Wednesday, August 04, 2010

El Clon, Wed., August 4 - Summary for Discussion

Nati takes a road trip in more ways than one;
Ali gets no help from Allah; and
Cristina is convinced that Leo diddled Dora.


Rania tells Amina the good news that Jade isn't coming back and now she is first wife.

Alej tells Pablo that he can't find Nati anywhere.


Apparently, Nati, Fernando and Paula partied at Clara's house where they drank the whole bar, didn't clean up and burned her sofa. Clara is surprised to learn that Nati was at her house. Fernando is hung over (Hey Mom, deja la intensidad que me duele la cabeza, Hey Mom, take it down a notch, I've got a headache.) and uninterested in helping clean up or in hearing lectures.


Alej calls Rosa and tells her that Nati left his apartment the previous evening and hasn't come home. He also tells them that Nati didn't buy stuff for the house either. Alej's news eliminates any ideas that Lucas and Marisa had that Nati has cleaned up her act.


The Naz takes out her frustration on Latifa accusing her and the rest of the family of knowingly choosing an old fart for her husband. Latifa replies that no one consulted her and she prays daily for the Naz to find a husband and be happy. She asks why the the Naz takes everything out on her ('¿Por qué siempre quiere echarme toda la agua sucia a mí?', literally, Why do you always want to throw the dirty water on me?) The Naz vows that she isn't going to depend on intermediaries anymore. She is going to propose a temporary marriage to Pablo. Latifa hopes that Pablo's family accepts her.


Latifa catches Zamira daydreaming over a heart with 'Carlos' in it. She demands to know who Carlos is. Zamira replies that she writing down the names of all her friends and started with Carlos.


Luisa calls Dora and tells her that she found Albieri but that Daniel isn't with him. She says that Albieri has a lot of things to tell Dora but he doesn't have the courage. He will explain when they get back to the US. Not surprisingly, this makes Dora more upset than ever.


Albieri is searching for Daniel in the medina.


Ali continues his camel ride. He returns without having gotten any guidance from Allah or from contemplating the last 120 episodes of the novela. Zoraida tries to calm him down by saying that Daniel was the work of an evil genie. Ali tells her that Albieri thought he was Allah and created a person in his lab. ('Albieri se creyó Alá y creó una persona'.) Ali wants the advice of a sheikh but he asks Zoraida first whether she thinks that the boy Albieri created is as human as she is.


Luisa is crazy with worry about where Daniel is. Albieri says that Daniel acts on impulse all the time and has done this before. Luisa wants to go to the police and asks for Daniel's passport. Naturally, Albieri isn't interested in going to the police or showing Luisa Daniel's passport. He says that they will wait another 24 hours. Luisa says that all that has happened is Albieri's fault for not telling Dora about the embyro mixup. Albieri replies that it isn't that simple. Luisa makes Albieri swear that they will return to the US with Daniel and tell Dora everything.


Cristina and Daniel continue with their conversation of confused identities. Cristina wants to know if Daniel's father visited him when he was growing up. Daniel finally realizes that Cristina believes that he and 'Danielito' are two different people. He asks if she knows D-ito's mother. Cristina tells him that she is D-ito's godmother and she was there when Dora delivered D-ito. Daniel remembers his godmother. She tells Daniel that Albieri brainwashed D-ito with the story that Dora wasn't his mother. Finally, Daniel tells Cristina that he is Danielito. She is impactada.


Not suprisingly, Cristina comes to the conclusion that Leo cheated on her with Dora. She believes that everyone lied to her. Daniel is sympathetic. He says that everyone has lied to him, too. First Albieri said that he was Daniel's father, then Dora told him Osvaldo was and then they told him he was the product of artificial insemination. Cristina vows that she is going to find out the truth right away.


Nati still hasn't turned up. Lucas wants to call the police but Marisa doesn't want her to be arrested again and have that on her record permanently. Lucas calls Andrea and her parents to see if they know the mysterious Paula who was with Nati. Carolina asks Fernando about it and he says that Paula was someone he met when his band played at a bar. He says that Nati and Paula left his house in a cab and he doesn't know what happened after that. He also doesn't know where Paula lives.


