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Spoiler Alert! Here are the major Luke-Reid-Noah plot developments that will wrap up “As the World Turns”
Later today, I’ll be posting the latest scenes involving As the World Turns’ gay trio of Luke and Reid and Noah.
But first, I am going to tell you to STOP reading this post if you don’t want to know how the storyline is going to wrap up in the coming weeks. I’ve known for awhile but sat on it until now and it is out there on various blogs anyway.
Since ATWT is going off the air, I don’t feel terribly invested in the ultimate fate of the fabulous coupling of Luke and Reid because no matter what happens, we won’t be seeing them anymore anyway.
Still, I think it still would be nice to have had them start a happy life together.
That is not going to happen.
Executive Producer Chris Goutman tells TV Guide Magazine: “Without giving too much away, I do think Luke and Noah will always have a deep and abiding relationship,” Goutman says. “Reid came along and challenged that love and his presence made Luke and Noah grow up. Their relationship will endure.”
That said, Goutman admits that if ATWT had not been cancelled, Luke and Reid could well have been a couple for the ages. “Their connection was immediate and they are dynamic together,” says the boss. “Soon after Reid’s arrival, we had a lot of diehard Luke and Noah fans suddenly rooting for Luke and Reid. It was the best of what soap opera can be.”
Reid and Luke will not live happily ever after because Reid will not live.
AfterElton.com’s Gays of Our Lives column writes: As for how Reid will die remains to be seen, though the prevailing rumor still seems to be that he’ll be critically injured in a train wreck. Reid’s death will not just affect Luke and Noah, but Reid’s BFF Katie Snyder and her beau Chris Hughes, who is dying of a heart ailment. And if you haven’t guessed that Reid’s heart will be given to Chris (a decision made by Reid himself, we hear) then you haven’t ever watched a soap opera.
It looks like Reid and Luke will consummate their love before Reid’s demise. Actor Eric Sheffer Stevens, a shoo-in for next year’s supporting actor Daytime Emmy, tells TV Guide Canada: It would be great if Luke and Reid could throw caution to the wind. I’m not sure what the reasoning is … Having said that, it is nice that World Turns is building up to that big moment. I think because Reid and Luke know each other very well and they’ve embarked on this beautiful journey together, their first time will be very meaningful. And who knows when the last time was that Reid even had sex!
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Justyna says:
I think I’ve ranted myself out of the most heated arguments since I’ve been going over and over this subject with other LuRe fans since last Monday when that interview was first published*, but I still do think it is stupid and ridiculous how they trying to patch up a faulty, teenagy &whiny relationship between Luke and Noah for whatever cost, now that we’ve seen Luke grow up, be with and possibly (not) have sex with a great grown up guy.
It’s idiotic,frustrating and offensive to viewers’ intelligence, also not really satisfying to anyone. LuRe fans will be devastated (or reasonably, post-spoilerily crushed), Nukies might get their pairing but only by default in a reboundy kind of fashion. In short out of the gay characters on the show**: Reid will be dead, Luke will be unhappy, Noah will still be whiny, squinty and a rebound material. All that while het couples magically patch up all of their problems (even the most treinwrecky combos) and will get the happy endings.
A week ago I was mad as hell, now I’m at the point of shrugging. It’s unfair as hell but that’s soap/daytime tv/tv in general/our stupid society (choose one or more of the mentioned) for you ;/
Points of reference:
*For the REAL rant on the subject see here:
http://mon-alice.livejournal.com/1952.html
** For the most ‘serious’ take on Reid/Luke/Noah problem see this vid with explanations. Drake Ramorey also died *sighs*
Justyna says:
Right. The vid:
http://community.livejournal.com/lure_atwt/806123.html
Jean says:
a shoo-in for next year’s supporting actor Daytime Emmy
Hardly a shoo-in. If anyone from this story line deserves it, it’s Van Hansis, who has done the heavy lifting of the emotional scenes. ESS has been great, but he’s hardly done anything “Emmy worthy.” What would even be in his reel? Van rocked the scenes after Noah’s surgery, and I imagine the scenes where he’s dealing with Reid’s death will be phenomenal. I love ESS and I love LuRe and am so disappointed with how they’re ending this story line, but it’d be shameful if an actor who hasn’t even been on the show for a year gets an award over someone who has been robbed so many times in the past. Van should have won it that first year, hands down, never mind the other two times he has been nominated. With the way they do nominations now, though, I’m not even worried about a newbie actor getting it.
Diane says:
Eric Sheffer Stevens DOES deserve an Emmy. The subtle nuances of his acting have brought class and brilliance to a soap that has lost all direction and energy.
I needn’t lecture anyone here about the sick degree of homophobia that has kidnapped this storyline. Luke should end up with Reid. Reid should not lose his life so the white bread hetero couple can have their happy ending. Luke and Noah are over–the gays have grown up, folks. The show has castrated Reid and turned it into some sort of redemption arc. Dude doesn’t need to be redeemed. He singularly redeemed the show and brought dick back to daytime.
fakepursenijas says:
What a disappointing ending for BOTH Nuke and Lure fans! The show will leave both camps wanting. Reid will donate his heart to Chris! I know it’s a soap opera but come on! How does Reid’s death leave Luke in any shape to reunite with Noah? Noah’s character has been completely butchered into something unrecognizable since the whole blindness storyline. I admit I started out as a Nuke fan but Reid did liven up the show. I was torn between the Nuke and Lure camps but Noah was just so dour it made it difficult to root for Nuke. Oh well there’s always fan fiction to get the story right! 😉
Jake says:
I’m mad that the writers knew the show was going off the air and decided to wait this long to kill off Reid. I started watching the show with the Luke and Noah storyline and I feel like I was set adrift by the writers this year. Reid should have died a month or two ago so we could have seen more of Luke and Noah reconnecting.
Noah was written in such a bad way when he pushed Luke away. You could tell it was a case of writers imprinting their own ideas instead of letting the characters naturally progress. Noah and Luke never really got a chance to have a real relationship because the writers forced them through such soap classics as the greencard marriage, Luke in a wheelchair and Noah going blind. What’s left? Noah helping a pregnant woman give birth in a stalled elevator just as Luke’s evil twin arrives to kidnap him and throw him down a well? Why couldn’t the writers have given Luke and Noah a chance to finally breathe and develop as characters these final 8.5 months?
And I don’t get the thrill with Dr. FrankenReid. He doesn’t even behave like a real person- he acts more like a Mary Sue. He’s flawed yet perfect and walks around saying bizarre things like “This whole people caring about other people stuff…no wonder I’ve tried to avoid it.” Who talks like that? No one! He has no emotion. If anyone deserves an Emmy its Van Hansis for making the most out of this storyline the last few months.
Even worse- Noah virtually disappeared from ATWT. Just because he broke up with Luke doesn’t mean his story is over. He could have started seeing some other guy and we could have seen Luke’s reaction to that. Instead we get Reid dying a hero and Noah is the runner up. That stinks and if it wasn’t for the talent of Van and Jake I wouldn’t even keep watching. Luke’s scenes today with Reid were laughable- he followed him around the hospital like a puppy. Luke has regressed in this new “relationship,” and not for the better.
At least when Luke was with Noah the other day they showed fire and passion even in argument. You could see the chemestry between Luke & Noah- relationships are about love and fights and making up and being happy and stubborn and crazy and passionate. Luke and Noah have this. All Reid has is his bizarre bon mots and that creepy stare.
Long live Luke and Noah! I love seeing Van and Jake together on-screen. I pray they get a happy ending.