Sunday, April 01, 2007
Duelo March 30 - I hate everybody
Alina enters the chapel and she and Emiliooo pray together.
Luba skulks around the house, then hides when a servant walks by. She finally gets into Thelma’s room. She looks all over the room, in the dark, for ‘something strong.” She finally finds Thelma’s hairbrush and takes some hair, saying to herself that this will do nicely! I don’t have any snarky comments on this because I think her putting a hex on Thelma is a great idea.
Thelma flounces into her room, followed by Singing Aunt. SA asks Thelma if Angel died yet, Thelma said not yet. SA says great then, soon enough. Thelma thinks it is taking too long, SA asks if she’s going to kill him with her own hands? Thelma says no, some other way. Angel can’t hear anything upsetting or he’ll get worse, she likes that. Jeez this is getting so boring. I think today was the first time in a long time that I wasn’t looking forward to doing a recap. I have had it with this show. I hope to God there really aren’t 72 more episodes.
Gaspar can’t find Luba in the cave. He argues with himself if he should kill Thelma, he doesn’t want to so he can see his baby. His head hurts to think.
Vera and Nora talk about Gaspar, Nora really likes him. Great.
Emiliooo and Alina pray some more. For not being religious type, Emiliooo is laying it on pretty thick. He begs God to save Angel. He cries, aww he’s so sensitive. Whatever.
Nora reveals to Vera that she got busy with Gaspar and tells the story of how he got bumped in the head. Nora moons over Gaspar then goes to bed.
Emilioooo snuffles and cries some more, he tells Alina that they should keep praying. Alina stares at him like he’s a rock star. Woman wake up, he’s a f&%$^ng tool, get over it.
Max doesn’t think he saw
Sexy Nurse Suzi is wearing a sweater today, but of course it’s a tight, thin, low cut, sexy sweater. Thelma is also staring at Angel, willing him to die.
Thelma can’t believe that Emiliooo is praying, she and Orlando agree that Alina is responsible for it.
Emilioooo and Alina finally stop praying and sit down. Emiliooo asks her if she loves him and he wants the truth. Um, hasn’t this been covered? LIKE A MILLION TIMES? Cripes these people can’t remember what happened five minutes ago. She doesn’t answer in .005 seconds so he says “Answer me!” Yeah Emiliooo women LOVE that. She says yes, she loves him, but they can’t be together because he is married. Yawn. I may have said that this show is boring me to death, but perhaps I had dozed off and just dreamed it. I’ll say it again – this show is getting more boring by the second. Aren’t things supposed to heat up as time goes on?
Rosita’s dad thought bubbles Don Max taking credit for raping Rosita as he gets drunk and cries. Rosita comes in and asks him what’s up. He’s upset for not standing up to Max, he thinks he’s a coward. Rosita tells him not to worry, she loves him as much as ever. Dad falls on the ground crying like a drunk cries, begging Rosita’s forgiveness.
Emilioooo and Orlando are apparently too busy to ever work with their army unit, the rest of F-Troop doesn’t seem too happy about it. They come into one of the bedrooms commenting on how some here eat so well while others starve. Emiliooo’s name is thrown in with those who don’t do enough to help, along with Max.
Emiliooo and Alina walk through the house, Max sticks his head out and says he needs to talk with Emiliooo. Alina and her bigger by the day boobs just stand there.
Gaspar looks at the hairbrush, Luba takes it away and says “I told you, I found it. Someone must have dropped it.” Gaspar asks if she’s lying, she asks when has she ever lied to him? She orders him off to sleep. She thought bubbles how tomorrow she’s going to do whatever it is she’s going to do with Thelma’s hair.
Adela and Nora both can’t sleep so they end up in the kitchen drinking tea. Won’t that keep them up? Adela tells Nora about
Don Loco wakes up in his bed and has vision after vision of Jose and
Alina talks to a servant, I think this is Vera. Vera tells Alina how Emilioooo has changed so much lately, Alina says Angel’s illness has taught Emiliooo some humility. Yawn. Oops sorry about that. Alina says Emilioooo is suffering so much, thinking that Angel might die. EMILIOOOO is suffering? What? He’s not the one in a coma! Emiliooo is the one who has hot chicks all competing over him. The only way he is suffering is because he is such an idiot. Alina and Vera say Angel is such a great guy, gosh I hope he doesn’t die.
A bunch of people walk with lit candles into the church. They leave their candles on an altar. What is this? We get no explanation.
