Saturday, June 23, 2007
Destilando Amor, 6/22/07: Heartaches, Bad Takes, and Silver-tongued Snakes
Clarita and Gavi head back to their empty apartment to spend the night and sober up.
Back at the Corporation, the Montalvo family cockfight comes to a close. A shocked and scandalized Grammy P tells Aaron that she hopes he's done the right thing by handling things this way. Aaron confidently assures her that she should relax since little or nothing remains of the romance between her grandson and his hussy, the jornalera.
Proud Papa Bruno hugs his son and wishes him luck over the next year since it is make it or break it time with his Turquesa project. Fedra catches up with Aaron next and asks him how sure he is that this woman won't continue looking for Rod as it will be ruinous for their plans should they connect again and the girl be pregnant. Fedra also suggests he's now given Minnie plenty of time to give him a son and wonders how his divorce is coming along. Aaron again exudes great confidence and says in a short time he'll be free of her and will marry Pammy who is really the one able to give him that golden-child. Fedra giggles greedily.
Back in Miami Pammy is talking to Mother who reminds her that having kids could cost Pammy her life. Pammy, misguided as the rest of her starry-eyed gender looking to get hitched, figures she can change her man, being of course, our one and only blue-eyed, venomous viper, Aaron Montalvo. So even though Aaron says he wants a child from her she plans to change his mind, killing him with kindness and marital bliss (if only). Eventually Aaron will see that two people do not need children to make a happy life together. If worse comes to worst she'll suggest they adopt.(We all know that if you're planning on taking that bet, you'd better bet with the House.)
After the meeting ends Patricio, Aaron and Oñate have their own little private pow-wow. Pat is up to his neck with Aaron and his illicit tequila schemes. Now that Bruno will be back running the Corporate Office, he refuses to risk either his or his intended's necks any longer. His father would surely die from the shame should he ever find out about their dirty dealings. Aaron says fine by him, but pretty much is thinking, don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya. Oily, then, somewhat clueless, gets up to shake Pat's hand all "adios and buen viaje" (Good-bye and good travels). Pat though, in a most manly move, snubs the obnoxious sleeze and stares him down, deliberately keeping his hands at his side as he suavely exits through the doorway.
Aaron tells Oñate then that he'll need to scope out his daddy's NY clients for him to see which ones might be amenable to their way of doin' bidnez. Aaron is feeling like king cock now, so as a reward for Oñate's dilligent scullduggery in the matter of Mariana and the marginal tequila, he tells him about his lie to the family about the payoff money for Mariana. Aaron explains that since the family already thinks the money's been paid to her, he is giving Oñate Mariana's 5 million peso payoff instead.
Rod follows Minnie home and walks her up to her apartment. Instead of thanking him for doing the gentlemanly thing, she lites into him for having taken up with this slut and causing the family and her all this trouble. He should have known better, blah, blah. "It's all YOUR fault, Rodrigo. Just how far are you planning to go for that woman, huh?" Rod is in anguish and in no mood to listen to her "absurd accusations". He tells her so and storms out, slamming the door behind him, in a most admirable fashion.
When Gavi and Clarita arrive back at the apartment building, the kid who'd been washing windows earlier that the afternoon tells the two of them that Rod was there looking for them then. Gavi, incredibly, refuses to recognize clue #1 of Aaron's tall tale: that Rod's actually being there means he's back in Mexico City as planned, instead of at the Hacienda avoiding her like Aaron had told her. She pointedly tells the kid that if he shows up again to tell him they've split for parts unknown. Clarita is visibly concerned about that, but figures it's her daughter's choice and says nothing.
Clarita tries to talk some sense into her stubborn daughter's head that night. She tells her to at least listen to what Rod has to say. Perhaps he was told a pack of lies, or perhaps both of them had been told a pack of lies and Rod wants to know her side of things. Wouldn't she want to know his version? Unable to think clearly that others looking for dirt on her for whatever reason could have had the initiative to dig into her past or her recent comings and goings in Manzanillo on their own, she readily believes that the only one who knew and thus could have told Aaron was Rodrigo himself.
Gavi imagines that he's come by to talk her out of causing a scandal that might wreck his marriage and hurt the woman he really loves, Isadora.She fears he'll sweet talk her into believing his lies and she doesn't want to hear his pretty words or to be drawn into his net ever again. (Having to listen to all this convoluted reasoning of hers, I'm ready to down tequila shots myself.) Clarita defends Rod and says his cousin could be the one slinging slop. "Who's the drunk one here, Ma? You or me? And whose side are you on, anyway? No, the only person with the big fat mouth was Rodrigo! "
Dani greets Grammy and asks her about the meeting and what happened. Grammy Pilar tells her all the horrible things she can remember that Aaron told them all about Gaviota/Mariana Franco. Dani has a hard time believing them but doesn't argue. She figures she'll talk to Rod about it directly, but of course, he never ever called her back. She secretly hopes it's because he's found Gaviota and run off with her after all. Grammy then expounds on all the virtues of Sofia's new love-interest. Dani tells her they have very different ideas of what makes a good match when who should appear on cue from the kitchen with a snack tray for Grammy, but Elvis.
Meanwhile Sofia and Frankie are cuttin' a mean rug at a classy club somewhere. He's gyrating, bumping and grinding in true John Travolta wanna-be style on the dance floor. Frankie's quickly becoming quite the center of attention, while Sofia looks on admiringly, making Monster Mash moves of her own. When, mercifully, this embarrassingly lame excursion of Sofia's into dancing-with-the-stars-for-the groom-of-my-dreams ends, she asks Footloose Frankie to ask for the check. She tells him she's got some unutterable family problems that really need attention so they'll have to go now.