News sure travels fast. The Chump knows about Fernando's party at his house and that Clara didn't spend the night there. He says that the problem with Fernando is Clara's fault. Anita lets him have it. She says that it was he who left his wife and child and now he is criticizing Clara for the job she is doing raising Fernando by herself. The Chump replies that he is and idiot for telling Anita about his personal problems.


Andrea tells Rosa that she doesn't know Paula and that she and Nati don't see each other anymore.


PSA - Enrique - Drugs made him turn his back on his real friends and take up with bad friends.


Alej comes home from training but there is no word from Nati. Finally, she calls [when was the last time you saw a pay phone?] from Key West. Alej asks what the hell she is doing and Nati replies that she doesn't want to be scolded and hangs up.


Latifa tries to get Zamira to tell her who Carlos is but Zamira will only say that he is a friend. Latifa prays to Allah not to let Zamira fall in love with a Westerner.


Rosa is telling Lucas that Nati is in Key West when Leo comes home. He is shocked at how messed up everything got in his absence and blames it on the bad parenting of Lucas and Marisa.


Diana tells Alej that Nati was at the Salamandra club the previous night and she was high.


Nati and Paul are high and hitchhiking.


Latifa is afraid that Zamira will turn out like Jade. She tries to get Zamira to swear that she won't fall in love with a Westerner but it's too late. Zamira tells her mother that she is in love with Carlos.


The credits roll.

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Comments:
Thanks, Jean, for another excellent summarcap, including the helpful Spanish.

To my astonishment, Marisa was one of the few major characters whose brain seemed to be working in this episode. She wisely squelched Lucas' desire to involve the police in the search for Nati. He thought she was acting out of fear of scandal, but she pointed out that since Nati had already been arrested once for drugs, she could be in deep doodoo if the police find her strung out again.

Leo was, as usual, self-absorbed and self-righteous, quick to blame Marisa and Lucas for Nati's problems while accepting none of the blame himself.

I continue to enjoy the scenes between Cristina and Daniel, but few others. The Naz was amusing for a while, but now I find her simply tiresome. The writers had a good idea for comic relief but couldn't figure out what to do with it except repeat it over and over and over again. ¡Ya basta!

Oh well, I'm still looking forward to watching the episodes and even more to reading the wonderful summarcaps you and NovelaMaven continue to provide. Re both of you, I'm in awe of your Spanish ability and your wit.
 

Great job, Jean! Thanks!

So. Just what we were hoping for -- another villain. Well maybe the new Paula character will hasten Nati's fall to rock bottom. Apparently that's the only way the writers will allow her redemption to begin.

I was struck by how much unfair blaming was going on last night. Or maybe that's just a standard TN thing--

For Nati's behavior --
Leo blames Lucas and Marisa; Alej blames Fernando. Enrique blames 'addiction'. (Only Andrea seems to hold Nati accountable for her own behavior. Andrea speaks for us, the viewers.)

Escobar blames Clara for Fernando's problems.

The Naz blames Latifa for her lack of a suitable husband.

Cris blames Leo -- and now Dora, too! -- for two-timing her even when they were engaged.

Significantly, Alí is the one who places blame appropriately: Albieri is responsible for bringing Daniel into the world. Of course, when the others know what Albieri has done, they will show up with their pitchforks and torches!

I did like the way Alí went from his initial proclamation that Daniel wasn't human to last night's question to Zoraida: Is he human? I think the next step will be for him to acknowledge Daniel's humanity and try to make sense of it within his universe of beliefs.
 

Sorry for so few pictures. There just wasn't that much that leaped out at me.

I don't think I agree with you, Juanita, about Marisa being right in her decision not to call the police about Nati's disappearance. Marisa should be worried about Nati's safety, not her possible criminal record. Even if she were arrested, it would be for posession, not dealing and a good lawyer could get that expunged.