A variation on the night time conversation, the difference is that this time it is in the barn. No wait, he’s not here to talk this time, he grabs
Max wants to talk about funeral arrangements for Angel, Emiliooo tells him to shut up because Angel is still alive. Emiliooo hopes for a miracle, Max says they don’t exist. Emilioooo says he’s waiting for a miracle. You already said that Emiliooo, we get the point.
Don Loco continues to choke
Luba carries the mysterious Don Loco box. She says something nasty about Thelma then asks the virgin for forgiveness. She has a long conversation with the virgin about everything and everybody. She has an orange flashback of herself waiting outside with the box and Don Loco riding up on a horse. She says she’s there waiting for him, it’s about his mother, he says he doesn’t want to know anything about her. He says she did something he can never forgive. Luba says nobody told her anything about anything. Don Loco orders her to never mention his mother again, she says fine. He asks what is in the box, Luba says it is a story of life and death that he doesn’t want to know anything about. She turns around and leaves. Back in the present she thinks that if Don Loco knew what was in the box, he would never forgive her and he’d run her off.
Alina is STILL sitting and waiting for Emiliooo and
Thelma comes back in and asks how Angel is, the doctor says he’s doing a bit better, surprisingly. He doesn’t want to say anything to Emiliooo to get his hopes up just yet, though. The doctor says he’s done all he can do, it’s up to God now. The doctor tells Suzi to come with him, she needs to rest. Suzi says she wants to stay with Angel. Thelma tells her to leave, she herself will watch Angel for a while. Thelma sits on the bed next to Angel. He has some thoughts about that he heard what they said before, he’s not in a coma, something like that.
Luba snores away, holding the box in her sleep. Gaspar sneaks past her to get out of the cave, but thoughtfully stops to tell nobody, out loud, that he’s sneaking off to go see Thelma.
Thelma puts on a little one woman play, she cries that she doesn’t know what to do, Emiliooo killed Flor! No reaction from Angel. Did she think he would just pop up out of bed, or what?
After the commercial, we get to hear Angel’s deep inner thoughts. “She thinks I’m dead. I’m not. Alina is suffering.” It kind of sounds like a Mexican Incredible Hulk. “rrrRRrr Hulk not dead.” Thelma keeps it up, she says that Emilioooo will blame her and take her jewels, oh no! Emiliooo killed her! Angel doesn’t wake up.
Emiliooo and Orlando snipe at each other. Boring.
We have a cloudy picture of Don Loco strangling
Thelma says it is easier than killing a fly. Angel thinks that Alina can’t be dead. As Thelma leaves, Emiliooo enters with Alina. Alina goes and whispers to Angel, so of course he knows now that she’s alive. Alina cries a bit, Angel wakes up. Emiliooo, who is a GENIUS!, says “He’s out of his coma.” Hey check it out Emiliooo, the sky is blue.
Gaspar, who snuck out in the middle of the night, is now running along in broad daylight. He has pain from his injury but must soldier on to see his munequita!
Angel says he feels fine. Sure he does. Whatever. Emilioooo says he’ll get the doctor. Emiliooo asks Angel AGAIN how he feels. Give him a break you idiot. Angel says he’s tired. And a little upset. Emilioooo tells Angel how they were praying for him in the chapel. Is he trying to take credit for curing Angel? Angel says he is a but upset over something Thelma said. Emiliooo confronts her. She just looks irritated.
Don Loco is leaving, he doesn’t want Sergio to come along. DL says something about locking
Thelma says she doesn’t know what Angel is talking about, Angel says she said Emiliooo killed Alina. Thelma makes some excuse, Angel says ok fine, whatever. Thelma acts indignant and leaves the room. Back in her own room, she curses Angel for causing her to possibly lose everything. Then she sees Gaspar out the window and curses some more.
Don Loco tells Adela to make sure
Thelma gripes about Gaspar. Nothing stops him!
Alina tells Angel she’s so happy that he is ok. Emilioooo again says he’s going for the doctor, this time he actually does. Alina tells Angel there have been two miracles. The first is that Emiliooo is closer to God, the second is Angel coming out of the coma. Yes, Emilioooo is closer to God. Right. I won’t get into a religious discussion, but one tearful, desperate, session of praying makes him closer to God? Whatever. Angel is tired of crisis after crisis. WE ARE TOO, ANGEL. You are preaching to the choir. Alina says Emilioooo will take care of them and everything. Because he has done such a good job already? Sure. Angel says miracles do exist.
