Saturday, April 30, 2011

Triunfo del Amor #101 4/29/11 The Lowdown Before the Showdown: Maria Gets Her Come to Daddy Moment

As we peek in we see that Padre Juan Pablo is arguing with his mama over how she’s made others suffer by silencing him through the means of the confessional.  Well, JP’s got news for Mama!  Today he’s off to see the Bishop to ask permission to be released from his vow.  No, not the priestly vows, but a dispensation.  It’s time that the others’ suffering should end and that her soul is saved.  Mama demands to know what he is talking about.  She’ll find out soon enough, he replies.

At Casa Victoria The Redux, Victoria is gritching to Antonieta about how she walked in on Maria Desamparada and Alonso as he was kissing the shameless slut.  She figures that Maria has gone on to greener pastures since Max didn’t pan out for her.  ”--I was right!  That girl is a tramp!  [cualquiera=floozy, hussy]"  Toni and Fernanda disagree.  He’s only a friend!  Maria’s shown them a thousand times that she’s totally in love with Max!  Vicki disagrees.  Then why did she run off with Alonso to live with him the whole time she was pregnant? (Hmmm.  Dunno.  It’s just a thought, but could be that she might have felt forced to hide from anyone involved with los Scandalval?  Maybe she was tired of putting up with the abuse and harassment--or should she have stuck around and deferentially taken whatever Vicki felt like dishing out whenever she felt like dishing it? Even Victoria crawling on her knees over shards of glass while wearing a hair shirt could never make up for the way this maven on a mission made persecuting Maria priority numero uno!)   Vick says she wouldn’t be surprised if perhaps JPito really isn’t Max’s after all!

Fernanda, who’s been listening silently throughout to Mama’s tirade, can’t keep quiet any more.  Fer tells Mama to get real!  How could she think that JPito isn’t Max’s!!?? This wouldn’t be the first time a girl has done that to him, either, Vick pontificates.  Toni agrees with Fer and asks why Vicki is being so hard on Maria?  Vick says she has her reasons and that she’s never wrong.   Fer puts a bit of a speed bump in Mama’s rant by reminding her that she blew it big time with Jimena, incessantly defending her to Max and then forcing him to marry her when he was in love with Maria!  “--That was different!  Jimena changed.”  (Query: Was it before or after Ji learned she had Guillermo’s bun in the oven, hmmm?)  Vick is adamant that Maria is two-timing Max and that’s that!

Ji finally makes it back to Burnie’s.  Burnie wants to know where she’s been.  “--Oh, I was just out for a walk with ‘my son.’”  “--You say that as if you actually cared about him.” Burnie then explains how it’s gonna be from here on out.  “--You may have born him, but you’ve lost all rights over him.  If you want me to continue supporting you, you’ll have to accept that I will be in charge of him and I will raise him to be a good Christian. Give him to me!” Jimmie only has to consider a couple of seconds.  She gives the baby over and Burnie dismisses her.  “--Get out!” 

Fer has heard enough and has Fabian take her home.  She can’t stay there any longer.  It’s obvious, she says, that she and her mama are never going to get along together [entenderse]. Toni can’t understand why Vicki is being such a hothead [arrebatada].  Vick admits she’s just so very frustrated because she’s surrounded by hate and now her whole life and family are falling to pieces around her.   (Hmmm.  I suggest a discussion of Proverbs 11:29 the next time Padre JP or Jerry come by.)  She tells Toni that she’s wondering what the next shoe that drops will be.

Napo and Juanjo, meanwhile, take the orphanage boys to the soccer field for a practice.  Padre JP comes by to ask Padre Jeronimo to go with him to see the Bishop.  He’s got to discuss something that concerns his daughter, Maria, and needs his support.

Back at the office, Toni asks Vicki what she meant about this not being the first girl to trick Max.  Vicki finally confesses (dun-duhn-duhhhn!) that Gui is Osguito’s baby daddy.  Toni is OMG!-I-was-that-close-impactada.  

