Caray, Caray!

Thanks Jody. Are you still trading off with Gloria?
 

Jody, I can't blame you in the slightest! This ghastly airing hour has all of us sleep deprived...

My lack of Spanish comprehension did not help me understand much of last night's dialog. I'll leave the details to others with far better skills than I. Here are a few of the main events:

Juan whipped off the wimple and saw it was Aimee, not Reggie. On a high note (so to speak), there was a great deal of heartfelt singing among the fishermen and women, which was fairly good (Pablo Montero not needed).

Low lights: Orca becoming enraged with Leo (hitting her with a punch that sent her reeling) and Renato angry with Aimee (as he saw Rosenda wearing the pendant he had given to Aimee).

Diana
 

Hello all- I haven't been watching this one regularly, but was up late working last night and watched. The result- I had a dream last night wher Cristian de la Fuente was my boyfriend! No joke. It was pretty nice. We went to a concert at a museum I visited in Ecuador the other week, then we got into a silly argument about something and he was mad at me (like he was at Aimee), and then we made up by getting all kissy face. Unfortunately, I woke up just then. Lol! I don't know if this means I should or shouldn't stay up so late to watch novelas. It affects my dreams, but one night it might be CdlF (yum!) and the next it might be Orca (yuck!).

Jody- No worries. We all need our sleep. I'm sure someone will fill in the details.
 

LOL Vivi -- nice one! Christian is so cute. He should have his own show some time. I was thinking that in this ep as his alpha-male side was peeking out. It's his heritage from Leonarda, I was thinking, too.

I just finished watching the ep, as I didn't get to it last night either. Thanks for the main events, Diana. :-)
 

Colibri/Curly got a lot of screen time last night. I don't know how I felt about Juan exploiting Curly's scars and painful past just to get a reaction out of Regina. It's heartless Aimee that he should be giving that lesson to. Regi is alrady sensitive to people's pain.

Can someone explain the caroling tradition they showed last night. Looks like it's Christmas time, but there seemed to be a lot of significance to the singing and the gifts given to the children at people's homes. Jarocha? I know I could probably look it up on Wikipedia, but it would be nice to get a first-hand perspective.
 

I didn't get that party either Vivi. I think maybe it was Christmas.
 

Ah! Yes,yes.yes. CdlF is HOT. He makes Juan look much older (Oh yeah, he is) and his demeanor is so much more refined than screaming and climbing up balconies like a baboon. Too bad he chose the wrong twin. By the way, the actress playing the twins has different facial mannerisms for each twin. Very nice. I like her makeup coloring in the red wig if it wasn't the most awful red in the world. As a blond, she almost disappears.

Thank you for all the translators, without you, I have silly observations above. Your snark is fantastic. All of you.
 

I agree Melanie that Arcely is doing a great job being two completely different people. Even when she was Aimee acting as Regi, you could see that! Very skilled. While at the airport in Miami the other week, I picked up one of the glossy gossip mags. It was speaking about all the behind the scenes stuff of the current novelas. One of the things they revealed about CS is that Arceley only worked 4 days a week most weeks so that she could fly back to the States to be with her young kids (babies) each week. That is a lot to be juggling, and a lot to get done each week while playing two characters. I have to give her props for that.
 

Here's a few quick remarks about the episode; if anyone wants to write more, please do!

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Juan isn't fooled by Aimee and rips off the habit to see red hair. Aimee is delighted that Juan recognized her just by kiss and touch.

Back at the house, Rosenda knows Aimee is gone and has to distract Renato until she returns. Rosenda fakes an ankle sprain, and Renato helps her.

With so much contact, Renato notices disconcertedly the medallion Rosenda is wearing, the one he gave Aimee.

Down in the catacombs, Leonarda tries to placate Arcadio with jewels again, but he's had enough of that. He's tired of sharing her.

When she insults Arcadio in favor of Rodrigo, Arcadio actually strikes her, knocking Leonarda down.

She is terrified; and when he threatens to put her in jail over the letter if she doesn't swear off any man but him, she must concede.

Aimee returns to the house, happy with herself; but things change drastically when Renato appears in the bedroom.

He's very upset Aimee gave the medallion away to Rosenda; it was the first thing he gave her, and it meant something. An argument heats up.

