Simone's L Word Poll - Results!

October 31, 2009

Simone's L Word Poll - Results!

Thank you all so much for taking the time to reminisce with us about the agony, the ecstasy and the dirty parts of The L Word for our poll! Sorry our results are a day late - our lead statistician (Rose) seems to have contracted the plague and is operating even slower than usual.

We weren't kidding about the research - we don't want to give too much away, but one of our episodes in the second half of Season 1 *might* be L Word-themed...so stay tuned!

Here are the results, starting with the multiple choice!

FYI, some of the "other" answers to this question included:

Dana's Captain Stubing outfit
Any FreeCity t-shirt
Carmen's underthings
Dana's ashes if she was cremated but I don't know. Dana love!
Anything from Alice's apartment
Anything Helena wore
Anything touched by Rose Rollins/Leisha Hailey
Carmen's lingerie outfit
Alice's car or one of Bette's suits
The letter Molly wrote to Shane
Some TiBette stills - autographed, of course

The rest of the questions were a little less multiple choice-y. Check out the slightly less scientific results after the jump - and then clear your schedule for the post-Hallowe'en L Word marathon you'll totally feel like having. Thanks again, L Word lovers!!

The episode/scene I wore out my DVD watching over and over again was:

#1 - When Alice and Dana first got it on

#2 - The elevator scene with Bette and Tina/any of Tibette's sexcapades

#3 - Any scene where Sarah Shahi took her top off

#4 - Marina and Jenny's first sex scene

#5 - Shane and Cherie Jaffe by the pool

Other responses included:

Helena and Dylan in the studio washroom
Anything with high Shane content
The one where Alice and Clea Mason met
Helena and Tina on the balcony
Bette on TV arguing with the woman from Desert Hearts
Shane fucking Carmen on the console....sweet :)
When Jenny is having the party for the Lez Girls crew and she makes out with Nikki in the closet!
Every scene with Shane and Carmen
Lara and Dana on TiBette's couch in season 1
Molly's scene with Shane, in her bedroom, with the song swimming pool playing.
Jail bait sex scene
The Olivia Cruise episode
When Alice found out Shane had sex with Jenny

I cried like a little girl when:

#1 - Dana died! More than half of you agreed that Dana dying was the saddest moment ever. Apparently, one of you is still crying.
#2 - When Bette & Tina broke up
#3 - When Bette & Tina got back together
#4 - When Shane left Carmen at the altar
#5 - When Tina miscarried
#5 - Cry? ME? PLEASE. Nut up. (I paraphrase)

Other sad responses included:

I am a pansy, so a lot of times.
Anytime Bette looked sad.
The show ended. The show ended and my face was like WTF!
Jenny died.

It was effing stupid when:

#1 - All of Season 6
#2 - Dana died
#3 - Jenny died
#4 - Shane and Jenny got together
#5 - Jenny...just Jenny

It was also effing stupid when:

It took all those years for someone to finally kill Jenny.
When they did a baby shower for Max
The whole episode was about them at pride; Shane stumbled upon the film reels in the attic (duh!); Bette and Tina didn't fix the banister before the party (again--duh!) oh and I could go on and on...
They had oil wrestling at the club.
Jenny didn't get back together with Marina, how different would everything have been?
Shane left Carmen wating at chuch
I was watching this show
Tina talked to the cops on the "interrogation tapes"
Moira turns into Max
Jenny's flashbacks to the circus
Max gets pregnant by Tom. Seriously, it would go up the ass and they'd use protection anyway.
Max talked about computers
Yes.
Tina got into a relationship with a dude
When Papi tries to hook up with kit
They had to recut the season 5 finale to set up the horrid season 6
Bette had sex with a wall. Prison wall at that.

I couldn't stop laughing when:

#1 - The girls were trying to decide if Lara was a lesbian.

#2 - The gang played basketball.

#3 - Pot brownies!

#4 - Jenny died.