At the same time across town, it's painfully obvious that The Heavenly Powers That Be had a whole list of priorities tonight and Gavi didn't make the cut. So, in another disparaging act of self-pity, Gavi remembers her first arrival on their little island when Rod promised to devote his whole life to making her happy. She sadly accuses him of betraying both her love and his wife's.
Rod, after dropping off Minnie, continues to cry while driving aimlessly in circles. Eventually he needs gas and makes a final attempt to call Gaviota from his cell while filling the car up. However, he sees the "no cell phones allowed" symbol painted on the pump and takes it as a sign. He declares he will not call anyone, not even Gaviota anymore, and in a fit of anger or frustration throws the cell down into the console.
Isa is back in the apartment tearing up the old wedding album photos while cursing her hubby and his harlot to the max. Suddenly the phone rings and it's Daddy calling to see if she got Rod to co-sign for the bank loan. Isa tells him no and he'll have to wait till the morning. Daddy is pacing the floor, sweatin' bullets, and tells "Princesa" that he cannot wait till the morning. He offers to come over to help her persuade Rodrigo somehow.
Aaron arrives home late to find Mad Minnie waiting up and ready to rip him a new one. He manages to get Minnie to calm down long enough to listen to what the real scoop is about him and Gaviota. He explains it was all a ruse and that he never ever had had a relationship with her; that it was necessary to say all those things for "their" plans to succeed. He tells her that he realized that Gaviota was in earnest when he saw how vehemently she defended their love for each other. No, she has had only one man in her life and that man is Rodrigo. She's really an intelligent, honest, and hard-working woman. He remarks that she never took any money and even gave back both the car that was nearly completely paid for as well as her cell. That being the case, Gaviota would be a far more dangerous person to them than they ever would have suspected: it was very evident to him that the woman is as hopelessly in love with his cousin as his cousin is with her.
Aaron repeats that If he hadn't told such a malicious pack of lies to the family, they'd have added up all Mariana's virtues and gone over to Mariana's side, even, eventually blessing a union with Rod and accepting his child, should she get pregnant. Their problem he tells Minerva, while he begins to seduce her, is that Rod and Mariana simply love each other too much for anyone's good.
Frankie convinces Sofi to eat first. During dinner he tells her that he lost his job as a Public Relations whizzkid. Daddy wonders if he'll finally settle into some line of meaningful work, like science or becoming a diplomat. Then he snows her with some romantic drivel that he simply doesn't care about money if there is no one to love and to share it with. Sofia, fish that she is, she wants to pay when the check finally comes, telling him she can wait till he settles his future to pay her back. He refuses, grabs the check and takes the waiter aside. Footloose tells him quietly to put the check on "his brother, Esteffano's," account and returns to the table. Sweeping Sofia off her two left feet, he declares her to be the woman he's been waiting for all his life and asks her if she will agree to go steady and to wear his I.D. bracelet.
Daddy and Mommie Dearest come by Isa's apartment to beg her to have Rodrigo co-sign the papers that night since he has a meeting with the creditors the very next morning. Isa refuses and tells her parents that her sham marriage is D.O.A.; there'll be no reconciliation this time because her husband has another woman with whom he's probably spending the night, the same woman in fact that he warned her about before the wedding. She tells them she was a fool to have ever agreed to such a ridiculous marriage and to a set of rules even more ridiculous. Daddy will have to deal with his creditors some other way. Daddy will just have to take it up with her divorce lawyer to settle up and give him some of the cash to help him out of his business problems. She will stay put at the apartment a little longer to figure out her future and then she wants to go on a trip for a while.
Frankie and Sofia pull up and park outside Grammy Pilar's and joke a bit about Fairy Godmothers and his turning into a frog if Sofia doesn't give him 3 kisses before midnight or something. The regular writers must have given it over to the summer interns for a few scenes while they went outside for a couple three tokes 'cuz, now, in that sweet little red Alfa-male Romeo borrowed ride of his we are forced to watch Sofia and her Frog Prince, lamely croaking "ribbet, ribbet" and making out and giggling like two 6th graders just back from the junior prom. At first Sofia reprimands Frankie for daring to kiss her, but then she finally gives in as we, and Frankie the Faux Frog, all knew she must, the third time being the charm and all.....
Later that night, as he gets out of the apartment elevator, Frankie is still practicing his moves and gives himself an imaginary Oscar for best actor in a romantic lead. Just then Isa comes out and walks her parents to the elevator; they all greet one another and Frankie goes into his apartment. (Shades of Pilar here, but doesn't it seem strange that Isa would walk out into the hallway in her dressing gown, greet a man who is not her husband, and neither parent even winces?)
Once Daddy and Mommie Dearest are gone, Isa toys with the idea of knocking on Frankie's apartment door looking for sex and sympathy. She stops in mid-knock, thinks better about it, and goes back into her own apartment to spend her night alone.
The next morning Clarita convinces Gavi to call the hacienda and check on the sugarless agave crop crisis to see if it was truly a problem. Of course, she calls the factory claiming to be a farmer thinking they were still needing the extra tonnage and James takes the call. James, of course, doesn't recognize her voice and tells her that it was just a rumor, rather than giving any of the sordid details. Gavi has a morning after the night before hangover, and is depressed so she is obviously not her usual quick-witted self; and she doesn't really ask for any details. (Me, I'd have pretended to be someone from the home office so they'd feel comfortable in giving me all the corporate insider, in-the-know, juicy details instead of glossing over them and blowing me off as part of the no-need-to-know general public.)
