Friday, January 09, 2009

Fuego, Capitulo #171 - Rude Awakenings and Low-Tech Match.com

Hi fellow Caray! Cary! Members – This is my first recap of FELS. Please be gentle. I need to get more creative about my titles, but there wasn’t any one thing that really stood out to me in this one. I tried really hard to get as much detail in as possible, although I hope it’s not too wordy. Recappers – Not that I didn’t appreciate you guys before, but I have so much respect for your hard work and dedication. Anyone, please let me know how I can improve my recaps. Also, feel free to add anything I may have missed. I hope you enjoy it!

From last night: Oscar is alone is his room thinking that if Jimena leaves him, he’ll understand because he deserves it for being so selfish. Juan is with Paddy Tad telling him that he thinks somebody may have caused Crabi to have her accident on purpose. Paddy Tad thinks there’s been way too many accidents around the pueblo lately and Juan says that’s because the devil is living inside the Hacienda Doble E. He says Sofia and his daughters are in danger and that’s why he’s there to talk to Paddy. Paddy needs to help him get Sofia and the girls out of there. That’s why Paddy thinks it’s a good idea for Juan and Sofia to get married ASAP.

Up in Gabi’s room, Gabi’s yelling at Ruth that if Sofia thinks that she’s going to be indebted to Juan just because he saved her life she’s sadly mistaken. Sofia has called the doctor but Crabi wants no part of the doctor. Root is there telling Sofia that if Gabi doesn’t want to see the doctor, then just leave her in peace. Sofia’s angry now and tells Root to butt out, she knows how to take care of her own mother. Root almost spills the beans to Sofia that Gabi isn’t really Sofia’s mother, but Gabi interrupts her before the gata is out of the bolsa. Gabi tells both of them to either shut up or get out.

Ricardo has hobbled his way up to Gabi’s room to see about this “accident”. Sofia tries to throw him out, but Gabi says no way he’s leaving. In fact, she wants Sofia to leave her alone with Darth and Root. Sofia leaves, insulted. Darth can’t believe Gabi is up and on her feet after her accident. She says it proves just how strong she is. She says they can leave her alone also, she’s fine. But Root’s not goin’ anywhere. Now that she knows she’s really Gabi’s daughter, and not the lowly servant Eva’s, she’s stuck to Gabi like white on rice. Root tells Gabi that she knows “everything”. Gabi looks at Ricardo and wants to know what “everything” is. Darth tells Gabi, that yes, Root now knows that Gabi is her mother. Gabi doesn’t seem very impactada and this recent development.

At the Tiendita de Crap from Afar we see Sarita admiring a bouquet of flowers given to her by Franco who tells Sarita she’s the most beautiful flower in the world. But, he wants to know what’s wrong with her. Sarita tells Franco she’s really worried about Jimena, that she’s very sad and can’t stop crying. Sarita says that Jimena is suffering also, that it’s not fair the way Oscar is treating her. Franco tells her she’s right, that Oscar has been very unfair to Jimena and that the boys have tried to talk some sense into him, but he won’t listen. The boys don’t know what to do. Sarita says if it wasn’t for this whole thing with Oscar, they’d all be one big happy family. Damn that Oscar Robles Reyes. Just then, Rosendo busts in and tells the girls that their mother has been in an accident. They all go running out, leaving all the crap from afar unattended for just anyone to steal.

Back to Gabi’s boudoir, she’s having a little chat with Root and Darth Hurrible. Gabi says she can’t believe what Raquel did, she never ever suspected that Raquel switched the newborn babies, Root and Sophia. That’s why she always believed that Sophia was her daughter, but in reality she was Eva’s and Bernardo’s. Root says now they really have to find Raquel, she owes them an explanation. Darth tells Root not to worry, nobody gets the best of him! Crabi says her head still hurts, she can’t understand what happened to the truck. Ever-evil-thinking Darth says that it’s obvious, somebody did it on purpose. Gabi thinks Darth is lying and can’t believe he put that doubt in her mind. Just to prove how delirious she really is, she says that nobody would EVER want to hurt her! (FYI Gabi - the gente are probably linin’ up at the Hacienda waiting for their chance!) Gabi thinks the only one it could possibly be is Darth himself. Root is quick to defend her Father of the Dark Side. Ricky says perhaps it was Fernando???? Hmmm????? Gabi gets mad and says don’t try to separate me from my husband, she’s sure it was just an accident. Root agrees it was an accident, although she knows better. Ricky says fine, you can both believe what you want, what’s the sense in arguing about it, what’s important is that Gabi wasn’t hurt badly. Gabi turns the tables on Ricky and says, speaking of accidents, who shot you and what were you out there looking for?

Now we have Juan, the thinker (with a small “t”, of course), mulling over the confrontation earlier with Fernando and Darth at the front door of the Hacienda Doble E. I’ve heard people say that they do their best thinking in the bathroom. Juan tries to do his best thinking in the kitchen. NOTE: I think Darth needs a new tailor. Every time they show him from the boots up I can’t help but think his pants are too short! I just wish someone would ask him, “Y tus pantalones? Estas esperando una gran inundacion, o que?” Sorry, back to the action: Juan wants to know what’s up between Darth and Feo and why they hate each other so much.