#5 - Dana and Alice's role playing sex games

#6 - Bette, Shane and Alice stealing the 17 Reasons Why sign

Other hilarious moments included:

The Olivia cruise episode
Pretty much anything with Alice
"Crispay"...nu uh!
Jenny published a book
Dana and Alice went through the airport security check. And oh..when Jenny caught Shane eating out Nikky.
Alice shares the news of Shane and Jenny via text with all her friends.
I only cry during this show.
The phone tree scene
"I'm Dawn Denbo, and this is my beautiful lover Cindy!"
Season 5 Episode 3 when Alice tells about her dream : her, Helena and Shane like Charlie's angels
Season 6 was set up for a whodunnit. But not in a good way.
In the episode where Cybill Shepherd was on the diving board about to take her bra off and her daughter shows up.

My favourite season was:

#1 - Season 1! Season 1 was far and away everyone's favourite. Followed closely by:

#2 - Season 2!

#3 - Season 5 - I think one poll participant expressed it best when she said "nothing made sense, but they all had fun."

#4 - Season 3

#5 - Season 4

#6 - Season 6 wins the least favourite award.

The season that made me yell at the t.v. the most was:

#1 - Season 6. 75% of you guys yelled at Season 6 for a variety of reasons. Mainly Jenny. Although one poll participant noted that she was "more speechless from despair than yelling from anger".

#2 - Season 3

#3 - Tie between Season 2, 4 and 5

#4 - Season 1

The lesbian duo I rooted for most was:

#1 - Shane and Jenny. HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!! Oh, just kidding. Of course it was Bette and Tina.

#2 - Alice and Dana

#3 - Alice and Tasha

#4 - Carmen and Shane

#5 - Shane and Molly

Those were the top five - but we also had a few votes for:

Helena/Lucy Lawless' random cop!character. Sole zomgzAMAZING moment of season six...and it wasn't a real part.
Alice and Clea Mason
Helena and Dylan
Pam and Ivan
Dana and Lara
Lara and Alice. I know, people are thinking I've gone mental, but I don't care.

The most unfortunate pairing on the show was:

#1 - Shenny! Oh, Shenny - you are almost universally reviled.

#2 - Dana and Tonya

#3 - Jenny and Marina

#4 - Jenny and anyone

Other hilarious one-offs included:

Tina & a Man
Jenny and the audience
Jenny and the scissors for that ugly haircut
carmen and jenny!! wtf!!!!
the show with TV producers
Jenny and Max
Stupid Tibette
Shane & Paige
Uh... "anything" with Kit.
Alice and Helena even though the sex was too hot
Shane and anyone
Jenny & Dana, even if it was for 15mn
Tina and Helena
Papi and anyone

If I was going to write or read L Word fanfiction, it would be about:

#1 Alice and Dana! Those crazy kids...
#2 Tina and Bette
#3 Carmen and Shane
#4 Helena and anyone
#5 I would never read or write fanfiction The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Comments

Wow. Really. Wow.

Posted by: Rochelle Dancel | November 02, 2009 at 09:35 AM

Awesome. I think we all have a love/hate relationship with The L Word, and some of the answers were strange. Although, thank you to the person who put the idea of Carmen and Uta in my head, it truly is glorious!

