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..... it's the next day!? Luke has been standing on the dock ALL NIGHT!? Instead of calling the Coast Guard, the NYPD, his parents (who know a ton of cops), he calls..... HIS GRANDMOTHER!? And why would Noah let the boat get so far away before doing something? Just when I think this can't get any more ridiculous.... it does!

 

And Brian, great suggestion for Noah!

OK, so I have the day off, and spent the morning watching season 3 of Dante's Cove. Now i'm tuned into ATWT and the liveblog. I'm curious to see which acting and writing is worse - at least Dante's Cove provided...distractions that I can't count on from our celibate boys.

Obviously, I'm shallow.

Lily 2.0 is channelling Farah Fawcett.  Diggin the hair.

One of those total guilty pleasures!

Btw, Snicks, did you see the news on Hollyoaks?  OMG!!!

Col. Homophobe, Noah and Ameera have been travelling all night... but Luke and company caught them in five seconds???? Okay, this can get dumber! Oh wait, the show isn't over yet.

I remember the days when Lucinda delivered long, passionate diatribes and sold them, completely. Here she gets one line, and delivers it more believably than anything else in the show for months. God I miss her!

.... if you believe the Colonel isn't dead.

OK, teh Alison thing really confuses me. If he hadn't step in to begin with she would have flunked out long ago.

He didn't get her kicked out, he just told the nursing queen to do what she wants to do, and not do him any favors. So it's Alison's own incompetence that got her kicked out.

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I am trying to keep myself from laughing hysterically.....but how the hell does noah and his dad end up having the hallmark moment hug?

Noah is seriously bi-polar. he can't decide shit about what he wants or how he feels about stuff. my goodness.

A hug!?  Sooo, now Noah has amnesia then?  Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time before they touched on that plotline.

"Luke? I don't know any Luke.  Don't touch me!"

So are we to feel sorry for Noah there? Why don't I? He turned on Luke and blamed him AGAIN! He didn't seem the least bit grateful that Luke was actually alive.

I hate Noah right now.  Ameera's feelings over Noah's.  If he loved Luke, he'd ask if he was alright after being apart from each other.  Noah's father isn't in his right mind and isn't Noah's father the one who tried to kill Luke, kidnap Ameera, drug her and then try to leave the country?  Noah, when he gets his head on straight (LOL!) he better get down on his hands and knees, kiss Luke's ass and then some......

making Noah so unlikeable that you start to wonder if they just want to break them up and call it a day. TIIC probably want to send viewers screaming away from their sets to justify ending the storyline.

O.K. today put the lid on any frickin' future romance for these two losers. Spineless Luke and Asswipe Noah. I can't believe that thru all this turmoil today, Noah absolutely NEVER once showed ANY concern for Luke! WTF? I swear if I had been Luke, I would have dropkicked that SOB right in the nuts! Everyone knows a little punch to the gut will bend this bastard over in a heartbeat. It's way past time for Luke to kick this sorry excuse for protoplasm to the damn curb! Over with, done for, no more, that's it! Course with Luke having no spine, he'll probably continue to be the whiney-ass, woe is me boyfriend to the world's worst excuse of same.

Noah's actions today could very well alienate what few viewers even care for his dumbass, ignorant self. Showing his true feelings today where he obviously cared more for Ameera than his so-called boyfriend only proves what an ignoramus he actually is. Throw him in the Army and ship him to Iraq along with Ameera. They belong together!

I am so pissed at the direction this storyline has taken over the past few months. Today seals the deal for me with this trainwreck!

What on earth is Noah smoking? Hallmark moment with his dad and actually being angry that it's being broken up? The hell?

pretty sure Luke is going to grow a back bone and kick Noah to the curb. The story is going in that direction.

And that's Noah, not his Dad!

I don't get any of this!!! Is there anyone that Noah doesn't love more than Luke?

In the course of this whole escapade he's barely managed to even be considerate to Luke, much less worried about his well-being. But he's determined to face any challenge to rescue Ameera?

Unless I'm mistaken the love story here is between Noah and Ameera, not Noah and Luke. At least it sure as hell seems that way.

And what's the deal with him and his Dad? The man's been distant, controlling and disapproving through all of Noah's childhood. Then he tried to kill Noah's "boyfriend" (I'm sorry, but at this point the " " are obligatory) and he actually did kill Noah's mother! Exactly how mentally f---ed is Noah that he still has lingering daddy affection issues?