Petulant Aimee blows off his concerns and accuses him of persecuting both her and Rosenda.

Renato has an epiphany and decides he will have to view Aimee as a child; what he wants is for her to belong to him body and soul the same way he does to her.

If she ever doesn't, he's likely to kill her, he says. Renato is angry and won't let Aimee kiss him before he exits.

At the casino, Federico asks about Fifi of Philippe, who informs Federico that she returned in quite a state. Federico says he has no idea why, and Philippe seems to believe him.

In their room, Fifi cries to Lulu about her terrible experience; and back at Federico's house, Servando returns and is about to break in once again.

There is a lovely scene in the tack room between Regina and Juan with a lot of dialog; if someone wants to take this on, it'd be great.

Essentially, Regina gets to see the side of Juan that Jimena was telling her about the other day, the side of him that has suffered.

He explains really without specifics about his childhood and how it was; he does mention that Noel is one person who was kind to him.

Regina comes away with a bit of an epiphany herself, but a good one -- and is more sympathetic toward Juan.

In a later scene, Hummingbird slips and tells Regina Juan's real name is Juan de Dios; and it turns out Hummingbird will be going to the finca school to learn to read and write.

Finally, Jimena and Gabriel meet accidentally in front of the church and enter together. Jimena prays that the Virgin will serve as her mother, and Gabriel prays that Estrella will be returned to health and to him.

Gabriel is overcome with how pure and sweet Jimena appears in her mantilla; and once outside again, he tells her that were he not in love with Estrella, he surely would be in love with Jimena.

Gabriel is just about to kiss Jimena on the lips when "aunt" Griselda shows up and shouts at Jimena, looking horrified. Roll Televisa logo.
 

Thanks for the great summary Jeri. Hummingbird was so sweet last night - his "slip" in telling Reggie Juan's true identity was totally believable. I agree though Vivi, I was also uncomfortable with Juan showing the scars to Reggie although in truth, had he done so to Aimee, she would probably have been unmoved and just shed yet another crocodile tear.

"Petulant" was the perfect word to describe Aimee and though Renato's resolution to treat Aimee as a child was wrong, she certainly has been behaving that way lately. This was one instance where batting her eyelashes and pouting didn't work.

Diana
 

Men catch on to eye batting pretty quick. He did seem pretty angry with her. I think he will get tired of her quickly and will see that she is not what he thought.
 

Diana, Aimee is petulant; but also I had to think that at least part of the problem is that she doesn't care about Renato or anything he gives her.

I spent a moment wondering whether Aimee would have acted differently had it been something Juan gave her.

I concluded probably not; but not because she doesn't care about Juan. She just cares about Juan in a non-sentimental way; tokens likely wouldn't appeal.

Aimee just is not a sentimental girl.
 

She really needs something to do. I can't imagine sitting around in my room pouting all day.
 

Thank you Jeri for the recap, and everyone else who commented. I didn't follow everything that was said between Regina and Juan, I think she was still begging him to leave because of Aimee, and he said something like he hadn't decided. It was great that she started to see a little bit of who Juan is from what Ximena said. And she's going to start putting it together now that she knows his real name.

Yes, it was Christmas as there is some ceremony about visiting stations of the cross,I think. I found it a bit boring, though, or there was too much of it. I wanted to get back to something more interesting!
 

I was half asleep as I was listening to that part this morning. I thought it was really annoying.
 

I hope the celebration segments are interesting for viewers who take part in them in real life.

One celebration I enjoyed was the jaripeo festival at night in FelS, with the fireworks and bright colors.

Such as in this screen cap here.

I have an old album of FelS jaripeo screen caps here.
 

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Thank you, Jeri! :-)
 

Thanks to you folks who posted helpful and fun comments! My heart goes out to recappers trying to do this at midnight!

Two good things have come from this time change. First, I'm forced to listen instead of continuing my dependence on the captions.

Second, we only have one computer. So instead of cruising YouTube while I watch Salvaje, hubby now practices his Spanish classical guitar. It sounds great, but Spanish comedy music (if there is such a thing) might be more appropriate.
 

Jeri, thank you for the FELS jaripeo screen caps. A nice remembrance of Sophia gently and tentatively touching Juan's face - the beginning of their romance.

