Sunday, April 29, 2007
Duelo April 27 - Don Loco is uncharacteristically forgiving, he must be up to something.
After Emiliooo knocks the gun out of Don Loco’s hand and says “now you and me, unarmed” Don Loco says, in effect, “You and what army?” They stare at each other for a long few seconds while
In
Don Loco finally says fine, if Alina thinks she’ll be happy with
Thelma has some crazy idea that
Coral is in the cab, she says they finally lost whoever was following them. The driver has had enough, he takes her bags out of the car and leaves here there. In the middle of nowhere, the driver keeps saying “It’s your problem.” She picks up her suitcase and starts walking.
Luba and Gaspar talk about how they have an image to keep up, that they are a witch family and everyone should fear them. Then she complains about Thelma some more.
Angel el estupido greets Suzi very coldly, she has come to take care of him, but he just tells her “yeah great thanks but no thanks” Suzi and her excellent tight pants turn right around and leave. Then Angel tells himself that he acted like an ass with her. You think, you idiot?
Don Loco isn’t acting super duper crazy, so
Vera tells Mexican Larry to stay away from Luba and the cave. ML leaves and Rosita enters. She has a problem. Vera says everyone has a problem, like Alina… Rosita wants to know all about it. No no, Vera says, nothing. These two, give me a break. They play the passive/aggressive ‘woe is me’ game too much. Vera finally tells her that Alina has to marry
Don Loco goes to Luba’s cave, he wants her to cure
Thelma asks Emilioooo where he has been. He says he doesn’t have to tell her where he goes. Emiliooo says that
After the commercial Alina talks to Emiliooo and Thelma. She wants to know how he convinced DL to allow the wedding. He says something about DL not being able to oppose a member of the military. Whatever, like DL cares about something like that. Thelma acts all nice to Alina, “be happy” and other crap. What a snake. She talks about what a great guy
Granillo is dressed up like a woman, he is complaining to Edelmira that he has to do the same menial work as the other girls, he is cleaning tables. Edel tells him to shut up, he still has to finish and then do yesterday’s accounting. As Edel leaves, Castulo enters and calls Granillo “Gorda.” Granillo says that’s no way to talk to a Dama. Ha. Castulo grabs him and wants to know what the guy in here last night was talking about.
Crazy doctor wants to hypnotize
Granillo says the guy was named Ramiro, he doesn’t know anything else. Castulo says Granillo has to find more info if that guy comes back again.
Rosita argues that Alina doesn’t love
Adela is out looking for work since Don Loco ran her off. She finds Nora, who offers her a place to stay.
Luba wants to know how
Don Max paces impatiently while SA shops in every single store, with poor Ifgenio having to carry everything. He is distracted by the knowledge that
Alina walks in the forest and whines about having to marry Orlando, who she hates. DL rides up and asks her where she got the stupid idea to get married. He says she isn’t allowed. She says Emiliooo told her that DL allowed it, DL says that Emiliooo misunderstood. She will never be allowed to marry
Max and SA stop to eat at a little restaurant. Turns out that it is Hottie Mom’s place, she sees Max and goes nuts, calling him a killer.
DL and Alina discuss further, DL finally says if Alina doesn’t obey,
Hottie Mom continues to go crazy on Max in the middle of the restaurant. Max and SA pick up their stuff and take off in a hurry.
Wild and crazy doctor hypnotizes
Alina begs, DL yells, if she disobeys
Emiliooo stares at the heart necklace and talks to himself. Whine whine, she can’t marry
The real doctor tells Thelma that the baby will be fine, everything will be fine, even giving birth here in SE.
Adela and Nora take a walk. They see a hole in the ground, Nora says it is a hunter’s trap. I’m sure we are being told this for a reason, later someone will get stuck in one. We get a long lok at the hole, then down in the hole, then… it’s the cofre! Someone threw it in a hole. What the hell is going on here? This thing teleports around on it’s own.
Luba works on curing
Gaspar talks to a frog about his munequita, since he can’t talk to his mom about it. He hopes the baby isn’t tonto like him.
