Liveblogging "As the World Turns": My Two Homophobic, Letter-Writing Dads

if a certain blast from primetime's past will make his first appearance today? Think....office walls painted with poison...a wife who disappeared and then reappeared as a totally different person...and the ultimate mother-in-law!

This week on SNICKS 80'S HOT 100, the free internet radio station, it's the BILLBOARD HOT 100 for July 13th - 19th, 1985!

Noah says that he thinks the should wait a bit ... and Luke agrees?! 

^ you're not really that surprised, are ya? this is ATWT that we are talking about....

We better get a screen capture of shirtless Hotprechaun!

Luke values Noahs opinion? The guy doesnt learn does he? Noah should be on probation now and doing "hard" labour. Yeah right.

Hotprechaun!  Haawt.

"Quaker Oats Lady goes off on Matthew Perry 2.0 for "trading women with Brad like baseball cards". Now that was hillarious.

or does "hotprechaun" sound like something you buy a box of at Stuckey"s? 

"Does this cocktail glass make me look fat?"

"Heavenly body?" I slay myself.

This week on SNICKS 80'S HOT 100, the free internet radio station, it's the BILLBOARD HOT 100 for July 2nd -8th, 1983!

Perfectly acceptable for Jack to have his brother's baby momma/friend with 'bennies' staying at the farm, while Luke and Noah are written to be good little gay boys in love, who are willing to deny themselves 'sex on the farm', because of 'Emma's Rules'. Luke should take that money and get himself an apartment so that he can have some 'alone time' with his boyfriend of 8 months. Love me less, but love me a long time - Les Chansons D'Amour

Perfectly acceptable for Jack to have his brother's baby momma/friend with 'bennies' staying at the farm, while Luke and Noah are written to be good little gay boys in love, who are willing to deny themselves 'sex on the farm', because of 'Emma's Rules'. Luke should take that money and get himself an apartment so that he can have some 'alone time' with his boyfriend of 8 months. Love me less, but love me a long time - Les Chansons D'Amour

no wonder allison freaked out...i would too if JEFF COLBY suddenly appeared

This week on SNICKS 80'S HOT 100, the free internet radio station, it's the BILLBOARD HOT 100 for July 2nd -8th, 1983!

It's just very evident that the writers at ATWT have no intention of writing a sexual relationship into the NUKE storyline.   It's very unrealistic to think that two healthy 19 year gay men would choose not to have sex....GET REAL!!!

It's gotten past the point of being insulting to gay viewers with the use of a double standard...gay men - sex - no....straight couples...get naked and have sex anywhere possible. 

But I really like Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann and love to watch them act together.....they could recite the alphabet and I would watch them.   That is what keeps me watching ATWT and Brian's blog makes it wonderfully entertaining.

 

Is "Luciano" Italian for "never going to get laid"?

Ugh! The horrible lengths this show goes to just to keep these guys from having sex. Noah is moving to the farm entirely because of Emma's supposed "no sex" rule. Which apparently only applies to people who live there. As soon as Jack says he's staying somewhere else for two weeks, he gets to get conjugal (and I'm pretty sure he had sex with Katie while he was living there, before he married her).

"No pressure" says Luke. NO PRESSURE? It's not like they just met at the movies and are going to a dark alley together. They've been going out for like ten months now! They can start a foundation together, but they can't get into each other's pants?

It's just ridiculous.

Great blog, as always, Brian!! And so much more creative than the show :-)

As for the storyline, it won't get any better... there isn't an incentive to. They get free press, attention and recoginition all for showing 7 minutes a week of Nuke, within 240 minutes of soap opera programming. TPTB don't have to do anything... and yet people keep watching and talking. Even if their numbers continue to tank... there isn't an incentive for them to change -- at least not one that's visible here.

It's sad, really.

I have to say that if I turn on this show and have ANOTHER day of Juicy Janet I'll freaking scream! Is she married to the headwriter? What's going on with that? And the blonde whose face doesn't move? I know she's a staple of the show, but EVERY DAY? Where the heck is Henry? At least he's funny!

Props for the VISITING HOURS reference. "There is no known cure...for MURDER" Brilliant! Cinematt01

Watching the clips from yesterday's Puke scenes was beyond boring. Sad to state, but the classic Towel Tug of War last summer was Puke's finest moment. It even eclipsed The Kiss on August 17th, which was a historical event on daytime TV. Van/Loretta Luke has got to be one of the worst kissers in daytime, even tho Dimwit Noah looks far more convincing. The steady downhill slide of Puke's storyline has now brought this neutered couple to the yawners that they are today. The last few weeks of Puke seem like a really bad high school production. Pulling at straws for any sort of an idea to keep the audience tuning in. The fiasco of Daddy Dearest "escaping" from Jokedale prison and "kidnapping" Ameera, only to be pursued by Loretta, Dimwit, and company in possibly the slowest watercraft to ever hit the Hudson. Then Daddy Dearest decides to "drown' himself and finally has been declared "dead." Next we get Dimwit trying to join the Army, knowing full well that even if he declares himself gay, they'll take him anyway. Later he appears at Snyderfork Ranch and tells Loretta he just couldn't do it. Which shows what a waste it was for the audience to even sit through the "induction" scenes. It's as if TPTB thought up a quickie just to have Puke on screen for a few tedious moments.