Heartsick from what she assumes from hearingJames' half-baked answer, Gavi tells Clarita that the agave problem was a lie; and what Aaron told her about Rod leaving town to avoid facing her was true. She stands there, in total denial. Having convinced herself of the worst, she tells herself that Rod really loves his wife and had only used her after all. She swears never to see him again and to start her life over where the Montalvos cannot threaten them.
About that time, Rod arrives back at the hacienda. Roman greets him but says he's surprised to see him there. "What, this is still my home, isn't it?" Roman answers of course then tells him to call back to the city because the whole family is worried sick about him . Dani and Pilar have been calling all night long. Rod is distraught and says he is not going to call or talk to anyone. "If anybody calls, tell them that I am no longer alive." "--What?" Roman doesn't follow.
Gavi and Clarita find themselves a cheap little hotel for the next few days. Clarita asks why they didn't just stay with Jose a bit till they got their bearings; it would have been cheaper for them. Gavi says they need to steer clear of their old haunts for a while to keep the Montalvo's from finding them and carrying through with their threats to throw her in jail. They'll trust God to direct them. She swears to her mother then and there that they will live decent lives. "We will not give the Montalvos the pleasure of seeing us bite the dust!"
Again Rod tells Roman to put an announcement in the newspaper that next morning that he's dead and to say Gaviota killed him. Roman can't believe the gibberish coming out of the patron's mouth. "Say what?" "Tell them Rodrigo Montalvo has passed away and was killed by Gaviota." He sits down on the stairs with tears streaming down his cheeks. "Gaviota killed me. Gaviota killed me, Ramon. She took my life from me and broke my heart."
Back at the Corporation, the Montalvo family cockfight comes to a close. A shocked and scandalized Grammy P tells Aaron that she hopes he's done the right thing by handling things this way. Aaron confidently assures her that she should relax since little or nothing remains of the romance between her grandson and his hussy, the jornalera.
Proud Papa Bruno hugs his son and wishes him luck over the next year since it is make it or break it time with his Turquesa project. Fedra catches up with Aaron next and asks him how sure he is that this woman won't continue looking for Rod as it will be ruinous for their plans should they connect again and the girl be pregnant. Fedra also suggests he's now given Minnie plenty of time to give him a son and wonders how his divorce is coming along. Aaron again exudes great confidence and says in a short time he'll be free of her and will marry Pammy who is really the one able to give him that golden-child. Fedra giggles greedily.
Back in Miami Pammy is talking to Mother who reminds her that having kids could cost Pammy her life. Pammy, misguided as the rest of her starry-eyed gender looking to get hitched, figures she can change her man, being of course, our one and only blue-eyed, venomous viper, Aaron Montalvo. So even though Aaron says he wants a child from her she plans to change his mind, killing him with kindness and marital bliss (if only). Eventually Aaron will see that two people do not need children to make a happy life together. If worse comes to worst she'll suggest they adopt.(We all know that if you're planning on taking that bet, you'd better bet with the House.)
After the meeting ends Patricio, Aaron and Oñate have their own little private pow-wow. Pat is up to his neck with Aaron and his illicit tequila schemes. Now that Bruno will be back running the Corporate Office, he refuses to risk either his or his intended's necks any longer. His father would surely die from the shame should he ever find out about their dirty dealings. Aaron says fine by him, but pretty much is thinking, don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya. Oily, then, somewhat clueless, gets up to shake Pat's hand all "adios and buen viaje" (Good-bye and good travels). Pat though, in a most manly move, snubs the obnoxious sleeze and stares him down, deliberately keeping his hands at his side as he suavely exits through the doorway.
Aaron tells Oñate then that he'll need to scope out his daddy's NY clients for him to see which ones might be amenable to their way of doin' bidnez. Aaron is feeling like king cock now, so as a reward for Oñate's dilligent scullduggery in the matter of Mariana and the marginal tequila, he tells him about his lie to the family about the payoff money for Mariana. Aaron explains that since the family already thinks the money's been paid to her, he is giving Oñate Mariana's 5 million peso payoff instead.
Rod follows Minnie home and walks her up to her apartment. Instead of thanking him for doing the gentlemanly thing, she lites into him for having taken up with this slut and causing the family and her all this trouble. He should have known better, blah, blah. "It's all YOUR fault, Rodrigo. Just how far are you planning to go for that woman, huh?" Rod is in anguish and in no mood to listen to her "absurd accusations". He tells her so and storms out, slamming the door behind him, in a most admirable fashion.
When Gavi and Clarita arrive back at the apartment building, the kid who'd been washing windows earlier that the afternoon tells the two of them that Rod was there looking for them then. Gavi, incredibly, refuses to recognize clue #1 of Aaron's tall tale: that Rod's actually being there means he's back in Mexico City as planned, instead of at the Hacienda avoiding her like Aaron had told her. She pointedly tells the kid that if he shows up again to tell him they've split for parts unknown. Clarita is visibly concerned about that, but figures it's her daughter's choice and says nothing.