Franco comes into the kitchen and says he heard than Juan saved Gabi’s life. Juan says he just reacted, he doesn’t know why, but he had to. Franco says that speaks well of Juan’s character, and that aside from everything, she is the mother of the women they love. Juan says yeah, it speaks well of him, how foolish (re bruto) he is for saving his enemy, right? Juan just hopes one day he won’t regret having saved the old lady. Franco says he’s been thinking about the guy that Juan shot at the other night. Juan says he thought it was Feo, but he just saw Feo and Feo isn’t injured. Franco asks what about Darth? Juan says yeah, he thought it might be him too, but he saw Darth at the same time he saw Feo, and Darth wasn’t hurt either. (I think the only thing that’s hurtin’ is Juan’s brain from thinking too much.) Juan says he doesn’t know what to think now, what other enemies do they have?

Cut to Coyote Uribe talking to Raquel of the Peluca Mala. He tells her that the Reyes Bros are not his enemies. On the contrary, he’s obligated to protect them because they’re the nephews of his former boss, a man he admires and owes everything he is to. But now El Coyote wants to get back to talking about Ricardo and Gabriela. He asks what was she referring to that they are united by blood. Raquel tells El Coyote that Ricardo and Gabi were lovers, although she doesn’t use the word “amante”, she says they had a “relacion amorosa”. Not sure if that raises it to a different level than just “lovers”. But now Raquel is convinced that that’s over with, now they just hate each other’s guts, but won’t openly show it because they have a mutual fear of each other also due to the fact that they both know secrets about the other that could destroy them, although Raq isn’t sure this will ever happen. El Coyo wants to know why not. Raq says, how can I explain this to you, they’re tied together by blood – Root is Gabi and Darth’s daughter! That is one Cara de Coyote bien impactado!

Gabi and Root are back to having their mother/daughter bedside chat. Gabi says she has no doubt that the “voz de sangre” exists. Kinda gross to think about blood actually having a voice, huh? But she’s sure that Root hears it too, that there was something from the first time they saw each other that they were somehow united. Apparently Gabi never heard the blood speaking when Root was a little girl – only now that she’s grown up to be an hija de la mala vida, just like Gabi herself. Also, why doesn’t Gabi hear the blood with Jimena and Sarita? At first Root just thought her feelings for Gabi were because she’s admired Gabi, now she knows it’s more. Gabi says how alike they are and Root thinks to herself, yup, I’m just as sick and twisted as you are Ma, perhaps more.
Now the Too Little Too Late Sisters Jimena and Sarita come scampering in, concerned about their Mama. They want to be with her, but Mama totally gives them the brush off and says she does not want to be with them, she’s speaking with Root.

At Hacienda Doble R, the Chismosa sisters show up to fawn all over Tio Elf, telling him how handsome he always looks. He says he always likes to be well dressed. He’s obviously the No. 1 client at the Atelier du Mariachi. He says he’s on his way to the market with Quintina (probably to sell some Keebler cookies he’s been baking while Juan’s not in the cocina). The sisters would like to invite Vicentito to the next meeting of the “Club de Solteras Conservadas”. What in the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks is that??? The old spinsters club? The single women of Ciudad Serdan are conserving what – perhaps their virginity? Vicente can’t believe the name of their Club either, he says “Querran decir quedadas.” The forgotten ones! LOL Hortensia comes running in to say that Quintina is waiting for Vicente. The sisters then invite Hortensia and Quintina to their meeting also. They want Vicente to promise to give a speech to the Club about training horses. Don Vicente can’t believe that a bunch of solteras would be interested in training horses – but of course they are the Hermanas say! Exit Tio and Hortensia to catch up with Quinti.

Back at the bakery kitchen Franco is telling Juan he’s right. (Must be nice for Juan to have his brothers for validation). He’s right that the best thing he and Sofia could do is get married right away. But Juan doesn’t know how he going to convince Sophia to move the wedding date up. He complains that Sofia is “chipi” or always “whining” that she can’t leave her mother by herself because Gabi’s in danger. Juan thinks Sofia is probably right, that this “accident” of Gabi’s wasn’t really an accident. Franco says it doesn’t matter, Juan will have to convince her to get married sooner. Franco wants to get married right away also. He tells Juan he went to the Crap Store to see Sarita, and Jimena was there also. Franco says Jimena is very sad and desperate – she doesn’t know what to do about Oscar. Juan says Jimena has a right to be – Oscar is still bitter over what’s happened to him and he’s still treating her badly. Juan’s afraid one day Jimena will have had enough, give Oscar a good kick in the arse (he didn’t say it, but it sounded like he was going to say “una patada en las nalgas”, and tell Oscar to go to hell once and for all. Juan actually said “Lo mande alla lejos”. In real life uncensored Mexico he would have said, “Lo mande a la chingada”.