Burnie, meanwhile, is telling little Osguito how she’s going to keep him pure as the wind-driven snow and then make him into another of her personal priest-confessors.  She won’t let him fall from grace like the last one.  (Has she got plans to make a eunuch out of him first or what?)      

Toni now tells Vick that Maria and Ji are two different situations, and it seems that Vicki’s turned really abusively combative lately.  Vick admits she’s saddened by the realization that nothing she has done has been worthwhile or lasted.  “--It all was for nothing!”  Toni tells her not to exaggerate.  Vicki feels she’s jinxed for life and confides that she thought she might have a new start in life with Max’s two kids; but now she sees that was a mistake.  She calls herself a loser and claims that Ozzie, Jimmie and Maria are all alike: all treacherous!  

Maria and Alonso head for the television studio to film her commercial.  Lon tells her he’ll never give up hope of stealing her heart to make it his own.

Milagros and Nathy (post Extreme Makeover) are at the market.  Mili tells Nat that she’d love to have JJ fall for her.  Nat says JJ won’t even take a second look at her.  Mili says now that she’s dropped the ugly duckling look for the beautiful swan, JJ is sure to change his opinion.  However, a man is won through the stomach, so Mili is going to teach Nathy how to cook for JJ.  FF>>

Fab brings Fer home.  She’s thrilled by Cruz’s surprise in the garden: purple flowers all arranged in a huge “F.”  Fabulous Fabian can only see green, though, so he leaves for home, not wanting to be the third wheel.  Fer  thanks Cruz and suggests they should study for his entrance exams. FF>>

Later in the day, Nat brings lunch to everyone at the soccer field.  Nat flirts with JJ by telling him she’s trying to prove his mother’s theory that a man falls in love through his stomach.  JJ and the others like what she’s cooked.  The guys notice that JJ’s cheeks have turned red and tease him that they’re the color of luhhhvvvv..  JJ looks over and gives Nathy a sheepish smile.

Fab gets back to work and gripes to Max about Fer’s reaction to Cruz’s surprise. Max complains that he’s got the same problems.  He’s sick of having to put up with Lurking Lonnie and has come to think that maybe Maria really does want Lon instead of him.  Fab tells him that’s a lot of hooey considering, and that he shouldn’t doubt Maria’s love for him. Max says he doesn’t doubt Maria.  It’s that the guy is there at “Max’s house” every single day!  (Say what?  Max’s place?  Maria’s the one paying the rent, buying the food, and putting up with the peeling paint and the cockroaches!)  Every day, he moans, the guy’s there to see his woman, call her “Ternurita”, and then to top it off, he claims he wants to take her love and his son away from him!  Max, really agitated now, tells Fabian to stop the Don Quixote crap and go after his impossible dream!  Fight for Fer if he really loves her!     

Back at Ste. Burnarda’s, Padilla has been summoned.  Over some shared sherry she tells Rudy that she’s decided the time has come to eliminate all their enemies.  She says they must silence Max and Oz. She’s going to start with Oz and says they’re going “to make him regret having threatened” her. 

The bishop agrees that there needs to be an exception made regarding the truth about Maria Desamparada’s parentage.  It can no longer be postponed [es impostergable].   He gives Padre JP a dispensation to speak and says he hopes this helps to purify his mother’s soul.  JP is puzzled.  The bishop tells him that Mama has been excommunicated.  Mama cannot enter the church again until she is truly repentant.  JP is beet-red-impactado. 

Rudy tells Burnie that he’s got a couple of excellent ambush sites in mind.  They’ll need to be pretty cautious [sigiloso = stealthy] to avoid suspicions, though. Burnie sees no problem. “--Whatever’s necessary.” 

Vicki interrupts Oz in the music room and mentions what she saw at Maria’s apartment earlier.  [Did anyone bother yet to ask her why she barged in without bothering to knock?]  Oz defends Maria’s honor.  Anyway, says Vicki, she knows what she saw and gripes again that nobody wants to believe her.  Besides, she grouses, who’s he to talk about moral rectitude?  She’s going to see about taking JPito away from her. Their grandson is living in the dumpy vecindad when he could be living like a king!  (And whose fault is that?)  Oz is adamant.  Vicki has no right to grab Maria’s son away from her like that!  Before he can say anything more, Oz gets a call from a producer buddy of his who asks to see him right away. Vicki forgets she’s divorced from the guy and demands to know where he’s going.  Oz hasn’t forgotten.  He refuses to say; she immediately accuses him of having another lover, which he of course denies.

