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Tina: You are angry!
Bette (standing and shouting): You’re damn right, I’m angry. You hurt me to the core. You broke my fucking heart into a thousand pieces. You left me Tina. You left Angie. You left me with our child to explain the absence of her birth mother with nothing that made sense. What the fuck was I supposed to do? And every day, I look into our daughter’s face and I see you. And I wonder, what the fuck happened Tina? What did I do? What did I not do? How could I have prevented this? And I have zero answers. And the pathetic thing is that I just cannot move on. I still love you Tina with all my heart. I cannot imagine myself with anyone else. Hell, I don’t want to imagine myself with anyone else.
Tina was sobbing at this point. She was hearing every word that Bette said and she knew she was speaking her truth. She could see how hurt Bette was and it was breaking her own heart.
Bette saw Tina sobbing and wanted to go and comfort her. But she simply could not move any closer to Tina.
Bette: I am sorry that I am laying all of this on you. But I needed to get this off my chest. I needed for you to know the devastation you left in the wake of your decision to leave your family. I hope that you are living the life you want to live and that you are happy with it. As to my life? Well, I guess that isn’t something you need to concern yourself with. My primary concern is Angie right now. I am doing all I can to give her the tools to live a happy productive life. I just hope, we haven’t screw her up with our relationship. I guess it’s going to be a few years before we see if that is the case.
Tina nodded her head. Bette turned and walked into her bedroom and closed the door. Tina could hear her sobbing. Tina sat in front of the fire crying as well. It was going to take some time for Tina to process what Bette had said. She knew that what Bette said was right. Tina hid her feelings about her life during that period after she lost of job with Tribeca and her leaving Bette. That was almost 5 years. She remembered that Bette was enjoying her job; she was assisting with Angie and had been affectionate and attentive to Tina. Their social life had revolved around Bette’s job with occasional visits from the gang from Los Angeles and dinners with Peggy and Marilyn. But Tina’s life was missing something. It was missing self-realization. She was happy as Bette’s wife and Angie’s mom but she needed something more. So why didn’t she go to Bette for help? That was the question that kept rolling over in her mind.
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It is a challenging task to take on the Generation Q nonsensical plot line, especially Bette and Tina ever having gotten divorced. You have written an interesting “moment in time” offering the readers one possibility of what happened. I would imagine from your description that the cabin is a small claustrophobic place and Bette and Tina are both nervous and somewhat kinetic in the way they interact with one another and move about. Neither able to relax. Trying to respect each other and each other’s space. Watching the clock. Watching the snow. With nowhere to go. Also, it is next to impossible to make sense of the Tina that Marja gave us. No one recognizes her. I think you have given it a very good shot. I also appreciate the way you wrote Bette struggling with her emotions and all of the hurt. Tina is a mystery. Why would she ask Bette if she loves her? Bette’s reply is spot on. She loves Tina but no longer knows her. She loves her because she is Angie’s biological mother. She was able to remain respectful to Tina but also get to the heart of the matter: Why did you leave me? Why did you leave Angie? That’s tough stuff. It would have been much easier to write a story that pretended away the fiasco that was Gen Q. You took it on. Well done, Martha.
Billy,
Thank you for reading and commenting. Gen Q, for me, simply decided Bette and Tina were divorced and never fleshed out why that happened. IMO, the writers never believed that they would need this backstory when they put it into the script. But for a couple as iconic as Bette and Tina, they should have known that sooner or later, they might have to reveal that backstory. But in true Gen Q fashion, it never was addressed.
So when Laurel returned for Season 1, the writers have Tina give an explanation to Angie that she needed to find herself. And then another explanation to Bette which said that Bette simply overshadowed her very existence. Neither explanation rang true for me. And I accepted Bette’s declaration to Shane under the influence of marijuana, that she did not know why Tina left and that Tina had never offered an explanation. So, when they brought in Carrie, I was even more confused as to why Tina left and who Tina Kennard was. And despite some of the fan’s responses of adoration for Carrie, that relationship simply did not reflect the Tina Kennard I so adore and love. And then in Season 3, where we get our reunion and wedding which I desperately wanted, but the path seemed more like a fairey tale than anything which could be close to reality or reasonable. The conflicts were between Bette and Tina seemed artificial and were put aside with a few soft words. Determining what the conflicts were required the most vivid of imaginations and the ability to take the darkest moments of their past and project it to their present. Bette and Tina have a long and rocky history. But the Bette and Tina I know would never dig into that bag of history and use their bad behavior as a club to justify current behavior. I feel this is particularly true for those issues which they had analyzed, apologized and forgiven the other for. Whatever the reason for Bette and Tina’s divorce, it had to be something new or something we are completely unaware of. And I do not completely explain why the separation and divorce happen, I at least ask the question. And I still believe that question can only be answered by Tina.
I am glad you mentioned the cabin. It’s a place designed for no more than 4 people as a temporary getaway. I imagine the dining table has 4 chairs in a standard square shape. The kitchen is a galley style kitchen in which it starts to get crowded with a second person. I imagine that the main purpose is to provide housing for skiers visiting the area during the winter and hikers during the summer.
Addressing this aspect of the Gen Q story is not easy. I think that getting into Tina’s mind and understanding her motivations, her thought processes, and the environment surrounding her when she made her choices is a difficult place to go. For me, the things which might explain this seem so unfathomable that I cannot make my mind go there. Things such as cheating, falling out of love, mental illness or shear boredom with the relationship simply cannot be possible in my world for these two. And they are far too intelligent to allow a misunderstanding to keep them apart. Bette and Tina have been through too much and have weathered too many storms to believe they would ever purposely pursue a path that would destroy their relationship. I also believe that it is simply not possible for the two of them to make any decision in which they did not consider the impact of such on the other. They simply love each other too much for that. So, the bottom line is that we the writers are left to try to explain the unexplainable….
My thanks for your continued support….
Well thought out and literate reply. I totally agree.