Clarita tries to talk some sense into her stubborn daughter's head that night. She tells her to at least listen to what Rod has to say. Perhaps he was told a pack of lies, or perhaps both of them had been told a pack of lies and Rod wants to know her side of things. Wouldn't she want to know his version? Unable to think clearly that others looking for dirt on her for whatever reason could have had the initiative to dig into her past or her recent comings and goings in Manzanillo on their own, she readily believes that the only one who knew and thus could have told Aaron was Rodrigo himself.
Gavi imagines that he's come by to talk her out of causing a scandal that might wreck his marriage and hurt the woman he really loves, Isadora.She fears he'll sweet talk her into believing his lies and she doesn't want to hear his pretty words or to be drawn into his net ever again. (Having to listen to all this convoluted reasoning of hers, I'm ready to down tequila shots myself.) Clarita defends Rod and says his cousin could be the one slinging slop. "Who's the drunk one here, Ma? You or me? And whose side are you on, anyway? No, the only person with the big fat mouth was Rodrigo! "
Dani greets Grammy and asks her about the meeting and what happened. Grammy Pilar tells her all the horrible things she can remember that Aaron told them all about Gaviota/Mariana Franco. Dani has a hard time believing them but doesn't argue. She figures she'll talk to Rod about it directly, but of course, he never ever called her back. She secretly hopes it's because he's found Gaviota and run off with her after all. Grammy then expounds on all the virtues of Sofia's new love-interest. Dani tells her they have very different ideas of what makes a good match when who should appear on cue from the kitchen with a snack tray for Grammy, but Elvis.
Meanwhile Sofia and Frankie are cuttin' a mean rug at a classy club somewhere. He's gyrating, bumping and grinding in true John Travolta wanna-be style on the dance floor. Frankie's quickly becoming quite the center of attention, while Sofia looks on admiringly, making Monster Mash moves of her own. When, mercifully, this embarrassingly lame excursion of Sofia's into dancing-with-the-stars-for-the groom-of-my-dreams ends, she asks Footloose Frankie to ask for the check. She tells him she's got some unutterable family problems that really need attention so they'll have to go now.
At the same time across town, it's painfully obvious that The Heavenly Powers That Be had a whole list of priorities tonight and Gavi didn't make the cut. So, in another disparaging act of self-pity, Gavi remembers her first arrival on their little island when Rod promised to devote his whole life to making her happy. She sadly accuses him of betraying both her love and his wife's.
Rod, after dropping off Minnie, continues to cry while driving aimlessly in circles. Eventually he needs gas and makes a final attempt to call Gaviota from his cell while filling the car up. However, he sees the "no cell phones allowed" symbol painted on the pump and takes it as a sign. He declares he will not call anyone, not even Gaviota anymore, and in a fit of anger or frustration throws the cell down into the console.
Isa is back in the apartment tearing up the old wedding album photos while cursing her hubby and his harlot to the max. Suddenly the phone rings and it's Daddy calling to see if she got Rod to co-sign for the bank loan. Isa tells him no and he'll have to wait till the morning. Daddy is pacing the floor, sweatin' bullets, and tells "Princesa" that he cannot wait till the morning. He offers to come over to help her persuade Rodrigo somehow.
Aaron arrives home late to find Mad Minnie waiting up and ready to rip him a new one. He manages to get Minnie to calm down long enough to listen to what the real scoop is about him and Gaviota. He explains it was all a ruse and that he never ever had had a relationship with her; that it was necessary to say all those things for "their" plans to succeed. He tells her that he realized that Gaviota was in earnest when he saw how vehemently she defended their love for each other. No, she has had only one man in her life and that man is Rodrigo. She's really an intelligent, honest, and hard-working woman. He remarks that she never took any money and even gave back both the car that was nearly completely paid for as well as her cell. That being the case, Gaviota would be a far more dangerous person to them than they ever would have suspected: it was very evident to him that the woman is as hopelessly in love with his cousin as his cousin is with her.
Aaron repeats that If he hadn't told such a malicious pack of lies to the family, they'd have added up all Mariana's virtues and gone over to Mariana's side, even, eventually blessing a union with Rod and accepting his child, should she get pregnant. Their problem he tells Minerva, while he begins to seduce her, is that Rod and Mariana simply love each other too much for anyone's good.
Frankie convinces Sofi to eat first. During dinner he tells her that he lost his job as a Public Relations whizzkid. Daddy wonders if he'll finally settle into some line of meaningful work, like science or becoming a diplomat. Then he snows her with some romantic drivel that he simply doesn't care about money if there is no one to love and to share it with. Sofia, fish that she is, she wants to pay when the check finally comes, telling him she can wait till he settles his future to pay her back. He refuses, grabs the check and takes the waiter aside. Footloose tells him quietly to put the check on "his brother, Esteffano's," account and returns to the table. Sweeping Sofia off her two left feet, he declares her to be the woman he's been waiting for all his life and asks her if she will agree to go steady and to wear his I.D. bracelet.
Daddy and Mommie Dearest come by Isa's apartment to beg her to have Rodrigo co-sign the papers that night since he has a meeting with the creditors the very next morning. Isa refuses and tells her parents that her sham marriage is D.O.A.; there'll be no reconciliation this time because her husband has another woman with whom he's probably spending the night, the same woman in fact that he warned her about before the wedding. She tells them she was a fool to have ever agreed to such a ridiculous marriage and to a set of rules even more ridiculous. Daddy will have to deal with his creditors some other way. Daddy will just have to take it up with her divorce lawyer to settle up and give him some of the cash to help him out of his business problems. She will stay put at the apartment a little longer to figure out her future and then she wants to go on a trip for a while.