Beth, how nice to be serenaded by your hubby. Very romantic.

Diana
 

Diana, yes; they had some wonderful scenes.

I need to redo those albums and de-murk them.
 

Jody, I'm a nightowl and sometimes I have trouble staying awake for C S. Thanks to Jeri and the others for filling in so nicely. I agree with Ivy, too much of a good thing with the Christman singing.

Well, the honeymoon is over... at least, for Renato. Aimee was never into it in the first place. He is definitely disillusioned about Aimee and is hurting that something he gave her would not be considered too precious to give away. As we always say, The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Renato and Leo have a lethal streak of jealousy. Aimee is so obsessed with Juan, she has a hard time mustering up even any fake feelings for Ren. LOL that when she tried to manipulate Ren into making up with a kiss, he snubbed her and left the room. As someone mentioned before, Ren's sunny demeanor is deteriorating with his furrowed brow and disheveled hair.

Juan is an insensitive brute... but a handsome brute in that white shirt.... .I digress. He pretty much ripped poor Curly's shirt off to show his scar's to Regi. No asking for permission. But I loved it when he effortlessly scooped him up and slung him over his back.

GinCA
 

OMG, Jeri...love your big kitty.....so cute.

GinCA
 

Thanks Jody for posting a header and Jeri for the detailed highlights. :)
 

Thank you Jeri for the brief summary, and thank you everyone for commenting and for your understanding.

Connie - yes, Gloria and I will still be trading off on Mondays.

Jody :)
 

Hi all! Just came by to see how CS was doing while the Gancho recap is up.

Vivi: I'm not watching this novela and I stopped watching before these episodes so I don't know what the fishermen were celebrating but the only celebration that I think could have been was "Dia de Reyes", january 6th.

In México, while christmas was always celebrated, we didn't have the tradition of giving gifts during that date. It was only during the early 1970's that we started getting all the promotion by the media and stores for christmas gifts and that the figure of Santa Claus appeared. Even so, it wasn't until the 90's when giving gifts on that day truly became popular. There are some families still in small towns now that refuse to play along with the Santa Claus theme, since they consider it something foreign to our culture.

For us, we had the Día de Reyes, which we celebrated with our families by eating a Rosca de Reyes and hot chocolate. The rosca has little toy babies that represent baby Jesus hidden in it and if you get one you have to make tamales for the day of the Candelaria. Some gifts are interchanged by the adults.

Afterwards, the kids leave their shoes on the living room and go to sleep and in the morning they'll find gifts under their shoes, supposedly left there by the three kings.

Besides that, the only other celebration that involves gifts are the birthday celebrations. In Veracruz there's the Santa Ana celebrations but those only involve dancing and eating. There's also the Carnaval but that one involves a parade.

Jarocha
 

As far as I know Aracely worked five days a week, and her sons were with her. She asked for a flat in Mexico City until the shooting ended, and an own room in the Televisa studios where nobody was allowed to disturb her.

The stable scene was lovely until Colibrí arrived, and became very uncomfortable to watch. Juan's tired with Regina's abhorrence, and deep down knows that Regina's right when she asks him to leave, and feels very uncomfortable when she tells him off. Therefore he continues mocking her, but in the meantime he tries to prove that he's not a bad guy. Yes, he's fraking troubled.
Regina distresses herself about this situation and tries to send him away, but she's already warming up, that's why she asked if he suffered much.

They both need to learn much. Regina slowly realizes that the things aren't black and white. Juan is complicated, neither a gentleman, nor an uncivilized lummox, and Renato isn't Prince Charming on a white horse. No matter what she does, she can't prevent Aimee from ruining her life voluntarily, can't impede Juan desiring Aimee, and can't protect Renato's feeling forever. As for Juan, well, emotionally he's an imbecile child, and sometimes seems to be almost beyond recovery :-), but he has a good heart and cares for the poor people. First of all he should learn humility, civility and how to moderate himself and his anger. And less arrogance, please.

Regina was dressed up like a big pink Little Bo Peep Barbie - not the best outfit of hers, but I think this is one of the dresses she wore in the commercials.
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And in the "I love you, Renato... errr, as a sister." scene.
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Great Jody. I was going to offer to help if one of you decided to drop out. Might try to help on Wednesdays. Cheryl just doesn't have time.
 

