Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Cuidado Con El Ángel #12, Tues 10-7-08 The Sun’ll Come Out Tomorrow, or, We Know You’re Gonna Like It Here
Rehash: JM tells Eduardo he needs to go on a trip to get Mari out of his head; he just wants her to be happy.
Stef creepily and rudely awakens Marichuy to interrogate her as to her feelings for Juan Miguel. Mari equivocates and refuses to parse their relationship and finally says she doesn’t really know. Understandably, she seems to resent being asked.
New stuff: Stef returns to her room where Isabel is lounging on the bed, and shouldn’t she really have gone home by now? Stef reports on the inquisition and Isa again alludes to getting rid of that pesky orphan.
Next day, a new young maid, Dora (or possibly Doris; I couldn’t be sure and the captions switched back and forth), comes to Mari’s room to ask whether she’s coming to breakfast; Ceci and Pat are already in the dining room. Mari says she’ll eat in the kitchen, then invites Dora in to sit on the bed and kibbitz. They seem to hit it off right away, and Mari says she’s going to help with the cleaning to earn her keep. She likes being there where everything is pretty and clean.
Over at the castle, JM is on his way out, asking Rocío to mail some stuff for him and to be a friend to Marichuy while he’s gone. Go visit her, take her out shopping, to the movies, for ice cream, etc. Rocío is willing, and also looks like she’s caught on to the whole situation. She is surprised that JM isn’t going to go say goodbye to Mari before he leaves. FOR REAL, JUAN MIGUEL. You are supposed to be rehabilitating this young lady, and yet you avoid even speaking to her ever. What kind of program is this, exactly? All your psychological training hasn’t clued you in to the probability that she will feel confused and rejected? But, he thinks it will be better this way. How long is he planning to be away?
Well, I thought Dora said Ceci and Pat were in the dining room, but they are not. They are on the deck on the lawn, and the deer is having his breakfast, too, in the same spot as usual. Is he tied up? He’s always in the same place. Mari marches up to them, bucket and mop in hand, to ask what her work obligations are. She’s thinking first she’ll do the windows, then the floors, that way if she drips…
Ceci, playing the role of Grace Farrell, doesn’t understand why Mari thinks she has to work. Mari tells her so sayeth Patricio. Ceci says, “¿qué?” and glares at him.
In Miami, a steel band plays by a resort pool. Viv’s new hot tamale strolls past thong-bikinied women (ew. Really, who needs that much exposure? Getting your legs sunburned is bad enough) to give a lounging Viv a smooch, then he goes for drinks. She is living it up, indeed. She picks up her phone and dials.
The phone rings at the castle. The maid answers, so Viv hangs up.
Patricio says that Marichuy is lying; he didn’t say she has to work. She begs to differ, and reminds him (while gesticulating wildly with a hot pink duster) of their conversation, when he said she would get only what she deserved and would have to pay for her keep with chamba (means fluke or scratch, and in Mexico, slang for work, according to my dictionary). He argues that he was only referring to behaving well. Ceci looks either amused, full of pity for Marichuy, or annoyed at Patricio. It’s hard to tell.
In the poor barrio, Adrian asks Cande how Mari is getting along at the judge’s place…does she miss anyone, hint, hint? Yes, Adrian, she misses you desperately and wants you with her at every moment, so you can repeatedly consummate your passionate relationship, can’t you tell by the way she pushes you away and avoids you? Oh, wait, that’s what JM does to Marichuy. Maybe Adrian has been talking to him about how a person madly in lust behaves. ANYWAY, Cande tells him she likes it there, but Cande is worried and thinks they’ll exploit her. She thinks Mari is going to “desgajar” (split off, break away…I’m guessing she means run away) because they’ll treat her like a “cenicienta” (Cinderella).
Patricio and Cecilia tell Marichuy that she doesn’t have to work, just behave like a civilized person (say, I wonder how they got those windows fixed so fast. They were big windows; you’d think they would have to be special-ordered) and she doesn’t need to earn a home and food, just their affection. Ceci gets her to sit at the table.
Ceci’s phone rings; it is JM and Mari lights up. Ceci talks to him about his trip and asks if he’ll come over to say good bye. No? Then do you want to talk to Mari? Marichuy smiles and reaches for the phone, but he says he doesn’t have time to talk to her and he and Ceci hang up. Mari looks deflated. The deer, meanwhile, is attending to its bowel needs on the lawn in the background, which is so PERFECTLY appropriate a metaphor for JM’s treatment of Marichuy. I wonder how the film crew managed that.
