Saturday, February 28, 2009
MEPS 2/27/09: El Jinete Justiciero Returns: A Chippendale Among The Chipmunks
Capítulos 9 & 10
Soledad is still away in the city visiting the lethargic Lil, so Margarita plays lookout as Jacinto rummages around in Sole’s house for Eduardo’s phone number in the States. He plans on going into town to phone him to let him know how sick his mother is. Margarita is anxious for Jacinto to tell Eddie how urgent it is and that he must come home right away to see her.
Gonzo is at his doctor’s appointment and he asks his cardiologist not to let his family know about his heart problems. The specialist says fine as long as Gonzo follows his instructions to the letter. Gonzo says he will, but just because he’s got heart problems doesn’t mean he’s going to make a big deal over it in front of everyone.
At the milk plant, our resident Bad Ass Bitch, aka, Babs, is signing off on a quality control report from one of the workers when Anibal runs in looking for her. He’s got his shorts in a wad because little sis, Fernanda, is the one who gets to make the decision to go with the powdered milk project or not. She’s the only one who can get Gonzo to change his mind about it. He says since Sissy trusts Babs so much that Babs needs to convince her that once the stuff arrives, none of their employees is going to be thrown out onto the street and left without a job.
Babs angrily complains that Fernanda’s problem is that she’s inherited her daddy’s socially charitable tendencies and so Grupo Lactos has moral obligations with rabble throughout the entire region. Suddenly she gets a call from hubby, Gullible Gonzo, and her tone of voice changes to concerned and silky sweet. Gonzo lies that the doctor said he’s just fine and she pretends it’s wonderful news before hanging up. Anibal continues the conversation. He suggests that perhaps Damian, being Nanda’s fiance, could smooth the way for them. Babs feigns shock, shock! at the idea of manipulating his darling sister through Damian.
Back again at the hacienda, Fernanda kisses Damian her “Monstruo” [monster, genius, giant] good-bye. (So, of all the pet names for a lover she comes up with that? Hmm. Let’s see. She hasn’t seen Damian’s bad side yet, and being a telenovela heroine, she’s still a virgin, so I guess she hasn’t got a clue about sizing up his particular…er… situation so to speak, so I guess the next best translation’s got to be “genius”.) She gets the urge to go out back and reminisces through the fountains in the back yard, remembering the happy times when she and Eduardo played together as kids. She’s sad to think that Eddie never kept his word and has apparently forgotten her. (After 14 years and passing through puberty, you sure as heck would hope to think so.) That’s why a year ago (fourteen long years of pining puppy-love later), we learn she decided to finally forget him and start a new chapter in her life.
Eduardo, however, has never gotten down off that puff of cloud-9 of his. He is at that very point in time buying an engagement ring for his gossamer gal before he heads back to Mexico. (Ok. Ok. You’re gonna tell me that a summa cum laude grad student from Harvard Business School doesn’t stop to think that maybe the object of his pre-pubescent dreams might not already be married with five kids by now, or could be into S and M and living in Vegas, or after fifteen years, might have turned out to look like Jaba the Hut’s twin sister and have a personality like Joan Rivers or a mouth like Rosie O’Donnell’s?) Viewerville once again adjusts the foil antenna on its collective beanie.
Jacinto comes back home and tells Margo that although Eduardo wasn’t around, he at least got hold of Ed’s Spanish speaking sexretary, and that he found out Eddie’s on vacation and headed home to Mexico. He’s going to be arriving the following day from the U.S. at the airport in Toluca. Margo says it’s not a moment too soon since Sole’s getting worse. She says that she wants to ask Don Gonzo to put Sole in the hospital, but Jacinto says no, because they both know that Babs will find out and be all over them like a ton of bricks if they try it.
Meanwhile, Gardenia, Margarita’s sister, is at Soledad’s house and trying to nurse Sole as best she can. Lucio knocks on the door to tell her she needs to return to the main house to serve dinner. Margo comes in just then to take a turn nursing Sole and since it’s the cook’s day off, ‘Denia races back to the main house hoping to arrive before BOW notices she’s not there.
Camilo, a grown-up version of the same crude, rude and lude jerk he’s always been, comes in late to dinner. Nanda asks him where Erika is and he makes some stupid joke, which falls flat, about her being on vacation. He blows off the question and says he hasn’t heard from her and says no, he’s not sent Erika packing if that’s what she’s wondering. Nanda says, no, but mentions that it is just so obvious that Camilo’s interest for her friend disappears whenever Santiago (who has been working on some project in Guadalajara for the last six months) is out of the picture for a while. Just then Damian arrives for dinner and very affectionately kisses Nanda “hello”. This secretly ticks Babs off and she goes to see what’s taking so long in the kitchen.
