Friday, July 11, 2008
Fuego - Thurs. 7-10 - A party, a tour, some lures, but no cure for the weary of discord- Still love this novela though and you'll read why!
We start with Sofi and Juan proclaiming their love to each other again after he talks about his sister.
At the Tumbao, Maracuya (Passion Fruit) taunts Oscar with her topless cuban wonders. We only get teased to some hair and fluffy skirt, and HUGE eyes by Oscar. I suppose the guys could slo mo this, but it looks like Oscar’s big empty head is strategically placed.
Over at the bad love bar, it’s bad times. Bombon Assasino plays without it’s bombon. Bartender says they are all over at Tumbao. No Rosi, no customers. Curses, we are losing lots of money.
Rosario is on one hell of a pro tour for being the regular bar act in a pueblo. She’s in the town square where the crowd begs for another song.
Nice guy backstage, Bobby Pullido, tells her how great she is and that she should join their next tour. She appreciates his offer but can’t. He asks her then to at least consider dinner after the show. She agrees. Ofi tells her she was great, and she wonders how Luis is doing. Bobby then goes on stage to sing his hit
"Desvelado" (Kept Awake)
Sera fe que yo encontré,
una voz de ternura
Que me llena de placer,
cuando la oigo hablar
Con ella me enamoré,
aunque nunca la conoci
Sueño en su querer
y en sus brazos quiero dormir.
Escucho cada dia la radio
Seguro que la vuelvo a oir
Por el cielo busco mi estrella
A la luna quiero subir
Voy desvelado
Por estas calles esperando encontrar
A esa voz de angel que quiero amar
Donde andara
Voy desvelado
Y mi deseo no me deja descansar
Porque despierto y no me pongo a llorar
Yo seguiré desvelado y sin amor.
Back at Tumbao, Benito and Sara are at the bar and that guy gets up to get Eugenia a drink. Benito suddenly spies Eugenia, she wonders what he is here for. He says he was looking everywhere for her (nevermind that he owns the joint). Just then boy with drink walks up and is introduced as her novio. Benito greets him and tells them to enjoy before he walks away. Smart boy wonders why she introduced him that way. She tells him another day she’ll tell him. He figures she is in love with that guy and he can’t compare to him.
Back at home everyone is singing las mananitas excruciatingly slow and flat to Juan. Sofi is dressed like the Nelly American Girl doll. But she gives him a big girl’s hug anyway. Everyone congratulates him. Vicente serenades us into the birthday mass. Juan thanks the virgen for this happiness and so does Sofi. Then more bad singing ensues. Franco/Pablo is singing Ave Maria, but he’s out of tune again. Yikes, that carries horribly in a big cathedral. Thank God they cut to commercial. I always thought he could sing pretty well too. Guess the studio really does mix his voice well. Obviously he was doing that without a pre-recording playing over him.
G-pa in his zoo tells his girls he’s going to Juan’s party, and they weren’t invited because of course they weren’t going to be allowed to go. Luisito runs out and Sara asks who he is. G-Pa says it’s his grandson, well, really that of Eva. They confirm it’s Rosi’s son and are impactada.
G-Pa asks Jime about her disgust with Oscar and that it was unfounded, he loves her. She doesn’t budge even though G-Pa tells her she will be sorry and may lose him if she doesn’t forgive him.
Brilliant Padre holds up a piece of lettuce proclaiming how delicious it is. Funny, but I always thought lettuce pretty much had one taste. Anyway they didn’t know Sofi could cook so well and she says she tried really hard to please everyone but especially her stud muffin. I love how they are all crammed in on the one side of the table, and poor what’s his face has to sit by himself rather than on the forbidden other side.
Anyway, they toast with ponche. Oscar tells Juan they bought him a surprise, something they knew he wanted. Feo's head? Nope...
He opens it, and is moved to tears, but says instead Dios has given him the best gift, Sofi, his baby, his brothers. The bros say they can never pay Juan for all he’s done for them. He was father, mother, brother etc. to them.
Juan loves the spurs but says they can’t spend the money right now, so they have to take them back. Sofi talks him out of it after everyone yells no. Padre tells him he will bless them and must use them because he knows how to ride best. Manlove all around.
Tia Helmut head tells the boys to go on a picnic. She says they will discuss the wedding details. The boys promise that they are getting along swell with the Elizondo daughters, so set up the wedding when you want. She then asks how it went at the Tumbao. They like this topic much better. Tia wants to meet the singer. Won't that be fun.
