Sunday, May 06, 2007

Duelo May 4 - There is some nookie, but it's not the good kind.

We start with the aforementioned cavorting in the waterfall with Alina and Emiliooooo – is this the same place where Alejandro and Miranda got busy? Whoa – Alina comes equipped with flotation devices – for a second I thought I was watching Cinemax. Turns out it was all a dream, this dream courtesy of Emilioooo.

Nora tells Adela about Hugo and the cofre. Adela admits to knowing something about the box. She doesn’t know what is in it, but she knows who it belongs to.

Elias yells a lot as he is brought into jail.

Alina and Luba keep watch over Emilioooo, who is apparently still having a sex dream about Alina. No tell-tale bump in the blanket, but who knows. Luba figures out that Alina still loves Emiliooo, meanwhile she holds the big bottle of booze like it’s a 40 oz. and she’s about to take a swig. Oh, she does. She drinks like a man. She says something comforting to Alina between gulps.

Elias gets some food at the prison cafeteria and sits down. Some other dude, who we saw in the last jail scene yelling out something to Elias when he was brought in, sits down and starts talking to him. He looks crazy. Elias wants to move away, crazy dude lets him go, but tells him to leave his food.

Luba tells Alina that Emiliooo loves her too. Alina mopes about Emiliooo having a baby, her father won’t permit them to be together, etc etc. Luba tells her to fight, she just whimpers and whines. She is sure Emiliooo is not her future. She becomes worried about Emilioooo’s temperature remaining so high.

Coral is looking fine in a shorty nightgown, Granillo is putting makeup on her. They discuss poor Alina and rehash what is happening with her. She asks Granillo to leave so she can change, he lifts up his own boobs and says she doesn’t have anything they don’t all have, then he leaves. Coral goes to her closet and discovers that all of her outfits have been vandalized, they are all torn to shreds. Gee, I wonder who did that?

Castulo is sitting at a table at El Meson, very drunk. He talks to himself about how Santos must have made a deal with the devil to survive. Braulio arrives in a comically large sombrero, he wants to know what Castulo has found out about Santos. Castulo babbles drunkenly about talking to some guy tomorrow about Santos, he doesn’t make much sense. Braulio just looks funny in his hat.

Sergio tells Don Loco that Elias has been locked up, which pleases DL. Alfonsina comes barging in, back in her field clothes (booo) and says that DL has to come quick and see what’s going on with Mariana. Well, I’m torn here. I appreciate the bare midriff, but other than that she might as well be wearing a sack, you can’t see anything. Also, when she tells DL to hurry up and come look, she looks like she’s doing the “I have to go pee” dance.

Braulio tells Rosita and Hottie Mom about his meeting with Castulo. They interpret Castulo’s ramblings to mean that Santos is still alive. Castulo gave the name Ramiro Leon to Braulio earlier, now they all want to know who this Ramiro Leon is.

Luba tells Alina that Emilioooo’s infection is getting worse, she can’t cure him. Alina fusses and whines. Luba says she has to amputate Emiliooo’s leg. Alina tries to inspire Luba to cure him with her miracle herbs. They come up with a plan that seems based on Alina not leaving his side, I guess that is supposed to do what medicine and herbs can’t. I just realized something – Alina’s big escape last week didn’t get her any farther than Luba’s cave? She used to go back and forth from there just like going to the bathroom, but this time it took an adventure to get there? Whatever.

Alfonsina shows DL what the big deal is – Mariana won’t eat. “See Patron, she’ll die, that won’t be my fault!” DL says he knows why she is doing this, she knew Soledad and Elias had a plan to get her out of here. He tells her that Dr. Love won’t ever be returning. He takes the food from Alfonsina and orders Mariana to open her mouth for some food. Can she open her mouth on her own now? Did I miss that part? I know she croaked out a sound the other day but I didn’t realize she could open her mouth. So she can breath, open her mouth, and also swallow on her own. I don’t see what keeps her from talking. DL just looks at her, with an extremely stupid look on his face, ordering her to eat. She thinks that she would rather die.

