Wednesday, August 11, 2010
El Clon Tuesday, August 10: Summary for Discussion
In which Jadiya is about to confront a painful truth; Albieri's secret is about to blow wide open; and Daniel and Leonardo finally come face to face.
In the clinic, Dra Silvia and Julio try to make sense of Dora’s story. Silvia knows that the egg was Dora’s because she harvested it herself. Julio is equally certain that the child Dora bore could not have come from her own egg.
In Empresa Ferrer, Fernando tells Clara he wants to live on his own. He dismisses her concerns about how he’ll pay the rent; his father has put the new apartment in his name and is even going to furnish it for him. Well in that case… says Clara. She’s not going to be the one to burst his bubble.
Enrique congratulates Fer on the apartment and then asks him about his drug use. Fer readily admits to smoking pot now and then and more reluctantly says: A veces me tomo un poco de polvo. (At times I take a little powder, i.e coke). He insists he isn’t an addict: uno se sepa controlar (one knows how to control oneself). Enrique points to his own experience and warns Fer that all users think they can control their use, but it isn’t so. (No es así.)
And speaking of users who think they are in control, a freshly groomed and hopeful Natalia is outside her school. Alej beams at her: That’s the Nati I fell in love with! he tells her. (Esa es la Nati de la que me enamoré). Andrea comes along and gives her friend an encouraging hug. Nati tells her she’s going to make up the credits she needs and will graduate, even if a little late.
Fer has gone to see Escobarde in the hotel to talk about moving into the apartment. The Chump is puzzled. Where am I supposed to live? he wants to know. Fer is confused and then angry. Why put the apartment in my name, he asks, if I can’t live there? It’s for the future, says Escobarde. Oh I get it, says Fer bitterly: Es ella que va a vivir en ello – ¡estupendo! (She’s the one who’s going to live in it – stupendous!)
Silvia and Julio continue to pore over the clinic records. She realizes that none of the genetic material she prepared has been used. Knowing this, silence isn’t an option:
Hay varias vidas en juego… yo no me puedo quedar callada.
There are several lives in play... I can’t stay silent.
Cristina and Daniel land in Miami.
Zein brings flowers to Jade in the hospital. He says: Tu atropellador estuvo aquí (The man who ran over you was here.) You mean the person driving the car? asks Jade. No, clarifies Zein, the person who ran over your life was here. (El que atropelló la vida era aquí). And then he surprises Jade (and us) when he says: I’m going to find a legal way to get your daughter back – and you won’t owe me anything. He stops her before she makes ‘promises she’s not going to keep.’
In Fez, Alí regrets sending Zoraida to Miami alone. He’s going to travel there himself to find out what is going on. (Besides, how can he stay in that house with Abdul without sweet Zoraida as his sounding board?)
In the office, Leo phones Rosa. He tells her Nati and Alej never showed up although he waited all day. He’s sure it’s because Alej didn’t want to come. He wants their address. Marisa, at the house with Rosa, says disdainfully:
Sabía que el tipo eso iba a hacer el digno.
I knew that guy was going act as if we had offended his dignity.
Although Rosa firmly asserts that Alej is a good person, Marisa still contends that he’s the one who gave Natalia drugs.
Albieri, Luisa and Latifa are on a later Aeronovela flight. Albieri stews over what awaits him in Miami. Luisa reassures him (even though she still doesn’t know the whole story.) And Zoraida is miserable and frightened and only hopes that this genio malo she is seated beside doesn’t turn her into some kind of beast.
Cris and Daniel reach her apartment. She will shower, he will rest briefly and then they will set out to: desenmascarar el desgraciado de tu papá. (to unmask your miserable/swinish father). Daniel dozes off on the couch and dreams about Jade.
Jade is lying in her hospital bed, Zein’s red flowers on the nightstand the only splash of color. Lucas’s voice is heard…
Hay momentos en que pienso que el destino está escrito.
There are moments when I think that destiny has been written.
He is, in fact, in the office talking to Enrique:
Enrique doesn’t believe in fixed destiny. We have some control over what happens, he says. Or else, why bother struggling?
Leo tells Lucas that Alejandro and Natalia never showed up. He wants to go to their place and bring them both to the house. He is sure Marisa will be ok with the plan. He is also convinced that Alej isn’t the problem. Drugs are. (Score one point for Leo) Lucas will call Marisa to come to the office and then the three will go find Nati.
Marisa, when she hears the plan, tells Rosa: Me encantaría que viniera a esta casa (I’d love him to come to this house) because she’s sure it will then be clear that he is responsible for Natalia’s behavior.