Speaking of that, Feo and his buddy size up Maracuya, whom they blame for a potential continued loss of money. They decide to offer her what they clearly believe is a better deal. She’s not so convinced. She tells them she is only going to finish her contract then she has other engagements, she's not interested now help her so she doesn't fall. I did like how she took the cig out of Armando's mouth.
At the party the group is discussing that Pablo needs to be in school when Don Aus shows up and brings Juan a toy rocking horse. OK, I’m so wondering about this guy. His girl is dressed like a dolly and he is getting toy horseys for presents. Hmmmm. Can we say Michael Jackson anyone?
Rosi is asked if she will sing a duet with nice guy but she’s fears the long arm of the Feo, and says she’s not sure if her organizer will agree to it and she has to go. Bobby is not dumb at all and notes that she must have some big problems. Yeah, wait until you meet the rest of that town, dude.
Now everyone is in the country. And I mean everyone. It’s going to be a showdown between the Hatfields and McCoys.
All the actors make funny looks at each other. Crabbi prohibits her daughters from getting close to those fools. Feo suggests maybe they go somewhere else but surprisingly Crabi says no. Raquel agrees there is plenty of space in this park, er country spot. They sit in another location only a few feet away and discuss how uncomfortable this is for everyone.
This Hatfield group (in hats no less, go figure) toasts red wine for the wedding of the boys.
On the McCoy side it’s Juan’s turn to suggest they can leave but Sofi says no way we decided to come here today and here we stay. She mentioned earlier that her dad brought them there when they were little.
The goons have been investigating but still don’t know if Mapache opened his trap, maybe to the padre. Armando proclaims the padre to be an annoyance and that he would love for him to disappear as he plays with his cigar cutter, ala mafia.
Feo comments that Don Au looks very happy with the muerto de hambres. He worries what if Au leaves all his stuff to those losers. Crabbi looks positively frightened.
Just when you think it’s a G-rated swimming scene because people are actually wearing swimsuits, a Reyes gets into the river. Franco is lurking like a pervert with his pants half undone. He eventually sneaks up on Sara in his skivvies. Oh my. Oh my, oh my. Oh my, oh my, oh my. Thank god they splurged for an underwater camera. Sorry I was stuck for a minute there. LOVELY swimming scene. OK, I’ve regained my respect for Franco. That was nice. He can sing off key all he wants if he’ll keep swimming in his tighty whites. That will definitely get a slow - mo replay. Multiple times.
Just then Tia Helmut asks Fer to go someplace more comfortable. Feo refuses and kisses Crabbi’s butt about it, that see, she is the most important thing to him. She smirks.
While Franco and Sara frolick around in the water, at first she resisting him, but man that can’t and doesn’t last long before she is hot on him, Tia wanders up on Benito who was reliving seeing Eugenia again. Luckily he sees Tia and warns the two to swim away. Tia wonders where Sara is and tells Bene he needs to go swimming after her in case something happens. (Yeah like Franco accidently pokes Sara's eye out with....) He smiles much too much and agrees.
Back at the "picnic" the soccer players argue about someone being offsides. Feo wanders off as does Crabbi apparently and suddenly Feo slams Crabbi up against a tree. Slimy lust ensues. Meannwhile back at the ranch....the McCoys are still playing soccer when the ball gets launched somehow into the deep forest. Juan volunteers to retrieve it. We know what’s going to happen here. Of course the ball lands just where None Fer Nando is turning into Ma Fer Nando. Juan is impactado.
The players call after Juan and the ball when Feo catches Juan and asks him what his problem is. Crabbi has run off at this point. Juan tells Fer they have something unfinished between them. Sofi runs up and wonders what is taking Juan so long. He tells her he just saw Fer with a woman. He didn’t match up the very distinctive skirt of Crabi though, apparently, because he can’t tell Sofi who. She thinks it’s strange and that Fer’s always been sooo in love with her and never interested in any other woman. Gads. This woman just needs a really good spanking. Juan takes this to mean that she is jealous and starts turning on her and Vicente reinforces this for us. Sofi stomps off mad.
Maracuya is working on her best aerial Shakira impression. Bet the guys holding up her ass like this job. They take a break and as she sensually sort of wipes sweat beads off her face she thinks she really likes Oscar and mustn’t let him go.
Oscar on the other hand is telling Jime that she is going to marry him not Octavio, whom he is shifting back and forth like a puppet. They go through this whole, "I’m not going to regret not marrying you, you liar", "she’s hot but I love you", etc. Eventually, Octavio gets sick of being shoved and moves himself out of the middle of them, until Jime summons him to leave with her. Vicente can't get away.
