Saturday, March 31, 2007
Destilando Amor3/29/07: Picture Perfect
~~This recap is late, but sometimes there are mix-ups. At least the recap is done now for anybody who wants to read it below. Patience is a virtue, so thanks for having shown us you are virtuous!! ~~
Clara tells Gavi she told her so: nothing happens like it does in the novelas. Rich Rod may have promised her the Virgencita's pearls for all it matters. There's no way he's gonna come back for her, so better just forget him.
Everyone of the family at the hacienda says their good-byes to Doña Pilar and leaves for Europe. Life returns to normal for a while. Over the next few weeks Gavi and Rod have non-stop adolescent daydreams about each other.
One day a month or so later, Rod is listening to Gavi's recording when errant Aarón arrives with his current English chippie, Fergie. (I have to wonder about the choice of names they gave this hooker!) The brut immediately insult's Rod's choice of music and strides over to the tapeplayer like king cock (as in rooster), rudely pulls it out and pitches it against the wall. Rod quickly retrieves it and tells him to leave his mitts off his stuff. Aarón tells him to play it when he's not around, then .
A couple minutes after, reticent Rod cools down and remembers to tell his jerkwad cousin that Minnie's been calling for him. So Aarón gripes and then tells him to take care of Fergie (or rather, to let her take of him) while he calls Minerva back in Rod's bedroom. When Rod tells him to back off and that he wants nothing more to do with hookers 'cause he's been there and done that, Aarón insults his manhood and suggests he get used to being celibate. Rod tells him that it's his problem, to go to Hell and then leaves the room.
Aarón then gets comfie on the couch with Fergie and calls his "beloved" while friendly Fergie massages his chest for him. He complains to her about his returning being too far off as well as the wedding for her to get so involved in all these preparations. She explains how these things have to be done way in advance. (Uh, ya-aah!) Aarón quickly changes the subject to ask her if she's taken the fertility tests. Minnie blows her stack asking him if he wants a baby-maker or a wife. (What do you expect, dear Minnie, when making deals with the devil?) He tells her, "Both, of course."
The day before finally leaving for their next job of the season, Gavi returns to the tree in the agave field where she and Rod made love and thinks about him returning to her as he promised. Rod, on the other side of the ocean, is rolling around in bed having [steamy-passion] dreams about Gavi.
The next day Clara takes a bouquet of flowers to Don Amador's grave and says good-bye. She asks him to set aside a place next to his in heaven for her and leaves. Roman chats with her after and assures her that nobody will touch her hut; he tells her Don Amador told him to make especially sure to have work there at the hacienda for her and Gavi every year. The only thing he didn't have for her this time was the extra cash he used to give her, but Clara tells him not to sweat it. They'll be fine.
Rod meets Dani at Heathrow airport during her layover to New York City where her tryouts/rehearsals are being held. They talk about Aarón's "proving his skills as Don Juan" and what poor Minnie has waiting ahead for herself by marrying him. Rod tells her about his deep love for Gavi and how he plans to marry her even though the family might scream to high heaven about it all. Dani is happy he's found the love of his life and says there won't be a problem with their parents, tho' Grannie Pilar will definitely read the riot act. They are both happy he's found out he's not "wired wrong". He tells her it was simply a matter of being deeply in love.
Gavi feels nauseous at seeing her mom eat Ofelia's tacos. (Ruh-roh!) Mama Clarita's antennae go straight up and she asks Gavi if she and Rodrigo fooled around. Gavi admits they did, but that he's promised to come back and marry her next year. Clara tells her she was surprisingly foolish after saying for years she'd only give herself to the man most deserving. (I guess that meant the man she marries.) Now Gavi betrays her and goes and gives herself to a man she's known for only a few days! To make things worse, it was to a Montalvo.
Clara sniffs that all men are the same. "This is what they tell dummies like you to get them to fall for them." So Gavi gets angry and asks her mother, "Like my father? A man whose name I don't even know? Who was he, Ma?" Clara refuses to answer and simply shakes her head. She tells her she was mother and father to her and that should be enough. Gavi apologizes afterwards.
