Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Guapos: Monday 4/7/08- "Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when Al'll be back again" **by the looks of Tuesday's preview, it won't be long**
Meanwhile Pilar is making plans with a very uninterested Alejandro. She tells him of a place they can stay in Buenos Aires. He agrees to go.
At the office (not The Office, which is a very funny show, but rather Belmonte Enterprises---you see, Constancio is no Michael---both can be rather dim, but Connie's got an evil streak, he does share some similarties to the boss in the British version-i.e. the sexual harrassment stuff, but no real similarities to Michael, who lacks good people skills---well Connie lacks those most of the time, but in a different way than Michael)....where was I? oh yeah, at the office, Luci’s working on her autobiography. She’s dictating it to her new secretary, Karla. They aren’t making very much progress, as she can’t even decide how to describe the day she was born.
Horacio assures Socorrito that the creepy guy is gone (can't remember his name and I guess it isn't important since he's now gone), taken off to Veracruz. He adds that as of now, Amparo never existed. She’s thankful and tells him he deserves a great prize. He suggests a kiss and she tells him she was thinking of a cake. She fills Horacio in on the news that her daughter, Karla, has become Luci’s secretary.
Luci tells someone (can’t remember who) that although she doesn’t approve of Hugo’s fiancée she’s going to be the matron of honor and will put on her best face for the wedding. She then goes to search Connie's office with Braulio. She's looking for some incriminating paperwork.
Al searches for Mili, he begs her to not marry Hugo. She tells him to leave her alone and to just let her marry Hugo. He tells her that he’s been trying to understand, but can’t make sense of it. She cries and he asks her why she is crying. She tells him passion. Al lets her know that he’s got this opportunity to go to Buenos Aires, so he’ll leave her to marry Hugo in peace, but if he goes, he’s never going to see Mili again.
Now it is days later, Wedding Day.
The staff is up early trying to get everything done so they can go to the wedding. Mili gets up and goes to help. They tell her that she’s not working today. She is reminded that it is her wedding day. Today—she says with sorrow. Karla struts into the room and spouts out some insults like Mili will always be a servant, even if she does marry Hugo. Braulio comes in and urges the staff to hurry. He calls Mili “senorita”.
Al has obviously spent the night getting ploughed in a bar.
Mili is back in the dorm, crying. Brau comes in and offers help. She reminds him that he’s going to be the one giving her away. He says he’ll do so proudly. He laments that the house will not be the same without her and she begs the majordomo to take good care of Regina. They end up hugging.
Val and Pilar are downstairs discussing the trip to Buenos Aires. Pilar tells Val that the plane leaves at 10 this morning. Karla eavesdrops on the whole conversation. Al returns from the bar and the two girls comment on his “apparent” drunkenness.
Karla runs across Hugo and she attempts to rekindle their relationship. Hugo reminds her that it was only one time, he’s not interested.
Al and Hugo meet in the hall. Al is bitter and Hugo comments that he knew that all of Al’s well-wishes and saying that he was happy for Hugo was a load of crap. Hugo says you must be hurting, just like it hurt when I found out you slept with Carmen. Oh, Al says, so you are marrying Mili because of revenge. Nope, Hugo answers, I’m marrying her because I love her-you lost, I won, accept it and now don’t you have a plane to catch? Al says perhaps it’s better he stays in town. Hugo says no really it’s better if you am-scray out of here. So you are worried about me being in town, Al questions, is that because you know Mili won’t forget about me. What are you saying, Hugo asks. Just that later, don’t complain when Mili ends up cheating on you. Hugo punches Al after this comment. Al fights back and Manuel ends up breaking up the fight. He tells the boys that they are cousins and should act like it. He wants to know why they are fighting.
Karla fills Andrea in on the news that Al is leaving town with Pilar. Andrea isn’t happy and she wants to know why Karla didn’t tell her earlier. Karla says she just found out.
Al has flashbacks to his fight with Hugo and then to some passionate times he had with Mili.
Val finds her mother dressed in black, wearing a pill hat w/ a veil. Val reminds Luci that she’s going to a wedding, not a wake. Luci says she’s dressed this way so that she won’t be recognizable in the photos. She doesn’t want to be seen at a wedding with the chauffer and the gardener.
