Friday, March 09, 2007

Acorralada - #40 3-9-07 - Friday- Has Diana Turned to the Dark Side???

"I hope you won't make my brother suffer. Don't you dare Diana, because if you do, I swear I'll kill you."

We begin today's episode with these menacing words from our favorite stolen jewelry ring leader, Pancholon. Diana promises to take good care of Diego and reassures Lala.

Then the scene changes to an irate Octavia who is stolling along a pier with her less-intimidating sister Yolanda. They are discussing their most recent encounter with Fedora/Gaviota. Octavia reprimands Yolanda for being "una estupida" in reference to her immense fear of F/G. Yolanda fears F/G's revenge and wonders what she has in store for Max and Larry for having humiliated Diana and Gabby (aka Little Doormat). To which Octavia responds that Gaviota thinks of Gaby and Diana as her daughters that she lost long ago. Y then asks Octavia what she did with Gaviota's daughters, Octavia sent them to live with a "crazy old lady". She even goes as far as to hypothesize they may have died. Wishful thinking my dear Octavia, wishful thinking. If only she knew how close those two girls are.

Sad music infiltrates the background as we switch to a pensive Gaviota, wondering where and to whom Octavia gave her daughters away to. She revels in the possibility that Diana and Gaby might be hers, but she also comtemplates the possibility she may never reunite with her precious daughters.

Now we're in Diego's room where Diana walks in. He's quite optimistic he'll walk one day and is looking forward to his future with Diana and "his" baby. Diana remarks she'd prefer to have a boy, because in her opinion women suffer too much in life, and she tells Diego she even has a name picked out: Maximilliano. To this fact Diego reacts quiite poorly and spirals into a hissy fit. "Why must it be his name?! Can't we name him Diego?" Quite narcissistic if you ask me.
She then launches into a diatribe about how naming her son Max, he will suffer doubts about his paternity and her revenge will be underway.

Diana then runs out to the yard, Diego screaming after her, and D explains her plans to a curious Lala. Lala goes to console her son and he threatens that his love for Diana may easily turn into hatred toward her and her child.

A woman is lifting what can't be heavier than 5 pound weights from a wheelchair. Who may she be? If you guessed "The Real Marfil," you guessed right. She contemplates the moment she can expose her evil sister Deborah and the moment she recuperates her Max. Then her assitant lady walks in the door and has good news, they have tickets to Houston.

Next were in the Irazabal living room where Fake Marfil complains to Octavia about how Max would not have sex with her. Bruna the servant, chimes in she always advised Octavia to "correr" (kick out) Diana. (Since when does the hired help in novelas speak without permission?)
Oct. FM and Bruna complain about how horrible Diana and Gaby are, but Yolanda comes to their defense saying "their not all that bad." FM threatens Yolanda if she tells Max Diana is pregnant.

Pancholon snuck into Paola's house like Spiderman and launches into make-out mode. Paola remarks how Octave wants her to marry that dude Rene. Pancho says her cannot stop thinking about Diana, "She's a bad woman" he says. Paola says she does not seem so bad. Pancho declares his loyalty to Paola, claiming he has no memory of a "Caramelo"

In F/G's dressing room Caramelo discusses Diana's situation. She feels bad for her and is happy her Pancholon would "never cheat on her" and that he has "eyes only for her." Poor, poor naive Caramelito.

In Diego's room Diana watches him and trys to get him to eat. He expresses his great fear of losing her, and she asks him to have faith in her. She promises not to hurt him.

Back at Real Marfil's place Bruna is shocked that RM is gone. Bruna is visibly worried.

Back at Diana's place Fake Marfil arrives to cause trouble. She warns Diana to stay away from Max. FM wants to have a little vis-a-vis with Diego to warn him of Diana's questionable nature.
Diana defiantly yanks her across the room and tells her "Vete!" As FM moves to find Diego's "recamara" the new defiant Diana grabs a sharp pair of scissors and jabs them, stopping only inches from FM's neck. Defiant Diana is successful in repeling FM. Hooray!

