Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Dinero #163 7/28/2010: Good News/Bad News

This entire episode tonight was sort of a good news bad news sort of show. Good news; Marco almost gets found out. Bad news; he is a great liar. Good news; lots of Ale and Rafa time. Bad news; an equal amount of screeching Vicky time. Good news; Rafa found a client for his trucks. Bad news; They won’t get paid till the end of the month. Good News; we get a little Rafa /Ale kiss. Bad news; no mariachi tonight. Good news; hopefully I can get this done quickly. Bad news; it will be short and minus vocabulary as I have another early morning and will have to go with my notes only. Feel free to add and correct. So lets get on with all the good and bad that came with tonight’s episode.

We start with Zetina giving the boys all the details of Carmella’s comings and goings. Including details of where the archives are so that Dandy can sneak in and look for incriminating evidence against Marco.

Our first bit of hopeful good news is with Rosario. She is on the phone with Urdiales’ secretary regarding Marco and Ale’s wedding. She is quite surprised to hear that the illustrious Urdiales has never even heard of Marco Venezuela. She is rudely interrupted by Jorge who needs the phone so he can talk to his lovely Ruby. She brushes him off and continues her phone conversation stating there must be some sort of misunderstanding. She hangs up and tells Jorge that Urdiales doesn‘t even know Marco. Jorge encourages Rosario to talk to Ale or Marco regarding this.

We move onto the hair salon with Ovi and the boys. Good news; we have a client with a horrendous hair style wanting a change. The bad news was the style she chose was worse than what she came in with.

More good news; Rosario has called Ale to tell her about Urdiales. She tells her Urdiales doesn’t even know Marco. Ale is quite surprised. How can this be, after all they are intimate friends. Ale calls Marco who happens to be at the hacienda with Chavez. He is informing Chucho that Jorge and Quintana are coming in the morning. Ale asks Marco if he is with Urdiales. Our bad news here is that Marco is adept at knowing when to lie and when not to. He tells her the truth. He is not with Urdiales. Ale tells him that Rosario had sent an invitation to the wedding to him and he didn’t know who he was. Marco becomes upset and knowing when to lie, makes up a story about how he works for Urdiales but is an “outside” lawyer and Urdiales probably told Rosario he didn’t know Marco because he didn’t want anyone to know he works for him. Ale being the poor judge of character that she is accepts this lie and apologizes to Marco. Bad news here is Marco continues to get away with his lies.

After hanging up with Ale, Marco tells Chavez that she almost caught him. Our good news is that Marco admits to Chavez that he really loves Ale. Our bad news is Marco also informs Chavez that after the wedding he plans to take Ale far away.

Bad news first this time. Rafa is on the phone with Don Humberto. He is trying to sell him the used trucks. He is not interested. However our good news comes in the form of a contact who might be interested in buying the trucks. He rushes into Ale’s office all excited and tells her he has found new lions and is ready for the hunt. Our even better news is Ale and Rafa our off together on another adventure.

No good news with the following scene. Dandy is trying to talk with Susana. She doesn’t want to talk with him. As he leaves he tells her not to forget that he loves her.

Rafa is back in the old panther with Ale and they have arrived at a quaint little village. Ale is going on about how she can’t stand the “car” especially with all the bad memories from the accident. They enter a cantina looking for a Don Romulo. He is eating and Rafa advises Ale not to interrupt him. Ale has decided to not listen to Rafa and barges in on our unsuspecting Don. She is chatting away and he barely notices her. Our good news is Ale isn’t giving up and starts talking about how good the food smells and invites herself to sit down with him. She does a cute little whistle to get Rafa’s attention. Rafa finally notices Ale and joins them. Rafa and Ale mange to sell Don Romulo half of the trucks.

This was fun watching Rafa and Ale wheel and deal together again. All the details are being firmed up. Rafa calls Siglo to find out when the trucks will be ready. Susana informs him they will be all ready at the end of the month. They start talking about a 20% down payment. Bad news. Don Romulo does not want to give a down payment. They do manage to get him to sign a contract and he agrees to pay (you guessed it) in cash when he gets the trucks. Don’t know if this is good news or bad news, remembering Rafa‘s past adventure with all that cash.

