Saturday, June 30, 2007
Destilando Amor, 6/29/07: "Licking Their Wounds..."
Rod comes looking for James at the local bar in Tequila. Unsuspecting, James greets him like his long lost brother, but Rod, impetuous as ever, plans to shoot first and ask questions later. Rod's response:"Traitor! How much did they pay you to let loose with it? Tell me! Only you knew about Gaviota and me!" James defends himself as his confidant and even his accomplice. He feels so hurt and insulted that he immediately resigns as instructor. He refuses to speak to Rod ever again, then walks off.
Back at their hotel, a frustrated and anxious Gavi grabs the pregnancy test results out of her mother's hand and reads they are negative. She's both relieved and saddened by the news. Clarita tells her it's just as well. They've been saved from the jaws of death. No time for a little one with all the problems facing them. "Think of it, though!" says Clarita. Just like in the telenovelas, if you'd had the child he'd have inherited the entire fortune, everything!" Gavi can't believe what she's hearing. "Ha! The Montalvo's would be the last to find out! --Like I would go looking for that! Don't kid yourself!"
Sofia got the airline tickets for the trip back to Tequila, but she and Grammy P will be forced to take the last flight out that night. Grammy is complaining about how disappointed she is to have to wait so long to twist her grandson's head back on straight. Suddenly, who should appear at the door of the manse but our fraudulent and faux frog, Frankie.
After getting on bended knee to kiss The Grandmother's ring, Frankie generously offers to drive them to the hacienda himself. "Nothing more relaxing than a drive," he says, showing off those sparkly whites of his. Our bodacious bad boy starts spreading it on thick. "You're in front of a master driver, I'll have you know. Why, two years ago I drove in the Grand Prix at Monte Carlo." The two biddies, aka, female fish --and are they ever-- accept Frankie's offer gleefully. (Hide the silver, Ramon!)
At breakfast Clarita tells Gavi that supposing she had been pregnant, Gavi would need to tell Rod the truth. Gavi tells Clarita that it is best she doesn't have to tell a little child how rotten a person his father was, nor to confront Rodrigo by telling him "This is the result of your love affair with me". She wouldn't want to be continually reminded of the ingrate's betrayal this way, either.
Gavi does admit though, that despite having a little one around as a constant reminder, she would want to have that child. She would be both mother and father to the child just like Clarita was for her. Clarita reminds her that the little one will be full of questions. "I'd avoid answering, just like you did with me. You did a great job raising me by yourself. Anyway, it looks like you won't have the priviledge of having grandchildren, after all."
Meanwhile, during her massage at the vacation spa, Isa gets a frantic call from Mommie Dearest that Daddy has been thrown in jail for fraud and cuts her trip short.
That same morning Oñate tells Bruno that it was Rod and Mariana's idea to start up the corporate tasting school. He offers to cancel it, but Bruno likes the idea of the company having its own tasters and wants it to stay open. He's surprised to hear that James is the one heading it, however.
Fedra comes into Bruno's office just then. She's looking for Minnie so they can finish their calls to all the tequila association members to make sure Mariana is blackballed from ever getting another job in the industry. (Never any rest for the weary, huh, Fedra?) Mad Minnie, though, is having a bad morning down the street at the Mexico City equivalent of "Babies R Us" and is wishing for all she's worth that she was pregnant again.
Crispín finds James and lets him know that the doctor from the health center had to make a house call at Dry Gulch Acres on account of Acacia having headache problems. James frantically worries that she's ill again.
Melitón asks Dr. Casillas if Acacia's bad headaches mean she might recover her memory again. The good doctor explains that she could at any moment, or it could be years down the road. He then gives Melitón some pills to help with the pain and leaves. Melitón thinks to himself that before she remembers and can open her big mouth about him they're going to be long gone from there.
Clarita has brought back a stack of newspapers full of want-ads. Either Gavi gets a job or she will. Gavi refuses to look for work there and says she's decided they'll go back to being migrant workers, but Clarita isn't having any of it. She tells Gavi that it took her two years of dedicated hard work to become the professional woman she is and no way they're going back to the old life. Gavi feels she's a loser because it obviously was useless for her to aspire to a better life as Mariana Franco, general manager and hi-falutin' corporate executive.
In the meantime, our legal eagle, the valiently persistent old Videgaray, must have figured that Pilar's warning to him was to simply avoid discussing the Mariana Franco affair with Rod; discussing things with Mariana herself would be a horse of a different color, so he makes a call to Margarita to see if she's heard anything from Mariana. He asks her that in case Mariana calls, would she let her know it is urgent that he speak to her.
Pilar and Sofia eventually arrive at Montalveña with Frankie in tow. Elvis and Dani greet them. While Sofia shows Frankie around the grounds, Pilar gets down to bidnez. She wants to know where railing Rod's gone off to. Dani explains that he's gone to settle accounts with James because he is now accusing James of giving away Gaviota's true identity to the family. "James was the only other person besides Rod who knew her secret. A shame, huh, that something else bad might happen on account of all this. Right, Grammy?" Pilar looks at her hands and frowns (at least, I think that's a frown).
Meanwhile, Rod is out walking through the burned out remains of Clarita's hut. Looking through the ashes he sees the remains of the watch he gave Gavi and grabs for it. The hut is gone, but not her memory. He fights back the tears.
Worried for Acacia's health, James goes to see Dr. Casillas and questions him about Acacia, wondering if she's gotten her memory back yet. The doctor tells him not yet. James is desperate to have her recover her memory because that is the only way Melitón will be made to pay for all the abuse towards her.
Melitón asks Crispín to spread word around that he's looking to sell his ranch since he's going off with Acacia for parts unknown. He says he just doesn't feel comfortable around there any longer. Find him a good buyer and he'll pay him a commission.
Grammy P tells Dani she's anxious to do whatever is necessary to get Rod back to his old self ASAP. She doesn't want Daniel to make excuses for her brother, either. What he did was a fit of irresponsibility. Dani says, no, it was an exorcism of sorts, and suggests that it won't be possible to reason with Rod till he is told the truth. (You go, girl! Rub her nose in it.) Grammy suspiciously asks "What truth?" Dani emphasizes to Grammy that she wants to hear Mariana's side of the story; she reminds her that they only have Aaron's version and she doesn't trust a thing Aaron has told them.
As far as Dani is concerned it would only harm Aaron and his "esteemed wife's" financial interests to allow Gaviota and Rod to enjoy a loving relationship together. Grammy sniffs and scoffs at this assertion. "No, the only one's interest at risk here is Rodrigo's, or don't you remember what class of woman we're discussing? (Pilar can at least still do a mean sniff. Her sneers are pretty convincing too. It's just those smiles that are so difficult it makes your face hurt to watch her try.)
