's picture

Tina and Bette wedding

 

With same-sex couples able to marry in California (as long as it is actually enacted) makes this even more possible for season 6.

not only but also's picture

  I was going to suggest

 

I was going to suggest that Dana wakes up and discovers that seasons 4 and 5 were just a dream. But then I remembered that the show went haywire at Bette/Kit's father's funeral (remember the bizarre walk-ons and that concert??? For heaven's sake, there goes my blood pressure again....). So let's say Melvin wakes up and we discover that the whole shambles of seasons 3 and 4 and the ridiculousmess of season 5 were just a dream.

Hey. It works for Australian soapies. (We once had a storyline revlove around a dog's dream on Neighbours. And Neighbours prety much is where Mama C has taken the L Word to...)

Not Only But Also

jade says's picture

Great idea

I think they need to go all out with the dream thing...

There was also a season of Roseanne that was all a dream.

 I had forgotten about the Bouncer dream on Neighbours... thanks for reminding me of the pleasure and pain of Aussie TV.

yellow150's picture

pretty sure

i hadnt seen neighbours in like 4 weeks, finally found some time to watch it and ended up being so confused about who had tried to kill who/who was in hospital/who was fighting for custody for their kids/who was sleeping with who that mum told me to go away cos i was asking too many questions...
Avy's picture

just a thought

how great would it be to have Dana back on the show again eh?

i just can't seem to get over the Alice-Dana hook up. Daym.

baarlijan_xen's picture

Major Spoilers.... XD

 

DON'T READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE FUN...

 

- Carmen returns and befriends Double D.

- They plot an evil plan on Shane and shave her head in her sleep.

- Shane has to make her own wigs by begging for hair to all the girls she's slept with. They show her the door and remains bald.

- Jodi makes a giant puppet of Bette and sets it on fire. No one comes to the event and Jodi drowns on that stupid Big Bear lake with stones on her pockets. Like Virginia Woolf, but lamer.

- Tina produces a blockbuster documentary on the manatee's reproductive cycle and becomes filthy rich. She buys the remains of Jodi's puppet and donates it to the CAC. It is shown under the name "Botherations".

- Jenny converts to catholicism and enters a convent in Kuala Lumpur. She fucks all the nuns.

- Nikki joins that same convent. Jenny then runs away and becomes a cod fisherman in Iceland. She fucks all the fishermen.

- Bette sends Angelica to the X-men academy, convinced of her superpowers.

- Dr. Xavier sends Angelica back and Bette kills Dr. Xavier.

- Kit goes all afro again, becomes LAPD with Tasha and kicks everyone's ass around.

- Double D gets arrested and goes to dyke prision. Cindy then tattoos her whole body with prision maps under the apparent picture of Rocky & Bullwinkle in drag to get her out.

- Helena buys the moon and starts a "lesbian only" holiday resort on it with Tonya. Bald Shane tries to get there but is lost in space.

- Angus and Henry appear dead, floating in a river and wrapped up in plastic. Nobody claims the corpses.

- Nikki finds Jenny in Iceland and Jenny becomes a tulip horticulturist in Holland. She fucks all the tulips.

- Carmen meets Molly and somehow are turned into vampires by Cherie Jaffe. The three of them capture Shane, who's back from space, and lock her up in a dungeon. Shane is turned into a zombie sex slave.

- Peggy Peabody recruits Kit and Tasha and they become D.E.B.S

- Adelle kidnaps, kills and supplants Ilene Chaikien and creates a new series... "The B Word", on crazy evil cannibal bisexuals who eat lesbian hearts out. The theme song is performed by Billy Blaikie.

- Lara joins "Circ su Soleil" as their official cook. She meets Marina there and become lovers. They spend their days trainning tigers and eating tofu burgers.

- Nikki finds Jenny in Holland and Jenny then becomes a diamond miner in Botswana. She poisons all the miners and steals the diamonds. Nikki finally seduces her again and both of them buy an island near Tahaa. They meet Dusty and start a polyamorous lesbian sect there.

- Dana's poltergeist invades Alice's house and rewrites all the names back on the board. The jinxed magic board starts to randomly apparate people who's listed on it. Ivan, Gabby Deveaux, and Papi are suddenly crashing on Alice's couch.

- A hysterical Alice calls Max, who works as a part time ghostbuster. They mess with Tresum and EVERYONE is teleported to Dante's Cove FOREVER.

 

THE END

* I am the Cinnamon Spider *

brightClik5's picture

very creative.

i so loved this post.  i laughed my way through all of it.
Anonymous's picture

Someone's got too much time here.

 

YAY! for Shane finally getting a decent haircut.

YAY! for Jenny fucking the nuns.

BOO! for Jenny effing the fishermen.

YAY! for Jenny "drawing" the tulips. (No cucumbers this time? I'm disapointed.)

DOUBLE BOOOO!!! for the lesbian hearts eating.

All the others (except Tina) are disposable anyway, so who cares?

RhapsodyNPink08's picture

Peggy Peabody recruits Kit

Peggy Peabody recruits Kit and Tasha and they become D.E.B.S

 

LMAO!

Viva's picture

Lmao

H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S lol sorry kinda hooked on phonics 

 

 

 

 -<_>_<_>_<_>_<_>_<_>

When in doubt, finger something out.

LieutKusa's picture

Holy frickin' craaaap! 

Holy frickin' craaaap!  This is absolutely HILARIOUS!!!  Geez these were very creative and so funny.  I was rolling all over the floor laughing.  I read them to my best friend and sister too.  These were so random aaaaaah....loved them so much lol.  Thank you for these!