This conversation is interrupted by a phone call from Said inviting Marisa to go out. They make tentative plans for that night. Rosa asks if she’s going to see that Arab and Marisa denies it. ¡Descarada! (Shameless!) mumbles Rosa when Marisa is safely out of earshot. (And who can disagree?) On Said’s end of the line, Rania is watching and listening as he says: Te mando un beso. (I send you a kiss.) (This actually seems an uncharacteristically cursi thing for our revenge sex guy to say.)
Leo, still in the office, confides to Roberto that on some days he feels Diego’s loss more than on others. If he hadn’t died, he muses, Cristina and I might be married now, we’d have more grandchildren… Thinking of the grandchild he does have, Roberto wonders: Should I tell him what I know about Natalia?
Clara and Fernando discuss the apartment issue. Clara says she’ll believe that it’s in Fer’s name when she’s seen the papers and examined them with a magnifying glass. As much as I hate Malicia, says Fernando, I have totally had it with my father. (Estoy hasta la coronilla). He is dead to me.
In their hotel room, Malicia tells Escobarde she has tried so hard to befriend Fer. She is sure Clara put him up to the idea of living in the apartment. Escobarde wants to settle the issue right away. Apparently the agreement is on Malicia’s laptop which she has conveniently left at work. She will bring it home tomorrow and Escobarde can amend the papers. (redactar: to draw up; to edit)
Cristina is ready to face Leonardo, but Daniel is sound asleep. She decides it might be better to go without him.
She storms into Leo’s office where Lucas, Roberto and Enrique are also present.
¡Eres un desgraciado Leonardo y me las vas a pagar!
You are a scoundrel, Leonardo, and you’re going to pay!
Leo is startled and tells Clara to call security. Cris continues to accuse him of being a traitor, a hypocrite, a swine. Why? Because he had a son with her best friend, Dora Padilla. And that son is identical to Lucas. Who is Dora Padilla? asks the genuinely stunned Leo.
Lucas asks his father if he knew he had another son. Leo continues to deny the existence of any such son. Cristina is crazy, he says. She holds her ground and says he has a son who looks just like Lucas. Well then, bring him to me says Leo.
Cris goes out of Leo’s office with Enrique.
Marisa arrives and wants to know what’s going on.
Leo swears once again to Roberto and Lucas that Cristina’s story is untrue. But where would she get a story like that, asks Roberto. You know something like that could happen to anyone. (True. There’s more than one way to steal your genes, Roberto!) Not possible, says Leo. I don’t even know this woman Dora Padilla.
Roberto joins Cristina and Enrique and asks how old this boy is. Twenty or twenty-two, says Cris. He was conceived while Leo and I were together. He faked it with me. And what woman wouldn’t fall for him con esa carita de George Clooney caribeño? Clara is sympathetic; she knows a thing or two about traitors and hypocrites.
Marisa and Lucas decide to go to Nati’s without Leo since he is no longer in the mood for a family outing.
At Said’s house, Rania tells Amina she heard Said on the phone with la occidental. Amina tells her everything’s going to be better when her son is born. But Rania can’t stop thinking about Jadiya’s dream that she’s having a girl. An ugly girl. Amina advises her to go all Cosmo Girl for Said, but it looks like Rania’s not feeling very sexy.
Jadiya once again reproaches her father because he hasn’t returned Rania as she asked. Rania is the cause of all the unhappiness in their house. Her mother loves him and he should bring her back.
Jadiya is ambushed by Rania, who at this point seems to have gone off the deep end. She screams at Jadiya, accusing her of plotting against her. Your mother has a lover and she’s never coming back. It’s not my fault your father threw her out. Jadiya denies this. The wedding was just a joke, says Jadiya, and her mother is so coming back. And when she does, she’ll be the first wife. Rania rages:
Ya no te aguanto más! Cosa malcriada, víbora venenosa!
I can’t stand you any more! Spoiled thing, venomous viper! (Or translated more loosely: Little girl who has been told she will never see her mother again and must live her life under the thumb of a jealous witch who hates her!)
Latifa visits Jade in the hospital. Tío Alí is on his way here, she tells her. And Jadiya? asks Jade. I call Jadiya every day, says Latifa. And what do you say about me? asks Jade. Said told her that she’ll never see you again, replies Latifa. You see all the harm Lucas has done me! cries Jade. When I was young and he left me waiting, suitcase in hand, I had much less to lose… but now! He’s off taking care of his problems but I can’t solve mine.
Nati is puttering in the kitchen of her apartment when there is a knock at the door. It’s Marisa and Lucas. Alej comes home a moment later carrying a box, a sound system he bought for Nati. Lucas asks what happened to the money he gave her to buy things for the house. She still has the money, says Nati, she just told Rosa she had spent it so she’d stop asking about it.
