Well, I finally 'caught up' with the Nuke episodes I've missed this past week. As it turns out, there was only one episode in which Luke appeared, and it was for Holden's funeral last Thursday. Noah, you'll recall, wasn't there because he was off in Hollywood meeting Jude Law, who just loved our Mr. Mayer's half finished script for his school project student film so much that he may want to make it his next project.
As you can imagine, Luke didn't have all that much to do in the cast heavy funeral episode. He did get to greet his hunky brother Aaron (including sneaking in two nice long hugs, I might add!), who came in from Seattle, but other than that Luke mostly was just there for close ups while various people spoke at the service. I was glad to see Agim Kaba again as Aaron, even if briefly. He's so gorgeous. The rumor is that he read for the part of Nick (who is currently dating Kyle) on One Life to Live, and I would so have loved to see him in that part!
Seeing Aaron with Luke reminded me again of yet another opportunity the show wasted when they were both regular cast members last year. Aaron and Luke had one good conversation together right after Aaron moved back from Seattle, but after that they were completely out of each others stories, even while supposedly living under the same roof. It would have been so great to see Luke going to his older brother for advice on life and love, not that Aaron is exactly an expert in either.
There haven't been any Luke or Noah scenes so far this week, but the late Holden Snyder has been on. He's apparently being held by some backwoods Kentucky types, or so I gathered from fast forwarding past his scenes. I may go back and watch them later, though, because they've now dragged the phenomenal Judi Evans (formerly of Days of Our Lives and Another World) into this mess. Judi is seriously talented, but since Another World left the air a decade ago, she hasn't been given her due as an actress.
First, she suffered through a truly God awful part on Days (a walking joke of a character called Bonnie Lockhart, whom Judi did her best with) before finally being written out as Bonnie and brought back shortly afterward as her original (and much loved) Days character, Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis (who was in no way related to Bonnie; everyone just pretended like they weren't played by the same actress!). Sadly, they gave her next to nothing to do as Adrienne and eventually wrote her out again.
Now, she's on As the World Turns and I'm really not sure if I can bear to watch her go through the indignity of playing another Bonnie-esque character. This show doesn't know how to write for the tremendous amount of onscreen talent they've already got, so to add more to the roster makes it even worse.
Is the writing improving with the new co-head writer? Based on the Nuke story, I'd have to say no. However, vets Bob & Kim Hughes have been featured in a story lately that, while not exactly well written, is at least not as bad as other stories in recent memory and is giving them more air time than I think they've ever had under Passanante's pen. That could be a sign that things may be changing for the better, but I'm not ready to place any bets on it just yet.
Sorry, I've digressed, since there wasn't actually any Nuke to write about. I'm hoping to catch up with any goings on at The Young and the Restless (where I'm very behind) tomorrow.
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