Plus now feeling anything but contempt for Luke is just plain out of the question. I think that Grandma needs to take him aside and have the soap opera elder talk with him about not falling in love with someone who doesn't love you, unless it results in lots of sweaty monkey love and/or financial gain.

Damn it where's their offices? I want to wrench that GLAAD award out of their hands so that I can ship it to Germany!

I'm wondering if Luke is going to get a new love interest so Noah will realize what he's done.

 The idea that Noah would care more about Ameera than Luke is absurd.  Even worse, as has been pointed out, Luke is being a doormat.  Then again, look at his parents--they've certainly set the bar for dysfunctional relationships. 

Thank heavens Lucinda showed up.  Of course she'd be the one he calls.  She's the only one in town with the resources and attitude to help deal with an escaped felon. a sham marriage, and so many teasers about Ameera's real secret. 

Man, I hope this ties up neatly in August... 

I couldnt watch this today, but I am spechless as Im reading this. What are the writers doing with this story? What a bunch of fools and that includes the director and editor. Noah is just clueless.

I also think they are trying to break them up to reunite them later, because it would be to much to ask for a new guy that actually cares for Luke.

Ameera is either royalty or a traitor to her country (whatever side that would be), just so the sting would be more painfull when Noah relizes how hes treated Luke.

Nothing like a gay hot-tub orgy to heal a broken heart. Luke should go right there, right now --

And GET SOME!!!!!!

Nuke is hands down the least realistic gay love story of all time.  

 

This show has been double-dutch jump-roping the shark for some time now.

 

 

I jus thope that Noah realizes what he's done, and apologizes to Luke. And then Luke tells him to stuff it where the sun don't shine.

I have done a lot of Noah bashing of late but then I remembered that this story is not character driven it is plot driven. Noah is simply a pawn or means to an end. I am not sure what exactly because the writers simply don't know what they are doing. I don't think the charater should be dumped just the storyline.

The longest runaway train post begins. Sorry in advance...

Brian, I love the angles in Ameera's arms and little pointed feet, pumps being thrown off the vessel (too small for Luke), long gloves, Noah's Tool Time attire, AND the shark, who looks unsually scary. Your blog posts are the best part of ATWT.

Back to the show... The biggest problem that I see is that TPTB decided to fight declining ratings by abandoning character-development and their interactions, both of which to me are the glue of the soap genre. Unfortunately, it has failed miserably in developing anything that resembles a plot-based structure so it's left with nothing.

The would-be "pay-off" at the pier was a perfect example of failure to execute ANY plot-driven action. No "money shots" as Noah wimpers out of hiding, dad pulls a Greg Louganis into the tar-infested water, fart bubbles come up, and Ameera gets separated from her husband. That's it? After all these months?

Even Sage could storyboard a few sequences that would take up most of the hour and serve as a plot-driven emotional payoff to all this bad foreplay. Where were the guns, knives, kung fu action, Ameera getting naked, sweat, So You Think You Can Dance moves, or any sign of the adrenalin charge that this arc should have ended with? They should have used the footage of the embarrasing little "play" that Faithless, Gnat, and Sage put together for Carly and Holden to beat over their heads how in need of Cymbalta the tots are. There are so many ways to create a fight and in which our heroes hug at the end and live happily ever after, or until the next episode. 

After seeing the never to be repeated success that General Hospital had with Luke and Laura back in the day with location shoots, action/adventure, silly sci-fi, even an AWESOME cross-dresser jaw-dropping reveal, all the shows tried to copy the formula, but ultimately failed because then GH executive producer Gloria Monty never forgot that we were all over  Lion King-looking Luke and toothy-teen Laura. The action, production values and faster pace was awesome, but only because it was all seasoning to the magic of the two stars. Their favorite hide-out was a Snyder farm-like place that had Luke and Laura in bed talking/laughing/sharing and showing to one another how much in love they were and that their love would give them the courage to.....  say save the world from a certain character who wanted to freeze it.

Because the audience was so huge and growing, ABC plugged all sorts of cash to try to treat the audience to something resembling the movie Titanic in which plot and character cohabitate quite well. The fans felt like they had the best of all worlds and flocked to the genre.

With the changes in demographics and increased market fragmentation, viewers started to leave and show-runners felt that they needed to make huge changes to hold on to the remaining audience, and try to bring in new viewers into a genre.

Plot-driven action is a natural, but requires much more cash, technical expertise, organization, and the need to be much more savvy than any of the shows are able to deliver. I thought that ATWT learned a lesson as months ago they had people dying left and right with action scenes that were pathetic in execution, plausibility, low-rent, and none lasted more than a few seconds.

