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Liveblogging "As the World Turns": I'll stand (near)by you, Luke!
Okay, so Brian Juergens has jury duty today, so while he's tampering with twelve angry men, I'm stuck here trying to liveblog the shark-infested waters of As the World Turns. I tuned in to the second half of the show yesterday just to catch up with all the Oakdale goings on and caught that crazy scene where Margo, Matt, Casey and the girl with the unfortunate blonde highlights were all tied up around a ticking time bomb on the coffee table. Who thinks of this stuff? At first I didn't know what it was. I thought maybe they were playing Trivial Pursuit or something. Anyway, the entire affair culminated in Margo channeling Jodie Foster from the Brave One and shooting the villain. The whole thing was laughable, but at least we got to see Casey with his shirt off, and call me surprised. He should just go ahead and leave it off for the remainder of his run on this show. But hey, other than Casey's fine frame we're not really interested in the Hughes family. Luke & Noah are supposed to be on today's show (hence the liveblogging). The only advance word we've got on their appearance is "Luke has a hard time dealing with Noah's marriage" and "Noah is there to help Luke during a difficult time." Who knows what all this means. Livbeblogs are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. Click on through the jump and refresh for to-the-minute updates... 2:50 EDT: Ruby arrives at long last in the courtroom and gives some pat story which sounds a lot like inadmissable hearsay to me. And then she pulls Kit's fake IDs out of her pocket like that's supposed to be a smoking gun or something. Her work now done, she walks out of the courtroom - to be completely forgotten. The judge reverses the guilty verdict. Boo! 2:44 EDT: QAL has the bag lady stowed in the back of her Ford Taurus (I hope she put some papers down - and what did they do with the grocery cart?) They get pulled over for speeding. The cop who pulls them over is kind of awkward and I'm wondering if maybe he's a real cop and not an actor. Things looks pretty bleak, but then MP2.0 flashes his badge and the cop offers to provide them a police escort to the courthouse. Me, I would've been okay with Parker getting sent away for 20 to life. 2:36 EDT: Closing arguments in the murder trial. Good God, but things move fast on this show. Parker should take heart. - even if he's convicted he'll have served out his sentence by the end of next week.
2:24 EDT: QAL and MP2.0 appeal to the crazy bag lady as parents "desperate to save their son." Crazy bag lady spins some yarn about a son she lost - she tells them Kit admitted to killing Sam, but she won't go to court and testify. And hey, how does a bag lady afford a nose job I wonder, because this Ruby's surely had one. 2:21 EDT: At the trial, Tom is examining Parker on the stand. Uh, what happened to stuff like jury selection? Parker is talking about how Sam was going to rape his mother so he had to shoot him - Ameera gets all antsy and runs out of the courtroom. Honestly, that girl is such an attention hog. Out in the hallway she tells Noah that Parker's testimony reminded her "of terrible things." Yeah, me too. Those stupid cowboy dolls. 2:17 EDT: At the courthouse, Luke, Noah and Ameera arrive and Noah wants to go sit with Ameera - Luke's expression is priceless. It's like Van Hansis can't even bring himself to play this part with a straight face any more. 2:11 EDT: Quaker Oats Lady and Matthew Perry 2.0 are on the mean streets of Oakdale looking for some bag lady. I'm not clear on why, and the handheld camera work is making me queasy. QAL spots one bag lady with a grocery cart and corners her in an alley. 2:04 EDT: Is it just me or are the commercials more interesting than the actual show these days? I just saw an ad for ananthropomorphized musclebound French's mustard container. I thought it was weirdly hot. 
2:01 EDT: Luke asks Noah if he can borrow his class notes because he has to go to court to support Parker. You gotta be kidding. Luke's "difficult time" is his cousin's trial? Oh please. Noah tells him he'll be there to support him and wouldn't you know that third wheel Ameera shows up and says she's going too. Because nothing says "fun afternoon" like watching your cousin being tried as an adult for murder. 1:58 EDT: Here in Virginia they do the daily state lottery drawings live on CBS. I bought a Daily Pick Five ticket this morning and if by some chance I won I'm totally not finishing this liveblog. Fudge. I didn't win. Carry on.
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great job, dennis!
thanks snicks
Dennis, you rock
What's up with that short
Casey!
I haven't seen today's episode yet (hmmm, should I even bother) but shirtless Casey yesterday certainly did get my attention. Ha! Since he first started on the show I've thought he's kind of cute, in a stoner sort of way. But I had no idea he was in such good shape...
I'm like a superhero, with no powers or motivation...
Casey without the shirt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aC_nf3o3HQ
Its the 4th part of the kidnapping saga but the one with Casey without the shirt
those are some big, snarky shoes to fill
but you did an admirable job today. thank for your work! certainly made one hour of this paradise that is my job quite a bit more enjoyable.
certainly have to watch when i get home today :)
ATWT: Today Iraqui Dora learns all about Oakdale justice
Dennis, you must have had a field day with this SNL-like "trial." Even if they had wanted to shell out big bucks for juror extras, it would have been physically impossible to place them in this Little People set. There are no cheap seats in Oakdale.