Frankie and Sofia pull up and park outside Grammy Pilar's and joke a bit about Fairy Godmothers and his turning into a frog if Sofia doesn't give him 3 kisses before midnight or something. The regular writers must have given it over to the summer interns for a few scenes while they went outside for a couple three tokes 'cuz, now, in that sweet little red Alfa-male Romeo borrowed ride of his we are forced to watch Sofia and her Frog Prince, lamely croaking "ribbet, ribbet" and making out and giggling like two 6th graders just back from the junior prom. At first Sofia reprimands Frankie for daring to kiss her, but then she finally gives in as we, and Frankie the Faux Frog, all knew she must, the third time being the charm and all.....
Later that night, as he gets out of the apartment elevator, Frankie is still practicing his moves and gives himself an imaginary Oscar for best actor in a romantic lead. Just then Isa comes out and walks her parents to the elevator; they all greet one another and Frankie goes into his apartment. (Shades of Pilar here, but doesn't it seem strange that Isa would walk out into the hallway in her dressing gown, greet a man who is not her husband, and neither parent even winces?)
Once Daddy and Mommie Dearest are gone, Isa toys with the idea of knocking on Frankie's apartment door looking for sex and sympathy. She stops in mid-knock, thinks better about it, and goes back into her own apartment to spend her night alone.
The next morning Clarita convinces Gavi to call the hacienda and check on the sugarless agave crop crisis to see if it was truly a problem. Of course, she calls the factory claiming to be a farmer thinking they were still needing the extra tonnage and James takes the call. James, of course, doesn't recognize her voice and tells her that it was just a rumor, rather than giving any of the sordid details. Gavi has a morning after the night before hangover, and is depressed so she is obviously not her usual quick-witted self; and she doesn't really ask for any details. (Me, I'd have pretended to be someone from the home office so they'd feel comfortable in giving me all the corporate insider, in-the-know, juicy details instead of glossing over them and blowing me off as part of the no-need-to-know general public.)
Heartsick from what she assumes from hearingJames' half-baked answer, Gavi tells Clarita that the agave problem was a lie; and what Aaron told her about Rod leaving town to avoid facing her was true. She stands there, in total denial. Having convinced herself of the worst, she tells herself that Rod really loves his wife and had only used her after all. She swears never to see him again and to start her life over where the Montalvos cannot threaten them.
About that time, Rod arrives back at the hacienda. Roman greets him but says he's surprised to see him there. "What, this is still my home, isn't it?" Roman answers of course then tells him to call back to the city because the whole family is worried sick about him . Dani and Pilar have been calling all night long. Rod is distraught and says he is not going to call or talk to anyone. "If anybody calls, tell them that I am no longer alive." "--What?" Roman doesn't follow.
Gavi and Clarita find themselves a cheap little hotel for the next few days. Clarita asks why they didn't just stay with Jose a bit till they got their bearings; it would have been cheaper for them. Gavi says they need to steer clear of their old haunts for a while to keep the Montalvo's from finding them and carrying through with their threats to throw her in jail. They'll trust God to direct them. She swears to her mother then and there that they will live decent lives. "We will not give the Montalvos the pleasure of seeing us bite the dust!"
Again Rod tells Roman to put an announcement in the newspaper that next morning that he's dead and to say Gaviota killed him. Roman can't believe the gibberish coming out of the patron's mouth. "Say what?" "Tell them Rodrigo Montalvo has passed away and was killed by Gaviota." He sits down on the stairs with tears streaming down his cheeks. "Gaviota killed me. Gaviota killed me, Ramon. She took my life from me and broke my heart."
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I can't stand this part, with all the lies and idiotic decisions. I am going to abstain (except for Wednesdays of course) until they play fair again. So I'll really need the recaps!
I don't blame you, Melinama, but they're just as painful to write up and read through as watching the original episode, I figure. =/;>)
Actually... I would say reading the recap wasn't nearly as painful as watching the episode. Watching Frankie do the frog thing was a unique and special kind of torture.
Thanks Jardinera, we appreciate the dedication you have to recap something so ridiculous--or painful as Julie said, with Frankie the froggie.
I read recently: When two people "fall in love" they are people lonely within their personal boundaries and long to connect with others. Falling in love allows them temporarily to blend their identities, bringing about a release from loneliness and from oneself. Also, that the act of falling in love causes a person to regress, to go back to infancy. That sure seems obvious with our love babies...
jb
I read recently: When two people "fall in love" they are people lonely within their personal boundaries and long to connect with others. Falling in love allows them temporarily to blend their identities, bringing about a release from loneliness and from oneself. Also, that the act of falling in love causes a person to regress, to go back to infancy. That sure seems obvious with our love babies...
jb
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: Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 3:44:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 3:44:00 PM EDT
jb: I don't follow this part of your statement. "Also, that the act of falling in love causes a person to regress..." Care to expound? Tks!
Sure, the article said: Being in love is not the same as love and it is not intimate. When someone is in love with another, he idealizes the other and loves that ideal rather than the real person. In the early states, body chemistry is activated and each person is extremely attentive and involved, which produces intense feelings. This would be called involvement, rather than a relationship. The closeness feels good, and each feels flattered by the attention received from the other. The act of falling in love causes the person to regress, to go back to infancy. A young child feels omnipotent, and falling in love produces that feeling. The feeling is unrealistic and compares to the grandiose feelings of a two year old who believes she has all the power. A couple can't sustain the intensity characteristic and when this slows down, they can feel disappointed, rejected, etc. Many times when a couple falls out of love they may begin to really love. However, I don't think our Rod and Gavi have gotten past the infactuation stage and are acting like two year olds...
jb
jb
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 4:08:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 4:08:00 PM EDT
Wouldn't two people so madly in love as Gavi & Rod not want to meet face to face to find out each other's side of these vicious lies told by Aaron? Instead, they run in the opposite direction believing the worst..Their lack of faith in each other is amazing.
