Saturday, April 07, 2007
Destilando Amor Friday 04/06/07: A Day Late and a Dollar Short, Or, If It Weren't for Bad Luck She'd Have No Luck at All
At the patron's blowout wedding reception, Hilario and Sanjuana party hearty. She tells him that she's surprised by the patron, Mr. Rodrigo. "This is his big day. He should be off whispering sweet things in Isadora's ear about now. Instead, he's drinking with his workers and Mr. James." Hilario chalks it off to her just thinking of sex all the time, but he's down with that.
Ofelia gossips to Roman about the new house-girl, Sanjuana, and Hilario getting suspiciously friendly with one another during the party. She doesn't like her much but Papa Roman says, "Ph-h-ht! Stop playing mother hen. It's way time he had a serious girlfriend!" Then, Ofelia mentions how this wedding thing took them all by surprise. "I had come to think Mr. Rod was in love with Gaviota!" Roman shushes her up and warns her, "For whatever reason, Mr. Rod doesn't want anybody mentioning her name ever around here, much less in front of the new missus. Don't go opening your mouth, ok?" He wonders where Clara is this year.
Clarita is in the rundown hospital in P/pueblo and still delirious from Typhoid. She murmurs Gaviota's name over and over.
Gavi is traveling on the bus back to P/pueblo. She thinks to herself, "Sorry, Ma. I would have gotten back much sooner, but things got complicated." She again remembers (for those of us who weren't fortunate to be here from the beginning) in between catnapping, how she and Rod promised each other that they would wait to get married till he returned for her on the first day of spring. She is certain he's waiting for her with the same hopes that she has. She imagines him running to her and then taking her in front of a smiling priest who is ready to marry them. It is very late and into the wee hours of the next morning, but she thinks to herself "Rodrigo, I am on the way."
At the same time, James is helping Rod get up to his bedroom but Rod keeps goofing around in the hallway, trying for a way to avoid the inevitable. His new wife, Isadora, the bronzed blonde babe with the fabulous plastic parts has gotten into her black silky nothing to wait for him, still figuring she's gonna win him with her wiles. Then those conditions of his will supposedly go up in the smoke of his passion....or some such.
James pushes Rod in the room and scolds him about doing his husbandly duty. Fortunately, by the time Rod, sloshing from rotgut, slinks into the room The Siliconed One has fallen fast asleep. Rod trips over the coffee table, drunk as the skunk he's become, and accidentally wakes her. (Rats!!) He lays down flat on the floor 'cause everything else is spinning out of control around him. (Boy, I can really relate here. College days and upchuck-buckets by the bed or, wherever we managed to crash-land.....)
Isa manages to take Rod's shoes off. He gripes a bit, but he's so wasted we can forgive him. She tries next to get the big palooka up and into the bed, but he resists and then passes out at her feet. (Is she supposed to be a sympathetic character at this point or not? Dunno. If it weren't such a pitiful situation for this lovesick woman on her wedding night I might be choking down a giggle or two at James and Rodrigo's drunken antics.... BUT we cannot forget how she told her momma that her new hubby's tuxedo pockets were deep and Daddy should attach himself to those matrimonial coat-tails. 'Nuff said for me! Rewind and snicker!!)
Gavi finally arrives at the hacienda without anyone recognizing or seeing her. She walks through the garden by the pool which is still full of dirty glasses and liquor bottles. She thinks to herself there must have been one heck of a blowout the night before. She runs into Ofelia then on her way back to their little hut. She is surprised to see her back. "Why aren't you running around all through Europe?" After the small talk, Ofelia promises to go for Roman. "Stay close by."
Roman tells her how surprised they all are to see her around that way again. When she asks about the party from the night before, he tells her that Young Mr. Rodrigo got married the day before. She is muy impactada, absolutely speechless. "What? Why?" "--Everything took us by surprise. We just found out a few days ago he was getting married. Some city gal."
Roman continues (thanks be to the novela gods) with the juicy details of his story, "He was going around here in such an agitated state. How do you imagine us asking him what happened between the two of you? --Well, after his parents died he did return to wait for you. He was extremely happy, but then suddenly he changed. He seemed like some wounded wild animal. He even forbid us to mention your name."
Roman then tells Gavi that her mother still hasn't arrived for the harvest yet this season. "We thought she'd followed you." After Gavi gets over the initial shock she tells Roman she needs to find her mother right away. "The problem is I don't have any money." Roman offers her cash as an advance. Gavi lets it all fly away and says, "Wonderful luck I have. Now I'm going to be working for Rodrigo Montalvo!"
Gavi has Roman swear he will not tell Rod that she's returned to the hacienda. Isa goes downstairs to the kitchen to make Rod a gourmet breakfast once he wakes up, but she stops unseen in the doorway for a couple minutes to listen to the gossip between Ofelia and Sanjuana.
Saucy Sandy wonders if the new patron always belts them away like that. She and Ofelia then talk about "La Gaviota" and her mother's expected arrival and how there are very few women that help with the jima because it's difficult work and requires lots of strength. Sandy asks if they sleep with the field hands. Ofelia says not at all, they're decent. Though they are migrants, the former patron himself gave them their own hut at the hacienda.
Isa's antennae go up and she seems to begin to have an idea these two jimadoras might have something to do with her problem husband. Isa makes it clear to the two that from now on she herself will be the only one waiting on her husband.
Isa patiently suggests she help Rod get his bath but he rudely tells her no, that he's a grown man and his mother taught him how to bathe himself, thank you very much and then shuts the bathroom door on her. (Bronzed Bleach-Blonde Barbie is slowly realizing she has probably fallen in "luhhhhv" with the only straight guy in the universe who isn't interested in her charms in the least, silicon or otherwise.)
A bit later, Rod and Roman are discussing business needs for the period he is to be away on his honeymoon. (My hubby says the more he watches Rodrigo in action, the more certain he is that there is no way in hell he'd ever trust him to run a hacienda! It'd be Aaron all the way.) Roman seems antsy about something, so Rod has him 'fess up about what's eating him. (This is a relief for Roman, since it's obvious he is just dying to spill the beans.)
