Friday, April 23, 2010
El Clon #48, Thur, April 22: In which Jade crams for the test, Marisa shows off her parenting skills, and Mohamed gets an eyeful.
Some Arab guy named Said called this house? says Lucas to Mama Rosa. And he spoke Spanish? Pues, sí. (So um.. Mama Rosa could have taken a message in Arabic?).
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Allah sometimes puts the faithful to the test (a veces pone a prueba a sus fieles), Tío Ali explains to Jade. If she can’t avoid seeing Lucas in Miami, she must prepare herself for the experience. Nazira enters demurely. ¡Que verguenza!, she bleats, am I interrupting something? She withdraws with exaggerated modesty, leaving Ali scratching his head. She’s taking the test to be your fourth wife (Se está poniendo a prueba para ser su cuarta esposa), explains an amused Jade.
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Hola Ozzie, coos Karla with a K as Ozvaldo pulls up in his fancy wheels (it’s his lunes a viernes car – you gotta see the one he drives on the weekend!) He agrees to let her drive while he tells her all about his ‘management.’
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At Gloria’s, Ramon serves up a meal to aspiring luchador Alejandro and tells him he wants in on the luchas. I can start by helping out with the Karla v Diana match, he says. Uh oh. You didn’t know about that? Apparently not. Pablo’s gonna put my girlfriend up against my ex? says Alej incredulously.
¿Cómo se te ocurre? (what the hell were you thinking?) Alej says to Pablo, now on the scene too. Take it easy, man, (tómalo suave) they don’t have to know about each other. (ok, the ladies aren’t Nobel Prize material, but really, how dumb do you think they are?)
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¡Este sitio es super nice! enthuses Karla as she and Ozzie scan the menu in a pricey South Beach bistro. Virgencita de la Agarradera, thought-bubbles Ozzie, qué caro. Mi negro, quiero todo bubbles K thoughtlessly. She orders lobster and calamari; he orders tomato soup. He’s eaten here so often, he’s tired of the menu.
Later, in Caliente, Osvaldo brags to Miguel about his date with K. Whatcha doing with dos hembritas a la vez? (two woman at the same time)? Dora was looking for you, says Miguel.
Karla tells her mother, Hilda, about the date. Mom tells her to wise up and not trust Ozzie, Alej or Pablo. You need a man who can take care of you. Alej no tiene donde caerse muerto (he’s so poor, he doesn’t even have a place to fall down dead)
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Dora comes into Caliente. A young guy was asking for you, says Miguel. His name? Um, I think he said ‘Daniel’… ¡Es mi hijo! cries Dora. It’s my son! And I wasn’t here for him! Vicki steers the tearful Dora to the exit just as Ozzie approaches, ready to greet her with a hug. She’s too upset to pay attention to him.
Back at the apartment, Dora agonizes about Daniel wandering alone in an unfamiliar city, but Vicki reminds her he is a grown man. They read a postcard from Cris who’s now in Madrid: Madrid es bella, alegre, igual a nosotras. Besos. (M is beautiful, happy, just like us. Kisses)
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Elsewhere in Miami Enrique remarks to Leo that a friend saw Cristina in a restaurant in Madrid and she is más bonita que nunca (more beautiful than ever). Not possible to be more beautiful, says Leo. By the way, my new squeeze is Sofia Johns, a smart, classy, stylish lady. Nothing like Cris.
Enter Lucas with Carolina, his new assistant. Enrique seems smitten.
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The boy prince Amin is leafing through some papers in a small box, looking very sneaky. Mohamed rushes in and frantically tells Latifa that some cartulinas (poster boards? cards?) are gone from the store. We wuz robbed!
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Meanwhile Prince Amin’s sister Zamira and their cousin are spying on the energetically affectionate couple, Alej and Karla, across the street (Apparently my tv station was as scandalized as Latifa would have been since they totally blocked the picture for a few seconds!) When I’m the champ, he says, we’ll have so much money even your ma will accept me. Who’s my opponent in the fight, she asks. Dunno, he lies.
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Albieri and his assistant, Escobar, are debating the ethics of cloning. Es una locura (madness) says Escobar. Albi’s hypocritical claptrap is cut short when the doorbell rings. It’s Dora: ¡Mi hijo apareció!
