Caray, Caray!

Thanks Jean ;)

So the only way Gabi will listen is to have the vet tell her he's worried about the horses. Maybe he needs to tell her it's also bad for the horses to have Carmela disrupting Martin's room and that Fernando is a compulsive gambler who's only after her money. Maybe then she'll listen!

Silly Dinora. How could she think it was a good idea to break into the Elizondo house while it was full of guests? And only in a demented little mind like Belinda's could someone actually compare Dinora to a superhero.
 

I watched this episode over the weekend & almost had to sit on my hands to keep from talking about it sooner. Thank God Gabriela finally got fed up with stupid Malcolm about SOMETHING, even if it had to be about how he was treating the horses and not her family. And Carmela is just unbelievable. I had the same thought, Jean, about why on earth would a brand new domestic employee just start throwing out her employers' stuff? And since when don't adult family members have a say in what access an employee should have to their personal spaces? This situation is nuttier than when Norma let Juan David go without a name till he was six months old...

As for Dinora, I was working on getting the last of my playlists together on youtube this weekend so I inevitably saw bits & pieces of her future storyline. That woman is some psychopathic piece of work. She makes Alcides de Medina or Arturo de Linares look like Santa Claus. Bad, bad news...

I had a hard time laughing at the water pistol bit in the restaurant. Isn't that kind of like yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater? I couldn't believe Leandro just dived under the table & stayed there, while brave (and foolish) Franco rushed in to help Melissa.

I don't normally think about these characters much in my spare time, but I started fantasizing yesterday at work about what it would be like when/if the whole Reyes-Elizondo clan finally makes it to Happily Ever After. Since this is Telenovela Land, just about the time the protagonists get there, a tragedy inevitably occurs. I was reminded of Soledad being suddenly poisoned in LT an how someone commented that every actor longs for a great death scene, and a similar storyline flashed in my head...

Just after Juan & Norma's set of twins arrives (as predicted to Juan by the carnival palm reader way back), poor Norma develops some fatal disease & ends up dying young. I actually got so carried away with the story that I had to wipe away tears! Thank God no one noticed! :-D

As embarrasing as that was, the scenes playing in my mind were so well written (thank you, me) and well acted (thank you, PdG cast) that I was having too much fun imagining and didn't want to quit! I kept thinking that I really needed to write all this down. Telemundo writers' workshop, here I come... ;-)
 

I love the fruit brothers as they watch Olegario and his mini-harem. Little storylines like that make this show really entertaining.

I wish one of Dominga's jobs wasn't to serve alcohol to Juan on a tray. For the longest time I thought he did not drink, and now lately I've been seeing that he is just like everybody else. So depressing. Oh well, I still can't take my eyes off him.

Loved the pictures, Jean! I think rather than each brother trying to convince their girl to come live with them, they should all gang up together and confront each sister, alone in a room, with Juan putting on his tough guy image. Maybe that will scare them into leaving home for good!
 

Hi Marie Celeste:
I have sometimes fantasized about novela characters. I usually make a plot line go the way I want it to rather than the way it did. I always believe though that once the last episode is over, the characters are happy forever. They have so many troubles during the novela that it meets their lifetime quota and they never have any more.

Of course Franco can confront Concha - he's a star. Nothing's going to happen to him. ;-) But you're right, if you use a toy gun that looks like a real gun, law enforcement and anyone else is fully justified in responding as if it were a real gun. Poor Franco, he acts in a very heroic, if foolish, way and ends up looking silly.