Roman breaks his promise to Gavi after a bit and tells Young Mr. Rodrigo that Gavi has returned to the ranch for the harvest. (Ruh-roh!) Rod is double-take impactado and once again "WTF?" is question numero uno in the muddled minds of one of our three young lovers who, always, but always, seem to be mentally one beer can short of a six-pack.
Rod and Isa are about to get into the truck to leave for the airport an hour or so later. She's anxious. He's stalling. As Rod's brain finally churns through what he's just been told, he takes Roman aside and asks how Gavi took the news. (I cannot help think this guy is really just a big dumb burly brut who bought his way into higher education at Cambridge with his Grampy's money. --Dolt! She's back at the agreed time, just like she said she would be. How did you think she was going to take the news that you'd dumped on her like this?)
Roman answers, "Very hard. I thought she was going to faint away. Now, though, what's worrying her is how to find her mother. She's really in a bind for money, too." So, Rod asks Roman to help her out with cash and make sure Hilario takes her looking for her mother. He asks him to also find out what actually went on in Europe and what she was really doing there all this time. (Hey, why didn't you think of this before and maybe take all those big bucks to hire a private detective like other rich galans usually do? I guess 'cause those guys never went through delayed puberty. So I guess we are supposed to cut you a little slack.)
Roman, answers it isn't his place and that Rod is the one who should be doing all the asking. "Help me out here, Roman!" "--I don't think she'll still be here when you get back." "--Well, talk to her, huh?" "--You need to understand that the business with the wedding hit her like a ton of bricks."
Isa is getting impatient waiting inside the truck. She gets out and sweetly offers to put their trip off a day so he can finish last minute business and be worry-free at the beach. Rod says that it's not necessary and they finally head off to the airport.
Back in the hacienda Ofelia is showing Saucy how to make up the patron's bed. "Why bother when the sheets look hardly slept in?" (Now she is my kind o' people.) Ofelia is a bit offended. "Don't get angry at me, Ofelia. I am only telling you what I see. --Hmm. Do you think he slept with Isadora? He sent her up to bed, but he stayed back drinking when normally most couples would be the first to leave in order to be alone together." "--Mind your own business" is the answer she gets.
Meanwhile, Roman goes back with a bit of food to Clara's hut and feels honor-bound to tell Gavi that Young Mr. Rod found out that she had returned. Gavi is livid 'cause she knows Roman broke his promise and told him. She asks where Rodrigo is and Roman sheepishly says he's left for his honeymoon. Oww! "Well, I may have betrayed you, but it seemed so wrong that you should be suffering over his wedding and him there, all smug and nonchalant, like nothing had happened."
"And what did he say?" (Thank you novela gods for again allowing Gavi --and us-- to get all the satisfying details so quickly.) "He wanted to know why you left and went to Europe, what you did there. He said I should give you some money." "--Well, how kind of the gentleman. Hey, I am not going to be indebted to the lord of the manor here. Just tell me when I have to start the jima again and we'll forget everything." He tells her this isn't the time to act prideful. First thing that matters is finding her mother safe and sound. "Tomorrow early Hilario will come for you."
Rod keeps worrying that when he comes back Gavi will already have left the ranch. It will be too late to talk things over. (Sorry, Burly-Bear. That train left the station 24 hours ago.) He makes a quick louie, burns rubber and races on back to the hacienda. He tells Isa she was right, there just are too many things pending at the ranch to go today.
When Rod and Isa pull up to the Big House again, he jumps out and walks over to Roman to ask if Gavi's still around. He answers yes and Rod races off. Isa finally loses patience and asks Roman what is going on. He says nothing out of the normal. Isa doesn't believe a word and stomps back into the house.
Rod runs through the agave fields and down the little path to Clara and Gavi's little hut. He peeks at her through the window. She's sitting on the floor, moping, with her head on her arms. Gavi looks up still in a state of shock and they share a long meaningful stare.
Yep. Rod is staring at her with a "Damn, what-did-I-do?" look. She stares back for a quick second and realizes that the moment they'd been waiting for has gone up in smoke as of the day before and it ain't never coming back. She slams the shutters in his face and locks the door. He bangs and yells, though, until she lets him in. "So, you went all over Europe, huh?"
Haughtily and choking back her rage she answers him. "Ha, so you see that traveling to other countries isn't just a privelege of the rich." (Double zinger. 20 points!) "Why did you go?" "It's not important." "--Of course it is important! It's important to me! Tell me the truth. At least tell me why people say ....you went there looking for me." "--That is just people inventing things." She wipes away a tear. "I left because I wanted to. I had to leave for reasons, well -- the reason I had to leave is my own business."
"Oh I guess so! I came back from London and found out. I couldn't believe it. What? Wasn't it the plan that we were to see each other again on the 21st of March?" He grabs her close. "So tell me and I want to know the truth!" "--Perhaps you should just shut up! You shouldn't go on thinking I went there looking for you..... I came back to look for my mother and as soon as I find her I am leaving! --heh! I found that London is a lot farther than I thought and you were more distant than I ever imagined!"
She pushes him away. "I am a different woman now. Fortunately, I now know how to calculate distances, real distances, and I do know now how to distinguish between love and lust." "I realized that, yeah!" he tells her. She is insulted. She pushes him out the door and slams it shut again. "--Don't you ever come back looking for me again, because the minute I find my mother we'll be vacating your shack!" (Wow, some high-toned vocabulary here for her, huh, Rod?) Through the door he screams at her, "Gaviota you have to tell me the truth! Tell me!" (Our little seagull has just scored a perfect 10! Yesss!!)
When Clara recovers consciousnes, the nurse explains how and why she's there, and assures her at the end of her shift she'll notifiy her daughter and the hacienda.
Isa is again determined to use all her skills to seduce Rodrigo. She is now in a red slinky something, with chilled champagne and strawberries.
Back at the hacienda that night, Rod and James have a little heart-to-heart about Gavi's having returned just like she said she would. "James, she's not the same as she was before. She's changed, she's full of irony and sarcasm. She is harsh. Life must have treated her badly. Because of it she is really more lovely than ever. Whatever she did to me cannot be undone. It is irreversible, just the same as my marriage to Isadora." (Yep, you have really screwed the proverbial pooch on this one, Burly-Bear.)
