Sunday, May 4, 2008

Luke and Noah auf Deutsch

Despite being a big Days of Our Lives fan throughout high school and college, I don't really follow the soaps anymore. I've got several friends who are simply mad for the Luke and Noah storyline on As the World Turns, but the tortoise-like pace with which those boys were permitted to proceed to their first big kiss was enormously frustrating.

For my money, a much better boy-on-boy storyline is the trials of Olli and Christian on the German soaper Verbotene Liebe ("Forbidden Love"). You can catch up on the backstory here; on Youtube, a fan has thoughtfully subtitled the clips in English.

I have a big crush on Jo Weil, who plays frisky, puppy-dog-eyed Oliver Sabel (Olli). Hubba hubba.