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Post by feline on May 14, 2008 14:25:51 GMT -5
How very bizarre!!! Lukevanfan has just put up a very short clip of Luke appearing in todays episode. Only in it for a minute or so talking to Holden!!! Weird!
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Post by amber80 on May 14, 2008 14:39:35 GMT -5
That was kinda random... Nothing like ATWT... ;D (But yay for screentime )
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Post by Bonobochick on May 14, 2008 14:43:03 GMT -5
That was kinda random... Nothing like ATWT... ;D (But yay for screentime ) The episode is waiting on my DVR for me but how was the hair?
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Post by GayTime on May 14, 2008 14:47:25 GMT -5
That was kinda random... Nothing like ATWT... ;D (But yay for screentime ) The episode is waiting on my DVR for me but how was the hair? zac efron-ish... :-(
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Post by amber80 on May 14, 2008 14:48:48 GMT -5
Not his best hairday... (But not the worst either )
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Post by Bonobochick on May 14, 2008 14:59:40 GMT -5
It's bad enough "Back In Iraq..." is just about destroying any pleasure in the Noah/Luke coupling by why do they have to screw up Luke's hair? *sobs*
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Post by RJ on May 15, 2008 3:08:15 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/arts/television/15soap.htmlAs a Lovers’ Kiss Turns a World AroundBy GINIA BELLAFANTE Published: May 15, 2008If you are between the ages of 13 and 87, the last time you met anyone who described herself as a loyal viewer of daytime soap operas you were probably still hoarding quarters for pay phones and maintaining a casual position on sunscreen. Soaps have been shedding audiences for years now. The young, especially, have found their absurdities elsewhere; there is almost nothing put forth by the writers of “All My Children” that could, in a stupidity contest, outrank a single moment of “The Hills.” “All My Children” might as well be “Mad Money,” as it happens. On Friday, in an effort to fatten its ratings, the ABC serial featured a guest appearance by Warren Buffett, who visited Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane in prison and advised her to take up bridge. Erica has been serving a sentence on a charge of insider trading. A cameo by Mr. Buffett, the 77-year-old chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is probably not the obvious path to a younger audience and advertisers for products that have nothing to do with incontinence. Over the past seven months all but one daytime soap has lost viewers between 18 and 34. That one is the historically stodgy CBS drama “As the World Turns,” which has been chronicling the ecstasies and miseries of life in the fictitious town of Oakdale, Ill., for 52 years. Since its introduction of a gay-theme story line last summer “As the World Turns” has actually gained viewers, specifically younger viewers, some of whom turned to the show, unpredictably enough, after following the romance of the college-age characters Luke (Van Hansis) and Noah (Jake Silbermann) via YouTube clips posted by fans — new media reviving fossil media. Nearly every moment of Luke and Noah’s interaction has been featured on YouTube, most notably their initial kiss, the first gay kiss in daytime soaps, captured in a video that has received more than a million hits. The relationship garnered further attention as the subject of protest by the conservative American Family Association, which is opposed to the “promotion of the gay lifestyle,” and by fans who have written Procter & Gamble (which owns “As the World Turns”) demanding that Luke and Noah kiss more, kiss all the time, kiss the way the show’s heterosexual couples do. Last month, after a 211-day period that fans described as a drought, Luke and Noah (“Nuke” in the entertainment press) kissed for the third, momentous time. In almost every way, however, Luke and Noah have been treated as preposterously as any couple on daytime television, with all the requisite obstacles keeping them from happiness. First Luke pined in vain, thinking Noah was straight. Noah thought he was too and began to date Maddie, a girl he met at work, who also watched a lot of old movies and was probably the only other person in Oakdale to know that Preston Sturges isn’t the name of a dry-goods store. Noah kept trying and trying to convince himself that he was straight, asking Maddie to stay in town in a stealth maneuver to keep his true libido in check. She had plans to go off to Wesleyan University — because it’s been “a dream of mine since I knew what college was” — but Noah begged her to enroll at Oakdale U., no matter what its U.S. News & World Report ranking. On the show gay life doesn’t flourish without intense animosity directed at it. The relationship of Luke and Noah has played out against what appears to be rampant homophobia in Oakdale. Luke and Noah were once attacked by some drunken fraternity jerks. But those random assailants weren’t half as bad as Noah’s father, Winston Mayer (Daniel Hugh Kelly), a colonel who served in Iraq during the gulf war and tried to have Luke killed when he discovered his son was gay. It is amazing that the armed forces haven’t leveled their own protest against “As the World Turns” for prejudice against the military. Colonel Mayer refused to pay for Noah’s education unless he served in the Iraq war. The colonel also, it turned out, killed Noah’s mother. Now he is manipulating a pretty young Iraqi refugee — the character Ameera Ali Aziz is, to the best of my knowledge, the first woman to appear in a chador on an American soap opera, amid all the Botox and cleavage — presumably as part of a malicious plan further to obstruct his son’s love life. Class used to be the axis on which so much of the turmoil on soap operas turned. Years ago Luke’s parents provided the drama on the grounds that his mother was an heiress and his father a stable boy. “As the World Turns” hasn’t done anything revolutionary with its gay kiss — gay characters on ABC’s “Brothers & Sisters,” on Sunday nights, display their affection for each other constantly — it has merely discovered the currency of the culture wars.
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Post by Bonobochick on May 15, 2008 13:19:29 GMT -5
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Post by Bonobochick on May 20, 2008 14:40:39 GMT -5
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Post by Difficult Diva on May 20, 2008 14:45:18 GMT -5
Today's AE liveblog was HYSTERICAL.
