Source: Daily Beast
Luke and Noah on As the World Turns
screenshot: LazyCircles.blogspotWhen we last looked in on them almost a year ago on these virtual pages, daytime TV's main gay couple still hadn't quite gotten around to kissing. That was a matter of concern to the many fans of Luke and Noah on the CBS series As the World Turns.
While we weren't watching, things have progressed a good deal for the couple, according to a summary of the show in Daily Beast by Henry Seltzer.
He recounts the couple's twists and turns through the show's complex storyline
As the months wore on, the sexual tension between Luke and Noah (affectionately dubbed Nuke and Loah) grew. They kissed increasingly frequently and with decreasingly little fanfare from blogs, but they never went all the way. They did talk about sex -- and what their first time would be like -- but it never came anywhere near their horizon. Like everything in their relationship, intimacy was shown through incredibly compelling dialogue. ...
It's difficult to explain to non-viewers how earnest and well-drawn Luke and Noah's relationship is. It was a task I felt ready to tackle after mildly (okay, very) obsessively watching the program (and getting hooked on the other plot lines in the process) for nearly two years now.
Luke and Noah go way beyond kisses in daytime TV gay first [contd.]
Seltzer says he was struck by how revolutionary the gay couple's abstinence seemed for TV, and applauds the show's writers for "holding the characters to a higher standard."
For me at least, what makes Luke and Noah unique in television -- and especially daytime -- is that by not jumping in bed together, they're defying a classic gay stereotype. Indeed, many critics and gay bloggers accused As the World Turns (and Proctor and Gamble's production company) of having a double standard, since straight characters are routinely promiscuous.
But Seltzer explains that the show's writers threw him a curveball Monday:
So it came as a quite a shock, when on Monday's episode they rekindled their broken union by...having sex.
Without any warning or hysterics, the show took that unexpected turn and went where no daytime drama—and few primetime shows—has dared: Luke and Noah were shown post-coital, sheets ruffled.
And you know the best part? The person responsible for getting them back together after the fallout from Luke kissing his step-grandfather was his grandmother, the show's matriarch (played by Elizabeth Hubbard for the past 25 years), who was also the most understanding when Luke first came out.
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Source: The Gays Go All the Way in Daytime | Daily Beast
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