Last night was anther painful episode. I feel Rodrigo will give in to the advances of TWB and she'll end up embarazada..His total impulsive behavior has helped to ignite this around & around saga..Now he's reaping the consequences..
Hopefully, Gavi will again come into her own as an astute business woman based on truth..She's a very, very smart woman..We can only hope she will one day own Montalvos..Can it be?
Last night was anther painful episode. I feel Rodrigo will give in to the advances of TWB and she'll end up embarazada..His total impulsive behavior has helped to ignite this around & around saga..Now he's reaping the consequences..
Hopefully, Gavi will again come into her own as an astute business woman based on truth..She's a very, very smart woman..We can only hope she will one day own Montalvos..Can it be?
Export: yep. I don't remember another telenovela as fated and painful since watching Amarte Es Mi Pecado.
I really doubt that Isa will ever get pregnant. After being with Frankie, Hilario and Aaron, she still hasn't managed it! Her and Minnie might as well forget it.
This particular show was tedious with Frankie the frog sucking face again......
And, Rod, oh Rod....tooo sad.
This particular show was tedious with Frankie the frog sucking face again......
And, Rod, oh Rod....tooo sad.
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 5:47:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 5:47:00 PM EDT
Nah,...No way..Rod will never do Isa, or anyone else for that matter...it was well established in the beginning that despite having someone in bed, bumping and grinding so on so forth...Rod couldn't do the job...remember the scorn of the heavily accented English chick..Rod can't complete the act..
However throw in some X, some EDF meds, a quart of Tequila and that much played cassette & well...all bets off.
However throw in some X, some EDF meds, a quart of Tequila and that much played cassette & well...all bets off.
Thanks for the recap Jardinera. Though the episode was painful, I had fun watching it with friends. While I'm not a fan of Sophie's, watching her fall for Frankie's moves was so pityful. James may be a goof but Frankie's is icky!!
Also Jardinera what did you mean by "Shades of Pilar" when you were talking about Isa and her parents in the hallway with Frankie?
Karen
Also Jardinera what did you mean by "Shades of Pilar" when you were talking about Isa and her parents in the hallway with Frankie?
Karen
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 7:25:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 7:25:00 PM EDT
Another excellent recap of an intensely thrilling episode. I also feel like not watching a replay of the suffering lovebirds. For two cents I'd just read the recaps and comments. But I don't have the courage of my convictions. An even better excuse is that I'm learning a lot of Spanish vocabulary because I keep a pad and pencil nearby. Anyway, if the writers plan to stretch out the part about the heartbreak, the least they could do is entertain us with some good revenge. For example, I'd love to see the crumbling and destruction of the Montalvo empire. I was so happy to see Aaron confiding in Minerva and Ornate. I have the feeling they are going to betray him big time. While the writers string us along I hope there's not too many fillers with James and Acacia or Sophie and Frankie. I think we got the picture.
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 7:49:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 7:49:00 PM EDT
Thanks, Diane.
Karen: I meant that Pilar is a straight-laced, ultra-conservative old grandma. I'm 20 years younger than the character, & my daughter is 20+ years younger than I, but I still would've thrown a hissyfit at her if she'd gone out in the hallway in a dressing gown, let alone had been greeted by a single young male neighbor in one. Pilar would have had a hissyfit also.
Karen: I meant that Pilar is a straight-laced, ultra-conservative old grandma. I'm 20 years younger than the character, & my daughter is 20+ years younger than I, but I still would've thrown a hissyfit at her if she'd gone out in the hallway in a dressing gown, let alone had been greeted by a single young male neighbor in one. Pilar would have had a hissyfit also.
I think that esa will use the date rape pill on rod and have sex with him, "after" she finds out she is preg by one of her many men. That way she can say it is his, when they made love, even though he doesn't remember. That happened on Amor de Fieres. Gab's xwife had sex with him while he was out of it. I bet this happens to rod, but not to have a baby by him, only to be able to say that her pregancy is his. THENNNNN Gaviota hears she is preg and tells herself that he lied to her about not going to bed with esa and she runs even further away ROTF.
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 9:41:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 9:41:00 PM EDT
As bad as I feel for Gavi, I don't think she should rise from rags to riches by ending up with the Montalvo fortune unless it's according to the Will. Any probate court in the USA would uphold the wishes of the deceased and he gave very specific instructions. Not to worry, I do believe she'll end up with it, but rightfully by marrying Rod having his baby.
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 9:43:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 9:43:00 PM EDT
Anon 9:41, I agree with your opinion except about the date rape drug. Remember that artificial insimination episode. I believe she's going to pretend that the doctor artifically insimenated her. Even though Rod told the Doctor to put everything on hold, he's too kind hearted and naive to not go through the motions of being a good and caring expectant father.
Permalink posted by : Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 9:51:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 9:51:00 PM EDT
Anon 9:51..You are on the same page as myself. Embarazada is on the horizon for Isadora..The storyline has to work out that way in order for her to hold onto Rodrigo..She will buy off the doctors to have this happen..Desperate women do desperate things. That's the only scenario in this movela that makes sense to keep us on the edge of our seats.
