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Liveblogging As the World Turns: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Visit My Psycho Dad in Prison
Oh goody, location shoot! Nothing makes me happier than when studio television shows go on a field trip and shoot on location out in the wilds of Brooklyn or Connecticut or New Jersey or anywhere else within a one-hour drive of the soundstage. Somehow getting the actors out from under those lights and messing their hair up a little makes them seem more human and less ... well, soap-opera-y. As we learned the other day, Noah decided to take the day off from school to walk Ameera around the one block of Oakdale that is visible to the human eye, and today (along with Luke) the kids head off to visit Noah's dad and Ameera's provider, Captain Pervy, in prison. We also have reason to believe from the preview in yesterday's show that they do not reach their final destination after having some sort of truck trouble. This could go in several directions ... will it be like Wrong Turn or The Hills Have Eyes, and they'll be attacked by a group of cannibals with a taste for tender young gays and Muslim women? Or maybe they'll be stalked by a lunatic trucker who calls them "Candy Cane"! Well, nothing quite as exciting as this happens (although not far off), but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Click on through the jump and refresh often to follow along... Over the river and through the woods to the Big House we go! 2:56PM EST: The kids decide that rather than walk to find help they'll get back in the truck and take a nap. Makes sense to me! Ameera is against getting in the truck to sleep with the fellas (even though they've been sitting next to each other for hours - and we've had to watch in realtime), and Noah says he'll sit in the middle. As they get settled a production assistant corgi wolf howls in the distance (are they serious?!) and Luke rolls up his window, concerned. Heck, maybe my horror movie references weren't far off... Preview Time!: It's a fratboy fracas! Luke and Noah throwing punches! Preppie rednecks! Still no sign of why they pulled over in the first place! We'll be back to try to make sense of all this tomorrow... 2:52PM EST: Okay, this is awesome. Luke asks if they hit something and Noah says he doesn't know. Wait, didn't Luke yell? Why? The boys get out to "check" and there's nothing there, but a quick peek under the truck while holding a wrench is enough to tell Noah that the front axle is broken. What was it made of, porcelain? This is the most undercommitted accident EVER. None of the kids have cell service ... including Ameera. She has a cell phone? Is it just me or is she not nearly as helpless as she makes herself out to be? OMG HENRY/CAFE VIENNA SEX SCENE. AVERT YOUR EYES BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE Actually, I can't tell if they were having sex or just rolling around in a bed. Without references to cold cuts I just don't pick up on that kind of thing anymore! 2:48PM EST: Finally! Luke screams "look out!" and the car rolls screeches to a halt at the side of the road. What the eff? Did something run in front of the car? Was there a branch? Did they hit the Oakdale Hellmouth? 2:46PM EST: Alright, at this point these kids have been driving past the same spot over and over as they continue this exposition-fest. How long are they going to be in this car? It's starting to feel like a Beckett play. 2:36PM EST: The kids are in the truck and Luke of course notes that he packed a picnic for three. Always thinking ahead, Luke! Noah notes that it's going to be weird to see his dad in prison. Ameera says she can't wait to see him but Luke doubts that Captain Mayer will like the fact that the boyfriend came along. Ameera asks the boys how they knew that they were gay, as there are no gays in St. Olaf. Luke tells her that he was always into sports but not girls. He drank a lot but his cousin helped him figure things out. Noah says that Luke was the first guy he'd ever have feelings for, which dashes our fantasies about Noah's long-lost club kid days, I guess. Ameera asks if Noah liked girls before Luke, and neither of the fellas answers or looks particularly eager to. Alright, not loving where this conversation is leading. 2:44PM EST: Noah tells Ameera that he guesses he liked girls first or thought he did but that he realized that he was only doing what his father wanted. He tells her how he hurt Maddie and how he regrets it. Ameera says that she wishes she'd been there when it all went down because she could have made Pervs understand. Noah says that it's great to have her there now to talk to. Luke looks obliviously out the window, smiling. Probably thinking about his picnic. 