Monday, September 20, 2010
El Clon, Mon., Sept 20 - Summary for Discussion
Lots of people find out that Nati is preggers..
Mohamed finds out that Zamira is a Cairo feminist..
Daniel finds Jade..
Pablo and Malicia are enjoying the comforts of 'her' apartment.
The Chump arrives back at the building with his luggage but the security guy won't let him in on Malicia's instructions. The Chump tells him to go ahead and call the cops.
The Chump gets no help from the police.
Dr. Silvia comes to see Dora to tell her that she is initiating legal proceedings against Albieri. If Silvia expects Dora to be happy about this, she is wrong. All Dora wants is for Albieri to stop telling Daniel that he is a clone. Dora has been watching Caso Cerrado and what she wants is a restraining order to keep Albieri and Leo away from her son.
Silvia tells her that the damage has already been done. Daniel exists and he is a clone. Dora doesn't ever want to hear that word in her house. She says that all she ever wanted was to be a mother. She can't understand why this is happening to her. Silvia tells her that she will always be on Dora's side.
Cristina is making up for the 20 year gap in Leo's gift giving. Roberto runs into them at jewelry store in the mall. Leo asks for a progress report on finding Daniel. Roberto says that Clara has called every hotel in Fez but no Daniel. That does not satisfy Leo. He wants Roberto to find Daniel and how he does it is his problem. Cristina appears wearing diamonds and Leo announces that they will be married in a month.
Lucas asks Rosa if he was ever as adventurous as Daniel. She says that he always had some crazy ideas and were it not for his dreamkilling father, who knows where he would be now. Rosa gives her grudging blessing to Leo's marriage because Diego was reincarnated thanks to Cristina.
Marisa tells Lucas that no one has seen Nati. Andrea comes in and tells them that Nati is preggers. They are impactados. Andrea says that the worst thing is that Nati wouldn't come back with her. She stayed with Paula. Marisa wonders why Nati called Andrea and not her.
Silvia offers Dora her help. When she is gone, Dora tells Estela that she doesn't trust Silvia or anyone. Silvia still claims that Daniel is a clone. No matter how many times, cloning is explained to her, she just can't understand it. Estela has decided that Diego's spirit has taken over Daniel's body and even made it resemble him. She is going to have a mass said for Diego. Dora suggests that Estela pray for Daniel to come back.
Lucas calls in sick to work. He looks at old pictures and remarks on how quickly his life passed and he didn't even enjoy it.
Jade doesn't want to go outside the house. She has a feeling something bad is going to happen. Zoraida thinks that Jade's uneasiness comes from her fight with Rania. Zoraida leaves and all of sudden Jade wants to go with her.
Andrea goes to Gloria's. She is told that Alej is taking a shower. She says that she will wait.
Lucas goes to see Dora and says that he needs to see Daniel's room again.
Jadiya tells Mohamed and his family that she is sure that Said will marry Jade again. The Naz calls Jade an exhibicionista and predicts that the marriage won't work out. Jadiya defends her mother and Latifa and Mohamed try to shut the Naz up. When Zamira offers to take Jadiya out for a bike ride, Amin tells everyone that her clothes are stained with blood. Everyone except Zamira is happy that she has finally gotten her period.
In spite of telling Zoraida earlier that she didn't want to go out of the house, Jade has gone out and is alone in the ruins. Daniel is there, too.
Lucas quizzes Dora about Daniel's fixation with veiled women. Lucas reminds Dora that he fell in love with a Moroccan woman who wears a veil and it is strange that Daniel is determined to marry a woman in Morocco. Dora tells him how Daniel met his dream woman in the house of Albieri's friend and her name was Jade. Lucas is impactado again!
Meanwhile Daniel finds Jade in the ruins. She sees Lucas walking toward her and then he turns into Daniel. He pulls out her jade pendant and says that he came to give it back to her. He asks if she is afraid of him and she says that she is very afraid. He asks why. She speaks to him as if he were Lucas, saying that she threw her fate to the wind for him and that he hurt her so many times. Daniel replies that he would never do that. He tells her how he dreamed of her every night but he couldn't see her face and when he saw her dancing at Ali's house, he knew that she was the woman of his dreams.
Jade hears Zoraida's voice reading the coffee grounds about how when the past and present collide, they are capable of creating a storm that will destroy the world and that she must run from this storm. Daniel, meanwhile, asks Jade if she thinks that he is a spirit. He says that he may be clone but he is nothing like Lucas. They don't even like each other. He says that people say that they are identical and that as the years pass, he will turn out the same as Lucas but he knows that won't happen. Jade replies that she saw Lucas change and she is sure that the same thing will happen to him.
Daniel asks Jade to marry him and says that he will never stop loving her. He asks to put the pendant on her saying that she is the love of his life. Jade runs from him. She hears Lucas' voice, 'El Lucas que tuviste ninguna mujer lo tendra, el sólo para ti, No other woman will have the Lucas that you had [he uses the preterite tense here]. He is only for you.
