Saturday, December 06, 2008
Fuego en la Sangre, 12/05/08: Darth Vader and Daughter Ruthless Root Return
Capítulo 151
As things begin in this episodio, Padre Tadeo is praying for strength from the Right-Is-Might-and-Light Side as Ciudad Serdán receives its most dreaded visitors from The Dark Side.
First, a little repetitious review: At the Double E (Hacienda de las Elizondo sin Escandon) Juan is trying to get past guard-doggie, Fatima, to see his sick little girl. Sofia interrupts and tells Juan there’s no reason to now. Of course, when she did come by earlier to speak with him about it, he was gettin’ busy with the babes at another baile (dance). Juan says uh, yeah, but he behaved himself and didn’t drink, so --- Sofia says no explanations, PUH-leese. She went to ask for his help and a bit of consolation, but he was AWOL. She doesn’t need a thing from him now. Juan says “al contrario”, that he’d heard she and her sisters had been sent packing again, courtesy of Mama. Just then Gabi, who’s been eagerly listening to this discordant exchange from around the corner and is all smiles, bullies her way in and says he heard wrong. Nothing’s changed, and her daughters are there under her [loving] protection as always. (Eye rolls from those of us in Viewerville.)
Across the way on some neighboring dirt road, Oscar is facing off again with Jimena and Sarita. They refuse his offer to take them in at the Double R (Hacienda de los Robles-Reyes). Oscar says keep it up and they’ll end up losing them (him and Franco) for sure. Jimena blames him and his brothers for starting it all by accusing their daddy of being a killer. Oscar says fine, but their daughters are not going to suffer because of her and her sisters’ foolishness. (Alright!! If I didn’t know better, I’d swear it was Oscar who was the oldest Reyes and the head of this family. He’s the only one of the three –make that six-- with his head screwed on straight in this whole mess.) Jimena leaves in a snit with Sarita.
Meanwhile, back at the Hacienda de Hokum, Gabi gives Juan a load about it all being just an empty threat of hers during a moment of misplaced anger. Juan pleads with Sofia to see the light. “She’s lying, Sofia!” Sofia, though, has her own reasons to play along with Mama. Juan contends that the little girls and she will be better off with him than there with The Great Manipulator. Sofia says absolutely not! Then she and Mama make a big show of new found mother-daughter solidarity. (Viewerville shares one hell of a reflexive group-gag.) Juan gives up in total frustration. “It ain’t worth the effort!” He leaves. Gabi turns to Sofia and gives her a Judas’ kiss that’s enough to make even Sofia’s skin crawl.
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At the same time, upstairs in Augie’s room, Santita asks Augie how he managed to get Crabi to change her mind. Augie says he used some of her same tricks and, of course, the loan Santita gave him to get the hacienda out of hoc won’t hurt, either.
Meanwhile, Oscar and Juan meet up on the way back to the hacienda to compare notes. They decide that if the Elizondo sisters don’t want to have anything to do with them then fine, but the little girls are a different story. After all, they’re Reyes’ too, now. “¿Qué no?” “--¡Que sí!”
Back at the Double E again, Gabi goes up to Augie’s room and asks him how he plans to pay off the hacienda’s debt, but he says not her problem. He’ll do it provided she accepts his conditions: everything will be divided into equal shares and Sofia will be the lone administrator. Nobody else. Otherwise, Gabi loses everything. Gabi walks out in another huff. Santita wonders if Gabi will be convinced. Augie says there’s no doubt, because she would do anything not to have the Reyes’ see her humiliated and beaten.
Juan pays a visit a bit later to Dr. Mendoza to get the details about his little girl’s heart condition. The doctor explains that she’s out of danger for now, and says he thinks the condition will eventually correct itself. If not, they’ll have to operate, but they’ll have to wait till she’s two anyway and watch her closely till then. Juan then asks about Juliana’s condition since her father’s already discussed it with him. (Tho’ it’s been thought and said before, I’ve got to say it again: Can they please get a bit more original and exotic with these illnesses? Hmm. Like ALS or liver failure or that Mad Cow Disease--CJD?) Dr. Mendoza says the only thing he can tell him is that poor, little, uber-cheery Juliana has only a short time left to live. (Uh-oh! Quickie sympathy-wedding alert!)
Speaking of the princess of Rome, Juliana is all recovered from the day before and tells Daddy Clemente that she’s got some matter to attend to and will tell him about it later.