Posted by: Rachel | November 02, 2009 at 02:27 PM

I might be speaking from the minority's P.O.V., but I liked Jenny. I understood her. I was sexually abused as a kid, I went through the "cutting" phase, and I've lived in a mental hospital before. SO, for those of you who hate Jenny, please do some research and try to understand why she turned out the way she did, and I promise you, you wouldn't hate her as much as you do now. Of course, there's no excuse for all the terrible things Jenny did to others. But try to the see the world through her eyes. Try to be her and live the life she had to endure. She was sexually abused and her own mother will not even protect her. She dated Max! How many of you out there can handle and support your girlfriend turning into a man? She was betrayed by her best friend,Shane. with Nikki. I don't know if anyone noticed the song playing in the background while Jenny's body is being rolled out on a gurney. It's called "Have You Seen That Girl" by Lee Ann Womack. It perfectly sums up who Jenny is/was. I feel really sorry for her.When most of you are laughing during that scene, I cried. I do believe deep down inside Jenny is a good person, but circumstances have mold her into the person she is/was. Yes,she could've made better choices. But she didn't, and I can totally understand that. We all have flaws.I am certain she have some sort of mental illness. I know many of you will find this part funny, but mental illness is a very serious sickness not to be taken lightly of. If you are a victim of it, or know someone intimately who has it, you'll know what I mean. I need to take medications three times a day to keep the "crazy" under control. For those of you who understands and agrees with what I'm saying about Jenny, speak up for her, because she can't. She's dead. No matter how many horrible things she has done to the people around her, I don't think death is the punishment she deserves. Lets put our sarcastic, immature self aside and seriously think about it. She's a victim who has worked very hard to become healthy and normal, but painful circumstances keeps coming at her, and I just think it completely broke her. Some things broken can never be fixed. I see a person in so much pain, that she created another personality who lived in la-la land. She is sick. It's nothing to laugh about. Let me give a holler out to the LGBT crowd out there. I'm certain you have experienced the discrimination Jenny was and is still going through. So won't you take some time to try to understand Jenny, just like they way you want people to understand and accept the fact that you're gay? Lets not be hypocrites. In some ways, I'm kinda disappointed with our lezzy community here. We should know first hand what it feels like to be laughed at, discriminated against, and misunderstood. And I know within the LGBT community, there are people out there right now as I speak, cutting themselves, punishing themselves, numbing yourself with drug, alcohol, or whatever else you can find, visiting the shrink on a weekly basis and taking meds. So don't jump into conclusion too fast here. I think sometimes music is much more powerful than words. Here's a link to the song while Jenny's body was being pulled out on a gurney.

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/CK06aY5G0_o/

And here's the lyric. Listen to the music with the lyrics. As we grow up and become adults, all of us loses some parts of our innocence and purity. And sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we can never get it back again.

Have You Seen That Girl - Lee Ann Womack

Innocent, Confident
With a hint of curiosity and an air of what you see is what you get
fun to be around
Laugh at herself
Never worried
Life is short but whats the hurry
Bright-eyed and ready to take on the world
(CHORUS)
Have you seen that girl
That everybody says I used to be
Have you seen that girl
Where along the way did I lose me?
Have you seen that girl

She was full of life
Looked on the brighter side
If it was worth a chance she'd take it
Said that life is what you make it
But a few wrong moves led to a few wrong turns
And once your burned your not the same
You tend to shy from the flame
I hate to think shes givin up her dream

(CHORUS)
Have you seen that girl
That everybody says I used to be
Have you seen that girl
Where along the way did I lose me
Have you seen that girl
Where along the way did I lose me
Have you seen that girl

I am that girl. There are parts of me that's so broken, that I will never ever be able to fix it. But life goes on. Maybe when I reach the finish line, I will all bruised up,with a crutch, or even on a wheelchair, but one thing I'll be proud to say is, I have made it to the finish line no matter how hard this journey was, and I have tried my hardest to be a decent person, no matter how many unfortunate things has happened to me that can easily turn me into a callous, selfish, bitch. I try to always find myself back. I learn to forgive no matter how painful and horrifying the experience my enemy has put me through. I come to learn to love my enemies, because more than often, they became a monster because they were broken, crushed, and spit on by another. And the most unfortunate thing is, these monsters are more than likely, the people you love. Your dad, your mom, your brother, your sister, your cousin, your uncle, your aunt. So, have mercy on all us all, including yourself. And learn to forgive and forget. Learn the true meaning of unconditional LOVE.

Posted by: Drew | December 10, 2010 at 12:52 AM

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