Where The L Word Saving Face Analysis

The local viewer is by far the most unique of all of Moore’s categories because they are the only group with the firsthand experience in the situations that are playing out on screen. The L Word does a wonderful catering to the desires of locals whereas Saving Face gave locals little to no attention at all. Far and away the best example of The L Word entertaining the locals is when the gang is trying to figure out if the sous chef, Lara, is a lesbian. They berate Dana with questions about Lara’s appearance, actions and personality. All the answers are systematically computed and they cannot determine if Lara is lesbian or not. So the logical solution, a sting operation. Following the sting operation, no real verdict can be reached and Dana is bummed that her crush may not be queer. Shortly later in the episode, Lara visits Dana in the locker room and passionately kisses her to let her know that she is in fact lesbian. For locals, this series of events is both humorous and relatable. Details from the types of shoes she wears to the length of her finger nails are all things that the gang used to determine Lara’s sexuality. Lesbians dress and act in their own way, it is part of their …show more content…
Where The L Word makes deliberate attempts to captivate the audience, Saving Face focusses on telling a specific story. Candice Moore mentions three different types of viewer that The L Word appeals to and there are several efforts to make the series interesting for the tourist, the traveler and the local. When taking the same approach to Saving Face, a movie that came out within a year of The L Word and should be attractive to the same audience, the movie fails to appeal to the tourist and the local, the two biggest categories. Although it did appeal the to the traveler, by failing to appeal to the tourist and the local it lost out on many potential viewers who could have enjoyed a slightly different