2:27PM EST: Cafe Vienna just had a majorly sniffly crying jag that was so bizarre that I can't tell if it was brilliant or ghastly. Back at the farm, Noah tells Ameera that Cappy isn't the man she knew, and she replies that maybe she can change his mind about Noah and Luke (Luke gives quite a smirk at this one). Ameera says that she's going with or without Noah, and Noah says that that means he's going too. Luke chimes in that he's not staying behind. Well it's settled, then - misery really does love company! Good lord, I've had more fun watching grass grow... 2:20PM EST: (the scene from the preview on the ATWT website) Luke tells Ameera that they have a tradition at the Snyder Home for Wayward Gays that they don't turn away people in need. Ameera says that back in St. Olaf they have the same tradition but they don't really mean it because the guest is supposed to just leave anyway. Handy! Noah's phone rings, and he tells them that the Warden called with a message from his father. Eew, in this Lean Cuisine commercial a woman says "I wanna get crazy with a hot pastrami!" with unnerving intensity. Has she been watching Luke and Noah flirt?! Noah tells Luke and Ameera that Captain Pervy wants him to visit for some reason but that he said it was important. Noah says he's not going and Ameera says that she wants to see Pervs too and that she'll go with him. Noah snaps back, "No way, I'm not letting YOU go!" Whah? Back away from the coffeemaker and cool your jets, Mayer! 2:10PM EST: Ameera doesn't want to cause trouble so she says she's going to find another place to live, but Luke tells her he wants her to stay. Meanwhile, The Amazing Indestructible Ice Truck Killer is in the middle of the babymama drama, Doctor Not-As-Dashing is fighting with the Hotprechaun™, and Henry caught Cafe Vienna making out with Gray and now Austin From Days and The Blonde Obstacle are helping him get rid of the guy. Did it sound like I actually care about any of this? Because if so I seriously apologize. 2:06PM EST: Luke comes in from mucking the stalls and feeding the horses and tells Noah it's not the same without him. Because, lest we forget, shoveling horse poo is the closest these guys get to having a good time together. Noah says that Ameera is napping but that she was really shaken up by the backfiring boiler. Luke says he can ask his grandma about their lawyers helping Ameera with her visa situation, and Noah is surprised, and says that he wasn't sure how Luke felt about Ameera. Later, Noah tells Luke (as he pours a cup of coffee, of course!) that he wants to help Ameera to try to make things right. Luke says that helping Ameera won't make his father okay with the fact that he's gay and that he doesn't owe Ameera anything. Of course, doing her Hamlet's Father shtick again, Ameera walks in a that moment and says, "he's right, Noah! Back in Saint Olaf ..." Submitted by on Wed, 2008-02-27 15:01. |
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"it will take hours to get there"
well, guys, maybe you should go faster than 5 MILES AN HOUR. they could walk there quicker. I LOVE how fake the inside of the car looks. ( i know it's probably not, but it looks fake). What would have made this scene BRILLIANT would be to have different scenes on the green screen, like...them driving past the egyptian pyramids....or driving past the moon.
http://whitewingeddove.blogspot.com/
If I Didn't Know It Already....
for real?
I still can't believe that comming from Iraq, Ameera is so naive that she isn't shocked by Luke and Noah's relationship, there's something strange about that and her purring for pity. With all her breathy aphorisms, I keep expecting Ameera to ditch the brown burqa and come out in a powder blue bath towel with a huge rhinestone brooch in the center of her forhead.
wait a minute!
Ameera knows what a cell phone is? I'm surprised she didn't look at it and say "it's a small shoe!" (my undying love to anyone who gets that reference)
http://whitewingeddove.blogspot.com/
YYAAAAWWWNNNN!!!
So, ATWT is run by "Focus on the Family" and the Concerned A**h*les of America. Ameera is going to convince Noah that he's straight.
I continue to urge Afterelton to drop the liveblogging of this insulting program. CBS SHOULD NOT BE REWARDED FOR THE KIND OF GARBAGE THEY ARE DISHING OUT.
Nuke isn't romance, they are nothing but boring, nonsensical DRIVEL!!!
A BOYCOTT OF CBS Should be Organized.
"production assistant corgi"
LMAO. That was way too funny.
There was more gay action on the episode of the Golden Girls I watched earlier - the one where Dorothy's friend Jean falls in love with Rose...maybe Betty White should be the Nuke's new friend instead of Ameera...
Sigh.
FB
How is it that these guys
How is it that these guys aren't suspicious that Ameera is simultaneously naive enough to think she can turn around a murderous, psychopathic bigot AND worldly enough to practically throw them a Pride parade?
I realized today that even if this story doesn't turn out as badly as I dread, the BEST it can achieve is to return to the status quo. So even if they don't turn Noah "straight" and hook him up with Iraq's Rose Nylund, neither are they going to show him rolling around in bed with Luke. It's OK to show Vienna and Henry tangled up in the sheets with plenty of side boob, but heaven forbid Luke and Noah do more than hug.
ya got to be kidding me....
"Okay, this is awesome. Luke asks if they hit something and Noah says he doesn't know. Wait, didn't Luke yell?"