Over at Hacienda Doble E in Sofia’s room, Jimena is telling her sisters that she’s done everything she can possibly do for Oscar, but in the end he always ends up yelling and getting mad at her. Sofia says she doesn’t have to stay with Oscar if she’s not happy, especially if he’s treating her badly. Sarita agrees and says nothing is worth losing your diginity. Jimena says that no matter what happens, she’s not coming back to her mother’s house, she doesn’t want any more problems with her. Sarita says especially since she just got done throwing us out of her room, and obviously their mother would rather be with Root.
Over at the Hacienda Doble R – the 20-watt lightbulb has finally gone off in Juan’s head – he’s figured out a way to get Sofia to move up the wedding date. Franco is all ears waiting to hear his idea, but Juan, smiling with horse teeth even bigger than Capricho has, says it’s going to be a huge surprise.

Back to the bedside chat with the Ladies in Red – Gabi thinks it’s better if Sofia doesn’t know about she and Root being true mother and daughter. Root is not likin’ this idea too much – she’d rather rub it in Sofia’s face and tell her she’s really Eva’s kid and that she’s nothing but an intrusion in the house. Gabi then reminds her that she’s still Bernardo’s daughter, and as an Elizondo, she has a right to be in the house. Gabi explains that since Eva is living with the Reyes, if Sofia finds out Eva is her true mother, she’ll go running to go live with Juan and marry him as soon as possible, and is that exactly what Root wants????? Root says no, definitely not. Gabi says, don’t tell me you’ve fallen in love with Juan, and Root denies it – she tells Gabi that she’s never been in love, but yeah, she likes Juan, but that once she separates him from Sofia she’s gonna cast him aside. More mother and daughter goo-ing about calling her “hija” ensues. But, as they hug, we see Sofia’s reflection in the mirror – she’s just walked up. Root thought bubbles how she’s going to convince Gabi of her love for her, but only to get revenge on Gabi for turning her father, Darth, into a murder.

Sofia, still listening at the door, overhears Gabi telling Root that she loves Root more than she loves her other daughters (Sofia doesn’t know yet that she’s only referring to Sarita and Jimena anyway!). She says yeah sure, she loves Sarita and Jimena, but she’s NEVER loved Sofia. Outside the door Sofia is devastated. Gabi is sure that’s why she and Root get along so well, Root despises Sofia as much as she does, and that its their hatred of Sofia that’s united them. Sofia is practically doubled over in pain and as Root and Gabi hug once again, she runs from the door.

Over at the Bread, Sweat and Tears Bakery, apparently Juan has explained his “plan” to get Sofia to move up the wedding to Franco and Franco is totally down with the idea, and likes Juan’s style. Again with Juan’s giant horse smile just beggin’ for a carrot to be shoved in there! Now here we have the second person saying that they’d all be happy if it weren’t for what’s happened to Oscar. Juan says Oscar will get his confidence back and try harder, but Franco’s not so sure, and what will happen if Jimena dumps him? Juan thinks Oscar will die if that happens.

Now Sofia, Jimena, Sarita and Eva are in the babies’ room (where the heck are those kids?) and Sofia is spilling her guts and crying about what she overheard her mother telling Root – how she never loved Sofia. Sofia says that what hurts her more than anything is seeing how affectionate Gabi is with Root – she was never that way with them. Okay, now I’m disgusted. Here we have Eva, the biggest sniffling, whining, crier, always feeling sorry for herself telling Sofia not to let it bother her! WTH??? Eva says that she has to live with Ruth despising her and that Sofia has to live with Gabi despising Sofia. I think it’s just a bit different though – Eva is an adult and has known Root for what – 3 weeks???? Sofia has to just resign herself to the fact that the woman she’s lived with her whole entire life – the woman she thinks is her own mother – hates her. But in Eva’s defense, she tells Sofia that she can always count on Eva’s love for her and her sisters’ also. She reminds her she also has three beautiful girls (that she never takes care of) and a man that loves her. Apparently Eva is having a moment of tearless lucidity herself and tells Sofia that there’s nothing left in the Hacienda Doble E for her, that she should marry Juan as soon as possible.