James says he needs to clarify things with her. (Talk about the blind leading the blind.) "No. Talking to her doen't make sense now. The best thing is to forget her. I ought to just forget her. She needs to go somewhere far away so I can forget her. She should go off somwhere I shouldn't have to ever see her again. (As always it's about him and what he feels. This reckless, feckless imbecile has just wrecked the lives of two innocent women who both love him.)
Gavi is left alone with her memories. Her mother's scolding when she learned Gavi had slept with a man she hardly knew, and a Montalvo to boot, haunts her.
Rod goes upstairs to his bedroom lost in thought. Isa surprises him with a couple of glasses of champagne. He tells her he appreciates her attention to detail, but it is totally unnecessary. They have a deal and he expects her to stick to it. She insists they're married and that all he needs is to relax. She seductively massages his shoulders. He begins to imagine Gavi dressed in red like a cabaret singer: red dress, long red fingernails, seductively puffing on a cigarette while shirtless men girate all around her. He snaps out of it and then runs out of the bedroom telling Isa that he feels like he's choking to death. She angrily slams their door shut.
The next morning Roman lets Gavi know that they've located her mother and she and Hilario leave to pick her up at the clinic.
Román meanwhile tells Rod that Clara has been found. Rod, aparrently, is in no mood to leave the hacienda with things still up in the air about Gavi. He informs Roman that he's canceling the honeymoon. He explains that he will try to clarify what went on with Gavi during this past year, and if she refuses he'll go to Clarita to find out what she is hiding.
Eventually Gavi, her mom and Hilario return from the clinic. Clara is extremely weak. She lays down on the bed in their hut. They have a sweet hug and she tells Gavi that she's missed her so badly. She must never ever leave her again. Clara's thoughts clear a bit and she remembers about the pregnancy. "Where is my grandchild? I want to get to know him." This brings tears to Gavi's eyes. (Lots of water has passed under that London bridge.) "Ma, I lost it. I lost my little baby."
Ofelia gossips to Roman about the new house-girl, Sanjuana, and Hilario getting suspiciously friendly with one another during the party. She doesn't like her much but Papa Roman says, "Ph-h-ht! Stop playing mother hen. It's way time he had a serious girlfriend!" Then, Ofelia mentions how this wedding thing took them all by surprise. "I had come to think Mr. Rod was in love with Gaviota!" Roman shushes her up and warns her, "For whatever reason, Mr. Rod doesn't want anybody mentioning her name ever around here, much less in front of the new missus. Don't go opening your mouth, ok?" He wonders where Clara is this year.
Clarita is in the rundown hospital in P/pueblo and still delirious from Typhoid. She murmurs Gaviota's name over and over.
Gavi is traveling on the bus back to P/pueblo. She thinks to herself, "Sorry, Ma. I would have gotten back much sooner, but things got complicated." She again remembers (for those of us who weren't fortunate to be here from the beginning) in between catnapping, how she and Rod promised each other that they would wait to get married till he returned for her on the first day of spring. She is certain he's waiting for her with the same hopes that she has. She imagines him running to her and then taking her in front of a smiling priest who is ready to marry them. It is very late and into the wee hours of the next morning, but she thinks to herself "Rodrigo, I am on the way."
At the same time, James is helping Rod get up to his bedroom but Rod keeps goofing around in the hallway, trying for a way to avoid the inevitable. His new wife, Isadora, the bronzed blonde babe with the fabulous plastic parts has gotten into her black silky nothing to wait for him, still figuring she's gonna win him with her wiles. Then those conditions of his will supposedly go up in the smoke of his passion....or some such.
James pushes Rod in the room and scolds him about doing his husbandly duty. Fortunately, by the time Rod, sloshing from rotgut, slinks into the room The Siliconed One has fallen fast asleep. Rod trips over the coffee table, drunk as the skunk he's become, and accidentally wakes her. (Rats!!) He lays down flat on the floor 'cause everything else is spinning out of control around him. (Boy, I can really relate here. College days and upchuck-buckets by the bed or, wherever we managed to crash-land.....)
Isa manages to take Rod's shoes off. He gripes a bit, but he's so wasted we can forgive him. She tries next to get the big palooka up and into the bed, but he resists and then passes out at her feet. (Is she supposed to be a sympathetic character at this point or not? Dunno. If it weren't such a pitiful situation for this lovesick woman on her wedding night I might be choking down a giggle or two at James and Rodrigo's drunken antics.... BUT we cannot forget how she told her momma that her new hubby's tuxedo pockets were deep and Daddy should attach himself to those matrimonial coat-tails. 'Nuff said for me! Rewind and snicker!!)
Gavi finally arrives at the hacienda without anyone recognizing or seeing her. She walks through the garden by the pool which is still full of dirty glasses and liquor bottles. She thinks to herself there must have been one heck of a blowout the night before. She runs into Ofelia then on her way back to their little hut. She is surprised to see her back. "Why aren't you running around all through Europe?" After the small talk, Ofelia promises to go for Roman. "Stay close by."
Roman tells her how surprised they all are to see her around that way again. When she asks about the party from the night before, he tells her that Young Mr. Rodrigo got married the day before. She is muy impactada, absolutely speechless. "What? Why?" "--Everything took us by surprise. We just found out a few days ago he was getting married. Some city gal."
Roman continues (thanks be to the novela gods) with the juicy details of his story, "He was going around here in such an agitated state. How do you imagine us asking him what happened between the two of you? --Well, after his parents died he did return to wait for you. He was extremely happy, but then suddenly he changed. He seemed like some wounded wild animal. He even forbid us to mention your name."
Roman then tells Gavi that her mother still hasn't arrived for the harvest yet this season. "We thought she'd followed you." After Gavi gets over the initial shock she tells Roman she needs to find her mother right away. "The problem is I don't have any money." Roman offers her cash as an advance. Gavi lets it all fly away and says, "Wonderful luck I have. Now I'm going to be working for Rodrigo Montalvo!"