Cut scene to good-for-nothing playboy Larry scantily clad laying next to the pool at the mansion. I just wonder why he cannot get a real job... He is on the phone. Apparently his depression is over and he's free to film more commercials. Oh joy >.> The world was just in desperate need of his grandiose acting skills!!! Not. Lala brings Sylvita, the nutcase that likes dressing up in wigs to the pool ,where she drools over Larry. And begs him to let her suntan with him.

Next we see Diana talking on the phone with Max, where she quite unconvincingly proclaim she loves Diego more than she ever loved Max. Cut to commercial break.

Now were in FM's room where she is hysteric after her encounter with Diana, only to find out Real Marfil has escaped.

Next more of Sylvita's comedic antics. She feared the sharks and pirahnas that lurk in the Irazabal pool.

Max proclaims his definitive goodbye to Diana and FM is still hysteric about RM's escape to Houston. And she tell Bruna she'll kill RM before she exposes her as a fake.

Sylvita and her cousin are in their apartment and she is sad her love-job with Estrella Cosmica didn't work.

FM enters Max's room and she takes advantage of him to rip his shirt open and ask "Do you love me?" only to realize he was asleep all along.

Now we see a shot saying "Meses Despues" (Months later) It seems we're near the birth of Diana and Max's baby.

Diana's belly his huge and her grandma warns her against overexerting herself. Diana admits to grandma that the months have not dulled her feelings of love for Max.

Octavia meets with Dr. Reynosa and tells him she wants to avoid him ridiculing himself by defending Fedora Garces, the grand ex-convict. Then the scene cuts to Diana having a heartfelt chat with granny. Diana tells granny she loves Max just as much as she did the very first day.
Granny had a feeling she did. Diana restates her conviction to staying beside her stalkerish husband Diego. Diana contemplates that Max may have forgetten her and fallen in love with Marfil again.

Yolanda and Max watch over an ailing granny (Max's granny) and Y leaves for help.
Max comforts his granny and she moans "Dianita....el bebe" but Max does not seem to pay her babbling any mind. Dr. Reynosa resolves to clear Gaviota's name and promises to return to F/G her belongings, those being the Irazabal mansion, their fortune, and Fedora's perfume company.
Dr. Evil groans at the idea of having to treat Dona Santa, as he had plans to lift some iron at a gym.

The "Good" doctor arrives at the mansion. FM tells Bruna she'd rather go shopping than to watch "the antique" keel over. Paola, Larry, Max and Yolanda watch over Santa. Deborah aka Fake Marfil tells the lowly chauffer (sp?) to move the doctor's car out of the driveway. Andres recognizes FM as Deborah and the credits roll.


This is my first recap. I hope I did a good job and I can only hope to improve my recap-writing skills in the future.

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Comments:
Awright, George, congrats on your first, you did a great job! Hope it was fun. I haven't see y'all's show ever (just can't fit any more tv in my schedule) but I love that you're making it happen. Thanks.
 

Thanks for the feedback. I really enjoyed writing this recap and hope to do many more.
 

Congrats on your first recap, George.

I want to know what these people are living on, because after "meses despues," no tienen jobos. I suppose that Granny M and Lala are supporting the families with their sewing and maiding.

At the end, note that Granny DS was moaning for Diana . . . probably another meeting looms.
 

I also laughed when we see pretentious Doc Evil get out of the back of that teeny little car just so he can say he has a chauffeur driving him around.
 

Great job George! Thanks for the recap! =)
 

Thanks for ther recap George. I like the way
some novelas skip months ahead (especially
when a baby is due (like mondo de fieres) or
sometimes they take 5 episodes for one day
(LFMB). I keep wondering about fake Marfil's
speech patterns. Is it a different dialect than the
others? Her voice is so grating and shrill and
it sounds different. Just wondering.
Does anyone know how Dr. Evil's chauffeur
knows Deborah? Thanks
 

Dr. Evil's chauffeur, Andres, was married to Deborah, believe it or not. They used to engage in various criminal pursuits together, including carjacking. She was used as the bait. I saw this in a very early episode before we began recapping. It's not clear how they broke up and how she became Faux Marfil. It's certainly not clear to any of us how all of the people around either twin are unaware that there are twins.
 