Juan checks in on Oscar to find him on his bed staring at the cross over his bed. Juan’s goes to the other room and holding Libia’s picture, looks up to La Virgencita. He starts telling Libia’s photo that he hasn’t spoken to her in a while, but yet here he is again, with nothing but problems and tragedy, but could she please send down some faith and strength for them – he doesn’t know what to do with Oscar. It hurts him watching Oscar suffer so, he’d do anything to help him. He begs Libia to give Oscar the strength to go on with his life – to live. (Music eerily reminiscent of the soundtrack from “Titanic” plays in the background. Pan flute anyone?) Juan is ready to give up his own legs to help Oscar be happy just once more. Oscar the Grouch comes rollin’ in just in time to overhear Juan begging Libia to help him keep his promise to their parents, and not let Oscar down. Oscar tells Juan he knows he’s been selfish, but he didn’t realize how much pain he’s been causing all the people that love him. He asks Juan’s forgiveness and then Franco shows up listening in the background. Juan gives Oscar the picture of Libia and says there’s nothing to figure Oscar for, just tell him what he needs to do to help Oscar. Muchos man tears, and brotherly hugging. Oscar says Juan has done everything for him, the only thing he asks is that he never abandons him. Big Daddy Juan is telling them both that they’re not only his brothers but that they’re his little boys also. Juan says that together their invincible (not too bright, but invincible), and that together they’ll get through this, just like they always have gotten through everything. Once again we have to recite Los Hermanos Reyes Promise of always staying together – united forever. Oscar says “Que No! Dense pelo!!! I asked my husband what the heck dense pelo was and he tried explaining it to me, but I just didn’t get it. He thought it was kind of weird the way Oscar used it. Maybe it’s because we didn’t have our beanies on.

Back to the girls, Sofia asks Jimena what she’s decided to do – go back to El Senor Grouch or not. Jimena says she loves Oscar and that love is a sacrifice. Sarita says yeah sure, but not if he’s going to mistreat you. Sophia agrees. What do they know from respect? Their own mother doesn’t respect them. Jimena thanks them for their advice. Sarita says now that she’s heard everything, and knows how her mother feels about the three of them, and since she knows that Franco can actually have sex in a real bed, she’s gonna marry the poor shmuck. Jimena says now that her mother has found Root, she’s finished too. Sarita tells Sofia that if she marries Franco, Sofia will be the only one left in the house with their mother. Sarita’s worried about leaving her alone. She tells Sofia to take Eva’s advice and marry Juan right away and take the babies to live with Juan. As usual, Sofia the Martyr wants to fall on the ever lovin’ sword again, she can’t leave she’s still worried about leaving Crabi alone with all those people in the house trying to take advantage of her, even though she knows Crabi doesn’t deserve Sofia’s concern for her. Jimena tells Sofia their mother can take care of herself, and Sofia argues that no, Crabi doesn’t want to see who her enemies really are – Crabi has a way of finding a reason for everything bad that happens. Now we’re treated to the female version of the we’ll always be together, we sisters united forever, blah, blah, yada, yada.

Back to the boyz, Juan and Franco have got Oscar on the floor doin’ his exercises. Seriously, with their wife-beater style tank tops and Oscar laying on his stomach like that, it wouldn’t take much to turn this scene into gay porn. Sorry if that was too gross for some. They get O back into the wheelchair and Juan says they’re going to go ahead with their “plan”, and does Oscar want to be included also. Oscar says sure. He promises them he’s going to do his best and promises that he’ll be walking into the church for Juan’s wedding.

Okay, I am truly blessed, and I know you recappers out there are soooo jealous because I get to recap the meeting of the Club de Solteras Conservadas! I’m so honored to have this opportunity. I guess we’re in the Casa de Las Hermanas Chismosas and everyone is arriving. Quintina arrives all dressed up and the sisters are complimenting Quinti on how she pretty she looks like a China Poblana (traditional dress) when Hortensia jealously adds that Quintina looks more like “one of those ladies selling themselves in the street”. I’ve got to admit, Quintina had a bunch of good comebacks for old Hortensia with no access to Zoom dental whitening. Now c’mon, does Hortensia really have room to talk with a big black dead tooth in the front of her mouth? If she were in Pasion her name would have been La Pirata del Diente Negro! Quinti calls Hortensia out on her jealousy – you go Quinti! Paddy Tad and Tio Elf admonish Hort and Quinti for fighting and setting a bad example. Meanwhile, the sisters are falling all over Tio Elf, asking him wouldn’t he like to live in their house. Quintina tries to save Vicente from their clutches. When Nabor goes strolling by the sisters and they want to know if he’s married. When he says no, they drop Tio Elf like a hot tamale and go chasing after the other guy! Paddy Tad looks on with disgust and disbelief. Quinti yells to Nabor to be careful or he’ll wind up staying in the sister’s cage. The sister with the weird side ponytail says she likes being caged and saunters back over to Tio Vicente. Ummm . . . . ewwww. Quinti wants to know just exactly what she’s offering up to Vicente and the sister says, “a lot of meat”. Tio is revolted, Paddy Tad is mortified and Quinti tells the sister that Vicente is a vegetarian! She struts back over to Nabor and wants to know if he’s a vegetarian too! Nabor intelligently responds yes. I could’ve lived without that scene, but they are the Solteras Conservadas. I have a feeling if they’ve been saving it this long it’s dried up and long gone away.

Back at the Rancho Robles Reyes, Rigo, his wife and the new baby are in the kitchen and the dude from the Mercado comes in looking for Hortensia. Wifey says Hort has gone to the monthly meeting of the Solteras Conservadas. Mercado Man wonders why she has to go to this meeting. Rigo says why not, and Man says he’s proposed marriage to Hort 5 times already and she’s rejected him each time. There was a whole bunch more drivel between them that I couldn’t understand, mostly cause Rigo had a mouth full of carrots – he must’ve snatched them from Juan’s horse feedbag in the fridge. Just filler talk anyway.

