The bit on “yesterday’s show” shows Alina in an impressive crying fit, I thought before that maybe she was emotionless, even in her situation in the cave she seemed way too peppy all the time. Either peppy or ponderous, but never really sad. Well whatever these people are all crazy. Am I the only one that thinks the theme song sounds like Mexican James Bond thing?
Thelma asks Flor to sit down to explain that she (Flor/Alina) needs to convince the padre to marry her (Thelma) to Emiliooo before he (Emilioooo) dies. Flor wants to talk about how Emiliooo might be dying, but Thelma just says “I don’t know” and gets right back to Alina convincing the priest to marry Emiliooo and Thelma. Thelma insists that Alina/Flor/whoever is the only person who can pull that off, anyone else the priest will just say no. This makes no sense, but whatever. Thelma flatters Alina a bit to soften her up, she tries to paint them being sisters who have been dissed by Emilioooo.
We see some nice legs walking into a bar or something, turns out they belong to Coral. She flipflops from being scary to sexy and back again constantly. I guess she has a little bit of both. She talks to the flaming gay waiter to see who is in charge, he points her off somewhere with a lot of hand gestures. She walks up to a woman who acts like a royal bitch and says hello. The lady says “And who are you?” Coral asks for a minute of her time to talk about something.
Thelma swears she is being honest. Alina gets smart for a minute and asks, “Ok so he’s dying, how does any of this mean that you need to marry him?” Thelma comes back with a lame “I can’t explain my motives.” She just starts to beg, telling her something about the legalities of marrying on the verge of death. She starts to beg again, Flor stands up and says “No way.” She says she won’t renounce Emiliooo, Thelma can take a hike. She won’t ask the priest anyting.
Apparently Coral wanted an audition. The flaming gay dude (I can’t wait until we get a name for him, I feel like I’m breaking some political correctness or something but flaming gay is the only way to describe him. He’s over the top) and the bitchy boss are very impressed with her performance, which unfortunately we don’t get to see. They go to the office of the club and the lady, who is suddenly very nice, says to Coral that she’s hired. The F.G. guy waves his hands around a lot, like Luigi from La Fea. Ah, his name is Granillo. Coral says they won’t regret hiring her, Granillo says they will surely not be sorry. Granillo is all worked up about the great outfits he’ll put together. The Patrona tells her she’ll get a room ready, Coral says no, she has a place already at La Rinconada.
Thelma tells Alina that she doesn’t understand, she HAS to renounce Emiliooo. She says “Why? Just for you? No way, I love him. And he doesn’t want to marry you anyway.” Thelma gives a grand speech about how it isn’t just she that will hate Alina for this, there will be another! Another who will add his voice against Flor! (Who might this be? Oh my God the suspense! Really Yoda, I have a sister? Wait wrong story.) Alina takes the bait, “who is this other person?” Thelma stands up and grandly, gravely, tells her, “Emiliooo’s child.” Dum dum dummmm music. Alina is impactada.
Orlando, in uniform, comes to see Emiliooooo laying in bed with tubes in his nose. He just stands there and sneers.
Gaspar is outside the house, pacing back and forth. I’m guessing he has a real fire in his pants with his Munequita being so close. Good thing those overalls are so baggy. I think that’s Luba on the stairs, sleeping. Gaspar tries to sneak past her into the house, but she moves and groans and that scares him back down to the bottom step where he sits down to wait. No nosepicking yet, I’ll make sure to let you all know when it happens.
Alina can’t believe it. Thelma says she didn’t tell him to save him the hassle, or something. It’s a secret from everyone. Thelma tells Alina (I think I have the story right here) that she was supposed to get married to Emiliooo before, but he cheated on her and then came to the hacienda to escape her. He never knew that Thelma was knocked up. “It was terrible for me.” Boo hoo.
