Tuesday, September 21, 2010

El Clon Tuesday September 21: Summary for Discussion

Capítulo 154: We’re now officially in las últimas semanas and tonight, instead of Grimm’s Tales, we get grim tales: the only one smiling is Malicia; and Natalia finds her way home. Again.
We open the episode at Casa Ferrer where Marisa complains to Rosa that Leo and Lucas have abandoned ship and now no one is looking for Natalia. Someone has to stop her from doing harm to her baby. She can’t involve the police because they would arrest Nati for using drugs. Maybe she should hire a detective to find her and bring her home. But why, wonders Rosa, didn’t Leo’s doctor do a pregnancy test when Natalia was hospitalized? (Good question!)

Enrique reminds us that recovery depends on the addict and not on those who are trying to help him.

Carolina is with Clara at the stripped-down house when a strange scary guy shows up looking for Fernando. (Why do they let him in?) He tells Clara that if Fernando doesn’t pay him what he owes, he’ll pay himself with whatever he can! And he leers menacingly at Clara. When he leaves, Caro urges her friend to call the police.

Again Enrique: I was numb when reality came knocking on my door. Reality also knocked on my family’s door, but they weren’t numb to the pain.

As Caro is encouraging her friend to tell Escobar what happened, Rogelio calls. Clara tells him she can’t go on the trip to Paris with him. After the call, Clara tells Caro that she can’t be away just now. Fernando may need her.

Natalia is walking down the street with Paula, telling her she will raise her child by herself. She’ll get a job. As what? Paula wants to know. A crack dealer? Nati tells her she speaks three languages… Paula’s attention is diverted when she catches sight of Fernando. She attacks him like a rabid pit bull. (The Many Moods of Paula -- spin-off possibilities?)

Enrique tells us how the addict loses all sense of reality as very quickly is close to hitting bottom. He has to make a choice: live or die. And to chose life, he has to acknowledge the power his addiction has over him.

Back at Gloria’s, Andrea and Alejandro continue their conversation. Alejandro is ready to bring Nati home, even if he has to tie her up to do it. He is surprised by Andrea’s question:
¿Será que ese hijo es tuyo? Do you think the child is yours?
Why would you ask that, Alejandro wants to know. She admits that she just doesn’t know about Natalia’s life right now. Alejandro asks where Andrea last saw her so he can go out looking for her.

At Albieri’s clinic, Anita looks pityingly at Escobar. Luisa has no sympathy:
No fue por falta de aviso. Él se lo busco.
It wasn’t because no one warned him. He brought it on himself.
Escobar calls Malicia but hangs up when she answers and tells them: Voy a buscar un abogado. (I’m going to look for a lawyer.) Anita smiles. It's the first sensible thing she's heard him say.

At Salamandra, Zein has been watching Malicia. Who called? he asks with a smile. Someone who doesn’t like my voice, I guess, she answers playfully.

As usual, Malicia is listening in while Rogelio complains to Zein that Clara backed out of their trip to Paris at the last minute without offering any explanation. He has bought the tickets, reserved the hotels, everything! Zein, who seems to subscribe to the “Love the One You're With” philosophy, tells him he has time to find himself a nice companion. Malicia has entered the scene by this time and confides dreamily that she has always wanted to go to Paris. And when she leaves, Zein says to Rogelio: Why not invite Malicia?

At Empresas Ferrer, Carolina is advising Clara to tell Rogelio the truth about her situation, but Clara can’t find the courage to do so.

Leo is irritated that Roberto seems to be dragging his feet on writing his demanda. Of course, that's because Enrique is the one writing it. And everyone's favorite passive-aggressive has, indeed, finished the job. He hands it to Roberto for his inspection. It's estupenda says Roberto. Enrique takes another swig from his flask. (The therapy hasn't quite done the trick, has it?)

At Casa Ferrer, Rosa takes a phone call from Alej and tells him there’s no news on Nati. Lucas comes home in a foul mood. He can’t stop thinking about what Dora told him – that Daniel is (also) obsessed with Jade – and he calls Clara: Get me a ticket to Morocco, he tells her. For today, if possible. Marisa watches and shakes her head. She can’t understand how he can leave precisely at this minute when his daughter needs him. He says:
Tengo que hacer algo por mí. Ya no aguanto más!I have to do something for myself. I can’t take it anymore!
He goes on, now clearly over the border and in Rant country: What do you want me to do to show I’m a good father? Kill myself? Then you can all be happy with the copy!

Nati has no sense of how she looks to ‘normal people’. Like most pregnant women, she now looks at children with far more interest than she used to. Unfortunately, as she approaches little kids in the street, they back away and their mothers threaten to call the police. When she is attracted by the window display in a toy store, the security guard won’t let her inside.

In Fez, we see Jade doing the candelabra dance. At first she seems weirdly alone. But then the camera shows Said scowling. Then there is Zein watches with an unreadable expression. Next is the dazzled Daniel. And finally -- a love-struck Lucas. Jade is overwhelmed as the four surround her and move closer. She screams… and she wakes up to find Said worriedly attending her while Alí, Zoraida and Rania stand by. Said will buy their tickets for Miami, he says, maybe they can even leave today.

