Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Heridas, July 31
It's been so long since I watched television I couldn't find my remote control! Thanks to everybody for catching me up. This was the first episode I saw: it opened with the Doc's hug being rejected by the bride, Flor, who of course doesn't know the Doc is her long-lost mother.
Gonzo, the dad, tells the Doc (his wife, I don't think they divorced) to get lost. She tells him to stop persecuting her, he's been wreaking vengeance on her for 18 years. He looks like a turtle. There is a recap of the problem that Flor is pregnant, but if she stops taking meds for the sake of the baby, she'll die anyway. Boo hoo. I guess I don't really care.
The new husband, Fabricio, who played the stupid but handsome Andres in Alborada, did not get to speak even one line in this show. He just stood around looking perplexed. He's been gaining weight, watch out or you'll end up like Unibrow!
Miranda comes up to congratulate the newlyweds but instead faints in her old fiance Fab's arms. A huge unnecessary fuss ensues, since she is healthy as a horse. Cesar and Fab sort of pull on her fainted form until Alejandro comes up and removes her to a couch, where she lies in a faint and he strokes her face and has strange fantasies and thoughtbubbles: "The wounds of love can only be healed by those who caused them. You wounded me, Miranda, now cure me." But I get ahead of myself.
Oh, I was wrong. Fab got to tell his brother Cesar, who is the obvious slimeball: "Get out of here."
In Mexico City, Amparo (who used to be the squealing maid in Alborada but now she keeps her voice down) is selling jewelry to pay her debts. Her brother Francisco is watching. It appears his wife died and Amparo came and took care of him and his two sons, who call her mom. Later, Amparo gets to give the priest one of those speeches about: "All my life I scraped and pinched to keep the family going, I run and run, what for?" and he says: "We all have to pinch the pennies" and tells her she can sell tacos outside the church [that's big of you, padre]. One of the nephews prays to help her.
I feel these speeches are sops to the people who actually WATCH the novelas: the fans who, and I'm just guessing here, are not the owners of large haciendas or international diamond operations.
Amparo says: "Let's hope we don't go dancing with the ugliest one." ??
Bertha catches Alejandro fondling Miranda's comatose form (guys like quiet girls). Miranda wakes up and Alejandro leaves. Bertha mocks Miranda for having a new lover so quickly and then says she herself will get Alejandro. Miranda says: no matter how much surgery you have it won't hide your age. Bertha thoughtbubbles that she will have them all groveling at her feet and scrabbles her fingers on the table like a spider.
The Doc says: "Oh, I'm so alone, I'm so fragile, I'm like a stranger here. But I'll get back everything that's mine, including my daughters." But this plan suffers a setback when Flor announces she is not going to get (medical) studies done with Doc - she is going to get pregnant immediately (she evidently does not know she's already pregnant) and stick with her old Doctor.
Miranda is dancing with Alejandro and thanks him for helping her out, if it hadn't been for him she might have spoiled the wedding and disappeared forever. Then she says, "but I've kept you from your wife too long" and bolts. So she doesn't yet realize Daria is not his wife?
Enters Renata. I believe she may be the worst actress I have ever seen on Univision unless she is doing some ironic post-modern take on her role. When her father now confronts her with her drug addiction, she rolls her racoon eyes like a total idiot and widens them till she looks like she's had extreme plastic surgery. She squeaks at Miranda, "you told him!" but actually it was the doctor who told.
Renata then watches Cesar flirt with Lisania. After Cesar leaves (to get scolded by Gonzo for some business problem), she warns Lisania that she and Cesar are in love and he has asked her to live with him. She plans to go, but dad does not know.
Bertha toasts the bride and groom, then cruelly hands the mic to Miranda. Miranda gets up and gives a half-way adult speech to wit: "Well, Fab and I were childhood sweethearts, he was the man of my dreams and we were going to marry each other, but ... oh well."
Miranda tells the universal sidekick Pamela that, just to annoy Bertha, she will go after Alejandro. Like a good sidekick, Pamela says that's a bad idea. Meanwhile, Bertha flirts hard with Alejandro. He points out she's wearing a rotten knock-off of one of his father's jewelry designs. She insinuates again she knew his father ... very well.
Renata flounces off to tell Bertha, in a tiny whispery chipmunk voice, that the Doc ratted on her. Bertha says the Doc could have Renata carted off to rehab at a moment's notice. She says she'll handle it. Renata is worshipful of Bertha. So is Flor, who during a dance with her father begs him to marry Bertha.