Thanks Ninak
I'll be able to follow this much better.
 

Congratulations on your first recap George, you did a great job!

I believe Debora became the Faux Marfil after Bruno called her. Bruno was afraid Max was going to divorce the comatose Real Marfil, so FM flew in from New York and RM was moved out to Isabel's house under the cloak of night. FM then "suddenly" regained consciousness and the real fun began!

I don't know why Andres and Debora broke up, but I do know Debora ran out on Andres and he's been trying to find her ever since. This all happened before we started recapping.
 

Thanks for that additional info, Karen. I never knew the logistics of that move. Are we supposed to understand that Bruno was around those girls throughout their growing-up years?
 

As for Faux Marfil's voice: it is awful, isn't it.
Appropriately, here is something from the latest weekly review of the show in TVNotas, which is a goldmine of information:

"Maritza Rodriguez, as Marfil/Deborah, could not be worse. This actress has not had much success in her roles (I think they are referring to her general history). She lacks technique and training, and what's more, she has not been given good direction. How could they have given her two roles?"
 

Further quoting from that review:

"It looks like Octavia has a moment of weakness and she laments that God is punishing her for what she did to Gaviota, but seconds later she challenges the same God and declares herself invincible in an act of total incongruity. Larry decides to marry Gaby with all good intentions but then he permits that they humiliate the girl and lets her sleep in the servants' quarters."

After recounting a few more illogical moments that we have all duly noted, the reviewer opines, "Incredibly, Marfil never told her attractive husband that she has a twin sister, and the Irazabal family, so touchy about their lineage, never investigated the past of the wife of the heir." Summary: "This story is composed of incongruities without sense."
 

Thanks for the info appearing in TVNotas. Did you find the review online or in a magazine? I'd like to check it out. . .
 

I picked this magazine up at a newsstand, and I now have a subscription. I also have a subscription to Mira. Yes, it may be silly, but that's how you find these gems. In TVNotas, they have these weekly reviews of all the shows.

BTW, I have tried to find on-line links to them, but they don't seem to do any web publishing.
 

Another 'incongruity without sense' - just how long will it take KiKi to get back from Mexico? He was on his way back over 8 months ago. I was eager for him to return and wreak havoc with Pilar's schemes. I'm also counting on Andres to do the same for Debora - maybe this time for sure? Or will she have some plausible story for being at the mansion? Andres, after all, is not the brightest bulb on the block.

Don't think I've ever watched a novela with so many UMBELIEVABLE things.

On another subject: It's my understanding that Bruna essentially raised the Marfil twins but is in reality their mother.
 

It seems that Acorralada has won the equivalent of the Razzie Award from the powers that be at TVNotas.

We have noted that Bruno must be the mother of the twins, although we have not seen anything explicit. She just seems to let hints drop every so often. We are waiting for the other shoe to drop on who the father is. It's a mystery with as many possibilities as the daughter of Anna Nicole Smith.
 

What I don't understand is how Bruna ,or Bruta as I like to call her, didn't realize that the power and money driven Deborah wouldn't want to give all that up once her estranged sister woke up.What did Bruta expect???
 

Excellent recap, George. Muchísimas gracias!
I'm pretty sure Bruna is the mother of Marfils Faux and Real - when Faux Marfil slapped her in the face a couple weeks ago, Bruna put her hands over her womb.
 

I forgot to add that Maritza Rodríguez is from Bogotá, Colombia, but I suspect that her speech pattterns are a result of bad acting rather than geography.
 

Excellent recap George!! I really wish I had time to watch this show because you Acorralada recappers are a scream. Sadly there are not enough hours in the day. However I do enjoy your recaps. And I admit to the occasional peek at lounging Larry if Tivo remembers to record the show.

Ha ha! Nina that's hilarious about Acorralada winning the Razzie equivalent. In my opinion the more ridiculous the telenovela the more fun it is to mock...er, I mean recap.

Keep up the good work y'all!!
 

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