So are you guys all ready for this? Put your ear plugs in when you watch because it is Vicky and I swear her voice is screechier than ever. She shows up at Siglo waving wedding invitations in the air. She is traumatized when she finds out that no one at Siglo knew about the wedding. She continues flouncing about Siglo humming the wedding march handing out invitations.. She even hands an invitation to Susana. She is on to better things now and searches for Beltran. She barges in and Beltran is startled to see her. Vicky reminds him they met before when he was in the office with Claudia. She informs him of the grand event of the month, her and Rafa’s wedding and everyone will be there. As she leaves poor Beltran is left alone with head to desk. His bad news? Who will be there to work?

Vicky continues prancing about Siglo when she literally runs into Dona Arcadia. The good news was Dona Arcadia was not very excited to see her there and even less excited when she found out Rafa was going to marry her. There was almost bad news as Doña Arcadia just about spills the beans about Rafa and Ale. We see all of the Siglo crew in hiding aghast as they listen in. Doña Arcadia than takes Vicky into her office.

More good news the rest of this recap will be all Ale and Rafa. We are back at the cantina finalizing details about the delivery of the trucks. We have a little problem though. Both Ale and Rafa seem to be busy with wedding plans and honeymoons. Don Romulo assumes that they will be getting married to each other. There’s our bad news; such luck as they both stammer to give details about their upcoming nuptials with other partners. It is decided that Rafa will deliver the trucks.

As they leave the cantina they are all smiles that they sold half the trucks. Rafa takes Ale up to a cute gazebo. They are both happy that this was such a quick and perfect sale. No drunkenness no fights and no scandals. They start talking and are even saying the same things at the same time as they smile at this. Ale smiles sweetly and tells Rafa she would like to give him a hug. Best news of the night. We get a sweet tender kiss. Ale ruins the moment as she turns away from him and say’s accusingly “So now what just happened?” Rafa nervously smiles and says we had a little kiss. Ale is no nonsense right now and Rafa tries to explain that he won’t be having a honey moon. Ale begs him to stop talking before he regrets what he is saying. Rafa tells her he would never regret loving her. Ale, tears welling up tells him to stop talking, they have nothing more to say. From now on they will only talk about business. Sadly Rafa says, “ Okay licenciada I will always do what you ask me to.” Ale than says “Okay than don’t get married.” Bad news, that’s where we end.

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Excellent recap Pata! I love your good news/bad news theme. It fits so well with this episode. I got excited when Rosario told Ale that Marco doesn't work for Urdiales, but of course he weaseled out of it and she believed him. She sure is a bad judge of character!

Wow, can VVV get any more annoying!? For a second there her high pitched squeal sounded like the Mickey Mouse voice they use for phone calls. lol It's annoying, but funny!

I loved the Ale/Rafa scenes tonight! It was so adorable how Ale attemted to whistle at him, how she kept pinching him on the leg, how they gazed into each other's eyes and the hug and little kiss. These two need to get back together already!
 

Loved the good new bad news, Pata.

VVV is so annoying!. Rosaura can be a bit much but I loved the way she talked down to VVV tonight - and General a too. VVV almost felt bad for a minute -- but with her amazing ego and self centeredness she didn't take it to heart.

Too bad Marco was so smooth with his lies. I thought that Ale would at least begin to have some doubts about his stories. But alas not yet.

Güera
 

Pata, that was just a gem of a recap. I always love your introductory paragraph, but the way you wove your opening theme throughout was just so much fun. Thanks.

The writers definitely threw us a bone here. Enough delightful Ale/Rafa time to keep us plugged in to this novela. They were stretching our patience mighty thin though, I can tell you.

I am now praying to the medical gods to give Vicky a whopping big case of laryngitis. I can't take any more! Hard to believe her family wants her to stick around. She must be SOME cook.

Good news? We inching closer to "the end of the month". Bad news? the truth still hasn't come out. And Dandy's life and virtue are in danger...no?
 

Thanks so much Pata. This was execllent.I loved the good news/bad new theme and your intro.

That Marco certainly is a good liar. I was so hoping he was going to get caught in a lie. But if Ale thinks about it, this explanation of him being an "under the table" lawyer for Urdiales isn't any less ridiculous than any of the things Rafa has told her. Wake up Ale!