Just then Rod enters the living room. Dani gets him aside and asks how it went. "He denied everything. Even quit his position. Perhaps it was actually Videgaray who gave her up." Rod turns to his grandmother and greets her. "So, to what do I owe your visit? Have you come to convince me to return to the city, to run me off the ranch, or to fix my marriage?" Sofie comes running over right then to tell him that Isa has definitely decided to ask for a divorce and so will not be bothering him again. She's definitely done with him.
Frankie has gotten a look at the place and knows he is in high cotton, or, rather, mescal. He introduces himself to Rod as his neighbor from the apartment in the DF and as an acquaintance of his wife's. Rod of course, doesn't remember him, not that he would have taken note of his surroundings there anyway, what with his head in the clouds over Gavi this past year. He is slow to shake the guy's hand. Frankie remarks that the estate is impressive and reminds him of Scotland's Balmoral Castle. (Come on, Frankie. That is a stretch.)
A few hours later, Mommie Dearest meets Isa at the airport and tells her that Daddy was jailed for defrauding the creditors. The judge has even seized their factory and frozen all their bank accounts. She has just got to go visit him.
Back in their hotel room, Gavi sees an ad for a native crafts import/export operation. She and Clarita get excited thinking of the possibilities if she applies. Excitedly, and out of the blue, Clarita picks up the phone and suggests she get in touch with Margarita, if just to get caught up on the gossip at the corporate offices, and perhaps to see what they've been saying about her --and about Rod too. Gavi gets upset at this suggestion. "What? To hear all about how the ingrate is happy once again in the arms of his loving wife?" (Right move, wrong reason, Clarita. Try again.) Gavi stomps off to the bathroom.
Pilar now gets her chance to speak to Rod and give him another lesson in Life According to Grammy Montalvo. "All I want to know is who gave her up, Grandma." "--That's not important. You're better off having had God open your eyes to the type of woman she was before having committed the insanity of running off with her." "--No, what's important to me is to know who conspired to tell the family about me, who was playing dirty with me."
"The only one to play dirty in the family was you, Rodrigo!" Pilar scolds. She reminds him that he's no one to judge her or anyone else in the family right now. They all know that he didn't accept that position as Corporate Director to help out the family but to be with Mariana, while covering for her, and to eventually run away with her when the time was right.
Rod doesn't deny that and apologizes for the deception, but defends his work and accomplishments there. Pilar asks him to return to Mexico City and tries to convince him to head the corporation again to "continue the great work you've accomplished there." Rod refuses point blank. "Well," sniffing again, "if you refuse to thank us for removing the bandages from your eyes and for doing right by you, so be it. My conscience is clear. However, remember that you cannot go around drinking and burning down the workers' huts! You inherited this estate so that you could get ahead in life."
Rod apologizes for what he did the night before, but he also swears if he ever went back to the Corporation he'd burn it down, too. Too many bad memories of Gaviota there, and he certainly has no desire to speak with or to see any of the family ever again. At least there, at the hacienda, are his roots, where he can follow in his granddad's footsteps and preserve the land and the estate. The hacienda is his future, if he has one, he tells her.
Gavi goes nuts from being couped up in the little hotel room and runs out and over to the nearby park. Clarita runs after her.
Pilar (talk about single-minded!) continues trying to convince Rod that he must come to his senses and return to the loving, ever-patient and "great lady" that is his wife. (Gawd, is he going to fall for this guilt trip of hers again?) To the Rodster's credit he is adamant. "NEVER, EVER!" Rod tells her that he has decided to let Vidagary continue with his divorce. He will give the apartment to Isa as part of the settlement, and like any husband in the middle of a divorce, he will continue to provide for her. He says that he hasn't yet given Vidagaray further instructions simply because he'd lost confidence in him. Grammy P pricks up her ears (I think) and asks why.
Rod says he feels it might have been Vidagaray who betrayed his confidence and gave away Gavi's identity to the family. Pilar, remembering Fedra and Minnie's warning her not to cause a split between her two grandsons by telling Rod the truth about Aaron's deception, refuses to say one way or the other. Rod gives in for a bit. "Ok. You are obviously going to continue protecting the identity of the person, aren't you."
"Princesa" finally pays a visit to her daddy in the hoosegow. It seems Daddy was kiting bad checks. Ricardo explains how he simply was "floating" a number of bad checks because he felt certain she would get Rod to co-sign those papers so that he'd have the funds in the bank in time to cover them all for his creditors. So now it is up to Isa to do something to help him out of this jam: in plain [Spanish], dialing Rod for dollars.
Ricardo whines that Rod is the only one who can get him out of there and save them all. Isa warns Daddy that if it means humiliating herself again by going back to Rod to wheedle more cash out of him, then he can for-get-it. "But, Princesa!" She turns around and leaves him screaming for her in desperation through the cell bars. (Now, this certainly gives a whole new meaning to the nickname, Ice.)
After admitting the hate-love relationship she has going with Rodrigo, Gavi suggests that she and Clarita go back to La Malquerida and she'll sing a couple of songs. Clarita warns her off the tequila. Gavi hugs her mom and says she doesn't need anything to drink in order to sing and they walk off arm in arm.
Pilar is tireless (even reminds me of that regenerating robot in "Terminator 2") and suggests to Rod that love is not always pretty words and smiles, but also full of sacrifice and pain. Two people must learn over the years to put up with each other's personality quirks and to live with their betrayals. (I truly wish this nasty old woman would stop trying to correct her dead husband's past mistakes by trying to run Rodrigo's life in the present.)
Since nothing else has convinced her grandson, Pilar now agrees to confess to him her story of 50 years keeping her marriage and familiy together despite years of silent suffering and going through an experience very similar to Isadora's . (All right!) Rod's curious. "What suffering?" The suffering, she explains, that was caused by the rumored affair her husband, Amador, supposedly had with another jornalera years ago. Though his grandfather denied everything, the truth was he was seen with her. Anyway, Amador always gave her her place as his wife and the mother of his children. She never complained and she threw herself into being the best wife and mother she could be.
Every spring, though, at harvest time Amador and she would return back to the hacienda from the city. Every night he would leave to walk through the mescal fields and would return to the house very late. Eventually, they would return to the city and her suffering would be over for another year, but that was always the most bitter month of the year for her. "Did you ever meet her?" "--No. I wasn't going to lower myself just to settle accounts with the likes of a jornalera."
Pilar continues the story. "Somewhere, some year or other, the jornalera must have finally gone her own way, because I no longer heard her singing in the fields at harvest time." Rod is struck by this bit of news and the similarity. "She used to sing? Like Gaviota?" "--Yes, just like Gaviota." "--That's strange. Grandpa never did give up walking those fields at night, you know?" Pilar is a bit surprised, but she takes it in stride. "--What matters is that I knew how to forgive him and I hung on to my husband."
Rod is sorry for his grandmother's pain, but he tells her that his and Isadora's situation is totally different. "That was yours and Granddad's love story. I don't love Isa and I never did." He tries to explain to her that it wouldn't matter if Isa forgave him again or not. The two of them only got married to avoid a life of loneliness. It was a failed attempt at keeping each other company. (Wrong, Burly Bear. It was that way for you, but Isa actually did marry for love, or lust, or at least, something like it.) "Still, think about it, son. It's not too late, or you'll be losing a terrific woman." (Is this old hag deaf, senile, or simply suffering from a form of Alzheimers?)
