Great thread, thanks for starting it and keeping it going. Here's my .02 cents:
1. Jenny is the character I love to hate. Really, like you all I can't stand her, but she ignites lots of drama with the other characters and I love that.
2. Tina and Bette are boring, but honestly I think Bette is boring and couldn't really care who she is with.
3. I'm much more into Shane and Alice and their constellation of lovers.
4. Love Max, but I still wish they would have story lines with lesbians who want to stay lesbians, women-identified-women but who are really androgynous, not just "pseudo" androgynous, like Shane. I don't mean a caricature, but a really handsome woman, you know ... my type ...
... the type no one in this culture celebrates. Oh, well, don't get me started. It's too early ... although I already have spare ribs simmering in a nice "sauce." What a woman....