Fer and Cruz go over possible test questions.  (Yawn.) They share a few giggles and smoochies. FF>>

Back at the soccer field, the guys tease JJ about “declaring” to Nathy, the first step towards their going steady.  Nat is enjoying the attention.  FF>>

Outside the gates to the manse, we see a red leather glove menacingly aiming a gun at Ozzie’s SUV on his way out.  Then Vicki drives off to the office and we see that same red-gloved hand holding a gun and taking aim as she is chauffeured out of her gate.

The commercial goes like clockwork for Lon and Maria.  The clients are super satisfied.

JP leaves the bishop’s offices and wanders around the streets of the city, clutching nearby tree trunks and painfully remembering his mortification at the bishop telling him that Mama had been excommunicated.  FF>>

Max comes storming into the manse and runs into Vicki on the way out.  He asks her if it’s true that she saw Maria and Alonso kissing.  Definitely, says Vick, but he should ask Maria himself.  Max says he has and that she denied it.  What’s more, she ran him off when he did. “--Sure she did. How convenient for her! Now that you’re useless to her she runs you off.”  Max is certain Vicki must have misinterpreted things.  She says not to worry, that she will have JPito back with Max at the mansion that very day.  (Let’s get this straight: she doesn’t believe JPito is really Max’s bio-baby, buts she is determined to take custody of him anyway? Is it really the call of the blood or just another persecution power play??) Max asks what she’s got in mind.  Vick says not to worry; she’s not going to do anything foolish. She smiles and thinks to herself she’s only going to give Maria Desamparada what she’s been looking for this whole time.  Max’s divorce lawyer, Medrano, arrives as Vick heads out the door.   

The producer buddy offers Oz a terrific part in a terrific movie, but he’ll be filming out of the country.  Oz turns it down in favor of sticking close to the family since they need him more right now.  

Padre JP shows up to speak to Maria and Lonnie leaves to babysit JPito outside.  JP gets nervous and is tongue-tied. 

Oz drives up to his gate at the manse, but it’s locked.  He gets out and starts to put the keys in the lock.  Somebody off-camera that he recognizes walks up. The red gloved hand shoots the gun and Osvaldo takes a bullet at close range in the gut.  He collapses onto the sidewalk. The shooter, dressed in a black trench coat, steps over his body, takes the keys then drives off in Oz’s SUV.  

Back inside Maria’s cuartucho [hovel/dark and tiny little room], Padre JP fights back the tears. “--You’re scaring me, Padre. What is it?”  Finally he stutters something.  “—I-I-I’m your father.” “--Sure, that’s how I see you, like my father.”  Finally he spits it out.  “--I am your biological father!  You are my daughter.  You are flesh of my flesh and blood of my blood.  Maria, I am your father.”  The camera pans dramatically back and forth between the face of anguished, chagrined, and tearful Padre JP to Maria’s confused, concerned and consternated cara de impactado.   


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Jardinera - Wow, this recap is up fast!!! Thank you. I was flipping back and forth between this and the royal wedding recap and am glad to see that I saw the good stuff on TdA, and didn't miss anything important.

Vic kvetching about MD going off to live with Alonso was too much. Hel-lo?!? Didn't Vic make MD promise to stay out of Max's hair while Xi was pregnant, or am I remembering that wrong??? All we need now is for Vic to say, "A mother is always right" (ref: Gabriela in FELS)

That red glove (holding the gun) matches the red shoes of Demetriela (la Madrastra) so my first thought was --- Guillermo?!?

I wonder what MD will have to say about PJP outing himself as her bio-dad ...
 

Thanks so much J. Great recap.

So glad that one cat is coming out of the bag at long last. It's been a long slog lately.