Sara runs away from super undies man and screams that he should have more respect in front of her fiance. Franco wonders if she loves Bene as much as she loves him, and wrote him love letters too? She tells him that he only saw her letters he didn’t read them, did he? Ohhhh he laughs, of course he did you dingbat. This makes her mad and she smacks him. As she runs off with Bene he laughs at her slap and we get our final nice shot of the tighty whities. We surmise he’s got a tanga on underneath them though. Darn.
Anyway Oscar notes Juan is out of sorts with Sofi and tries to convince Juan not to be jealous. He reminds Juan that Sofi left everything for him. Yeah dummy. Crabbi or no Crabbi she still was a rich girl living in a hacienda and left it to shack up in the back room of a burnt up panaderia with a muerto de hambre. I’d say she did her part.
Back on the "Tour of Rosi" Bobby orders tequila for them both and wonders if she doesn’t like this place. She just says she’s not used to being out. No kidding. He tells Rosi how talented and beautiful she is and that he likes her very much. She responds by telling him she appreciates that but can make a commitment to no one.
Tia Raquel runs up to Eva and it looks like they bond. Tia wonders who the boy is. Eva says it’s her grandson and Tia muses how wonderful it would be to have a grandchild. She mentions that she too would love to have grandchildren, but her daughter Ruth doesn’t even think about getting married, Eva never heard that she had a daughter. Nor did we, yet. Tia was about to tell us more when Crabbi pours water on the party and says they are leaving now and that she’ll talk to Eva later. So that's what she calls it. Talk. Hrmpf.
Eva tells Sofi not to fight with Juan. Yeah we think that too. We are sick of this sillyness. Juan calls after her and she says if he doesn’t trust her they have nothing to discuss. She loves him and has always been truthful with him. She would rather give him up though, then live like she did with Fernando not trusting her. This sweet moment is interrupted by the advance from tomorrow when the witch has Oscar in her claws. Scary. Really. Scary.
Labels: Fuego
Liked your characterization of Sofia's dress. It was so awful it made her white shirts and long black skirts seem really attractive in comparison.
I was uncomfortable with the off-key rendition of Ave Maria as well but it may be the studio's fault. They dubbed in the orchestration afterward and they didn't match. They would have been better off leaving it a cappella.
I've only seen snippets of this but my word, Father Bouffy was really boisterous at the party! too much ponche, perhaps?
And we did get a brief glimpse of Maracuya's blurred charms...does that mean that the folks in Mexico got the full frontal topless version?! No wonder this show is numero uno.
Thanks for a lively recap, amiga.
And hooray, a new romance for our babe singer, so Franco is free to seduce Sarita.
Personally I just couldn't move on beyond the dress..yes that gawd awful blue dress, even my husband's mouth hung open for a moment when Sofie appeared.
Was this from the "Pilgrim meets the Folklorica Line" Geez that was just the worst, it made Sarita's sad 1950's "Good Girl" swimsuit look fresh and modern.
I only wish all Television portrayed characters so realistically, it is about time..
From now I want to see the Irish in what they really wear, small green shorts, jackets, tophats and carry a pipe. Also I am tired of seeing Oklahoma people not wearing our usual full dress native dress that we normally wear each day.
Well gotta go and get my buckskin minidress and feather out of the dryer.
As to Sofi's dress - it reminded me of a dress worn by Alice in Wonderland in a cartoon. Actually, I've made an Alice-in-Wonderland dress very similar to Sofia's for a costume party.
Anyway - speaking of attire, Father Tad was wearing a coat and hat when he was playing soccer. What gives with that?
Do we now have trouble in paradise with Sofi and Juan mistrusting one another? Looks like Juan has two strikes - he has concealed the fact that Libia was his sister, and now he has annoyed Sofi by telling her the truth about what he saw. This man just can't win. He's going to have to wash her feet many more times to make amends.
From lower Ala
Can't wait to see Fr. Tadeo wax ecstatic over lettuce. Sounds like great camp theatre.
Thank heavens for the FFWD button.
IMHO, FELS is the master of "filler." If Looneyvision didn't show us so many clips of the previous night's episode, and the next night's ep., along with what is recapped at the beginning of the actual programming along with the promos at the end of the programming, and all the Gramps+Quintina shenanigans, FELS would be over in three months.
doris
dorado dave: "Carnal" is used instead of brother, I'm guessing.
I love this TN - it is so much fun! However; I really think that without Don Agus and Quintina it would drag.....
The recap was great, as usual!
Telenovelera in AZ
I can't believe it. Sofia finally wears a color, but where did she get that dress? What store would sell such a thing, or what kind of person would make it for her?