Lucas tries to be conciliatory. Marisa not so much. Okay, says Lucas, let’s forget about misunderstandings and offenses on both sides -- Wait a minute, interrupts Nati. We didn’t do anything wrong. Then, says Lucas, forgive us for our offenses. Alej is happy to do so. I’m not one to hold a grudge, he says. Then how about the two of you moving into our house? asks Lucas. No thanks -- I’m happy here, says Nati.
Cris is walking along, muttering angrily to herself. Pablo, Pedro and Vicki see her and think she is mad because Malicia stole her job.
Back at her apartment, Cristina tells Daniel they should confront Leonardo at home.
Poor Zoraida is still trapped on that seemingly endless flight with the genio malo. If he looks directly in my eyes, he could paralyze me or turn me into a goose…
Dora and Estela can’t understand why Cris is so angry at Dora. Estela has left a photo of Daniel at Dr. Silvia’s hotel.
And at the hotel Silvia puzzles over the photo: Why did they leave her a picture of Lucas?
At Lucia’s home, she is talking with Andrea about ways they might help Natalia. Consuelo, aka Skank 3, leaves for the day. Have you noticed, Andrea asks her mother, that that woman always leaves with an envelope?
Karla and Hilda are walking down the street while Karla expresses her disgust for their plan. You’re talking about your future, her mother reminds her. They greet Mohamed.
When the skanks have gone, Mohamed looks meaningfully at Amin and reminds his son that Allah is always watching.
A car pulls up and Jadiya steps out. She is there to see her aunts. She joins Samira, the Naz and Latifa. Samira has been showing the Naz all the things that you can do online -- you can even read the Koran. Hmm, mutters the Naz: hasta se puede conseguir un marido (on line) (You can even find a husband).
Jadiya comes right to the point: Is it true, she asks, that my mother doesn’t love my father because she is in love with un occidental?
Leo has made his way home after a difficult day that is about to become exponentially more difficult. The doorbell rings. Cristina and Daniel walk in. Dios misericordia, says Rosa. Señor, ¡es él, es él! ¡Diego volvió¡ (It’s him, it’s him! Diego has come back!)
credits roll.
In the clinic, Dra Silvia and Julio try to make sense of Dora’s story. Silvia knows that the egg was Dora’s because she harvested it herself. Julio is equally certain that the child Dora bore could not have come from her own egg.
In Empresa Ferrer, Fernando tells Clara he wants to live on his own. He dismisses her concerns about how he’ll pay the rent; his father has put the new apartment in his name and is even going to furnish it for him. Well in that case… says Clara. She’s not going to be the one to burst his bubble.
Enrique congratulates Fer on the apartment and then asks him about his drug use. Fer readily admits to smoking pot now and then and more reluctantly says: A veces me tomo un poco de polvo. (At times I take a little powder, i.e coke). He insists he isn’t an addict: uno se sepa controlar (one knows how to control oneself). Enrique points to his own experience and warns Fer that all users think they can control their use, but it isn’t so. (No es así.)
And speaking of users who think they are in control, a freshly groomed and hopeful Natalia is outside her school. Alej beams at her: That’s the Nati I fell in love with! he tells her. (Esa es la Nati de la que me enamoré). Andrea comes along and gives her friend an encouraging hug. Nati tells her she’s going to make up the credits she needs and will graduate, even if a little late.
Fer has gone to see Escobarde in the hotel to talk about moving into the apartment. The Chump is puzzled. Where am I supposed to live? he wants to know. Fer is confused and then angry. Why put the apartment in my name, he asks, if I can’t live there? It’s for the future, says Escobarde. Oh I get it, says Fer bitterly: Es ella que va a vivir en ello – ¡estupendo! (She’s the one who’s going to live in it – stupendous!)
Silvia and Julio continue to pore over the clinic records. She realizes that none of the genetic material she prepared has been used. Knowing this, silence isn’t an option:
Hay varias vidas en juego… yo no me puedo quedar callada.
There are several lives in play... I can’t stay silent.
Cristina and Daniel land in Miami.
Zein brings flowers to Jade in the hospital. He says: Tu atropellador estuvo aquí (The man who ran over you was here.) You mean the person driving the car? asks Jade. No, clarifies Zein, the person who ran over your life was here. (El que atropelló la vida era aquí). And then he surprises Jade (and us) when he says: I’m going to find a legal way to get your daughter back – and you won’t owe me anything. He stops her before she makes ‘promises she’s not going to keep.’
In Fez, Alí regrets sending Zoraida to Miami alone. He’s going to travel there himself to find out what is going on. (Besides, how can he stay in that house with Abdul without sweet Zoraida as his sounding board?)
