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Liveblogging As the World Turns: When you don't care enough to send the very best
Yes, after shaking off the depressing pall that last week's Extra Special Valentine's Day DoubleStandardpalooza episode cast over me, my house, and my custom-made Nuke cookies, I am back to once again face another intimacy-challenged episode of As the World Turns.
Back to matters at hand, it looks like today's episode finds our hermetically sealed gay lovers having their domestic (and totally nonphysical) bliss shattered once again by Noah's father, the insidious and incarcerated Captain Pervy. We already know that the news in his letter will launch a whole new (and let me just say, batsh*t crazy) storyline for the boys ... but will it ultimately bring them closer? Well, considering that right now Luke is Oakdale's version of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, the alternative is near-impossible. Click through the jump and refresh often to find out... And off we go! 2:58PM EST: Okay, while there's no reason to believe that our Nuke Liplock Clock is going to need resetting any time soon, at least the last 5 minutes of the episode gave the boys something to do other than speak in thinly-veiled meat metaphors and take care of Luke's parents. Preview Time! Nothing tomorrow, but we know that the new mystery woman who fouls up the boys' lives appears later this week ... Miss Scarlet, eat your heart out. 2:52PM EST: Noah is really freaked out that the letter is missing from his backpack and Luke says that one of his sisters is probably playing a practical joke. Yeah, because Little Miss Stormcloud and The Other One are just the very picture of juvenile playfulness. Luke and Noah go inside and walk in on Lily and Holden hugging and Luke looks really embarrassed. Which makes perfect sense, because in his and Noah's world, two fully clothed people hugging in a kitchen is the equivalent of Crisco-covered sexual abandon. Noah tries to pretend that the whole "someone stole a completely worthless letter from my dad" thing isn't bugging him, but we're treated to a hot reverse shot of him looking out the kitchen window with a worried look on his face like he thinks there's someone creeping about in the squash patch. It's so Made for TV Movie and it's the hottest moment of the episode ... it could be a shot from Summer of Fear or A Strange and Deadly Occurrence or something. 2:45PM EST: Okay, this is starting to actually get interesting in a rather Clue-like way. Luke and Noah come back into ... what, the Conservatory? The Lounge? - and Noah thanks Luke for getting him to reconsider his father's letter. But when he goes to get the letter from his backpack (which he left fully closed on the chair before going out to milk Bessie), his backpack is open and it's gone. Who could have taken it?! My money's on Mrs. Peacock. Seriously, I noticed the lingering shot of Noah's backpack when he left it on the chair in the previous scene but thought that maybe the cameraman had literally died of boredom mid-shot. 2:37PM EST: Lily tells Holden that Quaker Oats Lady asked her to borrow Lady Drumstick's jet to get her puppeteer-murdering little brat out of the country. Yes, "her jet". Oh my heck, the LONGEST testimony I've ever seen. Thank God Aaron's at least kinda easy on the eyes or I would have swallowed my tongue minutes ago. This is worse than those things you have to sit through when you cash in a free timeshare. Luke catches up with Noah outside the farm and he talks some sense into him. They make up and they hug. Luke asks Noah if he wants to work off some of that rage by ... doing "barn chores". Unless "barn chores" is a euphemism (which it isn't), they're literally going to go bale hay. You know, like typical 18-year-old lovers. 2:25PM EST: Seriously, this is the lamest argument in the history of the boys' relationship, and it had better not be enough to keep them from kissing for another 6 months. And Luke had better secretly replace Noah's gourmet coffee with Sanka. Meanwhile, the babymama crew is having their "the Emmy Rossum impersonator ate my baby" trial in the worlds smallest courtroom. Aaron appears after just having been at the Snyder Farm after moments before being at the hotel. As snicks noted below, I can almost smell the brimstone from all this teleporting. 2:20PM EST: Luke and a re-caffeinated Noah get into the argument from the preview clip: Luke's suggestion that Noah move past his issues with his father works Noah into an inexplicable lather and he storms out of the Central Perk, leaving Luke understandably stunned. 2:12PM EST: Lily tells Holden that now that she's not chasing the dragon anymore maybe she should move back out. You know, she actually does look rested and kind of less hausfrau-hookerish. All those beans must be doing her good. At the Central Perk, Luke and Noah continue their conversation about Captain Pervy's letter, which Noah hasn't opened. Luke opens it and reads it aloud. It's just kind of a generic "Dear son whose boyfriend I tried to kill even though I really love you" kind of thing, and since there's no apology in it, Noah ain't having it. He goes to get more coffee. Noah, for our sakes, please switch to decaf! 2:05PM EST: Babymama drama. Wow, the Girl Who Reminds Me of Haley Joel Osment really needs to dress her hubby a little better. What is this, Goodfellas? Back at the Snyder Home for Wayward Gay Teens, Lily is making a huge pot of stew and tells Holden she used his mother's recipe. From the looks of it, that entails emptying about 20 cans of baked beans into a pot. Gonna be a fluff-the-covers night for the Snyders! Luke and Noah are in Maddie Alley talking about coffee (of course!). Noah drops something and Luke goes to pick it up (I'd say that this was a clever reference to the Valentine's Day episode, but I've blocked it out of my mind entirely). Noah snatches it away and Luke realizes that it was a letter from Captain Pervy. Oooh! Yeah, we already knew all this. Submitted by on Mon, 2008-02-18 14:58. |
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I wish i had these characters mutant ability to teleport. First Allison is talking to Aaron, then BAMF! she's talking to will and gwen.