I thought those red things that they wore to the rodeo were bad... this blue thing was even worse. It'd be a stretch even for Laura Ingalls.
If it's rejecting your password then I'm not sure what's happening, but if it's forgetting your password then the cookie that stores your password is probably expiring at the end of each session (when you close your browser). This would be controlled by settings in your browser.
I've told both my browser and Google not to log me out, but sometimes (once in a great while) Google seems to forget who I am and then I have to log in anyway.
Another possibility is that if you have multiple google accounts, you can only be signed into one at a time.
I loved your slimy lust image. I find the pre-adolescent jealousy trick too boring and dreary. How could the writers subject us to such drivel that will now take several episodes to smooth over. Uggghh! Yuccckkk!
Dorado Dave, your image of Costco-sized implants is the perfect descriiption.
And here is what Reverso.Dictionary.net says about carnal which is used like "Buddy"
carnal
a adj
1 (Rel) carnal, of the flesh
2 [pariente] full, blood antes de s
hermano carnal full brother
primo carnal first cousin
tío carnal real uncle
b sm (Méx)
* pal * , buddy (EEUU) *
http://dictionary.reverso.net/spanish-english/
Franco! How does that man keep his tidies so whitey? mhm
I thought it was funny when Niurka refused Feo's "charming" invitation and then slapped the cigarette out of Right Arm-ando's mouth. Crack me up!
How could Juan not know it was Crabi? Who else in their right mind would wear a tweed jacket in 90+ weather. I'm still trying to figure out why Juan got jealous...Men!
Now that I think of it, Lety's clothes looked a little better.
Crabi finally got caught. Did Juan actually see that it was her?
The dueling picnics were a gas. Guess acreage is at a premium here in Ciudad Nuclear Waste Dump.
Franco's underwater grab was a little frightening. If you've ever been pulled underwater, you know what I mean. And he kisses like a remoray eel. EW! He did look a little excited afterward though (not that I stared but it was hard not to notice the tent pole in his tighty whities).
Scary? NiurYUCKa. Give her a broomstick & then she'd look more natural. Of course, Crabi would give her a run for her money in the witch competition but it would be entertaining. How long before Feo works his charms on the new dance sensation?
Snofia finally got a look at Juan's Jekyll/Hyde routine. Good luck with that. She should have seen the prison meltdown. But, as Melinama said, they have to put roadblocks up for our toothsome twosome to drag the story out for a while.
Thanks for the recap, K. I missed the middle part of an uproarious episode but from the sounds of it, I didn't miss much.
Mad Maggie (humming "Some Day My Prince Will Come" with the bluebirds providing back-up vocals)
:-}
So in an altercation between NiurYUCKA and Crabi who would win?
I guess I put my $$ on Crabi...she's mean enough to smack a pregnant woman so no telling what she'd do to Yuck. Yuck may be a few years younger (& a little more flexible, as demonstrated by her dance routine) but Crabi is evil incarnate. Don't mess with the Devil!
Mad Maggie
Yuck.
Yuck also to the ugly swimsuit on that skinny skinny Sarita, it wasn't in the least bit flattering.
Did you all notice how Franco's tightie whities seem to glow -- like the Libia flower! Maybe his underwear has supernatural powers too, and that's how it stays soooo white.
I was wondering if Sofia's Wonderland dress was supposed to make her look more pregnant because it kind of made her look big as a house. She looked uncomfortable in it.
Beckster, I rather thought you Oklahoma ladies all dress like Annie Oakley! I think you could replace your photo on the left with one where you're twirling your best 6-shooter!! Yes! You would look Wonderful!
The dress that Sofia was wearing at the start of the program -- was that my imagination, or did it have little BELLS sewn all around the hem? There were tinkling sounds when she was walking around the house...?!? Did any of you notice, or can you tivo and see--I just have regular tv...
About Father Tad, he looked like he was mimicking Ward Bond's Father role in "Quite Man", I am not really sure where TeleVista comes up with those rural English Irish looks. See Crabi
I've regained my composure somewhat today. I can't wait to rewatch the swimming tonight. Anyway, Judy, no, I screwed up the link. Try it now. Plus, as usual, in the light of the next day I've edited and added to the recap so there are some new things now. That really was a great episode until Juan dumped on Sofi. That was just, Duh. Oh well.
Scary scary and Maracuya also has a growly animal voice to go with her talons!!
Can't imagine what Oscar would see in her -- except maybe the titillation (pardon word choice) of pasties.