Juan is now in his office at the hacienda. He pulls out the engagement ring that Sofia returned to him and remembers when she agreed to marry him this last time and him telling her he was a one-woman man. He also thinks back to the day she gave that ring back and called things off till he could come to terms with the fact that Bernie didn’t kill anybody, and in particular Juan’s parents. Back in the present, Juan re-reads the note from Juliana’s daddy explaining that she has Leukemia but doesn’t know it yet, and that nobody else should find out either.
Juliana has gone to visit Sofia to see if the road is clear for her to try for Juan. Sofia says it sure is and then smiles that long-suffering, sugary sweet smile of hers. So, Juliana jumps for joy and races off while Sofia apparently figures she can’t do much about it now anyway, considering the circumstances.
Later that morning Oscar is griping about his rotten luck with Jimena when Juliana’s blonde cousin, Elena, and her buddy, Paulina, whose got the hots for Franco, see him and chase him down near one of the town plazas. Blondie begs him to take her and Pau for ice cream. Oscar begs off till he notices Jimena and Sarita looking at him from across the street. Sarita catcalls, “Well will you look at that shameless baker of yours getting on so wellll with—“ Oscar suddenly says his appointment can wait. He grabs the two girls and raises his voice about 50 decibles, “Why, I’m not going to leave you with a hankerin’ for ice cream.” Jimena struts over and carps back at him, “You’re going to be ice cream when I shake the spit out of you!” To Blondie: “Let go of my husband!” Blondie wonders what’s going on. “Husband?? HUS-band!!” “—Yeah. MY husband and we have four kids!” ‘—Four kids????” Jimena then stomps her boot on Elena’s foot again and walks off. Oscar smiles to himself and mentally skips over the “loves me not” column to chalk one up under “loves me”.
Back at the Double E, Santita and Augie continue to reminisce about the good old days and flirt with each other while flipping through old photo albums. She says once she fell for Augie there was nobody else for her. “—Until your nouveau-riche (ricachón) first husband showed up,” says Augie. “--We all have our weaknesses, BUT I’m back with you again,” she says sweetly. They smile and flirt some more. “You were a beauty!” “—Aw, you are still the same handsome rascal!”
Jimena and Sarita are back minding the Trinkets R Us and justifying Jimena’s antics a few minutes ago. Jimena is just seething with jealousy. Sarita says they’ve got to find a way to give Oscar and bro’ a taste of their own medicine. What they need is to find a couple of chumps to be seen with, but who??? The gods of central casting respond and suddenly two cowboys walk into the store.
Back at the hacienda again, Sarita is still chatting it up with Augie. “How come Gabriela hates the Reyes’ so much?” Augie figures there had to be something that went on in the past he never found out about since he wasn’t living at the hacienda back then. Santi wonders if Augie is convinced Bernie didn’t really kill Juanjo Reyes. He says of course he didn’t. Bernie was one of the good guys. Besides, Gabi only mentioned it to him a few days ago and said it was because Juanjo was her lover and so, when Bernie supposedly found out about it he went loco somehow and killed him. Truth be told, he doesn’t believe a bit of it! “You don’t think Gabi could be so perverse as to invent such a story?” she asks. Augie answers it’s hard for him to admit something like that about his own daughter, but she could and would do that and worse; and now with Fernando she has met her match. “--Too bad that now when you need her most she’s not there for you!” (Ever heard of The Bad Seed, Santi?)
Speaking of Gabi, she’s driving down the lane on the way to somewhere and stops. She can’t figure out where her father could have gotten all the money necessary to save the hacienda. Out of nowhere Fer jumps into the seat next to her. “Just got back into town. Miss me?” He flashes his pearly whites. She starts to smack him but he grabs her arm and twists it just enough to threaten. She screams to let her loose. She starts in with how dare he show up like nothing’s happened, bitches that he’s ruined them, whines that he’s destroyed her life and then says she never wants to see him again. Of course Feo is ready with another conveniently flawless explanation.
Eva sneaks over to the hacienda for a visit , meanwhile, with Sofia to again offer her undying support. Sofia tells her that she is more supportive and affectionate than her own mother. From now on Sofia’s determined to confront whoever it may be in order to protect what’s hers. (About frickin’ time, too!) Eva will be proud of the way she protects all of the people who love and depend on her now. Eva doesn’t doubt it and says she’d have loved it if Sofia was her daughter for real.