In the office, Leo phones Rosa. He tells her Nati and Alej never showed up although he waited all day. He’s sure it’s because Alej didn’t want to come. He wants their address. Marisa, at the house with Rosa, says disdainfully:
Sabía que el tipo eso iba a hacer el digno.
I knew that guy was going act as if we had offended his dignity.
Although Rosa firmly asserts that Alej is a good person, Marisa still contends that he’s the one who gave Natalia drugs.
Albieri, Luisa and Latifa are on a later Aeronovela flight. Albieri stews over what awaits him in Miami. Luisa reassures him (even though she still doesn’t know the whole story.) And Zoraida is miserable and frightened and only hopes that this genio malo she is seated beside doesn’t turn her into some kind of beast.
Cris and Daniel reach her apartment. She will shower, he will rest briefly and then they will set out to: desenmascarar el desgraciado de tu papá. (to unmask your miserable/swinish father). Daniel dozes off on the couch and dreams about Jade.
Jade is lying in her hospital bed, Zein’s red flowers on the nightstand the only splash of color. Lucas’s voice is heard…
Hay momentos en que pienso que el destino está escrito.
There are moments when I think that destiny has been written.
He is, in fact, in the office talking to Enrique:
Enrique doesn’t believe in fixed destiny. We have some control over what happens, he says. Or else, why bother struggling?
Leo tells Lucas that Alejandro and Natalia never showed up. He wants to go to their place and bring them both to the house. He is sure Marisa will be ok with the plan. He is also convinced that Alej isn’t the problem. Drugs are. (Score one point for Leo) Lucas will call Marisa to come to the office and then the three will go find Nati.
Marisa, when she hears the plan, tells Rosa: Me encantaría que viniera a esta casa (I’d love him to come to this house) because she’s sure it will then be clear that he is responsible for Natalia’s behavior.
This conversation is interrupted by a phone call from Said inviting Marisa to go out. They make tentative plans for that night. Rosa asks if she’s going to see that Arab and Marisa denies it. ¡Descarada! (Shameless!) mumbles Rosa when Marisa is safely out of earshot. (And who can disagree?) On Said’s end of the line, Rania is watching and listening as he says: Te mando un beso. (I send you a kiss.) (This actually seems an uncharacteristically cursi thing for our revenge sex guy to say.)
Leo, still in the office, confides to Roberto that on some days he feels Diego’s loss more than on others. If he hadn’t died, he muses, Cristina and I might be married now, we’d have more grandchildren… Thinking of the grandchild he does have, Roberto wonders: Should I tell him what I know about Natalia?
Clara and Fernando discuss the apartment issue. Clara says she’ll believe that it’s in Fer’s name when she’s seen the papers and examined them with a magnifying glass. As much as I hate Malicia, says Fernando, I have totally had it with my father. (Estoy hasta la coronilla). He is dead to me.
In their hotel room, Malicia tells Escobarde she has tried so hard to befriend Fer. She is sure Clara put him up to the idea of living in the apartment. Escobarde wants to settle the issue right away. Apparently the agreement is on Malicia’s laptop which she has conveniently left at work. She will bring it home tomorrow and Escobarde can amend the papers. (redactar: to draw up; to edit)
Cristina is ready to face Leonardo, but Daniel is sound asleep. She decides it might be better to go without him.
She storms into Leo’s office where Lucas, Roberto and Enrique are also present.
¡Eres un desgraciado Leonardo y me las vas a pagar!
You are a scoundrel, Leonardo, and you’re going to pay!
Leo is startled and tells Clara to call security. Cris continues to accuse him of being a traitor, a hypocrite, a swine. Why? Because he had a son with her best friend, Dora Padilla. And that son is identical to Lucas. Who is Dora Padilla? asks the genuinely stunned Leo.
Lucas asks his father if he knew he had another son. Leo continues to deny the existence of any such son. Cristina is crazy, he says. She holds her ground and says he has a son who looks just like Lucas. Well then, bring him to me says Leo.
Cris goes out of Leo’s office with Enrique.
Marisa arrives and wants to know what’s going on.
Leo swears once again to Roberto and Lucas that Cristina’s story is untrue. But where would she get a story like that, asks Roberto. You know something like that could happen to anyone. (True. There’s more than one way to steal your genes, Roberto!) Not possible, says Leo. I don’t even know this woman Dora Padilla.
Roberto joins Cristina and Enrique and asks how old this boy is. Twenty or twenty-two, says Cris. He was conceived while Leo and I were together. He faked it with me. And what woman wouldn’t fall for him con esa carita de George Clooney caribeño? Clara is sympathetic; she knows a thing or two about traitors and hypocrites.