Rod confesses to Pilar that he will never return to Isadora. Why continue to humiliate her for nothing? He's cursed to love Gaviota and despite whatever she has done to him, to take that love to the grave. (Well, whatdayaknow? Take heart gang, 'cuz after all the deceptive goings on that Pilar has advocated and conspired in, we now have another plate of cosmic justice ready to be served up by her own hand.) Unbeknownst to Pilar, the kind of enduring, mature love she's just been referring to and has stubbornly projected onto Isadora's situation, Rod has now recognized as the kind of love he actually feels for Gaviota. (Way to go, Oh Gray-Haired One, misguided and prissy old fuddy-duddy that you are!)
In town, Crispin tells James that Meliton is planning to sell his ranch and take Acacia away with him. James is upset at the news and worries about her regaining her memory before her uncle is able to sell out and leave town with her.
Isa argues with Mommie Dearest. She tells her the same thing she told her father: "NO WAY!" No more self-debasement and humiliation. (Is this a case of tough love or maybe a first step toward fighting her co-dependency in the face of a pair of greedy, manipulative parents? Isa has her faults, but this is admirable.) "The divorce lawyers can work something out for him."
Mommie Dearest doesn't want to wait, though, because Daddy will have to stay in prison till then. (Only the little people, right, Nuria?) "We are talking about your father here!" How could Isadora do this to the man who gave her everything she ever asked for? (Our Icedora has indeed become very cold and calculating; Nuria should be proud.) "Don't worry, Mom. There'll be plenty of money once the divorce is final and I take my half the Montalvo fortune. We'll use that to take care of Dad's problems."
A bit later, Dani comes to tell Rod that she and Elvis have got to get back to the city. "I didn't hear what Grammy told you, but I can almost imagine what she said." She goes through the litany. "Did I miss anything?" "--Nope." "--Did she convince you at all?" "--No. I'm staying right here." She confesses to him then that she doesn't believe what they've been told by the others about what actually happened with the discovery of Mariana's true identity and her suddenly leaving like that. Rod tells her Pilar has tried to make it seem Vidagaray was to blame. Dani says, well, only she and James knew the truth; Rod knows it wasn't her. She is certain that the family is hiding something from the two of them; she swears that she will try to find out exactly what that is.
Back at their hotel, a frustrated and anxious Gavi grabs the pregnancy test results out of her mother's hand and reads they are negative. She's both relieved and saddened by the news. Clarita tells her it's just as well. They've been saved from the jaws of death. No time for a little one with all the problems facing them. "Think of it, though!" says Clarita. Just like in the telenovelas, if you'd had the child he'd have inherited the entire fortune, everything!" Gavi can't believe what she's hearing. "Ha! The Montalvo's would be the last to find out! --Like I would go looking for that! Don't kid yourself!"
Sofia got the airline tickets for the trip back to Tequila, but she and Grammy P will be forced to take the last flight out that night. Grammy is complaining about how disappointed she is to have to wait so long to twist her grandson's head back on straight. Suddenly, who should appear at the door of the manse but our fraudulent and faux frog, Frankie.
After getting on bended knee to kiss The Grandmother's ring, Frankie generously offers to drive them to the hacienda himself. "Nothing more relaxing than a drive," he says, showing off those sparkly whites of his. Our bodacious bad boy starts spreading it on thick. "You're in front of a master driver, I'll have you know. Why, two years ago I drove in the Grand Prix at Monte Carlo." The two biddies, aka, female fish --and are they ever-- accept Frankie's offer gleefully. (Hide the silver, Ramon!)
At breakfast Clarita tells Gavi that supposing she had been pregnant, Gavi would need to tell Rod the truth. Gavi tells Clarita that it is best she doesn't have to tell a little child how rotten a person his father was, nor to confront Rodrigo by telling him "This is the result of your love affair with me". She wouldn't want to be continually reminded of the ingrate's betrayal this way, either.
Gavi does admit though, that despite having a little one around as a constant reminder, she would want to have that child. She would be both mother and father to the child just like Clarita was for her. Clarita reminds her that the little one will be full of questions. "I'd avoid answering, just like you did with me. You did a great job raising me by yourself. Anyway, it looks like you won't have the priviledge of having grandchildren, after all."
Meanwhile, during her massage at the vacation spa, Isa gets a frantic call from Mommie Dearest that Daddy has been thrown in jail for fraud and cuts her trip short.
That same morning Oñate tells Bruno that it was Rod and Mariana's idea to start up the corporate tasting school. He offers to cancel it, but Bruno likes the idea of the company having its own tasters and wants it to stay open. He's surprised to hear that James is the one heading it, however.
Fedra comes into Bruno's office just then. She's looking for Minnie so they can finish their calls to all the tequila association members to make sure Mariana is blackballed from ever getting another job in the industry. (Never any rest for the weary, huh, Fedra?) Mad Minnie, though, is having a bad morning down the street at the Mexico City equivalent of "Babies R Us" and is wishing for all she's worth that she was pregnant again.
Crispín finds James and lets him know that the doctor from the health center had to make a house call at Dry Gulch Acres on account of Acacia having headache problems. James frantically worries that she's ill again.
Melitón asks Dr. Casillas if Acacia's bad headaches mean she might recover her memory again. The good doctor explains that she could at any moment, or it could be years down the road. He then gives Melitón some pills to help with the pain and leaves. Melitón thinks to himself that before she remembers and can open her big mouth about him they're going to be long gone from there.
Clarita has brought back a stack of newspapers full of want-ads. Either Gavi gets a job or she will. Gavi refuses to look for work there and says she's decided they'll go back to being migrant workers, but Clarita isn't having any of it. She tells Gavi that it took her two years of dedicated hard work to become the professional woman she is and no way they're going back to the old life. Gavi feels she's a loser because it obviously was useless for her to aspire to a better life as Mariana Franco, general manager and hi-falutin' corporate executive.
In the meantime, our legal eagle, the valiently persistent old Videgaray, must have figured that Pilar's warning to him was to simply avoid discussing the Mariana Franco affair with Rod; discussing things with Mariana herself would be a horse of a different color, so he makes a call to Margarita to see if she's heard anything from Mariana. He asks her that in case Mariana calls, would she let her know it is urgent that he speak to her.
Pilar and Sofia eventually arrive at Montalveña with Frankie in tow. Elvis and Dani greet them. While Sofia shows Frankie around the grounds, Pilar gets down to bidnez. She wants to know where railing Rod's gone off to. Dani explains that he's gone to settle accounts with James because he is now accusing James of giving away Gaviota's true identity to the family. "James was the only other person besides Rod who knew her secret. A shame, huh, that something else bad might happen on account of all this. Right, Grammy?" Pilar looks at her hands and frowns (at least, I think that's a frown).