Edelmira asks the girls who damaged Coral’s clothes. Nobody will fess up. Edelmira explains loudly how Coral is the only one who brings money in, so one of the others needs to give her an outfit to wear. One girl says she won’t share with Coral. Edelmira says anyone who goes against Coral goes against her too. She tells the girls to leave.

DL can’t get Mariana to eat either. Alfonsina tries to convince Don Loco to put Mariana in a nursing home. DL asks if that’s what Mariana wants, of course she can’t answer, DL says fine. Alfonsina drops her food on the floor, then scoops it back into the bowl and tries to make Mariana eat it anyway. Of course she won’t. Alfonsina calls her stupid and slaps her, lolling her head to one side. What? There wasn’t anything supporting her head before and she was sitting straight up the whole time.

Thelma lies in bed while SA puts the baby down. SA says she needs to go lay down, Thelma angrily asks what happens if the baby cries? SA says to pick him up and hug him. Thelma continues to act bitchy and SA doesn’t care, she just wants to go lay down. SA tells her that she has plenty of milk to feed the baby. Vera comes in and wants to see the baby. Thelma asks her to not let anyone in all of SE find out she had the baby, I’m sure she is trying to keep the word away from Gaspar. She then asks Vera to stay and take care of the baby so she can sleep. Vera is more than happy to.

Alina talks to Emiliooo as he is passed out. She sorry, something about DL, whatever. She will stay with him. This must be part of her and Luba’s new miracle cure to save his leg.

Angel comes to Thelma’s room to see the baby. Thelma asks if the baby looks like Emiliooo, Angel says of course. Nobody knows where Emiliooo is, they realize.

Luba is worried about what would happen if Emiliooo died. Gaspar stupidly says that it would be great, then Thelma could tell the truth. Luba shushes him. Luba doesn’t feel well, she’s stressed about the cofre. She doesn’t know what might happen if anyone finds out what is in it. Alina overhears this last part and wants to know more.

DL comes to see Soledad to have the same conversation yet again. First they discuss Alina marrying or not marrying Orlando, then he gets right back to “Let’s get back to how we used to be.” Eventually he starts opening up her shirt, revealing some very unhealthy looking skin spots. Soledad actually helps him take the shirt off, I’m not sure what her plan is. They proceed to make out, it’s extremely uncomfortable to watch.

Luba tries to sidetrack Alina, asking why she left Emilioooo alone, Alina just wants to know what’s going on. Luba says there are bad herbs in the cofre, Alina says they should get the word out to return it if anyone finds it, Luba says yeah yeah that’s it, we’ll do that.

Thelma tells Vera to leave so she can talk to Angel alone. They discuss Emiliooo’s sudden disappearance and debate whether or not Orlando is involved. They decide that Emilioooo and Alina are together, Angel says in the morning he will go look for them. Hey, speaking of, Angel is looking quite healthy. He’s up and around, he’s even going to go outside. Seems to me he’s healthy enough to be boinking a hot nurse too, I’m just saying.

Luba sits in the dark and worries about where the cofre is.

Gasca looks at the cofre and wonders who put it in the hole. He determines that DL doesn’t know about what is in it and this is his ticket out of DL’s clutches. He is quite pleased with himself.

Adela wants to tell Luba that Gasca has the cofre, Nora convinces her not to, since Gasca would surely figure out that Nora was the one who told about it.

Groooooooooooossss DL and Soledad lie in bed naked, post-nookie. I am seriously grossed out by this. They get ready to do the deed a second time.

Alina thinks Emiliooo is doing better, the secret plan of “Alina sits here all night” has perhaps worked its magic. Luba says they need to move, people must know by now that Emiliooo and Alina are together and there must be people looking for them.

Orlando talks to some highway guys. The highway guy tells Orlando that Elias got locked up and he would like Orlando’s help to get him out, it was all due to Don Loco. Orlando says he will help. He issues the understatement of the year – “Strange things are going on around here.” WTF? Hasn’t he been right in the middle of at least half of them? How can he be surprised by that? Idiot.

Alina says a move could kill Emilioooo. Yes, yes, we know, but it has to happen.