JM sits in his office in his white coat and half-smiles and sighs and daydreams of Marichuy. Yeah, he’s super-busy. What does he actually do? Elsa comes in and asks if Eduardo is there yet; obviously he is not. She lights a cigarette. JM doesn’t smoke, but conveniently keeps a giant ashtray on the coffee table. He says he knows she and Eduardo are engaged, and asks pointedly if she’s broken up with “the other.”
Mari is climbing trees on the estate to pick fruit, which Ceci is putting in a basket. Ceci asks about her life at the orphanage; she says she left when she was 13 or 14 and uses the phrase “pinté de colores” as she has several times before when she refers to leaving the hospicio. I know it can mean “ripened” so maybe she means she was grown up or done there then, or something? Can anyone explain? Ceci asks who her parents were (DU-DUM).
JM tells Elsa that marriage is serious, too serious to be leading a double life. She says she knows, and after they’re married she will be a real wife, and even have children. Well, jeez, Elsa, don’t overshoot there or anything.
Mari says she never knew her parents, and wonders how her mother could have abandoned her. Ceci is very pained. She says, maybe your mother was very poor, or sick. Mari thinks that’s no excuse, but she notices that Ceci is not looking so good and comforts her. It’s quite sweet, and apparently no one filled Mari in on their precious daughter Stef’s story. Isabel lurks creepily behind a tree and eavesdrops on the conversation.
Stef, meanwhile, is bugging Patricio in his study, and learns that JM’s flight is leaving at 9:00 that evening. She wants to go to the airport to say goodbye. Pat just says he’s busy and can’t go; somehow he refrains from saying, “don’t be a crazy stalker, you creep!” She asks if she can use a car to go, and when he asks whether she can drive, she says sure, she had a car in New York. What is that? You lived in New York? OOPS. Seriously, stupidest criminal ever.
Ceci tells Mari she wants to be like a mother to her. Isabel doesn’t like that.
Stef tells Pat she worked as a nanny for a diplomat and went with the family to New York. They lived in the suburbs, so she had to drive the children around. He apparently buys that and says he’ll give her her own car, and she is a little too exuberant and affectionate.
They go out to the driveway and run into Ceci and Marichuy. Mari is annoyed that Stef is going to the airport to see JM. There is a whole fleet of cars in the driveway, which I’m pretty sure weren’t there before, and he tells Stef to choose one. Naturally, she picks the sleek convertible, the newest of them all. Apparently the keys are kept in the ignition.
Eduardo has arrived at JM’s office, and is pawing Elsa while JM gives her Looks. Marichuy and Ceci call, and Ed answers and asks if he should say JM left already.
Back in Miami, Viv again calls the house (from her lounge chair RIGHT in front of the steel drums) and Malvina/Balbina? answers. This time she says it’s Viviana, and the maid is shocked and hands the phone over to Onelia, but Lover Boy has come back for some action and hung up the phone. So now Ornerylia thinks the maid is crazy too.
Marichuy is still waiting for JM to answer, and uses the pintar de colores phrase again in reference to his having left for the airport. So I guess she just means “departed.” He finally answers, having shooed Ed and Elsa out, and they both grin like fools. They make cheesy romantic conversation, although Mari is worried that his plane will crash (again). He says it will be fine and promises to remember her. She says she’ll miss him.
In the parking garage, Ed is giving some guy a tip for putting his bags in JM’s trunk. (for real, Eduardo? What is all that gym time good for?) Flashback (the guy’s) of him being in JM’s office explaining that he can’t pay the fine for the bar brawl. Which I would guess means that Elsa knows him. Not sure what that was about.
Stef and Isabel catch each other up. Isabel agrees with me that Stef is an idiot.
Stef tells Mari and Ceci she’s off to the airport and makes them admire her. Mari looks annoyed; Ceci fails in her motherly duty to tell Stef not to be a creepy stalker. I mean, seriously, it’s not like they’re really friends and he’s going to be gone a year or something.
Eduardo comes back to fetch JM and JM’s dopey blissfulness after the phone call is not lost on Ed. Elsa will not be going with them to the airport because she has something to do at her theater job (or someone). Ed thinks that after they marry she will give up that experimental artsy stuff. Oh, Ed. Ditch her and marry me. I am every bit as boring as she thinks you are; I think we’d get along very well.