Speak of the Devil and who appears? Daughter Root bounces in to say she’s ba-a-ack. “So is the owner (obviously meaning Gabi) of this hacienda around?” Sofia turns and looks at Root with just a hint of haughty (Sofia hasn’t quite got the moves down yet) and says, “I’M the owner of this hacienda.” Root is appropriately impactada. (Note the body language, i.e., the supercilious lift in the eyebrows, which translates into: “Huh. Leave town for a few days and the whole world goes to Hell in a hand basket!”) Uni melodramatically breaks for a bit of crass commercialism to pay its bills.
When we return to Mexiloon, Feo is shrugging off his failure as an administrator with a bit of the old bovine fecal favorite, “Mistakes were made, so it that such a sin?” and “Sorry to disappoint.” Crabi grouses back that because of him she’s been forced to humiliate herself in front of her father and the others by having to accept Augie’s conditions in order to save the hacienda. Feo insists that he was truly determined to get the hacienda into the black, but they had too many problems that really complicated things. He says part of the problem was that her father refused to sign the necessary papers and so he had to trick him into it, but by then they’d lost too much time and money; and he warned her they were on the brink of financial ruin, but she wouldn’t pay any attention to him. (It almost sounds plausible, until you remember him sucking out all the ready cash from any and all available accounts there were and stashing it into foreign banks then covering up his tracks by cooking the books.) “Not all the blame is mine!”
In the meantime (emphasis on mean), Root gives Sofia a hard time over becoming the new owner and administrator of the Double E and says it’s doubtful Sofia knows the first thing about it. The place is certain to be ruined in nothing flat. Eva sticks up for Sofia and tells Root not to talk like that to her, but Root sh-sh-sh’s Eva up and wants to know who asked her opinion? Sofia tells Root then to lay off Eva. Root snidely asks if she’s supposed to be frightened because Sofia tells her she can’t talk to some shrew any ol’ way she feels like? Sofia starts to tell Root the real reason she can’t but Eva stops her first. Root lets out with a couple of snide giggles and says she really can’t bother herself with the likes of them anyway. She’s got more important things to do, like unpack. On her way out of the room she lets off another sarcastic volley. “Big Woop! Sofia the Owner! The owner! What a scarey thing! Oooh!” (Ya know, about now I’d have told Root to back her rude ASSetts out the same way she came in, and if she didn’t I’d get Rosendo and the boys in there with their 12-gauges and start shoving her out myself at the end of a rod-iron poker. But of course, Sofia has hopes for sainthood.) Sofia apologizes to Eva for the shameful way Root treated her, but Eva says she’s more ashamed because Root’s her real daughter.
Out in the back forty at the Double R, Juan is giving tractor-driving lessons to Oscar and we get to FF through the yokels yukking it up til Pablito tells them they’re due back at the school house to take care of their “community service” by fixing up the director’s office. FF’ing again through stupid scenes of childish paint slopping antics.
Crabi and Feo finally return home. She tells him to remember that Sofia runs the place now and it’s up to her whether he gets to stay there or not. Feo can’t believe Crabi won’t lift a finger to defend him against her. Fatima rushes in to tell her that Root is back and has taken over Fernando’s old room again, but she’s gone out for a while and nobody knows where.
Juan returns home and enters his bedroom. He sees Root’s there in his bed, naked as jaybird, draped (barely) in a blue sheet, looking like some bad painting you always see hanging over the bar in some mid-19th century saloon in a mid-20th century B western. Yep. Root’s ready to rut. She tells Juan she’s come back for him just as she’d promised she would. Juan knits the old eyebrows in another slack-jawed frown of impactado and stands there staring at her.
Back at the Double E, Raqui shows up but she didn’t come alone. The long awaited and uber mysterious Ricardo is with her. He enters through the doorway and everyone there is amazed to actually see him standing there in the flesh. Gabi plays charming hostess and DV plays charming guest. “Looks like we have both aged like fine wines.” He kisses Gabi’s hand. Raqui looks at the two of them with something like suspicion or hurt in her eyes. Gabi turns and re-introduces Raqui to Fernando who both play along at being barely acquainted. Ricardo watches the two of them. Maybe he suspects something’s up. Fernando and he shake hands. They both acknowledge a history between his family and the Uribes. They stare at each other, mentally squaring off.
Over at the Double R again, Juan’s finally snapped out of it. He yells at Root. (I suppose she’s trying to be sexy.) She’s there for her house, him and the stallion he rode in on (and at this point I shudder to ask what she wants with the horse). She’ll start with him, though. He yells at her to get dressed and to get it into her big fat head that he’s not interested. Better still, just grab her junk and get the hell out--now! She ignores his tirade and drops drape.