Andrea comes to the mansion to talk with Hugo. He tells her she’s not invited to the wedding and she says that Luci invited her at the last minute. She promises to not make a scene. She questions if Hugo, in time, will confess to Mili his involvement in her schemes. Hugo says he’ll never tell Mili his part in Andrea’s fake pregnancy and her “miscarriage”. He can’t risk her finding out the truth. Andrea offers a wish of happiness, even though he doesn’t deserve it. She leaves the room and the audience sees she taped their entire conversation.
Al goes to the dorm, where Mili’s in a bathrobe preparing for the wedding, and he locks the door behind him. He once again begs her to not marry Hugo. He says he can’t allow her to marry that low-life. She tells him to not speak poorly of Hugo again. She reminds him of how Hugo has been nothing but loyal and honest to her, unlike Al who has lied and then messed around with Andrea and Pilar. Al says that she’s not marrying for love, she’s marrying for revenge. She tells him to unlock the door and he swallows the key. She freaks out and gives him a half hearted Heimlich maneuver. She tells him to spit it out and then runs to get some water. The audience sees him pocket the key, but when Mili returns he plays along with her thinking he really swallowed the thing.
Manuel tells Hugo that he’s worried for Al. Hugo scoffs at the idea. Manuel then tells his son that he’s happy for him.
Rocky has an exchange of words with the cake delivery guy. He wants to know where the wedding topper is---one wasn’t ordered. Rocky ends up taking the cake out of the back of the truck and tells the delivery man to forget getting a tip.
Lina listens at the door as Mili pleads with Al to know why he’s doing this. He tells her that he loves her and pleads with her to start over again with him, to forget everything that happened before. She comments on how they won’t be able to start over anyway, since they are locked in the room. Al shows her that he really didn’t swallow the key. Mili is annoyed. Mili says what she felt for him is gone. Al says that she needs to look him in the eye and tell him that she doesn’t love him and if she can do that he’ll leave forever. She flashes back to Hugo’s threat to kill himself and she tells Al to hand over the key. Al is saddened by this and gives the key to her, and tells her that he’ll never forget her.
Pilar tells Hugo that she regrets she’ll miss the wedding, but their plane leaves that morning. She goes looking for Al.
Rocky drops the cake and asks Socorrito to help him put it back together. It is a mess and Rocky’s wearing most of it. Soco tells him she’s a cook, not a magician.
Al runs out of the house screaming. Andrea finds him crying in the gardens. She tells him she heard about his trip and she gives him a “good-bye” gift.
Mili’s still in her room, crying over her wedding dress (I was worried about her mascara, she’s going to end up having big black stains on the dress, but considering how much crying she’s done lately, I’m sure she’s using waterproof).
Pilar finds Al with Andrea and she tells him the taxis here. Al says he’s got to go say good-bye to mommy.
Manuel comments on Luci’s black dress. Al comes into the foyer where Manuel, Luci and Val are gathered. He says his good-byes and tells his mother and sister to do nothing to ruin Mili’s wedding day. Hugo arrives at this point and says he’s skeptical at Al’s noble gesture. Al assures him that he only wants Mili to be happy. Braulio overhears this whole conversation. Al goes up to say his goodbyes to Regina and the rest leave for the church.
Regina is sad at Al’s leaving and he urges her to learn how to email so they can keep in touch on a regular basis. She agrees to learn and then asks if he said goodbye to Mili. Al says he's got to leave, or he’ll miss his plane. Regina hands him the gift bag from Andrea, which he almost forgot.
Brau escorts Regina to the church, where many guests are gathered outside. Hugo looks quite pleased with himself.
Al and Pilar board the plane. She decides she needs to use the plane’s restroom prior to departure (good idea, because by the end of the flight that room will be completely disgusting!!). He takes the opportunity to open the gift bag, it is a tape recorder. END OF EPISODE.
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Gee, Mili, how lucky can a girl get? Her intended husband, aka crazy Hugo, is also a bold-faced selfish liar. What was he saying to the picture? Did I hear he was now getting even with Al for sleeping with Carmen?
