Caray, Caray!

Thanks, Jean, for another excellent recap. The photos were great, the Spanish was helpful and much appreciated, and I think you hit all the important parts of the episode.

What struck me most about this episode was how incredibly sexy/sensual/hot Zein's "te repudio" scene was. I can't imagine how Jade went through with the divorce after the first two muy caliente utterings of te repudio. Offhand, I can't recall another scene in the entire telenovela that seemed to me so super-charged.

I think I'll stop now and just keep remembering that scene.
 

Thanks, Jean. Ya basta ! I've had it with Jade. Zein is hot and crazymad about her. What a wasted life of just wishing and waiting. Jade is a lesson in the result of not being proactive and moving on with your life. How is this tragedy going to end ?
 

People are wondering why Jade doesn't stay with the sexy Zein. Well, it's obvious that she doesn't love him. She can be with Zein just like she was with Said. People wonder why does she waste her time with Lucas and the answer is simple, "SHE IS IN LOVE WITH LUCAS". She can learn to live without Lucas, she did so for 20 years and just as easily do so for the rest of her life, but that doesn't mean that she's going to stop loving him. She reminds Said and Zein that she will always love Lucas so that they won't get any false illusions. In other words, she's being true to herself no matter how dumb it looks to our perspective.
 

Agree with the unsigned annonymous statement that Jade has always and still loves Lucas. She's never lied about that. I think she puts too much blame on his shoulders, but how many of us blame ourselves?

And speaking of blame, I hope the Chump finally sees Malicia for whatshe is -- and himself for what he became. May he get nothing back that he so willingly threw away. Lois
 

Thanks for yet another fine job, Jean.

Juanita, I was also impressed by the exquisite 'te repudio' scene, but I saw it a bit differently. It finally occurred to me that Zein is, essentially, an aesthete. He appreciates the beauty of romantic love the way he appreciates the ritual and forms of Islam. The end of his idyll with Jade is marked by pretty words, a perfect tear. No snot-wracked sobbing here, thanks.

Lois and Anon 1059, I'm with you. If you look at romantic love as something exchanged or shared and not as a one-sided obsession, then the Lucas/Jade relationship is surely the one that meets the definition of love. And for both Lucas and Jade, the only thing that can compete with and possibly trump romantic love is love of a parent for a child.

A beanie-tightening moment for me: Seeing the gorgeous, bejeweled, high-heeled Jade pulling the magic telenovela maleta (you know, the one that holds Heidi Klum's entire wardrobe and still fits in the overhead bin on Aeronovela) along the pitch-dark bridge as if she were in Mayberry, RFD and not crime-ridden Miami. And then the oblivious Jade pulls her noisy bag right past an oblivious Opie... er, Daniel... who sits on a curb, scratching his head. I wouldn't have been surprised if she'd met up with an equally oblivious Barney Fife (aka Enrique)along the way too.
 

Great recap, Jean...

That I can't stand Malicia goes without saying. But when she brushes his hair down on his farhead, I feel like punching her in the mouth. It's like she shows what a fool she is making of him...!!!
 

12:49 -- forgot to sign.

Ann-NYC
 

Novelamaven. You're explanation about the Jade/Lucas state of their love is one of the best ones i've ever heard. I've always said that true love is the type where one become oblivious everything that's around them. It doesn't matter how much money or handsome Said or Zein are. This same dynamic can be seen with Daniel. Everyone who meets Daniel immediately sees Lucas and become oblivious to the fact that he's 20 years old and obviously not Lucas. Am I making sense?
 

Anon 0124, I think in general, people who never met Diego will see Lucas in Daniel, despite the age difference. But if you knew Diego, that's who you'll see when you look at Daniel. After all, Diego never had a chance to age.

I'm very curious to see how Marisa reacts to Daniel -- and how he reacts to her. Will he find her attractive (as Diego did) or will he be somewhat indifferent to her (as Lucas has always been)? Will she be drawn to him or appalled and frightened by him? Will she meet him before or after he is revealed to be a clone?
 

Jean thanks for the great recap.

I'm going to disagree there's nothing wrong with having the love for Lucas that Jade has had for him or vice or versa. But when both parents and i'm stressing the word parents here selfishly put their needs and wants before their respective children needs and wants that's when i have a problem.

Lucas finally decided but be there for his child and childlike Jade throws a tantrum that he abandon her.Jade has never grown up mentally she's still stuck with the mindset she had when she first met Lucas. Now after all of these years and her childish stunts she's beginning to feel the consequences of her selfish actions. If she loves her child as much as she says then she needed to put her first.Now for the first time she is doing that by going back to Said and begging him to take her back.

I'm not happy she is doing this but she's the one who put herself in this position.
 

Novelamaven. Your comments about Daniel being perceived as Diego and Lucas are interesting. My feeling is that most people would identify Daniel with Lucas because he's been around for 20 years. Only those people such Leonardo, Mama Rosa, Albieri, etc. would see Diego in Daniel. As to Marisa, she may see Diego in Daniel but remember she saw Diego in Lucas when they first met. Remember, she was surprised that Diego felt any affection for her meaning that she didn't really know Diego all that well. She was just getting to know Diego. So it stands to reason that because she's lived with Lucas for 20 years, she would most likely perceive Lucas in Daniel. As to Lucas showing indifference to Marisa, I think Daniel's reaction would depend on how Lucas felt about Marisa the moment when he was cloned. In other words, it's quite possible that Lucas may not have loved Marisa at the time but rather was willing to make his marriage work. Remember, he thought that he had lost Jade forever so it's quite possible that Lucas originally intended to establish a working marriage with Marisa. We'll see.
 

NovelaMaven, what a tremendously interesting response! I can see a lot of support for your describing Zein as an aesthete, but I'm still not sure I agree. I think there may have been more emotion in his response to Jade rather than just an aesthetic appreciation of romantic love. I'll have to think about this some more.

As for Jade and Lucas having romantic love, yes, if one defines romantic love as a two-sided obsession. I don't think that Jade and Lucas really know or understand each other; for me, what they have is two-sided obsession rather than love.

BTW, I love your description of "the magic telenovela maleta (you know, the one that holds Heidi Klum's entire wardrobe and still fits in the overhead bin on Aeronovela." With more and more airlines charging for checked luggage, lots of us would love a magic telenovela maleta.
 

Juanita, what Lucas and Jade have is the beautiful memory they have of that initial love at first sight they experienced. Their love now is more obsession based because that initial true love was never consumated. Jade and Lucas problem is the absence of each other in their lives. For the past 20 years, they viewed their spouses (Said and Marisa) as other people in their lives. Jade views Zein in the same way. Remember when she told Zein that she viewed Said as an obstacle. Jade views the presence of Said and Zein in her life as incidental. In other words, they only exist because of the absence of Lucas in her life. Lucas feels the same way. He never loved Marisa and he married her because of the absence of Jade in his life. He thought he lost her forever when she got married. Unfortunately, in true love, no one other than the object of your love can ever be an actual but rather be an adequate subsitute. Jade can learn to live without Lucas for the rest of her life. what she can't do is erase him from her heart.