Gavi has Roman swear he will not tell Rod that she's returned to the hacienda. Isa goes downstairs to the kitchen to make Rod a gourmet breakfast once he wakes up, but she stops unseen in the doorway for a couple minutes to listen to the gossip between Ofelia and Sanjuana.
Saucy Sandy wonders if the new patron always belts them away like that. She and Ofelia then talk about "La Gaviota" and her mother's expected arrival and how there are very few women that help with the jima because it's difficult work and requires lots of strength. Sandy asks if they sleep with the field hands. Ofelia says not at all, they're decent. Though they are migrants, the former patron himself gave them their own hut at the hacienda.
Isa's antennae go up and she seems to begin to have an idea these two jimadoras might have something to do with her problem husband. Isa makes it clear to the two that from now on she herself will be the only one waiting on her husband.
Isa patiently suggests she help Rod get his bath but he rudely tells her no, that he's a grown man and his mother taught him how to bathe himself, thank you very much and then shuts the bathroom door on her. (Bronzed Bleach-Blonde Barbie is slowly realizing she has probably fallen in "luhhhhv" with the only straight guy in the universe who isn't interested in her charms in the least, silicon or otherwise.)
A bit later, Rod and Roman are discussing business needs for the period he is to be away on his honeymoon. (My hubby says the more he watches Rodrigo in action, the more certain he is that there is no way in hell he'd ever trust him to run a hacienda! It'd be Aaron all the way.) Roman seems antsy about something, so Rod has him 'fess up about what's eating him. (This is a relief for Roman, since it's obvious he is just dying to spill the beans.)
Roman breaks his promise to Gavi after a bit and tells Young Mr. Rodrigo that Gavi has returned to the ranch for the harvest. (Ruh-roh!) Rod is double-take impactado and once again "WTF?" is question numero uno in the muddled minds of one of our three young lovers who, always, but always, seem to be mentally one beer can short of a six-pack.
Rod and Isa are about to get into the truck to leave for the airport an hour or so later. She's anxious. He's stalling. As Rod's brain finally churns through what he's just been told, he takes Roman aside and asks how Gavi took the news. (I cannot help think this guy is really just a big dumb burly brut who bought his way into higher education at Cambridge with his Grampy's money. --Dolt! She's back at the agreed time, just like she said she would be. How did you think she was going to take the news that you'd dumped on her like this?)
Roman answers, "Very hard. I thought she was going to faint away. Now, though, what's worrying her is how to find her mother. She's really in a bind for money, too." So, Rod asks Roman to help her out with cash and make sure Hilario takes her looking for her mother. He asks him to also find out what actually went on in Europe and what she was really doing there all this time. (Hey, why didn't you think of this before and maybe take all those big bucks to hire a private detective like other rich galans usually do? I guess 'cause those guys never went through delayed puberty. So I guess we are supposed to cut you a little slack.)
Roman, answers it isn't his place and that Rod is the one who should be doing all the asking. "Help me out here, Roman!" "--I don't think she'll still be here when you get back." "--Well, talk to her, huh?" "--You need to understand that the business with the wedding hit her like a ton of bricks."
Isa is getting impatient waiting inside the truck. She gets out and sweetly offers to put their trip off a day so he can finish last minute business and be worry-free at the beach. Rod says that it's not necessary and they finally head off to the airport.
Back in the hacienda Ofelia is showing Saucy how to make up the patron's bed. "Why bother when the sheets look hardly slept in?" (Now she is my kind o' people.) Ofelia is a bit offended. "Don't get angry at me, Ofelia. I am only telling you what I see. --Hmm. Do you think he slept with Isadora? He sent her up to bed, but he stayed back drinking when normally most couples would be the first to leave in order to be alone together." "--Mind your own business" is the answer she gets.
Meanwhile, Roman goes back with a bit of food to Clara's hut and feels honor-bound to tell Gavi that Young Mr. Rod found out that she had returned. Gavi is livid 'cause she knows Roman broke his promise and told him. She asks where Rodrigo is and Roman sheepishly says he's left for his honeymoon. Oww! "Well, I may have betrayed you, but it seemed so wrong that you should be suffering over his wedding and him there, all smug and nonchalant, like nothing had happened."
"And what did he say?" (Thank you novela gods for again allowing Gavi --and us-- to get all the satisfying details so quickly.) "He wanted to know why you left and went to Europe, what you did there. He said I should give you some money." "--Well, how kind of the gentleman. Hey, I am not going to be indebted to the lord of the manor here. Just tell me when I have to start the jima again and we'll forget everything." He tells her this isn't the time to act prideful. First thing that matters is finding her mother safe and sound. "Tomorrow early Hilario will come for you."
Rod keeps worrying that when he comes back Gavi will already have left the ranch. It will be too late to talk things over. (Sorry, Burly-Bear. That train left the station 24 hours ago.) He makes a quick louie, burns rubber and races on back to the hacienda. He tells Isa she was right, there just are too many things pending at the ranch to go today.
When Rod and Isa pull up to the Big House again, he jumps out and walks over to Roman to ask if Gavi's still around. He answers yes and Rod races off. Isa finally loses patience and asks Roman what is going on. He says nothing out of the normal. Isa doesn't believe a word and stomps back into the house.
Rod runs through the agave fields and down the little path to Clara and Gavi's little hut. He peeks at her through the window. She's sitting on the floor, moping, with her head on her arms. Gavi looks up still in a state of shock and they share a long meaningful stare.
Yep. Rod is staring at her with a "Damn, what-did-I-do?" look. She stares back for a quick second and realizes that the moment they'd been waiting for has gone up in smoke as of the day before and it ain't never coming back. She slams the shutters in his face and locks the door. He bangs and yells, though, until she lets him in. "So, you went all over Europe, huh?"
Haughtily and choking back her rage she answers him. "Ha, so you see that traveling to other countries isn't just a privelege of the rich." (Double zinger. 20 points!) "Why did you go?" "It's not important." "--Of course it is important! It's important to me! Tell me the truth. At least tell me why people say ....you went there looking for me." "--That is just people inventing things." She wipes away a tear. "I left because I wanted to. I had to leave for reasons, well -- the reason I had to leave is my own business."