And, Al, on the other hand is a hopeless, out-of-control womanizer. When he can't have his way, he pitches a fit.
Mili, girlfriend, you shouldn't be crying so many tears (OK glycerine tears) on your wedding day. You thought-bubbled your memory of Hugo threatening to kill himself if you didn't marry him. So, that puts him in Al's class, i.e., he pitches a fit when he doesn't get his own way.
Somebody, like Daddy, has to come to this girl's rescue. I hope she doesn't choose either of these two losers. And what's with Mommy Dearest dressed in black. If she feels that bad about the whole thing, why not just stay home.
Wasn't the fall of the wedding cake so predictable? Perhaps its a sign of the fall of the wedding. Now that's rich.
From lower Ala
I didn’t go for the scenes of Luci in the office. Once again, the writers are inconsistent with the characters. While Luci may be a lush and have poor judgment, so far they haven’t shown her to be actually stupid – until this episode. Her posing with a cigarette holder and asking if she looked good with it seemed out of character, and why on earth would she dictate her memoirs to a girl who is blackmailing her?
As for her all-in-black outfit for the wedding, well she’d fit right in here in Southern California. Here when you drive by a church and see people standing out on the steps you can’t tell if they’re at a wedding or a funeral.
I bought a copy of TV y Novelas magazine and found out that it can be a spoiler – they tell what is about to happen in probably tonight’s episode.
If this were a different kind of show, that painting of Carmen/Mili would start talking back to Hugo.
Could they have been more predictable with that fallen cake? But the previews seem to show Al driving Mili away a la The Graduate. How is he going to get back from the plane. Is he going to make the pilot turn around as in LFMB?
Cake so predictable. Snotty Spice and her mother's comments as well. Now we can all see exactly where Val gets her most obnoxious qualities.
Andrea taping the conversation and then giving the tape to Al is a cool move. Now he will have proof to show Mili what a sleaze Hugo really is. Odd to see Andrea trying to get Mili and Al back together only so she can destroy them permanently with the news of their being brother and sister.
I learned long ago to beware of TV & Novelas. Even with my limited reading skill in Spanish they do show spoilers. So anyone that saw it or stupidly read Emas notes knows what will happen tonight and for the next couple of weeks. At least we should see an end, at least for awhile, of the Hugo/Mili mismatch. This novlea will span about three years so who knows how many more Al/Mili splits are in the works and how many more times Al will use his little head and get caught.
One thing - it looks like Connie may be back tonight. I wonder if his outrage will be over Mili marrying Hugo or Luci going in to take over the office. My guess, sadly is the office.
Al continues to be 12 (going on 5) in coming up with the dumbest tactics to get Mili. Pretending to swallow the key (something a 5-year-old would do) was to buy time until he got her to stay with him. Dunno if she would have eventually climbed out the window, but it'd be hard in the wedding dress (though not impossible - I took great pride in being able to use the bathroom on my wedding day all by myself in spite of the train and multiple layers of tulle, but that came from spending a summer in a hoop skirt, not everyone gets such practice).
The double locks are not that weird, especially in old houses (these days they tend to only be used on outside doors) and the mansion was built quite some time ago. It's meant to be extra protection so people can't pick a lock from the outside if there is no key on the inside. Julia, you're right that people probably misplaced keys and that's why they keep getting walked in on. I imagine Braulio keeps a nice supply of copies for this very purpose.
Both TV y Novelas and TV Guia (Mexico's TV Guide) tend to include summaries of the episodes. I think TV y Novelas tends to write them up after they were shown, but since we are about 3 months behind the Mexican airings, we end up getting spoilers if we read those summaries. TV Guia (like it's American counterpart) gives you the stuff for the rest of the week, but since they are short, they don't give away quite as much.
I agree with this being Luci's first "dumb" showing. Maybe they are trying to show her as a "fish out of water," but I hope it doesn't spill over into everything else.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw Mili crying over her dress and wondered how it managed to stay white. Even waterproof mascara has it's limits, and then there's the lipstick and the foundation, etc. I guess that's why she didn't touch it.
Miranda
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