Amador sits on the stage in a theater, smoking a pipe and writing. Enter Elsa. She tells him her cousin is in love with Marichuy. He is impactado.
Stef finds the gents at the airport. They do not look excited to see her. They try to think back to their training on what to do about crazy stalkers.
Elsa and Amador plot to take advantage of Juan Miguel’s absence. Elsa says the Velardes won’t let him in; he says it won’t hurt to try.
Apparently, what JM and Ed do about stalkers is sit and have coffee with them. Ed is really encouraging Stef and enjoying tormenting JM. She gives him a book to read on the plane and remember her by. Eduardo thinks that is hysterical.
Marichuy talks to the cat and has animated thoughts about being Cinderella. She is sad that her handsome prince is away and probably smooching that wicked stepsister (as if) and imagines a fairy godmother (hada madrina) coming to help her.
JM and Ed are finally taking leave of Stef. She asks if she can give him a goodbye kiss. I don’t know what else is said; Eduardo and I are both nearly rolling on the floor laughing. Methinks JM is not going to hear the end of this. He consents to a peck on the cheek. I hope this conference is on how to not encourage creepy stalker criminals.
Amador climbs over the fence. Mari is chasing the cat and runs into him.
Our rich docs apparently fly coach. Now I’m glad I didn’t bother with medical school. They discuss JM’s attraction to Marichuy. He takes a few minutes to recall the various ladies in his life. Ed says it looks like Stef will be a rival with Mari. Umm…not if you don’t want her to be, Juan Miguel.
Speaking of, Viv and Beach Boy stumble drunkenly into the hotel room and make out. He removes her ring and puts it in his pocket.
Amador thinks assaulting Marichuy will endear her to him. She tells him to get his porky hands off her. They fight. He thinks she’s bored there, she says she’d rather be bored than with him. They fall on the extremely slick driveway.
Padre Anselmo once again counsels the guilt-ridden woman. I don’t know who she is yet, so I don’t care. Ceci calls and makes plans to visit him with Mari in the morning.
Patricio drives up as Mari and Amador fight in the driveway and demands to know what that scum is doing there.
Avances: Isabel realizes Marichuy could be the real child/heir.
Stef creepily and rudely awakens Marichuy to interrogate her as to her feelings for Juan Miguel. Mari equivocates and refuses to parse their relationship and finally says she doesn’t really know. Understandably, she seems to resent being asked.
New stuff: Stef returns to her room where Isabel is lounging on the bed, and shouldn’t she really have gone home by now? Stef reports on the inquisition and Isa again alludes to getting rid of that pesky orphan.
Next day, a new young maid, Dora (or possibly Doris; I couldn’t be sure and the captions switched back and forth), comes to Mari’s room to ask whether she’s coming to breakfast; Ceci and Pat are already in the dining room. Mari says she’ll eat in the kitchen, then invites Dora in to sit on the bed and kibbitz. They seem to hit it off right away, and Mari says she’s going to help with the cleaning to earn her keep. She likes being there where everything is pretty and clean.
Over at the castle, JM is on his way out, asking Rocío to mail some stuff for him and to be a friend to Marichuy while he’s gone. Go visit her, take her out shopping, to the movies, for ice cream, etc. Rocío is willing, and also looks like she’s caught on to the whole situation. She is surprised that JM isn’t going to go say goodbye to Mari before he leaves. FOR REAL, JUAN MIGUEL. You are supposed to be rehabilitating this young lady, and yet you avoid even speaking to her ever. What kind of program is this, exactly? All your psychological training hasn’t clued you in to the probability that she will feel confused and rejected? But, he thinks it will be better this way. How long is he planning to be away?
Well, I thought Dora said Ceci and Pat were in the dining room, but they are not. They are on the deck on the lawn, and the deer is having his breakfast, too, in the same spot as usual. Is he tied up? He’s always in the same place. Mari marches up to them, bucket and mop in hand, to ask what her work obligations are. She’s thinking first she’ll do the windows, then the floors, that way if she drips…
Ceci, playing the role of Grace Farrell, doesn’t understand why Mari thinks she has to work. Mari tells her so sayeth Patricio. Ceci says, “¿qué?” and glares at him.
In Miami, a steel band plays by a resort pool. Viv’s new hot tamale strolls past thong-bikinied women (ew. Really, who needs that much exposure? Getting your legs sunburned is bad enough) to give a lounging Viv a smooch, then he goes for drinks. She is living it up, indeed. She picks up her phone and dials.