Albi does not drop dead from fear, thus displaying a surprising level of cardiovascular fitness. Dora hasn’t actually seen him, just knows that he’s in Miami.
And Luisa and Señora Escobar, that is, Clara, Leo’s new secretary are talking kids. Luisa shows Daniel’s picture to Clara, says they haven’t seen him for years, he’d be twenty (yes, twenty!) by now. Clara boasts a little, kvetches a little, as moms will do, about her son Fernando. Her cell rings. It’s her boy, asking to borrow her car so he can go to a bar. But he’s not gonna drink. ‘I’m under 21 – they won’t sell alcohol to me.’
Natalia and Andrea are with Fernando, listening to his conversation with his ma. What a liar you are, says Nat, you’re drinking a beer right now. Beer’s not drinking, he says. No seas tan anticuada (don’t be so old-fashioned). Yo gotta be cool, man (No kidding, he actually says this. In English. God, I’m so glad I’m not a teenager).
Natalia heads home (smart girl!) instead of going with Fer and Andrea. Mama Rosa is there to greet her. ‘Te parezco bonita?’ asks the quietly lovely Natalia. (Do you think I’m pretty?) ‘Mama dice que no tengo gracia.’ (Mama says that I have no grace/elegance). She tells Rosa she feels tormented by everyone’s expectations of her.
You need to talk to your daughter, Rosa tells Marisa, she’s got problems. Marisa looks bored. But she’ll give it a shot. She explains to Natalia that women have to make themselves beautiful to attract men. It’s what’s on the outside that counts. Remember, Todos los hombres son iguales. (All men are the same). All they care about is having a beautiful woman, marrying her, and showing her off to their friends.
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Jade and Jadiyah are also talking about love and marriage. Jade wants her daughter to study a profession, be independent, then choose a man she loves to be her husband. Jadiyah is quite happy to have Tío Ali pick someone for her, as long as he’s guapo y rico y que me llene de oro. (handsome and rich and he fills/showers me with gold.) Tío Ali later admonishes Jade for imposing her frustrated dreams on her daughter. Jadiyah, he tells her, has both feet firmly planted here while you are straddling two worlds.
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Q: Did dad marry you because you were beautiful? Natalia asks Marisa.
A: Well no, I tricked him into marrying me because I wanted his money and position and his twin brother, who I really had the hots for, had died. Ok, she didn’t say that. She said ‘That was one of the reasons.’ [Have I mentioned how much I despise this character?]
Q: Were you in love with dad?
A: For a marriage to last so many years, believe me, the last thing that matters is love. (and yes, gentle reader, she really did say that).
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In Fez, the love and marriage catechism continues.
Q: Are you in love with my dad? asks Jadiya
A: He’s a very good and generous man, asks Jade kindly, if obliquely.
So then you are in love says Jadiya happily.
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Dora sees Daniel in Caliente, goes up and touches his shoulder. A stranger turns around and stares at her. Oh Dora.
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Nazira tells Said she’d like to go to Miami with the family.
Ali is teaching his children about the Koran. Nazira joins them. It turns out she loooves to listen to the Koran. Who’d a thunk it?
Zoraida tells Jade she hopes Nazira doesn’t snare Ali. Jade thinks it’s unlikely, but as Zoraida says los hombres siempre se pierden por los ojos. (men always get themselves into trouble by their eyes). And Nazira, she says, is a beautiful woman.
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Lucas tells Roberto that he doesn’t want to be in any meetings with the Arab investors. He also asks him to find out if Said is married.
Leo introduces his novia, Sofia, to Lucas and Roberto. Never saw your dad so enthusiastic about a woman, Roberto remarks to Lucas. That’s cuz you didn’t know him in Cristina’s time, says Lucas.
Natalia is getting ready to go to the beach. She’s in a bikini and cover-up. ¿No me veo muy vulgar? (I don’t look too vulgar, do I?) [Too bad Marisa never thought to ask herself that question.] Apparently Fernando doesn’t think so. At the beach, as Andrea looks on approvingly, he swoops Natalia up in his arms, carries her into the sea, and gives her a big fat cinematic kiss.