Alfonssina in another excellent tight dress treats Mariana roughly, ‘taking care’ of her. Throwing her around while fluffing pillows, etc. Sergio comes in and tells her that Hugo is here for her, he wonders what that’s all about. Alfonsina runs to Hugo, they start making out in the middle of Don Loco’s office. In walks Don Loco! For some reason, he yells “Hugo!” I would have expected that he yelled at his woman Alfonsina, but no, he yells at Hugo. Or Gasca. Or whatever you want to call him. Ooops, the s**t is about to hit the fan. Don Loco says he understands everything now. Gasca says he was stupid, he thought Alfonsina was just a plaything for Don Loco. DL runs Alfonsina out of the room. Somehow Gasca manages to apologize his way out of it. DL asks him, “you found
Luba tells
Vera tells Alina that Rosita came looking for her. Vera says something about the wedding, Aina says there won’t be any wedding.
Max tries to play Hottie Mom off as some crazy woman, Singing Aunt is giving him the third degree. Max convinces her that he does not have a son.
DL tells Gasca that he needs someone who isn’t part of the regular local people to talk to, Gasca says he’s the one, he’s all ears. I expect DL to try and spring some sort of trap here, he let the whole Alfonsina thing go way too easily.
Hottie Mom and her employees sit down and discuss the Don Max situation. They decide that Max is a bad man.
Alina talks to Donkey, who barks as if talking back to her. She doesn’t say anything interesting. She has no way out.
The doctor examines Angel, he tells him that he is very strong, anyone else would be in much worse shape. Angel tells how he was an ass with Suzi, he wants to send along an apology.. Emiliooo comes in, the doctor says he’ll be back tomorrow with an antibiotic. Emiliooo tells Angel that Alina will marry
Coral tries to hitch a ride back to
Angel doesn’t understand, of course, Alina hates
DL talks about
Angel whines some more, Emiliooo yells at him and leaves. These two are so useless.
Rosita talks to herself about how strange Alina’s wedding plan is. Braulio and Hottie Mom come in, they have the money they need to pay off Castulo for information. Earlier at her restaurant, when they all decided Max was a bad man, Hottie mom and the others talked about money, that must have been related to this.
SA looks at baby clothes and is excited. Thelma is more and more worried about having the baby and what will happen after that. SA goes on and on, Thelma tells her to shut up. She doesn’t want to talk about the baby any more. She actually tells SA to tell her about her date with Don Max. Wow she must be desperate to change the subject to ask for THAT.
Luba has some orange flashbacks of the Orlando/Alina ‘courtship’, Alina running away on a horse,
Alina packs her things, I think she is going to make escape attempt # 529. She throws everything into a huge burlap bag and runs from her room.
DL is drunk and comes to see
Alina pauses on her way out of the house, perhaps she is trying to figure out how to sabotage her own escape and blame it on being concerned with her mother. I really like her tight tanktop.
Monday – Alina, who changed clothes somewhere along the way, is still escaping through the wilderness and is scared by some snakes.
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I don’t understand why the writers left Coral out in the wilderness. Pure filler, that is what it looked like to me. I want to see Coral happy and it looks like this stupid joven relative of Celso’s is going to follow her until he gets it all from her.
It probably won’t do any good to hope for Nurse Susi to end up with Angel, will it? He’s as clueless as Duhlina and Soledad. And Elias.
“Don Loco isn’t acting super duper crazy, so Soledad’s radar is going off like crazy.” It’s about time her radar clicked in. Will it last?
“These actors can’t even summon up a good impactado look anymore, the basic staple of novela acting. They are all truly just mailing it in now.” ROTFL!!!! Ferro, you have such a way with words. If you’re in business, it’s a total waste. You should be writing stand-up comedy for Second City (probably harder to support a family that way, though, especially if the 7 year old likes to have stuff like the 52-inch television).
Okay, so now we know why DL acted all nice around Soledad. So he could come and act extra loco for Alina. He’s manipulating Alina and telling her that he’ll hurt her mama if she doesn’t get with the program. Now Alina will go back and do a 180 on marrying Orlando.
It’s incomprehensible that DL caught Alfonsina and Hugo kissing, then believed Hugo’s stupid story. Come ON, DL!! And he brings the bracelet up again, and believes Hugo again, that it must have been Soledad who lost it there! Hombre, don’t you know when you are being played for a fool? You blame your wife for playing you for a fool and can’t nail the ones who are really doing it even if you have them within arm’s length!
“I expect DL to try and spring some sort of trap here, he let the whole Alfonsina thing go way too easily.” Okay, maybe that’s it. Maybe that’s why it went down without any big fuss so far.