The phone rings at the castle. The maid answers, so Viv hangs up.
Patricio says that Marichuy is lying; he didn’t say she has to work. She begs to differ, and reminds him (while gesticulating wildly with a hot pink duster) of their conversation, when he said she would get only what she deserved and would have to pay for her keep with chamba (means fluke or scratch, and in Mexico, slang for work, according to my dictionary). He argues that he was only referring to behaving well. Ceci looks either amused, full of pity for Marichuy, or annoyed at Patricio. It’s hard to tell.
In the poor barrio, Adrian asks Cande how Mari is getting along at the judge’s place…does she miss anyone, hint, hint? Yes, Adrian, she misses you desperately and wants you with her at every moment, so you can repeatedly consummate your passionate relationship, can’t you tell by the way she pushes you away and avoids you? Oh, wait, that’s what JM does to Marichuy. Maybe Adrian has been talking to him about how a person madly in lust behaves. ANYWAY, Cande tells him she likes it there, but Cande is worried and thinks they’ll exploit her. She thinks Mari is going to “desgajar” (split off, break away…I’m guessing she means run away) because they’ll treat her like a “cenicienta” (Cinderella).
Patricio and Cecilia tell Marichuy that she doesn’t have to work, just behave like a civilized person (say, I wonder how they got those windows fixed so fast. They were big windows; you’d think they would have to be special-ordered) and she doesn’t need to earn a home and food, just their affection. Ceci gets her to sit at the table.
Ceci’s phone rings; it is JM and Mari lights up. Ceci talks to him about his trip and asks if he’ll come over to say good bye. No? Then do you want to talk to Mari? Marichuy smiles and reaches for the phone, but he says he doesn’t have time to talk to her and he and Ceci hang up. Mari looks deflated. The deer, meanwhile, is attending to its bowel needs on the lawn in the background, which is so PERFECTLY appropriate a metaphor for JM’s treatment of Marichuy. I wonder how the film crew managed that.
JM sits in his office in his white coat and half-smiles and sighs and daydreams of Marichuy. Yeah, he’s super-busy. What does he actually do? Elsa comes in and asks if Eduardo is there yet; obviously he is not. She lights a cigarette. JM doesn’t smoke, but conveniently keeps a giant ashtray on the coffee table. He says he knows she and Eduardo are engaged, and asks pointedly if she’s broken up with “the other.”
Mari is climbing trees on the estate to pick fruit, which Ceci is putting in a basket. Ceci asks about her life at the orphanage; she says she left when she was 13 or 14 and uses the phrase “pinté de colores” as she has several times before when she refers to leaving the hospicio. I know it can mean “ripened” so maybe she means she was grown up or done there then, or something? Can anyone explain? Ceci asks who her parents were (DU-DUM).
JM tells Elsa that marriage is serious, too serious to be leading a double life. She says she knows, and after they’re married she will be a real wife, and even have children. Well, jeez, Elsa, don’t overshoot there or anything.
Mari says she never knew her parents, and wonders how her mother could have abandoned her. Ceci is very pained. She says, maybe your mother was very poor, or sick. Mari thinks that’s no excuse, but she notices that Ceci is not looking so good and comforts her. It’s quite sweet, and apparently no one filled Mari in on their precious daughter Stef’s story. Isabel lurks creepily behind a tree and eavesdrops on the conversation.
Stef, meanwhile, is bugging Patricio in his study, and learns that JM’s flight is leaving at 9:00 that evening. She wants to go to the airport to say goodbye. Pat just says he’s busy and can’t go; somehow he refrains from saying, “don’t be a crazy stalker, you creep!” She asks if she can use a car to go, and when he asks whether she can drive, she says sure, she had a car in New York. What is that? You lived in New York? OOPS. Seriously, stupidest criminal ever.
Ceci tells Mari she wants to be like a mother to her. Isabel doesn’t like that.
Stef tells Pat she worked as a nanny for a diplomat and went with the family to New York. They lived in the suburbs, so she had to drive the children around. He apparently buys that and says he’ll give her her own car, and she is a little too exuberant and affectionate.
They go out to the driveway and run into Ceci and Marichuy. Mari is annoyed that Stef is going to the airport to see JM. There is a whole fleet of cars in the driveway, which I’m pretty sure weren’t there before, and he tells Stef to choose one. Naturally, she picks the sleek convertible, the newest of them all. Apparently the keys are kept in the ignition.
