If You Wrote The Noah & Luke Storyline

[Bonobochick]

Please feel free to post here what you would change if you could write for the couple in order to slow down their possible derailment.

[GayTime]

that's an easy one. get rid of ameera, she can be with casey for all i care.

and THEN i would send out noah and luke on a romantic get away somewhere. there have to be some nice mountain cabins here in the US.

probably the best would be if they left oakdale and their stoyline was spun off into an entirely separate show which caters to a different demographic :-))

[lolaruns]

Small things that wouldn't change the setup of the show too much but make things more bearable:

- Casual kissing. They don't want to do love scenes? Fine. HO or Cor de la Citutat still manage to feel real even without too much explicit sex (or even Ugly Betty for that matter). But casual kissing and tenderness? A must.
- Let Luke be snarky and bitchy. Let him rant and be frustrated with the situation they are in. Let him voice that.
- Let Luke flirt with some other guys because he is frustrated with Noah/Ameera. Let Noah be jealous for a bit.

Just make the whole thing less claustrophobic to watch.

[Bonobochick]

I would love to see jealous Noah. Let him feel a little of the pain he's causing Luke. I like Luke but I am tired of him being the martyr. Remember when Noah was still in the closet and Luke was just going to walk away from the situation. I want that Luke - the one with a spine - back. I think just having that would make the storyline better. Right now everyone is acting like they have the aggregate IQ of 40.

And either putting Ameera with Casey pronto or sending her BACK TO IRAQ works for me.

[lolaruns]

So, whatever happened to her maybe Luke's sister?

I'm half convinced that either Noah's dad or the granny hired her to drive a wedge between Nuke. I'm just not sure if that would make the storyline better or dumber.

[alazne]

I will obviously make them kiss instead of jumping on the bed!!

[Difficult Diva]

Mar 30, 2008 14:54:34 GMT -5 lolaruns said:

So, whatever happened to her maybe Luke's sister?

I'm half convinced that either Noah's dad or the granny hired her to drive a wedge between Nuke. I'm just not sure if that would make the storyline better or dumber.

Lola - Are you referring to his cousin, Jade? If you are, then she's been written out of the show. It would have been wonderful if she (or Maddie) could have been able to be Luke's and/or Noah's "gal pal", who would call out the crap on the plot device, why he's allowing this situation to happen and why Noah feels the need to be so damn protective of her.

I have to compare how TMFIC have isolated NUKE from having anyone besides each other (and the Snyders) to talk about their current difficult situation to VL.

Oliver has Olivia, while Christian has Judith. They each have two young straight female characters, that they can go to, when they need to talk about their relationship.

[Bonobochick]

Yes, bring back Jade. Remember that rumor from a Van interview that someone was coming back? I want it to be her.

[amber80]

I want Jade to return too...

[psionycx]

1) Ditch Ameera.

2) Establish that Nuke actually *have* a relationship. Because to date they really haven't had one. In fact, so far they've been little more than two guys in a bromance.

So rather than dashing off to throw obstacles between them as this were some kind of urgent hurry, first I'd spend some time developing their relationship. Like Christian and Olli over on Verbotene Liebe I'd probably try to fit them into an ensemble of other characters roughly their own age to start building some personality. Luke's family isn't a good backdrop for their relationship (indeed, Luke's family seems to have halted it's development before Ameera even showed up).

Noah was supposed to be a major film geek and focused on studying that. But this aspect of his character has largely been marginalized. Indeed, all he does now is walk around with a pleading look on his face promising Luke that things will get better and serving as Ameera's walker. I'd try to bring back Noah's passion for film and get him more involved in that. Plot hooks in that area could be extensive.

Luke also lacks any kind of extra dimensions as a character these days. He mostly just spends his time following Noah (who has Ameera on his arm) like a lost puppy. We'd need to reestablish some depth to Luke's character as well, giving him things to do that don't involve being a poodle.

Both of them would need to other people around their own age. Luke's gay friends that we briefly saw would have been a good start, as would the girl Noah danced with at that club party many months back. They're college students. Show them doing college student stuff! Maybe they should get jobs? Do *something* to add some depth to them as characters.