Minnie is apt to end up that way as well to hold onto Aaron. Pammie in the bathing suit always standing by the pool, may have to wait before she picks out her china pattern for the wedding with Aaron. When Aaron mentioned "baby" the other day,she had a strange look on her face.. Well, my imagination is working overtime this morning..
Minnie is apt to end up that way as well to hold onto Aaron. Pammie in the bathing suit always standing by the pool, may have to wait before she picks out her china pattern for the wedding with Aaron. When Aaron mentioned "baby" the other day,she had a strange look on her face.. Well, my imagination is working overtime this morning..
My thoughts on the pregnancies: if everyone got pregnant that same week, it will be a tight race to see whose pops out first. Isa's would not be a legitimate heir, but nobody would know if she gets to lie about the AI stuff, unless he looks like Frankie the Frog. --They all pretend on these things that a baby doesn't have distinct features of both parents so the ruse can go on and that tries my patience.
If Isa gets pregnant and Minnie isn't, then Isa's and that fetus's lives will probably be in danger from Aaron. Same goes for Gavi. If Minnie gets pregnant again, Pamela will be kicked to the side, but she's useless as a character for anything else.
If Minnie doesn't get pregnant and is faced with a divorce decree by default for not having received & responded to the 3 court notices, she might change sides to either Isa's, or later on to Gavi's, to help her once she finds out about Isa and Aaron's affair. OR for now, if she finds out about the divorce before it's finalized she could always threaten Aaron with telling the truth to the family about the illegal Tequila shipments. She then becomes a candidate for murder.
If Isa gets pregnant and Minnie isn't, then Isa's and that fetus's lives will probably be in danger from Aaron. Same goes for Gavi. If Minnie gets pregnant again, Pamela will be kicked to the side, but she's useless as a character for anything else.
If Minnie doesn't get pregnant and is faced with a divorce decree by default for not having received & responded to the 3 court notices, she might change sides to either Isa's, or later on to Gavi's, to help her once she finds out about Isa and Aaron's affair. OR for now, if she finds out about the divorce before it's finalized she could always threaten Aaron with telling the truth to the family about the illegal Tequila shipments. She then becomes a candidate for murder.
This is becoming hard to watch..no happiness, love, or release ...just torture. I'm a little confused about the divorce and the 3 notices...Has Minervaaa already been served one notice ? Also, I'm not sure where this is going , but I think Gavi is pregnant. I think that Isa will soon find out she is pregnant and finallt succeed in seducing Rodrigooo [boooo] to make him believe the baby is his, and he will succumb to her charms [??? whatever] after once again resorting to drowning his sorrows in tequila [the drug of choice in this particular novela] because he believes that Gavi was AAron's amante.[To which I have to say, '' Oh, yea of little faith.'' If you love someone , you should give them the benfit of the doubt, especially when the accuser is someone whom you grew up with and everyone knows to be morally bankrupt. Alas, our noble hero Hot Rod has always been crazy-jealous and remember that he tactlessly asked Gavi if she'd been with anyone else right before the noche de amor [talk about a mood killer] , so the doubt was there even then about her faithlessness. Or , maybe Isa will tell Rodrigooo that she somehow got the doctors to inseminate her with his earlier contribution. [However, we all know that the little tadpole must be Froggie's. Poor kid..Isa for a mommy and Froggie for a daddy...What a hopeless morass of a gene pool to be swimming in.] I hope that the writers at least give us some happy beach flasbacks . Insert big sighhhhh here.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 10:23:00 AM EDT
: Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 10:23:00 AM EDT
You said it Susanlynn. I may have to break from watching so much dysfunction and destruction for a while. I'm learning a lot of spanish, but these writers are so poor and give us nothing but vile behavior. (Except for Daniella and novio.)
I remember one divorce notice delivery...
jb
I remember one divorce notice delivery...
jb
Permalink posted by : Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 11:09:00 AM EDT
: Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 11:09:00 AM EDT
Two thoughts:
1)Aaron is arrogant to the max, and so I agree that his telling an avaricious lawyer, or a vengeful wildwoman like Minnie anything about his illicit activities when he's planning to kick her over the side, will doom him or threaten to doom him.
2) Susanlynn: I say we aren't out of Heartbreak Gulch yet, either, if Rodrigooo really is going to have a death notice put in the local papers and run away from his life as he's always known it.
Watching this thing is like riding a break-away train going down a mountainside. Somebody needs to put on the breaks.
That said, I don't think Rod wants to believe the worst of Gavi anymore because he does know the depths his family would go to in order to separate him from her. That's why he sought her out. Gavi though, does not trust him at base because of the emotional and financial hell she lived through because of him and his never going through with an annulment early on after she left him. I think he's just stunned and I think he loves and trusts her more than she loves or trusts him. She's stunned also, but she didn't want to talk to him or to clarify things, like that phonecall about the agave; she just ran away. Maybe she'll have time to think through things more clearly later and before the last 5 minutes of the finale!!
1)Aaron is arrogant to the max, and so I agree that his telling an avaricious lawyer, or a vengeful wildwoman like Minnie anything about his illicit activities when he's planning to kick her over the side, will doom him or threaten to doom him.
2) Susanlynn: I say we aren't out of Heartbreak Gulch yet, either, if Rodrigooo really is going to have a death notice put in the local papers and run away from his life as he's always known it.