I thought Emiliooo was going for the doctor, instead he’s telling Max all about Angel waking up. Is this how he takes such good care of everyone? Not ever getting a doctor when he should? Max doesn’t look happy, though he claims to be. Emiliooo says he’s going to tell everyone everywhere that Angel is awake, they’ll all be so glad. Yes, I’m sure the will be, because news that the rich owner is awake will make them forget all about the fact that they are starving. Oh, and how about that doctor? Max looks very displeased about all this. “How good for Angel, but how bad for me!”
Thelma goes outside to find Gaspar. Doesn’t he know that he’s not supposed to come here? He keeps talking about his kid, she tells him to shut up. He wants a kiss but instead she yells at him, “I could kill you right now, but I won’t. Understand, you can’t come here?” All he does is ask for another kiss. She says not here, so he says where? One of the stablemen notices them talking and starts to listen in. Thelma tells Gaspar she’ll look for him later. Gaspar doesn’t believe her. The stableman is impactado, Gaspar and Thelma?
The doctor showed up, no thanks to Emiliooo. Sexy Nurse Suzi came back too. I wonder if she leaves that little nurse hat on, you know, all the time? The doctor says he can’t believe it. The doctor says now they REALLY need to go to
Thelma tries to get Gaspar to leave, he doesn’t want to. She says they can’t talk here, they might be discovered. She tells him to meet her at the abandoned cabin at
The soldiers are trying to help the poor people who were displaced by the storm. Emiliooo tells them that Angel is better. They pretend they care.
Mexican Larry is telling Vera what he heard. Is this her husband? I think I saw him before but I didn’t recognize him. She tells him not to go to the cabin at
The soldiers ride through the very pretty wilderness, it makes me want to go on vacation. The soldiers are all going back to
Alina is in the chapel, she also thanks God for the miracle.
Emiliooo becomes more holy by the second as Alina joins him. Emiliooo goes from holy to lustful in one second, he lunges open-mouthed at Alina and they make out.
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I am just hoping that Luba lays a good curse on Thelma, not some wussy curse like make her leave town.
“I don’t have any snarky comments on this because I think her putting a hex on Thelma is a great idea.” ROTFL! I second the motion!
Don Loco really is. Now he wants to kill Soledad so he won’t think about her and José. That’s the most interesting logic I’ve ever heard.
I loved your description of how Emiliooo went from “holy to lustful” at 80 mph as the episode ended. Emilio had better decide what works for him soon.
Margaret--
“Now that Don Loco has tried to kill Soledad and not just make her life miserable maybe she'll start thinking about self-defense.” Do you honestly think so? It’s a stretch for me to think that she has it in her to defend herself. All your observations, though, give me hope. I definitely am hopeful that Angel not only has Thelma’s number but will use the info against her, and soon. I also hope that Jaime finds out that Thelma may be expecting Gaspar’s baby (did I say “may?” Nah, IS!) and that can come out. Maybe there is still time to annul this marriage…..
Luba better be careful what she asks for. Gaspar could end up married to Thelma. While he would love that……Thelma would make his life more miserable than it is now.
Jeanne
I actually saw when Angel woke up from the coma. Thelma said Angel imagined or hallucinated when she said Alina died, Emiliooo killed her. I didn't quite get this because he sounded like he wasn't in a coma when heard it so why was he all of a sudden delirious?
DL and his sister what a caring relationship. He actually called his sister an old maid, esta de edad para vestir santos=she's old enough to be dressing saints, she shouldn't be thinking of love. Jerk
Gaspar begging his munequita for a kiss, I was just laughing at how stupid he looked, (my husband does that kissy face, it looks like a chicken butt) and annoyed because I guess his slowness is impairing his ability to take a hint that Thelma is not interested.
Luba putting a hex on Thelma, I think she said she wanted to make Thelma go far away. So when she does will Emilio be going to? My guess is yes. I really hope she makes the hex better than that. I did see Emilio crack a smile when Angel woke up, kinda anyway. It is a start.
I am guessing Thelma is now gonna try to kill Gasper while this Jaime just watche safraid to say anything, he will keep it a secret from most until Thelma is brought down. So stupid. I do love this novella but at times I am just like why am I torturing myself.
I understand they have to keep all these things secret until soon before it is set to end, but in the meantime they should do something about their characters. Soledad needs to stop whining and just leave already. She is now punishing herself along with Don Loco.
