Daytime Drive By (July 9, 2009)

Having trouble keeping up with the many gay boys cropping up on U.S. daytime soaps these days? We're here to help with our new regular feature Daytime Drive By, where we give you the rundown on Luke, Rafe, Fish and all the rest of the gay gang. Look for DDB whenever we don't have a liveblog and something gay happens on daytime television that you just have to know about!

In today's Drive By we're taking a swing through Oakdale, as ATWT's Luke tries to help Noah come to grips with his father.  Then we're going to Loop back through Y&R's Genoa City as Adam's world gets very, very complicated.

Genoa City

Adam overhears Ashley and Jack talking about their impending (separate) parenthood, and has a flashback to Ashley losing the baby, and says “Oh, God what have I done?”

At the hospital vigil for Summer, we see a distracted Nikki blurt out to Victoria that she wasn’t snooping when she pushed open Adam’s door at the ranch she no longer lives at and saw “Adam and Rafe, together, kissing” – the horror! Heaven forbid the former stripper see something sexually out of the mainstream.

This is why you always knock while skulking around your ex-husband's home

Adam pops in on Ashley and Jack and MEOW! Claws come out. Ashley naively leaves Jack and Adam alone, where Adam’s bitterness to Jack over taking the fall for forging Victor’s journal comes out.

Nikki & Victoria have a very interesting discussion about Adam being – gasp – gay. They talk about The Great Victor Newman being all for diversity – except when it comes to his own family. There he has certain standards!

OK, I’m getting mad at Victor, and he hasn’t done anything. Victor evidently expects his children to be strong, successful, married, have two kids, with at least one of them a son. Do they think Victor lives in 12^th century England?

Nikki and Victoria discuss outing Adam to Victor, under the guise of protecting Estella’s interests, in case Adam is using Rafe. Victoria seems horrified at first, then supportive of the outing. No love lost for your half brother, is there?

Nikki finds Heather wandering the hospital halls and decides to ask her a hypothetical: What if a defendant’s lawyer is romantically involved with one of the other suspects in the case? Well, even I know that’s unethical, but I wonder precisely how unethical Heather would find it if she knew “the other suspect” was the guy she was bumping uglies with, and the attorney he was bumping uglies with was a dude?

Nikki decides her comatose granddaughter’s bedside is the proper place to out her stepson, so she gives Victor a hug, tells him she got him a change of clothes and prepares to out his blind son. But before she gets it out, Victor gets a call telling him Mary Jane has gotten away from the goons he had told to put her on a plane out of town.

Adam and Ashley have a chat about the fact that the baby he scared her into losing hasn’t moved in a while. I guess that hysterical pregnancy can’t overcome a mother’s instinct that a baby ought to kick once in a while.

OK, I gotta pull over and ask directions to Illinois, but join us tomorrow when insane, blind fauxmosexual Adam teams up with crazy cat lady Mary Jane!

Oakdale

A very tan Noah and Luke sit in Java, talking about moving in together. Luke offers Noah another delay (after all, haven’t they let this apartment sit empty for three plot devices already?) to deal with any feelings about his father.

Noah gets a mischievous grin and asks Luke what he’d do if Noah did want some time. Luke naturally says he’d have an irrational hissy fit. They do understand each other!

Luke bursts in on Lily & Damien talking about his burly movers needing money. Damien admits that the $500 Luke is asking for requires an ATM trip. Funny – Luke seems to think he is an ATM. Lily of course pulls the cash out of her purse, since she always carries enough cash to be killed for.

Luke impatiently waits at Java for Noah, who we see in a fake dorm hallway with a box in his arms, saying goodbye to a random day player. He looks in the box, comes out with a Purple Heart, and leaves his box in the hallway, running off to a place that his soul mate Luke can’t think imagine, so he calls his mom and Damien, who knows just where to look.

Damien and Luke approach a teary-eyed Noah sitting at either a gothic cathedral, or what passed for an abandoned military base a couple weeks back. Once Luke tells him Damien had him GPS chipped, Noah says he saw his dad’s stuff and freaked.

Noah tries to evoke some emotion, which may be a stretch for poor Jake. He talks about his Dad being stuck in his head. Damien tells him about banishing ghosts from the soul via some ritual from his “ancient culture” and calls Lily to meet them at the Snyder pond.

Smoke on the water.

Luke holds the Colonel Mayer Box in front of a really nice fire built on a raft. They make some jokes about a Viking ritual, because even they can’t take this seriously, Noah tosses a couple pieces from Bert & Ernie’s Military Surplus on the fire, and pushes it out in the middle of the pond.

I think we're done in Oakdale for the week, so if you want to crawl in the backseat and nap until tomorrow when we get to Llanview, PA to check in with Kyle & Fish, I'm good to drive!