Which does lead you to believe this is played totally for camp, right?? I mean, they can't be serious, right??
Mad Maggie
I figured that Sofi's dress was a bargain, but if it's secondhand that still leaves open the question of who would have owned it originally, and WHY. (And whether or not it was the only dress there in Sofi's size.)
I mean, there are things in the world that are a matter of taste, but then there are also things that you just don't understand why they exist. ;-)
Then the serious performances got dressed up with BOIOIOIONG sound effects and such (they didn't add a laugh track, but they tried every other trick imaginable). I guess this was a post-production effort to let us know that they were trying to lighten the mood.
After that we started seeing a lot more comedy in the performances.
So what I figure is that it took them a few weeks to realize that they needed to go a different way, but then they made the adjustment, which totally turned the show around in my opinion.
I think it's fairly well-balanced now - a big surprise given what a train wreck it seemed at first.
It's still a train wreck but it's definitely good for a lot of laughs.
Mag-a-docious
Obviously, the mother was old enough to be celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary, and well, you know what, her dress was almost identical to Sofi's except made with a more silky like polyester, more dressy fabric instead of the more casual cotton type. It had the same exact long sleeves, ruffles, pouffiness, the whole bit, and instead of a bow, a sort of veil thing hanging down from her pulled back hair. I'm dying to post the picture, but simply can't.
Likewise, though there were no six gallon round sombreros like we see here except on the mariachis, nearly every galan was wearing their finest still huge cowboy hat, including both grooms. And yes, suits mostly, but definitely ranch style with those chevron pointed details on the breast and lapel and some guests were, yes, in the rooster type shirts. I swear I'm not lying. I have a picture of about 13 men standing together, dark because of dancing lights, except for all of their brighter hats one after another in a row. Fabulous.
Now I know this is a slightly different situation than a birthday party and day in the country, and I totally agree this show exaggerates for dramatic effect, but... it is sort of closer to fact than fiction in many regards, and though people don't wander around dressed like that generally on a normal day, for special occasions and festival days and stuff, people tend to fall more so into what I would call "costumes" or folklorico than we might be inclined here.
Just have to say... :)
Mag-a-rific
Marayucka....a good description!
We'll see what fun awaits us tonight! :)
Wasn't Sofia wearing ankle high white boots with the Alice in Wonderland dress? Just the perfect finishing touch to the outfit.
I'd say a TV is too big to fit in a brown bag so you can't disguise it that way but maybe you could hide in a closet and watch the show and no one would notice that you disappeared. We certainly wouldn't want you to have FELS withdrawal. I think it would be harder to explain why all of a sudden you felt the need to run around in a rooster shirt wearing a billowy blue skirt and white boots with a very large sombrero. Oh the horror!
That dress of Sophia's was horrid. She went from Audra Barkley to an awful explosion in a gunne sax factory.
Yay for Franco in those shorts, holy cow! Lets do that every night! And in cold water....
Great recap. Thanks
Dimples, Fuzzy, and Crumbs
Juan (alone) - Mighty Joe Juan
and may I suggest Juan Solo
Spunky, Sneerita, and Lamb Chop
Snofia/Snofia White
Sarita (alone) - Crabi Jr.
Father Bouffy / Pad Tad
Crabiela/Crabi
Feo/None Fer Nando
Mr Ed
Right Armando/Whig/Bigote
BonBon/BomBon
The Tweedles/Big Tweedle/Short Tweedle
Dr. Mentiroso Matasanos
Marayucka /Yuck/NiurYUCKa
Donkey - Eeyore
Comisario -- Mutton Chops
jb
My my my my my my my my my my my my MY... Franco. I knew you filled those whities out well from behind, but good googly moogly, boy. The FRONT. It ain't the color of the underoos, it's how you fill'em.
We've all seen miles of aerial shots of the landscape, yet of all the parks/meadows/glens in the area, the "Hatfields" had to run into the "McCoys." And camp right beside them?? If I dared write something like that, my critique group would rip me to shreds and leave me lying broken in a heap. Stoopid. (except for Juan seeing the Malicious Duo going at it against tree bark... wonder how many ants crawling up that tree lost their lives, crushed... that was cool)
Sofi defending FEO to Juan? You're kidding me.
Maracuya looked a little better today. And she gets big points for slapping that cig out of 'Mando's mouth. LOL!
Poor Mad Mags! Just tell them you're doing research. Always works for me. ;)
And did I say great job on the recap, K? Nicely done.
Right now she's caught up in the insidious racket of Barbie dolls and she's not even 4 yet! (Time to move to New Zealand)
La Paloma
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