SA brings max his breakfast, he was expecting Vera. SA gives him a hard time about his discretions, after making him nervous, she proposes formalizing their relationship. Obviously then she just wants the status of being his wife, she doesn’t seem to think much of him as a person any more.

A commercial for Destilando, featuring Cesar the mumbler. I see some things never change. I didn’t understand a single syllable coming out of his mouth. And that Village People moustache – Caray! He also plays a dirtbag here, apparently, he tries to force a kiss on some woman and gets smacked for it. Is his character named Cesar here too? It’s like the same guy, from what I can tell. Also, keeping up with their tradition, another great scantily clad commercial from Asi es la Vida.

Don Loco shaves and talks to himself about his re-conquest of Soledad. He thinks everything is back to normal. What a fool.

Castulo finds Santos, he tells him not to go near La Rinconada, he could wind up dead.

Max says you want a man at your side who doesn’t love you? She says it’s better than nothing. She tells him something about his own son, then about writing some note. I didn’t really understand what that was about, but it made Max start breathing hard. He is disgusted with the idea of marrying her.

Castulo and Santos talk some more, Santos says he found a nice guy who gave him a place to stay, he thanks Castulo for his help, calling him ‘Jaime.’

Now Emiliooo looks worse, a minute ago he looked better. These women can’t make up their mind. They argue about if they should move away from the cave or not.

Mexican Larry and Vera discuss things. Vera sure is a dumbass, they make her dumber every episode. ML at least has some sense, he thinks it’s strange that Thelma wants to keep the baby a secret. Vera just believes whatever she is told.

A guard at the jail accepts an envelope shoved under the fence by some mysterious man.

Don Loco complains to Sergio that the cofre hasn’t appeared yet. Sergio thinks Adela might know something. DL overreacts as usual and rants and raves, then does nothing.

Elias starts mopping a floor, then crazy inmate and some buddies come in to hassle him. Elias throws a bucket of water on crazy guy, the others hold crazy guy back. What? I thought they were his posse. I thought this was going to be a gang rape, like when Andy got trapped in the laundry supply room in Shawshank. This scene made no sense. Crazy guy just stood there, Elias finally threw some water on him, he reacted like he got kicked in the nuts. It was WATER. Also, when crazy guy was all wet and sputtering, he looked a little bit like a skinny Alec Baldwin. Have you seen him on 30 Rock? He deserved his Emmy. He deserved two Emmys, just for being that awesome on that show.

Angel and Ifgenio ride through some beautiful scenery. They decide to go look at the church. Angel coughs a bit, maybe he isn’t doing so well after all.

Crazy guy pulls a knife on Elias. Elias says if he’s going to kill him, get on with it. Crazy guy, who has a nice scar of his own, says maybe he’ll just cut up Elias’s face. Crazy guy keeps licking his lips like a lizard, it’s gross. Going to commercial, we see Alfonsina get doused with water. The first time I saw it I thought it was weird, now it’s just kind of sexy. I still want to know what that is all about, that must be a scene from the show, it’s too random to just be a commercial lead-in.

Orlando is also out looking for the escapees, he sees Donkey, he follows the dog. It leads him to Gaspar, on whom he pulls his gun. Totally unnecessary.

A guard comes in and saves Elias. Elias thanks him but doesn’t understand why he helped. The guard says someone on the outside has paid for his protection. The guard won’t say who, but says he will remain safe.

Orlando demands to know where Alina is. Gaspar says he hasn’t seen her. Orlando doesn’t believe him. Gaspar says he doesn’t know. Orlando turns to the dog – “Donkey, where’s Flor?” The dog runs off, Orlando sloooowwwly gets on his horse to follow.

The other women at Edelmira’s complain to each other about Edelmira and Coral, and then Alina for good measure, then swear to exact vengeance. This story I can get behind, so long as a good portion of it involves all the ladies being in their stripper outfits as it progresses.

Orlando charges into the cave with the dog, nobody is there. Gaspar says see? I don’t lie! Orlando pulls a gun on him again to satisfy his impotent rage. Ha I used that term before remembering his other impotence. This guy has issues.