Miranda is watching all this with Pamela and Thomasa, who says, "Look, Bertha is poisoning Renata against us." Miranda counsels patience and says they need to keep their eye on Bertha.
Gonzo strong-arms Rebecca and reams her out: it's her fault the Doc's at the wedding. Rebeca says it's not her fault; her son, the groom, invited the Doc, not knowing her real identity. He still doesn't know - but she thinks Cesar will figure it out, as the Doc was his godmother and he never forgets a face. Gonzo: "I've taken care of you and your sons - you owe me loyalty but even you betray me. You have to do two things for me - find out who is the powerful man who is protecting Fernanda (Doc), and keep her away from Flor and your sons. She's gonna disappear and never come back." Cement overshoes?
Gonzo, the dad, tells the Doc (his wife, I don't think they divorced) to get lost. She tells him to stop persecuting her, he's been wreaking vengeance on her for 18 years. He looks like a turtle. There is a recap of the problem that Flor is pregnant, but if she stops taking meds for the sake of the baby, she'll die anyway. Boo hoo. I guess I don't really care.
The new husband, Fabricio, who played the stupid but handsome Andres in Alborada, did not get to speak even one line in this show. He just stood around looking perplexed. He's been gaining weight, watch out or you'll end up like Unibrow!
Miranda comes up to congratulate the newlyweds but instead faints in her old fiance Fab's arms. A huge unnecessary fuss ensues, since she is healthy as a horse. Cesar and Fab sort of pull on her fainted form until Alejandro comes up and removes her to a couch, where she lies in a faint and he strokes her face and has strange fantasies and thoughtbubbles: "The wounds of love can only be healed by those who caused them. You wounded me, Miranda, now cure me." But I get ahead of myself.
Oh, I was wrong. Fab got to tell his brother Cesar, who is the obvious slimeball: "Get out of here."
Fabricio and Cesar are the sons of Rebecca, the woman in pink with yellow hair who is a very bad actress. She tells them to be nice and not make a scandal.
In Mexico City, Amparo (who used to be the squealing maid in Alborada but now she keeps her voice down) is selling jewelry to pay her debts. Her brother Francisco is watching. It appears his wife died and Amparo came and took care of him and his two sons, who call her mom. Later, Amparo gets to give the priest one of those speeches about: "All my life I scraped and pinched to keep the family going, I run and run, what for?" and he says: "We all have to pinch the pennies" and tells her she can sell tacos outside the church [that's big of you, padre]. One of the nephews prays to help her.
I feel these speeches are sops to the people who actually WATCH the novelas: the fans who, and I'm just guessing here, are not the owners of large haciendas or international diamond operations.
Amparo says: "Let's hope we don't go dancing with the ugliest one." ??
Bertha catches Alejandro fondling Miranda's comatose form (guys like quiet girls). Miranda wakes up and Alejandro leaves. Bertha mocks Miranda for having a new lover so quickly and then says she herself will get Alejandro. Miranda says: no matter how much surgery you have it won't hide your age. Bertha thoughtbubbles that she will have them all groveling at her feet and scrabbles her fingers on the table like a spider.
This show has a very bad director. You can practically count beats with the actors before they say their lines. And what was with that spider thing?
The Doc says: "Oh, I'm so alone, I'm so fragile, I'm like a stranger here. But I'll get back everything that's mine, including my daughters." But this plan suffers a setback when Flor announces she is not going to get (medical) studies done with Doc - she is going to get pregnant immediately (she evidently does not know she's already pregnant) and stick with her old Doctor.
A man who did not figure in the earlier cast of characters appears to be central here. I'm going to pull together the pieces that were scattered through this episode.
Alfredo: He was married and had two children, Alejandro and Lizania. Then his wife died and he fell in love with Fernanda, who was not yet a Doc back then, and she fell in love right back. But then Bertha ALSO fell in love with Alfredo! Doc hisses to her sister Bertha: "That's why Dad married me to Gonzo!"
Now Daria has appeared. Miranda apparently thinks Daria is Alejandro's wife; actually, Daria was ALFREDO's wife, now his widow, hence Alejandro's stepmother. Of course, if Alfredo remarried after the Bertha/Gonzo shooting episode, he clearly was not dead.
Daria and the Doc therefore have the satisfaction of informing Bertha that Alfredo survived the shooting in Gonzo's studio. WHAT?
