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Daytime Drive By (August 27, 2009)
Having trouble keeping track of the many gay boys cropping up on U.S. daytime soaps these days? We're here to help with our new semi-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! Today we've got Holden's funeral on As the World Turns, but for Oliver/Kyle/Nick/Layla/Cristian on OLTL, head on over to the liveblog by Grand Master snicks! As The World TurnsIt’s all about Holden’s funeral today, but you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t maintain the proper reverence for the event. After all, it’s not Holden’s first funeral, Holden’s not really dead, and I’m pretty sure the show’s going down the Deliverance/Misery path with him, and I can’t take another crazed hillbilly storyline in my life. Maybe our boy Luke can turn in a classic over-the-top Van-tastic performance? Seth Snyder got gray, but he’s kind of a silver fox. No Anderson Cooper, but still. Emma turns in a powerhouse performance as the grieving mother. Unfortunately, Aaron Snyder shows up at the church already in a suit, and Luke clings to him. And one million typewriters spring into action. I hope they snip off the unattractive “rat tail” he’s sporting.
I was really hoping to see Aaron get dressed for the funeral. Holden’s awake and his blond caretaker creeps him out a bit. She says she found him in the ravine and brought him home to care for him. They repeatedly mention they’re forty miles from civilization. Luke comes to get Faith to her seat, telling her Damien is walking Lily in. Naturally, Faith balks. Luke snaps “Look, Faith, I don’t know what your problem is, but it’s going to have to wait until later.” She complies, but knocks over a candy dish on her way to the pew. The very redneck husband of Holden’s caretaker comes home, and isn’t happy to see him awake. Every Snyder speaks at the funeral. None of the men did their hair. Would it have killed them to share a comb? Faith storms out of the funeral while Emma is talking about the love between Lily and Holden, and tears their joint picture perfectly down the middle. When Luke and Damien join the hysterics, Faith runs off, and they decide they don’t need her around to bury Holden. Surprise! There is a connection between Holden’s rednecks and Holden’s escaped convict. And Misery it is! They’ve shackled his ankles to the bed. But there may be hope – he appears to be able to hear Lily in his head.Who needs Dionne Warwick?
We have a winner on the movie this is going to rip off. That’s it. As soap opera funerals, it’s was pretty sad. I remember the days when a wedding or a funeral was a spectacle, everybody who’d ever been on the show was there.
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Screamin' Luke can't believe they're burying Holden - again! 
Thanks, Ed!
You guys are worth it...
You guys are worth the suffering, at least as long as I have a DVR to K-nish up later (sorry, I think Nick deserves to fit in the portmanteau since he's part of the first gay love triangle on daytime).
Seriously though - this was just sad, and even the retail therapy I took in between turning in my column and watching OLTL didn't cushion the blow between the styles of the shows. It's night and day - and we have a fellow Blungeon dweller here that thinks ATWT is better than it's been in ages. I'm checking into what the health plan covers for him.
But as long as you guys read and comment, we'll produce the ink.
Ditto
I second the gratitude. More and more I'm erasing ATWT before even watching so I appreciate the recaps. It's keeping me up to date so it makes sense when I do tune in (well, as much as some of the plots make sense!).
Caleb??
The first actor who played Caleb...
Caleb
The original Caleb (quite the hottie) died of a drug overdose--found naked in his apartment. They recast the role, but it never really clicked. Ended up sending the character away with Julie and baby Aaron.
Strangely, the actor who played Duke (one of John's illegitimate sons) was also found dead and naked. He died of autoerotic asphyxiation, but several years after he had last appeared on the show.
No, you're right Ed
They definitely phoned it in. For the first time since "Kish", I was watching ATWT, and wishing I was watching OLTL! I thought I was going to have a stroke! *UGH!*
Kitty
http://www.saveiantojones.com/
man....
I'm sorry to say but this ATWT fan already has!
It's a pity
Couldn't agree more.
Now I've actually lived
I am a West Virginian
As a West Virginian, I'm totally not looking forward to this storyline (though it is in Kentucky, small graces and all). We've had indoor toilets for the last three years!
No - seriously, we do OK. I spent a week at an old camp for kids of coal miners that's now an executive retreat of sorts, and it's 45 miles from nowhere, and had all that and more. While I'm not fond of my cable provider's choices, the modern life has reached this corner of the world. The local movie theater is far more advanced than any I went to in Miami living there the last couple years.
