3/28/07: Breaking Lesbian News: Lesbian Broken!Deadlines loom, so we’ll use today’s entry to keep everyone updated on the fate of
our favorite (and only) pro-military lesbian on
The L Word. This past Sunday was the big season finale for Showtime’s Sapphic soap opera, and we were expecting the worst for National Guard Captain Tasha Williams (played by Rose Rollins). After all, there’s a Modern Moral Code in Hollywood that says all American soldiers must end up as victims.
As it turned out, Tasha made it through the season in pretty good shape. She ran across a born-again Christian soldier at the racetrack, and the guy seemed to have military-issued gaydar. Still, Tasha only got a private rebuke to be more discreet in her night maneuvers, if you know what we mean.
The season finale had Tasha going back to serve in Iraq, leaving poor regular character Alice once again all alone in Los Angeles. Oh, well. That’s getting off easy. It turns out that
The L Word put most of its energy into hating men instead of soldiers. In fact, we were expecting Bruce Davison to reprise his earlier role as The Homicidal Homophobic Avenger from
Hate Crime. The only problem was that Cybill Shepherd (playing his wife-turned-latent-lesbian) is now so Botoxed that it’d be hard to prove she was ever alive.
Speaking of heterophobia, this season still managed to use Tasha for what’s got to be the only (and inadvertently) funny Iraq War sequence currently on the air. (One day, it’ll be common practice to laugh at dead Americans from the War in Iraq.
The Simpsons already got to goof on dead U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam era.)
Alice gave Tasha an engraved watch, and it triggered what was meant to be a horrific flashback. Instead, it was almost a parody of the overblown she-man man-hating that defined this season of
The L Word. See, Tasha knew a fellow female soldier in Iraq who had an engraved watch. It was given to her by her husband, who had informed his overseas wife that a) he was divorcing her, and b) he was seeking custody of their child.
Then the poor woman was killed in combat, because soldiers can’t be victimized enough in the fantasies of Leftist creeps writing shows like
The L Word. Seriously, why do we even bother watching this kind of—oh, wait. We remember.
Make it your own: No reason to waste money on the eventual season box set. Here’s that
flashback scene, and here’s Tasha and Alice
having sex.
