Luke & Noah were back on As The World Turns today. The show started off with Luke & Noah discussing the discriminating landlord with Lily and talking over their plans to try and put together a class action law suit against him and other such landlords.
In an effort to get other people who've been discriminated against to come forward, Lily suggested that they make an appeal on television, since she just happens to own the local station herself. I love how she seems to forget that she owns the station until she needs to make a plea for a kidney or battle discrimination and then she's all Media Mogul, throwing her weight around.
Luke & Lily headed for WOAK and talked to Oakdale Now producer Kim Hughes about doing a segment on the Foundation's efforts. Kim loved the idea and wanted to make it an even more personal story about how Lily had overcome her own negative reaction about Luke coming out to become an activist working at his side.
It just so happened, of course, that Kim needed a replacement for a segment going live in ten minutes time, so Luke & Lily had no sooner walked in the door than they were on the air talking about discrimination, the foundation, and Lily's own evolution into the supportive mom she is today.
Noah watched proudly from the behind the camera and as soon as Luke & Lily were off the air, the phones were lit up with calls. Kim informed them that most of them were people calling to report their own discrimination stories or offer to help, and that one disapproving mother had even reported that she'd been moved to call her estranged gay son after hearing Lily's story.
Apparently Oakdale Now is the landlord, Mr. Reese's, favorite show in the world. He doesn't even Tivo it for later, he watches it live! How else can you explain the fact that he was at the station moments after the cameras have stopped rolling, telling Luke & Noah that the apartment was theirs if they wanted it, that he doesn't want all the trouble of a lawsuit?
The guys agreed to move in if he changed his discriminatory ways and all lived happily ever after. Seriously, this show wraps things up faster than an episode of The Brady Bunch and with just as much believability.
Ah, but you see, the discrimination story was just a minor plot point on the road to the real story, so why waste time making it worthwhile? Wrap it in a bow and move on!
No sooner were Luke, Lily, and Noah back home celebrating than there was a knock on the door. All three of them acted like someone knocking on the door at that moment was incredibly odd, like they knew that everyone else was out of town that day, so who could it be?! Such is the show's subtle way of letting us know that this knock was going to be something surprising or just downright ominous.
Lily opened the door to find nothing but an unmarked, sealed box. So, we're going for ominous, then, which isn't surprising since Noah seemed to make a point of asking Kim about the negative calls that Luke & Lily's appearance on the show garnered.
Lily & Noah were concerned about the box, but Luke just ripped into it like it was the last present under the Christmas tree, joking all the while about it being a bomb. Instead, it was just a handwritten note that someone took the time to deliver wrapped up in an otherwise empty box. Um, okay. I love it when hate filled bigots are polite like that! So much classier than a brick through the window with a note attached by a rubber band!
The message on the note: Stop defending perverts and sinners, or you'll live to regret it.
Lily and Noah wanted to go to the police while Luke felt they were just overreacting. In soap terms, that means that Luke is totally doomed, and the previews for tomorrow back that up. Why did I think the show would actually take the time to tell a story about discrimination in a thoughtful way? Yes, Luke's foundation is going forward with their work, but now that Luke & Noah's own problem is resolved, it will likely only be mentioned in passing from here on.
Still, I'd take this stuff over wretched murder mysteries or Iraqi brides any day.
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