So one of my guilty pleasures is watching The L Word (on youtube, because I’m cheap and don’t have cable).

I’ve been struck by how predictable I find it.  So I figured I’d better make a public statement jst to see if I really could call it.  Here’s my thought:

Alice’s screenplay that Jenny stole involves

“A talk show host who’s really fantastic and is dating a cop who’s dark and broody, and they get caught up in a murder mystery.”

Now, what couple in the lesbian character universe do you naturally think of when you hear “dark and broody” plus an Alice-like persona (bubbly, somewhat annoying)?  To me, that sounds just like Xena and Gabrielle

We’ve already got the first half in the first episode, and OH! How convenient, she’s a cop.

Jenny isn’t dead. How could she be? Jenny IS Ilene Chaiken, who is no Faulkner and would never kill her little babies. We’re watching the opening scene of Alice’s screenplay, as Jenny imagines it. Of course, she’s made herself the center of attention. As usual.

But if Ilene gives me a Lucy Lawless/Renee O’Connor moment, all will be forgiven, now and forever, the end.