Babs, in a fouler mood than usual, walks into the kitchen just as Denia comes through the back door. Babs instinctively knows that the girl has been tending to Soledad and warns her that if she misses a minute of work because of that old woman again she’s fired. Nanda rushes in at that moment and asks what’s up. BOW immediately turns back into “Miss Congeniality” and says no problem. Gardenia just felt a bit ill but is fine now. Nanda makes a big deal about it and wants Denia to come with her to see the company doctor the next day, then sends her home for the evening and leaves to go back into the dining room. BOW stares daggers at Denia.
Jacinto tells Margo that they’ll have to wait for Eduardo to come home and then let him be the one to decide what do about his mother’s situation.
The next morning Jacinto goes to pick up Ed at the airport, but he doesn’t recognize the only indigenous looking guy in blue-jeans getting off a flight from the States –the one with the uber-large, gaudy, Jollywood shades that scream “Look at me! Look at me!” (Viewerville determines this must be Jacinto’s first time ever inside an airport, because, of course, he doesn’t realize he can have somebody paged and has never seen car services hold up signs for their faceless fares. Jacinto doesn’t do either. Nope, he is just supposed to be another well-meaning country bumpkin who only knows enough to drive to the airport, but not how to think out of the box once he gets there.) Eduardo and Jacinto pass by each other like strangers. Eddie-boy ends up going outside and taking a cab to his mother’s.
Back at Soledad’s, Margo tells Denia where Jacinto’s gone and warns her that absolutely no one can find out that Eduardo’s come back. Denia has heart palpitations at the mere thought of Eduardo, “the handsomest passenger on the plane,” showing up there again. Marge realizes that her little sis still has the hots for Eddie and knows nothing good’s going to come of it.
Back at the main house Nanda and Denia have a chat and Nanda finds out that Soledad is seriously ill. She wants to go to see Soledad immediately but Denia refuses and almost lets the cat out of the bag about why, but then remembers nobody is supposed to find out that Eduardo is back. Nanda wonders what the big deal is that she can’t go with her to see about Sole.
Babs and her assistant are working on the final guest list for the wedding. Babs crosses off Solie and LIl from the list. When her assistant says something about Fernanda possibly being upset over it, Barbie shuts her up with some nasty aside about Fernanda’s not wanting her druggie loon of a sister or some dying old woman there, then summarily kicks her out of her office with a couple of BOW finger snaps.
Nanda has forced Denia to come with her back to Soledad’s house. While they’re walking down the lane towards Soledad’s Damian shows up. He persuades Nanda to come back with him to the main house because he and she need to discuss something important. Denia breathes a sigh of relief for the reprieve.
We beam back to the plant as Babs tells Anibal that instead of talking with Fernanda herself about the powdered milk project, she’s having Damian discuss it with her. Anibal says he hopes Damian does a good job of convincing her because he’s gone ahead and signed the order for the powdered milk already and he doesn’t want his father to can him because of it. Babs thinks to herself that that will be the least of Anibal’s worries once that powdered milk purchase causes the company to go under.
Damian and Nanda are in her daddy’s office at the house. He tries to explain to her that the company needs the powdered milk as a bridging measure for the company to survive and continue growing. She doesn’t want to go against her father because she believes in his judgment and says if he’s against this then there’s got to be a reason for it. (Enough all ready! Will somebody please keep Silvia and Sergio away from the Jolt Cola and the Red Bull? It’s like listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks on speed!! Damn! It’s gonna take true willpower for Viewerville to make it through 175 episodios of “The Hopped-Up Chipmunk Chronicles.”) Damian warns her that without the powdered milk as a break-gap measure to fill all the orders that are coming in, the company will have to forget about their philanthropic projects, the fair and a number of her own personal projects. Daddy’s problem with the idea, though, is that he just doesn’t like being only a prepackaging third-party intermediary, he says.
Fernanda seems to be leaning towards giving Damian her support after hearing his explanation. They head outside and she admits she’d rather he discuss it with Daddy because she’s more interested in checking on her nana, Soledad’s, health right now, and anyway Damian’s got a better grasp of the details than she does. She says she wants to go into town to get Soledad a little get well gift but Damian’s got a meeting he can’t miss and they go their separate ways. As he sends her off he prophetically warns her to drive carefully “because you never know when you’re going to run into some crazy person walking the roads around here.”