Meanwhile, Rod is out walking through the burned out remains of Clarita's hut. Looking through the ashes he sees the remains of the watch he gave Gavi and grabs for it. The hut is gone, but not her memory. He fights back the tears.
Worried for Acacia's health, James goes to see Dr. Casillas and questions him about Acacia, wondering if she's gotten her memory back yet. The doctor tells him not yet. James is desperate to have her recover her memory because that is the only way Melitón will be made to pay for all the abuse towards her.
Melitón asks Crispín to spread word around that he's looking to sell his ranch since he's going off with Acacia for parts unknown. He says he just doesn't feel comfortable around there any longer. Find him a good buyer and he'll pay him a commission.
Grammy P tells Dani she's anxious to do whatever is necessary to get Rod back to his old self ASAP. She doesn't want Daniel to make excuses for her brother, either. What he did was a fit of irresponsibility. Dani says, no, it was an exorcism of sorts, and suggests that it won't be possible to reason with Rod till he is told the truth. (You go, girl! Rub her nose in it.) Grammy suspiciously asks "What truth?" Dani emphasizes to Grammy that she wants to hear Mariana's side of the story; she reminds her that they only have Aaron's version and she doesn't trust a thing Aaron has told them.
As far as Dani is concerned it would only harm Aaron and his "esteemed wife's" financial interests to allow Gaviota and Rod to enjoy a loving relationship together. Grammy sniffs and scoffs at this assertion. "No, the only one's interest at risk here is Rodrigo's, or don't you remember what class of woman we're discussing? (Pilar can at least still do a mean sniff. Her sneers are pretty convincing too. It's just those smiles that are so difficult it makes your face hurt to watch her try.)
Just then Rod enters the living room. Dani gets him aside and asks how it went. "He denied everything. Even quit his position. Perhaps it was actually Videgaray who gave her up." Rod turns to his grandmother and greets her. "So, to what do I owe your visit? Have you come to convince me to return to the city, to run me off the ranch, or to fix my marriage?" Sofie comes running over right then to tell him that Isa has definitely decided to ask for a divorce and so will not be bothering him again. She's definitely done with him.
Frankie has gotten a look at the place and knows he is in high cotton, or, rather, mescal. He introduces himself to Rod as his neighbor from the apartment in the DF and as an acquaintance of his wife's. Rod of course, doesn't remember him, not that he would have taken note of his surroundings there anyway, what with his head in the clouds over Gavi this past year. He is slow to shake the guy's hand. Frankie remarks that the estate is impressive and reminds him of Scotland's Balmoral Castle. (Come on, Frankie. That is a stretch.)
A few hours later, Mommie Dearest meets Isa at the airport and tells her that Daddy was jailed for defrauding the creditors. The judge has even seized their factory and frozen all their bank accounts. She has just got to go visit him.
Back in their hotel room, Gavi sees an ad for a native crafts import/export operation. She and Clarita get excited thinking of the possibilities if she applies. Excitedly, and out of the blue, Clarita picks up the phone and suggests she get in touch with Margarita, if just to get caught up on the gossip at the corporate offices, and perhaps to see what they've been saying about her --and about Rod too. Gavi gets upset at this suggestion. "What? To hear all about how the ingrate is happy once again in the arms of his loving wife?" (Right move, wrong reason, Clarita. Try again.) Gavi stomps off to the bathroom.
Pilar now gets her chance to speak to Rod and give him another lesson in Life According to Grammy Montalvo. "All I want to know is who gave her up, Grandma." "--That's not important. You're better off having had God open your eyes to the type of woman she was before having committed the insanity of running off with her." "--No, what's important to me is to know who conspired to tell the family about me, who was playing dirty with me."
"The only one to play dirty in the family was you, Rodrigo!" Pilar scolds. She reminds him that he's no one to judge her or anyone else in the family right now. They all know that he didn't accept that position as Corporate Director to help out the family but to be with Mariana, while covering for her, and to eventually run away with her when the time was right.
Rod doesn't deny that and apologizes for the deception, but defends his work and accomplishments there. Pilar asks him to return to Mexico City and tries to convince him to head the corporation again to "continue the great work you've accomplished there." Rod refuses point blank. "Well," sniffing again, "if you refuse to thank us for removing the bandages from your eyes and for doing right by you, so be it. My conscience is clear. However, remember that you cannot go around drinking and burning down the workers' huts! You inherited this estate so that you could get ahead in life."
Rod apologizes for what he did the night before, but he also swears if he ever went back to the Corporation he'd burn it down, too. Too many bad memories of Gaviota there, and he certainly has no desire to speak with or to see any of the family ever again. At least there, at the hacienda, are his roots, where he can follow in his granddad's footsteps and preserve the land and the estate. The hacienda is his future, if he has one, he tells her.
Gavi goes nuts from being couped up in the little hotel room and runs out and over to the nearby park. Clarita runs after her.
Pilar (talk about single-minded!) continues trying to convince Rod that he must come to his senses and return to the loving, ever-patient and "great lady" that is his wife. (Gawd, is he going to fall for this guilt trip of hers again?) To the Rodster's credit he is adamant. "NEVER, EVER!" Rod tells her that he has decided to let Vidagary continue with his divorce. He will give the apartment to Isa as part of the settlement, and like any husband in the middle of a divorce, he will continue to provide for her. He says that he hasn't yet given Vidagaray further instructions simply because he'd lost confidence in him. Grammy P pricks up her ears (I think) and asks why.
Rod says he feels it might have been Vidagaray who betrayed his confidence and gave away Gavi's identity to the family. Pilar, remembering Fedra and Minnie's warning her not to cause a split between her two grandsons by telling Rod the truth about Aaron's deception, refuses to say one way or the other. Rod gives in for a bit. "Ok. You are obviously going to continue protecting the identity of the person, aren't you."
"Princesa" finally pays a visit to her daddy in the hoosegow. It seems Daddy was kiting bad checks. Ricardo explains how he simply was "floating" a number of bad checks because he felt certain she would get Rod to co-sign those papers so that he'd have the funds in the bank in time to cover them all for his creditors. So now it is up to Isa to do something to help him out of this jam: in plain [Spanish], dialing Rod for dollars.
Ricardo whines that Rod is the only one who can get him out of there and save them all. Isa warns Daddy that if it means humiliating herself again by going back to Rod to wheedle more cash out of him, then he can for-get-it. "But, Princesa!" She turns around and leaves him screaming for her in desperation through the cell bars. (Now, this certainly gives a whole new meaning to the nickname, Ice.)
After admitting the hate-love relationship she has going with Rodrigo, Gavi suggests that she and Clarita go back to La Malquerida and she'll sing a couple of songs. Clarita warns her off the tequila. Gavi hugs her mom and says she doesn't need anything to drink in order to sing and they walk off arm in arm.
