Thank god it's over. Seriously. I have never been so relieved for a piece of entertainment to end. I can't even do it justice with a proper recap so I'm just going to hit the highlights and be done with The L Word.

- The episode starts shortly after Dana's death but rapidly jumps six weeks into the future. Alice and Lara have been having sleeping together all that time. They don't talk, they don't date, they have sex. When Lara finally says she wants to talk about what they're doing and how they feel Alice says she doesn't want to talk. Eventually though Alice decides to "stop medicating her pain with sex and drugs" and actually talk to Lara. They have a brief conversation where they're getting to know one another. Perfectly setting them up for next season.

- Shane meets/reunites with her father who is exactly like her (sex obsessed, commitment phobic, same mannerisms and body language) except he's finally settled down with a wife and young son. Except that he hasn't. He ditches the wife at Shane's pre-wedding festivities, takes $10,000 that Helena gave him to buy a wedding gift for Shane and takes off with a young floozy (I've never used the word floozy before but I think I like it). He tells Shane he's sorry but it's just who he is and he knows Shane understands that. Shane uses this as an excuse/cause/whatever to stand Carmen up at the altar after Helena paid for this whole Canadian wedding fantasy (including flying Carmen's suddenly non-homophobic family up and paying for every one's hotel rooms). I predict Carmen to be totally off the show next year and Shane to be back to her season 1 ways.

- Kit is pregnant. Angus is thrilled. Bored now.

- Bette is serious about suing for sole custody until she and Tina spend five minutes together with the baby without fighting. Then she decides going for sole custody isn't a good idea but as I've said time and time again this show loves a contrived plot point it is of course to late to stop the process. So while Tina is telling her boyfriend that she's not going to cut Bette out of Angelica's life legally (even though the boyfriend wants her to) a fax is printing telling her that Bette is suing for sole custody. Tina is not amused and because Bette is suddenly the dumbest person on the planet she flees with Bette. So since they're in Canada that means Bette is in a foreign country with a child that she does not legally have any rights to (I think that's right, since the second parent adoption isn't final). As the Guinness boys would say "Brilliant!"

- Jenny and Max still hate each other but somehow are still together. Since Helena has paid for them all to go to the Canadian ski resort for the wedding that wasn't Max takes advantage and skis. Jenny doesn't want to and it's a good thing she doesn't because how else could she have been picked up by the gay travel writer who asks her what sex with a transsexual is like. Jenny and the travel writer get it on and Jenny looks kind of happy which is a totally foreign look for her this season. Later in a bar Jenny and the travel writer are going to dance and Max says not to because it's a straight bar and two women dancing will make people uncomfortable. They both look at him like the sad pathetic person he is and point out to him that all the people he's concerned with making comfortable are all studying him closely when he walks into a room because they now he isn't like them. They know he's different and that he'll always be one of the others.

- Helena paid for every one's trip to Canada much to her mother's befuddlement. Why Peggy Peabody came to the wedding I don't know but there she is and after Helena realizes that Shane's dad took off with the 10 grand she gave him Peggy decides it's time for Helena to stop trying to buy affection so she cuts her off financially. I'm guessing that the setup for next season is that even though Helena is like 40 years old she's never managed to keep any money separate from her mother. Therefore she'll be broke next season and we'll have to suffer through her trying to have a job and make a living. Joy.

So basically the whole episode was just one long setup for next season. That's fine and all if this episode had actually made me want to watch next season. It didn't. I know I probably will because B will want to but I'ma make sure my shoes aren't within reach cause I'm broke and can't afford to buy a new TV after throwing one through the picture tube in frustration.

Update: Movable Type ate part of my post so a couple additions:

- Peggy Peabody was involved years ago ("I was a lesbian once") with the woman who was supposed to be marrying Shane and Carmen. Since they saw each other at the almost wedding and remembered how much fun they had back in the day they've hooked up again.

- At the very end of the episode the stupid chart flashed up connecting everybody that had appeared in flashbacks at the beginning of episodes. Basically it said "the world is incestuous and we all fuck around and are all connected in many ways we'd never imagine.