Speaking of said crazy person, Eduardo is riding back home in the taxi with roses (and the ring). He reminisces about the fateful day he gave Nanda the locket and she gave him his medallion, and their first kiss. (Sorry, but this is just a bit too weird for me to get my head around. Maybe Damian’s on to something here.) Overcome by nostalgia, Eddie decides to get out from the taxi and continue walking on foot.
Not far from there, Denia and Margo are still nursing Soledad. Denia tells Sole she’d get better if she could see her son but Sole is adamant that Eduardo can never ever return to the hacienda to visit her.
Fernanda has turned out to be a real Valley girl. She’s jabbering a mile a minute on her cell phone about wedding details while speeding along in her car --on the very same country road as Eduardo. She races past and splashes him with a mud puddle. He gets completely soaked. She stops and through her side view mirror sees this hunky looking stranger angrily throwing down the bouquet he was carrying. A very embarrassed Nanda gets out to apologize. The two immediately seem to feel a strong attraction for each other. They share a star-crossed lover’s stare as Uni goes into the commercial break.
The two are still staring at each other as we beam back. Nanda explains (now at a 100 miles a minute) that she wasn’t paying attention and didn’t see Ed because she was too busy talking on her cell (at 100 miles a minute) about all the wedding arrangements she’s got to make. There’s soooo much to do, she prattles on (still at a 100 miles a minute), when planning a wedding, doncha know. He’s taken with her and says, well, no, he wouldn’t know since he’s never been married. Nanda considers this little tidbit for a couple seconds longer than she should. (Methinks that Nanda might have just been struck with her first twinge of doubt now that this hunk has told her he is still unattached.) She says she’s sorry she’s muddied him up. He smiles his hunkalicious smile at her again and politely says, aw shucks, it’s just one more reason to take a bath. (“Bath?” Did you say, “BATH?”) She offers to take him into town so he can at least buy a new bouquet of roses. He accepts.
Back at Soledad’s house Denia, Jacinto and Margo are wondering where Ed could possibly be and why he hasn’t deigned to show up yet. ”What kind of a problem would keep him from coming straight to his mother’s house?” Margo asks if possibly Jacinto missed him in the crowd. Jacinto says he saw every last passenger come through, but then wonders if possibly he didn’t recognize Eddie because he might have changed so much over the years that he couldn’t. (Do ya think?)
In the car Nanda and Ed begin to chat. He is enchanted by her. She jabbers on Valley-style about how many things there are to get done when planning a wedding. He tells her he’s from New York. She wonders why anybody would leave skyscrapers just to wind up there on some back road in the middle of the sticks in Mexico. He’s about to explain when Nanda’s cell rings. She tells the caller that yes, it’s Fernanda Elizalde speaking, the same one who is getting married next Saturday. Eddie is head-pounding, heart-sick impactado and his eyes get the size of fried huevos.
Back at Grupo Lactos’ corporate offices, Damian’s big important meeting is apparently with Babs. She’s pissed that he came back without having convinced Fernanda to immediately intervene with Gullible Gonzo. She tells him to try again and to do it immediately. He calls Fernanda back on her cell but it’s busy. He says he’ll call her again later. That’s not good enough for Babs and she gripes that again she is going to have to do things herself. Damian gets honked off and tells her she can do whatever the heck she wants to --and, I think, he changes inflections to broadly hint she can stick it where the sun don’t shine--then slams the door on his way out.
We get shunted once again to the Mexican countryside. Eduardo can’t believe he’s actually in the same car with and has been listening to his beloved planning details for a wedding with some other man. He gets freaked a second time when Fernanda mentions Barbara Greco, the man-eating hyena, so matter-of-factly. When she finally is off the phone, Eddie plays twenty questions to find out why she’s really getting married. (Ok. Now that is painful to watch—a gorgeous, 40-something hunk playing a lovesick puppy of 25 acting like a jealous, love-struck pre-teen. This is déjà vu all over again…..) She giggles and says for love, of course and then notices that he’s suddenly gotten moody.
Ok. It’s once more over the hill and through the woods to… Soledad’s… house we go. Now Denia is getting angrier by the minute thinking that Eduardo hasn’t come back to the house to see them and his mother because he’s simply gotten too sophisticated to bother with “poor people.” Jacinto gets tired of hearing her constant complaints and says it is very possible that Ed got into a jam of some sort. Well, Denia says, it’s probably better if he doesn’t show up because his coming back could spoil the happy couple’s wedding plans. Margo says that’s never gonna happen; what was between Nanda and Eddie was just kid stuff. (Here, here!) Denia isn’t so sure, though.
