Wednesday, April 14, 2010

El Clon, Wed., April 14- Bored with the story? Go shopping!

Thanks to Aleida over at TW for posting the link to this story in the NYT. Here is the link to the shopping site.

Dora loses track of Daniel in the only restaurant with a ball room in Miami (TORWBRIM)! Natalia tells Marisa that she was with Daniel but Marisa doesn't see him leading her to conclude that he doesn't exist. Natalia is a cutie! She has a tendency to look at the camera or whoever is behind the camera, though.

Nariza gives her hysterics performance for Said. He makes Jade give him the key to her room and reassures the witch that she can go anywhere she wants in the house. If looks could kill, Said and Nariza would be dead. Said leaves for work saying that he wants harmony in his house. Good luck with that.

Lucas thinks Natalia has a serious problem if she is seeing imaginary friends. Marisa has seen a child psychologist who thinks it is ok. Marisa suggests that Natalia has to have imaginary friends because Daddy won't give her a little brother. Lucas points out that it was Marisa who wanted the kid to stay home with her instead of going to school with other children. When Marisa suggests that they all go on vacation, Lucas says that she can go wherever but he has to work. This sets Marisa off on her usual rant about Jade and she makes her usual threat to leave with Natalia and never let Lucas see her again.

Lucas thinks about Jade and has flashbacks.

Jade is in the ruins thinking about Lucas and having flashbacks.

Said is looking for Jade. She is in the medina buying her contraceptive herb.

Zoraida tells Latifa that she wouldn't have given the herb to Jade if she had asked for it. She says that children are important and Jade will regret her error.

Not yet, she won't. She's drinking the contraceptive Kool-aid. Said comes in and Jade hastily hides the glass. Said gives her a jade necklace to replace the one she lost. She doesn't even say thanks.

Leo is planning a big family vacation to Europe when Lucas comes in from the pool. Natalia says that her friend Daniel has a mole just like Lucas'. Rosa is convinced that Diego's ghost has come to visit Natalia. Leo thinks that Natalia has overheard Leo and him talking about the mole. Marisa suggests that if Natalia has made up an imaginary friend that has the same mole as her father, it's because she wants Lucas to spend more time with her. Lucas says that he spends plenty of time with Natalia and if he didn't have to work, he would spend more.

Since the clone is now a child, Rosa looks at a picture of Diego and Lucas as children and wishes Diego would appear to her.

Jade comes to Ali's house while Zoraida is praying with the other women in the house. She says that she can't join them because she has her period and is impure. Now we have a big long scene where one of Ali's wives comes and accuses him of treating his first wife better than she. This scene seems to have two purposes: 1. Latifa wants to get Mohamed to make a promise in writing not to take another wife; and 2. Said says to Jade that Ali should divorce the complaining wife. Jade asks what would make Said divorce his wife. He says that he would divorce his wife if she made a scandal that brought humiliation to a man. "A scandal," says Jade thoughtfully and we know exactly where this is going to go.

The same dance club. The same music. Dora and Osvaldo. The same argument.

Zoraida admires Jade's pendant. Jade asks Zoraida to read the coffee grounds on the whereabouts of her old pendant.

Lucas is combing jewelry stores in Miami (there is more than one?) looking for the pendant. He runs into Marisa and tells her he was looking for a band (correa) for his watch.

Jade asks where her stone is. Zoraida says that it is very far away. Jade asks if someone found it. Zoraida says, "I see a hand hiding it. It's an encounter in time. When the past meets the present in the figure of a man, you will get the stone back." Jade is frustrated with how cryptic Zoraida's prophecies are.

Nariza shows up and guesses that Zoraida has been reading the coffee grounds. [Once again, Jade has gotten Zoraida in trouble.] Fortunately, Nariza wants Zoraida to read the coffee grounds for her to find out if she will find a man. "I see a man," says Zoraida, "He has eyes like a cat. He doesn't live in this land. He lives.. That love will be the happiness that will cure your sadness and the sadness that will ruin your happiness." Zoraida is sure that this means she will marry Osvaldo.

Lucas is moping around his office having flashbacks of his conversations with Jade. In comes Marisa. She accuses him of trying to find Jade's pendant. Lucas initially denies it but finally admits it. He says that the pendant doesn't belong to him and he wants to return it to its rightful owner. Marisa says that it is obvious that Lucas doesn't care for her anymore, their marriage is over and she wants a divorce. No problem, says Lucas.

Leo has bought the bar for Cristina. She tells Vicki about her plans for promoting it. She hopes Leo will come the grand opening.

It's the day of the grand opening of Cristina's bar. Albieri wants to take Daniel to the zoo. Dora wants Daniel to go with her to the bar. Daniel overhears Dora tell Vicki that she won't let him see Albieri again.

Albieri tells Luisa that he isn't going to the opening of the bar because he has promised to take Daniel to the zoo.

Latifa goes into labor.

Daniel slips away from the opening of the bar presumably to look for Albieri. Dora is frantic.

Albieri is worried that Leo might see Daniel at the opening of the bar. He tells Luisa that he has changed his mind. He will go to the opening alone, fetch Daniel and bring him back. Luisa does not understand what is going on.

Enrique is giving Rosa spiritual advice (that is, advice about visits of the spirits of the dead). He reassures her that if Diego's spirit has returned, it is because he doesn't want his loved ones to worry. Leo comes in. Enrique reminds Leo that this is the day of the opening of the bar and he should go. Leo says that he isn't going to be part of a Cristina's jokes.