Marisa and Lucas decide to go to Nati’s without Leo since he is no longer in the mood for a family outing.
At Said’s house, Rania tells Amina she heard Said on the phone with la occidental. Amina tells her everything’s going to be better when her son is born. But Rania can’t stop thinking about Jadiya’s dream that she’s having a girl. An ugly girl. Amina advises her to go all Cosmo Girl for Said, but it looks like Rania’s not feeling very sexy.
Jadiya once again reproaches her father because he hasn’t returned Rania as she asked. Rania is the cause of all the unhappiness in their house. Her mother loves him and he should bring her back.
Jadiya is ambushed by Rania, who at this point seems to have gone off the deep end. She screams at Jadiya, accusing her of plotting against her. Your mother has a lover and she’s never coming back. It’s not my fault your father threw her out. Jadiya denies this. The wedding was just a joke, says Jadiya, and her mother is so coming back. And when she does, she’ll be the first wife. Rania rages:
Ya no te aguanto más! Cosa malcriada, víbora venenosa!
I can’t stand you any more! Spoiled thing, venomous viper! (Or translated more loosely: Little girl who has been told she will never see her mother again and must live her life under the thumb of a jealous witch who hates her!)
Latifa visits Jade in the hospital. Tío Alí is on his way here, she tells her. And Jadiya? asks Jade. I call Jadiya every day, says Latifa. And what do you say about me? asks Jade. Said told her that she’ll never see you again, replies Latifa. You see all the harm Lucas has done me! cries Jade. When I was young and he left me waiting, suitcase in hand, I had much less to lose… but now! He’s off taking care of his problems but I can’t solve mine.
Nati is puttering in the kitchen of her apartment when there is a knock at the door. It’s Marisa and Lucas. Alej comes home a moment later carrying a box, a sound system he bought for Nati. Lucas asks what happened to the money he gave her to buy things for the house. She still has the money, says Nati, she just told Rosa she had spent it so she’d stop asking about it.
Lucas tries to be conciliatory. Marisa not so much. Okay, says Lucas, let’s forget about misunderstandings and offenses on both sides -- Wait a minute, interrupts Nati. We didn’t do anything wrong. Then, says Lucas, forgive us for our offenses. Alej is happy to do so. I’m not one to hold a grudge, he says. Then how about the two of you moving into our house? asks Lucas. No thanks -- I’m happy here, says Nati.
Cris is walking along, muttering angrily to herself. Pablo, Pedro and Vicki see her and think she is mad because Malicia stole her job.
Back at her apartment, Cristina tells Daniel they should confront Leonardo at home.
Poor Zoraida is still trapped on that seemingly endless flight with the genio malo. If he looks directly in my eyes, he could paralyze me or turn me into a goose…
Dora and Estela can’t understand why Cris is so angry at Dora. Estela has left a photo of Daniel at Dr. Silvia’s hotel.
And at the hotel Silvia puzzles over the photo: Why did they leave her a picture of Lucas?
At Lucia’s home, she is talking with Andrea about ways they might help Natalia. Consuelo, aka Skank 3, leaves for the day. Have you noticed, Andrea asks her mother, that that woman always leaves with an envelope?
Karla and Hilda are walking down the street while Karla expresses her disgust for their plan. You’re talking about your future, her mother reminds her. They greet Mohamed.
When the skanks have gone, Mohamed looks meaningfully at Amin and reminds his son that Allah is always watching.
A car pulls up and Jadiya steps out. She is there to see her aunts. She joins Samira, the Naz and Latifa. Samira has been showing the Naz all the things that you can do online -- you can even read the Koran. Hmm, mutters the Naz: hasta se puede conseguir un marido (on line) (You can even find a husband).
Jadiya comes right to the point: Is it true, she asks, that my mother doesn’t love my father because she is in love with un occidental?
Leo has made his way home after a difficult day that is about to become exponentially more difficult. The doorbell rings. Cristina and Daniel walk in. Dios misericordia, says Rosa. Señor, ¡es él, es él! ¡Diego volvió¡ (It’s him, it’s him! Diego has come back!)
credits roll.
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Excellent recap, Novela Maven! It looks like I picked a pivotal week to be away. So much plot swirling around. Maybe Jade is in the hospital so that she is out of the picture when everyone in Miami meets the clone. The same way Lucas was in the hospital when a bunch of people saw the clone for the first time.
Poor Jadiya. To go from pampered child of happy (at least as far as she was concerned) couple to a leftover in a competitive marriage situation is really hard. If Rania has a boy, it will be even harder for her.