Yesterday the butchered scenes were of Loretta and Dimwit trying to decide if they should take the money his Godfather Daddy sent him. Nothing really earth shattering about that. Especially when Loretta decides to start something for the underprivileged youth of Jokedale. Hello Loretta... You are about as underprivileged as they can get since you haven't gotten any nookie from Dimwit!! True to Dimwit's fashion, he convinces Loretta that if he moves back to Snyderfork Ranch, they will put their lovemaking on hold. Hello Dimwit... Are you gettin' somethin' on the side or what? Both of you should be having MAJOR problems walking with your blueballs!

Yes gang, it's seems an eternity since the Towel Tug of War. I go back periodically to the YouTube video clip and watch that classic heated moment. When Noah falls into Luke and their lips are just a few inches from each other, the air seems to crackle with sexual tension when their eyes meet. The magic is truly gone now and will never return. 

go from one boring mini-sode to the next? Why the heck is Fily crying? Tears of joy? Is she kidding? Did she finally spend 5 minutes with her son (in between trying to make her buddy Carly as happy as she is) make her see that he's just like her? Needy, whiny, and with "partners" who are shacking up with others or chose to never ever be intimate with you? Like mother like son...... Except that Fily gets mercy sex once in a while as Holden imagines Carly taking off her black robe.

Could the writers at least have had Luke decide to move to his grandmother's cottage? Every random heterosexual couple and even Noah and his beard lived there. How about Luke asking Lucinda to pimp out the place for him to live there irrespectively of where Noah moves his tired ass. Where did he live on that one day Java income? Nah, let's move them back where they were were with Juicy Janet and every stray as that sounds so much more private, fun, and will bring Luke closer to his family (not) and Noah (double not).

Screw these writers. Luke gets some money to do something for kids and to create yet another manipulative situation to bag a straight guy? Hopefully it will either be for kids with liver cancer or counseling for guys who feel like they deserve nothing. I am not being flip about the former as many may remember that Luke has an organ transplant when he actually had story lines. No matter how lame it was, pre Noah Luke got to get drunk, touch male skin, and be in the center of the action as mommy's bf at time was trafficking human parts from Mexico and mommy actually made sacrifices so that Luke would get an illegal part or die.... Now it's just a slow death....

Ah gay love with Noah "Let's wait a while" Meyer. Parker and of course more conventional "virgins" who are saving certain acts for marriage get so more action/intimacy than Luke. Parker even has a bedroom. Luke's bedroom was shown once for shock effect when his parents house was 10 times as big as he wanted to get his parents off his back and give the illusion that he was sleeping with his cousin Jade.

Brian - That photo shoot is classic. It looks like the annoying Gwen really enjoyed this shot and of course it reminded me of Luke's best friend Maddie, who in two seconds got more action from Noah than Luke has in..... ever. More HL pics. His titties are amazing.

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As much as I have enjoyed the blogging for the Nuke episodes (which have certainly been an order of magnitude more entertaining the the worthless actual episodes), this alleged "gay" storyline has deteriorated into such insulting, spineless, homophobic, and worst of all boring, bullsh*t that I fail to see why AE continues to provide coverage for it. There can't be a single gay man alive who finds this crap in any way worth watching. They have finally reached the point where zero gay presence on the show would be preferrable to the swill that they are delivering.

Thanks for all the wit and humor that have gone into blogging this now completely pointless show, but I think it's past time to stop giving ATWT any more publicity or coverage.

Guillermo, Bobby Baby and Dannydc have it right!  There is no point to this homophobic s/l, except that it is the ultimate & quintessential homophobic s/l - it's not even that subtle, though the writers (I use the term lightly & with complete disrespect) do make a woefully pathetic attempt at it.

The shirtless towel scene and even the first kiss held such promise and now, ten months later, almost eleven, the depths of disgusting, homophobic writing has truly reached a nadir.  But wait, I'll bet it can get even worse!  You think I'm kidding - just wait & watch kiddies.  This ridiculous s/l is going to truly plum the depths of stupidity and incredulity!  The inconsistencies and character absurdities truly defie comprehension.  Oh Noah, I am sooooo in love with you - and months later, Noah repeats, "Oh, Luke, I'm sooooo in love with you".....that we must absolutely move back in with Gramma Emma so we wont ever have to touch each other! Right, that might ever happen in real life!

And does anyone else find the new Lily irritating and plain creepy as I do??

Well, physically, I do ogle both Van & Jake - but guys, I haven't watched atwt since the Christmas/NewYears total fiasco.  I watch you tube only to ogle Nuke.  But they have  become so boring that I doubt that will last much longer.

Ciao guys,

 

in what I think was a midweek episode that not blogged on here as I assume that it was not announced or because it only had two lame Luke scenes. One had him doubting himself yet again about something, this time he was concerned that his horndog dad was not mad it him for accepting this money. While Luke is as insecure as hell, Holden has always been cool about Luke's ways. But the reason why Luke was on had nothing to do with him, but to have him play the role of Fily's BFF as for no reason, Carly is/was Fily's only friend. At least she could have had those scenes with her mom as soon Lily will start talking to Luke about female lubrication and how she has felt when Holden makes love to her.

Maybe Luke can go from martyr to being the girl next door for all the friendless people who have continuing stories on the show instead of the self-contained Nupisodes. Parker almost got to second base with Liberty yesterday. Maybe the girls at camp are having their own version of Little Darlings with Natalie playing the Angel role of course. Sage would be a re imagined Ferris and Faithless would just be her depressed self.

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