A letter....

[fuzzykiwi81]

Dear "The L Word" viewers who obsessively watch the show then immediately get on lj and rant about how bad you think it is,

You are retarded. I am extremely tired of this fad of saying that the writing is horrible and there's no character development and you are about to stop watching the show and ever since dana died it's just gotten crappy. You're wrong, just wrong.  As much as I know you like to equate things happening in the show that you don't like to the show being poorly written, they are not the same.  Here are some other things I feel that you should know:

• Showtime is by no means a big network. As such, they find it more difficult to have actors who solely devote their careers to a show on Showtime, especially if they're not gay and their agents keep telling them they should stop playing a gay character. When an actor's contract is up, they leave the show.  That means that if an actor decides to leave, the writers can't have an extra 5 episodes to come up with a complicated and overtly believable reason for them leaving, they just have to come up with something on the fly. I'm sorry that this show isn't real life, and that you can't know about the entire life story of every character.
• I'm not sure where you come up with this claim that there is no character development. I've only been watching since season 3, and there definitely has been some (examples omitted because no one on here actually watches the show). Plus, that complaint is in complete disagreement with the following point....
• Everyone just wants the show to be exactly how it was when they first starting watching it, whenever that was. Unfortunately, if that was true, the show would be incredibly boring. Nothing would happen. Now, I know we all love commitment, but if everyone just paired up in the first season and then we had like 5 couples who just sat around and talked for 6 more seasons instead of cheating on each other, the show would be pointless, we could just watch Ellen instead.
  

So, my advice to you all is to just shut the fuck up and enjoy the show! I know it's entertaining because I watch it, and, what's more, you keep watching it even though you think it's horrible.  I know you're probably an english major (no offense, Jessica) who feels the need to over-analyze everything and thinks you could do a much better job, but guess what? There is more to producing a television show than writing the most beautiful, realistic, idealized script; there are real life aspects. So if you don't want to watch the show, then don't. And if you do, stop bitching about it because everyone else wants to just relax and enjoy it instead of being complained at. Thank you,

bitches,

Alix