Bertha, hearing this unwelcome news, thoughtbubbles: "Those imbeciles have confused me!" She goes straightaway to Thomasa, the servant, and they review: On a dark and stormy night, Alfredo was going to spirit away the Doc and the daughter(s) - but Bertha came into Gonzo's study and beheld Gonzo standing over Alfredo's collapsed form. She assumed Gonzo had murdered Alfredo (he didn't exactly say so). She had Thomasa's sons carry the body away. They were supposed to throw Alfredo's body in the river. They got drunk (not wanting, as Thomasa tells Bertha, to throw a Christian in the river. A Jew, that would have been ok). Their dead bodies were found later by the police but Alfredo's body was never found.
"But then he died of a congenital degenerative heart condition," Daria tells Fernanda (the Doc), which causes the Doc's eyes to widen and she blurts out, "I never told anybody before but Flor is Alfredo's daughter," and Alejandro had just sauntered in and says: "What, Flor is my sister?" He says Flor has a right to know - the Doc says she isn't telling cause she doesn't want Flor to keel over from the shock, and that it's Flor's bad heart that is keeping her from telling the whole world she is mother of the three sisters.
Yes, Flor, she of the bad heart, is the daughter of Alfredo: the Doc was already pregnant by Alfredo when she went on her honeymoon with Gonzo. She never told anybody, mainly (she protests) because Gonzo fell so in love with "his" daughter Flor.
There is a kissy love-fest between the Doc and Daira, who decide to be friends and try to figure mysterious things out together.
Alfredo: He was married and had two children, Alejandro and Lizania. Then his wife died and he fell in love with Fernanda, who was not yet a Doc back then, and she fell in love right back. But then Bertha ALSO fell in love with Alfredo! Doc hisses to her sister Bertha: "That's why Dad married me to Gonzo!"
Now Daria has appeared. Miranda apparently thinks Daria is Alejandro's wife; actually, Daria was ALFREDO's wife, now his widow, hence Alejandro's stepmother. Of course, if Alfredo remarried after the Bertha/Gonzo shooting episode, he clearly was not dead.
Daria and the Doc therefore have the satisfaction of informing Bertha that Alfredo survived the shooting in Gonzo's studio. WHAT?
Bertha, hearing this unwelcome news, thoughtbubbles: "Those imbeciles have confused me!" She goes straightaway to Thomasa, the servant, and they review: On a dark and stormy night, Alfredo was going to spirit away the Doc and the daughter(s) - but Bertha came into Gonzo's study and beheld Gonzo standing over Alfredo's collapsed form. She assumed Gonzo had murdered Alfredo (he didn't exactly say so). She had Thomasa's sons carry the body away. They were supposed to throw Alfredo's body in the river. They got drunk (not wanting, as Thomasa tells Bertha, to throw a Christian in the river. A Jew, that would have been ok). Their dead bodies were found later by the police but Alfredo's body was never found.
"But then he died of a congenital degenerative heart condition," Daria tells Fernanda (the Doc), which causes the Doc's eyes to widen and she blurts out, "I never told anybody before but Flor is Alfredo's daughter," and Alejandro had just sauntered in and says: "What, Flor is my sister?" He says Flor has a right to know - the Doc says she isn't telling cause she doesn't want Flor to keel over from the shock, and that it's Flor's bad heart that is keeping her from telling the whole world she is mother of the three sisters.
Yes, Flor, she of the bad heart, is the daughter of Alfredo: the Doc was already pregnant by Alfredo when she went on her honeymoon with Gonzo. She never told anybody, mainly (she protests) because Gonzo fell so in love with "his" daughter Flor.
There is a kissy love-fest between the Doc and Daira, who decide to be friends and try to figure mysterious things out together.
Miranda is dancing with Alejandro and thanks him for helping her out, if it hadn't been for him she might have spoiled the wedding and disappeared forever. Then she says, "but I've kept you from your wife too long" and bolts. So she doesn't yet realize Daria is not his wife?
Enters Renata. I believe she may be the worst actress I have ever seen on Univision unless she is doing some ironic post-modern take on her role. When her father now confronts her with her drug addiction, she rolls her racoon eyes like a total idiot and widens them till she looks like she's had extreme plastic surgery. She squeaks at Miranda, "you told him!" but actually it was the doctor who told.
Renata then watches Cesar flirt with Lisania. After Cesar leaves (to get scolded by Gonzo for some business problem), she warns Lisania that she and Cesar are in love and he has asked her to live with him. She plans to go, but dad does not know.