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Karla and Diana are practicing their moves in the lucha gym. Alej watches, hidden, thinking what an idiot Pablo was to put those two in the ring together.
Ramon is pasting notices about the match on a street post outside the Gloria’s bar. Little Amin is there helping, selling tickets. [Maybe they made the posters from the cartulinas Amin stole from the store?]
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Natalia comes home smiling, calls Andrea to ask if Fernando said they were novios? Oh no, well, he didn’t say we weren’t. Same thing, right?
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Zamira, whose lot in life seems to be spying from the window (maybe that’s how Nazira’s character was formed) sees Amin go off with Gloria’s boys. She tells Latifa, then goes across the street to ask where they went. To the lucha gym. Mohamed sees her clenches his fists, assumes his wild-eyed crazy man face. Zamira deflects his rage by telling him: ¡Amin desapareció! (Amin has disappeared)
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Marisa is out with Lucia (Roberto’s wife) when they spot Lucas sitting at a table with a woman. You caught him con las manos en la masa (with his hands in the dough, ie red-handed) says Lucia. I’ll tear her into shreds for you, she offers helpfully. (La despedazo para ti) Marisa needs to think it through.
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Mohamed has reached the gym and, stunned by the sight of the mamacitas in the ring, seems to have lost track of his errand – to fetch the little prince.
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In the final scene, Lucas asks Roberto: ¿Averiguaste? Did you find out? Yes, Said is coming with his wife and daughter. His wife’s name is…..Jade!
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Allah sometimes puts the faithful to the test (a veces pone a prueba a sus fieles), Tío Ali explains to Jade. If she can’t avoid seeing Lucas in Miami, she must prepare herself for the experience. Nazira enters demurely. ¡Que verguenza!, she bleats, am I interrupting something? She withdraws with exaggerated modesty, leaving Ali scratching his head. She’s taking the test to be your fourth wife (Se está poniendo a prueba para ser su cuarta esposa), explains an amused Jade.
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Hola Ozzie, coos Karla with a K as Ozvaldo pulls up in his fancy wheels (it’s his lunes a viernes car – you gotta see the one he drives on the weekend!) He agrees to let her drive while he tells her all about his ‘management.’
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At Gloria’s, Ramon serves up a meal to aspiring luchador Alejandro and tells him he wants in on the luchas. I can start by helping out with the Karla v Diana match, he says. Uh oh. You didn’t know about that? Apparently not. Pablo’s gonna put my girlfriend up against my ex? says Alej incredulously.
¿Cómo se te ocurre? (what the hell were you thinking?) Alej says to Pablo, now on the scene too. Take it easy, man, (tómalo suave) they don’t have to know about each other. (ok, the ladies aren’t Nobel Prize material, but really, how dumb do you think they are?)
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¡Este sitio es super nice! enthuses Karla as she and Ozzie scan the menu in a pricey South Beach bistro. Virgencita de la Agarradera, thought-bubbles Ozzie, qué caro. Mi negro, quiero todo bubbles K thoughtlessly. She orders lobster and calamari; he orders tomato soup. He’s eaten here so often, he’s tired of the menu.
Later, in Caliente, Osvaldo brags to Miguel about his date with K. Whatcha doing with dos hembritas a la vez? (two woman at the same time)? Dora was looking for you, says Miguel.
Karla tells her mother, Hilda, about the date. Mom tells her to wise up and not trust Ozzie, Alej or Pablo. You need a man who can take care of you. Alej no tiene donde caerse muerto (he’s so poor, he doesn’t even have a place to fall down dead)
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Dora comes into Caliente. A young guy was asking for you, says Miguel. His name? Um, I think he said ‘Daniel’… ¡Es mi hijo! cries Dora. It’s my son! And I wasn’t here for him! Vicki steers the tearful Dora to the exit just as Ozzie approaches, ready to greet her with a hug. She’s too upset to pay attention to him.