They decide to go to the community free clinic there in P/pueblo to see if she's really pregnant. She is. Gavi is excited and feels that Rod will want to know he's going to have a child and so they return to the hacienda to ask Roman for either his address or a phone number as Young Mr. Rodrigo had asked her to write him. Since Roman hasn't got it he calls up to the hacienda but only gets the house maid. Doña Pilar is at the beach for a few days. Roman then calls his wife, Ofelia, for help. She cannot and says this is a bit strange for them to ask. Roman lets them stay in the hut for the night while they decide their next step.
That night Roman tells his wife well, they were pretty close while Young Mr. Rod was visiting. Ofelia says that could only mean bad news for Gavi.
Mini and Isadora get together for drinks. Issie asks her if she doesn't feel a bit uncomfortable marrying Aarón knowing that they're doing it hoping she gets pregnant only in order to insure he wins his granddad's fortune? Minnie is happy to do it 'cause she's "in luhhhv" and figures it's a fair price to pay to get the man she wants. Issie's eyebrow goes up. (Hmmmm.)
Pilar and Rod's parents think Minerva has gone off the deep end over this wedding and cannot believe how Aarón had her get fertility tests first. (Hey, with a will like that, it sure makes sense to me!) They begin to discuss Rod maybe making Felipe a granddaddy first instead. "With all those women in that big city," Doña PIlar asks, "why doesn't he find somebody to marry?" His mom says he's a country sort of guy, and his daddy says if he does decide to settle down there at the hacienda it will be most likely with someone who loves the country life as much as he does. Doña Pilar asks who in the world that young woman might be? (Uh, dunno....but we cut to a scene of Gavi and Clara walking through P/pueblo towards the hotel.)
Clara and Gavi go looking for James to get Rod's address but they find out too late that he's left and didn't leave any forwarding address. That shifty photographer, Rolando, finds the two of them discussing their problems; now he has his angle. So he tells Gavi that if she lets him take pictures of her she can go to Paris (capital of France) to become a wealthy fashion model. Gaviota, our landlocked seagull, decides this may be her way of getting to Europe and crossing over the ocean eventually to London, "capital of England", to find Rod and to tell him personally about their child.
Rod and Gavi continue to daydream about each other. (Way too many of these adolescent daydreams for my taste. FF>> puhleeeese!!)
Back at their little hut Gavi explains to her mother her plan and shows her the map and how close the cities are to each other. Once she's in Paris, "capital of France", she'll find a way to get to London, "capital of England", to the university there and she'll look for Rodrigo. If she doesn't find him after a couple of months then she'll turn around and come back home. At least, she says, she will have a clean conscience for having tried to look for him. This seems to calm Clara enough to agree to the plan.
Sanjuana looks for Hilario and tells him she's broken off with Gelacio and asks him to take her to the stockade area for a good time.
Gavi and Clara arrive at Rolando's to take her photos. Agripina, the neighborhood gossip, notices as they go in and shakes her head like she's seen this all before. Inside, Rolando tells Gavi that she has to go into the studio by herself so Clara sits impatiently in the office to wait for her.
Roland asks Gavi to think about the man she loves while posing, and when Gave gets carried away imagining their being together, he snaps some really seductive pictures.
Clara tells Gavi she told her so: nothing happens like it does in the novelas. Rich Rod may have promised her the Virgencita's pearls for all it matters. There's no way he's gonna come back for her, so better just forget him.
Everyone of the family at the hacienda says their good-byes to Doña Pilar and leaves for Europe. Life returns to normal for a while. Over the next few weeks Gavi and Rod have non-stop adolescent daydreams about each other.
One day a month or so later, Rod is listening to Gavi's recording when errant Aarón arrives with his current English chippie, Fergie. (I have to wonder about the choice of names they gave this hooker!) The brut immediately insult's Rod's choice of music and strides over to the tapeplayer like king cock (as in rooster), rudely pulls it out and pitches it against the wall. Rod quickly retrieves it and tells him to leave his mitts off his stuff. Aarón tells him to play it when he's not around, then .