How on earth does Victoria achieve any kind of redemption. She is on the of the nastiest critters around. Osvaldo remains the good parent, although he is a peacock.I did have to laugh at the way he flexed his muscles and straightened his shirt and jacket before answering his cell phone when the director called.
 

Great recap Jardinera!

ITA re: Vic needs to crawl across shards of glass and it's still not enough!

About fell over when Vic said "I'm never wrong". Really? Only several times every episode. And LOVED when Fer stood up to Vic and reminded her about Ximena.

And Alonso with the baby is just creeping me out. He's a cute guy but needs to move on.

Did someone say that Cesar Evora (Emiliano from Llena de Amor) is coming to this TN?

Katy
 

Cesar is going to play a role in coming episodes. He was the priest in EPDA, not at handsome as Diego but not as dim or creepy either. He was a figure with some authority and good sense.
 

Didn't Ximena have red gloves or am I imagining that?

I have a feeling witness lady from the hit and run is going to remember Xi and Gui being there at the scene.
 

Thanks for another terrific one, Jardinera!

I have to say, though, that I thought Cruz's study session with Fer was lots of fun.

Hey Doris, I thought of those famous red shoes in La Madrastra too. But anon is right -- red gloves were part of Ximena's murder kit. I wonder why the murderer took Osvaldo's camioneta... And I sure hope Osvaldo survives the attack. Now that he is one of the good guys, we need him to counterbalance some of the maldad still running rampant.

Poor Victoria. Not a very good night for her. What a number the writers have done on her character! The actress must be looking at each scene as if she were playing a new role, a different woman from one hour to the next. It really is bizarre.
 

Hi, all! Not a lot of action packed plot involvement last night, but the maldad was really maldad! I'm wondering if Victoria will arrive after JP leaves and have to wait another four weeks to find out that she's been harassing her own daughter, or if she'll get there before and she'll be able to put two and two together. Of course, it wouldn't be the first time these turkeys would get 5 instead of 4.
 

Gracias Jardinera, the 10 oclock time slot is killing me. Sometimes I just can't keep my eyelids propped open. So I missed the scene with Fer & Cruz, drat. Thanks for making the whole episode come alive again.

"Victoria crawling on her knees over shards of glass while wearing a hair shirt" —I actually want to see her tortured to the point she screams for forgiveness. It will be a huge letdown if Maria D lets her off easy.

"(Has she got plans to make a eunuch out of him first or what?)  " —She should live so long. I figure Doña D.'s got a few miles on her. By the time lil'Ozgui gets to be of age, she's gonna be facing her final reckoning.
 

Thanks for the thorough recap, Jardinera. Vicky is so inconsistent, just twirling around from one point of view to another. Except, she always feels sorry for herself.
Hope someone finds Osvaldo before he passes on to that great theater in the sky. Amazing that Padre JP can tell Maria who's her daddy. Will he reveal her mama, or do we have to wait a while?
La Paloma
 

Good stuff, Jardinera. I watched this episode at midnight when I got back from the opera because I couldn't wait until morning.

Love the comment about making little Osquito a eunuch. I'm sure she would do that if she thought she could get away with it. Although according to history the castrati singers of centuries past could still have sexual relations despite having been castrated as children.

As it was Dona Dementa tried to make an emotional eunuch of her own son. She failed.

Victoria needs a shrink and has needed one for some time.

As for who is wearing the red gloves, my vote is for Dona Dementa. She enjoys killing too much.

Maria is not going to take this news well, which makes no sense at all.
 

Thanks for the recap Jar. I still haven't actually watched the episode, but I'm about to right now.

My biggest concern is that up to this point, Maria has not shown herself to be the type to be nasty. I'm afraid she will not give Vic hell for the way she acted.
 

Jardinera, thank you for another of your priceless recaps.

OMG, don't let Os die! He is the only one that really cares about his family. Vic doesn't deserve him but I didn't write the script. There are a lot of suspects for the shooting but in the end it is probably Padilla since Burnie told him it was time for Os and Max to die. Too bad it wasn't Vic that was shot. She is not one of my favorites.