I'm still not watching the clips on YT or the actual show, but it seems like in today's episode, Noah told Luke that: He loved him.
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Post by amber80 on May 20, 2008 14:55:00 GMT -5
And they didn't jump on the bed, but kissed on it!!!!!!!!!!!! I only watched this scene so far: *Is off to watch the rest........*
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Post by amber80 on May 20, 2008 15:14:23 GMT -5
Oh, and no spit strings this time... ;D
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Post by Bonobochick on May 20, 2008 15:15:20 GMT -5
Oh, and no spit strings this time... ;D Awesome. I am waiting for screencaps since I won't be home for about 5 1/2 more hours.
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Post by amber80 on May 20, 2008 15:30:22 GMT -5
Oh, and no spit strings this time... ;D Awesome. I am waiting for screencaps since I won't be home for about 5 1/2 more hours. I saw just now that there were screencaps posted on the VH.net forum, but I noticed this week a recent change: you have to be logged in now to see most of the forum. So I can't give a link to that topic and I don't want to 'steal' any screencaps. Maybe someone has made their own? (Sorry, I don't know how to... )
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Post by Bonobochick on May 20, 2008 22:50:40 GMT -5
I liked today , well the part on the bed at the end that was sexy & sweet not to mention Luke having a clue about Ameera. I see Noah is still riding the shortbus when it comes to Ameera. Noah's "what the hell?" was priceless.
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Post by psionycx on May 20, 2008 23:10:01 GMT -5
I liked today , well the part on the bed at the end that was sexy & sweet not to mention Luke having a clue about Ameera. I see Noah is still riding the shortbus when it comes to Ameera. Noah's "what the hell?" was priceless. No, Noah's: " I know, I can't make sense of it either" was priceless! Meanwhile, the expression on Luke's face clearly indicated that his expectations regarding Noah's intelligence clearly aren't that high. He'd already made sense of it. Now he was just trying to get it through Noah's solid bone skull. It looked like someone trying to explain why the sky is blue to a four year-old. And, surprise, surprise, someone interrupted their attempt to get busy. My God those two have to be seething masses of sexual frustration by now.
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Post by Bonobochick on May 21, 2008 0:13:32 GMT -5
I liked today , well the part on the bed at the end that was sexy & sweet not to mention Luke having a clue about Ameera. I see Noah is still riding the shortbus when it comes to Ameera. Noah's "what the hell?" was priceless. No, Noah's: " I know, I can't make sense of it either" was priceless! That was just painful. I admit to laughing a lot about that line but it was funny in a very tragic way.
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Post by Difficult Diva on May 21, 2008 9:30:07 GMT -5
I just find it strange (along with everything that is associated with this storyline), that Plot Device didn't have more of a startled reaction, when Father Mayer approached her in the cottage.
She didn't have a look of "why in the hell is he out of jail", or a look of "I've got to find a way out of this mess".
She, along with Noah went to see him in the State prison, right?
I've got to stop thinking logically, when I see these clips.
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Post by Bonobochick on May 21, 2008 10:36:01 GMT -5
I just find it strange (along with everything that is associated with this storyline), that Plot Device didn't have more of a startled reaction, when Father Mayer approached her in the cottage. She didn't have a look of "why in the hell is he out of jail", or a look of "I've got to find a way out of this mess". She, along with Noah went to see him in the State prison, right? I've got to stop thinking logically, when I see these clips. I just chalked it up to bad acting. Usually she's ok with her face, always bad with her delivery but yesterday she was off all around. *shrugs* The bed scene was long overdue and I am SO glad they didn't jump on it again. It is moments like that when I am reminded why I fell hard for this pairing in the first place. Sweetest moment? Reading Ameera's letter together while their fingers were playful.
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Post by amber80 on May 21, 2008 11:02:46 GMT -5
Yes, scenes like yesterday remind me too why I fell in love with them in the first place. The finger touching was sweet! (Although Noah looked a bit funny in that scene )
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Post by psionycx on May 21, 2008 18:52:42 GMT -5
That was just painful. I admit to laughing a lot about that line but it was funny in a very tragic way. That's our Noah, the Jethro Clampett of boyfriends!
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Post by Bonobochick on May 22, 2008 11:44:52 GMT -5
I found Noah so frustrating yesterday. I understood why he felt the way he did but he was being so naively stubborn about everything that it set my teeth on edge.
Luke's hair was looking better but the top is still epic fail.
I need Noah to stop believing that Ameera is a victim. His tenacity in wanting to "rescue" her is really irritating me, especially when he has no proof that she is any type of victim but lots of evidence she could be in cahoots with his father. OY.
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Post by Difficult Diva on May 22, 2008 12:28:58 GMT -5
You owe me a keyboard, psionycx. ;D That was just painful. I admit to laughing a lot about that line but it was funny in a very tragic way. That's our Noah, the Jethro Clampett of boyfriends!
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Post by mattnjacob on Jun 18, 2008 22:36:11 GMT -5
Goodbye Anightmeera. Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya. When you resurface in 7 months as a mysterious figure in the shadow, preggers, causing problems for Nuke we'll bring your thread up again.
Welcome back Nuke!!
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Post by Bonobochick on Jun 19, 2008 2:59:02 GMT -5
Goodbye Anightmeera. Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya. When you resurface in 7 months as a mysterious figure in the shadow, preggers, causing problems for Nuke we'll bring your thread up again. Welcome back Nuke!! Hee! I won't miss her. Talk about a pointless, aggravating detour with the whole "Back In Iraq..." storyline. I mean, honestly, didn't anything positive come out of it? Better yet, did anything interesting come out of it??
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