Yes, Novela Maven, there was a lot of blame being given out in last night's episode. Leo blaming Lucas and Marisa was particularly annoying. He was living in the same house with Nati so shouldn't he have noticed that something was going on?
 

Jean, thanks once again for mini-recap and Spanish lesson.

Last night was another filler episode.

I hope the Naz does find a husband even if he is temporary to calm all of the raging hormones.

I hate to tell Raina that things are not going change just because she is now the #1 wife.

Don't all of the these people know that it is not the American way to have whole families living together? I am surprised that Mo and family have not moved into Said's house, it seems large enough. Lucas and Marisa would have had a better chance of decent marriage if they had not been living with Leo and Mama Rosa. Dora lived with her girl friends while raising the young Daniel. It just doesn't seem right to me. I believe in families being close but not that close.

Nati's new friend is bad news. And the two of them hitch hiking while higher than kites is really bad news. I just know that something terrible is going to happen. I hope that Nati's gets to meet Daniel and remember her childhood friend before this TN is over. It would probably be a good thing for both of them.

Rosemary
 

Hi, Jean. You make a good point, but when I weigh the likelihood of the police doing anything helpful vs. the harm a second arrest could do, I still think Marisa was right. Also, Nati isn't even in Miami or under the jurisdiction of the Miami police, and it's not clear that the Key West police would even be informed that she's missing.

Rosemary, I rather like the idea of extended families living together. Also, I very strongly doubt that anything could have saved the marriage between Lucas and Marisa. However, I agree with you that it would be good to see Nati and Daniel meet--and why else would the writers have made such a big deal of their friendship when they were young children? (Though Nati might find Daniel's resemblance to her father rather eerie.)

NovelaMaven, were you a literature major in another life (or even this life)? I really liked the way you pulled together the blame theme.
 

Excellent summarcap, Jean. You hit all the themes as usual. Don't apologize for fewer photos. I know that's a lot of work for you; and if it doesn't grab you, it doesn't grab you.

I don't have much to add to the excellent batch of comments we have today. You guys are good! I'd just like to agree that I was thoroughly annoyed with Leo showing up blaming everyone else when he refused to listen to his erstwhile fiance when she tried multiple times to tell him trouble was brewing at home.

I sure hope Fernandito either gets a beat-down from Alej or Andrea's dad. That smirk of his drives me nuts!

Loved Anita giving The Chump what for. That guy needs to go down hard for his blindness. And I agree with whoever warned the writers not to even think about a marital reconciliation with Clara.
 

:-) Me pongo roja, Juanita -- but I could accuse you of the same thing.

Actually, when I was a student I loathed writing literature papers and would never have been able to survive as a lit major. But here we are today, enjoying our graduate seminar:

The Telenovela: An Examination of a Popular Narrative Form in Contemporary Latin America
 

I'm a little late to the party. Thanks Jean for a very nice summary. You did especially well describing the complicated scenes with Cris and Danielito.

I'll just add two things. I liked the Latifa and Zamira scenes. The first closeup shot of Zamira daydreaming and whispering "Carlos" had me laughing pretty hard. It's a perfect cute cartoon vignette of teenage courtly love. And Latifa came across especially sweet in this episode. She really loves her daughter, although she has a hard time raising her.

Also it seemed to me that this Paula was eyeing Nati a bit strangely. Maybe it's just the drugs. It reminded me that I'm surprised Nati hasn't cheated on Alej with Fer. She spends most of her time with him up in the clouds, and she seemed to see something in him earlier in the series. Maybe that's yet to come. After they hitchhike to Cuba.
 

Luke, I also thought that Paula had odd expressions on her face when Nati wasn't paying attention.

I interpreted Paula's behavior as calculating. I assumed that Nati is footing the bill for the drugs using the cash her parents gave her for appliances.

So, I'd say that Paula doesn't so much like Nati as manipulate her to keep the free ride going.
 

Late to the party, but I've enjoyed reading all the comments and of course the amazing recap which was much more interesting than the episode.
Only good thing to look forward to tonite is landfall by Hurricane Cristina!
Joan
 

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