Poor PJP, he does love his daughter and I hope that she doesn't reject him. When she finds out Vic is her mother I don't care if she rejects her after Vic has been so nasty.

Rosemary
 

Once again, lack of communication will probably cause MD to freak out over PJP's revelation. If he'd said --- "I, myself, only found out a month ago" it would prevent, the 3(?)month extension to this telenovela. Meh.
 

What if Leonela busted out of jail and SHE'S the one who shot Os?
 

Dios! I couldn't agree with you more Jardinera, Vic has just gone way too over to the dark side for my taste. She may not be asoutright killing anyone, but her hatred and unreasonableness of Maria, and her utter self-righteous attitude is almost no better than JP's Mama dearest.I just do not like this woman. I know we'll get some sort of mussy happy mother-daughter thing at the end of this TN, but she won't deserve it.

I vote for The Chief Dementor too as Oz's shooter. The other day I thought he had set himself up with her spilling how he knew the truth. She has a lot ot gain getting him out of the way. But I want him to survive!!!

JP is killing me: Diego really hits it home with his portrayal of confusion and pain in dealing with what he knows. I so hope Maria doesn't get ballistic and turn away from him. I'll be happy to comfort him however should he feel like he needs a hug :)
 

@Anon 1:01—that's what I thought. Didn't he say "what are you doing here?" or something like that? But, then again, Burnie & Pad were planning to get him, and if it's either of them, I vote for Burn cuz she likes to do her own killing. ("I have nothing to repent. Just doing the work of the Lord since all these priest types are incompetent to flush out all these sinners")
 

I think Oz said "Oh, it's you." He knows all three, tho', so it could be any of them. --JMO.
 

Jardinera, tienes razon. That's exactly what he said. I would think if it were Leonela, he would have been majorly impactado. It seemed such a calm remark, so now I'm inclined to think it was not she.
 

Hey, can I play too?

The red gloves were part of Xi's murder kit but apparently she only planted the wig and glasses in Victoria's room. So I think we have to amplify the suspect list:
1. Gui could still have the gloves. He is a proven murderer and hates Osvaldo.
2. Ditto for Xi.
3,4,5 Demente, Padilla and Alacrán
 

Jardinera: Thanks for clearing up Oswaldo's conversation with the producer/director. I missed part of that. I didn't realize he would have to leave the country.

Anyway, your version of this episode was far better than the writers' version.

OK - Maria now knows her daddy. Please, Maria, ask him who your mother is. He's not bound by the confessional for that one. Let me think - how many ways can they drag that out?

Bernarda looked so longingly at the baby. I thought she might try to offer him up as a sacrifice,.
 

My first thought was Leonela as well, but Os was a little too casual. I also think he would have been a lot more impactado. I felt like the legs they showed were a bit feminine...as is the color of gloves, but who knows.

Vic just makes my skin crawl. I really can't get behind her. I just do not understand her unreasonable hatred of Maria.

The avances made it seem like Maria was going to reject PJP :-(
 

Guillermo probably hates Osvaldo more than anyone else, but I don't think it's him. Since he's (in)famous I don't think he would risk committing such a crime so publicly.

Padilla is the one most likely to want to steal the car but my dinero is still on Dona Dementa.

As for Bernarda offering up the baby as a sacrifice, isn't that what she did with her own (only) son? She denied him a normal childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood by brainwashing him from birth into the priesthood.

Maria will forgive JP a lot faster than she will forgive Victoria.

JP doesn't even have to be the one to tell Victoria; if Max and Os compare notes they will put it together.

Os will survive and Cesar Evora is listed as playing a doctor.
 

jardinera, excellent recap. This time, I did not see the show and taped it; however, what I saw was Fer in the hospital and her face looked aweful. Was she beat up? Did it not tape and this was from her car accident months ago? Would you please give me the URL to see Padre telling Maria he is her dad? I go into UTube and a screen always comes up saying I have to go to the Satalite URL and pay 49 dollars to watch the show, along with others. I used to be able to watch the shows I missed, on you tube. NOw it won't let me.
 