Eduardo has arrived at JM’s office, and is pawing Elsa while JM gives her Looks. Marichuy and Ceci call, and Ed answers and asks if he should say JM left already.
Back in Miami, Viv again calls the house (from her lounge chair RIGHT in front of the steel drums) and Malvina/Balbina? answers. This time she says it’s Viviana, and the maid is shocked and hands the phone over to Onelia, but Lover Boy has come back for some action and hung up the phone. So now Ornerylia thinks the maid is crazy too.
Marichuy is still waiting for JM to answer, and uses the pintar de colores phrase again in reference to his having left for the airport. So I guess she just means “departed.” He finally answers, having shooed Ed and Elsa out, and they both grin like fools. They make cheesy romantic conversation, although Mari is worried that his plane will crash (again). He says it will be fine and promises to remember her. She says she’ll miss him.
In the parking garage, Ed is giving some guy a tip for putting his bags in JM’s trunk. (for real, Eduardo? What is all that gym time good for?) Flashback (the guy’s) of him being in JM’s office explaining that he can’t pay the fine for the bar brawl. Which I would guess means that Elsa knows him. Not sure what that was about.
Stef and Isabel catch each other up. Isabel agrees with me that Stef is an idiot.
Stef tells Mari and Ceci she’s off to the airport and makes them admire her. Mari looks annoyed; Ceci fails in her motherly duty to tell Stef not to be a creepy stalker. I mean, seriously, it’s not like they’re really friends and he’s going to be gone a year or something.
Eduardo comes back to fetch JM and JM’s dopey blissfulness after the phone call is not lost on Ed. Elsa will not be going with them to the airport because she has something to do at her theater job (or someone). Ed thinks that after they marry she will give up that experimental artsy stuff. Oh, Ed. Ditch her and marry me. I am every bit as boring as she thinks you are; I think we’d get along very well.
Amador sits on the stage in a theater, smoking a pipe and writing. Enter Elsa. She tells him her cousin is in love with Marichuy. He is impactado.
Stef finds the gents at the airport. They do not look excited to see her. They try to think back to their training on what to do about crazy stalkers.
Elsa and Amador plot to take advantage of Juan Miguel’s absence. Elsa says the Velardes won’t let him in; he says it won’t hurt to try.
Apparently, what JM and Ed do about stalkers is sit and have coffee with them. Ed is really encouraging Stef and enjoying tormenting JM. She gives him a book to read on the plane and remember her by. Eduardo thinks that is hysterical.
Marichuy talks to the cat and has animated thoughts about being Cinderella. She is sad that her handsome prince is away and probably smooching that wicked stepsister (as if) and imagines a fairy godmother (hada madrina) coming to help her.
JM and Ed are finally taking leave of Stef. She asks if she can give him a goodbye kiss. I don’t know what else is said; Eduardo and I are both nearly rolling on the floor laughing. Methinks JM is not going to hear the end of this. He consents to a peck on the cheek. I hope this conference is on how to not encourage creepy stalker criminals.
Amador climbs over the fence. Mari is chasing the cat and runs into him.
Our rich docs apparently fly coach. Now I’m glad I didn’t bother with medical school. They discuss JM’s attraction to Marichuy. He takes a few minutes to recall the various ladies in his life. Ed says it looks like Stef will be a rival with Mari. Umm…not if you don’t want her to be, Juan Miguel.
Speaking of, Viv and Beach Boy stumble drunkenly into the hotel room and make out. He removes her ring and puts it in his pocket.
Amador thinks assaulting Marichuy will endear her to him. She tells him to get his porky hands off her. They fight. He thinks she’s bored there, she says she’d rather be bored than with him. They fall on the extremely slick driveway.
Padre Anselmo once again counsels the guilt-ridden woman. I don’t know who she is yet, so I don’t care. Ceci calls and makes plans to visit him with Mari in the morning.
Patricio drives up as Mari and Amador fight in the driveway and demands to know what that scum is doing there.
Avances: Isabel realizes Marichuy could be the real child/heir.
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Julia: Thank you for a great recap.
Mari's Fairy Godmother has reached out from telenovelaland and cast a spell upon me, too. I'm hooked. I even like the daydream cartoon scenes.
So far, we have three very vile characters: Isa, Stefi and Amador. I'll leave Elsa(?), the cousin off this list. Although she's a skank, too. There should be a line waiting to date Ed. I actually thought that Stefi had murder on her mind when she was fondling the pillow as Mari slept.