Dora tells Lucas that Jade must be a pretty common name in Morocco because Daniel went there to marry a girl named Jade and that was the name of Lucas' girlfriend. Lucas starts to hyperventilate and runs out the door.
Lucas gives the shout of frustration and lost dreams.
Jade comes running back to Ali's hosue and says that she saw the shadow. She begs Zoraida not to let it take her. Zoraida thinks Jade has a fever. Jade says that the shadow used the same words as Lucas. She asks Zoraida to tell her all the bad things that Lucas has done to her otherwise she will start believing the shadow.
No one, except Latifa, can understand why Zamira is so unhappy about getting her period. Amin comes into her room and makes excuses about why he outed her as being on the rag. Zamira accuses him of doing it on purpose. Mohamed comes back with an armful of veils. When Zamira announces that she won't wear a veil, Mohamed is impactado. Mohamed asserts that no woman in his family goes into the street without a veil like the feminists of Cairo. As usual, he is only thinking of himself. He asks how he can face the other men at the mosque when his daughter spits on their customs. Zamira says that she just doesn't want to be different. Mohamed accuses Latifa of not teaching Zamira anything and tells Zamira that if she doesn't wear a veil, she can't go outside ever again.
To distract Jadiya and Amin from the domestic disturbance, the Naz tells them the story of Cenicienta Nazira (Cinder Nazira). Yippee! Since everyone knows the story of Cinderella, I don't need to recap this amusing part of the novela. Be sure to notice how Prince Pablo reacts when he gets a whiff of Cinder-Naz's foot. It's also a hoot to see Zoraida all tarted up.
After the story is over, Zamira comes out of her room and announces that she refuses to wear a veil in the house or anywhere else. She gets no sympathy.
The sKanks walk by Gloria's babbling about having baby showers and sending press releases about the birth of Roberto del Valle's child.
Alej finally appears and Andrea tells him that Nati is pregnant. He is, what else, impactado.
The credits roll.
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Thanks for the recap..
I'm tired of Natalia's story.
jjablan.
I'm tired of Natalia's story.
jjablan.
Permalink posted by 
: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 8:55:00 AM EDT
: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 8:55:00 AM EDT
Great recap Jean. The Cinderella story was really funny. Seeing Jade and Latifa tranformed from beauties to dust bunnies was a hoot. Zoraida had on enough makeup for all the women. Lucas is wierd. What is with the men. Said sniffs Jade's veils, Mohamed can only roll his eyes and Leo is a stiff. Zein is very welcome as a model for the other men. Barb
Permalink posted by : Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 9:00:00 AM EDT
: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 9:00:00 AM EDT
Thanks for another terrific one, Jean!
There was SOME melodrama in this episode (although Lucas's scream didn't exactly evoke Edvard Munch -- maybe Homer Simpson's take on Edvard Munch); a surprising amount of NEAR sitcom (like the Chump shlepping his bags across Miami only to be kept from his apartment by THE COPS!); as well as a lot of PURE sitcom level scenes:
-- the Nazerella story
-- Cris indulging her pent-up demand for jewels (within another Cinderella story!)
-- Amin and Jadiya reacting to Samira's refusal to wear the veil with dead-on (unconscious) parodies of their elders
-- the sKanks failing to appreciate the difference between the social pages and the police blotter in the newspaper
Jean, by my count, this is capítulo 153. How many shows do you think remain? Seven? Or (gasp) thirty? There are still lots of unresolved plot points, but we know how fast they can move when they want to...
There was SOME melodrama in this episode (although Lucas's scream didn't exactly evoke Edvard Munch -- maybe Homer Simpson's take on Edvard Munch); a surprising amount of NEAR sitcom (like the Chump shlepping his bags across Miami only to be kept from his apartment by THE COPS!); as well as a lot of PURE sitcom level scenes:
-- the Nazerella story
-- Cris indulging her pent-up demand for jewels (within another Cinderella story!)
-- Amin and Jadiya reacting to Samira's refusal to wear the veil with dead-on (unconscious) parodies of their elders
-- the sKanks failing to appreciate the difference between the social pages and the police blotter in the newspaper
Jean, by my count, this is capítulo 153. How many shows do you think remain? Seven? Or (gasp) thirty? There are still lots of unresolved plot points, but we know how fast they can move when they want to...
Thanks all.
Here's what I thought was weird. Lucas' only child is a drug addict who is out on the streets who knows where and now he finds out that she is pregnant too. So what does he do? He goes over to Dora's and starts quizzing her about what Daniel is doing in Morocco. It looks from the previews like Lucas wants to go to Morocco. Is he concerned about Natalia, or what?
NovelaMaven- Unless this is the most unusual novela I have ever seen, we have 30 episodes left. I have never seen a novela that was days away from ending without 'ultimos capitulos' being announced, grand finale promo-ed, not to mention seeing promos for its replacement. We have none of that - only 'capitulos culminantes.' So I think we are stuck with Clon until the end of October.