Speaking of which, I guess we are going to have to have a another bump forward in time for Rania's pregnancy to come to term and then for Zamira and Jadiya to grow up a little more. Hard to imagine how that will happen.
Poor Jadiya. To go from pampered child of happy (at least as far as she was concerned) couple to a leftover in a competitive marriage situation is really hard. If Rania has a boy, it will be even harder for her.
Speaking of which, I guess we are going to have to have a another bump forward in time for Rania's pregnancy to come to term and then for Zamira and Jadiya to grow up a little more. Hard to imagine how that will happen.
When you was wondering about whether Roberto saw Daniel, he was actually talking about Natalia, Leonardo's granddaughter.
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: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 6:53:00 AM EDT
: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 6:53:00 AM EDT
Thanks Jean! Yes, there's plenty of plot this week but don't worry, there'll be plot o' plenty waiting for you when you get back:)
Yes, Jadiya is facing a crisis. As Julio told Dora in the last episode, the truth can be quite painful. And even worse, here the painful truth about the person she loves most in the world has been delivered by a person who is motivated by malice, Rania. I'm just afraid that when Jadiya hears about Jade's history with Lucas, she will reject her mother. Jade may finally be separated definitively from her daughter as a result of her own behavior. This is, of course, what Ali has been trying to warn her about all along.
Anon 0653, thanks. Of course you're right. I'm going to change the wording so I don't confuse anyone else!
Yes, Jadiya is facing a crisis. As Julio told Dora in the last episode, the truth can be quite painful. And even worse, here the painful truth about the person she loves most in the world has been delivered by a person who is motivated by malice, Rania. I'm just afraid that when Jadiya hears about Jade's history with Lucas, she will reject her mother. Jade may finally be separated definitively from her daughter as a result of her own behavior. This is, of course, what Ali has been trying to warn her about all along.
Anon 0653, thanks. Of course you're right. I'm going to change the wording so I don't confuse anyone else!
NovelaMaven, thank you once again.
I would love to know what Leo was thinking when he saw Daniel.
Zein is starting to act like a decent person wanting to help Jade. I hope she appreciates him.
I feel sorry for Jadiya being in the middle of the Jade/Said relationship. The Naz appears to be her support these days. I was surprised that she was allowed to leave the house in a taxi alone.
Raina is getting worse by the day. I do hope that there is a very special anvil reserved for her. Can you image what kind of mother she will make!
The comment that Andrea made about the maid taking an envelope everytime she left the house will come into play in the future. She must take after Roberto because her mother is clueless.
When can we start counting the days until the anvils start falling on Malicia?
Is Abdul now living with Ali?
Rosemary
I would love to know what Leo was thinking when he saw Daniel.
Zein is starting to act like a decent person wanting to help Jade. I hope she appreciates him.
I feel sorry for Jadiya being in the middle of the Jade/Said relationship. The Naz appears to be her support these days. I was surprised that she was allowed to leave the house in a taxi alone.
Raina is getting worse by the day. I do hope that there is a very special anvil reserved for her. Can you image what kind of mother she will make!
The comment that Andrea made about the maid taking an envelope everytime she left the house will come into play in the future. She must take after Roberto because her mother is clueless.
When can we start counting the days until the anvils start falling on Malicia?
Is Abdul now living with Ali?
Rosemary
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 9:59:00 AM EDT
: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 9:59:00 AM EDT
My pleasure, Rosemary!
I suppose we'll find out tonight what Leonardo was thinking when he saw Daniel. I wonder if he will remember all of Albieri's hypotheticals about cloning ("How would you feel if I told you I had brought back Diego...")and recognize Daniel for what he is.
I was surprised too when Jadiya arrived by herself. It looked like she got out of a dark sedan so I have a feeling that was Said's private car and driver delivering her to her aunts.
I guess I just assumed Abdul was living in Ali's house. He always seems to be there. You think they just like hanging out together and arguing? Could be. :)
I suppose we'll find out tonight what Leonardo was thinking when he saw Daniel. I wonder if he will remember all of Albieri's hypotheticals about cloning ("How would you feel if I told you I had brought back Diego...")and recognize Daniel for what he is.
I was surprised too when Jadiya arrived by herself. It looked like she got out of a dark sedan so I have a feeling that was Said's private car and driver delivering her to her aunts.
I guess I just assumed Abdul was living in Ali's house. He always seems to be there. You think they just like hanging out together and arguing? Could be. :)
Another fine recap, NovelaMaven! I also liked your perfect use of cursi.
I really like Zoraida, but I don't like the writers' decision to have her be so superstitious. It's sort of presented as if she's an ignorant peasant who can't help but believe in evil spirits.