Watching this thing is like riding a break-away train going down a mountainside. Somebody needs to put on the breaks.
That said, I don't think Rod wants to believe the worst of Gavi anymore because he does know the depths his family would go to in order to separate him from her. That's why he sought her out. Gavi though, does not trust him at base because of the emotional and financial hell she lived through because of him and his never going through with an annulment early on after she left him. I think he's just stunned and I think he loves and trusts her more than she loves or trusts him. She's stunned also, but she didn't want to talk to him or to clarify things, like that phonecall about the agave; she just ran away. Maybe she'll have time to think through things more clearly later and before the last 5 minutes of the finale!!
Susanlynn,
As far as Froggie being the father of Isa's baby.
Remember she also slept with our lovely Aaron.
Wouldn't it be funny if he was the father of 2 of the 3 babies who might be in line for the fortune?
As far as Froggie being the father of Isa's baby.
Remember she also slept with our lovely Aaron.
Wouldn't it be funny if he was the father of 2 of the 3 babies who might be in line for the fortune?
Permalink posted by : Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 12:24:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 12:24:00 PM EDT
Jardinera~~~Good points. Rodrigooo seems to be more in love with Gavi than vice versa. [An old saying is ''always marry someone who loves you more than you love him !''] I also feel that the chemistry between the 2 actors is just not that great. Eduardo really puts out the emotion fullforce [man the lifeboats...fullspeed ahead], but Angelica just does not convince me that she is head-over-heels in love with this hombre. I do not feel the chemistry between these 2 that vibrated off the screen when Fernando [Manuel] and Adela [Matilde] or Fernando [Luis] and Lucero [Hipolita] acted in scenes together. Well, time will tell where our characters are heading. I now equate an episode to root canal ...lots of angst with no relief in sight.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 1:16:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 1:16:00 PM EDT
Alice--I wonder how many weeks is supposed to have passed since those multiple interludes with 1]Hilarious 2]AAron 3]the Frog Prince [minus the prince part] ??? That baby will be swimming in the shallow part of the gene pool no matter which candidate is the real baby daddy...it's kind of like a presidential campaign in which none of the candidates are acceptable
Permalink posted by : Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 1:20:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 1:20:00 PM EDT
Alice--I wonder how many weeks is supposed to have passed since those multiple interludes with 1]Hilarious 2]AAron 3]the Frog Prince [minus the prince part] ??? That baby will be swimming in the shallow part of the gene pool no matter which candidate is the real baby daddy...it's kind of like a presidential campaign in which none of the candidates are acceptable
Permalink posted by : Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 1:21:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 1:21:00 PM EDT
How long has it been? Hilario came up about the time they first went to the fertility clinic for tests, 4-6 wks ago their time. We thought the tests (2-3 days now after fertilization) would show her pregnant if only a week or two's worth 'cuz you either are or you aren't. Also, remember Isa demanded to be impregnated the week or two before Christmas and the doctor refused because 1) she wasn't ovulating and 2) he was leaving on vacation and pointedly said he would not return till at least after the middle or the end of January. Aaron's escapades were a couple of months prior to that I thought. For sure, though, she'd have some signs earlier along, I'd think.
As for Frogman Frankie, that took place the same week that Rod and Gavi went to Manzanillo Beach. If you think rhythm method, and no protection then Isa should have been ovulating.
As for Frogman Frankie, that took place the same week that Rod and Gavi went to Manzanillo Beach. If you think rhythm method, and no protection then Isa should have been ovulating.
Bingo ! I think that we have a winner...Froggie. Jardinera, you amze me. I can just barely remember that our unhappy , dysfunctional campers were all recently putting up and taking down Christmas trees recently. Everything else is a blur. ^^^Susanlynn, having trouble focusing here while real life continues to call me awayyyyy
Permalink posted by : Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 2:19:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 2:19:00 PM EDT
Susanlynn, I admit I have never had a root canal... but... don't they offer you laughing gas? Or some kind of painkillers? That probably won't be an option for these episodes in the foreseeable future.
Does anyone know if there is a CD on the whole story of Destilando Amor in English that we can Buy?
I would really appreciate it very much if anyone can tell me.
thank a lot
sp
I would really appreciate it very much if anyone can tell me.
thank a lot
sp
Permalink posted by : Monday, June 25, 2007 at 1:31:00 PM EDT
: Monday, June 25, 2007 at 1:31:00 PM EDT
We'll have a mini-reprieve from all of the heartbreak this week, with the Fea finale tonight and soccer on Wednesday. Good timing for this break in the action!
Permalink posted by : Monday, June 25, 2007 at 3:50:00 PM EDT
: Monday, June 25, 2007 at 3:50:00 PM EDT
:::::::::::::pirates:::::::::::::::yo ho ho
Permalink posted by : Monday, June 25, 2007 at 5:49:00 PM EDT
: Monday, June 25, 2007 at 5:49:00 PM EDT
Jardinera^^^I've never had tequila and all I have in the frig is beer and wine coolers...not very piraty.^^^Susanlynn, drinking a cuppa tea
Permalink posted by : Monday, June 25, 2007 at 5:51:00 PM EDT
: Monday, June 25, 2007 at 5:51:00 PM EDT
Susanlynn: mix the tea up with the wine coolers and maybe you'll get something you can call a Short Island Tea.............
and yeah, "yo ho ho" but we just got finished packing up Christmas trees in the story...... ;?>
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and yeah, "yo ho ho" but we just got finished packing up Christmas trees in the story...... ;?>
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