But it was great to see her and Rafa working together again. They make a great team. Tenacity, quick thinking, great chemistry. No wonder all their clients think they're a couple. What will Rafa's answer be tonight? Clearly he is going about this wedding business as if it isn't going to happen. He still has in his mind that he will find a way to get out of marrying Vicky, but he seems pretty sure that Ale is going through with her wedding.

And now we have yet another lose end to tie up at the very end of the month. Two weddings, two firings (or one if it's just Ale), one bank loan, and at least two huge sales (they still need to sell the other half of the trucks).
 

It is so annoying to me that the women (Ale, Rosario, Susana ) are portrayed as so stupid and gullible. You would think Ale and Susana at least would investigate some of the accusations made against Marco. Going back quite awhile Susana suggested Ale hire another lawyer to investigate what was going on with the hacienda etc, but that fell thru and they never followed up. Presumably, Carmela would not challenge a legitimate lawyer wanting to get into the governmental archives.

Also, "outside" lawyer doesn't sound on the up and up. Ale seems pretty dense.

Thanks for recap as I still dont understand a lot of what they say, especially when they talk fast , as they do most often.

Kalum
 

First I want to thank Melinama for the recap yesterday. I was away all day. And thanks to Pata for this recap. Great job ladies.

Last night was just too much for me with VVV. Between fast forwarding all of the VVV scenes and muting VVV I think I cut the show in half.

Did enjoy Rafa and Ali working together though. Sorry Marco, too bad you really fell in love with Ali, you shouldn't have been such an idiot in the first place. Will not feel sorry for him.
 

Great title and a very good recap!
I was really hoping that Ale's wedding could be avoided if she found out abut Urdiales.
Now there is no doubt in my mind that Ale is going to get married to Marco.
I kind of feel sorry for Marco now that he claims to really love Ale. It's way too late. Vicky would probably make the best wife for Marco. He could lie all he wants but she would check up on him 24 hrs a day! But they are only fantasies for now...
What happened to Susana? She has been the person who seems to keep her head on even in the worst of times. She always looks for an explanation but now she's just rolling with Ale on everything.
Signing off... Private 057
 

Thanks Pata!

I am hoping that the reason VVV had so much time last night is because she is about to be gone. Well, one can hope!

I have said this before and I will say it again, I don't understand why the writers alway make people believe the liars and disbelieve the ones that are telling the truth! Drives me nutts.
 

Pata, thanks for this very clever and original recap. Very nice job.

Too bad that Marco is so sleazy. He certainly thinks well on his feet. Perhaps he should go into politics.

Vicki continues to intrigue me. It's almost as though 2 distinct entities are sharing her voice. Frightening but fascinating.

Carlos
 

Great work, Pata! I loved seeing Ale and Rafa work together again. They are an excellent team.

The web of lies is definitely getting tedious. Ale and Susana need to start doing their homework when Marco starts spinning his tall tales. Private 057, I share your frustrations with Susana. Why has she suddenly stopped questioning things? She's started following Ale's example, which has only lead her down the same road of sadness and misunderstanding. Por favor, someone snap some sense into our heroines!
 

Great recap, Pata! I loved the theme, and it was a real pleasure to read, all the way through.

I learned a new term last night when Rosaura talked about Vicky having a "mesa de regalos". Although that would literally mean a gift table, it really meant a bridal registry. So I guess the "table" is like a registry or chart.

I agree that it's frustrating when the good guys are disbelieved, but of course there's a reason for that. They aren't good liars, or they don't even try to lie. Both the good guys and the bad guys are hiding secrets, but the good ones can't (or don't even try) to come up with an explanation. This makes the good ladies not trust them. The bad guys have a quick explanation, don't fumble around, so why not believe them? WE know they're lying, but until they really get absolutely caught, people like Ale will trust them.

But one day....!

And maybe, as Vivi said, it's all going to happen at the "end of the month", whenever that is. Hopefully soon.
 

Hombre...thanks for reminding me. Yes, "mesa de regalos" for bridal registry was a real find last night. I always like it when I learn something practical and everyday like that. Something I might actually use in conversation, unlike a lot of the passionate, super-dramatic stuff we hear.
 

Pata thanks for the wonderful recap. I'm unfortunately dreadfully behind with life but so appreciate the work all the recappers do to help keep me up to speed with our good and bad guys and gals
 

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