Zoraida tells Jade to take Nariza's nasty comments away from Latifa. Jade takes her to the kitchen and asks to be told about the guy in the coffee grounds. Nariza tells Jade that Mohamed ruined her marriage with Osvaldo but he has written to say that he will be back. She says that her destiny is not in Morocco. She will go back to Florida with Latifa and Mohamed and marry Osvaldo.

Said, Abdul and Ali are summoned to the delivery of Latifa's baby. As soon as Mohamed comes into the room where Latifa is, he faints and has to be helped out of the room.

It's a high class bikini show for Cristina's bar. She is sure that it will bring in customers to the bar as will her other promotional ideas.

Dora and Vicki don't find Daniel at her apartment.

A scary homeless person finds Daniel.

The credits roll.

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Comments:
A very eventful episode last night. Thank you, Jean, for yet another great recap!

When Said demanded that Jade hand over the key to her room and then gave it Nariza, I yelled at my tv: "You idiot! That's why this woman will NEVER love you!" You can't patch over that kind of betrayal (as Jade must see it) with a new jade necklace.

I was surprised that Zoraida's job description apparently includes birthin' babies. I would have expected this wealthy, sophisticated family to go to a private hospital (like the one that awards chastity certificates, for example)or at least have a trained physician, or midwife come to their home to assist with the birth.

(BTW, I wouldn't blame Jade if she stockpiled enough contraceptive herbs to last a (reproductive) lifetime.)
 

Thanks, Jean, for the great recap and the links to the NYTimes article and the Telemundo store. I was amused to see that they're not selling a replica of the most famous piece of "El Clon" jewelry, Jade's original jade necklace. I might have even considered buying that one! Though I guess that would have screwed up Zoraida's prophetic coffee grounds.

I don't like the turn this episodio took at the end, with the scary-looking guy and Danielito. I hope that proves to be just a momentary scare tactic. Obviously, Danielito will survive, since he's El Clon, but still....

NovelaMaven, I too was screaming at my TV last night when Said gave the keys to Nazira. How could he not have heard us??
 

Actually, I thought it was a very boring episode. Except for Latifa going into labor, we've seen all this before.

I don't believe for a moment that Lucas and Marisa are really going to get divorced - he will back down.

Nor do I believe that Jade will succeed in getting Said to divorce her - she'll do something to embarass him and he will forgive her.

Albieri will rescue Daniel and Dora will have to let him continue seeing the kid.

No one who knew Lucas and Diego as children will see Daniel.

I hope I'm wrong but I don't think anything much is going to happen in the story until the clone grows up.
 

Thank you, Jean. I liked your lines:
* contraceptive Kool-aid.
* The same dance club. The same music. Dora and Osvaldo. The same argument.

So Leo says that he isn't going to be part of a Cristina's jokes? Since when?

And you're right, Jean. A bunch of things ALMOST happened. In fact, even Latifa's baby ALMOST happened; he's not born yet.
 

Jean, thanks for the terrific recap and all of the inbedded photos and links to the articles. It is always a wonderful way to the start the day.

I love the way Lucas glares at Marisa - his eyes look almost crossed. Why doesn't Marisa want Natalie to go to school? She has real issues. I never see her spend any one on one time with the poor thing. She just drags her from place to place like an accessory.

What in the world is Dora thinking? It is okay to raise a child in a bar rather than with the mad doctor? The homeless guy even frightened me. Poor Danielito will be scarred for life. Does the truck hit him? Tonight should be very entertaining.

Rosemary
 

Thanks, Jean, for the snarky recap. Yes, we see the same things over and over. Albieri is sweaty and scared someone will see Daniel - check. Cristina is still obsessed with Leo - check. Dora is upset because no one believes Danny is hers - check. Marisa has a hissy fit - check. Nariza treats Jade and Latifa like crap - check. Sigh.

I concur with everyone else that Said is not going to win over his wife by caving into Nariza's emotional blackmail. I wish Jade had spoken up instead of just glaring. I bet if she really demanded that Said respect her rights as his wife over the outrageous demands of his sister, he might back her up.

Jean, you are right about so many things, so my heart kind of sunk when you said Lucas would back down and stay with the nastiest woman in Miami. I LOVED the look on her face after she made her big divorce demand and he basically just said "fine with me".

I'm starting to think Jade and Nariza are both a bit schizophrenic. One moment it's all out war and the next Jade is sweetly asking her about the boyfriend in the coffee grounds. I'm afraid I hold a grudge longer than that.
 

I agree with y'all's comments... more entertaining than the show. muchos gracias!
 

Hi Novelera: I HOPE I'm wrong about Lucas and Marisa but I have a bad feeling about what Lucas will do when face with blackmail about the kid and Dad on his back.

The other day, Said told Jade that he would get the stars and the sun for her if she would let him. You're right, faced with another Nariza performance, she should have said, 'If you love me as much as you say you do, choose me over your sister.' But I would be afraid that if he did choose her over his sister, she would still treat him like piece of you know what.
 

Novelera, I think the reason Jade was suddenly so sweet to Nazira and asked her about the boyfriend was to distract her and keep her from going back into the room where Latifa was in labor. Zoraida had told Jade to get Nazira out of there, and that's what she was trying to do.
 

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