When Alí and Said have left, but Rania is still skulking in the background, (like Malicia, Rania is always listening) Jade tells Zoraida she has to go to the ruins one last time to say good-bye. Zoraida tries to stop her but cannot.

Then Rania comes out from the shadow and with a nasty smile says: ¿Jade va a encontrar con el occidental? …Tío Alí y Said van a saber de eso! (Jade’s meeting with the occidental? Uncle Alí and Said are going to hear about that).

Jade and Daniel are at the ruins.

Lucas is just getting ready to leave Casa Ferrer, when Nati shows up: Papá, ayúdame (help me) she says and then collapses in his arms.

Jade and Daniel are kissing.

Lucas carries Natalia to the couch, and sets her down with her head in Marisa’s lap. I don’t want to die, says Natalia. Her parents assure her that all will be well and they will take care of her.

Jade and Daniel are still kissing.

Rania accuses Zoraida of conspiring with Jade. She is going to tell Said everything. When Alí enters, Rania takes great pleasure in telling him that Jade went to the ruins to meet the occidental. Zoraida says it’s not so. Alí reminds Rania that when you accuse someone without sufficient proof, you are the one who deserves punishment. And what about silent witnesses? shoots back Rania. Allah will see to them, answers Alí.

Alí’s not happy about this. He laments to Zoraida that for all the things he’s done to cover for Jade, Perdí mi lugar en el paraíso. (I lost my place in heaven). Not so, Zoraida assures him:
Su corazón va a pesar más que las culpas. (Your (good) heart is going to carry more weight more than your faults.)

Alí is going out. If Said comes home before I do, he instructs Zoraida, tell him Jade went out with me. Rania watches and burns. Right here on earth.

And back at the ruins, a strange encounter of the clone kind continues. Jade thinks she is talking to Lucas and Daniel keeps telling her he is his very own self. She managed to forget him – why did he have to come back and make her remember? She’s not 18 anymore and she wants to be with her daughter. The puzzled but persistent Daniel declares his love over and over. As they are kissing (again!), Alí appears. He thunders:
¡Jade! No puede ser! ¡Otra vez lo mismo! (Jade, this can’t be. The same thing again!)
To Daniel he says:
¿A qué viniste? ¿Quién te controla a ti? (Why did you come? Who’s controlling you?)
Go back where you came from!

Daniel slips away and Alí grabs Jade roughly by the arm. This is your last chance, he tells her. Make your future or bury yourself in the past.

Enrique reproaches Roberto for telling Amalia about the clone. What were you thinking? She’s a journalist! Enter Carolina with Escobar. The chump has come to Roberto for legal advice about his pilfered apartment. (Too bad, since Roberto seems to be singularly ineffectual as a lawyer. He may be the Worst Attorney in Miama (TWAIM) He should be asking Enrique!)

I want to have my baby, Natalia tells her parents, and she wants to stop using drugs. All you need is will power, says Lucas. You’re a strong person, says Marisa. (We have to assume that they are just talking to fill in the silence. At this point, neither can be serious.) Natalia takes out her remaining stash and hands it over to Lucas.

They go up to her room. She asks her parents to remove anything that she could use to hurt herself or the baby, and then lock her in the room. Ignore my screams, she tells them. (She does sound serious.)

Enrique reminds us that in the struggle between him and drugs, the drugs always won. They were stronger than he was. To battle them, the addict needs something larger to hold on to – religion, psychotherapy, something…

Nati is screaming and tearing up the room…

… My family suffered, says Enrique, but I did too. Withdrawal was so painful…

Nati is screaming: ¡No me voy a morir! (I’m not going to die!)
Marisa, Lucas and Rosa stand miserably on the other side of the door. Why us, why my daughter, wails Marisa.

Lucas has talked to Enrique. If Natalia will enter treatment voluntarily, he can arrange admission to rehab. It’s the only way to save her life.

Credits roll.

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Comments:
NovelaMaven another great recap thank you so much.

I'm sorry but i can't take Jade anymore she has to be the most stupidest heroine i have ever seen in my entire life of watching American soap operas and Spanish novelas.I have seen plenty of both every time i watch her i feel her stupidity is just contagious.From the previews it looks like her stupidity has cost her her daughter.

Please i hope the writers aren't going to let me down with Zein because i believe he is setting up Malicia to be with Rogelio to expose her nasty behind.

Boy i would love to hear all of those told you so told to Pablo about his skank. Chump II.
 

Super recap job on a really annoying episode. Grim tales, indeed. There was waaaaaay too much Enrique. I was screaming at the TV for him to shut up.

Then there was Jade. Don't get me started. She decides that she is done with Lucas and that she is going back with Said for her daughter's sake and then she runs off and passionately kisses a complete stranger just because he looks like Lucas????? If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and and expecting different results then Jade is totalmente chiflada. Arrgh!!!

I thought the candelabra dance was really weird - more like a circus trick than anything sexy.

The announcement of ultimas semanas is encouraging.