"Oh I guess so! I came back from London and found out. I couldn't believe it. What? Wasn't it the plan that we were to see each other again on the 21st of March?" He grabs her close. "So tell me and I want to know the truth!" "--Perhaps you should just shut up! You shouldn't go on thinking I went there looking for you..... I came back to look for my mother and as soon as I find her I am leaving! --heh! I found that London is a lot farther than I thought and you were more distant than I ever imagined!"
She pushes him away. "I am a different woman now. Fortunately, I now know how to calculate distances, real distances, and I do know now how to distinguish between love and lust." "I realized that, yeah!" he tells her. She is insulted. She pushes him out the door and slams it shut again. "--Don't you ever come back looking for me again, because the minute I find my mother we'll be vacating your shack!" (Wow, some high-toned vocabulary here for her, huh, Rod?) Through the door he screams at her, "Gaviota you have to tell me the truth! Tell me!" (Our little seagull has just scored a perfect 10! Yesss!!)
When Clara recovers consciousnes, the nurse explains how and why she's there, and assures her at the end of her shift she'll notifiy her daughter and the hacienda.
Isa is again determined to use all her skills to seduce Rodrigo. She is now in a red slinky something, with chilled champagne and strawberries.
Back at the hacienda that night, Rod and James have a little heart-to-heart about Gavi's having returned just like she said she would. "James, she's not the same as she was before. She's changed, she's full of irony and sarcasm. She is harsh. Life must have treated her badly. Because of it she is really more lovely than ever. Whatever she did to me cannot be undone. It is irreversible, just the same as my marriage to Isadora." (Yep, you have really screwed the proverbial pooch on this one, Burly-Bear.)
James says he needs to clarify things with her. (Talk about the blind leading the blind.) "No. Talking to her doen't make sense now. The best thing is to forget her. I ought to just forget her. She needs to go somewhere far away so I can forget her. She should go off somwhere I shouldn't have to ever see her again. (As always it's about him and what he feels. This reckless, feckless imbecile has just wrecked the lives of two innocent women who both love him.)
Gavi is left alone with her memories. Her mother's scolding when she learned Gavi had slept with a man she hardly knew, and a Montalvo to boot, haunts her.
Rod goes upstairs to his bedroom lost in thought. Isa surprises him with a couple of glasses of champagne. He tells her he appreciates her attention to detail, but it is totally unnecessary. They have a deal and he expects her to stick to it. She insists they're married and that all he needs is to relax. She seductively massages his shoulders. He begins to imagine Gavi dressed in red like a cabaret singer: red dress, long red fingernails, seductively puffing on a cigarette while shirtless men girate all around her. He snaps out of it and then runs out of the bedroom telling Isa that he feels like he's choking to death. She angrily slams their door shut.
The next morning Roman lets Gavi know that they've located her mother and she and Hilario leave to pick her up at the clinic.
Román meanwhile tells Rod that Clara has been found. Rod, aparrently, is in no mood to leave the hacienda with things still up in the air about Gavi. He informs Roman that he's canceling the honeymoon. He explains that he will try to clarify what went on with Gavi during this past year, and if she refuses he'll go to Clarita to find out what she is hiding.
Eventually Gavi, her mom and Hilario return from the clinic. Clara is extremely weak. She lays down on the bed in their hut. They have a sweet hug and she tells Gavi that she's missed her so badly. She must never ever leave her again. Clara's thoughts clear a bit and she remembers about the pregnancy. "Where is my grandchild? I want to get to know him." This brings tears to Gavi's eyes. (Lots of water has passed under that London bridge.) "Ma, I lost it. I lost my little baby."
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Jardinera~~~Thanks for the excellent, detailed recap. If I understood the preview correctly, it looks like Clarita is going to tell Rodrigooo that Gavi was expecting his baby. I wonder if Rodrigoo and Gavi will stay steamed at each other for awhile, or if Rodrigooo will realize that he did a very impetuous, stupid thing. It's going to be interesting to see where this thing goes. Will Rodrigooo stay married to TWB while producing a varon with Gavi???? ^^^Susanlynn
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: Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 5:58:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 5:58:00 PM EDT
Thank you for the recap. I like this show more and more, the pace is very good, and It seems that the problem in this novela won't be the misunderstandings (At least no the main problem), but the rash behavior of the characters. I think I saw in the previews that Rodrigo finds out that Gaviota did not do anything wrong, good!!! that will teach him to think before he acts. Since Rodrigo is already married and can’t divorce (gradma would die and in Mexico the only fast way to divorce is if both agree and I don’t think that TWB wife would agree… however there is always that little detail of consummation of the marriage or in this case the lack of …) I think that Gaviota will go away, and will get an education or something, meanwhile Aaron won’t be able to have kids, and Rodrigo and TWB will have a terrible time fighting about marriage privileges….. and then the 4 years fly by and we find out in the reading of the second will (or whatever that paper that the grandpa left for them to read after 4 years is call) since both the heirs are childless Gaviota is left with all the inheritance given that she is his love child of something like that. Quoting Borat I have to say. Me like :)
Maricruz
Maricruz
Permalink posted by : Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 6:04:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 6:04:00 PM EDT
Maricruz---I didn't know about that 4-year deal thing. I keep thinking of something beckster wrote in one of her recaps of 'Mundo''-----''Dude, it sucks to be you.'' Rodrigoooo has really done something impulsive and dumb that he will be paying for.^^^Susanlynn
Permalink posted by : Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 6:11:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 6:11:00 PM EDT
Yeap, Impulsive and dumb, that pretty much defines Rod, and the 4 years deal is something that was mention by the lawyer after the reading of the will something like "btw we have to see each other again in four years to read something else" I made a point of not forgetting about it :)
Maricruz
Maricruz
Permalink posted by : Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 6:49:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 6:49:00 PM EDT
Thanks Jardinera for the recap. I loved your commentary along the way. Yes Rod is a dolt and I could try to give him the benefit of the doubt but marriage. I mean marriage is supposed to permanent and to just get married to someone you know you don't love is just stupid. Like you said, now two nice women (though the jury is still out on TWB) are going to suffer for his stupidity.
