I told y'all Dana was going to die. And die she did. Because Alice isn't neurotic or crazy enough they had Dana die in the very brief time in five days that Alice was not in Dana's room. And of course Alice got back about 30 seconds after they'd pronounced Dana dead. I'm aware of the time because they had a stupid clock on the screen periodically through the episode so you knew they were counting down to Dana's death. More on the stupid clock in a minute let's get some other stuff out of the way first.

- Angus doesn't show up when he's supposed to and Kit freaks the hell out. She shows up at his place, calls his cell eleventy two million times and just acts crazy. When he finally shows up he tells her that he forget his cell so he didn't get her messages and he's pleased that she was worried about him. She tells him she can't be worrying like that because she imagined he was dead from a car wreck or sleeping with his ex-girlfriend. Angus tells her that you worry about people when you love them and she loves him so she's just got to deal with that. End anything meaningful at all with Kit.

- Bette has been at her Buddhist retreat for 10 days. She's been nearly silent the entire time so now that she's making her escape she just wants to scream and scream. She hikes down the hill or mountain or whatever and ends up at a bus stop with a hippie-ish dude and an old woman. So it's the hippie, the refugee (that's what Bette looks like in this episode) and the old woman. They all discuss anger and using their voices. I don't have the words to describe how lame this was. I'm trying but words are failing. Just imagine a hippie, a refugee and an old woman on The L Word. The end, lameness accomplished. Two pseudo interesting points though, when the hippie asks Bette why she's trying to find a higher plane or inner peace or why she's sad or something (I glazed over when he was talking) she doesn't correct him when he asks if she's getting divorced or breaking up with her boyfriend. The second is that Bette is the only one who seems to "feel it" the moment that Dana dies. So I guess she's found her her higher plane.

- Now, Bette has been gone 10 days. That means Tina has known Henry (the dude she slept with last week) for a maximum of 10 days. They've already moved to the meeting his friends and thinking of each other as family phase. Wait, I thought she wasn't a lesbian anymore.

- Jenny's ex-husband Tim comes into town for a swim meet (you'd forgotten he was a swim coach) and because they divorced on such good terms they meet up. Of course it's mostly so Tim can say "look at my pregnant wife and my normal life" and Jenny can say "I'm going to be a successful writer despite being crazy and here is the person who was once my girlfriend but is now about to be my boyfriend." They play nice for a little bit then they insult and antagonize each other. It bored me. Max got pissed at Jenny because she told Tim and his wife that Max is a pre-operative transsexual, he later described Tim as not that bad of a guy. Max also basically said that he'd like to have a decent job, an SUV, a house in the suburbs and a wife who just wants to raise babies. Apparently the Truck of Epic Butchness and crazy Jenny just don't cut it.

- Helena Peabody's mother Peggy comes into town to rescue Helena and the family's money from the sexual harassment lawsuit. Turns out Dylan's boyfriend had applied for grants from the Peabody Foundation 5 times in the past 4 years and was rejected each time. So the whole Dylan storyline was one big setup. Peggy wants to fight it but Helena is in love with Dylan and doesn't want to drag it out and doesn't want to fight. She says she needs to hear Dylan say "I never want to see you again" and "I was never in love with you" and then she'll sign a settlement that gives Dylan and her evil boyfriend a ton of money and gives their shitty document lots of press and studio support. Dylan manages the "I never want to see you again" but it's very weak and she doesn't get the last part out but Helena signs anyway.

- Carmen tells Shane that she cheated on her. After Shane slept with RoQuette Carmen slept with someone else too. Shane is hurt and pissed and pretty devastated. There is no build up or context for this revelation. Carmen has been punishing Shane for weeks and never hinted that she'd had a revenge fling. She's gone on and on about monogamy and commitment, etc. This seems like a "we changed our minds about what to do with Shane and Carmen so let's add this in after the fact" move to me. Later Shane and Carmen have angry but not terribly hot sex that I assume is supposed to be makeup sex. They have this sex while Dana is dying. I know this because the aforementioned clock was ticking on the screen for the moments leading up to Dana's death and showed what everyone was doing when Dana died. Everyone was wrapped up in their lives and only Bette seemed to feel something.

Of course Alice fell apart when she saw Dana's dead body and the doctor told her they'd tried but there was nothing they could do for her. The lamest part of it all is that Alice had left the room to get some fresh air at a nurse's suggestion and ended up outside talking to Cat Killer. That's right Tonya. Alice is outside talking to crazy Tonya while Dana is about to die. Tonya says she made a mistake by leaving Dana and that she was always jealous of Alice because she knew that Dana loved Alice more than anyone.

Second most lame thing is that Lara has been calling Dana from Paris (a spa no less) but you know since Dana's dying in the hospital she never really got around to checking messages.

After the show there was a stupid docu-drama about breast cancer (B says I'm not allowed to say it's stupid because she says that lesbians in general aren't well informed about what they need to be doing about breast cancer including self-checks, mammograms, etc and that it's important that shows targeted toward the lesbian community tell these kind of stories. You see why I say B is much nicer than I am?). Also all the actresses (except Jennifer Beals and Mia Kirshner) talk about how much they're going to miss the character of Dana and the actress Erin Daniels.

They showed scenes of Dana over the past 3 seasons and it reminded me that once upon a time her character was actually funny and had a personality. So I'm not going to miss season 3 Dana at all but seasons 1 & 2 Dana was pretty good.