Coral enters her room with Max close behind. I still think he’s trying to get somewhere with her. He is telling her about Emiliooo’s condition. She wants to see him, but Max says no, especially because Thelma is such a hardass. Max says he’ll keep her updated. She tells Max that she’s going to be a dancer at Edelmira’s club. Max gives a great bad guy laugh and is happy to hear it. Maybe because now he can see her in less clothing, he’ll just have to go to the club to do it. She says that Emiliooo gave her permission to stay at the hacienda as long as she wants, but now? Max twirls his moustache and says of course she can say, because he said so too. Then he says he needs to go over to Edelmira’s and eat some eye tacos. My wife says yes, they make eye tacos. Like cow eyes in a taco. That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard. A million times worse than tongue. I won’t eat lengua, but I have come to accept at least that other people do. But eyes? No puede ser.
The singing aunt is telling some other, I don’t know their names, about how she was such a famous opera singer, she performed all over the world. Of course her singing is horrible, they aren’t buying her story at all. The guy asks if she is married, she says no, she was too busy for love. But so many men were in love with her, oh yes, millionaires, they gave her jewels, etc. The lady asks what kind of music, mariachi, or what? No, opera! The man and woman have no idea what opera is so she sings for a minute. It’s horrible. They clap but can’t believe their ears. Singing aunt provides some welcome comic relief. Wow is her voice bad. I’m sure the actress can sing better if she wanted to, that makes the bad singing of the character that much better.
Orlando continues to sneer at Emiliooo’s bedside. Some really funky 80’s rap style music is playing. Orlando says something like “what are you thinking” but I didn’t really understand. I’m sure he’s just hoping Emilioooo dies.
The burning fire in Gaspar’s pants is too much for him, he gets up to make another attempt at entering the house. This time he gets up the stairs without waking Luba and runs down the hall.
Thelma continues her sob story. She is really going to town with her story, finally Alina falls for it and says she’ll help, the kid deserves Emilioooo’s last name. She falls for the whole stinking thing and says she’ll go talk to the priest. Thelma says she doesn’t know how to thank her, Flor says she’s just doing it for the kid, not for her. After she leaves I expected Thelma to smile in victory, but she just kept crying. As she is blubbering on, Orlando comes in and wants to know if she convinced Alina to help. She says of course. She tells him that Flor is so stupid and believed it all.
The priest is sitting on his bed reading a book when there is a knock on the door. He opens it, of course it is Flor. Flor was wearing a jacket when she was talking to Thelma, but now she has taken it off to let her tight t-shirt have its full effect. Does she think that having her boobs just up and out there will help convince the priest to help? Also, she spent the past two years in a cave in jeans and a t-shirt but apparently also a push up bra. And her shirt is amazingly white for having been worn 730 straight days. Amazing.
Gaspar is still skulking about the house, he sees Orlando come down the stairs and hides. After Orlando leaves, Gaspar runs up the stairs.
Thelma enters Emiliooo’s room. She tells him that he’ll not escape her. She loves him so much, but only the ‘other’ girl matters to him. He will regret it.
The priest asks Flor, are you sure? She says yes. He doesn’t understand any of this. Perhaps because he is a normal person and Flor is stupid. He tells her that if she loves him, she should marry him, not step aside for Thelma. He tries to talk her into marrying Emilioooo herself like she originally was going to do. Wow Flor/Alina is stupid. It is hitting me like a ton of bricks right this moment how dumb she is. She has been talked in and out and in to marrying Emiliooo like twice in the last hour. I’m dizzy.
Gaspar sticks his head into a room. He hears noise and hides, it’s singing aunt, she goes into another room. Gaspar goes back to the room he was spying on again.
Don Loco thanks Max for giving him a strong drink. Max says Emiliooo is doing bad, but should live, saving Don Loco from jail. Don Loco rants on about how Emilioooo nor anyone else will marry Flor/Alina. Cripes when will she tell everyone who she really is so we can use just one name? Max says, haven’t you punished her enough? Don Loco goes over his case, the proof, etc. I guess to say no, neither his wife or Alina have been punished enough yet. I think having to have him as a husband or father is punishment enough. Or to know that now there is mental illness in the family, which can be hereditary. That is punishment enough. Don Loco flashes back to when he tried to shoot Jose from two feet a way and missed. He swears some more.