Poor Damian, still frustrated over Babs’s bitch session, now gets a call from the other bossy broad in his life, his mama. She’s called him at the office because she simply cannot make up her mind which designer dress to choose for the region’s Wedding of the Century between Sonny and Nanda Elizalde. Damian impatiently tells her to pick any one she likes and to leave him the heck alone at work. He clicks off his cell and fights the urge to (yessssss!) break it.
Fernanda, meanwhile, babbles on to Eddie (still clocking palabras at 100) that she’s marrying a guy named Damian Gallardo. Eduardo is still playing twenty questions and asks how long she’s known him. She says for ten months. Ed then asks if that’s the only man she’s ever loved. She says you could say that, although there was one time before, but it was just kid stuff. This answer seems to really upset him and he suddenly says he wants to be let out of the car. Nanda doesn’t understand since they haven’t gotten to the florist’s yet, but then she smiles innocently at him and asks if she can at least get his name. He stares back at her and fights the urge to tell her off. She smiles back, clueless. Just as he decides how to answer, her cell phone rings again. This time it’s The Fiancé. “Hello, Monstruo!” Eddie swallows the basketball-sized lump in his throat and decides he’s heard enough. Damian asks where she is and who she’s with. Nanda turns back around to look at Eduardo, but he’s already walked off from the jeep. She suddenly deflates and tells Damian that she’s alone.
In Bab’s office back at Grupo Lactos, we learn that Anibal, it seems, has purchased bootlegged powdered milk and Babs is not a happy camper. She’s upset because it’s too big a shipment to keep under wraps. The company transporting it for him, he says, doesn’t know that it’s bootlegged, so he doesn’t think it should be a problem. Babs then asks Anibal if there’s anything else she needs to know about this shipment. (Guess we’ll have to wait for the next capítulo to find out.) Gonzo, meanwhile, is in his own office reading the powdered milk contract and nearly blows a gasket when his secretary informs him that Anibal went ahead and ordered the powdered milk anyway.
Fernanda is now driving on her way back from town and tells Damian that she still hasn’t gone to see Soledad yet. He wonders why not. She fibs and says she punctured a tire and had to have a man fix it for her. It’s gotten late, he says, and she realizes she still needs to meet up with Erika to get her wedding dress fitted. Damian says he’ll pick up Erika for her and then after supper he’ll go with Fernanda to visit Soledad. Just then Fernanda sees Eduardo’s bouquet still lying on the side of the road. She gets distracted by it and stops in the middle of her conversation as she remembers the hunkalicious mystery-man angrily throwing it down after getting splashed.
Our hunkalicious mystery-man meanwhile, walks around town and ends up at Silvestre’s rundown little blacksmith’s shop. He unconsciously tugs at the medallion around his neck and realizes what an idiot he was to come back for Fernanda after so many years. Just then Silvestre walks by him and loses control of his wheelbarrow. Eduardo helps him pick up the fallen tools but the old man no longer recognizes him. Suddenly it hits Eddie that absolutely no one from the little town recognizes him. He walks back toward the market place. One of the women goes running after some guy and calls him Jacinto. Eduardo realizes that the guy is his childhood friend and runs after him. Jacinto doesn’t recognize Eduardo until he mentions the names from their old “Dungeons and Dragons” game. “Are you Jacinto Cordero, El Halcon Azabache?” Jacinto is cautiously suspicious. “--How do you know about that?” Eduardo gets a huge smile on his face. “Jacinto, look at me! I’m El Jinete Justiciero!”
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So I guess the stage is set for nobody to recognize Eddie, but he'll let his childhood pals in on the secret and his role will be to knock Evilbitch, BAD SEED, Barbinator off her wheels and expose her for the havoc-wreaking, murderous, saboteur she is, huh? I haven't seen a lot of novelas, but I've seen a few bad girls and she is, by far, consistently the nastiest, most sinister heffa.....worse than what's her name on Accoralada. Anyway, fun recap, I made it through a week.
Khalilah
La Paloma
Very few people had cell phone then and they were the size of a brick. Lol. Cigarman gets a break for that.
