Home and a gay

As I write this I'm watching Home and Away. What can I say except that I get off on mindless soap-opera. I mean where else do you see a bunch of hot and hotish guys (at worst, with the exception of Alf, who for obvious reasons, isn't hot at all) with their tops off all year round? The acting isn't too bad either. The stories on the other hand are, shall we say, a tad predictable and way too complicated to be real. When I stayed with my Pop for a week we watched it every night while we ate. Well, I watched it and told him what was going on while filling him in on the background since he's 80% blind.

They do all the typical soapy stories in cycles. Sometimes the cycle for one story is shorter than that of another but they do exist. Right now we have a cancer storyline; a guy who has someone after him AND has a crush on his girlfriend's mother, who it appear seems to have a little crush of her own on him too; a new baby, complete with mother who has post-natal depression, who was conceived after the mother was raped when she was a member of a cult; and a mysterious boyfriend who has a secret he's keeping from his girlfriend which was semi-revealed today.

Drew, the boy with someone after him and the crush on his girlfriend's mother, Amanda, is posing "nude" for his girlfriend so that she could draw him for her life drawing class. I have to admit I was excited, even though I don't find the guy particularly attractive (there's something about his face that doesn't scream "hottie") but he does have an amazing body. He came down stairs, wearing only a towel and the girlfriend instructed him to take it off. I couldn't believe what I was hearing and expected him to half the towel half off but still not showing anything (obviously since it's prime time) before it cut to her. The towel kept opening, and opening, to reveal he was wearing a leafy skirty thing around his nether-regions. I cracked up as she put a small wreath around his head and handed him an apple to hold up in the air. He looked like Puck:

Meanwhile, the Matilda's ex-boyfriend, Lukas, oversaw the current boyfriend (who's name escapes me so we'll call him Steve) arguing with a mysterious guy, Gareth, who followed him to Summer Bay. As Lukas stood watching as Steve and Gareth spoke, heatedly, and then embraced... I was thinking that this could very well be the gay story line that was bound to come considering the last one was in 2002. They put their arms around each other and it looked like they were going for a kiss, then it cut to Lukas's shocked face. What a let down. What would have been the first gay kiss on H&A (at least that I'm aware of) has been denied. It turns out that Gareth has a monster crush on Steve but Steve isn't gay. Something he reiterated fairly strongly for the remainder of the episode.

I was a little disappointed to be honest. First we miss out on a good gay kiss, then it turns out the guy isn't even gay (or at best, he's in denial) and the only guy who actually is gay is a nutcase. Who writes this shit?

p.s. I wanted to make some witty title but for the life of me I couldn't... don't hold it against me.
p.p.s. I decided to pinch Lou's title... hehe