Aribeth- I wonder how the magazine got it so wrong? Wonder if it was one option they considered for her situation.

It would be nice if they started putting Regi in some more attractive outfits, but anything is better than those habits.
 

Aribeth I think that the 4 days a week thing was the original plan because Salvador Mejía did say that to the entertainment shows before the novela started shooting, when the show was presented in Veracruz she said herself that her kids were still in the States and that she couldn't be with them while she worked.

Jarocha
 

Vivi: Well, these are just rumors, I can't guarantee that my version is the correct one. :-) I can only cite the early negotiations between Aracely and the Televisa when she showed them her long wishlist, including the flat, the room and the shortened workweek.
Maybe the magazine is right and she did fly home every week to her family. But I'm not sure about the four day long workweek - these actors have to work every day, and her "free weekend" wish was quite demanding enough.

Gawd, those habits haunt me in my sleep. *crosses fingers* But at least Regina's wardrobe doesn't suck as much as Adela's dresses did in Fuego en la sangre.
She'll have better gowns later.
 

Here's an article about Mejía trying to convince Aracely to work on fridays because they were behind schedule. I guess he suceeded.

Jarocha
 

"But I'm not sure about the four day long workweek"

I mean imho Televisa insisted on the five days.

Aracely's shortened workweek took a toll on the telenovela. She couldn't shoot too many scenes a week, she played two characters, and Aimee seemed to be more important than Regina for a long time. I think this affected the awfully slow development of the Juan/Regina relationship badly.
 

Jeri, you seriously need some sort of commenter-recapper gold star! Thank you!

Is it just me, or did Rosenda make a point of calling attention to that medallion on purpose? I wouldn't put it past her at all to be subtly sabotaging Aimee even while she's pretending to help.

I suddeny find myself wondering if Colibri's planning to play tiny matchmaker for Regina and Juan. It's adorable and wrong.

So, as long as Jimena has her hair draped in some lace, it's completely acceptable for her to go to church with everything else bared to God and the world? Really? (Not that I object myself, 'cause she's a pretty girl, it's just one of those tin-foil hat moments.)

Also, Gabe... Oh, never mind. You didn't get it the first fifty times; I don't know why I think you will now. If anyone needs me, I'll be at Doctorcito's. Only looking for something to help with this terrible ache I've developed from banging my head against the wall, of course.
 

MMG- Maybe if Jimena would just pull that lace mantilla just below her nose the lightbulb would go off in Gabe's head? Or...maybe not. The two of them are nice to look at though, and it looks like they'll actually smolder once they get things going in the lovin' department.
 

GinCA, do you mean the kitty in my avatar or in one of the albums. Our dear, departed Bob was truly huge; he's in the Miscellaneous 2 album. He was adorable; thank you.

Aribeth, loved your comments on the tack-room scene. The looks that passed between them were quite nice; human looks of understanding. And I liked the chickens. :-)

Mad Marley, LOL at the tinfoil moment. I think that every time Jimena goes into the church. Gawd, they would have stoned her in real life. And I'll join you at the doctor's; looking at him is sure to be good for what ails anyone.

Jarocha, thanks for the interesting discussion. Yeah, Mexico is definitely not the only place kind of touchy about the modern holiday celebration. Christmas trees and such come from Germany; and there is a village in Holland that is very touchy about it obliterating their own traditions.

They actually have posted at the town limits signs that look like traffic signs -- except they have either a santa or a yule tree on them with the big, red circle around it and the slash over it! None allowed in their town!
 

Vivi - I seem to recall that when Gabe originally gave the mantilla to Jimena, it did end up pretty far down on her far and he almost managed to get a synapse sparking then.

And then it didn't quite connect after all, so your 'maybe not' is probably right on track. ~_~
 

Jeri, I saw your avatar as I was posting and thought, "that is one adorable kitty and well loved as well." On closer inspection I noticed how he was posing with his front legs crossed...so cute and photogenic. Sorry for Bob's departure.

GinCA
 

Jarocha -- could the processions and singing be part of the 'posada' traditions that take place in Mexico around "Dia de Guadalupe" holiday?