Back at the apartment, Dora agonizes about Daniel wandering alone in an unfamiliar city, but Vicki reminds her he is a grown man. They read a postcard from Cris who’s now in Madrid: Madrid es bella, alegre, igual a nosotras. Besos. (M is beautiful, happy, just like us. Kisses)
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Elsewhere in Miami Enrique remarks to Leo that a friend saw Cristina in a restaurant in Madrid and she is más bonita que nunca (more beautiful than ever). Not possible to be more beautiful, says Leo. By the way, my new squeeze is Sofia Johns, a smart, classy, stylish lady. Nothing like Cris.
Enter Lucas with Carolina, his new assistant. Enrique seems smitten.
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The boy prince Amin is leafing through some papers in a small box, looking very sneaky. Mohamed rushes in and frantically tells Latifa that some cartulinas (poster boards? cards?) are gone from the store. We wuz robbed!
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Meanwhile Prince Amin’s sister Zamira and their cousin are spying on the energetically affectionate couple, Alej and Karla, across the street (Apparently my tv station was as scandalized as Latifa would have been since they totally blocked the picture for a few seconds!) When I’m the champ, he says, we’ll have so much money even your ma will accept me. Who’s my opponent in the fight, she asks. Dunno, he lies.
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Albieri and his assistant, Escobar, are debating the ethics of cloning. Es una locura (madness) says Escobar. Albi’s hypocritical claptrap is cut short when the doorbell rings. It’s Dora: ¡Mi hijo apareció!
Albi does not drop dead from fear, thus displaying a surprising level of cardiovascular fitness. Dora hasn’t actually seen him, just knows that he’s in Miami.
And Luisa and Señora Escobar, that is, Clara, Leo’s new secretary are talking kids. Luisa shows Daniel’s picture to Clara, says they haven’t seen him for years, he’d be twenty (yes, twenty!) by now. Clara boasts a little, kvetches a little, as moms will do, about her son Fernando. Her cell rings. It’s her boy, asking to borrow her car so he can go to a bar. But he’s not gonna drink. ‘I’m under 21 – they won’t sell alcohol to me.’
Natalia and Andrea are with Fernando, listening to his conversation with his ma. What a liar you are, says Nat, you’re drinking a beer right now. Beer’s not drinking, he says. No seas tan anticuada (don’t be so old-fashioned). Yo gotta be cool, man (No kidding, he actually says this. In English. God, I’m so glad I’m not a teenager).
Natalia heads home (smart girl!) instead of going with Fer and Andrea. Mama Rosa is there to greet her. ‘Te parezco bonita?’ asks the quietly lovely Natalia. (Do you think I’m pretty?) ‘Mama dice que no tengo gracia.’ (Mama says that I have no grace/elegance). She tells Rosa she feels tormented by everyone’s expectations of her.
You need to talk to your daughter, Rosa tells Marisa, she’s got problems. Marisa looks bored. But she’ll give it a shot. She explains to Natalia that women have to make themselves beautiful to attract men. It’s what’s on the outside that counts. Remember, Todos los hombres son iguales. (All men are the same). All they care about is having a beautiful woman, marrying her, and showing her off to their friends.
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Jade and Jadiyah are also talking about love and marriage. Jade wants her daughter to study a profession, be independent, then choose a man she loves to be her husband. Jadiyah is quite happy to have Tío Ali pick someone for her, as long as he’s guapo y rico y que me llene de oro. (handsome and rich and he fills/showers me with gold.) Tío Ali later admonishes Jade for imposing her frustrated dreams on her daughter. Jadiyah, he tells her, has both feet firmly planted here while you are straddling two worlds.
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Q: Did dad marry you because you were beautiful? Natalia asks Marisa.
A: Well no, I tricked him into marrying me because I wanted his money and position and his twin brother, who I really had the hots for, had died. Ok, she didn’t say that. She said ‘That was one of the reasons.’ [Have I mentioned how much I despise this character?]
Q: Were you in love with dad?
A: For a marriage to last so many years, believe me, the last thing that matters is love. (and yes, gentle reader, she really did say that).
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In Fez, the love and marriage catechism continues.
Q: Are you in love with my dad? asks Jadiya
A: He’s a very good and generous man, asks Jade kindly, if obliquely.
So then you are in love says Jadiya happily.
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Dora sees Daniel in Caliente, goes up and touches his shoulder. A stranger turns around and stares at her. Oh Dora.