^ what a friggin joke. this show is getting just as bad as General Hospital.
Too funny
Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your liveblogs. I've been watching ATWT for years now, and I suppose as a soap fan you get used to certain story points.
I also suspect that Ameera is Noah's long lost sister. It's a soap staple--the relative you never knew you had who shows up to wreck your life. It may actually be a good sign. Noah has no relatives ad on teh soaps you only get to stay in town if you have family ties. Maybe they're trying to shore up the Luke/Noah storyline? I can't say for sure, but my guess is they will tease this out in February, we won't see too much of the boys in March-April, they'll be back for a smooch during May sweeps, then carry a story for the summer.
Here's hoping that in the dog days of summer they take a roll in the hay in that barn of Luke's...
Haven't I been saying..
all along that same thought that Ameer is his long lost half sister... anyway, I found this link to a german soap opera that puts ATWT gay couple storyling to shame... it's in german but has english subtitles. perhaps our german members might shed more light into this soap opera.
http://allaboutstrength.blogspot.com/search?q=deniz/ Deniz & Roman too gute..
Why Luke and Noah are like that...
Luke: "Well, I realized in high school, I was into sports, but not girls. I skipped all the parties and the dances; I kept drinking way, way way too much. I guess I just couldn't deal with my feelings. Finally I had to admit to myself that I was into guys way more than I was into girls."
Noah "Luke was really the first guy I ever had those feelings for." "Did I like girls first? At least I thought I did. You know, eventually I realized I was doing what my father wanted me to do instead of what I wanted to do."
Noah also says he regrets hurting Maddie, but he couldn't help the way he felt about Luke. "If I had been more honest with myself and just stood up to my father. I couldn't keep hiding who I was."
Unlike 80% of the gay men I know who knew they were gay from an early age, and the other 20% that I know who realized they were gay at puberty, Luke didn't realize he was gay until high-school when his alcohol abuse alerted him to the fact that he might be hiding his inner feelings. That's how you find out you're gay, you go on a drunken binge. Besides playing into gay-drug stereotypes it suggests that Luke "turned" gay, rather than was born that way.
Noah, on the other hand didn't have a clue until Luke seduced him. And since he couldn't stand up to his dad and tell him he was going to try and pinch hit for the other team, he gets some poor girl involved in his depravity to cover up the fact. If only he had been more honest, he could have tried depravity without dads consent. His continuing ambiguity is cloying and suggests gay seduction.
I cringed when Noah said
I cringed when Noah said he'd never had feelings for a guy until Luke, because I could see them suggesting that Luke "turned" him.
On the other hand, the writers may think they're being romantic by portraying Luke as Noah's first. It's probably one of the more common traits of a "super couple" to be each other's first loves. I don't see why they can't have had other first LUSTS, but apparently these guys are extremely old-fashioned and chaste and push down their carnal urges.
I especially cringed...
In fairness...
Far be it from me to defend the lame writers at ATWT, but the scenario is frankly not unrealistic. While we ideally like to tell ourselves that we all always new we were gay, that isn't true for all of us.
I myself suffered through deep denial and couldn't even get so far as to think, privately to myself, that I "might be bi" until I was 19. My first actual experience with a guy wasn't until I was 20 and I didn't really start coming out to anybody until a couple years later.
Obviously I knew as a teenager that I was attracted to males, but this was the 80's and being gay was definitely NOT okay at the time. Anti-gay jokes were a mainstay of humor including on TV and in movies. Virtually everyone around me had something negative to say about gays. So yes, I maintained a pretense of being interested in girls and even convinced myself that I wanted to have girlfriends and sex.
So it's not really surprising that a couple of Mid-Westerners like Luke and Noah might have issues coming to terms with being gay. Noah in particular being an Army brat and growing up in a culture where homosexuality is actively demonized.
I know that may not be the modern image of homosexual self-identification we think is ideal. But it still happens to a lot of people. My first time with a girl predates my first time with a guy by almost 5 years. Did this mean I was straight as a teenager and "turned gay" as an adult? Actually, I have a (very funny) memory of one friend actually asking me that with a look of real fear on his face.
Ironically, a lot of straight people imagine that gays are just "afraid" of women and that they would be "cured" if they would just do it with some. I've heard lots of idiot straight men make stupid remarks like "You don't know what you're missing!" assuming that gays by definition have never touched a woman.
Yes, some people will read into the storyline that Noah was "seduced" by Luke into being gay. There were a lot of people who saw Brokeback Mountain that way too. You can't always fix people's misconceptions.