At the Double E, Feo is thinking to himself that Ricardo Uribe owes him big time and he’s going to pay dearly. He excuses himself and says he has things to do (yeah, right) and will be in his office if they need him. Raqui excuses herself to go up to find the powder room and lay down a bit. Ricardo and she exchange a pleasantly plastic smile with each other. (I’m thinking no way this was ever anything but an arranged marriage.) Once Raqui’s out of earshot, Gabi asks DV why he came back. He says to get even with the Reyes brothers and to take back what belongs to him.
Juan is still struggling to get Root out of his bedroom. Root keeps babbling on about them being fated lovers and him never being able to get rid of her, then being just the kind of hawt, sexy thing he wants in a woman and something about rough waters crossing over hard rocks…er something, which even Juan couldn’t make heads or tails of. She just won’t give in or give up. All of a sudden Eva barges into the room and takes it all in. “My God! And without clothes!” Root wonders why the hell she can’t shake loose of Eva. “You! Can’t I ever be free of you? You’re always meddling in things that don’t concern you! Who do you think you are! Tell me how you do it!!”
Juan forbids Root to speak to Eva like that, but he might as well be spitting in the wind. “I don’t need your permission for anything! I’m fed up with this old woman!”To Eva: “You’re a meddling old busybody!” Juan yells at her again to stop it and again is about to tell her why when Oscar and Franco run up there to ask whether he’s going in or not to take a bath. Suddenly Oscar gets an eyeful of Root’s bare bottom too. She tells the others that she’s there for what’s hers: Juan, his horse, and the hacienda which she says will all be hers in good time. She adds then that her father’s back and ready to make them pay very dearly for daring to mess with them, and that the hacienda will again be the Uribes’. She screams at Eva to get out of her way and exits stage left.
Franco asks Juan if he thinks Ricardo Uribe is really going to return. Juan says the time has come to face the guy.
Gabi and Darth are sharing a brandy together and talking about old times. “I never stopped thinking about you. Lots of memories and spilled blood ties the two of us together,” she tells him. “--And several other perversions!” he adds. They share a big laugh. Gabi is literally aglow. (Yeesh.) “Together we were invincible. We always took whatever we pleased, items, people. And our enemies always paid for what they did to us, remember?” “--How could I forget it? A toast to the memories, and because nothing bonds us together.” He takes a big swallow. “—You’re mistaken,” says Gabi. “Something very powerful bonds us together and you know very well what.” “—Only the hate we have for the Reyes’,” says Darth. “--Yes, first Juan Jose, and now his sons,” says Gabi. DV says he wants to know all about them, especially their weaknesses so he will know where best to hit them. Gabi smiles evilly (she’s still glowing) and they toast again.
Juan explains to Eva and his brothers how he found Root already there in his bed, waiting for him, naked as the day she was born. Eva blames herself and says it’s her punishment for having abandoned her. Franco says no. “It’s obvious the Uribes never instilled morals in her.” Oscar is worried that if Root, the demon seed, is anything like her daddy, then he can only imagine what it will be like having to deal with Ricardo Uribe. They’d better be prepared. Juan says the Reyes’ are not afraid of anybody and if Ricardo Uribe comes looking for them, they’ll be there waiting for him.
Gabi tells Darth that the Reyes brothers are very shrewd, especially Juan, who is the oldest and most violent of the three. Darth says she should know him better, he’s never been afraid of anybody or anything. His strength has always been to know his enemy’s weak point. Gabi says, well Juan’s weak point is his brothers. “Together they’re like a pack of wolves and they get their strength from their sense of unity.” Darth says fine, then that’s where he’ll aim. “His brothers are going to be the first to pay for messing with me.” Gabi is practically ecstatic.
DV changes the discussion to Fernando and how Gabi could have ever considered marrying her ex-SIL. He can’t believe Fernando was so captivating. (Frankly, none of us can, Darth. But then when you’re hard up enough, all things are possible.) He laughs at this and suddenly the glow is gone. Gabi scowls at Darth like a wet cat.
Back in their bedroom, Franco and Oscar discuss the benefits of courting nice girls like Jimena and marvel at how they’ve outgrown the fast and loose ones like Root. They both agree that Jimena and Sarita are The Ones.
Speaking of The Ones, at Trinkets R Us the two cowboys confess to Sarita and Jimena that they were there specifically to talk to them, that they couldn’t keep their eyes off them the other day at that first party of Juliana’s. The cute one with the mustache is Roman and the goofy looking one with the curls is Gonzalo. Turns out they’re friends from grade school and hacendados’ sons (brothers, maybe?). They’re back in town to visit their family and check on things at the hacienda.