Bertha toasts the bride and groom, then cruelly hands the mic to Miranda. Miranda gets up and gives a half-way adult speech to wit: "Well, Fab and I were childhood sweethearts, he was the man of my dreams and we were going to marry each other, but ... oh well."
Miranda tells the universal sidekick Pamela that, just to annoy Bertha, she will go after Alejandro. Like a good sidekick, Pamela says that's a bad idea. Meanwhile, Bertha flirts hard with Alejandro. He points out she's wearing a rotten knock-off of one of his father's jewelry designs. She insinuates again she knew his father ... very well.
Renata flounces off to tell Bertha, in a tiny whispery chipmunk voice, that the Doc ratted on her. Bertha says the Doc could have Renata carted off to rehab at a moment's notice. She says she'll handle it. Renata is worshipful of Bertha. So is Flor, who during a dance with her father begs him to marry Bertha.
Miranda is watching all this with Pamela and Thomasa, who says, "Look, Bertha is poisoning Renata against us." Miranda counsels patience and says they need to keep their eye on Bertha.
Gonzo strong-arms Rebecca and reams her out: it's her fault the Doc's at the wedding. Rebeca says it's not her fault; her son, the groom, invited the Doc, not knowing her real identity. He still doesn't know - but she thinks Cesar will figure it out, as the Doc was his godmother and he never forgets a face. Gonzo: "I've taken care of you and your sons - you owe me loyalty but even you betray me. You have to do two things for me - find out who is the powerful man who is protecting Fernanda (Doc), and keep her away from Flor and your sons. She's gonna disappear and never come back." Cement overshoes?
Mysterious moments:
Bertha to Thomasa: "you will see your grand-daughter again when Nati appears with the weapon he carries."
Bertha tells us all that Pamela's mom is insane and in a manicomio.
Cesar asks Bertha: "What is it you know about me? You've threatened me twice." She is withhholding her info, maybe to keep him close and flirtatious. He says she looks like the devil.
Bertha to Thomasa: "you will see your grand-daughter again when Nati appears with the weapon he carries."
Bertha tells us all that Pamela's mom is insane and in a manicomio.
Cesar asks Bertha: "What is it you know about me? You've threatened me twice." She is withhholding her info, maybe to keep him close and flirtatious. He says she looks like the devil.
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Ah, Melinama, it is nice to have your irreverent recaps back. I guess every novela has to have some socially redeeming content. We had prejudice against indigenous people on Barerra and the concern on Heridas for the financial problems of the middle classes caused by worldwide financial machinations - all done in a heavy-handed way.
We renamed Lizania as Lasagna when Chris hadn't gotten the titles working on his TV and that's what he heard. Since she came from Italy, it seemed appropriate.
We don't know yet what the story is with Naty and the gun. We keep learning more and more about what happened on the night Adolfo got shot.
If Flor is Adolfo's child that Fernanda was carrying when she married Gonzo, then she must be the eldest of the three daughters. Miranda certainly acts like the eldest but maybe that is because Flor was always ill.
We renamed Lizania as Lasagna when Chris hadn't gotten the titles working on his TV and that's what he heard. Since she came from Italy, it seemed appropriate.
We don't know yet what the story is with Naty and the gun. We keep learning more and more about what happened on the night Adolfo got shot.
If Flor is Adolfo's child that Fernanda was carrying when she married Gonzo, then she must be the eldest of the three daughters. Miranda certainly acts like the eldest but maybe that is because Flor was always ill.
Hoorah, she's back and taking no prisoners. Very funny recap. I was confused when Dr. Fernanda said Alfredo was Flor's daddy because I also assumed Miranda was the oldest. So yea, duh, Flor must be the elder sister. Isn't Renata bizarre? Maybe she hasn't kicked the drug habit after all.
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: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 3:55:00 PM EDT
: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 3:55:00 PM EDT
Personally, I don't think Tia Bert looks any better than she did before. So she put on make-up and had her hair done, still FEA! Someone recently in a comment or in a recap referred to Gonzo as Darth Vader. Fell off my chair laughing. I still think of him as Darth Vader every time he appears.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 10:05:00 AM EDT
: Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 10:05:00 AM EDT
..here I am alone at the computer and laughing out loud like an idiota...''guys like quiet girls''----teehee----and i loved the comment about throwing the guy in the river----good times susanlynn
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