Luba and Alina enter Nora’s place, Nora says “I don’t know why you’re here but I don’t know anything!” Luba is all WTF? Alina has her sweater open and thrown back on her shoulders so we can get the full effect of her tight tank top. That has become a feature of the last few minutes of each episode – “here are Alina’s boobs, ok here’s what will be on the next show.” Alina asks Nora for help to hide.

Orlando shoots his gun, misses Gaspar apparently, then Donkey jumps up and knocks the gun from Orlando’s hand. He and Gaspar fight, Gaspar busts out some wrestling moves and thrashes Orlando, finishing with a great body slam right from WWE. He may have done too well, Orlando isn’t moving now and Gaspar thinks he killed him.

Monday – Luba is impactada when Emiliooo wakes up, Alina looks confused.

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Comments:
Thanks Ferro! Hang in there...
 

Yes, that scene between Loco and Mrs. Loco was nasty. You didn't want to look , but it was impossible to look away. Soledad, I have now lost all hope for you.
 

Thanks for the recap, Ferro. We just keep dragging ourselves along with these folks with no logical end in sight.
 

I enjoyed the recap. I am like you though in wondering about the water being poured on Alfonsina. I always wonder why, but I do not think it is sexy sorry lol. I am liking how some things are moving along but at the same time some things just seem to never change on this show. I guess I am still hooked though. Also thinks to all who welcomed me back I missed the recaps and everyone on here.
 

I count 51 more episodes, that's 8 weeks and a day. That sounds like forever, but at least there are few enough episodes left that I can actually count them instead of guessing. So in a month or so, we should start seeing commercials for whatever the next show is, right?
 

A very entertaining recap, as always. I thought Soledad looked very unhappy so I guess she's just martyring herself again to "save" her daughter.

About Alfonsina being doused in water while holding the machete -- I'll bet it is just a random commercial lead-in. For "Peregrina" they had a great bizarre commercial lead-in with Victoria finding her son's bloody body on the porch, with Peregrina sitting next to him with an "oops, sorry" expression on her face. I couldn't wait to see how THAT was going to happen on the show, but unfortunately it never did.
 

Good recap. Uncomfortable is right on the bedroom scene with Loco/Soledad. He's disgusting on every level I can even imagine. That is one of the ickiest scenes ever, he'd have to kill/drug me first...
jb
 

I don't think Loco would be above drugging /killing someone. He is crazy. At least he took his hat off.
 

Oh Chris, what a fantastic recap as usual. I do treasure you, our only man, and your masculine take on things. I'm glad you thought DL and Senora Dl were too, too gross. I almost lost it. I'm sure Carmel's right, she's martyring herself for Alina. Still, if she hadn't been such a noodle she wouldn't be there in the first place, right?

I'm glad Coral's back. I hope she stirs up trouble for Thelma. I hope Alfonsina'a dousing isn't just a bait and switch, it's one of those little mysteries that keeps me hanging on.

I'm sorry for commenting so late in the game, my server went down Saturday morning and I am taking the week off work to work on a project so no blogging at work either.

Eight weeks, huh? At least there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Highlight of the episode...Gaspar throwing Dohlando around Lucha Libre style. At last, we got to see Gaspar in wrestling action again! I wouldn't mind seeing that every week.
 

Yes, good call ,Sylvia---Soledad is a noodle. As for the opening scene of wet Alfonsia--Do you remember the opening of Alborada where we were treated to a scene of Hip in a big bed in what looked like a solarium with Luis grimming and floating to her with shirt open and sixpack glistening in the sun??? I looked forward to watching whatever scene that came from....guess what...it wasn't in the novela at all. It was just an appetizer. I think that the same is true of the water balloon/Alfonsia scene.~~~Susanlynn, lost in the moment
 

I agree about Don Loco and Soledad's love-making scene---- yuck!! There's nothing appealing about him at all. Disgusting on every level is right.

It seems that Aunt Rebecca just wants to marry Máximo for his social status. She said that if anything happens to her, she already wrote a note blaming him for it. And she STILL wants to take the risk and marry him?

Why doesn't Santos/Mínimo just go ahead and enter the Rinconada already instead of just keeping watch from outside? And why is Castulo the only person who has seen him so far?
 

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