Gabi offers to have DV and family stay in her father’s cottage instead of staying at a hotel. He flirts a bit and asks if her husband won’t get jealous of him being there. She says not his place to ask since he was the one to leave her all those years ago. Somebody else simply took his place. DV says she knows full well the reason why he left: she fell in love with Juanjo Reyes. Of course, Juanjo never paid any attention to her, despised her in fact. She says, “Well you got even with him and then you deserted me….though, where there was fire cinders remain.” Darth perks up at this, but just then Raqui walks back into the room. They pull apart a hair too quickly and awkwardly. Raqui asks if they weren’t going to offer her a drink. Darth offers to pour. Raqui is definitely aware she’s the fifth wheel here.
Sofia walks down the grand staircase—her staircase now-- and smiles from the power rush. Fer is in the office sipping on a brandy and puffing on the signature cheroot. He thinks to himself again that Ricardo Uribe has a few unsettled matters to account for with him and the time for payback has finally come. Sofia walks in on him and tells him in no uncertain terms that he may be her mother’s husband, but as far as she’s concerned he’s not permitted to be in her office ever again. He says he knows she’s supposed to be managing things around there now and it’s a shame she won’t be able to handle it. (She could probably do it a hundred times better than Feo in her sleep.) Sofia says his opinion isn’t worth spit and if he had even a smidgeon of shame he’d never show his face around there again. As far as she’s concerned he’s nothing but an offensive creep and a two-bit thief who’s to blame for their nearly losing the hacienda.
Feo jumps up and insists he’s no thief and he refuses to let his ex insult him like that. She pushes him out of the way and shows him the account books. “Gramps went over these in minute detail and we know you cooked them!” She tells him then that she has all the proof she needs to put him in jail and throw away the key. He asks if she’s really going to do it? Would she dare put her mother’s husband in jail? She says no, but what’s stopping her isn’t him, only the scandal and shame it would cause Mama. (Gawd, then by all means go.a.head.) So, just so he knows, he’ll have to pay back every bit of what he’s cost them. He lies and asks her with what, since he hasn’t got a centavo to his name. “Then you can work it off. Either you work it off or I send you to jail.” He flops back down in the chair and takes a puff. “I’ll work it off.”
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And Darth Vader [aka Rick Uribe] is none other than Gasca from Alborada !!!Yay !!!! This guy knows how to bring the evil...so now Ruthless makes perfect sense. That little apple didn't fall far from the evil tree. Suddenly, I am excited about Fuego again after months of slogging along. Yippee ! Ricky Uribe returns...and he's GASCA !!!
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: Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 11:30:00 AM EST
: Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 11:30:00 AM EST
G-A-A-A-H-H-SCA!!! You're so right Susanlynn. I knew he looked familiar. What an unholy alliance. Gabriela & Gasca. Things are starting to pick up. I am anticipating all sorts of just deserts. Gasca met his end in Alborada by public garrotting. We can only hope.
Speaking of Ricky Uribe, how about that snakeskin trimmed jacket he wore! It would be over the top for a Vegas lounge singer.
And thanks, Susanlynn for identifying Gasca. I couldn't place the face, but knew I'd seen it. I think the big difference is Gasca had coal black hair!
And thanks, Susanlynn for identifying Gasca. I couldn't place the face, but knew I'd seen it. I think the big difference is Gasca had coal black hair!
Permalink posted by : Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 5:44:00 PM EST
: Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 5:44:00 PM EST
Gasca was also in Duelo de Pasiones . He was the second actor who played the ranch foreman. The first was the guy who played Dario in QE. This guy is an excellent villain. I think he will breathe some life back into Fuego. And he certainly can outevil both Crabby and Ferd. Did you see that look he gave Ferd when he first walked into the hacienda??? Be afraid, Ferd...be very afraid.
Permalink posted by : Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 7:31:00 PM EST
: Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 7:31:00 PM EST
Calamity Cakes, thanks for the great recrap. I don't think I'm familiar with the DV character from other productions, but he clearly has the ability to ooze evil without breaking a sweat.
How can Eva not notice that her new lost daughter (Root) looks about 15 years older than her old lost daughter (Rosario)?
"Creemelo"
How can Eva not notice that her new lost daughter (Root) looks about 15 years older than her old lost daughter (Rosario)?
"Creemelo"
Permalink posted by : Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 10:57:00 PM EST
: Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 10:57:00 PM EST
Calamity...you got off so many good ones, I can't list them all. 'Bovine fecal favorite", comparing Ruth's pose to those ubiquitous paintings in downbeat saloons, viewerville group gags...excellent recap and true confessions...I actually watched this one...and enjoyed it.