Pilar is tireless (even reminds me of that regenerating robot in "Terminator 2") and suggests to Rod that love is not always pretty words and smiles, but also full of sacrifice and pain. Two people must learn over the years to put up with each other's personality quirks and to live with their betrayals. (I truly wish this nasty old woman would stop trying to correct her dead husband's past mistakes by trying to run Rodrigo's life in the present.)
Since nothing else has convinced her grandson, Pilar now agrees to confess to him her story of 50 years keeping her marriage and familiy together despite years of silent suffering and going through an experience very similar to Isadora's . (All right!) Rod's curious. "What suffering?" The suffering, she explains, that was caused by the rumored affair her husband, Amador, supposedly had with another jornalera years ago. Though his grandfather denied everything, the truth was he was seen with her. Anyway, Amador always gave her her place as his wife and the mother of his children. She never complained and she threw herself into being the best wife and mother she could be.
Every spring, though, at harvest time Amador and she would return back to the hacienda from the city. Every night he would leave to walk through the mescal fields and would return to the house very late. Eventually, they would return to the city and her suffering would be over for another year, but that was always the most bitter month of the year for her. "Did you ever meet her?" "--No. I wasn't going to lower myself just to settle accounts with the likes of a jornalera."
Pilar continues the story. "Somewhere, some year or other, the jornalera must have finally gone her own way, because I no longer heard her singing in the fields at harvest time." Rod is struck by this bit of news and the similarity. "She used to sing? Like Gaviota?" "--Yes, just like Gaviota." "--That's strange. Grandpa never did give up walking those fields at night, you know?" Pilar is a bit surprised, but she takes it in stride. "--What matters is that I knew how to forgive him and I hung on to my husband."
Rod is sorry for his grandmother's pain, but he tells her that his and Isadora's situation is totally different. "That was yours and Granddad's love story. I don't love Isa and I never did." He tries to explain to her that it wouldn't matter if Isa forgave him again or not. The two of them only got married to avoid a life of loneliness. It was a failed attempt at keeping each other company. (Wrong, Burly Bear. It was that way for you, but Isa actually did marry for love, or lust, or at least, something like it.) "Still, think about it, son. It's not too late, or you'll be losing a terrific woman." (Is this old hag deaf, senile, or simply suffering from a form of Alzheimers?)
Rod confesses to Pilar that he will never return to Isadora. Why continue to humiliate her for nothing? He's cursed to love Gaviota and despite whatever she has done to him, to take that love to the grave. (Well, whatdayaknow? Take heart gang, 'cuz after all the deceptive goings on that Pilar has advocated and conspired in, we now have another plate of cosmic justice ready to be served up by her own hand.) Unbeknownst to Pilar, the kind of enduring, mature love she's just been referring to and has stubbornly projected onto Isadora's situation, Rod has now recognized as the kind of love he actually feels for Gaviota. (Way to go, Oh Gray-Haired One, misguided and prissy old fuddy-duddy that you are!)
In town, Crispin tells James that Meliton is planning to sell his ranch and take Acacia away with him. James is upset at the news and worries about her regaining her memory before her uncle is able to sell out and leave town with her.
Isa argues with Mommie Dearest. She tells her the same thing she told her father: "NO WAY!" No more self-debasement and humiliation. (Is this a case of tough love or maybe a first step toward fighting her co-dependency in the face of a pair of greedy, manipulative parents? Isa has her faults, but this is admirable.) "The divorce lawyers can work something out for him."
Mommie Dearest doesn't want to wait, though, because Daddy will have to stay in prison till then. (Only the little people, right, Nuria?) "We are talking about your father here!" How could Isadora do this to the man who gave her everything she ever asked for? (Our Icedora has indeed become very cold and calculating; Nuria should be proud.) "Don't worry, Mom. There'll be plenty of money once the divorce is final and I take my half the Montalvo fortune. We'll use that to take care of Dad's problems."
A bit later, Dani comes to tell Rod that she and Elvis have got to get back to the city. "I didn't hear what Grammy told you, but I can almost imagine what she said." She goes through the litany. "Did I miss anything?" "--Nope." "--Did she convince you at all?" "--No. I'm staying right here." She confesses to him then that she doesn't believe what they've been told by the others about what actually happened with the discovery of Mariana's true identity and her suddenly leaving like that. Rod tells her Pilar has tried to make it seem Vidagaray was to blame. Dani says, well, only she and James knew the truth; Rod knows it wasn't her. She is certain that the family is hiding something from the two of them; she swears that she will try to find out exactly what that is.
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How do you find the video on youtube for last night's showing. I missed Friday's.
Is it possible to find it w/o going through them all???
Is it possible to find it w/o going through them all???
Permalink posted by 
: Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 2:32:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 2:32:00 PM EDT
Well, congratulations to Isadora for finally having a little bit a pride. Anyway, no way would she sacrifice that just for her parents' benefit... they raised her to be a taker, not a giver. :)
Anon, in my experience You-Tube only has excerpts and promotional trailers from Destilando, not entire episodes. Not to mention I'm pretty sure posting entire episodes is illegal and they're cracking down on that sort of thing.
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 3:07:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 3:07:00 PM EDT
Thanks so much for the recap Jardinera. Also loved your running commentary on the awful Pilar. Though I couldn't understand all she was saying to Rod I knew it was bad/deceitful. However, I started to play the fun game (inspired by you and Beckster) "see if Pilar blinks." I only saw her blink once and this kind of distracted me from getting sick of her continuing to manipulate our Rod.
I loved the look on Pilar's face (a sneer) when Rod said he stilled loved Gavi. As you noted, Rod looks like he might be on the road to maturity. And to Pilar, honest is still the best policy. She should remember she's the one who'll have to confess this all when/if she's goes to her death on the show. The rest of her wretched family (save Dani, possibly Bruno) is amoral.
Karen
I loved the look on Pilar's face (a sneer) when Rod said he stilled loved Gavi. As you noted, Rod looks like he might be on the road to maturity. And to Pilar, honest is still the best policy. She should remember she's the one who'll have to confess this all when/if she's goes to her death on the show. The rest of her wretched family (save Dani, possibly Bruno) is amoral.
Karen
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 5:47:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 5:47:00 PM EDT
Hey, thanks for the great recap! So much detail! I only like Dani, the rest of them need a thorough shaking at least and disposal at best. When she said: "Who do you trust, your scheming cousin or your loving sweetheart?" Rod should have been listening.
Thanks for the wonderful recap..Yes, only excerpts from YouTube..
I heard on the news major crackdown on posting YouTube for copyrights & other issues..In the near future,probably won't be seeing much of this nor any other novela.
I heard on the news major crackdown on posting YouTube for copyrights & other issues..In the near future,probably won't be seeing much of this nor any other novela.