OOHH...NUKE's first fight. now shake hands and make up.
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Cat Food
THERE'S A BOMB IN NOAH'S BACKPACK!
why else would they do that odd freeze frame of it. ahh yes, farm chores...maybe at least we'll get a chance to see them milk some cows. that's about the closest we'll get to the real thing.
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wow
"They make up and they hug"
^ for real? holy cow! didn't see that coming at all. nuh-uh. *taken aback*
Bucking hay
Won't heat up at the farm for a while
You *know* the writers could work up an "Oakdale Heat Wave" story if they wanted to, but judging from the progression of this storyline, we'll see activities like that in like 2030, which by then actual global warming will have made the storyline that much more practical.
That pool scene seems like it was ten years ago.
we need to get Pamela Sue Martin on the case.
THE CASE OF THE MISSING MCGUFFIN....and while she's at it, she can solve THE MYSTERY OF THE VIRGIN TEENS.
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Lucky horses
Love the clock
Love the clock.
Please keep up the good work with the live blogging / recaps.
Oh, and kitty is really cute with his(?) broken cookie.
Please forward to ATWT writers
This story is not only crumblimg, it is downright extinct. We know New Creepy Girl, stole the letter; how can they otherwise introduce her. Perhaps while Captain Pervy was in the armed services he fathered another child. Also rendered hateful by his abandoning she and her mother in whatever war torn country for his faggot son back in the States. Good enough rerason for a a citizen of a country that has no gay people to be rersentful.
More of a Man Boy, Parker, had better hope she isn't there to commandeer Lady Drumstick's private jet that is always being ordered up but never used. Those Pilots are going to quit any minute now. That Shaggy-haired sensitive young boy is gonna end up Captain Pervy's prison bitch if they can't find out the reason More of a Man Boy was molested by Yet Another Dead Guy.
THANK YOU! I always
THANK YOU! I always thought that the girl who plays Sofie is the poor man's Emmy Rossum.
Anyway, the upcoming storyline looks "interesting," so I'll reserve judgment until it airs and see how it actually plays out. Needless to say, I don't want a Maddie redux: I don't want to see another girl potentially coming in between Noah and Luke.
Nuke need a clue
Okay, first of all, Colonel Psycho's letter did not contain an apology, it merely said that he "wished he'd done things differently".
Indeed.
He probably wishes that he'd just bombed the entire Snyder house (at least it would have provided an excuse to get rid of that damned kitchen set) or else snipered Luke from a rooftop on Old Town. If he hadn't tried that convoluted plot of luring Luke out on a camping trip so as to bring his carcass home like deer then he wouldn't be in jail right now.
Given my memory and love of debate, if I were Noah I would have been forced to point out that Colonel Psycho always insisted that everything he did was in what he thought were Noah's best interests. If anything the letter was actually just a creepy reiteration of what he'd already said.
Still, I'm assuming this ties into the coming sub-plot. You know, the one where Luke marries Noah's illegitimate half-Iraqi, half-sister so that she can stay in the country and Colonel Psycho uses his training in escaping POW camps to break out of prison and try to kill them all while Iraq girl tries to assert ownership of her new husband from Noah (all speculation on my part, but it's what I'm expecting).
ah, not the only one
I see that I am not the only one to be thinking that an escaped Colonel Prev / Psycho could be the end of the whole gay thing for ATWT. Colonel escapes, kills one or maybe both boys, if one of the boys lives he moves away to get away from the bad memories of Oakdale never to be seen again (or TPTB want another gay rating tease... I mean boost) Was thinking this when things got quite after Thanksgiving.