Hub fell asleep before the games came on so I just settled in for Fuego and after a long absence had fun with it.
Is it just me or does Abuelo's new/old love look like Luci Arnez on steroids? Wow, what a face! (or is it the makeup?)
And I always enjoy Diana Bracho's acting ability...lots of subtle mood changes during her conversation with Uribe...I really admire that actress.
Found the body language between Fernando and Sofia interesting. Although she declared herself in charge, he went and sat in the chair behind the desk like he still had the power. Granted, she remained standing, while he sat, but it still looked like he was in charge. As you said, she hasn't quite got the hang of having power yet, but I certainly hope she will, as that will give us a break from the mewling and moaning.
And yay Ruth! (Your quip about the horse...no I won't go there) but LOVE that bad girl! And Juan certainly took a good loooong time looking at her while mumbling that she should leave. Still, we know his thought processes are slow, probably nothing untoward there.
Fun episode, great recap. (Hope your fish all got fried.)
Hub fell asleep before the games came on so I just settled in for Fuego and after a long absence had fun with it.
Is it just me or does Abuelo's new/old love look like Luci Arnez on steroids? Wow, what a face! (or is it the makeup?)
And I always enjoy Diana Bracho's acting ability...lots of subtle mood changes during her conversation with Uribe...I really admire that actress.
Found the body language between Fernando and Sofia interesting. Although she declared herself in charge, he went and sat in the chair behind the desk like he still had the power. Granted, she remained standing, while he sat, but it still looked like he was in charge. As you said, she hasn't quite got the hang of having power yet, but I certainly hope she will, as that will give us a break from the mewling and moaning.
And yay Ruth! (Your quip about the horse...no I won't go there) but LOVE that bad girl! And Juan certainly took a good loooong time looking at her while mumbling that she should leave. Still, we know his thought processes are slow, probably nothing untoward there.
Fun episode, great recap. (Hope your fish all got fried.)
Creemelo: Thanks! "[DV]clearly has the ability to ooze evil without breaking a sweat" --couldn't have described him better. I can't wait to see how our simpleton Juan outsmarts this bad guy. Hopefully the telenovela gods don't just have him back into it.
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JudyB: Good Lord! You must have been suffering from QE withdrawel to actually sit through another hour of FELS like that. (Witty fin recap, BTW. Just didn't get to read it till later on.) --I admit I had to rewind the scenes with Gilberto de Anda and Diana Bracho a few times. Terrific chemistry. I have had the chance to see him play any kind of romantic role before. There was a definite chemistry between them and whoever did the camera work captured her character's facial expressions perfectly. She has become my fav villana. Nobody brings it out of me in a novela like she does. I want to drag my nails across the t.v. screen every time.
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JudyB: Good Lord! You must have been suffering from QE withdrawel to actually sit through another hour of FELS like that. (Witty fin recap, BTW. Just didn't get to read it till later on.) --I admit I had to rewind the scenes with Gilberto de Anda and Diana Bracho a few times. Terrific chemistry. I have had the chance to see him play any kind of romantic role before. There was a definite chemistry between them and whoever did the camera work captured her character's facial expressions perfectly. She has become my fav villana. Nobody brings it out of me in a novela like she does. I want to drag my nails across the t.v. screen every time.
Thanks for the great recrap, Cakes. I didn't get to watch but will check .Ara's links on the T-NWorld site.
Could it be that Ruth is actually the spawn of Crabi and DV? Or have we discussed this possibility already? (having a senior moment....) Nothing would surprise me at this point.
doris
Could it be that Ruth is actually the spawn of Crabi and DV? Or have we discussed this possibility already? (having a senior moment....) Nothing would surprise me at this point.
doris
Permalink posted by : Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 3:51:00 PM EST
: Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 3:51:00 PM EST
Wow! Things are definitely looking up - or at least looking bearable - with Darth Uribe in town. What are the odds that things might finally start making sense?
Jardinera: Another great recap. Thanks.
Doris: It looks to me like Ruth is the child (hah!) of Gabi and Ricardo. It's got to be so. My guess is that the babies were inadvertently switched somehow. In a prior episode Gabi thought bubbled that Sofia wasn't even a rightful heir of the Elizondo family.
Now, why she would trade her own daughter for Eva's is still a mystery. Of course, all the extraneous thoughts the characters have may lead to nowhere since the writers don't think continuity of story has any type of priority.