So now we know that our dearest Babs is like a sleeper agent. I can't believe that for 15 years, there had been no significant activity. Then all of a sudden it resumes. I like Babs or rather the woman playing her. Those eyes with the deep mascara lines are irresistible. And she lost some baby fat in her face...Former Fuego viewers must think I have questionable taste in women. LMAO. ;) I think she may turn good in the future or she may be related to one or the other of the protagonists..... i'm reluctant to see beautiful girls as bad guys. :)
There are numerous mistakes in the Harvard football scene to the trained eye. We all know they got the uniforms wrong and used some colors being used by the Miami Dolphins. In reality it is a generic football uniform with no real team markings. It is rare that they have a quarterback do tackling drills, which were in awful form btw. Unless that QB throws a great deal of interceptions.
You don't say ready 1,2,3. Line calls are usually Hut, Hike ,Go on 1,2, or 3 depending on the snap count and terminology of the offensive system. He's on shutgun formation and picking up a horrible snap . i think the ball even hit the ground before he got it. Bad throw btw. It would have been better if they did NOT shoot a football scene. Football Rant/Off. Sorry, having played the game You notice this things.
I'm not sure what the argument was about powdered milk vs fresh milk. I did not catch that. Powdered milk is cheaper and not as popular in the US, but it exists...
Gotta say that Babs has not aged a bit. :) Looking real good while Anibal looks like her dad. And she is the stepmom.
I'm having trouble with the logic of marrying a childhood girl who you have not seen since the 2nd or 4th grade.(First holy communion is usually in 2nd grade)and then no communication due to the hidden letter of course. I mean they did not even recognize each other after Fernanda splashed mud over Eduardo's clothes.. It would seem she has moved on and he did not. After all these years. And he never messed around with other girls while in the states.
I find Babs move when sneaking around interesting. Especially the way she backpedals and whatnot. The stairs in the Big house nad the second floor look hauntingly similar. Almost like a deja vu. :)
The dialogue seems to be a little harder to follow and I get what most of you are saying about Fernanda talking fast. almost as fast as Marichuy talks. But more understandable than Columbians.
I checked out wikipedia and someone altered the number of episodes listed. It is now 120 as opposed to 330. I don't know what is really true...
BTW How tall is Babs? She seems to tower over almost everybody...
Ibarramedia
Yes, I'm afraid our beloved Fernando is a little long in the tooth to be playing a fellow in his 20's but awwww...who cares? He's gorgeous. Relax and enjoy.
So little brother Santiago is on a project for 6 months? He may be on a project a lot, since the same actor is in Tontas (in a minor role).
I don't understand why Soledad is so insistent that Eduardo can't ever see them. I mean, Babs is destroying all of them anyway, so Sole should have a little more confidence that maybe her son can do something about this rather than just roll over.
Ibarramedia, I don't think Lucero (Babs) is unusually tall, it's just that she always wears heels, and none of the kitchen staff does. Also, they use camera angles to make her look more imposing.
Soledad is the epitome of suffering and now its killing her. Poor Liliana and keeping those letters from Eduardo and Fernanda...and of course psycho Babs. I wonder if she'll recover once her son returns or die from terror.
What is BOW Barbie's plan for the Elizalde ruination. We need another dastardly deed pronto. We have already waited 15 years. Is she planning for Damian to ruin Lactos under Fernanda's nose. It seems Anibal could do that all by himself if she gave him free rein. I hope the powdered milk isn't tainted. That would be too much like reality.
I guess Jacinto expected 2 or 3 people to disembark at the airport and for Eduardo to look the same after 15 years which is crazy because Jacinto, himself, looks much more different as an adult than Eduardo does as an adult. What did he expect. Why was Eduardo looking around at the airport. Was he expecting someone to pick him up or was he taking it all in since he was finally back home.
I saw a clip of Pura Sangre, the original MEPS, on YouTube and guess what, they used Madonna instead of Cindy Lauper so I guess the writers chose whatever music they wanted.
Oh, where is Santiago and his curly mullet so I can thoroughly inspect it. GinCA
So just-graduated Eduardo is buying a bling!bling! rock of a ring for Fernanda, the girl he hasn't seen in, like, what? fifteen years? Dude! Seriously.....
And just how can he afford that?
I also swear the taxi Eduardo rode home in was a Lexus ES. Wow, I didn't know Mexico had those as taxis. I thought the green VW beetles were the thing. But a Lexus???
Definitely suspending disbelief on many levels . . .