Alina tries to convince the priest to let Thelma marry Emilioooo. She says Thelma was even more misterable than she was in the cave. The priest basically tells her tough luck on the whole Thelma thing. I think, then, that he says he’ll marry Alina to Emiliooo the next day. Did I understand that right?
Coming out of commercial this time, we see Luba stab a tree. I thought she was some kind of woman of nature, wouldn’t this be against her type? Anyway. The soldiers from Emilioooo’s group discuss the situation. They argue over whether to continue with their work while Emiliooo is hurt, they eventually decide that they should. Good call guys.
Don Loco rambles on. He wants to see Soledad and tell her something about how she won’t make fun of him any more. Yawn. Old news. Max says he’ll never be happy with so much hate. Don Loco says when did I ever say I wanted to be happy? Don Loco is completely off his rocker. I guess Max is wanting to keep an eye on him in case the police need him, but Don Loco wants to leave to see Soledad. He swears to Max that he’ll come back, so Max says he’ll wait by the door. He’s drunk by now, Max is, so I expect that he’ll be sleeping and someone will sneak past him, that’s a recurring theme in this show. Before leaving Don Loco bums a horse from him too. He promises to always remember this favor Max is doing for him. I believe it, because Don Loco never forgets anything. Even when he should.
Soledad dreams of Alina marrying Emilioooo. She wakes up as her door slams open, but nobody is there. I suspect another ‘night conversation’ coming on.
Singing Aunt and Thelma are talking about what Alina is doing for Thelma. They look at piece of jewelry that Emiliooo gave Thelma when they dated, she says that she would have preferred a word of love, Emilioooo never took her seriously. She still loves him, even if he treated her bad, etc etc. She thinks this wedding on the verge of death is the only way she’ll ever get to marry him.
Alina FINALLY tells the priest that Thelma is pregnant. Before she was just trying to get him to marry the others for no reason? Alina says that Emiliooo and Thelma should get married, that is her final answer. She and her tight shirt and her pushed up boobs leave.
Singing Aunt tells Thelma to rest, in about 500 words, then leaves to go to her own room. Gaspar is skulking in the hall, he hides again when Singing Aunt comes out. After she leaves, he goes back to the door of Thelma’s room and Thelma opens the door. She is impactada as Gaspar keeps saying “Yes, my munequita!” She tries to pull away from as he tells her “Remember, the cave of the devil?” Luba shows up and calms him down and apologizes to Thelma. She explains that he got hit in the head, he’s really a nice guy. Thelma is calmed, but then proceeds to faint.
Adela is giving Soledad tea, I guess the night conversation never happened. They discuss how Soledad is scared and how else should she feel? She says she’ll escape when Alina is free and married.
Luba yells at Gaspar, saying it’s his fault that Thelma passed out. He keeps trying to touch Thelma but Luba slaps him and makes him stop. She has him put her in her bed, but when he picks her up he just stares at her face.
Adela and Soledad talk about absolutely nothing new.
Don Loco still hasn’t left the room where he was talking to Max. He looks around for a blunt instrument apparently, trying and discarding a couple club-like objects. Finally he finds a knife in a tool box and holds it up, saying “You are going to pay dearly, Soledad.” He leaves the room.
Luba says what are you doing? Put her in her bed! Thelma wakes up and freaks out, he drops her on her bed. She begs them to leave. Luba tells Gaspar to get his stuff, “Let’s go.” After they leave, Thelma says to herself, “The father and grandmother of the baby I’m expecting – it isn’t possible!” Oh but it is, you drunken slut.
Alina is crying magnificently. She is making up for lost time with the crying. She is snuffling about Emiliooo and she loves him and wants to marry him, all that.