Certain "highlights" that can't be overlooked for those who don't watch the show and come here for the real deal:
1) There was yet another round almost Nukus-interruptus. It's that now common fake-out staged so that Luke's tongue is about to go into Noah's mouth, yet they manage not to even sneak peck. New revisionist history by the writers today who now have the characters get all bummed out about not being able to kiss in public due to those pesky agents who may be watching for signs of the sham marriage to Iraqui Dora. Of course they used to kiss in public ALL of the time before this chick hit Illinois.
2) Carly usually drives a Passat in her now daily travels to
BrooklynChicago. I only know this as I was convinced a while back that she was using the BMW used by the Aberzombies, but they've been pretty consident with the Passat. If she was driving a Taurus, I am going to report Carly to the Oakdale PD as we know that in Illinois no one ever goes to jail for anything.3) Poor Ruby. How much does anyone want to be that she does not even get a free night at Casa Snyder, which houses every loon in the show no questions asked. She saved that tweener brat and nothing. Ameera gets the upstairs suite and still don't know if she's a mean plot devise or just an annoying one. Poor Ruby......... NADA. Those Snyders!
4) You gotta love crazy Emma's shotgun... After Captain Jack and Parker, that shotgun is the most mentioned prop/character on the show. In the past, it was an easy go-to for the writers to poke a little fun a Granny Oakley's country ways. As recently as this week, she threatened Shrek with it when he stopped by the farm to try hop on Meg. A viewer's favorite for laughs, but I hope that we've seen the last of it being used for kiddie hour as just this past year that weapon has been used by the Snyder kids to shot, injure, and get one another in trouble, whenany of them is acting out. I am surprised that Little Miss Sunshine has not used it to off herself, the family, or at least Iraqui Nora. The NRA should consider using Emma to increase membership.
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I did not win the lottery either :-( More sharks!!!!! What is up with Luke's hair. It's as limp as he is.
I'm telling ya'll...
The german soap " Verbotene Liebe" "Forbidden Love" is much better... They kiss and even have a scene in bed together.
Check it out on youtube. This guy has a complete playlist of clips in order. The first 14 have English subtitles. The rest have translations by fans in the comment sections.
http://www.youtube.com/tihkon2
Warning, your gonna get hooked.
If you like forbidden love...
I recommend Alles Was Zählt, another gay German soap. You can watch just the Deniz and Roman storyline with English subtitles on youtube. They are such an adorable couple, and so full of joy and love (well not at first but later on). I've never watched ATWT but I love foreign soap operas. There's another one from Barcelona, Spain called El Cor de la Ciudad that's about gay teens that I think is good. They actually get to have a real relationship and move in together. It's not as racy as AWZ.
Alles Was Zählt
yup...
watched their story as well, both cute. I hear they are getting back together. Should be hot. They make a great couple.
I'd be intersting in following the french soap with the two gay cops. cannot find much about them.
ATWT is Lukewarm
Luke: "So we can't out in public. It's no big deal."
Yeah, because it's not like they make out in private either! The Nuke platonic bromance continues with it's now usual pointlessness.
Honestly, one of the key elements of traditional soap opera storylines is that you have the couple that's in love, but something's in between them. But you can still see and feel their yearning to be together.
Not with Nuke!
The two of them come across as so painfully ambivalent. And it feels like they're repeating the same dialogue over and over now. Noah apologizes for complicating their relationship by marrying Ameera. Luke dutifully says that it's okay. Noah promises that things will be better someday. All of this delivered with such a sense of weary indifference that it's impossible to feel like they're really in love with each other at all.
Fortunately, ATWT is now doing their civic duty by educating America on the hardships of life in Iraq, especially for women. The moral of the story being that every gay man in America should consider taking an Iraqi wife so as to save them from the horrors of their homeland, and also suppress their own gay lifestyle while they're at it. It's two good deeds for the price of one!
This reminds me of a column
Great post! They do look indifferent.....
You do bring up a great point I had not noticed until you brought it up in a previous post: Indifference. These two really do look like they could give a shark's mask about one another. Was it you who also mentioned the differences between how they are dressed and marketed versus what actually airs on the show? If so, give yourself another pat on the back as they are both great observations from where I sit.
I was partly hoping that the bomb at Casey's would go off to see if they would have Iraqui Nora hide under the first place she found whether the writers would give Luke another line about not being able to imagine all those bombs going off in Iraq. It would have been at least the third bomb to go off in Oakdale in the near-term.
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Thanks Guillermo
Yes, it had been gnawing at me lately that their onscreen wardrobe was just so much less attractive than their publicity stills. Soaps thrive on sexiness, which is why we get shirtless hunks all the time. But Noah and Luke seem to have adopted positively Islamic standards of modesty in attire. Maybe Noah marrying Ameera makes more sense than at first apparent? Clearly a part of the push to remove any offensive hints of homosexual lust from the show.
But it really is the indifference that is irking me. They just don't look like they're actually in love. They talk as if they want to be, but their tone of voice, facial expressions and body language just doesn't say that they are. And like I said, the fact that they basically keep repeating the same thing over and over again isn't helping.
And for God's sake will somebody please burn down that damn farmhouse so that we can get everyone out of there? At this point I don't care if Noah and Ameera get a place of their own. Maybe then Luke can go find a real boyfriend!
These liveblogs are the only thing holding my attention on this anymore. They're way better than the show itself.
Pizza Rolls!
Honestly