I am not sure a foil lined beanie will work with this one, I am thinking about ordering one of those mylar sweatsuits.
rsk
Khalilah
It is so sad about Liliana. Why didn't her sister do something. Fernanda wasn't always a child. She had her teen years. What about while in college and home for holidays, didn't she see where something was seriously wrong? Im not happy with the writers letting us see her in a nut house drugged up, since she was a teenager. The best years of her life???
They should've adjusted the story to the actors age, rather than having the characters look ridiculous. It would've made more sense for Fernanda to be waiting for her love, than a worldly man waiting for his love -- for 15 years. (yeah, right)
Exactly right about the chipmunk speak. Thank goodness for recappers and captions...
jb
Agreed Hombre. While she may not be 5'10" -6'0", i was just curious what her actual height is. Something about Babs is irresistible. I'm speculating that somewhere down the road, Babs will turn against cigar dude once she learns something about her past. Then Damian may be out to get them all since Babs switched sides.....
I think we need a flowchart again to see who is related to who among the servant kids turned grown ups...
Ibarramedia
I have not yet seen Alborada, so this is the first time I've seen Babs. Everyone raves about it, and one of these days I will have time to watch DVDs.
Also for Ibarramedia, here is Lucero's own web site. Doesn't show her height but does show how lovely she is in a bikini and has a springform video of her singing. Enjoy, you deserve it after giving us all the clips for EYanez which I appeciated since I have been wading through many mediocre movies on Netflix to see him in US movie roles.
http://www.lucero.com.mx/
Khalilah
It's looking like this one is going to be fun though of course implausible. You all have your beanies out now... will we have to resort to the brain floating like a pear in jello?
I like the topical elements like supporting local small artisanal producers, (Fernanda's pet project) vs. big corporate production complete with bootlegged product. Could the powdered milk be tainted with melamine a la China?
Barbinator has the cold calculating beyotch thing down pat. Love the way she walks, slinking with haughty head held high. I'm watching Cuna de Lobos on DVD right now, I think she is channeling Catalina Creel who was an ultra cold calculating murdering matriarch. (it was a great novela, with Diana Bracho but the DVD is horrible with new music dubbed over the old...yes over, as in you can hear both, at the same time, caray!)
This is my first time with Fernando. All you Fernando lovers have built up great expectations! So far what I noticed is that he is very expressive, like the scene in the car where he goes from enfatuation to painful dissapointment, all without saying anything, all in the face. Not a bad face either.
"Chipmunk speak"! I thought it was just me. That's a pretty big percentage of us out there! If this keeps up we're going to have to petition Uni for a CC5 option dedicated to Chipmunk dialect.....
After FELS, MEPS seems quite reasonable to me, even with the glaring problems of, for example, Eddie thinking he's still engaged after 15 years of not hearing from his girlfriend at all (since Sole was intercepting all of their letters).
Now that Sendel has a rep for smashing phones, after Heridas and Destilando, he's probably going to tease us for a long time with Damian almost-but-not-quite throwing cell phones.
Ibarramedia
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Susanlynn/jb: I'd also hate to think of hooking up with a 25-30 something male virgin. Sheesh! I get nasty flashbacks to Destilando's Rodrigo problem just thinking about it! I hope there's one of those classic lines in the script saying he wasn't a saint back in H.S./college, but always kept her in the back of his mind to explain this disturbing detail away. It's always so frustrating when they write these things like they're being read by the Nancy Drew crowd. >8 ? p
Juanita
Camilo as an adult is played by a guy who really exemplifies the cad. Is he also a alcoholic? I thought he acted drunk at the table scene. Is he married to the woman he joked about giving the night off? I missed that detail.
My new beanie from LLBeanie has arrived and I don't care if TMBMOE does look his real life age. I could listen to and look at him doing anything.
Birthday alert: Fernando Colunga turns 43 on Tuesday, March 3. I'll bake my most wonderful cake, flourless chocolate from Gourmet recipe book. It's the only cake that is sensuous enough for this international holiday.
FC is definitely TBLMOE. I have to catch my breath everytime they cut back to him! At least if this story goes off the rails, we'll still have him to look at, right?
I'm not gettin' the whole powdered milk thing. I was suffering with a bad cold on Friday night and wasn't understanding exactly what was going on. Can someone explain what Stupid-Bal is trying to do with the powdered milk?
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Nita: I do think they're in cahoots, but only to a certain point. Anibal is aparrently in it for his own personal fortunes, but he doesn't know Babs is out to totally destroy him from the face of the earth along with the rest of the clan.