Back to the big meeting! Yay! It’s time for Tio Elf to give his speech about raising horses, or La Alta Escuela Ecuestre – or the High or Grand Ecuestrian School, I guess. Quintina thinks it’s just a bunch or horse-poopy. One of the sisters drags Tio up there and wants him to speak about how they train horses for shows. Heckler Hortensia wants to know if he’s also going to teach them how to train mules – I suppose referring to Quintina! Paddy Tad cannot believe these women! Since when is Horty so snarky anyway?

Back at Doble E, Feo is resting on top of Root’s bed like he doesn’t have a care in the world. He’s probably tired though, he doesn’t get much sleep lately – all that ruckus at night behind haunted by Rosario and all. Root wants to know why every time she comes into her room he’s in there waiting for her. Well, duh? She runs around half the time looking like a dominatrix and she also just happens to be the sole heir to Crab’s fortune. That’s Feo’s kinda gal. She says the next time she finds Feo there, she’s gonna spill the beans to Gabi. Feo says go ahead, tell her, and then he’ll show Gabi the paper that she signed saying that Root agreed to share half of her inheritance with him. She says no way you would and he says yes way he would! He grabs her by the arm and tells her she’s making some big mistakes. Feo says he thought she was more brave than she really is, but she’s really just as much of a coward as her father. She doesn’t like Feo speaking ill of The Dark One. Feo says fine, then prove to me that you’re strong. He says she had him fooled – first she rescued Don Agustin and then she saved Gabi. He says she better watch out, because the next time somebody needs saving it might be her! Dum, dum, dum. . . . . Ruth sarcastically tells Feo he doesn’t scare her. He has no doubt that he if shows Gabi the paper she signed that it will change things drastically for Root. First, Gabi will reject her, and then she’ll change her will. Root tells Feo that that’s not very convenient for him, right? He gets rough with her and says that if she continues to act this way he’s going to have to tell Sofia about her “interest” in Juan which will only make Sofia marry Juan that much faster. He tells her to decide, kisses her hard and says to let him know what she decides later.

Full moon yet again in Ciudad Serdan and Sofia is spending her required five minutes a day with her girls and the mute nuns. She’s remembering that she told Juan she was going to investigate what happened with her mother’s truck and how Juan reminded her that there have been a lot of accidents around there lately. Finally, she starts thinking about protecting her children – she doesn’t have much a maternal instinct either if it’s taken her this long to worry about the babies. But now she’s conflicted – who will take care of her mother? She just can’t figure out how Gabi could love Root more than her own daughters.

Ricky’s gettin’ all duded up in his snake belt, talking to Root in the guest house. Root tells Daddy Darth that she’s full of new feelings. She’s not sure if she loves Gabi like a mother or not. He asks if that’s why she wants to destroy Gabi. She denies it. He tells Ruth not to try to fool him, he knows that she had something to do with Gabi’s “accident”. She says he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Darth says he knows Root better than anybody, and knows when she’s hiding something. He asks why she wants to get rid of Gabi. She said at the time of the accident she didn’t know that Gabi was her mother, and also because Gabi and Sofia leave her looking like a fool. He says he knows that’s not true, that there’s another reason, most likely because she found out that she’s Gabi’s sole heir. He says she thought it would be simple to get rid of Gab,i and that it probably would’ve worked if Darth hadn’t told her that Gabi was her real mother. She wants to know if it bothers him that she had something to do with the accident. Of course, Darth Without A Conscience says no, he just wishes she would have thought more about how to do it. He tries to explain to her that when she attacks it has to be certain and precise, because if you’re not your enemy could attack you back. He’s busy waving the big knife around for effect, of course. He tells her there are always other ways to get rid of people, sometimes even with love and affection and hands her the big knife. He tells her to win Gabi over even more, and remove any trace of herself from the “accident”. It doesn’t help either of them if the truth is discovered.

It’s time to make the donuts (remember that commercial?) and Juan’s in the kitchen. Pablo comes in with his Box of Secrets. Pablo says he’s gonna have to find a new hiding place because the nosy Quintina knows where he keeps it now and he think she’s gonna go pokin’ around in the box. All of a sudden Juan realizes that HE SMELLS and has to go take a shower to get ready to go out. That’s a new one, huh?

Sofia’s coming down Grand Staircase of Accidents when Darth shows up at the door. He tells her not to look at him like that, he came to see her mother. She says she’s sure that Gabi will see him, and that she’s not going to try to throw him out of the house anymore. She says she knows that nobody gives a hoot what she does or says around there anyway. Darth thinks that’s true, and he’s glad she finally realized it. All of a sudden she sees he’s wearing the snake belt. She wants to know why he’s wearing the damn belt that got her father accused of murder. He’s like what, what’s wrong with my belt? Sofia tells him to be careful, very careful because Juan Reyes remembers that exact belt from when his parent’s were murdered.