To add to the backstage news on Aracely: one of the conditions to her accepting to be in this novela was that she could have a house and a suite at the studios so she could have her sons with her. Also, the production and Televisa had to arrange for her to have time off so she could continue with her hosting duties on Saturdays on Univision (Viva los Ninos talk show). The days she taped Regina may be the days when she was taping her spots for the talk show. When she taped as "Aimee" she wore a wig.

Jody :)
 

Jody/Jeri: Thanks. I was wide awake for this show, but a lot of the conversacion passed right over my head. I agree the fiesta was a bit repetitive and the singing seemed purposely off-key. Some of those guys, Pedro, Santo, and especially Colibrí, actually had pretty good voices. The saving grace was they really seemed as if they were having a good time.

MadMarleyGray: I don't think the blue mantilla cancels out the bare midriff in church. Actually when Gabe first gave it to her, he put it on backwards (with the straight side across her forehead and the triangle hanging down) Last night, she was wearing it properly and it hung much more gracefully. Didn't cover a thing tho'.

I don't know how these actors do it. Their work schedule is grueling. I remember Maite Perroni was still touring with that band she was in at the same time she was starring in Guapos. And I sometimes wonder if the actor who plays Raúl Marin didn't really have some kind of stroke, because they wrote it into Pasión and then he got the twitchy eye, which he still seems to have -AgnesNJ
 

Mad Marley, LOL! I had the same thought about Jimena going to chuch with her head covered and most of the rest of her exposed. I can't believe Gabe is still pining for "Estrella"... can he really be that dumb? When Jimena finally tells him who she is, will we get to hear the infamous, "No lo puedo creer!"
 

GnCA, Oh, I see. :-) That's Wilbur in the avatar. The Wilbur is a character. He's tiny, though; so I was thinking you meant somebody else... Thanks! :-)
 

I recognize the songs they were singing from doing posadas around Christmastime when I was younger. It's a recreation of Joe and Mary looking for a place to stay. The first two places, they get turned down; at the third one, they eventually get an "Oh, Joe, I didn't know it was you and Mary, come on in." and then everybody comes in and there's a big party. The thing the kids were doing, I didn't recognize, or at least it wasn't something we did in the '80's and '90's in South Texas. (sorry for the brevity, I just wanted to put my 2 cents in quick before I have to go out!)
 

Jeri~~~Thanks for filling in. Jody~~I can't stay up for CS. I usually try to be in bed between 10 and 11 since I have to get up at 6.00. As for Gabe and Jimena, I think it's a Clark Kent/ Superman thing. Actually, I think the bare midriff is throwing Gabe off. He should wrap that mantilla around Jimena's middle ...and then...he'd have his ''aha'' moment. ''ESRELLA, it's you !!!!!'' When I watch Reggie, Juan , and Renato, I see Scarlet pining for Ashley Wilkes while that big, strapping, sexy roue Rhett Butler is right there in front of her ready , willing, and able. I guess it's an ageold story : she wants him, but he wants that other her, but she wants him...etc...as we see different geometric figures developing before out eyes...love triangles, squares, circles, hexagons.. Arcadio has become quite the cad. Leo looked really frightened when he hit her . Her expression seemed to show that she realizes that tangled web she has been weaving has started to unravel and she is no longer in control of things. Arcadio's just as obsessed with Leo as Leo is with Old Rod. Rosenda has turned into Leo Jr., n'est-ce pas ??? What a sneaky snake she is. Hub looked at her and proclaimed ''Have ALL these actresses been enhanced ?''
 

Rosenda might be enhanced otherwise but pregnancy hormones are enhancing her.
 

One funny thing with the Jimena/Gabriel scene: he's telling her not to worry, one day her prince will come -- he just hasn't noticed her yet, because men are stupid and don't see what's right in front of their faces. LOL, yes, that's what Gabriel said.
 

Jeri/Jody: Not to worry. It was all there and much appreciated! I nodded off half way through --the show, not the recap! LOL!
 

Re: the holiday singing and procession was, as Kat said, Las Posadas. I have the music for that song in a book of International Christmas Carols. I love the song, although last night's version wasn't as pretty as it could have been.
I studied the custom somewhere along the way and think it's often done with real people enacting the Mary and Joseph roles. Interesting that they used the manger scene instead.
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