Thanks, Jardinera~~~This show is getting increasingly painful to watch. How long do you think they'll keep the lovebirds apart ?? I'm disappointed that Gavi is not pregnant. I thought for sure that she would be...like Hippolita's second pregnancy sealed the deal for Luis. Wonder where things will head next? It doesn't look like Rod will accept Isa , and Isa seems to have given up on trying to seduce Rod...she certainly gave it enough tries. However, what will she do if she discovers that she is pregnant...I think she'll try to convince Rod that she was AI. I'm looking forward to Monday's 2hour episode.
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 9:42:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 9:42:00 PM EDT
Wonderful, beautiful recap of Fridays. Don't compliment Isa too quick. She is so full of pride now but watch how she's going to swallow that pride when she needs a cover for her pregnancy. I'm happy that the lies and deciet didn't destroy Rod's love for Gavi. Does she still use the name of Mariann? Will the program really be on for 2 hours on Monday? I hope so.
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 9:45:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 9:45:00 PM EDT
A most delightful recap...laughed all the way thru...I had to read the recap cause for some strange reason the last thing I remember was Pilar's unblinking stare & I woke up in a cemetary hours later..Pilar I hear and I obey!!!
Anyway I loved the take one for the team Rod..Also do you think The Queen tried the same lines on Chuck before he married Camilla..
I still think Rod is hawt..but it makes me feel guilty like I was watching the neighbor kid mow the lawn...Rod straighten up so I don't feel guilty
Anyway I loved the take one for the team Rod..Also do you think The Queen tried the same lines on Chuck before he married Camilla..
I still think Rod is hawt..but it makes me feel guilty like I was watching the neighbor kid mow the lawn...Rod straighten up so I don't feel guilty
Great recap! Especially since my VCR ate my tape and I missed this show!! :(
I am also sad that Gav wasn't pregnant this time. I agree with Beckster about Rod. I can't wait for him to smile again.....
I am also sad that Gav wasn't pregnant this time. I agree with Beckster about Rod. I can't wait for him to smile again.....
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 10:40:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 10:40:00 PM EDT
Thanks. Friday's episodio was another one of those chalk full of exhaustingly important, clue-filled conversations of the clueless with very little action --mainly 'cause nobody was gettin' any action.....
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Melinama: touchet! Rod is seemingly always off in la-la land when anything important is being said.
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beckster/Karen: Everytime Pilar comes onto the screen now I think of that movie, "Night of the Living Dead" (the original zombies on steroids), 'cuz I mean that woman just will not die! --How did they ever end up killing those things, anyway?
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Susanlynn/beckyt: Isa you realize, HAS to return to Rod pregnant, if only to keep him and Gavi one last time from being together happily ever after till Frankie sticks his foot in it and things begin to unravel. But then, it's always the biggest rollercoasters that give you the biggest thrills and chills, isn't it? Ever been on The Hulk or The Screaming Eagle? The best novelas, I think, are just like emotional rollercoasters: the bigger the fall, the better the ride! Last weeks' fall was the biggest, baddest, bestest ever, wouldn't you agree?
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Melinama: touchet! Rod is seemingly always off in la-la land when anything important is being said.
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beckster/Karen: Everytime Pilar comes onto the screen now I think of that movie, "Night of the Living Dead" (the original zombies on steroids), 'cuz I mean that woman just will not die! --How did they ever end up killing those things, anyway?
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Susanlynn/beckyt: Isa you realize, HAS to return to Rod pregnant, if only to keep him and Gavi one last time from being together happily ever after till Frankie sticks his foot in it and things begin to unravel. But then, it's always the biggest rollercoasters that give you the biggest thrills and chills, isn't it? Ever been on The Hulk or The Screaming Eagle? The best novelas, I think, are just like emotional rollercoasters: the bigger the fall, the better the ride! Last weeks' fall was the biggest, baddest, bestest ever, wouldn't you agree?
Jardinera, your roller coaster analogy helps me deal with the stupidity of the characters.
Beckster, I had a pesadilla about Pilar last night. She wanted me to stay married to Rod. (Rod is hot, but way to high maintenance.) I was screaming and she was chasing me around the sofa like a zombie! LOL
I think Gavi will be pregnant in a few more weeks...
jb
Beckster, I had a pesadilla about Pilar last night. She wanted me to stay married to Rod. (Rod is hot, but way to high maintenance.) I was screaming and she was chasing me around the sofa like a zombie! LOL
I think Gavi will be pregnant in a few more weeks...
jb
Permalink posted by : Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 9:23:00 AM EDT
: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 9:23:00 AM EDT
I agree Jardinera, it IS like a rollercoaster, but that's how novelas, and, sometimes life is, right?
JB, what a funny nightmare about Pilar! Her eyes creep me out, I don't now why!
And, yes,Rod may be high maintence, but as Beckster says, he's one HAWT guy!
JB, what a funny nightmare about Pilar! Her eyes creep me out, I don't now why!
And, yes,Rod may be high maintence, but as Beckster says, he's one HAWT guy!
Permalink posted by : Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 10:37:00 AM EDT
: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 10:37:00 AM EDT
Jardinera, I love your roller coaster analogy because you experience the thrill or (emotional) kill whether you are on the roller coaster or even if you are a spectator. When you're on a roller coaster, the climb to the top is exciting. Reaching the top and sitting there for a split second before the fall is even more exciting. Now comes the big difference. When you're on the roller coaster, the fall is brief, yet the thrill is second only to a climax. When the ride ends and you realize your feet are on solid ground you want to do it all over again. When you're a spectator, the fall is long and painful painful. You want it to end. When it's finally over, you share the same thought as the rider, that is, you can't wait to do it all over again (watch another novela that is.
Anon 09:23, I may be wrong, but I don't think that Gavi will get pregnant soon. That would be too obvious. I think part of the plot of the story is that Aaron is trying so hard to have a heir so that he can win the fortune. Rod is so distracted until he doesn't even realize there is a race. It seems the plot is contrasting 1 primo trying to win by lies and deciet and the real winner will be the one who couldn't care less about the race against time. In my opinion, Gavi's pregnancy will happen, but not before a lot of crisis, confusion and other things that have us yelling, screaming and pulling our hair out.
