Gays of our Lives (January 19, 2010)

Welcome to a brand new edition of Gays of Our Lives, featuring all the latest news, clips and spoilers about soaps and dramas with gay and bisexual characters.

This week in GOOL THEATER: Life is always interesting for Kyle and Oliver on One Life to Live, so when Kyle stumbles onto the secret involving Stacy’s baby (whose father is Oliver), there are bound to be fireworks. Plus, Lenny is desperate to find Carsten and declare his love on the German version of Good Times, Bad Times, Eytan realizes the effect coming out has had on his family on The Ran Quadruplets, and Irish import RAW begins its second season.

In GOOL SCOOPS AND SPOILERS, a new story arc begins for Luke and Noah on As the World Turns as Dr. Reid Oliver debuts as Noah’s eye doctor. But when Reid is reluctant to perform surgery on Noah that might restore his eyesight, what does Luke have to do to get the good doctor to fall in line?

Meanwhile, Mickey throws a wild party on Shameless (U.S.), Lucas and Marco’s relationship gets complicated on the Dutch version of Good Times, Bad Times and the latest on this week’s Hollyoaks, River City and Coronation Street.

And in GOOL NEWSBEAT, is The Bold and the Beautiful about to add a gay character? We’ve got the word from the show’s executive producer on that. Plus, all kinds of exciting news about the future of Glee including some fun casting news, surprising behind the scenes changes at As the World Turns, including an update on Jake Silbermann (Noah) and the movie he’s producing and starring in.

We’ve also got the dish on a shocking story twist for Syed, Christian and Amira on EastEnders that you won’t see coming. And the GLAAD Award Nominees!

All this – and more!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
GOOL THEATER
SCOOPS & SPOILERS
GOOL SNEAK PEEKS
GOOL NEWSBEAT
SNAPSHOTS
SOAP STUD OF THE WEEK
QUESTION OF THE WEEK

GOOL THEATER

Raw

It’s been a good long while since I last saw this series and now that it’s back, I’m reminded of the problem I had with it. While I like Geoff and Pavel as individual characters, I don’t buy them as a couple. They just don't have much chemistry. I’d like to see them in different relationships, especially Geoff, who I find charming as the bad boy chef. In fact, I think Geoff had far more chemistry with Fiona, though I don’t see the show going in that direction since Geoff has been pretty well established as gay.

Damon Gameau is back as bad boy chef on the Irish drama Raw.

Even setting aside the lack of chemistry between the actors, the show doesn’t really treat Geoff and Pavel like a couple. In their scenes together they come off as friends, not long term lovers. And except for the scene where someone else mentioned they were boyfriends, you’d never guess that was their relationship.

This episode was clearly the set up for the season though, and maybe things will improve and Geoff and Pavel will begin to act like people in a long term relationship would.

*THANKS TO TUBEDOUTAGAIN FOR THE CLIPS!