Alina needs to stop talking about how she loves Emilio but he is married. She says it every episode. She should be doing something like make Emilio jealous..wait he already is and she does nothing.
Emilio should stop whining about how he loves Alina but she will not forgive him. Get a divorce.
Maximo needs to hook up with SA and get lost.
I could go on and on but the point is I torture myself with this novella. I will not say I dislike this novella it just moves slow. Same thing over and over. I will love it when the !*!** hits the fan. Loved the recap.
I so look forward to next week when Emilio looks at Alina saying in bubbles I love you but I promised to let you go, I must let you go Oh Alina... Not I am sure things will be like that for a while. Hey he changed his words we might be going somewhere.. not
Yep, maybe Luba will make a little voodoo doll with Thelma's hair and put pins all in it!!! Please!!! Something needs to happen to that mujer suela!! Maldita!! -Becky T.
Soledad really does need help from Dr. Z (the psychiatrist). What is it going to take to convince her that she has to leave Alvaro?
See I think Soledad & Don Loco just have this ultra kinky master/slave thing goin & it is just too far out for the locals...
Alina should just marry Angel...it's not like he could consumate the marriage, a night breeze and he is in a coma, sex would kill him, hmmm I wonder why Thelma hasn't thought of that?
I don't know guys, I think that Soledad has hit her limit. First, she decided she no longer loved DL and wouldn't forgive him. At that point she stayed supposedly to save her daughter. The daughter is safe (and if Soledad is dead she wouldn't be able to stop him anyway). I think Soledad has the wall on this. She has a means to escape and somebody to help her (Elias). She's going to at least make another attempt soon. IMHO
How perfect Chris! I busted out laughing when Emilio said that line. Don't need a medical degree to know that people don't talk to you coherently when they are also in a coma!
I am impressed that you could actually remember and recap all of this muddled mess. It makes so little sense that I could barely remember it one second after it happened. I think I am also sufferening from Sierra Escondida Stupid disease. You get it from watching this thing. The women on the Univision Foro would always say, at this point, !Que porquerria!
I'm starting to think that the quicksand puddle is the proper metaphor for this entire show. (You know, the thing where they basically sit in a waist high puddle of water with sand in it and pretend that they can't get out even though we can see that they are sitting there and, in no way in danger of actually drowning?)
Emiliooooo spending the night in the hole that is clearly quite easy to climb out of is another variation. It's like that Monty Python "She's a Witch" skit from Monty Python's Holy Grail where they scream, "She's a witch, look at her nose!" and the other guy says "That's just a carrot tied to her face."
Your efforts to actually recount this crazyness are truly heroic.
Oh and thanks Susanlynn for telling me Jaime's real name. I think, though, that Mexican Larry sounds WAY too good not to use. For me, he is now Mexican Larry.
G.
Anyway a recommendation--I recently acquired the New MS Word 2007. You can select blog post instead of document and if you fill in the blogger info you can post right from the program. The beauty of this is, you have spell check and all the other wonderful tools you are used to with a wp at your disposal! You can type in whatever font you want and usually it will just follow the format of the blog when it posts! Oh, and of course when you save it really saves, on your computer! It also seems to know how to program the accents and other orthographic marks. It has made my life wonderfully easier.
I've spent about 20 minutes each of the last two (three?) weeks cleaning up VERY WEIRD code in your posts. I do NOT NOT recommend doing it whatever way you've been doing it. Please Just Post Regular Text Files as from Wordpad, Notepad, or just any old PLAIN TEXT FILE. You can't believe how strange your posts have been looking before I pruned them...
UPDATE: Oops, just read Melinama's post. Never mind, it's back to notepad which is my favorite way to post. I think it requires little or no editing, is that right Melinama?
Ferro, you are one funny guy! Your last sentence was the best of all because 1) I could totally picture it and 2) it was absolutely hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
OK, SESID will be the official disease here. These folks have been completely stupid from day one, but they are even stupider these days. As Susanlynn points out, even our beloved Gaspar is asking for a slap a la Moonstruck..."Snap out of it!!"
I fear Tammi may be right, we are not going to see Thelma get hers in the near future. Man oh man I hope the writers have something horrible planned for her!
Ferro, thanks so much for your fantastic recap and thanks for taking one for the team!!
Yeah, everyone was so stupid tonight. Stupider than ever. Thelma's another idiot--- couldn't she come up with a better way to upset Angel than that ridiculous garbage about Emilio killing Alina for stealing her jewelry?
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