Anon 09:23, I may be wrong, but I don't think that Gavi will get pregnant soon. That would be too obvious. I think part of the plot of the story is that Aaron is trying so hard to have a heir so that he can win the fortune. Rod is so distracted until he doesn't even realize there is a race. It seems the plot is contrasting 1 primo trying to win by lies and deciet and the real winner will be the one who couldn't care less about the race against time. In my opinion, Gavi's pregnancy will happen, but not before a lot of crisis, confusion and other things that have us yelling, screaming and pulling our hair out.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM EDT
: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM EDT
Speaking of nightmares, I had a very odd one a few nights ago. I dreamed that AAron came up to me and was offering sympathy at my mother's recent death. It seemed that he was going to give me a sympathetic kiss me on the cheek , but then he was zeroing in for a big mouth smooch. However, he suddenly stopped , and I noticed that Hubby had grabbed his ducktail so that he couldn't kiss me. Very protective !!! Well, I'm now dreaming about these people which means that I have tumbled even further down the telenovela rabbit hole than before. And if I have to dream about these people, why couldn't it be Rodrigoooo. I can't stand AAron. Que lastima.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 6:43:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 6:43:00 PM EDT
Jardinera, you were saying about liking the excitement. I can't take Novela excitement. In the 60's I used to watch Genral Hospital and it would get so bad I would close my eyes, ears, leave the room for minutes at a time. I finally stopped watching. Now I watched La Fea cause my tutor thought it might be good to have something specific to talk about in spanish each week. I got so involved I couldn't sleep half the time. I even watche the future episodes on YouTube and I was assured that lety and fern would be togehter in the end; yet the scenes between them and between lety and aldo kept me sooooo upset even tho I knew fern and her would be together in the end. Now with Rod and Gaviota, I am told that as far as novelas go, they will be togehter in the end after much personal growth; however, I can't even think of that when I see some of the other scenes where esa is with him and her manipulative nature. I knew she would get preg (intuition) and I knew also that she would have to come home with her tail between her legs. I figured she would convince rod it is his and this would break him and gav up again, since he swore to her he never had sex with anyone. This is sooo overwhelming for me. Doesn't anyone else get upset watching these and having an inkling of whats to come and then have a lot of anxiety????
Permalink posted by : Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 6:54:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 6:54:00 PM EDT
anon 06:54...
The involvement...the first TeleNovela I ever watched all the way thru was EEAYO...& I hated it..the women on the forum(not here)..loved the actor Cesar Evora...think Jaime Camil..& his character was such a dumbass, that I just couldn't stand it...I wouldn't watch for like a year..(I loved his recent evil twin in Mundo)
Then I watched TeleNovelas again, but never got involved..I so just didn't care...I got way too involved with LFMB..& unlike the majority of viewers I was hugely disappointed in it..I just never got the deep love thing...I never liked it after Lety went to Acapulco.
But now Destilando, hey I am all about that, but the crazier the people the better I like it...cause you just can't take it seriously..the characters are so black & white..If you are evil, you are really really evil and if you are good, well you are just dumber than dirt...it will all be okay, cause Rod & Gavi are too dumb to find anyone else..they have undying love...no Aldo is gonna come in and make out with Gavi, while Rod stands around watching..at least I hope not
The involvement...the first TeleNovela I ever watched all the way thru was EEAYO...& I hated it..the women on the forum(not here)..loved the actor Cesar Evora...think Jaime Camil..& his character was such a dumbass, that I just couldn't stand it...I wouldn't watch for like a year..(I loved his recent evil twin in Mundo)
Then I watched TeleNovelas again, but never got involved..I so just didn't care...I got way too involved with LFMB..& unlike the majority of viewers I was hugely disappointed in it..I just never got the deep love thing...I never liked it after Lety went to Acapulco.
But now Destilando, hey I am all about that, but the crazier the people the better I like it...cause you just can't take it seriously..the characters are so black & white..If you are evil, you are really really evil and if you are good, well you are just dumber than dirt...it will all be okay, cause Rod & Gavi are too dumb to find anyone else..they have undying love...no Aldo is gonna come in and make out with Gavi, while Rod stands around watching..at least I hope not
Dear Anon. 6:54pm
Absolutely we do! If you read the posts from the week before I think you'd see how down and depressed we all were. We knew it was coming. We knew it would be bad, though I don't think any of us realized exactly how bad. I felt like I was right in the room with Gavi and Aaron and taking sides, so that is pretty involved. People begin to relate to the characters' situations I think because there is always something that reminds them of a nasty incident or person in their own lives.
It's like that with sports I suppose, too, particularly when the refs make some really shady call in the playoff games. I figure that's why we end up cracking a lot of jokes, to "break the spell" and keep a healthy distance so we don't become too wrapped up in fantasy-land.
Absolutely we do! If you read the posts from the week before I think you'd see how down and depressed we all were. We knew it was coming. We knew it would be bad, though I don't think any of us realized exactly how bad. I felt like I was right in the room with Gavi and Aaron and taking sides, so that is pretty involved. People begin to relate to the characters' situations I think because there is always something that reminds them of a nasty incident or person in their own lives.
It's like that with sports I suppose, too, particularly when the refs make some really shady call in the playoff games. I figure that's why we end up cracking a lot of jokes, to "break the spell" and keep a healthy distance so we don't become too wrapped up in fantasy-land.
p.s. After reading beckster's reply, I probably better change that to a lot of us do and a lot of us don't. =/; ? )
To beckster. Destilando is awesome. No fillers like La Fea. Every moment is action and the kisses between rod and gaviota. Oh my god!!. Like on the beach when he throws her in the air and catches her and then kisses again. Their acting is so surperb, the way they express themselves and aaron although realy mal, does it well. Yet like I said earlier. Iknow rod and gav are supposed to be together in the end, yet it doesn't lesson the tension I feel watching them split up over poor communication for the second time and knowing it will happen again because of esa. I am glad that others are suffering too though ROTF. Misery likes company. Jardinera, I felt that way with gav and aaron. I wanted to put my fist through the screen and knock him for a loop.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 9:07:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 9:07:00 PM EDT
Even though this is only my second novela I'm already addicted. When my Spanish teacher first recommended watching a novela I didn't like the idea. I had never watched a soap opera. In fact, after listening to my friends, I thought it was just plain stupid to get caught up in all that fake worry and dissapointment. I couldn't imagine what could be so entertaining about getting involved in someone elses problems day after day. But, since my assignment was for extra credit, I decided to bite the bullet. It didn't take me long to understand why novelas and soap operas are so popular. After watching an episode with subtitles on my friends TV, I bought myself a new TV. My 9 year old tv didn't have subtitle ability. Now, here comes the crazy part. I love the novelas, but I dislike the roller coaster ride that they put you through. I get way too involved. I tell myself that I would really prefer a nice love story where there's only peace and harmony. Yet, the loving bond that exists between Gavi and her mom is foriegn to me because my mother was distant and cold. So, when the two of them start clinging, hugging and forehead kissing it makes me anxious. But I'm just now realizing that the real reason is because that's a part of my real like that I didn't like. But this is like a lesson to me that you have to deal with life. It comes back to haunt you even in the novelas.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 10:08:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 10:08:00 PM EDT
FYI^^^I just sat through ''Man on Fire'' to see Eduardo Yanez [I didn't like it that much when I saw it in the theater]. I had read that Eduardo played the part of a body guard in it. Well, he was listed as a bodyguard in the closing credits, but he must have been in the first half hour which I missed. However, I did see a familiar face ...the actress who played Candelaria in ''Mundo.'' [She had a very brief part as a bad lady.]