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Nazira tells Said she’d like to go to Miami with the family.
Ali is teaching his children about the Koran. Nazira joins them. It turns out she loooves to listen to the Koran. Who’d a thunk it?
Zoraida tells Jade she hopes Nazira doesn’t snare Ali. Jade thinks it’s unlikely, but as Zoraida says los hombres siempre se pierden por los ojos. (men always get themselves into trouble by their eyes). And Nazira, she says, is a beautiful woman.
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Lucas tells Roberto that he doesn’t want to be in any meetings with the Arab investors. He also asks him to find out if Said is married.
Leo introduces his novia, Sofia, to Lucas and Roberto. Never saw your dad so enthusiastic about a woman, Roberto remarks to Lucas. That’s cuz you didn’t know him in Cristina’s time, says Lucas.
Natalia is getting ready to go to the beach. She’s in a bikini and cover-up. ¿No me veo muy vulgar? (I don’t look too vulgar, do I?) [Too bad Marisa never thought to ask herself that question.] Apparently Fernando doesn’t think so. At the beach, as Andrea looks on approvingly, he swoops Natalia up in his arms, carries her into the sea, and gives her a big fat cinematic kiss.
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Karla and Diana are practicing their moves in the lucha gym. Alej watches, hidden, thinking what an idiot Pablo was to put those two in the ring together.
Ramon is pasting notices about the match on a street post outside the Gloria’s bar. Little Amin is there helping, selling tickets. [Maybe they made the posters from the cartulinas Amin stole from the store?]
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Natalia comes home smiling, calls Andrea to ask if Fernando said they were novios? Oh no, well, he didn’t say we weren’t. Same thing, right?
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Zamira, whose lot in life seems to be spying from the window (maybe that’s how Nazira’s character was formed) sees Amin go off with Gloria’s boys. She tells Latifa, then goes across the street to ask where they went. To the lucha gym. Mohamed sees her clenches his fists, assumes his wild-eyed crazy man face. Zamira deflects his rage by telling him: ¡Amin desapareció! (Amin has disappeared)
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Marisa is out with Lucia (Roberto’s wife) when they spot Lucas sitting at a table with a woman. You caught him con las manos en la masa (with his hands in the dough, ie red-handed) says Lucia. I’ll tear her into shreds for you, she offers helpfully. (La despedazo para ti) Marisa needs to think it through.
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Mohamed has reached the gym and, stunned by the sight of the mamacitas in the ring, seems to have lost track of his errand – to fetch the little prince.
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In the final scene, Lucas asks Roberto: ¿Averiguaste? Did you find out? Yes, Said is coming with his wife and daughter. His wife’s name is…..Jade!
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Super recap, novelamaven, love the title and my favorite line is:
"Albi’s hypocritical claptrap is cut short when the doorbell rings.."
I like 'Prince Amin', too. He's an obnoxious little twerp who is going to disappoint his parents big time. I bet you are right and the posters were made from what he stole from his Dad's store but who can't afford 1.50 to buy a package of paper? The real cost is getting it printed up. But that's applying logic to novelas - better to just adjust your beanie and carry on.
So Hilda is Karla with a K's mother. She gives her daughter good advice about Osvaldo but seems to expect Karla to find someone to support them both. She looks able bodied. Can't she support herself?
Do we think that the person Marisa saw with a woman in the restaurant is the clone? It doesn't seem like it could have been Lucas. If so, the clone looks exactly like Lucas, which of course he does but you might think he would dress and have a different hair style than a 40 year old guy. Marisa did not say, 'Why is Lucas dressed like that?' but of course she is seeing everything through a big green cloud of jealousy.
"Albi’s hypocritical claptrap is cut short when the doorbell rings.."
I like 'Prince Amin', too. He's an obnoxious little twerp who is going to disappoint his parents big time. I bet you are right and the posters were made from what he stole from his Dad's store but who can't afford 1.50 to buy a package of paper? The real cost is getting it printed up. But that's applying logic to novelas - better to just adjust your beanie and carry on.
So Hilda is Karla with a K's mother. She gives her daughter good advice about Osvaldo but seems to expect Karla to find someone to support them both. She looks able bodied. Can't she support herself?