Some guy comes across Donkey, he talks to the dog like it’s a person. He tells the dog to rest. Donkey is waiting patiently for Flor.
A couple of Emiliooo’s guys are kicking back on the back patio of the house, Don Loco, with the knife extended out in front of him to make sure we remember he is up to no good, tries to sneak past them. He starts testing doors to see if they are unlocked. Finally door number four is open, these are horse stalls, there is a horse in there. One guy hears a noise and goes to investigate. Oh, it’s Orlando! He and Don Loco get into a fight. Another guy comes up and hits Don Loco in the back of the head, knocking him out. He then has to hold Orlando back from killing the Don. They take him back inside and tie him up. Max and the other soldiers are in the room now. One guy says that there is no sign of the door being forced open, someone must have helped him escape! They all look at Max, who denies everything. Max then says it must have been Santos! He is trying to get married, he would need money, Don Loco must have paid Santos to help him escape. The dumbass soldiers immediately believe everything he tells them.
Luba, Gaspar, and Flor make it back to the cave. Flor says her destiny must be to stay in the cave forever. Luba gives her a hard time about all the dumb stuff she did. She tries to defend her decision to leave Emilioooo to Thelma. Flor says she has her reasons, Luba correctly points out that she (Flor) is the only one who actually understands these reasons. Flor claims to be protecting Thelma’s privacy, Luba starts trying to get the info out of her.
Thelma tells Singing Aunt about Gaspar and Luba. Singing Aunt tells Thelma she should tell everything to Orlando (why?) but Thelma says no way. She says in a couple hours she’ll be Mrs. Valtierra. All thanks to Flor.
Marianita and the singing boy are having lunch, she says her sandwich is made with pate, what does he have? He tells her to quit making stuff up. She is playing a game, she wants him to play along. These poor kids, Marianita at least is not a good actress, she reads her lines off of a card and doesn’t put the emphasis in the right place, you can tell she’s reading. Some girls come up and want to play with the boy. He invites Marianita to play too, the other girls say no, because she doesn’t have hair, she’s strange. The boy says he’s bald too, so he can’t play either, peace out bitches. He takes Marianita’s hand and they leave. This must be in case any kids are watching, to show to be true to your friends.
Mariana gets news from the doctor that Marianita isn’t getting any better, he wants her to see a specialist. Is this storyline just to comply with the law that all novelas/soap operas must have at least one medical/hospital storyline? The specialist comes into the office and offers his services to Mariana. The music tries to imply something else, like Mariana and the doctor are going to get together? I may have misinterpreted that.
Back in central America – Jose won’t eat. He feels sick to his stomach when he thinks of his family. Felicia tries to take care of him, he pushes him away. She stomps out. Arcadio gives him a hard time, doesn’t he see that Felicia likes him? He could be friendly with her and eventually use her to escape. Jose says no way Jose (ha), the only woman for him is Mariana.
Flor talks to Emilioooo, who is mysteriously alone in his room all the time. Doesn’t anyone need to watch him? Angel gets sexy nurse for his cough but dying Emiliooo just lays there alone? Anyway Alina begs forgiveness, she had to do whatever, if he dies she’ll die too. She kisses him on the forehead. She begs him to live. “I love you and I’ll never forget you.” Yes, that’s because you live in a cave in his back yard. She stands up and makes a dramatic, tearful exit from the room. Emiliooo mumbles that he will fight to live, for her.
We get a good teaser for Monday’s show, showing Emiliooo ruining his second wedding of the week.
I have a couple of vocabulary words today -
Meson – nightclub, something like that. My dictionary says ‘inn’ but I think here it is used to mean more like a club with rooms to stay over. I guess that is an inn, technically.
Morral – game bag or knapsack. Luba, when leaving Thelma’s room, tells Gaspar to get her morall, I guess it is the bag full of her herbs and stuff. I think she has a little of the wacky weed in there too, she sure enjoys her smoke back in the cave.
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: Sunday, February 11, 2007 at 6:38:00 PM EST 