“DL talks about Soledad’s new lover, then about Alina. He wants to ruin everything. Gasca says tell me all about it.” Boy, Hugo’s been with DL a long time and he really knows how to re-direct DL’s behavior, just like a preschooler can be re-directed. Get ‘em off on another topic that’s more interesting, and maybe they’ll forget what they were upset about before.
“Alina packs her things, I think she is going to make escape attempt # 529. She throws everything into a huge burlap bag and runs from her room.” Just how many dozen people will see her trying to leave even before she makes it down the main stairs?
Great job, Chris! Thanks again!
Jeanne
jb
The cofre glowing in the whole...WTF is right. How did it get there? I'm confused.
I was afraid Gaspar was going to kiss the frog. I'm glad he didn't. Poor froggie.
The only reason I think DL believed Hugo/Gasca is because DL is a misogynist pig. I'm sure he will make Alfonsina pay somewhere down the line even if he did believe she did nothing to provoke Hugo.
I agree, Don Loco had better pay big time before this show is over!
Great recap Chris, thanks!!!
I loved the "Whatever, marry whoever you want, just get out of here!" And the reference to the "cocolbosh" in comparison to the "cofre". Too funny! Ferroooo, keep up the good work!!!-Becky T
I'm having a bit of a brouhaha at the homestead...the un-laws have had to leave their house for a few days and they are all, including animals, at our place. I'm sorry, but I just don't see how I can get Tuesday's recap out what with my suegra (whom I adore) monopolizing the TV for her beloved game shows and with people sleeping in the computer room and other public spaces. Instead of stressing myself out, or burdening the team by asking someone to cover, I'm going to do what Lynn did, and Carmel plans to do, which is post a title for Tuesday and then let commenters fill in. I find the change of perspective really refreshing and I'm hoping that one or more of you will be able to assist the Duelo team and me. Thanks for understanding!!
I think the last time we saw the box, it was at Isidro's place and he was getting ready to open it. It started glowing and he freaked out. He ran out of the house with it, looking for somewhere to get rid of it. I guess we are supposed to connect the dots that he dumped the box in the hole?
Gaspar kisses the frog and she turns into a actual fairy princess, they fall in love and live happily ever after.
The glowing coffin contains a contract between Don Loco's dad and the devil in which he trades his soul for Alvaro's life or something equally important. Then papa loco commits suicide of despair (that's what always ends up happening with these soul for x pacts).
Mariana miraculously manages to wheeze out that Soledad is innocent and that she had a daughter with Jose. Then she dies. Apotheosis-like scene of her flying off to heaven with Marianita, Jose and Dr. Tostito.
Alvaro finds out he is to blame for his Dad's death and promptly kills himself after learning this and that Soledad didn't cheat on him.
Emilio and Alina get together and Orlando and Thelma die in a shootout with the Mexican Army. Orlando has stolen a bunch of explosives from the construction site and the huge explosion leaves La Rinconada in a shambles.It becomes an training center for the Mexican Army in anti-guerrilla warfare.
Don Max is out of a job. He ends up homeless and has to marry the singing Aunt and live with her in Thelma's apartment in Puebla.
THE END
hee, hee, I wish you were writing the script, Margaret. Big Max got the worse part of that deal...
jb
1. Orlando's reaction was priceless when Aunt Rebecca started talking about her date in San Mateo. He acted like it was the most ridiculous thing he's ever heard.
2. Coral's cab driver---- what a super mega jerk! I think I even like Emilio better than him, and I usually don't like Emilio.
3. "They see a hole in the ground, Nora says it is a hunter’s trap. I’m sure we are being told this for a reason, later someone will get stuck in one."
I hope Max falls in the trap so that Santos can rescue him, he accepts him as his son, and apologizes, and they open a restaurant called 'Máximo y Mínimo'
4. Sorry, but I'm still not buying the story that Carmen was just some worker at La Rinconada. Not with her perfectly shiny Hollywood hair.
5. "Hottie Mom and her employees sit down and discuss the Don Max situation. They decide that Max is a bad man." Really? They JUST NOW figured that out?
6. " She doesn’t want to talk about the baby any more. She actually tells SA to tell her about her date with Don Max. Wow she must be desperate to change the subject to ask for THAT." Hahaha exactly! She must REALLY hate talking about the baby.
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