Thanks Maricruz for mentioning the 4 years from now thing as I forgot about that. I also agree that it does look like miscommunication will be a problem. I can't wait to see what happens on Monday!!
Karen
Thanks Maricruz for mentioning the 4 years from now thing as I forgot about that. I also agree that it does look like miscommunication will be a problem. I can't wait to see what happens on Monday!!
Karen
Permalink posted by : Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 7:33:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 7:33:00 PM EDT
Great recap. And, I appreciate that you are putting the blame where it belongs - on our lovely galan. My grandmother used to blame the women in the soaps she watched for everything - and over at La Fea the fans cut Fern so much slack and take it out on Lety - but you've been very clear, Rod was an impulsive imbecile and yes, he did very very wrong marrying Trophy Whore Barbie. I think she's going to become a bad guy, and it's true she should have realized she was walking into a bad situation, but still. He could have waited till AFTER march 21...
Folks, it is fun to bash Rod a bit I admit and I like Jardinera's sense of humor. However, my defense for Rodrigo is that not only his grandfather but his parents have died recently and he's just not in his right mind. I think he just couldn't stand another death, the death of his dreams of life with Gavi. It brought out his existential desperation. It was almost like he was expecting to be disappointed again after the series of deaths, and that's why he knee-jerked it when he heard she'd become a prostitute. As many people who have had a parent die can tell you, you can make some really short-sighted decisions while grieving. I'm still hoping the kind-hearted, balanced Rodrigo Gavi fell in love with is the real Rodrigo. Thanks so very much for the recap! Kathy
Permalink posted by : Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 10:39:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 10:39:00 PM EDT
Most excellent recap...two thumbs up..great comments,
I just love Rod, he is so clueless, why don't they just tell the truth, he was comatose thru puberty, but when he looked in at poor wounded Gavi thru that window and he smiled, okay...okay...I'll admit it my cynical jaded self smiled too.
Now about TWB wife, honey, you should be dressin up in some killer tite 501's & a plaid shirt, tastefully tied under your ample cleavage & go with AssHat to the fields, cause the whole lingerie Lady of the Manor isn't gonna get it with Rod, he is a simple guy with simple tastes.
I just love Rod, he is so clueless, why don't they just tell the truth, he was comatose thru puberty, but when he looked in at poor wounded Gavi thru that window and he smiled, okay...okay...I'll admit it my cynical jaded self smiled too.
Now about TWB wife, honey, you should be dressin up in some killer tite 501's & a plaid shirt, tastefully tied under your ample cleavage & go with AssHat to the fields, cause the whole lingerie Lady of the Manor isn't gonna get it with Rod, he is a simple guy with simple tastes.
Thanks for the recap,i just have to say TWB looks manly the very broad shoulder ,the ultra strong thighs.... LOL not sexy !
Permalink posted by : Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 5:01:00 AM EDT
: Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 5:01:00 AM EDT
Thankyou ladies (and any gents). Kathy, you make a good point about death and loss. Because it is novelaville, we aren't going know if you're right or not till the very end. I sort of figure like Maricruz that Gavi has eventually got to go off to get formally educated and then to make herself famous or rich somehow 'cause in novelaville she won't be worthy of marrying into the family ever until she is one or both. So maybe 4 years from now we'll find out that extra bit in the will makes her rich and related--tho' not to Rodrigooo-- by blood somehow. My guess is she becomes a famous singer over in Europe like Ertha(?) Kit.
I have to admit I am now hooked on this crazy thing and I have to ask myself why. I have been curious all along about why this "cheesy" (my hooked, 30 year-old daughter's words) novela is so popular south of the border. It isn't due to any Oscar level acting or to any great chemistry between the leads, 'cause for me there isn't any in this 2nd redux of Cafe con Aroma de Mujer. I figure it has to be because of the great Rubric's Cube of a premise. What does a guy in love do when he commits the ultimate cluster----, how do those most affected around him deal with it, and of course how does he or can he ever clean up the mess afterward. "Curious minds want to know!"
This is the first one I've actually LIKED since Alborada (well I liked La Fea for a while at its prime but I'm way over it now). I think it's just better all round - better acting, better directing, better location (I'm very tired of looking at rich-folk's-houses sets, I love the countryside in Destilando). Better lighting. I do think the leads have chemistry. And Caesar, I mean Aaron, is very good already. And it sure has moved fast! I fear it will bog down like all the others.
Kathy--I like your defense of Rodriogooo, so I'm going with your explanation of why he married TWB. Like Melinama, this is the first show that I've really liked since Alborada. And like Melinama I think the leads have chemistry. Plus, I love the scenery and music. Also, AAron and Maldita Minerva are 2 villains I love to hate. [Last night , I was watching Amor Real and cheering as I waited for Manuel to throw out Antonia. I love that part.] But...I must be honest and admit that the main reason I like this show is...Rodrigooo. That is my kind of guy...except for the impulsive, stupid marrying maldita Isadora part. Let's be fair..that's only one strike against him...he's still up at bat.^^^Susanlynn, willing to give Rodrigooo a pass on that his lack of faith in Gavi and his stupid decision
Permalink posted by : Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 9:22:00 AM EDT
: Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 9:22:00 AM EDT
Variety of opinion gives the spice to life, so more power to you if EY and AR light up the screen for you ; > )
I have been up front from the start that, unfortunately for me, EY is not my cup of tea. The storyline though, certainly is. Hmmm. Chemistry for me has been Sergio and Yadhirra in Amarte Es Mi Pecado, Mau and Adela in the final weeks of Amor Real, Mau and Adela in El Manantial, even Azela Robinson and Alejandro Tommasi in that one, Laura and Rene S. in Piel de Otonio, or Kate del Castillo and Juan Solar even in Bajo lo Misma Piel. I have yet to see more with Guy Ecker or Kate, but I hope to, 'cause I've seen a couple of frames on YouTube of them together and it sizzled.