Jade is certainly trying all our patience lately, isn't she? She was particularly annoying to me when, hearing that the vengeful Said had told her daughter she'd never see her mother again, she blames Lucas instead of Said.
Rania also has made a major personality change. The scenes where she's being so cruel to Jadiya are hard to take. This little actress is better in those scenes than when she's being smug. I keep waiting for Jadiya to tell Said about Rania's behavior, but it doesn't seem to happen.
I sure hope Cristina finds out tonight about Malicia's dirty tricks. I have been waiting for that for DAYS.
I couldn't help but enjoy Fernando's discomfiture when he found out the free bachelor pad was NOT going to be his. The Chump isn't treating him well, but I can't stand Fer.
I really like Zoraida, but I don't like the writers' decision to have her be so superstitious. It's sort of presented as if she's an ignorant peasant who can't help but believe in evil spirits.
Jade is certainly trying all our patience lately, isn't she? She was particularly annoying to me when, hearing that the vengeful Said had told her daughter she'd never see her mother again, she blames Lucas instead of Said.
Rania also has made a major personality change. The scenes where she's being so cruel to Jadiya are hard to take. This little actress is better in those scenes than when she's being smug. I keep waiting for Jadiya to tell Said about Rania's behavior, but it doesn't seem to happen.
I sure hope Cristina finds out tonight about Malicia's dirty tricks. I have been waiting for that for DAYS.
I couldn't help but enjoy Fernando's discomfiture when he found out the free bachelor pad was NOT going to be his. The Chump isn't treating him well, but I can't stand Fer.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 2:46:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 2:46:00 PM EDT
Thanks, Novelera!
And if you love words -- and clearly, you do -- you probably noticed what Clara muttered to herself after her conversation with Fer. He has just told her his plans for 'his' apartment. Clara knows full well that Escobarde has no intention of handing the place over to Fer; but she also knows enough not to put herself in the middle of it. Let Escobarde dig himself out of this one... So she says to herself:
Escobar ¡estás pintado!
Apparently this means something like: Isn't that just like you? Isn't that exactly the kind of thing you would do? And in this context: Escobar, it's just like you to set up false expectations like that. I think I might say in English, sarcastically: Perfect, Escobar.
As for Jade and Jadiya, as I hinted at above, I have a sinking feeling that it is going to be Jadiya herself who chooses to separate from Jade. I hope I'm wrong.
I don't mind Zoraida believing in spirits. There is, after all, a lot of that going around. Think of Rosa. Think of Enrique. Besides, Zoraida's skill in reading futures is pivotal to the plot of the novela. Her interpretation of what she feels may sound primitive, but her instincts are to be trusted(unlike, for example, Rosa's until very recently). Albieri really is a kind of genio malo who has popped out of medical school rather than out of a bottle.
Yes, I'm anxious to see Cristina take on Malicia. I just hope she's not too depressed to fight.
And if you love words -- and clearly, you do -- you probably noticed what Clara muttered to herself after her conversation with Fer. He has just told her his plans for 'his' apartment. Clara knows full well that Escobarde has no intention of handing the place over to Fer; but she also knows enough not to put herself in the middle of it. Let Escobarde dig himself out of this one... So she says to herself:
Escobar ¡estás pintado!
Apparently this means something like: Isn't that just like you? Isn't that exactly the kind of thing you would do? And in this context: Escobar, it's just like you to set up false expectations like that. I think I might say in English, sarcastically: Perfect, Escobar.
As for Jade and Jadiya, as I hinted at above, I have a sinking feeling that it is going to be Jadiya herself who chooses to separate from Jade. I hope I'm wrong.
I don't mind Zoraida believing in spirits. There is, after all, a lot of that going around. Think of Rosa. Think of Enrique. Besides, Zoraida's skill in reading futures is pivotal to the plot of the novela. Her interpretation of what she feels may sound primitive, but her instincts are to be trusted(unlike, for example, Rosa's until very recently). Albieri really is a kind of genio malo who has popped out of medical school rather than out of a bottle.
Yes, I'm anxious to see Cristina take on Malicia. I just hope she's not too depressed to fight.
Thanks so much, NovelaMaven, for another superb recap. It was wonderfully complete, and I found the details and the Spanish very helpful, if somewhat disheartening, since they helped me see how much I had missed. One thing that apparently went right by me was the Naz's thought that perhaps she can even find a husband online. That might be an amusing sub-subplot!
I wonder whether the TN switched writers in midstream. How else are we to understand Rania's having turned into a total bruja?