If Enrique hasn't found anything to replace drugs in his life, maybe we can hope that Nati's baby will be her salvation. I vote for Fernando as the stoner who doesn't make it to the Gran Final.

I thought maybe they had cut the scene when Roberto told Amalia about the clone but I dimly remember something like that a while ago. Amalia is a journalist AND she's got a grudge against Leo so I expect that will amount to something.

I sure hope some man besides the Chump is onto Malicia but I doubt it. Her rat-like charms (there is something very rodent-y about her mouth) seem to be irresistible. you are right, Blusamurai, the chorus of 'I told you so's' when that anvil falls will be deafining.
 

NovelaMaven, thanks once again for a recap that was so much better than the episode.

Is Zein smart enough to set up Malicia? He seems to be more the "love and leave" them sort of guy. I never got his instant attraction to Jade.

Rosemary
 

Thanks amigas!

Blusamurai and Jean, what struck me about this episode was how hard the writers worked to set up Jade and Natalia as living parallel lives (Rosemary, you mentioned a while back that this is a device they like a lot in this novela!). We are supposed to see that Jade is irresistibly drawn to Lucas/Daniel just as Natalia is drawn to drugs. In their more lucid moments, both recognize their weakness and ask for help; but when the craving overtakes them, they can't resist. And for both, love of a child is possibly the greater good that will save them.

It's a little odd that this great passion, the love that spans decades, cultures, continents is now reduced to something clinical, pathological. But hey, it's only one capítulo. Tomorrow we'll be invited to look at it differently.

Rosemary, I agree about Zein. I'd be surprised if turned out to be a Man with a Plan, other than stirring up a little mischief. Sorry, Blu!
 

Oh yes, I forgot to ask --

Has anyone else been having problems finding our recaps?

For me, the bookmarks appear and disappear without any obvious reason. In the past, the day I was looking for would show up if I refreshed the page or went out and re-entered. But earlier today, Friday and Monday had disappeared and I couldn't get them back. I just checked and now I see them.

Since Friday was my day and Monday was Jean's, I assume it has nothing to do with the way the posting is done.
 

NovelaMaven: Thank you again for a wonderful recap, it was great to go over the finer points of the episode, but without having to listen to Enrique's PSA's.
I have had the same problem with disappearing recaps, I just keep hitting "refresh" until the most recent one shows up.
Re: Jade...what was she thinking?!!! She has finally succeeded in getting Said to take her back so she can be with Jadiyah again, and she blows it. I had totally missed the parallel between Jades's obsession and Nati's obsession; interesting. By the way, when Jade did the candelabra dance with that thing stuck on her head, it looked like...yes! a TN foil beanie!
Joan
 

NovelaMaven yes i have had the same problem once i got my computer back up and running i thought i was seeing things at first. I realized i had to reenter to get the other episodes recaps, so it's not just you.

Love your perspective about the parallels between Jade and Natalia's addiction.I guess the one thing i over looked from her scene with Daniel is she kept calling him Lucas.

No shame or problem if i am wrong about Zein, your suggestion that he is stirring up mischief may just work in revealing what a low down snake Malicia truly is.

Jean i am now admitting i may be wrong about Fernando and like you said he probably won't make it to the Gran Final.
 

Thanks, NovelaMaven. Great work, as always.

The good news is more time to read recaps and comments; the bad news is that this is my second day home sick with un resfrío espantoso.

I guess they're trying to tell us that Jade's love for Lucas is so strong that she's delusional. She went to the ruins, she said, to say goodbye to him (whichever him she meant) but then got overcome with lust and started kissing him. Please. I have no idea what's going to happen now, but it looks like Ali has saved her bacon by telling Zoraida that if Said returned to say he and Jade went out together. Rania may try to spill the beans, but I doubt she can override what Ali said. But I also can't see Jade going back with Said.

The other interesting thing is that they're supposedly flying to Miami together, but no one has said anything about a wedding. Since they're divorced, and she has even married again (and divorced), doesn't she have to re-marry Said?

I think we're close enough to the end that Malicia is not going to get that trip to Paris. But - it's also majorly dumb of Clara to give him no reason for not going to Paris. She needs to tell him the truth; and, if that scares him off, then he wasn't worth having in the first place.

I have also been having trouble finding recaps.
 

Hey Blu, I make guesses all the time and I'm usually wrong! (except about Malicia trading-up to Rogelio -- I saw that one coming! hahaha!)

Novelera, that sounds miserable. Hope you feel better very soon. I bet telenovelas and chicken soup would make a good combination!

Malicia actually getting to Paris? The only way that would be acceptable is if they could guarantee us that she'd fall in the Seine and drown on the first day there. [Or maybe she could get as far as applying for a passport or visa and then her murky past would be revealed: that she is a wanted fugitive with a long criminal record. She gets arrested and extradited to ... wherever she came from.]

Joan, now that you mention it, that candelabra could be a very elegant beanie variation! That might explain a lot about Jade's decision-making lately...

As for problems finding recaps, is it all over the site or just confined to Clon pages?
 

NM:

A late reply. You may not see it. But I have the same problems with Soy tu Dueña.
 





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