I have been up front from the start that, unfortunately for me, EY is not my cup of tea. The storyline though, certainly is. Hmmm. Chemistry for me has been Sergio and Yadhirra in Amarte Es Mi Pecado, Mau and Adela in the final weeks of Amor Real, Mau and Adela in El Manantial, even Azela Robinson and Alejandro Tommasi in that one, Laura and Rene S. in Piel de Otonio, or Kate del Castillo and Juan Solar even in Bajo lo Misma Piel. I have yet to see more with Guy Ecker or Kate, but I hope to, 'cause I've seen a couple of frames on YouTube of them together and it sizzled.
With Gavi having so much pain of heart over Rodrigo marrying TWB, I believe the heartache will move her to be her own person,as she is smart,loving,and beautiful.She will get herself an education,a job,as to care for herself and her mother..When out in business world,she will have the men swarming like flies around her.
The Paul Bunyan of the agave farm (Rod) will learn that all that Cambridge education has somewhat clouded his mind and vision. To enter into a marriage impulsively as he did, is past stupid.
Since when in Mexico has divorce been taboo? The novela stars make a career out of marriage & divorce?
TWB(Martha Julie)has obviously has been in the weight room & taking steroids.She's been on many novelas,but never looking totally transformed as she looks on this show--new hair,new boobs, and a steroid body,but not enough "body work" to hold onto Gabriel Soto.
The Paul Bunyan of the agave farm (Rod) will learn that all that Cambridge education has somewhat clouded his mind and vision. To enter into a marriage impulsively as he did, is past stupid.
Since when in Mexico has divorce been taboo? The novela stars make a career out of marriage & divorce?
TWB(Martha Julie)has obviously has been in the weight room & taking steroids.She's been on many novelas,but never looking totally transformed as she looks on this show--new hair,new boobs, and a steroid body,but not enough "body work" to hold onto Gabriel Soto.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 10:30:00 AM EDT
: Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 10:30:00 AM EDT
Jardinera-thanks for the re-cap. I am really liking this novela. Rodrigo reminds me of Disney's animated Tarzan cartoon, but I still like him even though he's a bit dense. I cried watcing Gaviota and her mom on Friday night. I'm begining to feel separation anxiety, knowing LFMB will be ending soon, and Destilando will be a good transition. Rodrigo can give Fernando a run for the money, but Jaime Camil still rules, always and forever.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 6:32:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 6:32:00 PM EDT
Ahhhh...the best part of this is Gavi is no Lety nor is she Angelica Vale, therefore months won't be spent on awkward movement and rubber faces and baby talk...
Rod may not be Fer, but I like him just fine & Gavi is likable too.
Rod may not be Fer, but I like him just fine & Gavi is likable too.
Anon 4/08 6:32pm and Anon 4/08 10:30am -- My hard-heart softened quite a bit watching that whole last scene with Gavi and Clarita too. I also think both the Paul Bunyan and Tarzan references are terrific and give great visual comparisons. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. Come back by here and tack on your screen names next time, ok?
--Darn! I must live in a cave 'cause I knew Martha J looked different, but I didn't realize how she got that way or the big scandal it caused, let alone that she'd been dating Gabriel Soto.
?: > /
--Darn! I must live in a cave 'cause I knew Martha J looked different, but I didn't realize how she got that way or the big scandal it caused, let alone that she'd been dating Gabriel Soto.
?: > /
Jardinera, fantastic recap, loved your editorial comments best of all. I don't have much to add because I haven't watched many episodes of DA (I'm trying to change that but we'll see). But from what I did see I thought the scenery was fabulous. I'm referring to Rodrigo of course. The countryside and agave plants were nice too.^^^^^^^^^^^
Permalink posted by : Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 8:42:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 8:42:00 PM EDT
I'll add my own enthusiastic approval for this show! It has been moving along nicely. I wish that Rodrigoooo hadn't been so eager to believe the worst about Gaviota, though. (It cracked me up when he had the nightmare of Gaviota SMOKING A CIGARETTE, LOL!!)
I know TWB is a gold-digger and I assume she will become a real troublemaker sooner or later. And I realize that it was dumb of her to think she could seduce someone who told her it wasn't going to happen. But I still felt pretty sorry for her. That's really not how a woman wants to spend her wedding night, prying her new husband's shoes off because he's too drunk to do it himself.
BTW, if it had been me I would have left him on the floor with his shoes on. So I'll give TWB some credit for being nicer than me!
(I wonder if she'll try to pull a Joselyn on him?)
I know TWB is a gold-digger and I assume she will become a real troublemaker sooner or later. And I realize that it was dumb of her to think she could seduce someone who told her it wasn't going to happen. But I still felt pretty sorry for her. That's really not how a woman wants to spend her wedding night, prying her new husband's shoes off because he's too drunk to do it himself.
BTW, if it had been me I would have left him on the floor with his shoes on. So I'll give TWB some credit for being nicer than me!
(I wonder if she'll try to pull a Joselyn on him?)
If TWB decides to pull a Jos on Rodrigooo, she'd better use one of those animal tranquilzers that they shoot into rhinos because unlike Gabe, El Toro is not going to be easy to drug. Look at that neck.^^^^
Permalink posted by : Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 11:22:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 11:22:00 PM EDT
By the way--who is Gabriel Soto? I guess that TWB is another example of better living through chemistry.^^^susanlynn, clueless
Permalink posted by : Monday, April 9, 2007 at 9:34:00 AM EDT
: Monday, April 9, 2007 at 9:34:00 AM EDT
Gabriel Soto is a telenovela actor,and he's buffed to the inth degree. He played a male character on the novela Sonadores back in the 90's..Voted one of the sexiest men in Mexico. You can look him up under "search"..There's lot of him to see. He's the ex-boyfriend of Martha (Isadora or to all here TWB).Regards.
Yes, a great recap! I agree that our Rod did a completely stupid thing by marrying TWB, But you can't hate him-----all he has to do is flash his smile.....I forgive him!:)
Why do I have the sinking feeling that Minerva(Aaron's wife?) and TWB are going to team up and make Gavi suffer????