I was a little surprised that we saw this episode on a Tuesday. The final scene, where Leonardo et al. finally come face to face with El Clon, is the kind of confrontation I'd expect at the end of a Friday-night episode, guaranteed to keep us coming back after the weekend. I can't wait for tonight!
I wonder whether the TN switched writers in midstream. How else are we to understand Rania's having turned into a total bruja?
I was a little surprised that we saw this episode on a Tuesday. The final scene, where Leonardo et al. finally come face to face with El Clon, is the kind of confrontation I'd expect at the end of a Friday-night episode, guaranteed to keep us coming back after the weekend. I can't wait for tonight!
I'm finding it harder to stick up for Jade. I hope she recognizes how difficult she is being in the coming episodes.
As usual, NovelaMaven, yuour recap is both entertaining and instructive. How lucky El Clon watchers have been with having such wonderful recappers. Think this novela is aone that deserves this particular recapper group. Not so much formula. Lois
As usual, NovelaMaven, yuour recap is both entertaining and instructive. How lucky El Clon watchers have been with having such wonderful recappers. Think this novela is aone that deserves this particular recapper group. Not so much formula. Lois
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 4:14:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 4:14:00 PM EDT
The whole Jade doesn't want to know anything more about Lucas scenario makes up the final stretch of this story which ultimately leads into the big cliffhanger finish. I saw the original and while i'm won't give anything away, let's just say that if you thought the story has picked up steam, it's about to hit turbo. 'Nuff said.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 4:37:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 4:37:00 PM EDT
Novela Maven excellent job on the recapping i hope that eventually we will get a lot of people who love novelas to recap both channels.
I also agree with on your explanation for Zoraida,great point of view. On El Fantasma de Elena there is a character who is like you are describing Novelera her name is Corrina she is superstitious and ignorant by believing she can get a fortune teller to help her get rid of the wife who is married to the man she is obsessed about. Little does she the supposed educated,rich daisy dukes wearing woman realized she is being scammed out of her money.
I am hoping that Said catches Rania being nasty to Jadiya like she is lately. I don't think he'll believe Jadiya by herself he will need to see it with his own two eyes. I loved the scene when Jadiya told Rania she is going to have a girl child and a ugly one at that LOL from that scene.
I also agree with on your explanation for Zoraida,great point of view. On El Fantasma de Elena there is a character who is like you are describing Novelera her name is Corrina she is superstitious and ignorant by believing she can get a fortune teller to help her get rid of the wife who is married to the man she is obsessed about. Little does she the supposed educated,rich daisy dukes wearing woman realized she is being scammed out of her money.
I am hoping that Said catches Rania being nasty to Jadiya like she is lately. I don't think he'll believe Jadiya by herself he will need to see it with his own two eyes. I loved the scene when Jadiya told Rania she is going to have a girl child and a ugly one at that LOL from that scene.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 5:20:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 5:20:00 PM EDT
It is funny how everyone is thinking that Leo had this Daniel by cheating on Cristina?Wait until everyone discovers the real truth.Once Cristina realizes how Daniel came into existence i think that's when she will start concentrating on Malicia.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 5:23:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 5:23:00 PM EDT
Thanks for your nice words, folks!
Juanita, don't feel bad about missing throwaway lines like the one about getting a husband online. Jean and I are listening with 'recap ears', sort of like mothers' ears, tuned in very closely to catch the slightest detail. In my summary, I usually don't include such tangential stuff, but I did think the line was too good to pass up.
Lois, I think we have some of the most astute commenters over here in our parallel Telemundo world!
Anon 0437, your comment is enticing. I'm already intrigued by the latest plot developments, but now I'm really stoked!
Blusamurai, you are so right: Said has to catch Rania in the act of verbally abusing his daughter. He'd never believe it if Jadiya simply told him about it. And frankly, who would? Rania's behavior is pretty incredible.
Novelera -- about Rania undergoing a personality change... perhaps. But maybe we are just getting to know her a little better and see how she behaves under stress.
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Juanita, don't feel bad about missing throwaway lines like the one about getting a husband online. Jean and I are listening with 'recap ears', sort of like mothers' ears, tuned in very closely to catch the slightest detail. In my summary, I usually don't include such tangential stuff, but I did think the line was too good to pass up.
Lois, I think we have some of the most astute commenters over here in our parallel Telemundo world!
Anon 0437, your comment is enticing. I'm already intrigued by the latest plot developments, but now I'm really stoked!
Blusamurai, you are so right: Said has to catch Rania in the act of verbally abusing his daughter. He'd never believe it if Jadiya simply told him about it. And frankly, who would? Rania's behavior is pretty incredible.
Novelera -- about Rania undergoing a personality change... perhaps. But maybe we are just getting to know her a little better and see how she behaves under stress.
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