Luke & Noah's new story kicked off today on As the World Turns with the introduction of Noah's new film school advisor, played by Forbes March.
At the start of the episode, Luke & Noah were packing up the final box of their stuff for the move into the new apartment. Noah was rather down in the dumps and Luke quickly got the reason out of him: having burned the film about his father, he was worried about his Senior project. He told Luke that he couldn't seem to come up with any good ideas for a film.
Luke offered the perfect solution: a script by Luke Snyder himself! Personally, I'm pleasantly surprised that anyone on the writing staff of the show even remembers that Luke once wanted to be a writer since it hasn't been alluded to in a very long time.
At any rate, Luke handed Noah a script that he said he wrote last year in a burst of creative energy. Maybe he had the time while Noah was married to Ameera? Or perhaps like many a great writer, he found inspiration in the bottle after the election fiasco.
Noah, like any good director, apparently only needed to glance at the title page of the script to declare that it was just what he needed. I mean, seriously, he didn't even pretend to read some of it! I guess you could say he just has that much faith in Luke's abilities as a writer, since they have worked together in the past, but it still seemed kind of silly.
The guys were full of plans about making the movie together, but Noah had to go meet with his film advisor first to have it approved. The guys parted with a kiss (still nice to see! Are you paying attention Y&R?) and Noah headed to Java (where else?) to meet with Professor Jarvis, who we see right away is artistic because he's wearing a scarf in July, and who quickly told Noah to call him Mason.
Mason was full of praise for the film Noah had been making, loving the idea of Noah exploring his relationship with his father and the military. Noah explained that he would no longer be making that film, for personal reasons, but that he had a screenplay for another film ready for his approval.
Unlike Noah, Mason actually took the time to read Luke's script and when he was finished he told him that he couldn't approve it. When Noah asked why, Mason explained that it was too complex for a short film and then said some stuff about lack of arcs and muddy transitions before saying Noah could do much better and asking if he owed this Luke Snyder guy money or a favor?
Noah explained that Luke was his boyfriend, which left Mason looking a little surprised and brought out the hint of a smile on his face. Noah added that he was a good writer and Mason backtracked and said the script did show some promise. He told Noah that the choice between art and love was a lot older than the two of them and that when such a choice arose, Noah should choose art. Love would hopefully be forgiving.
They're totally setting this up as a triangle already, I love it!
Anyway, Noah wasn't sure how to break the news to Luke and Mason told him to make his advisor the bad guy in the situation. Noah wondered what he'd do for his senior project instead and Mason asked if he had any other ideas at all. Noah admitted that he had one, but that it was too sketchy, he could only write a paragraph about it, not a script.
Mason asked to read the paragraph and thought it was the seed of a good film. He even offered to help Noah personally in developing it from a paragraph into a screenplay.
Meanwhile, Luke was letting his parents know that he was officially all moved out of the house and also raving about the film project he and Noah were going to be spending a lot of time working on.
Holden wondered when exactly Luke was going to have time to go back to school, what with working on this film and the foundation, and Luke told his parents that he doesn't have any plans to go back to college right now. Holden thought this was a bad idea, but Lily, she who hands out $500 to her unemployed son like it's nothing, declared that working on the film might be good for Luke, that he might end up becoming a filmmaker.
Noah returned around that time and broke the news that Mason had vetoed Luke's script. Luke offered to do rewrites but Noah told him that Mason had liked his own idea and that the two of them were going to develop it.
Luke was disappointed, of course, but admitted that it was mostly because Holden had been on his 'back to college kick' again and Luke had told him he was doing the film instead. Noah suggested that Luke might think about going back to school and said that he wanted his boyfriend to find something that grabbed him the way film making grabs our Mr. Mayer.
Luke was less than thrilled with Noah for sounding so much like Holden, but Noah asked him to at least think about it.
Later, Holden & Lily found a rather glum Luke sitting on the sofa and instead of reminding him gently that he no longer actually lives there, they asked what was wrong. Luke told them that he and Noah weren't going to be making the film together after all and that he'd been doing some thinking and had decided that it was time to go back to school.
Holden was pleased and went off to call Lucinda to get things rolling (Grandmother will no doubt be donating a new building to get Mr. Election Stealer back into school). Lily asked what caused this change of heart and Luke shrugged it off as his summer opening up. Lily asked if he was okay with not doing the film with Noah and Luke told her that Noah had to do what was right for his project. Luke wasn't exactly convincing, though, and was clearly upset at the change of plans.
So far, so good! It really seems like they're setting up a love triangle here, no matter what they were saying to the soap press about it. Luke & Mason haven't even met yet and we've already had Mason bashing Luke's script and Luke being unnerved that Noah is calling Mason by his first name. Wait until Noah & Mason are spending all their time together and Luke is peering in windows at them full of angst and jealousy!
As long as they don't turn Mason into yet another psycho, this could be a decent story. Famous last words, I know.
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