What prompted to do this was last night's very interesting (yet very odd) episode, in that it turns the "Dead Lesbian Cliche" on its head.
Ida Teeter is an entomologist working at a museum. She is gay, but this seems to be no big deal to her (straight) male colleague, and they seem to have a good working relationship. Leaving work, she notices a young woman sitting in the museum's vestibule with a sketch pad. She immediately takes a liking to her, but has trouble working up the courage to introduce herself.
Arriving home, she finds a package from her old university professor: a strange insect from Brazil that has never been classified. She adds it to her huge collection of bugs, which she keeps as "pets" (thus turning off many potential partners, as her male colleague points out!).
Anyway, she finally works up the courage to ask out the young artist who, it turns out, is named Misty Waters (no kidding!
). They hit it off immediately, and Misty comes home with Ida (who has hidden away her bug collection in the bedroom) and things proceed to immediately get hot and heavy. Unfortunately, Ida doesn't know that the weird Brazilian insect has escaped, and is nesting in one of her pillowcases. When Misty lays her head down on this pillow, she is bitten, and begins a weird metamorphosis.
Soon Misty moves in with Ida, much to the distress of Ida's homophobic landlady, a grandmother who considers their relationship to be "perverse". Her little granddaughter, however, looks up to Ida sees nothing wrong in her being happy with her "friend".
The horror arrives when Ida receives a letter from the professor who sent her the strange bug, and who now informs her that he did a bad thing: the bug is a dangerous parasite that implants a toxin in its victim that causes the victim's body to change into that of the insect, at which point the nasty bug implants its eggs in its victim! Why did he do this? It turns out that Misty is really his daughter, and he is also a homophobe who hoped that the nasty bug would bite Ida and thus end their relationship
!
Things come to head when the mean landlady tries to order Misty to leave, and Misty transforms into the insect and kills the landlady.
In the meantime, Ida returns home, and Misty confesses everything. Not wanting to be separated, Ida allows the bug to bite her as well.
The final scene shows the women happily entwined together on their bed with swollen bellies, looking forward to the arrival of their "offspring".
I know, it's creepy. But it's worth noting that it is the nasty homophobic landlord who gets killed, and not the lovers. Furthermore, it is the plans of Misty's homophobic father that are thwarted in ways he could not forsee!
Thoughts and comments?