Amador, I hope, will be the first to go cause he's mucho obnoxious, delusional and just plain crazy.
Anyway, the writers haven't made us wait very long to find out that Juan and Mari are in Luuv.
Mari's Fairy Godmother has reached out from telenovelaland and cast a spell upon me, too. I'm hooked. I even like the daydream cartoon scenes.
So far, we have three very vile characters: Isa, Stefi and Amador. I'll leave Elsa(?), the cousin off this list. Although she's a skank, too. There should be a line waiting to date Ed. I actually thought that Stefi had murder on her mind when she was fondling the pillow as Mari slept.
Amador, I hope, will be the first to go cause he's mucho obnoxious, delusional and just plain crazy.
Anyway, the writers haven't made us wait very long to find out that Juan and Mari are in Luuv.
I'm so glad you recapped the deer pooping action. I have been monitoring the deer every episode. What gives? Is it a fake backdrop? We get deer around Long Island where I have a summer house, and believe me, they don't wait tamely in one spot.
Great recap overall.
Stefi, what a wacko with her chance airport meeting. Vivi, serves her right for not continuing her phone call to Mom--her boyfriend is only out for her jewelry.
Great recap overall.
Stefi, what a wacko with her chance airport meeting. Vivi, serves her right for not continuing her phone call to Mom--her boyfriend is only out for her jewelry.
I'm glad you posted about pinte de colores. I hope someone comes up with a definitive answer. Also funny: Marichuy calles JM the "cura locos," or the one who cures crazy people.
It was a nice bonding scene when Ceci and Mari were picking apples. Like when Mili and Granny Regina used to talk.
It was a nice bonding scene when Ceci and Mari were picking apples. Like when Mili and Granny Regina used to talk.
Julia – thanks for the super recap. I love your style!
Rats, I missed the deer in the background doing its business. That’s what I get for being glued to the captions.
I’m amazed at how the daily lives of the rich are portrayed. It seems like all the women do is sit around and flip through magazines, or have lunch out on the lawn. Even at the resort Viv is just soaking up sun when she’s not enjoying her lover. Nobody has given Mari anything to do at either house and she’s stuck sitting on her bed thinking or talking to the ducks or the cat. One day of that kind of life would be about all I could take. Gimme the barrio – it looks like way more fun.
I’m loving the Marichuy actress’s performance, and how Mari clings to anyone who is kind to her – very well played. I also loved the scene where she was talking about her parents and said that even an animal would fight to defend its young and wouldn’t abandon them, and poor Ceci was agonizing.
If Stef has any kind of luck with her stalker approach, it won’t say much for JM’s ability to read people. I mean, how blatant and annoying can you get?
Rats, I missed the deer in the background doing its business. That’s what I get for being glued to the captions.
I’m amazed at how the daily lives of the rich are portrayed. It seems like all the women do is sit around and flip through magazines, or have lunch out on the lawn. Even at the resort Viv is just soaking up sun when she’s not enjoying her lover. Nobody has given Mari anything to do at either house and she’s stuck sitting on her bed thinking or talking to the ducks or the cat. One day of that kind of life would be about all I could take. Gimme the barrio – it looks like way more fun.
I’m loving the Marichuy actress’s performance, and how Mari clings to anyone who is kind to her – very well played. I also loved the scene where she was talking about her parents and said that even an animal would fight to defend its young and wouldn’t abandon them, and poor Ceci was agonizing.
If Stef has any kind of luck with her stalker approach, it won’t say much for JM’s ability to read people. I mean, how blatant and annoying can you get?
I totally missed the deer pooping in the background that's so funny that you noticed.
This episode had me cringing in my chair. Between Stefi and Amador I couldn't take their oober creepy stalker behavior. I don't think randomly showing up at an airport to say goodbye to a guy who your not even dating or really friends with ranks high on the list of romantic gestures. Nor does trespassing on someones property and attempting to assault the girl who you're weirdly trying to convince to be with you.
I too don't mind the cartoon scenes anymore. It's kinda cute.
This episode had me cringing in my chair. Between Stefi and Amador I couldn't take their oober creepy stalker behavior. I don't think randomly showing up at an airport to say goodbye to a guy who your not even dating or really friends with ranks high on the list of romantic gestures. Nor does trespassing on someones property and attempting to assault the girl who you're weirdly trying to convince to be with you.
I too don't mind the cartoon scenes anymore. It's kinda cute.