Psionycx, given your Kissing = bad things happen theory, I could see the Colonel coming after the boys soon after they have sex.
The custom-made cookies/kitty cat rock!!!! Nuke does not!
Can this show get any worse? While I am only into my 5th day of not watching a single scene that does not involve Nuke, I am starting to think (even after watching 20+ years) it's going to be a breeze not to watch the show at all and just come here to enjoy the festivities.
Irrelevant meandering thoughts:
The Nuke argument was ridiculous. Dump the letter in the trash and make-out. I don't know which half of this "super-couple" annoyed me more today. Who cares about daddy? That is so last year. A parody of Nuke would be impossible they are right out of another era and age-bracket.
While entirely irrelevant, no one seems to be listening to me that not every single set/piece of clothing news to be green. I think if Sofie got naked, her skin would be green.
Unless Luke had that annoying Jonathan Antin from Blow Out on call at the barn, there was no kissing OR barn work performed. I don't even think that Luke's striped scarf (which screamed "I am trying to look young") moved during the "chores" and that hair was puuuuurfect. Noah did look unusually constipated.
Isn't Holden the one who needs to move back home with Lily and Ethan? Have the writers forgotten that they are rich and could walk around naked 24/7 without being interrupted by anyone. The only reason they moved in the first place was when new sets were being built and there were 4 sets in play. Lily and Holden are not sponge worthy?
It's sad that the only bed scene that I've ever seen Luke in was with Jade, his female cousin. Maybe now this letter thief can get him to drink again and they can try to pull a soap classic involving a drunk character (Holden did it long ago) making love to the wrong person, calling out the name of the right person, while the wrong person quietly enjoys that their masterful plan to worked. In this case Chris Goutman could be shown breaking the fourth wall and screaming "Gotcha!"
But I can't get too upset as I am over my boys and LOVED seeing Brian's kitty cat and the cookie. Not even Cute with Chris. Check out those eyes contrasting the red on the cookie. A kitty cat star is born
ATWT better be careful!
I'm just as frustrated by all of this like everyone else and I, like Guillermo, have only chosen to watch just the NUKE scenes and I've scrapped the rest of the show. My patience is also wearing thin. I am going to 'hang in there' though. I refuse to believe that ATWT would go so far as to introduce this groundbreaking story just to go screw it up, which sadly, that's pretty much what they're doing. If they don't fix this mess soon they will risk losing all the gains that they made since the beginning of last summer.
I sincerely hope that the 'big cheese' over at ATWT/P&G will undo this mess as soon as possible because if they don't, they will be forever remembered as the show that 'copped out' of what could potentially be one of the greatest soap stories/romances ever told. If ATWT was smart, they should not only fix the NUKE mess STAT, but why not create an entire gay community in Oakdale? Think of the possibilities! And who knows, maybe over time, the show could eventually add more and more gay characters and morph itself into the first gay daytime soap. A dream is just a dream folks and I'm not holding my breath LOL.
As FRUSTRATING as it is, I can only ask the fans of NUKE to hang in there simply because the gay community is of course very passionate and if we were all to abandon the show completely, then we would be the losers of this fight. The fans need to regularly communicate with the show via email to make sure that they are in fact doing the gay community justice and to fulfill their promise of groundbreaking and accurate storytelling. I think that's all folks. If I'm forgetting anything I apologize. As usual, please feel free to comment on my post. Peace everybody.
Regards,
dgd417
Nuke = Titanic = Bottom of the Snyderfork Ranch Pond!
Sorry guys, but after yesterday's limp Nuke scenes, I can see the demise of this storyline. So big deal, Noahlicious got a letter from Daddy Dearest and Luscious Lips tried to convince him to face up and reconsile with Daddy Dearest. I am in total agreement with Guillermo; anything dealing with Daddy Dearest is soo last year! Noahlicious continues his constipated look while Luscious Lips continues his asinine goo-goo eyed stares at him.
Like the Titanic, this Nuke storyline is slowly sinking to the bottom of the Snyderfork Ranch Pond. HoldenAgrudge and Mama Bear Lily probably won't even wonder what happened to Pineapple Princess Luscious Lips and Noahlicious. Their insipid storyline is so BBC- Howard's End that even they couldn't stand to be around them.