Paddy Tad comes running into the Reyes abode. Everyone is dressed up in their Mariachi Finest. But where’s Juan? They’re getting ready for a memorable evening. Rigo, his wife and baby are playing in the kitchen when Jimena walks in. She says they must be very happy. Oscar is listening in the background. Jimena says she always wanted a son, she looks sad. Juan is thanking the virgin when Root strolls in and says how good he looks in the mariachi suit. She came over to thank him for saving Gabi. He wonders why she has such an interest in Gabi. She jumps all over him and plants a big one on his boca. Jimena comes in just in time to see this!

Previews: The whole Reyes clan is all dressed up to go over to the Doble E to accompany Juan when he asks Sofia to marry him – again. That’s the big plan? Root is furious and vows to stop them.

Then they show ULTIMAS SEMANAS! YAY!!!!! So what’s that, about 5 weeks? Next up, Colunga, right?

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Comments:
Melissa, you did a fabulous job recapping the episode - give yourself a pat on the back, girl!

By the way, it looks like Colunga will be the featured guest on the Cristina show this coming Monday - hope you enjoy it.

Fuego in AZ
 

Melissa: Congratulations on your recap debut - it was well written with great humor and detail. Exceptionally well done.

I paritcularly enjoyed: "Juan, the thinker (with a small “t”, of course)" and "I think Darth needs a new tailor". Agree - Ricky always looks as though he is expecting to walk through a flood at any given moment.

Sophia now knows Gabi doesn't love her but hasn't a clue she is Eva's daughter. Sigh. Wonder how many episodes more it will take for this to come out.

There is no honor among thieves (and murderers apparently): "He (Ricky) tells her(Ruth) there are always other ways to get rid of people, sometimes even with love and affection and hands her the big knife. He tells her to win Gabi over even more, and remove any trace of herself from the “accident”. It doesn’t help either of them if the truth is discovered."

What a wonderful father - what a loving family! Wonder if any of the 3 - Riucky, Gabi or Ruth will survive. Diana in MA
 

Congratulations on a great recap, Melissa. Will someone post this with the others please. Gracias.
 

Thanks you guys! I was so nervous!!! I figured out how to bookmark it.
 

Good work! Welcome to the team!
 

This was a masterpiece of a recap, with wit, vocab and snark, and it captured the nuttiness of this show perfectly!

Can't wait to see Juan's genius "plan", whatever it is.

Franco (or his writers) is so lame, when Juan goes on and on to Oscar about how the brothers are together, he's not just a brother, but a father, they'll all fight this, etc., and at the end of the long speech Franco basically goes "yeah, what he said".

I wonder who needs counselling on this show the most, out of Gabi, Raquel, Root, Sofia, Jimena, Sarita and Eva. If the town had a shrink, business would be booming!
 

Bravo Melissa!!!
(or is that brava?)
Anyway you did great.
Loved the recap!
Nice amount of snark.

And what is up with everyone dressing up as rejects from a mariachi band? Is this what amounts to Sunday best?
If so why don't they all go to mass with PadTad like this?
Hmmmmm.
Also thanks for confirming that Juan did notice he smelled.
My Spanish is well frankly bad and I thought that was what he said but couldn't believe it.
Who knew after all this time that Juan would discover his sense of smell and realize he's a bit gamey.

Again great job
Janet
 

Melissa - thank you for the recrap and .... great job! Great humor, great snark, too. My personal fav is "the Bread, Sweat & Tears bakery." BuaHaaaaaHaaa

That was one big-honkin' mean-looking knife Darth gave to Root Skywalker. yikes.

doris
 

Melissa...kudos...would have thought you'd been doing this for years. Lots of detail and I love your breezy, colorful style. Also really enjoy the Spanish you throw in...and even a little bit of French...my goodness.

Quite an enjoyable read. I didn't see it, but I'm sure I didn't miss a thing...and furthermore that your version was much better than the original episode.
 

"Low-tech Match.com" LOL!!! You think you're NOT creative about titles? I beg to differ!
 

Thanks for being brave enough to do a recap! I really admire all who go to the huge effort to do it every week--cause I do so enjoy reading the recaps! I hope you have many more great ones! Nancy
 

Melissa: GREAT job! Loved the gato out of the bolsa & a thousand other little asides. Lots of humor & creativity from an episode I mostly slept through. Every time I woke up, all I saw were gums flapping so I figured I didn't miss much at all. Thanks for filling in the finer points I missed...especially the Weird Sisters & their little Catch A Man Club. Yeesh.

I'm thinking Crabi totally deserves a daughter like Root, a lover like Feo, and a paramour like Darth. Sometimes karma comes disguised but I am enjoying its bite on poor, poor Crabi.

I-Juan-A-Shower. All I can say is, it's about freakin' time. What can we do to get Franco to put a razor to that stubble? He just looks dirty, not sexy.