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doris/Cheryl: It wasn't only the bling Eddie was buying for Fernanda that drove me over the edge, but the ring Gonzo gave Babs was the size of the Rock of Gibraltar! I was thinking like Cheryl at the time that Fast Eddie must have made some big N.Y.C. bucks with those Harvard "connections" of his with El Gringo and his daddy. That could almost make for a separate subplot. And "keeping hope alive" for 15 yrs definitely calls for an intervention from Dr. Phil.
ITA about your take on Anibal, too. --I did get the idea Camilo might be an alcoholic along with all the other vices. However, I didn't think he was married to Erika because of what Nanda said about him only showing an interest in her best friend only when Santiago is gone. Maybe he's such a coward that he won't take the step of marrying her, just taunting Santi with the idea till Santi gets the huevos to fight back.
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Melissa: I'm not quite sure myself what they want to do with the milk unless it's to cut costs by using the powder to make their products with instead of real milk. They don't have to process it or to maintain labor or the facilities and the overhead expense involved in doing that. It would change the whole complexion of Gonzo's business and put most of his employees out of work because they wouldn't be needed any longer. We don't know why the milk is considered contraband, though. When we do then I might understand it better. Maybe Anibal thinks it's contraband for some other reason than Babs, since he doesn't know she's somehow going to destroy their business empire and entire family with it.
A. cut off blood to the brain so we're not troubled with those pesky rational thoughts. Fiddle-dee-dee!
B. Bounce nuclear waste beams back up to the mother ship.
C. Shield the brain from most electromagnetic psychotronic mind control carriers, so nefarious adversaries can neither read my thoughts nor control them. (per http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ )
D. Keep your brains held in while your head explodes from the nonsense. What? You think foil is not tough enough to hold your brains in? If it works for Jiffy-pop explosions, it'll work for exploding heads, too!
But wait! There's more! That little wonder can do more than a Veg-A-Matic! Where can I get mine? Ron Popiel, we need you!!!
My only apprehension - will I still be able to transmit my message through the amazing beanie? Beam me up. There's no ... you get the idea.
And here I thought Lucero was basing the Barbara character on her own mother, now that's one scary lady.
That was a great recap Jardinera! I laughed out loud in several parts of it, first with the mounstruo thing and then with all the comments about Eduardo's obsession (I don't think you can call it love yet, he didn't even recognize the supposed love of his life) with Fernanda.
CherylNewMex: Have you visited www.noviadeamerica.com? It's a fan page (or it used to be, now it looks very stylized), but you can find pictures and info of all the music albums, Telenovelas, movies, theater plays, comic shows and jobs as a tv host she has had. The name of the site comes from the nickname "La Novia de América" that the press has given her since 1990.
Jarocha
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Karen: I hope to heck Soledad manages to hang on somehow, but I fear her death is central to the rest of what transpires. Otherwise, she wouldn't have hidden the little box under Lil's floorboard is my thinking. It would also be the second death BOW's caused since joining the Elizalde clan.
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Julie: You've just got to slog along with Youtube if you can't get good enough reception on your digi-teli. Man, I'd forgotten that Sergio slammed cells in Heridas too. LOL! You've got a mind for details and dead-pan like nobody's business. As you're an honorary lib'arian, make sure your card's up to date!
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Jarocha: First, Welcome to you and Nita and Anon. Sat. 5:44.
Jarocha, I read your backgrounder on your trip to the Telerisa studios and was just over-awed with all of it, so thanks and I hope you'll add whatever insights you can from that in the future as well. Are you a Spanish professor or a Theater/Acting Professor at your college?
--Anyway, good point on the parsing of obsession and "luhv", puppy or otherwise. ; ? ))
Wow, I didn't realize Tuesday was a Colunga holiday, silly me! I'm going to take Cheryl's cue and make myself a sweet, chocolaty and spicy treat. No sacrifice is too great for FC.
In one of the very first chapters when Barb was given orders to kill Montserrat, I thought I heard the Mystery Man say that Barbs was no stranger to murder since she had murdered her own parents. Did anyone else get that?
As to Damian and Fernanda - they've known each other all of ten months, and he has been given the job of marrying Fernanda so that he'll be "in" the company. Barbs must have something on him, too, but, I don't remember if this has been disclosed or not.
He might really have fallen in love with Fernanda, but I doubt it.
Yes, Fernanda and Damian talk way too fast for me - thank God for captions.