Anyway - hope the weather in TN is good.
Doris: It looks to me like Ruth is the child (hah!) of Gabi and Ricardo. It's got to be so. My guess is that the babies were inadvertently switched somehow. In a prior episode Gabi thought bubbled that Sofia wasn't even a rightful heir of the Elizondo family.
Now, why she would trade her own daughter for Eva's is still a mystery. Of course, all the extraneous thoughts the characters have may lead to nowhere since the writers don't think continuity of story has any type of priority.
Anyway - hope the weather in TN is good.
Julie: It is going to be a very interesting take on what happens when an immovable object like stubborn Juan collides with an unstoppable force like DV Uribe.
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Doris/pasofino: Thanks. I think Raqui told Fer during one of their rendezvous that Gabi didn't know it but Sofia had no right to inherit. Gabi tells so many lies, even to herself, that I'm not sure if it was because she was pissed off at the will again or because she really knows something we don't yet about Sofia. Maybe it's a triple baby switch or a switch on that switch....I'm dizzy from thinking about it. >8 ? }
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Doris/pasofino: Thanks. I think Raqui told Fer during one of their rendezvous that Gabi didn't know it but Sofia had no right to inherit. Gabi tells so many lies, even to herself, that I'm not sure if it was because she was pissed off at the will again or because she really knows something we don't yet about Sofia. Maybe it's a triple baby switch or a switch on that switch....I'm dizzy from thinking about it. >8 ? }
Thanks, Cakes. Ok..It looks promising with Ferd back from vacation and Ricky and Root and Raq returning and ready for a rumble. The actor playing Ricky Uribe is a great villain...so easy to despise....both Ferd and Crabby have met their nasty match. And Crabby has a history with him. Wow..Crabby and all her boys...Who would have guessed it??? But PaJuan would not give in to her charms [think Root and Juanny], and so he and his wife were killed. I wonder what score Ferd has to settle with Ricky ???? Did Ricky kill Ferd's parents and take over their hacienda , too ? The plot thickens and sickens [I am referring to Root beating that dead horse. Root , if you are standing there au naturel and the guy is still saying ''no thanks''...You might as well think up another way to get your place back. ] Let the treachery begin. It seems the Reyes and the Elizonda girls will have to join forces to fight the Uribes. ...or they could just throw Juan into the volcano and sacrifice him to Root.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 7:17:00 PM EST
: Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 7:17:00 PM EST
julie, I think eva's child was given to Raqui but Raqui suspected that Crabie was having hankie pankie with her husband, therefore she wanted that baby for herself and switched them, giving evas to crabie. HOwever. eva had an affair with crabies husband which ended wtih eva being pregnant; therefore, Sofia is the heir?????? No, Yes?? Maybe?? Ret
Permalink posted by : Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 8:01:00 PM EST
: Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 8:01:00 PM EST
Food For Thought. Most of us feel tht Juan is not working with a full deck; however, how come he cannot meaningfully push women away and say "no"; like when the girl was trying to dance with him. He let her hang on him while he said no and then gets caught. Is this like what they say about women. They say no and struggle a little, but in the end they kiss or whatever. Sarita is good with that.
Permalink posted by : Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 8:05:00 PM EST
: Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 8:05:00 PM EST
Good point about Juan's "No's" being a bit weak around all those pretty young things at the party. Can't blame him though this time since his ego's been bruised and abused all this time. On the other hand, Juan's eyes did seem to "linger a little longer" than necessary once Root dropped that sheet on the floor. He was definitely having to think twice, I thought, before he told her to hotfoot it out of his hacienda. His sense of shame and modesty was quite a lot stronger when it came to the sexy doc in the selva, and she was ten times better looking and downright NICE compared to ruttin' Root.
Ret, I think that is exactly what happened.
I had been thinking before that Ricardo had swapped the babies - I mean, Raq thinks he didn't know about her infertility, but he's smart, so maybe he found out.
But it does make sense that Raquel would rather have Crabi & Rico's baby than Eva & whoever's (since she didn't know Eva's baby was Bernardo's).
And it does sound as though Crabi & Rico were an item.
I had been thinking before that Ricardo had swapped the babies - I mean, Raq thinks he didn't know about her infertility, but he's smart, so maybe he found out.
But it does make sense that Raquel would rather have Crabi & Rico's baby than Eva & whoever's (since she didn't know Eva's baby was Bernardo's).
And it does sound as though Crabi & Rico were an item.
And now I'm also assuming that Uribe was responsible for whatever happened to Feo's family - we know they lost their fortune; I wonder if he killed them too. Perhaps the Uribes and the Escandons were partners.