Oh Fernando Colunga...we so desperately need you!!!!

Maggarita
:-/

p.s. snow coming again this weekend here in Conn. ARGH!!!!!
 

Melissa, what a wonderful first time recap. It was worth the wait.
What is wrong with Slowfia? She is still worried about Gabi even though Gabi doesn't give a crap about her.
I hope all of the girls move out pronto.
 

Melissa, you did a great recap. I fell asleep, and missed the show, but agree that your recap is a lot better than watching. I enjoy how you describe people like, "Raquel of the Peluca Mala" and the best so far was, "Bread, Sweat and Tears Bakery". You put a humorous spin on all the scenes, that I think I'll stay awake tonight and watch. Hmm I wonder, did Sophia have that same scarf on last night?

Liena, FL
 

Melissa--Awesome--what more can I say! Love all the vocab words. I only got to see part of this but it seems I didn't miss much. Those sisters give me a headache! Poor Tio Elf.
 

Well done Melissa! You really capture the ambience of the show.You've even done the seemingly impossible by making the Hurraca sisters, Jecalita y Yecalita interesting. Your mixing Spanish in with your English narrative in just the right amounts is charming and piquant. I Really enjoyed the read. It was definitely worth the little wait. Thanks! Carlos
 

Great recap, Melissa. We really appreciate your style!

I couldn't believe Sofía. Her mamá is overheard saying she actually hates her, but she's going to stay on to protect her. Even if they never say which of the hijas is hers, it will be obvious when the kid has to repeat first grade.
 

If I had been Slofia and heard Mommy Dearest say that she hated me, I'd be out that door so fast!
 

Slofia & I-Juan-A-Brain really are meant for each other. I feel sorry for their poor, clueless kids who will go through life wondering why they never see the obvious.

Maggarita
 

Melissa, I loved your recrap! You are very welcome to this site!

The only problem I had with the episode is that Juan went off to take a shower - but we didn't get to see it! That is just wrong...
 

Teresita--you are so right! We should complain. I'd like to see Coyote in the shower with or without the hat! ;)
 

Melissa, wonderful job! I stated thinking about all the boys scenes...swimming, broken shower curtain...it is gay porn! That was way funny!

Molly in OR
 

And what's up with the boxers on Oscar!? Surely they could do better than that!
 

I was also thinking we haven't had a shower scene in a while. It always cracks me up to see them showering and having a conversation at the same time.

As for the O's boxers, I don't think they wanted him doing those stretching exercises in his tighty-whities - never know when one of the marbles will fall out of the marble bag.
 

"the 20-watt lightbulb has finally gone off in Juan’s head"

I'm ROFL with that line! Too funny! Great job with the recap!

P.S. You were way more generous with Juan's wattage than I'd have been :)
 

Good point Melissa. It could have been interesting though.
 

Melissa, you're now a recapping star. Great job! Lots of chuckles as I read it.
La Paloma
 

Melissa, that was wonderful. Great debut!

I didn't follow this very well last night - I was listening from another room. All I saw was the horrible spinster party, and Sofia warning Ricardo that Juan would recognize the belt.

I wanted to reach through the TV and strangle her. I get why she doesn't want to hand this information over to Juan, but she did struggle with the decision to keep this secret, and she had a lot of doubts about it. Seems to me that the easiest way to deal with the doubts and the secrecy would be to let Ricardo wear the belt, and leave the rest up to fate. Maybe Juan will never even see it.
 

Regarding Oscar saying "que no, dense pelo" at the "Reyes united speech" - would this be like "grow some hair," as in "grow some short hairs," as in "grow up already," as in "aren't we getting a little old for this sort of thing?"
 

for as nice as it is to look at him, Juan's brain density is getting so painful I almost can't stand scenes that include him anymore. either he's puzzling and puzzling (till his puzzler is sore) over who could the masked man possibly have been, when I thought they had all agreed that it was Ricardo who broke in before, or he's totally out of control with rage or joy and slinging himself (and others) around like rag dolls. and Franco seems to have inherited the dimwittedness of his hermano/papi because he hasn't said anything that made any difference to any plot since . . . well maybe ever.
 

Isn't it more like 7 weeks? We are at 172 and someone said there are 203 capitulosn plus a 2 hour night.
 

Julie maybe the phrase is interpreted in english as Grow some B...s.
 

About "dense pelo". After what my husband was saying and after I started thinking about it again this morning, I think it has something to do with a male bonding type of "head butt". My husband said "den" is like "dar" - to give. I know it sounds stupid to say "give me hair", but not all things can be translated literally - like "voz de sangre".
 

My fellow novela junkies & I were really ticked when Eduardo Yañez won the award for Destilando Amor instead of Fernando Colunga for Pasion. All Yañez does is yell, I guess some think yelling is acting.
Colunga can act.
 

Well, it's darse, not just plain dar. Sometimes the reflexive version has a lot more meanings. One definition I found was to grow or raise, like you would grow a tree. That's why I figured dense would be "why don't you guys grow some hair."