Here's what I thought was weird. Lucas' only child is a drug addict who is out on the streets who knows where and now he finds out that she is pregnant too. So what does he do? He goes over to Dora's and starts quizzing her about what Daniel is doing in Morocco. It looks from the previews like Lucas wants to go to Morocco. Is he concerned about Natalia, or what?
NovelaMaven- Unless this is the most unusual novela I have ever seen, we have 30 episodes left. I have never seen a novela that was days away from ending without 'ultimos capitulos' being announced, grand finale promo-ed, not to mention seeing promos for its replacement. We have none of that - only 'capitulos culminantes.' So I think we are stuck with Clon until the end of October.
30??? ¡Ay misericordia!
Yeah, I was struck by Lucas's decision to go to Morocco just now, but I suppose he'll tell us his thinking tonight. Still, all this time he has been torn between two people, Natalia and Jade, and faced with the prospect of losing Jade forever to the clone... well. Anyway, his presence in Miami doesn't seem to be doing Natalia much good right now and there are plenty of other people looking out for her. Maybe we have entered the 'carpe diem' (seize the day) stage of the story. That, after all, is what Leo decided to do after twenty years of trying to convince himself he could be happy without Cristina.
Yeah, I was struck by Lucas's decision to go to Morocco just now, but I suppose he'll tell us his thinking tonight. Still, all this time he has been torn between two people, Natalia and Jade, and faced with the prospect of losing Jade forever to the clone... well. Anyway, his presence in Miami doesn't seem to be doing Natalia much good right now and there are plenty of other people looking out for her. Maybe we have entered the 'carpe diem' (seize the day) stage of the story. That, after all, is what Leo decided to do after twenty years of trying to convince himself he could be happy without Cristina.
If Samira tears the veil perhaps Latiffa could get a job at Gloria's. Amin could "bus" and get more sightings fo the sKank and company. Naz could get a job at the gym. It could happen. Barb
Permalink posted by : Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 12:22:00 PM EDT
: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 12:22:00 PM EDT
Hi, Jean. Thanks so much for the excellent recap. I'm still traveling, so the only way I can keep up with what's happening is through these recaps. Fortunately, they're terrific, often better than the episodio.
I can't imagine that El Clon could possibly end in just seven more episodes. I have mixed selfish feelings: I'll be traveling again in October, so I may miss the end. On the other hand, that means that another TN won't start until after I'm back. Geez, I think I've caught Leo's Me Me Me disease!
I can't imagine that El Clon could possibly end in just seven more episodes. I have mixed selfish feelings: I'll be traveling again in October, so I may miss the end. On the other hand, that means that another TN won't start until after I'm back. Geez, I think I've caught Leo's Me Me Me disease!
Jean, thank you once again for the recap and Spanish Lesson for the day.
I hated to see Malicia get the upper hand with the Chump, but then again he soooo deserves it.
The Cinderella story was the best of this episode. It is nice to see something fun instead of doom and gloom as we have see for too many episodes.
I hope Malicia turns green when she finds out about Cris and Leo. She actually did Cris a favor by taking Pablo off her hands.
I am tired of the Lucas/Jade and the Clone stories. It is beginning to feel like I have watch the entire 20 years of their lives.
How many more episodes? Can they wrap this up in 7?
Rosemary
I hated to see Malicia get the upper hand with the Chump, but then again he soooo deserves it.
The Cinderella story was the best of this episode. It is nice to see something fun instead of doom and gloom as we have see for too many episodes.
I hope Malicia turns green when she finds out about Cris and Leo. She actually did Cris a favor by taking Pablo off her hands.
I am tired of the Lucas/Jade and the Clone stories. It is beginning to feel like I have watch the entire 20 years of their lives.
How many more episodes? Can they wrap this up in 7?
Rosemary
Permalink posted by : Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 3:19:00 PM EDT
: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 3:19:00 PM EDT
Jean and NovelaMaven great work on the recaps i've been catching up today sine my AC adaptor blew up and i had to replace it.
Finally the Chump has realized that how much he has been played for a Chump. I can't wait her nasty spitefulness to get hers.
Rosemary great point on how she did Cris a favor by taking Pablo from her.
So Lucas is going to go to Morocco? I get the feeling that he's going to lead the crusade against Albieri being arrested if he loses Jade to Daniel.
Why didn't Zamira say anything about rat fink Amin dirty magazines he has stashed in his bedroom.
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Finally the Chump has realized that how much he has been played for a Chump. I can't wait her nasty spitefulness to get hers.
Rosemary great point on how she did Cris a favor by taking Pablo from her.
So Lucas is going to go to Morocco? I get the feeling that he's going to lead the crusade against Albieri being arrested if he loses Jade to Daniel.
Why didn't Zamira say anything about rat fink Amin dirty magazines he has stashed in his bedroom.
Permalink posted by : Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 6:19:00 PM EDT
: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 6:19:00 PM EDT
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