A couple minutes after, reticent Rod cools down and remembers to tell his jerkwad cousin that Minnie's been calling for him. So Aarón gripes and then tells him to take care of Fergie (or rather, to let her take of him) while he calls Minerva back in Rod's bedroom. When Rod tells him to back off and that he wants nothing more to do with hookers 'cause he's been there and done that, Aarón insults his manhood and suggests he get used to being celibate. Rod tells him that it's his problem, to go to Hell and then leaves the room.
Aarón then gets comfie on the couch with Fergie and calls his "beloved" while friendly Fergie massages his chest for him. He complains to her about his returning being too far off as well as the wedding for her to get so involved in all these preparations. She explains how these things have to be done way in advance. (Uh, ya-aah!) Aarón quickly changes the subject to ask her if she's taken the fertility tests. Minnie blows her stack asking him if he wants a baby-maker or a wife. (What do you expect, dear Minnie, when making deals with the devil?) He tells her, "Both, of course."
The day before finally leaving for their next job of the season, Gavi returns to the tree in the agave field where she and Rod made love and thinks about him returning to her as he promised. Rod, on the other side of the ocean, is rolling around in bed having [steamy-passion] dreams about Gavi.
The next day Clara takes a bouquet of flowers to Don Amador's grave and says good-bye. She asks him to set aside a place next to his in heaven for her and leaves. Roman chats with her after and assures her that nobody will touch her hut; he tells her Don Amador told him to make especially sure to have work there at the hacienda for her and Gavi every year. The only thing he didn't have for her this time was the extra cash he used to give her, but Clara tells him not to sweat it. They'll be fine.
Rod meets Dani at Heathrow airport during her layover to New York City where her tryouts/rehearsals are being held. They talk about Aarón's "proving his skills as Don Juan" and what poor Minnie has waiting ahead for herself by marrying him. Rod tells her about his deep love for Gavi and how he plans to marry her even though the family might scream to high heaven about it all. Dani is happy he's found the love of his life and says there won't be a problem with their parents, tho' Grannie Pilar will definitely read the riot act. They are both happy he's found out he's not "wired wrong". He tells her it was simply a matter of being deeply in love.
Gavi feels nauseous at seeing her mom eat Ofelia's tacos. (Ruh-roh!) Mama Clarita's antennae go straight up and she asks Gavi if she and Rodrigo fooled around. Gavi admits they did, but that he's promised to come back and marry her next year. Clara tells her she was surprisingly foolish after saying for years she'd only give herself to the man most deserving. (I guess that meant the man she marries.) Now Gavi betrays her and goes and gives herself to a man she's known for only a few days! To make things worse, it was to a Montalvo.
Clara sniffs that all men are the same. "This is what they tell dummies like you to get them to fall for them." So Gavi gets angry and asks her mother, "Like my father? A man whose name I don't even know? Who was he, Ma?" Clara refuses to answer and simply shakes her head. She tells her she was mother and father to her and that should be enough. Gavi apologizes afterwards.
They decide to go to the community free clinic there in P/pueblo to see if she's really pregnant. She is. Gavi is excited and feels that Rod will want to know he's going to have a child and so they return to the hacienda to ask Roman for either his address or a phone number as Young Mr. Rodrigo had asked her to write him. Since Roman hasn't got it he calls up to the hacienda but only gets the house maid. Doña Pilar is at the beach for a few days. Roman then calls his wife, Ofelia, for help. She cannot and says this is a bit strange for them to ask. Roman lets them stay in the hut for the night while they decide their next step.
That night Roman tells his wife well, they were pretty close while Young Mr. Rod was visiting. Ofelia says that could only mean bad news for Gavi.
Mini and Isadora get together for drinks. Issie asks her if she doesn't feel a bit uncomfortable marrying Aarón knowing that they're doing it hoping she gets pregnant only in order to insure he wins his granddad's fortune? Minnie is happy to do it 'cause she's "in luhhhv" and figures it's a fair price to pay to get the man she wants. Issie's eyebrow goes up. (Hmmmm.)