Permalink posted by : Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 10:47:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 10:47:00 PM EDT
This is great cause even though I hated the Aaron lies...I loved the jaw clenching & the facial expressions...these people are so one dimensional..the Fedra ah ha..moment, Bruno getting all indignant..I mean he is a good guy, but in true TeleNovela fashion that classifies him an AssHat, he couldn't get a clue if Fedra slipped him on in a deep kiss...Sofie is great fun, she is wound so tight..I expect her to snap and do a pool dance sooner or later...
Plus lest we forget...Minnie twisting the head of the stuffed animal in "the bebe's are us"
Isa when she narrows her TWB eyes you know she's gonna pull something and every expression of Rod's...you know he is totally incapable of a lie...No doubt he had more badges in the Tequila Eagle Scouts than any other young lad and he still has them mounted in his old bedroom...
These people make me happy...
Plus lest we forget...Minnie twisting the head of the stuffed animal in "the bebe's are us"
Isa when she narrows her TWB eyes you know she's gonna pull something and every expression of Rod's...you know he is totally incapable of a lie...No doubt he had more badges in the Tequila Eagle Scouts than any other young lad and he still has them mounted in his old bedroom...
These people make me happy...
ahhhhhhhhhhh
that would be pole dance...
Pamela does the pool dance...
Oh & by the by...
Someone tell Pam to come in from the pool now...it is dark outside
that would be pole dance...
Pamela does the pool dance...
Oh & by the by...
Someone tell Pam to come in from the pool now...it is dark outside
Beckster^^^Ahhh...I was wondering what a ''pool dance'' was...and , yes, Pamela immediately came to mind. I agree. These characters are characters...each drawn with a very broad stroke. I am anxious to see if the plot will move forward tonight or just inch along painfully. P.S. I've been in Babies R Us about 4 times in the last few months , and I was very surprised that 7 or 8 helpful sales associates were not asking Minervaaaa if she needed any help. You can barely get inside the front entrance before people are asking if you need assistance...and Minervaaa certainly looked like she needed a little assistance, didn't she ??? Do you think that the sales staff get any special training on what to do about BSC customers who are wringing the necks of little, defenseless stuffed toys. ''M'am, if you don't like that giraffe, I could show you a monkey you might like.''
Permalink posted by : Monday, July 2, 2007 at 11:02:00 AM EDT
: Monday, July 2, 2007 at 11:02:00 AM EDT
As I watched the confession of Doña Pilar about romance that her husband had 50years ago I rewinded the DVR back to the moment when Gavi was reading results of her test and the reaction of Clarita. I bet you that something was there - the way Clarita was relieved when she found that there is "no pea in a pod" and then swiching to "telenovela would be" doesn't seems right.
I wonder about the ages of these women. I think Gaviota should be in her mid twenties so it would put her mom in around 50th so may be, you know ...
At least it would sound better instead of auntie.
Just the thought.
Eve
I wonder about the ages of these women. I think Gaviota should be in her mid twenties so it would put her mom in around 50th so may be, you know ...
At least it would sound better instead of auntie.
Just the thought.
Eve
Permalink posted by : Monday, July 2, 2007 at 3:34:00 PM EDT
: Monday, July 2, 2007 at 3:34:00 PM EDT
So Clarita would be Amador's daughter, if that happened 50 years ago?
I'm thinking that Gavi is adopted, Amador took a special interest in Clarita but could never track her down again (hence the walking in the fields), and that Gavi will inherit everything when the will is read. Just a supposition.
I'm thinking that Gavi is adopted, Amador took a special interest in Clarita but could never track her down again (hence the walking in the fields), and that Gavi will inherit everything when the will is read. Just a supposition.
Yeah 50 years ago...I thought the same thing...Clarita would be the daughter..& Gavi would be the grandaughter...thus she & Rod would be 1/2 first cousings...gentically no big deal..went thru this on Guiding light..
But unless the future reading of the last part of the will..calls it out...
Gavi would not inherit anything..he cut Sofie & Dani out..they get nothing
But unless the future reading of the last part of the will..calls it out...
Gavi would not inherit anything..he cut Sofie & Dani out..they get nothing
Maybe not necessarily. She could have suffered through 50 years of a lousy marriage, but the affair might have happened later on in Pilar's marriage.
Say Bruno is the older son. He gets married later in life, i.e., 25 to 30-ish; and Aaron is the older grandson by 5 years. Rod would have come along 25-30 years after the marriage whether he is adopted or not. Then he's 25 -30 when he meets Gavi according to the original story. That gives you a span of 20-30 years plus before an affair might have taken place, and Amador could have been a cold fish for the first 20-30 years of his marriage to Pilar because theirs perhaps was an arranged/"suitable" sort of marriage and thus no special love or warmth from Amador, though there were two children from it.
Say Amador hits mid-life crisis and finally falls in love, true love for the first time in his life with Clarita who might have been 20 or so years younger than Pilar.
Gavi is now in her mid- 20's according to the original story and Rod would be close or a bit more now according to the original storyline. Pilar's character looks ancient, but could very well have been 10 years younger in the original, but I saw the actress in the original on you tube and she was ancient also.
Say Bruno is the older son. He gets married later in life, i.e., 25 to 30-ish; and Aaron is the older grandson by 5 years. Rod would have come along 25-30 years after the marriage whether he is adopted or not. Then he's 25 -30 when he meets Gavi according to the original story. That gives you a span of 20-30 years plus before an affair might have taken place, and Amador could have been a cold fish for the first 20-30 years of his marriage to Pilar because theirs perhaps was an arranged/"suitable" sort of marriage and thus no special love or warmth from Amador, though there were two children from it.
Say Amador hits mid-life crisis and finally falls in love, true love for the first time in his life with Clarita who might have been 20 or so years younger than Pilar.
Gavi is now in her mid- 20's according to the original story and Rod would be close or a bit more now according to the original storyline. Pilar's character looks ancient, but could very well have been 10 years younger in the original, but I saw the actress in the original on you tube and she was ancient also.
What does everyone think about Amador's jimadora also being a singer? That doesn't really sound like Clarita to me. But maybe the amante was another relative of Clarita's (her mom or her aunt?). And Gavi got the singing gene, but Clarita didn't.
Also, Pilar does not know for sure what happened. She told Rod what she saw Amador do, what she heard from other people. But she does not have a lot of specific proof herself. The jury is still out!
Also, Pilar does not know for sure what happened. She told Rod what she saw Amador do, what she heard from other people. But she does not have a lot of specific proof herself. The jury is still out!
That's funny. The reason I enjoy Destilando so much is because I find it funny, with no emotional strings attached. At least, not my emotions, and those are the only ones I'm worried about.
Clearly, it is not affecting everyone else the same way, but honestly, I can't take a lot of pain when it comes to my entertainment. I've got enough stress in my waking life. :)
Clearly, it is not affecting everyone else the same way, but honestly, I can't take a lot of pain when it comes to my entertainment. I've got enough stress in my waking life. :)
I've edited to get the right sense of the conversation and a better timeline reference regarding Pilar's marriage and the jornalera situation. We simply cannot know because Pilar never really put a specific timeline on the jornalera business.
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