Remember, also, the Uribe nephews said their parents died when they were young. I don't remember if they knew how - I think it was some kind of accident? But perhaps it was an engineered accident.
Remember, also, the Uribe nephews said their parents died when they were young. I don't remember if they knew how - I think it was some kind of accident? But perhaps it was an engineered accident.
Thanks for the recap. I think Ricardo and Crabi are the parents of Ruth also. Although that is pretty obvious so you never know.
Cakes - I noticed Juan's eyes lingering more than they should at Root also. LOL Her overall appearance --- the long black hair, bangs, shifty eyes --- reminded me of (Samson and) Delilah. With all the other Biblical reference we've seen throughout this novela . . . I think they're hinting at it.
doris
doris
Permalink posted by : Monday, December 8, 2008 at 11:25:00 AM EST
: Monday, December 8, 2008 at 11:25:00 AM EST
I'm delighted to see that Ruth is back.Her scene in Juan"s bed left me wanting a cigarette and I don't smoke. Welcome also to Ricardo. Gabriella warned him that the Robles-Reyes boys are astutos. Does she know something that the rest of us don't know? Carlos
Permalink posted by : Monday, December 8, 2008 at 11:35:00 AM EST
: Monday, December 8, 2008 at 11:35:00 AM EST
Excellent recap Calamity Cakes. Ricardo joins the list of formidable villans hoping to inflict widespread wickedness and treachery! As you noted... "Ciudad Serdán receives its most dreaded visitors from The Dark Side." Exactly!
Ricardo Uribe oozes pure evil. I think the only one who would have a chance against him is Coyote. I hope we get to see a show down. My money's on Coyote.
Diana in MA
Ricardo Uribe oozes pure evil. I think the only one who would have a chance against him is Coyote. I hope we get to see a show down. My money's on Coyote.
Diana in MA
Permalink posted by : Monday, December 8, 2008 at 1:11:00 PM EST
: Monday, December 8, 2008 at 1:11:00 PM EST
Actually, I think Juan's doing pretty well at fending off the various "ladies" who keep trying to seduce him. After all, Oscar was not as successful with Niurka (can't remember the character's name), although there was some alcohol involved.
Carlos and Hombre: Glad to get some of the male perspective on Root and Juan's predicament/s. I'd forgotten about Oscar's little slip up. I may still have to give Oscar credit if only because he was tricked into getting so drunk he was functioning on autopilot. --Dunno, I wonder if you legitimately can say he "enjoyed" it if somebody gets so drunk that they can't remember anything the next day or if that wouldn't be like someone being given a roofie. Just a thought. : ? )
Diana in MA/Connie: Thanks again. Coyote does seem to be the proverbial ace, doesn't he?
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Anybody wonder how Root close Root actually feels to Raqui? I wonder if there really is any love lost between the two of them. If Gabi really is her mother, I bet Root would be thrilled.
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Anybody wonder how Root close Root actually feels to Raqui? I wonder if there really is any love lost between the two of them. If Gabi really is her mother, I bet Root would be thrilled.
Thanks, Calamity Cakes! I really appreciate the capitulo number as well.
Love the Darth Vader name for ol' Rick. Poifect.
Hate the same old plotline. Everyone and their mama hate the Reyes for taking "something" away from them. Must get revenge on the three poor country guys who grew up without their murdered parents and scrounged just to be able to eat. EVERYONE hates the Reyes because the Reyes ruined all their lives. Old, old, old. And not very creative, TeleRisa.
UniBrow needs to hurry up and get out of prison, put his Rolex back on, join Coyote and Pedro and the boys, and kick everybody's ass for them. Meh.
Love the Darth Vader name for ol' Rick. Poifect.
Hate the same old plotline. Everyone and their mama hate the Reyes for taking "something" away from them. Must get revenge on the three poor country guys who grew up without their murdered parents and scrounged just to be able to eat. EVERYONE hates the Reyes because the Reyes ruined all their lives. Old, old, old. And not very creative, TeleRisa.
UniBrow needs to hurry up and get out of prison, put his Rolex back on, join Coyote and Pedro and the boys, and kick everybody's ass for them. Meh.
Permalink posted by : Monday, December 8, 2008 at 6:54:00 PM EST
: Monday, December 8, 2008 at 6:54:00 PM EST
Steph: Yep. A little more whoop-ass from someone else besides Feo is long overdue. And, in general, I'd like a chance to dry out my hankies. I'm so sick of the tear-fests.
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