Do we think that the person Marisa saw with a woman in the restaurant is the clone? It doesn't seem like it could have been Lucas. If so, the clone looks exactly like Lucas, which of course he does but you might think he would dress and have a different hair style than a 40 year old guy. Marisa did not say, 'Why is Lucas dressed like that?' but of course she is seeing everything through a big green cloud of jealousy.
Jean, I also wondered whether Marisa was seeing Lucas or his clone, but then in a later scene, Lucas appeared to be wearing the same shirt and, yeah, L1 and L2 also had the same hair style. Of course, it would be a fun and confusing way to throw Daniel right back into the lion's den, er, story. And if Marisa, who sees Lucas every day, can't tell the diff between 20yo L2and 40yo L1, what's Jade going to do?
Hmm, the whole Lucas in the restaurant scene is very strange. If it wasn't L2, then who was L1 with? It obviously wasn't Jade. She hasn't arrived in Miami yet. For the short time that we saw him, it didn't look like a business lunch. Wasn't L? touching the woman's face? Maybe it's a big tease and there is some perfectly logical explanation.
Great recap, NovelaMaven. I'm right there with you on despising Marisa. Of course every novela has to have a villain. And no one else in the cast is really bad. Nariza is more comic relief than bad to the bone.
You guys are very sharp! I never even thought of that being the clone in the restaurant. I was thinking he was having lunch with his new, attractive secretary - in a completely innocent way since he is, after all, Lucas.
Great title: Prince Amin. This just demonstrates how favoritism toward a male child can have unintended consequences. His sense of entitlement over his sister is disgusting. But I don't think he's really bad, just drawn toward being a regular American child when he's being brought up by conservative Muslim parents.
They sure are dragging out the reveal of the clone. Maybe tonight, since it's Friday and they usually do something dramatic on Frida.
You guys are very sharp! I never even thought of that being the clone in the restaurant. I was thinking he was having lunch with his new, attractive secretary - in a completely innocent way since he is, after all, Lucas.
Great title: Prince Amin. This just demonstrates how favoritism toward a male child can have unintended consequences. His sense of entitlement over his sister is disgusting. But I don't think he's really bad, just drawn toward being a regular American child when he's being brought up by conservative Muslim parents.
They sure are dragging out the reveal of the clone. Maybe tonight, since it's Friday and they usually do something dramatic on Frida.
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: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 1:37:00 PM EDT
: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 1:37:00 PM EDT
Another comment. There's something odd about the ages of the second generation. The clone is now 20, but Natalia is, maybe, 16 (since she drove). And Jadiya looks 11. Maybe I'm just off in my math. Of course, the clone is going to be Mauricio Ochmann, so he can't be too young when they finally show him. It's going to be very interesting how he acts as a 20 year old and what changes they will make to his Lucas appearance (longer hair? moustache?)
Permalink posted by : Friday, April 23, 2010 at 2:03:00 PM EDT
: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 2:03:00 PM EDT
Yes, the ages of the 2nd generation are puzzling. We know that Natalia was born on Daniel's birthday but which birthday? If it was supposed to be his first or second bday, then Natalia is 18 or 19, which would mean she is in college (19) or is in the process of applying (18). She has mentioned that Lucas wants her to go to Harvard but that doesn't seem to be happening.
If Natalia was born on Daniel's third or fourth birthday, she is 16 or 17, which seems to be more reasonable. But in that case, their ages seemed too similar when they played together as children. There's a big difference between 7 and 3.
As for Jadiya, she was born right before the big jump forward. If Daniel was 10 when that happened, she is 10 now. If he was 12, then she is 8, which seems a little young for her but she is very precocious. Jadiya is only a few months younger than Amin. Daniel must be at least 4 years older than Zamira.
It's probably best not to try and be too logical about it.
I watched the scene of Lucas 'con sus manos en la masa' again and it does seem to be the same shirt he was wearing later. Very weird.
If Natalia was born on Daniel's third or fourth birthday, she is 16 or 17, which seems to be more reasonable. But in that case, their ages seemed too similar when they played together as children. There's a big difference between 7 and 3.