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Just an FYI: I didn't think of it before, but their two Dungeons and Dragons names are:
El Halcón Azabache = The Jet Black Falcon
El Jinete Justiciero = The Avenging Horseman
Because they specifically used the word "contraband" in reference to the powdered milk, I assume that it was imported illegally, i.e. without paying the necessary import fees, or perhaps imported it on the sly from some country that Mexican law forbids businesses to buy dairy products from at all.
Nita
At least we did see Nanda at least think about Eddie a time or two. Previously, we just saw the grownup Eddie think of her, but not vice versa. At least both ways tonight.
Eddie was indeed "fried huevos" eyes impactado when he figured out this chatterbox was indeed the love of his life. Just a reminder to everyone, summa cum laude does not necessarily mean common sense. Why wouldn't she still be waiting for him? And after all, I'm sure most the ladies here would have still been waiting for FC, so why not Nanda. :-)
At least it looks like Eddie will have a ride out to Mom's place. Lucky he ran into Jacinto.
And hey, he's still dirty from soaking. Maybe there'll be an early shower scene on Lunes to whet 'er, some peoples appetites.
Jeff in MN
Those of you who are former Fuego viewers and Eduardo Yanez fans may like this clip of the Fuego Promo. Looks like a movie clip and probably is better than the entire series. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDmi3F3Ew4
Fernando Colunga fans may like this ENGLISH clip of Pasion. I wish they showed it on TV here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B41JzdWtl-8&feature=related
Great job everyone.
Ibarramedia
Jody :)
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Jodie: Glad to see you're enjoying this with the rest of the gang! I was hoping you could make us a list of the various "family jungle-vines" at this point because you've been watching since it started in Mexico. Some of us --me in particular-- are still confused on some of the immediate names and relationships to this point. HELP! PLEASE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKgl5gti9U4
Connie, any news about how Storm is doing? I'm hoping for the best for you.
Carlos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlnkK_COGO4&feature=related
Laurisgar has the most complete package of episodes with over 1600 video clips.
Ibarramedia
Most wikipedia entries can be edited by anyone. Most of these people are very conscientious and take their subject matter seriously, but there's definitely a mischievous person who likes to mess with the telenovela articles.
During FELS, some joker kept editing the FELS entry to say that Sofia died, or that Feo died about halfway though the story, made rude comments about Rosario, etc. Some other dedicated person(s) tried hard to keep up and reverse the changes.
You can go to the History tab of any wikipedia article to see a summary of edits. Click the "cur" and "prev" links to see what changed in each edit.
Anyway, the good news is that if you're looking at Wikipedia and you think you see a really stunning spoiler, there's a good chance it's a joke, and maybe you're not as spoiled as you think you are. :)
I have been wondering about the zombie posed Liliana and checked out the actress, Dominika Paleta on IMDB and was surprised to see that she was Gema in La Usurpadora for which she one an Eres Award for best newcomer. I was watching La Us. last summer in reruns. As Gema she paid a very saucy and very animated minx that was always trying to seduce Fernando Colunga's character (who can blame the girl). Now I am impressed that she can look pallid and lifeless in long scenes, doesn't even appear to blink when the camera is close in.
Check out D Paleta on IMDB, she is Polish, speaks 3 languages and sounds pretty phenomenal:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0657589/bio
Connie: so sorry you haven't had a full TBLMOE experience yet. He is
just
so
fine.
And, he doesn't have Chicklet teeth. Why do stars do that to themselves?
Maggarita
:-)
It's too bad Montserrat doesn't come back to haunt Babs. Can you imagine what a punishment that would be??
I really do hope that we don't have to wait until episode 119 (or 329, or whatever!) for Liliana to find the evidence, eat the fortifying magic chocolates (perhaps they're cocolbosh!), and come out of her coma.
Carlos
You know what I really like about Babs? That dead look in her eyes when nobody's looking (besides when she's smirking with evil glee). She's robotic, it's true, but I think it's because she really is dead inside. She must have one heck of a backstory.
Well, at least I won't have to don my telenovela beanie hat and full-body mylar suit. ;-)
I majored in Communicaction Sciences, and at university I had two semesters of Television workshop, as part of the class we went to visit the mexican networks Televisa, Tv Azteca, Canal 22, Canal Once, etc., as well as a few production companys in Mexico City (I'm Mexican), so that was the reason I went to Televisa.
We also had to write a paper about the evolution of Televisa, from its creation by Emilio Azcarraga Vidaurreta, to the changes with Emilio Azcarraga Melmo and now with Emilio Azcarraga Jan. So our teacher made an arrangement so we could interview some of the producers, it was amazing.´
Jarocha
Ibarramedia
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