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| AnthonyL | Feb 14 2008, 08:36 PM Post #1 |
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Doing all the heavy lifting.....
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http://www.soapoperadigest.com/recaps/atwt/2008/021108/ In an extra-special Valentine's Day episode, Oakdale's couples imagined what life would be like if they didn't have each other (and, in some cases, if they also lived in period films.) Lily read Lucinda's Valentine's Day card to Holden, featuring La Walsh's new motto: "Life is too short to live without love." Then came a gorgeous slew of Lily and Holden flashbacks, but Holden provided a buzz kill by noting how close he was to losing her when she was attacked by Evan. We saw a new version of their scuffle in which Lily got poked with the poison hypodermic, leaving Holden a harried widower juggling kids in the Snyder kitchen. We were then asked to imagine that a) there were no longer 17 other people living at the farm to help out and Holden is suddenly much less competent than he has been in the last two years, when he's been the one the keep the family together while Lily went off the deep end. Anyway, Holden lamented that single parenting is hard, as an ignored Faith fell into self-loathing on the porch. That's when her ghost mom (in a weird cardigan and trendy belt) appeared and told her all about her future boyfriends. Faith was cheered up and saved from falling back into bulimia or worse, so she tore up her "Faith hates Faith" diary entry and drew a big heart instead. Inside, Holden magically got all the chores done, then saw ghost Lily and realized that she had made brownies, fixed homework, soothed the baby from heaven. She reminded him that "bodies can be separated, but not souls. Not soul mates." Outside, they tearfully talked about how they weren't individually perfect, but they were perfect together, before Holden, with the sheer strength of his love, seemed to will her back to life, and kissed her in the flesh. (It's odd how Holden kind of became GH's Nikolas in his fantasy.)Noah gave Luke a V-day card that said, "The best thing that ever happened to me is you." They were interrupted in yet another kiss for a lame reason — a random bystander — before Noah pointed out that if he hadn't met Luke, he would have enlisted and everything would be different. Luke imagined him as a sexy sailor and launched into a fleet week fantasy, where college student Luke (who was very careless with his important homework) had an encounter with Noah (who had refused his shipmmate's strip club invite) that ended with Luke giving Noah a tour of the city. Highlights: a lesson on Greenwich village at the corner of Christopher and Gay (where Luke had always felt "weird" coming alone), a brief mention of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, and some deep musings about immigrants ("Here in America, you could be anything you wanted to be. Even gay.") in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, which is where Noah awkwardly came out to Luke ... and they held hands some more instead of kissing as they would have if they weren't on daytime TV. "This was the best shore leave ever," said Noah when they got back to his sailboat (there was no aircraft carrier available?). He gave Luke his "bravery" medal (alter-Noah must have fought in some sort of bizarro world naval battle) and asked him to wait for him. The boys then shared a big romantic kiss. (Just kidding! But there was a passionate hug.) Tom and Margo got all punny with their wishes, sprinkling in police and lawyer references. "Just think, if you'd failed your exam, our lives would be very different right now." Margo joked that she would have taken the bar exam and become a defense attorney. Their fantasy went black and white, where they spoke in arch, 40s-style dialogue (including an impressive Katharine Hepburn accent from Margo), sipped martinis, gave each other massages, and blew secret kisses to each other in court, where she defended Emily Stewart for shooting Paul Ryan. Paul thuggishly testified that Emily is "Nuts. Certifiable." A weepy, simple Em took the stand and squeaked out a hilariously incriminating explanation for her actions ("I bought it that day ... to shoot my fiancé," she said matter-of-factly when asked when and why she got the gun) and recounted how she'd found Paul with a vampy Meg and shot him. But Margo, on cross-examination, got the judge to throw out the case, citing a conflict of interest for Tom because Emily. Paul and Emily locked eyes across the room and then fell into a kiss. At home, Tom tricked Margo into admitting that she won unfairly, and they kissed and made up. Will brought Gwen her present: a framed photo of them. She started giggling, because it turns out hers was the same. She got him a card, though: "Life is too short to live without love," it said, borrowing from Lucinda. "That was me: a life without love before you came along," recalled Gwen, as though she was already a pathetic spinster at age 18. We all know that Will basically wishes they had met in pre-school, but settled for "sooner" — that is, before she had sex with Casey. However, in his fantasy, there were some marked differences: he wasn't the same defensive surly teen that caused Gwen to call him a "freak" when they met; Gwen was still all toughness and attitude but he didn't hate her at first sight like he actually did back when Alison first set them up; the Itty Bitty Kitty Crew had more of a singer-songwriter vibe, as opposed to punk rock. Getting the worst revisionist treatment was Casey, who in Will's version was about to sexually assault Gwen when Will interrupted and beat him up. (Isn't what the show did to Adam enough?!) In the fantasy, Will tracked a standoffish Gwen to Yo's, where he proceeded to fall madly in love with her as she sang. After a Before Sunset-style night on an Old Town bench, they were a couple. The best part was seeing Gwen back in that scrappy, spunky mode that first charmed us. Sage sent Jack a card from "Carly" but stupidly signed it in red crayon, thus exposing her clever ruse. Jack and Carly laughed about how their relationship is basically a bad Lifetime version of The Philadelphia Story. In the fantasy, Sage begged a gorgeously clad Carly (in the Hepburn role) not to marry Mr. Potter, a rich man who smells ("That's the smell of old money," insisted Carly) and reunite with Jack (Cary Grant) instead. Brad (Jimmy Stewart) and Katie (Ruth Hussey) were gossip reporters (he was infatuated with Carly but eventually realized he loved Katie). "I come to all of Carly's weddings. Somehow they never seem to stick," a cool Jack told Katie at the bar as they discussed being losers at love. At the end of the day, Jack found Carly in a clinch with Brad and punched him out. Brad ended up getting hitched to his "gal Friday" Katie, while Jack took Carly home and gave her a Valentine's kiss. |
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| AnthonyL | Feb 14 2008, 08:38 PM Post #2 |
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Doing all the heavy lifting.....
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I loved how they pointed out that the Holden/Lily fantasy expected us to believe that no one at the farm would be there for Holden to help out and that Holden would suddenly be an incompetent dad, two things that would never happen. |
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| Aja77 | Feb 14 2008, 09:37 PM Post #3 |
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I also loved the comments regarding Nuke's NON-kiss....... "they were interupted in yet another kiss for a lame reason and... "The boys then shared a big romantic kiss (just kidding!) But there was a passionate hug" I love that not only are the Van/Nuke fans complaining, but so is everyone else. |
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| CodeNuke | Feb 15 2008, 01:25 AM Post #4 |
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Luke/Noah stalker
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glad that SOD pointed it out. oh were oh were is the kisses |
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Holden is suddenly much less competent than he has been in the last two years, when he's been the one the keep the family together while Lily went off the deep end. Anyway, Holden lamented that single parenting is hard, as an ignored Faith fell into self-loathing on the porch. That's when her ghost mom (in a weird cardigan and trendy belt) appeared and told her all about her future boyfriends. Faith was cheered up and saved from falling back into bulimia or worse, so she tore up her "Faith hates Faith" diary entry and drew a big heart instead. Inside, Holden magically got all the chores done, then saw ghost Lily and realized that she had made brownies, fixed homework, soothed the baby from heaven. She reminded him that "bodies can be separated, but not souls. Not soul mates." Outside, they tearfully talked about how they weren't individually perfect, but they were perfect together, before Holden, with the sheer strength of his love, seemed to will her back to life, and kissed her in the flesh. (It's odd how Holden kind of became GH's Nikolas in his fantasy.)





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