Pilar and Rod's parents think Minerva has gone off the deep end over this wedding and cannot believe how Aarón had her get fertility tests first. (Hey, with a will like that, it sure makes sense to me!) They begin to discuss Rod maybe making Felipe a granddaddy first instead. "With all those women in that big city," Doña PIlar asks, "why doesn't he find somebody to marry?" His mom says he's a country sort of guy, and his daddy says if he does decide to settle down there at the hacienda it will be most likely with someone who loves the country life as much as he does. Doña Pilar asks who in the world that young woman might be? (Uh, dunno....but we cut to a scene of Gavi and Clara walking through P/pueblo towards the hotel.)
Clara and Gavi go looking for James to get Rod's address but they find out too late that he's left and didn't leave any forwarding address. That shifty photographer, Rolando, finds the two of them discussing their problems; now he has his angle. So he tells Gavi that if she lets him take pictures of her she can go to Paris (capital of France) to become a wealthy fashion model. Gaviota, our landlocked seagull, decides this may be her way of getting to Europe and crossing over the ocean eventually to London, "capital of England", to find Rod and to tell him personally about their child.
Rod and Gavi continue to daydream about each other. (Way too many of these adolescent daydreams for my taste. FF>> puhleeeese!!)
Back at their little hut Gavi explains to her mother her plan and shows her the map and how close the cities are to each other. Once she's in Paris, "capital of France", she'll find a way to get to London, "capital of England", to the university there and she'll look for Rodrigo. If she doesn't find him after a couple of months then she'll turn around and come back home. At least, she says, she will have a clean conscience for having tried to look for him. This seems to calm Clara enough to agree to the plan.
Sanjuana looks for Hilario and tells him she's broken off with Gelacio and asks him to take her to the stockade area for a good time.
Gavi and Clara arrive at Rolando's to take her photos. Agripina, the neighborhood gossip, notices as they go in and shakes her head like she's seen this all before. Inside, Rolando tells Gavi that she has to go into the studio by herself so Clara sits impatiently in the office to wait for her.
Roland asks Gavi to think about the man she loves while posing, and when Gave gets carried away imagining their being together, he snaps some really seductive pictures.
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Thank you for the recap!!I only have seen Thursday's so it worked out for me. I taped Friday's but haven't been able to see it and won't get to till tomorrow. Sometimes we all get too busy!!
I agree that there was too much daydreaming going on and I fast forwarded it too!! But I love Rod's smile more every time I see it! Becky T.
I agree that there was too much daydreaming going on and I fast forwarded it too!! But I love Rod's smile more every time I see it! Becky T.
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: Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 10:12:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 10:12:00 PM EDT
I think the plentiful daydreams are the writers' attempt to solve this problem: we want to see the main couple together and they, in actual fact, are not together. So they give us flashbacks and daydreams instead so we can see some happy smooching. I don't mind - and it makes recapping easier.
Thanks so much for the recap..
We are seeing these, ere we forget the intense, life altering love our two crazy now no longer middle age virgens are feeling. Poor Rod, he so reminds me of a sixteen year old in love. This show is great & Aaron makes an awesome Pimp..poor Minnnnnerrrva...but I do love in the opening credits when she rips that cigar outta Aarons mouth.
We are seeing these, ere we forget the intense, life altering love our two crazy now no longer middle age virgens are feeling. Poor Rod, he so reminds me of a sixteen year old in love. This show is great & Aaron makes an awesome Pimp..poor Minnnnnerrrva...but I do love in the opening credits when she rips that cigar outta Aarons mouth.
Thanks for the recap. Though the daydreaming may bother some of you all, I love that stuff. And it give us "the couple" during their short happy time together.
Beckster, I chuckle during that opening credit with Minnie and Aaron as well. I keep thinking he'll Sleazar and in the next scene he'll slap her.
Karen
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Beckster, I chuckle during that opening credit with Minnie and Aaron as well. I keep thinking he'll Sleazar and in the next scene he'll slap her.
Karen
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: Monday, April 2, 2007 at 12:14:00 AM EDT
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