And that could be a little like telling someone to grow a pair, as Anon suggested. Though it's still an odd thing to say in that context. Unless he means that they're acting like a bunch of babies.

Word Reference forum says that "ya pelos" is yet another way to say "enough already." In fact, almost all the slang usages of pelo have nothing to do with hair at all - a bunch of expressions just mean "cool."

Oh well. A cryptic phrase or two is nothing compared to the overall silliness of this novela.

BTW the grand total is 207 one-hour segments. Did I already say that? Sorry. The last two will be shown shown together on the same night. Seven weeks is kind of a weird number for ultimas semanas, but I'll take what I can get. (I'm sorry I missed the announcement - I think I would have jumped up and down for an hour.)
 

Sorry, I meant "the last two will PROBABLY be shown together on the last night."
 

Someone said before that the last 5 epsisodes will be half an hour before the 2 hour gran final to stretch out the series. My question now is what will Univision do? Will they air 2 episodes in 1 hour? Will they fill up the hour with commercials or will they find another half hour program to fill out the slot?

Ibarramedia
 

"Someone said before that the last 5 epsisodes will be half an hour before the 2 hour gran final to stretch out the series."

Either there were 1/2 hr episodes broadcast in Mexico, or we're going to have lots of useless fillers, per 1-hr episode.

ugh.

doris
 

Great Job Melissa!!!

I am a little lost on the part of the little box Ricardo was looking for when he entered Pablito's room. Apparently he did not take it with him so does this mean he had time to take out what he needed before Pablito started screaming???? I must of missed that part because at first I thought he had taken the whole thing with him but then Pablito still has it. Can someone help out on this one?

LL in LA
 

Since Pablito and others knew the intruder entered and attempted to steal Pablito's box, you would think they'd be interested in examining it a bit more closely. But....this is FELS where nothing is too obvious to be ignored especially by Slofia and I Juan-A-Brain. Loved the recap, Melissa. GinCA
 

Just to clarify what several comments suggested, in Mexico Fuego aired ten 30 minute episodes before the 2 hour finale in order to introduce a new telenovela by giving it 30 minutes nightly thereby getting the Fuego audience. Here in the US Univision will most likely combine these ten episodes into five. Hope this info isn't considered a spoiler since it just clarifies scheduling.
 

Good so that means the series will probably end sooner than Feb. 28,2009. Thanks for the intel.


Ibarramedia
 

Anonymous : Fri Jan 09, 07:22:00 PM

The Colunga Cult is amusing. Yes, he's a nice, lovely, charming, huggable guy, and he participated in fantastic telenovelas, but IMHO he's not a great actor. Fer has developed a lot since his first eyecandy telenovelas (María la del Barrio, Esmeralda, La Usurpadora, someone? :-)), and he was impressing in Amor Real and Pasión.
And yes, maybe he's the one who deserved the award (these awards mean nothing, the more popular telenovela wins always), but please.
Yánez's been stucked in the roles of these idiot yelling 40 year old virgins, but in the old times he was one of the best young stars of Televisa and later TVE. Yo compro esa mujer, Dulce desafío, Marielena, Guadalupe, and so on.

Nor Colunga, nor Yánez have the talent and versatility of César Evora, but I think Yánez is a little bit better actor.
 

I forgot this: Melissa, thank you very much for the recap, it's great! :-)
 

Aribeth - I love CE just for his voice. I could listen to him read the phone book and I'd be happy. (must be the FELS effect.....)

doris
 

Melissa, what an absolutely marvelous recap!! You're a natural amiga. Good titles can be hard and sometimes not worth the trouble but you scored a home run with your first one. Nice job and welcome to the team!
 

Fabulous recrap, Melissa! LOL the whole time!
 

In the previews for Monday it showed Juan, Pablito and maybe Quintina or Sofia in the kitchen and one of them dropped the box on the baking table and it came apart and they found the papers.

Then either Juan or Sofia read the papers that said that Raquel was the boss of everything, not Ricardo.
 

From my vantage point, The fished out the little chest or cofre from the oven. It seemed to be smoldering a bit which is why it was dropped on the table. Why Pablito would hide it there is unknown and makes no sense since he should know it would be burned.

When it was dropped on the table, it inadvertently opened thus showing the documents that Ricardo was looking for.

Ibarramedia
 

Doris
"I could listen to him read the phone book and I'd be happy."

:-)
Yes, yes, yes! Me too. :-)
 

Thanks to everyone who said they enjoyed the recap - I feel so much better now that I've gotten the first one out of the way!
 

i think snophia continues to be the dutiful daughter for two reasons. One, a child will do anyything they can to be accepted by their mother. Their worst fear is emotional/mental/physical abandonment from her. Therefore snophia will continue to do everything in her power to get her mother's approval. Number 2, she is Eva's daughter and you can see the respect, kindless and unconditional love she has for others, so this is an inheritied trait. Ret
 

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