As for Jadiya, she was born right before the big jump forward. If Daniel was 10 when that happened, she is 10 now. If he was 12, then she is 8, which seems a little young for her but she is very precocious. Jadiya is only a few months younger than Amin. Daniel must be at least 4 years older than Zamira.
It's probably best not to try and be too logical about it.
I watched the scene of Lucas 'con sus manos en la masa' again and it does seem to be the same shirt he was wearing later. Very weird.
Uhmm... you really think Lucas is that innocent? It seems you haven't seen the promos of this new part of the novela ;)
Thanks again for the wonderful recaps and comments; I read the blog every day to know your insights about what's happening with the novela...
Thanks again for the wonderful recaps and comments; I read the blog every day to know your insights about what's happening with the novela...
Permalink posted by : Friday, April 23, 2010 at 4:07:00 PM EDT
: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 4:07:00 PM EDT
I think it was El Clon that Marisa and friend saw in the restaurant. Sure don't look like they're trying to make him look like a 20yr old.
You're right, Novelera - I think the 2nd gen ages seem kinda off.
You're right, Novelera - I think the 2nd gen ages seem kinda off.
Permalink posted by : Friday, April 23, 2010 at 4:28:00 PM EDT
: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 4:28:00 PM EDT
LOL Jean to your 'It's probably best not to try and be too logical about it.'
I was never really trying to figure out their ages, but I just had a feeling they don't seem right.
I was never really trying to figure out their ages, but I just had a feeling they don't seem right.
Permalink posted by : Friday, April 23, 2010 at 4:38:00 PM EDT
: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 4:38:00 PM EDT
Novelamaven: This recap was full of some great laughs. The title was extremely witty. You caught me with the first paragraph, amiga! "And he spoke Spanish? Pues, sí. (So um.. Mama Rosa could have taken a message in Arabic?)."
Yep, I was thinking the clone in the restaurant myself till Lucas comes in with the same shirt on. The streaming video cut off before the usual previews. As far as I'm concerned, Lucas needs his space after being blackmailed to stay in his marriage for fear of losing Natalia. He certainly doesn't give a crap about what Marisa thinks, or he'd not have dared been seen in such a public place allowing his lady friend to play with his hair, etc. like she did IMHO.
Yep, I was thinking the clone in the restaurant myself till Lucas comes in with the same shirt on. The streaming video cut off before the usual previews. As far as I'm concerned, Lucas needs his space after being blackmailed to stay in his marriage for fear of losing Natalia. He certainly doesn't give a crap about what Marisa thinks, or he'd not have dared been seen in such a public place allowing his lady friend to play with his hair, etc. like she did IMHO.
Thanks so much, NovelaMaven, for the wonderful recap. I'm traveling for the next few days, so I haven't been able to watch the episodes, so I'm totally dependent on the recaps. Loved the snark and am most grateful for all the Spanish.
Thank you, NovelaMaven. Your recaps are so fun.
Who is Zamira & Amin's cousin? Latifa doesn't have any sibblings, right? And Mo's only sibbling, Said, is in Morocco. Is it a second-cousin or some other relative?
Who is Zamira & Amin's cousin? Latifa doesn't have any sibblings, right? And Mo's only sibbling, Said, is in Morocco. Is it a second-cousin or some other relative?
Paula: I thought I heard Zamira refer to the girl as 'mi prima' a few days ago, but of course I could be mistaken. Still, I'm assuming that this family is part of a Moroccan expat community -- after all, we've had references to the mosque where the devout little prince spends so much time -- and I vaguely remember references to family too, although clearly not close family. ¿Quién va a saber?
Thanks everyone for your nice words. This was a very talky episode with not much going on and I was afraid you'd be bored. I actually wasn't. I thought the conversations were a nice vehicle to develop character. And I especially liked the contrasting mother-daughter scenes in Morocco and Miami. Maybe a little obvious, but still, I think, effective.
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Thanks everyone for your nice words. This was a very talky episode with not much going on and I was afraid you'd be bored. I actually wasn't. I thought the conversations were a nice vehicle to develop character. And I especially liked the contrasting mother-daughter scenes in Morocco and Miami. Maybe a little obvious, but still, I think, effective.
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