"All right, go get a front row seat. I'm gonna go practice being humble in the mirror."

[rhiannonhero]

Posting a little early, because I'm going to bed before midnight (*gasp*), won't have time in the morning, and will be out of internet reach most of tomorrow. Pretend that it's Monday already!We've got three excellent clips today! Lets get started

Comments

[von_questenberg]

Oh Luke honey. :(

In my head canon, Barbara and Hank are married for twenty years before Barbara dies. Hank then falls in love with a good man and comes out as bisexual.

[pink_pants]

IAWTC. If there is some mysterious universe where some train hit someone at some point in time (ridiculous, I know - it could never happen), I thought that Henry should eventually come out as hobviously bi and he and Luke could hook up over their shared missing-of-Reid and also their shared love of bad shirts.

Henry factoid: he also flirted weirdly with Holden during his WOAK days.

[chicklet_girl]

Henry flirted with everybody; it was one of my favorite things about him. (See also: martinis, consumption thereof.) *g*

[pink_pants]

Henry/Cooley OTP! Hey, that island got lonely. I kid, I kid. God I love Henry.

[laurondo]

You know what I like the most about these earlier episodes? No Chris Hughes, yay!

[bigboobedcanuck]

Right? Soon there will be another douche in town!

[laurondo]

Bah! On a completely different note, can I just say that, from one Canuck to another (lol), your username is awesome.

[bigboobedcanuck]

Well thank you! :D

[charley_ryan]

Alas, Maddie, we miss you so. But I don't blame the girl. I'd leave town, too, if I were being made to room with The Douche. Ugh. He's such a jerk. Luke deserves so much more. Speaking of which -- Reid!!

Love him Reid so much. I love that Bob-O loves him, too. Bob has such an adorable man-crush.

I never understood Henry's masterplan at the trial. He wanted Reid gone so why not just let him win the trial and go back to Texas? Trashing him at his trial just keeps him in Oakdale longer. It's definitely because Hank loves Reid, too. But Reid wants Luke so bad. :D

[rhiannonhero]

I'd leave town, too, if I were being made to room with The Douche.

Comment fic, please! Maddie returns to town once Luke's with Reid and Noah's in L.A. and she reveals that she totally made that bullshit about Weslyan up so that she could GTFO 'cause Noah was soooooo awful. :P

I never understood Henry's masterplan at the trial.

His masterplan was totally subconscious and involved nudity, handjobs, and Reid fucking him senseless. I'm sure of it.

[susanderavish]

Just watching the first clip, but if Jake could have managed to not spit out the lines about pulling out a bowl instead of a plate and instead say them with a little humility and sadness, he might not have seemed like quite such a douche.

[pink_pants]

I am convinced that there was a way to play Noah, even given his douchey lines and douchey characterization, as a somewhat sympathetic character in this scenario. Too bad the actor is a total FAILFACE. There's no subtlety, no subtextual motivations - ugh.

[rhiannonhero]

Noah could've been fascinating in the right hands, frankly. :(

[pink_pants]

After reading this thread again, I am a leetle worried that I'm guilty of actor-bashing. So I will say - he is not a FAILFACE. On the other hand, I am sorry that the actor's face failed at communicating with subtlety.

D: <---- i.e. this emoticon is subtly showing my mouth-agape sadness.

;___; <----- this one communicates my tears at having caused potential offense!

[bigboobedcanuck]

Agree with all your comments! Especially:

So it's not like he was secretly planning to separate Nuke for no reason, since he seems set on moving to Dallas for good. And Noah doesn't seem to be complaining at all: in the time it took Luke to get to the hospital, the decision was made and plans in motion.

Exactly! At this point, even though we know he was attracted to Luke, he was not actually trying to get him. He just wanted to go home! It's really not unreasonable in the least! He's still going to help Noah, but he wants to go home to his practice that he's had to abruptly leave dangling.

[rhiannonhero]

First I was like, "Noah knows Luke's aftershave. I'll admit, that's kind of cute…" and then it became "Ugh, Noah, really?".

I was like, "Oh, wow, way to get a really subtle dig in disguised as a joke!" I admit that at this point, there's little that Noah can do that I won't find a way to make it douchey, but I was reminded of the subtle ways people undermine each other's confidence. Like a catty woman saying to another woman she's in competition with, "You might want to run into the bathroom to wash off some of that perfume. I think you put a little too much on this morning." See, what I mean? Noah's all like, "HAHAHA I'm JOKING but too much aftershave, you should worry about that." Okay, so that's not at all what he probably meant, but I hate him irrationally now, so.....

[pink_pants]

"HAHAHA I'm JOKING but too much aftershave, you should worry about that."

LOLOL this made me laugh a lot! Subtext of the scene: Not only are you a bad boyfriend and ridiculously needy, YOU HAVE BAD HAIR AND STINK! Okay, I added the part about bad hair in there.

But I can tell Noah was thinking it! I kid, I kid. Poor Luke D:

Noah would find a way to make rainbows, puppies, and unicorns feel like CRAP.