Ironically, a lot of
Ironically, a lot of straight people imagine that gays are just "afraid" of women and that they would be "cured" if they would just do it with some. I've heard lots of idiot straight men make stupid remarks like "You don't know what you're missing!" assuming that gays by definition have never touched a woman.
Hmmm, for me, "just doing it" with a woman only confirmed that I REALLY was not interested in women that way, even a tiny bit!
Visualization
That's quite the seduction
That's quite the seduction - getting Noah to give up sex with Maddie for two interrupted kisses (three if you count MistletoeGate), hand-holding and a couple of hugs with Luke.
Great as always
Another very funny recap. And boy, in this episode there was plenty of material at which to poke fun, including that ridiculous road trip. Dumb, dumb, dumb from beginning to end---ah, those writers. (Their stupid minds---stupid, stupid!) Of course, you have to view all proceedings on this show with "soap-sight;" in other words, just sit back and enjoy the goofiness. I'm not a long-time viewer of ATWT, and so I still view it in a "so silly it's fun" way, rather than in a "so dumb it's annoying" way. Believe me, there are much worse soaps out there. I did watch Days of Our Lives for a number of years (kind of embarrassing to admit that, but it was a family tradition), but I finally gave up when it got to be so stupid it was annoying; no fun left in the show. Heck, at least on ATWT things happen. On DOOL a single day in the lives of the characters could easily last three weeks in real time, with absolutely NOTHING happening whatsoever except the characters sitting around rehashing again and again what they are thinking about.
Now, I don't read spoilers, so I don't know if Ameera is in fact Noah's sister, though things are pointing in that direction. But my first thought was totally that she was sent there by Colonel Pervy; the whole thing being a set-up to get Noah to marry her so she can stay in the country. I'm still not sure that is not what is going to happen. But if it does; boy, is that a tired plot device, and I'm going to be pretty darn annoyed.
To any writer with a spark of imagination, there are so many interesting story-lines that can be thought of, involving Nuke. It's been a total waste so far, ever since they got together, but I'm still hanging in there. After all, if we tune out due to dissatisfaction with the Nuke storyline, well, that is exactly what the right wingnuts are hoping people will do, and I'm not about to oblige them.
I am still hoping that come summer, the boys will be put in a front-burner storyline with some meat to it (no pun intended). Hey, it could happen....
well maybe they did not
A tornado?
and yet
and yet she owns a cell phone ???
NUKE: Sloppy Storytelling
First things first: "Oh, it's a small shoe" is from Absolutely Fabulous, "Small Opening" (one of my favorite episodes!)
I've stopped watching the clips because they're just too awful, but I really look forward to the liveblogs, which are far more entertaining than ATWT itself.
Seems the writing is getting progressively sloppier with each episode. There is no continuity in the storyline as a whole and, as Brian constantly points out, no continuity EVEN WITHIN THE SAME EPISODE. I don't know if this is a result of the writer's strike or Focus on the Family homophobes, but ATWT has turned a potentially good storyline into something completely ridiculous. Poor Van and Jake that they have to try and make this crap believable. Ah well, at least they're getting paid.
*sigh*
It's so sad and depressing that something that started out so great and promising turned into, well, pure crapola. Nuke was one of the things that I kept looking forward to week after week. Then it happened. The homophboes started coming...and the "homophobic" writing started kicking in.
I'm starting to believe more and more that CBS did this for publicity (duh!) and that they didn't intend to keep up the "quality" of it. Which is kind of stupid, if you think about it. Yes, they did in fact get more viewers...for a short term. Don't you think that the viewers will start abandoning the show once the quality (or the lack there of) slips more and more? I mean, let's the face it, even when Nuke was good, the rest of the episode about everyone else was basically total garbage (and that's putting it lightly). And I think they knew that.
They knew it and that's why they wanted to create buzz and gain publicity so that they have enough viewers to make it through sweeps to get more advertising dollars or to save the show. Or both. Either way, I wouldn't mind their "trick" as much if they actually cared even a lick beyond that. They used Nuke, they used us (the viewers), and now I'm starting to get mad and feel violated. I hope the show does get canceled. It'll be good riddance from here on out anyway. They were on the bubble before, I say let that bubble pop.
heh
okk i dont know why some one will bother to watch nuke again?i was a fan but come on there is nothing to watch-i just read liveblogging-the storyline is funny and ameera want to wear scarf all the time???i mean iam musllim and in my country everyone wear scarf but not like this and well not every one believe in hejab and if she is a muslime she shouldnt go out with two boys at the first place .i really like to watch a story loke roman and deniz in germany -i know that they break up-
anyway thanx