But yeah, to New Yorkers, we probably still have outhouses.
Hillbillies
I was able to roll my eyes at the hillbillies and being 40 miles away from civilization I knew it was going to be so horrible sterotypical, but when bitch pulled out her moonshine jug and poured her hubby some white lightening my mamma and pappa started rolling in their graves.
Hell I threw a candy dish at the HDTV.
Then again the Snyders Kitchen still looks like something from The Andy Griffith Show.
Not that far off
Actually, that isn't necessarily all that far off in some places. I lived in the mountains of eastern Tennessee for 2+ years awhile back, and there was a LOT of moonshine being created in the backwoodsy areas. Also, many of those people didn't have cable or internet - they simply couldn't afford it. Some were technically wealthy because of their land, but had no money for day to day expenses.
And on farms in rural areas (I grew up on a farm in Wisconsin) the Snyder kitchen is not that anachronistic. Lots of folks have very modern setups, but others still have the old fashioned kitchens. They LIKE them that way, often because they're "homey".
Damien has the car waiting outside...
For someone so "beloved" Holden didn't have many mourners at his funeral.
Lucinda and Emma are the glue holding this plot together right now. Best part of todays show.
I'm sorry, but Faith needs to be recast. Kudos for letting characters age at a normal rate, but Faith (and Parker for that matter) make Noah's emotional range seem deep.
Love Judy Evans as the new "Hillbilly with a Heart of Gold" character! She was so great on "Days of our Lives" they cast her as two different characters over the years. Between Judy and Julie Pinson, "DAYS" loss is "ATWT" gain. Austin Peck... Not so much.
Meg's brooding was the low point of todays show. Does anyone care about Meg?
OMG, that's Adrienne!!!
What's her ATWT name? "Mavis?" or whatever. I didn't quite catch it, but I do know that the actress is the same one that played Adrienne/Bonnie on Days of Our Lives. She gives good camp.
I love how they opted to bring Seth and Aaron back instead of hiring, oh . . . I dunno . . . like at least 1 or 2 extras to fill seats at Holden's "funeral." They clearly tried to cover with those uber-tight close-ups (like cutting off the chins and hairlines) of the family to keep from including the vast emptiness of the chapel in the shot.
Obviously, the only people in Oakdale that gave a rat's ass about Holden are the ones that are contractually obligated to. ;Þ
DDB
I'm so far behind this week. I've been playing too many video games, and neglecting my DVR.
All I can do is reiterate how much better the show gets, the further you get away from Luke and Noah. Riley/Tom/Margo/Casey, Ali and Bob, Emily/Paul/Henry and their clans all have more interesting stories going on.
Those stories are all newer, as well. Maybe the Damian/Lily arc that's still playing out is a holdover from before whatever shot in the arm has rejuvenated the other storylines?
Luke Pic
I am loving the Van Hansis pic of him in angry scream. Where did that come from? It cracks me up. And um... its KISH although Nick is hunky goodness! ;-)
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"Being a bitch doesn't necessarily mean you're a bad person."
Kish
MMM
Knish makes sense since Nick is involved now but I prefer hamantaschen over knish most days. ;-)
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"Being a bitch doesn't necessarily mean you're a bad person."
It's an outtake from a recent photo shoot
It's a really funny pic, because Jake is the only one who is posing, Forbes is giving a really creepy stare at Jake, and Van, well Van is doing that.
Where was???
I'm wodering where the following people were:
Ellie (Holden's sister)
Iva (another sister)
Caleb and Julie
Abigail and Molly
Sierra
And what about Emily? They were married once. And Dusty, Craig, Carly and Rosanna (who lived at the farm) Lucinda's relatives, the Hughes, Bonnie, Susan, Lisa. Geez even Casy and Alison-aren't they Luke's friend? Henry and Vienna?
What a rip-off!
I hope
They improve the Nuke storyline the way they are improving the rest, because they are up in the ratings for the second week in a row (they usually up one week and down the next) and right now they are above AMC, and with almost the same ratings that OLTL (it's weird that the better than this soap is, the worse rating they get).
Right now, it's just weird, no one of them is getting too much screen time, but it's pretty obvious who is the one linked to a core family. Luke is having more screen time than Noah, even when the story to develop is the Noah/Mason relationship. In fact, i like more Luke's spoilers non related to Noah, than the others