I don't really see how Viv's life is so great now that she's "really living it." Lying around by a resort pool is a great vacation for a few days when it's like the opposite of what you normally do, but she did nothing before and does nothing now, so how is this different than lounging around at home? Maybe the family frowned on her getting drunk every day?
It's too bad Stef didn't just write a note for Marichuy to give to Eduardo to give to Juan Miguel, saying "Do you like me? Check __Yes or __No." Then he could just check no, and Stef would spend the whole homecoming dance crying in the girls' bathroom, and we'd be done with the whole ordeal.
Mari really needs something to do. Cleaning with Dora would have at least kept her busy. I'm glad she and Ceci are getting along and going out to pick apples and whatnot. I hope next they teach her how to drive and give her a car that is way better than Stef's.
It's too bad Stef didn't just write a note for Marichuy to give to Eduardo to give to Juan Miguel, saying "Do you like me? Check __Yes or __No." Then he could just check no, and Stef would spend the whole homecoming dance crying in the girls' bathroom, and we'd be done with the whole ordeal.
Mari really needs something to do. Cleaning with Dora would have at least kept her busy. I'm glad she and Ceci are getting along and going out to pick apples and whatnot. I hope next they teach her how to drive and give her a car that is way better than Stef's.
Julia...first of all, thanks so much for cracking me up on the Querida blog line. As I said, you and Julie are a great tag team.
I recorded this and watched it after I recapped Querida because it takes me a long while to wind down after writing but I sure didn't notice the deer poop!...like Maggie, I'm glued to the captions.
The "pintarse de colores" means just what you figured out...to "leave," to "split" etc. They used it a lot on Juan Querendon which was full of slang.
Don't know how the phrase came to be but it's a doozie.
I recorded this and watched it after I recapped Querida because it takes me a long while to wind down after writing but I sure didn't notice the deer poop!...like Maggie, I'm glued to the captions.
The "pintarse de colores" means just what you figured out...to "leave," to "split" etc. They used it a lot on Juan Querendon which was full of slang.
Don't know how the phrase came to be but it's a doozie.
Hi, JudyB. Glad you posted. Are you going to be watching this show, at least sporadically?
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: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 2:28:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 2:28:00 PM EDT
Hey, my last post came up as anonymous, and I don't know why.
Anyway, Pasofino, I think Ed maybe will end up with nice Rocio. They should have met before.
Anyway, Pasofino, I think Ed maybe will end up with nice Rocio. They should have met before.
Thanks for the recap Julia. I'm hoping to be able to catch an episode soon (or else I'm just start watching on youtube).
Maggie and NinaK...I miss you but I'm trying not to get hooked on this one. Truly I'm better off reading books in Spanish after Querida....BUT....that being said...I will probably watch on Tuesday nights after I recap....to wind down. And Maggie, I'll stop by your blog line from time to time, ditto for Julia. Nina...once you're back recapping I'll visit you too.
JudyB, thanks for dropping by and for the idiom help! I'm not sure I can make any logical sense of that one, so I'll just have to accept that that is what it means for no reason. It's too bad there aren't more TV-watching hours in a day because this show is turning out to be good! I've had to compromise by watching QE while fixing dinner or doing housework (except when Ernesto is on the screen; I sit down and pay attention to him!) and I've given up on Fuego entirely.
Hmmm, NinaK, Rocio and Eduardo together makes sense. They almost certainly know each other since Ed and JM have been friends since they were children, but I think she's at least a few years younger so he probably wouldn't have considered dating her...but now that they're both adults that could change. And from what little we know about them, they seem compatible...both friendly and easygoing; no serious baggage that we know of.
Hmmm, NinaK, Rocio and Eduardo together makes sense. They almost certainly know each other since Ed and JM have been friends since they were children, but I think she's at least a few years younger so he probably wouldn't have considered dating her...but now that they're both adults that could change. And from what little we know about them, they seem compatible...both friendly and easygoing; no serious baggage that we know of.
Julia,
Thanks so much for a most amusing recap. Indeed JM missed the seminar on dealing with crazy stalkers and the one on transference and counter-tranference, as well. But he's so sweet, with those soulful eyes. I'll trade you one Ed for one JM.
I think this novela has a really great cast, even the little girl is good. It's the only new novela I'm watching, along with the re-run of "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" on Telefutura.
Thanks again, Julia.
J.J.
Thanks so much for a most amusing recap. Indeed JM missed the seminar on dealing with crazy stalkers and the one on transference and counter-tranference, as well. But he's so sweet, with those soulful eyes. I'll trade you one Ed for one JM.