The way I see it, ATWT needs to play to its strenghts and be confident that enough soap viewers miss what they liked about daytime. What I see working is the slo-motion Carly and Holden stares and lots of soap-like talky-talk action. Another coupling that is rarely on and strikes some as odd is Butters and Emily. Friday's show was almost PERFECT in addressing in the most in your face manner I've seen (kudos to the writers) the fact that Butters (who was not wearing a shirt for most of the episode) is barely older than Emily's kid. Their chemistry (to me) is off the charts and there was a scene in which Butters left Emily and I was bummed to see him go. He came back in a HUGE way ;-) While these two became what could be yet another insta-couple casualty, the show could keep this going to create a couple that we could become more invested in as there are is so much history to mine.

I was so pumped to see the hot kisses that Emily and Butters gave one another as she left the room (which was supposed to be a fancy NYC hotel room but looked like exactly like Liberty and Juicy Janet's room at the Lakeview) because they were HOT, and because her kid did not find them kissing, thus they get at least another day.

Nuke has the worst of all worlds as they are not driven by anything but stasis. Hot Leprechaun (who is, if possible looking more sexy each day - When Brian is right, he's right) and Shrek Stenbeck have experienced more "plot" in the past 3 days than Luke and Noah ever have.

Ali cries sexual harrassment and "I Smell My Month Old Underwear" Sofie gets "raped" and it's all beyond ridiculous, but mostly due to the impossibly amped up pace. This is ATWT trying to be plot-driven, which is stupid but can at least provide laughter rather than Nuke-like boredom.

Nuke is like watching cement dry as they have been the exception to the insta-couple dynamic (and falsely marketed as a would be "character-driven couple") and by now we should be rooting for them so deeply that we'd be ready to cut anyone who even looked at them the wrong way. Them against the world, not against one another, or getting zero plot-driven payoffs. If Ameera had been part of any other storyline, she would not have time to dye her hair before she was carted off like Gerard (Vienna's trick), the awesome Matt, Evan Walsh and his syringe, or Bonnie and Holden.

Why can't Nuke play video games, run in the damn Snyder farm fields, ride those horses, have picnics, or do any of the only things that the show should have no trouble doing? The lack of kissing was almost like a carrot to make people not see that these two had not been allowed to develop past the heat of their towel pull and kiss. Gnat and Faithless are a hotter duo.

I am always hard on the writers and executive producer of the show because even now I see pockets of "brilliance" when using soap-universe barometers of course. Slow the funk down and establish some connections betwen the characters. If plot-driven shows are the way to go, then the show should also that slow down too as it would make it easier for them to write and execute. Even annoying Sofie's rape charges would have been more fun if we'd seen her losing it big time for a couple of weeks and really get into it. The chewing of scenary can be like watching a good drag show. The same applies to H.L and Ali with the show needing to slow down to get him naked more often so that I can see that sexy mole that I discovered on his shoulders. What's the rush?

I see hope for the show and even Nuke, but I think that it's almost too late to get enough people interested as the show-runners don't trust the viewers and have created an endless loop in which characters as viciously pitted against one another and the loser (especially if a high-priced vet) can be carted off to improve the balance sheet. The audience does not want to hate Luke, Noah, Ameera, the writers, or the executive producer. It's all about emotional investment dummies... 

For those who are keeping Nuke hope alive, I am going to be a major buzzkill as some may remember that their pleas of Nuke never being on was met with a "you just wait and see what we have in store for them. You are going to love it" All that wait for Ameera and, unless I am off, it's not like they've been on anymore than before. Now what? There are writers on that staff that can do so much better, but that requires there is a show-runner who has a game plan to battle the challenging marketplace and stops relying on spin and marketing to convince viewers that they are getting anything but hosed.

Some new fans may not have seen how much fun even plot-driven messes can be when the show is laughing with you. A few years back Lucinda (carrying a machine gun if I am not mistaken) went undercover in Ameera-like attire with sexy Simon and together the two took on an army that Lucciano's uncle had on hand to detain Holden and pre-SORED' Luke, who had been ripped away from Lily and held hostage in Malta. Luke and Holden were assumed to be dead and they spent most of the summer having the coolest dialogue as they were being held hostage. A few failed escape attempts, and more character-driven dialogue, and then Granny Walsh to the rescue. The plot-driven element came in with no cliche left untouched. F-U-N.

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