Comments on: Why Shane is the New Jordan Catalano

By: melly

melly — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:46:54 +0000

what’s the favorite shane-cherie sex scene that you replayed? is it the one in the old barber chair, where cherie’s legs are up in the air!?! because that’s one of my favorites, that and the first shane-carmen sex scene. i also like the scene in the intro when shane takes that girl into the bathroom and then you see them making out through the door.
shane’s universal appeal is amazing. all my friends, gay and straight, male and female, who have watched lword are inevitably like ‘damn, shane is hot.’ she inspires obsession. somehow, she’s everyone’s type. like you say, i think it’s a combination between her appearance and her ‘i’ll fuck you/i don’t give a fuck’ attitude. she represents the universal appeal, hetero- and homosexual, of someone who doesn’t care. but why does that appeal exist? maybe it’s a reflection of the human tendency to want what you can’t have. you could say it’s also the desire to be a savior, to be the one who steps in and rips down their wall and saves them and reintroduces them to love. shane’s appeal, at least for me, also has to do with her grunginess – i like a certain amount of dirt.
man, i was so sad when carmen left lword. she is beautiful and i love her. i also love you and your writings.

By: HellsMelle

HellsMelle — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:57:35 +0000

This is pretty much the greatest article ever written.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:33:19 +0000

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By: marie lyn bernard

marie lyn bernard — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:05:00 +0000

Also, I think that marraige proposals that happen during gardening or memorial hikes at summer camp are generally not successful. A little pre-meditation ensures greater promise. Oh, Sharmen….

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:10:00 +0000

Yeah, she’s kind of trying to fix her mess-up with Carmen still. She just wants to make her happy again, pretty much. Just like, with the whole fire-extinguisher-ing and “I dreamt you flew away, you bitch!”. She pretty much kept punishing her for one mistake/being herself and she felt. like. helpless. But she didn’t give up, she had to try and fix it. So I buy/understand that. I dunno if she’d just blurt it out while Carmen’s gardening, but hey, why not.

By: marie lyn bernard

marie lyn bernard — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:50:00 +0000

agreed. i think the introduction of the father as a device was retarded–shane has never listened to other people before, why would she start right then? if it was played as a lame cop-out, that would be fine–but it wasn’t. It was played as a legitimate concern by Shane, and that is just well, dumb.

I think the inclination of a playa to get married to someone they almost lose is not improbable–i know many situations in real life in which that happens–almost like they can’t handle any sort of in between, it’s either SINGLE SINGLE or married. Also it could have worked if Shane and Dana’s friendship had been established or developed AT ALL–as is, it seemed like a weak foundation for such a crisis. Surely Shane would recognize that her grief was not comprable to people like Alice, who actually had been close to Dana. WE are TOLD that Shane and Dana are close, but I don’t think there was a single instance of them having a conversation without others present, and even then, only within the context of a hair salon.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:09:00 +0000

Nice. *applause*

I couldn’t decide if the seemingly random proposal or the wordless vanishing act was more crappy. I mean, pretty much as soon as Carmen accepts you know it’s not gonna happen, and then with her dad’s line ‘that’s just who I am’ – that pissed me off, they just introduced him as a tool to get Shane to fuck Carmen over. There’s just all this exposition in two seconds. “Where’s Shane?” “Oh, she’s off to find her dad. We didn’t realize we needed this whole storyline that should have been in the last episode, so here’s some awkward exposition!”

And I don’t really buy that shane would be like, “oh, well, I’m obviously just the younger female version of my father, so if marriage doesn’t work for him, it won’t work for me. I’d better just walk away.” Especially since she was like “I want kids” five minutes earlier. And then she didn’t even talk to Carmen about it herself, and I don’t see her as a coward. so that pissed me off too.

Anyway. Oh, I almost bought My So-Called Life on DVD once, but it was uber-expensive, so I got something else instead. Same way I almost got Six Feet Under the other day but then I was like “$260? Fuck that, I’ll just get season 8 of south park”