Jardinera, speaking of cheesey.....I think the American soaps are the worst because-they NEVER END!!!!!Unlike novelas that actually (usually?) have a plot, and have a gran final!!!
Becky T.
Why do I have the sinking feeling that Minerva(Aaron's wife?) and TWB are going to team up and make Gavi suffer????
Jardinera, speaking of cheesey.....I think the American soaps are the worst because-they NEVER END!!!!!Unlike novelas that actually (usually?) have a plot, and have a gran final!!!
Becky T.
Permalink posted by : Monday, April 9, 2007 at 10:26:00 AM EDT
: Monday, April 9, 2007 at 10:26:00 AM EDT
Granted, I'm not a doctor, but isn't thyphoid rather contagious? Can you go home from the hospital when you still have it? Well, I suppose you can in telenovela land.
I, too, am enoying the beautiful scenery. I have a friend from Jalisco so I've urged her to tune in.
Ellen
I, too, am enoying the beautiful scenery. I have a friend from Jalisco so I've urged her to tune in.
Ellen
Permalink posted by : Monday, April 9, 2007 at 10:40:00 AM EDT
: Monday, April 9, 2007 at 10:40:00 AM EDT
Some people (5%) with typhoid continue to carry it even after their own symptoms have resolved. I don't know if there's a way to test for that nowadays before releasing them from the hospital. Good sanitation (lots of hand-washing and such) would curtail its spread at home since it's mostly spread by handling food and other contact (not very airborne).
However, it's possible that the clinic can't afford to keep people there if they're not practically at death's door.
However, it's possible that the clinic can't afford to keep people there if they're not practically at death's door.
that was a lovely recap --thanks!
kathy, good observartion about rod... yes he must be out of his 'cabales' due to the things that he went through before; though he's impulsive, his past events probably pushed him a little to the limit.
me too i feel bad for isa... but hey, she agreed. thoough she's not the typical vilanesse...yet?
kathy, good observartion about rod... yes he must be out of his 'cabales' due to the things that he went through before; though he's impulsive, his past events probably pushed him a little to the limit.
me too i feel bad for isa... but hey, she agreed. thoough she's not the typical vilanesse...yet?
Permalink posted by : Monday, April 9, 2007 at 1:28:00 PM EDT
: Monday, April 9, 2007 at 1:28:00 PM EDT
Rodrigo (Eduardo Yanez) is for sure a "hunk" and a smile to end all smiles. There's something about him very different than number one Fern (LFMB)..I like him alot on this show.
Eduardo is single,lives in Miami & Los Angeles,according to his"bio".The woman I choose for his girlfriend is:Angelica Vale,(Lety).She's cute,talented,great comedy actress,and seems like the real deal.How can they meet? I believe Angelica has a home in Miami as well..Hmmm..
Eduardo is single,lives in Miami & Los Angeles,according to his"bio".The woman I choose for his girlfriend is:Angelica Vale,(Lety).She's cute,talented,great comedy actress,and seems like the real deal.How can they meet? I believe Angelica has a home in Miami as well..Hmmm..
Permalink posted by : Monday, April 9, 2007 at 1:53:00 PM EDT
: Monday, April 9, 2007 at 1:53:00 PM EDT
Becky T:
You are so right about American soaps. Telenovelas are on an entirely different plane. I've said many times that when it comes to melodrama, nobody does it better than the Latins. I especially like these things because they do have a beginning, a middle and an end, just like a regular book. They are morality plays that exemplify the best principles of hispanic culture and tradition. --"Cheesy" is my daughter's term and I was using it tongue-in-cheek. : ?) I have seen scores of these things now, and I have seen better and worse, and I've even named a few. The storyline in this one is really intriguing. It's a bummer that I don't care for Eduardo's acting and don't find him that sexy. ("different strokes for different folks") --There is a theory that for one to see "chemistry" on screen, the viewer has to see themselves as the object of one or the other actor's affections so that is a drag for me with this production. I represent the silent "minority" on this site.
?: > )
You are so right about American soaps. Telenovelas are on an entirely different plane. I've said many times that when it comes to melodrama, nobody does it better than the Latins. I especially like these things because they do have a beginning, a middle and an end, just like a regular book. They are morality plays that exemplify the best principles of hispanic culture and tradition. --"Cheesy" is my daughter's term and I was using it tongue-in-cheek. : ?) I have seen scores of these things now, and I have seen better and worse, and I've even named a few. The storyline in this one is really intriguing. It's a bummer that I don't care for Eduardo's acting and don't find him that sexy. ("different strokes for different folks") --There is a theory that for one to see "chemistry" on screen, the viewer has to see themselves as the object of one or the other actor's affections so that is a drag for me with this production. I represent the silent "minority" on this site.
?: > )
Speaking not just as blog mom but as a viewer who's enjoying this show - I am deleting comments (now and in the future) about Eduardo's actual private life because I consider such gossip to be spoilers - ie it will wreck the show for me. This is a no spoiler zone.
Two comments:
1. I don't find him to be all that physically appealing, either. So you're not alone there, Jardinera. I'm mentally pasting a photo of Antonio Banderas so that I can appreciate his looks as much as Gaviota does.
2. Melinama, thanks for that. Some personal comments were made about Sergio Sendel during Heridas that interfered with my appreciation of Sleazar and isn't doing wonders for my perception of Aaron. It's not that I don't find this stuff morbidly interesting, but I'd prefer to have to go out of my way for that kind of info.
1. I don't find him to be all that physically appealing, either. So you're not alone there, Jardinera. I'm mentally pasting a photo of Antonio Banderas so that I can appreciate his looks as much as Gaviota does.
2. Melinama, thanks for that. Some personal comments were made about Sergio Sendel during Heridas that interfered with my appreciation of Sleazar and isn't doing wonders for my perception of Aaron. It's not that I don't find this stuff morbidly interesting, but I'd prefer to have to go out of my way for that kind of info.
To clarify: I'm mentally pasting a photo of Antonio Banderas's face OVER RODRIGO.
There. Now it makes more sense.
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