I think this novela has a really great cast, even the little girl is good. It's the only new novela I'm watching, along with the re-run of "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" on Telefutura.
Thanks again, Julia.
J.J.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 4:00:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 4:00:00 PM EDT
Stef is oh, so pathetic. There's nothing wrong with going after what you want, within reason, but when you're too wrapped up in yourself to realize what you want ALWAYS looks like a trapped animal whenever he sees you, you're a pathetic ditz. I mean, she even showed her cleavage, and JM looked like a deer in headlights. She ran her finger down his chest (at a rather inappropriate time too, I might add), and he recoiled. She is ridiculous. Maybe she and Adrian can get together and take their double-stalker-act on the road.
And speaking of STALKERS... Ama-dim-bulb, you are dangerous. I would have dropped you with a heavy object a long time ago.
Jeez, why don't they make JM more realistic in his job on this show?
What you calling home for, Viv? Didn't you want to get away from everyone dragging you down? Are you getting bored now and need somebody to torture? Obviously. What a crack-pot.
Okay, now that's something... Mayita's Fairy Abuela appearing in her real room, while the kid is fast asleep! What does that mean, I wonder?
Good thing Stef didn't get to use that pillow on Chuy. I can just see it now--Marichuy going DefCon4 and smacking Stef all over the place. Perhaps Stef should consult Onelia before messing with the angel?
Hilarious when Bahama Boyfriend slipped drunk Viv's big rock off her finger during foreplay. ROFL
Stef should have chosen the SUV. More room to hide your secrets and do your evil deeds in, without being seen! What can you hide in a convertible? Nuthin'.
Thanks for the great recap, Julia!
And speaking of STALKERS... Ama-dim-bulb, you are dangerous. I would have dropped you with a heavy object a long time ago.
Jeez, why don't they make JM more realistic in his job on this show?
What you calling home for, Viv? Didn't you want to get away from everyone dragging you down? Are you getting bored now and need somebody to torture? Obviously. What a crack-pot.
Okay, now that's something... Mayita's Fairy Abuela appearing in her real room, while the kid is fast asleep! What does that mean, I wonder?
Good thing Stef didn't get to use that pillow on Chuy. I can just see it now--Marichuy going DefCon4 and smacking Stef all over the place. Perhaps Stef should consult Onelia before messing with the angel?
Hilarious when Bahama Boyfriend slipped drunk Viv's big rock off her finger during foreplay. ROFL
Stef should have chosen the SUV. More room to hide your secrets and do your evil deeds in, without being seen! What can you hide in a convertible? Nuthin'.
Thanks for the great recap, Julia!
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 5:26:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 5:26:00 PM EDT
I thought that angel abuela appeared in Mayita's room in Juan Miguel's thoughts...like he was imagining his mom (or grandmother? She looks pretty old) watching over his daughter.
I love Stefi's idiocy. If she were remotely sympathetic, it would be painful to watch her...like how you felt so embarrassed for the dweeby girl in school who never knew that the other kids were laughing AT her. But she is horrible, so I look forward to her smackdown. How does she not see that Juan Miguel looks pained and Eduardo is in tears laughing?
I think Viv is only calling home because she wants to let her mother know she's alive (way to care about your KID, Viv). Probably she is also narcissistic enough to want to know how much everyone is missing her, or to get some word that the whole society has fallen apart without her presence.
I love Stefi's idiocy. If she were remotely sympathetic, it would be painful to watch her...like how you felt so embarrassed for the dweeby girl in school who never knew that the other kids were laughing AT her. But she is horrible, so I look forward to her smackdown. How does she not see that Juan Miguel looks pained and Eduardo is in tears laughing?
I think Viv is only calling home because she wants to let her mother know she's alive (way to care about your KID, Viv). Probably she is also narcissistic enough to want to know how much everyone is missing her, or to get some word that the whole society has fallen apart without her presence.
thank you very much julia for the excellent recap.
one thing that's been bugging me while watching this one is Viv's boy toy. Is that Elvis from DA?
Jody :)
one thing that's been bugging me while watching this one is Viv's boy toy. Is that Elvis from DA?
Jody :)
Oh man, I'd never know about deer pooping action if I didn't read the recaps. How cool is that!
In exchange, the maid's name is Balbina.
Best wishes for your nuptials to Eduardo.
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In exchange, the maid's name is Balbina.
Best wishes for your nuptials to Eduardo.
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