Great recap as usual Jardinera.

Lots of questions as to who is the shooter.

Ann-NYC
 

Leonela was mentioned as possibly being the shooter. I looked her up on the IMDB and found her photo but can't remember her. What part does she play?

Ann-NYC
 

First off, my husband and I have been reading the recaps and enjoying them. Thank you! I wanted to post about what Os said to the one who shot him: "Que haces aqui?"
(what are you doing here?) Because he used "tu" instead of "usted", I'm deducing it was not Bernarda or Padilla. Leonela is my bet. They've mentioned her too much to just leave her as a loose end.
Thanks again for the fun recaps and comments!
 

leslie. I vote that it isn't her. I think your on target though about the use of TU. Don't think he would have used that phrase with Burnie. It would have to be someone familiar. I don't think it is his x-wife, because he thinks she is in jail. He would be a lot more surprised to find her standing in front of him, when he obviously doesn't know anything about her life at this time, other than she is in jail. Wouldn't he have said something like "How in the H did you get out of jail? Or when did you get out? Just my thoughts.
 

Anon 8:47 - I've been wracking my brain as to who Leonela was and you refreshed my memory. Thanks.

Ann-NYC
 

I watch Triunfo del Amor online through dailymotion.com I've never been able to see any of them via youtube - they've always been removed

Leslie: Good catch that you noticed Os used "tu" instead of "usted"! It has to be someone he knows well or someone much younger than himself. hmmmmm
 

Thanks for the recap! I am curious as to what the reaction will be to Padre Hottie's revelation. Doesn't look to be favorable. . .
 

I just wanted to say thank you to all the recappers. I started tuning in to this show in my attempt to learn Spanish. After several episodes of understanding a little of the action and language, I found your blog and discovered how much I miss. Now, I get the stuff I miss. I am going to have to go back to the beginning too, as I missed the beginning episodes and am realizing how much I did really miss. I hope that when it is over, I can buy a DVD that I can watch while using the recaps.
Thank you again!
 

You're way better off watching the episodes online. The DVDs of these series are horribly abridged.
 

Welcome: Leslie;Jon and all anonymi. Thanks for any clarifications.

As for not seeing PadreJP tell Maria, I believe it was at the very last so that it will probably be the lead in on Monday night. Daily motion, tho', is good to get the daily recaps --similar to Youtube in ease of use.

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Triunfo+del+amor+cap+106
 

I noticed that on the post comments page the link is too long to appear, but you can see it completely off the caray page in the comment section.
 

Jardinera, thanks for the recap. I know Burnie's crazy but taking out Oz did shock me. I'm expecting to see the ultimato semanas signs soon b/c havoc on this level should be a sign of the end.

I don't know how the writers will truly redeem Vic but they'll probably create a situation where she puts her life on the line for Maria and the baby. But even that won't compensate for how awful she's been to Maria.
 

Jardinera thank you so much for a wonderful recap.

I loved what you said about why Maria D. felt compelled to go away with Alonso. SO she doesn't think at all how her actions towards Maria might have affected her child but she has the nerve to try and get her child away from her?

Thank you Fer for interrupting the crazy talk with your mom and calling her out on her absurd illogical thinking.Especially about Ximena her fabulous daughter in law of choice. Remember Victoria you agreed to anything XXX-factor was going to try to trap Max. Best response was when Victoria trying to convince Fer to accept her craziness. Fer telling her she can't listen to this get me outta here Fabian take me home now.

But then Victoria turns and tires to convince Toni to understand her crazy? Toni doesn't understand why Victoria is such a hothead? Aaaaaaaaaaaah haven't you been listening to your BFF as she unloaded her troubles to you?

Victoria doesn't understand why she is surrounded by hate? It's called Karma heifer ok you are not above reproach with your actions.

Toni so you think Victoria has turned really abusive and combative lately? so what was she before with all of her actions towards Maria?
 

They showed on Gordo Y Flaca today Jennifer Lopez i think havi9ng a premiere party for her music video with William Levy and she introduced him to the crowd there.
 

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