Caray, Caray!

Interesting... the last couple of scenes, per youtube, are not in the corresponding recap. (This includes the scene in Carlos's photos!) I suspect they weren't in today's Telefutura broadcast, either. Curious. Univision must have done some serious editing for content and/or runtime.
 

Mil gracias to Paula & Carlos for the fun ride. Tough choice between this one & Amor Real.

I've noticed that the transition from one segment of haguilar78 recaps to another often skips one segment. You have to search for it. It seems it's always part 2 or 3. Today it skipped part 3, the wedding.

The executioner sure seems to love his job.

Are the people commanded to come out to view these atrocities? I can't imagine wanting to see that. A carry over from Rome I guess.

Loved it when the regidor is giving Luis the seal & telling him about his responsibility & his privilege. Which leads to the question, what were Diego's responsibilities, he forgot that part & only took advantage of his privilege.

We certainly have long dying scenes, both Martin & Antonio. The light over Antonio's bed & on the crucifix was a little much.

We now know the year of this TN,the fight for Mexican independence began in 1810 & ended in 1821.

Variopinta
 

Today was not the last episode where I am. Tomorrow is. Only the first picture was in my episode today.

I will miss this show. Back to Rosetta Stone. I need to spend the time I have used watching this show getting ready to watch Pasion on DVD. Amazon recommends knowing more Spanish than I do.

Cindy
 

These are news releases on Alborada. At one time Victoria Ruffo was considered for a part, not sure which one. TG that didn't happen.

http://www.lasnoticiasmexico.com/e8038.html

I was trying to find who won the villain award, it wasn't Diego. Anyone know?

Variopinta
 

Cindy, have you seen my web page, Learning Spanish by Telenovelas? It presents a plan to study deliberately, with TNs as your main resource. I include suggestions for ways to add in grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing, to make it a well-rounded course. I like Rosetta Stone for vocabulary and exposure, but beyond that, I found deliberate study by TNs to be much more effective. (I say "deliberate" because it involves more than just letting the TN wash over your ears.)
 

Cindy,
What better way to learn Spanish than with Fernando Colunga?
Many people that don't know Spanish at all watch novelas. You can pretty much tell what's happening, but I agree that you miss some important things. You can ck out the Pasión recap here.
Another recap place is telenovela world, you can read in Spanish or English.
The Pasión DVD is not too badly chopped, they ruined Amor Real.

Variopinta
 

Oh, Cindy, one more thing. Pasion is TOUGH! Very tough. When it played the first time, I remember the recappers complaining about how difficult it was to understand. And those were recappers who had done Juan Querendon, which was notorious for difficult idioms.

Hmm. Just thinking. If you want to study by TN, per my previous post, you may want to go through Alborada again. All the YouTube links are on my rerun recaps. After Cap 14, Board Mom's original recaps are exceptionally detailed, and many of the scenes are virtually full scripts - that will help with your studying. You're already familiar with the story. And the voices, accents, language used, etc., are not particularly difficult.
 

Thanks,Paula and Carlos for this fine ride. That last photo is a winner. My caption for it would be : ''My hero.'' Luis is such a knight in shining armor saving his damsel in distress. I'll miss this wonderful show. Will we ever have another superb historical novela of this caliber ? What's everyone going to watch now ? I guess I'll try to get into ''Fuerza.''
 

Variopinta
Look up Alborada on Wikipedia and you will find all the awards they won listed at end of the article.

Caray Caray Fan
 

Wonderful pictures! Thank you Carlos.

Yes, the dying scenes are long but they certainly are top-notch.

Paula, I'm going to miss this one when it's over. Thank you for setting up the recaplets each day so we could enjoy, gush, discuss, and whatever else it was we did.
 

Sorry about the photos not matching up with the TV episodes. However, more pictures tomorrow that will match up with the episode shown. I think you'll find them interesting.

As for today's pictures, I think the picture of the crowd catches the emotion of the event, but I think we get a glimpse of a young Lorena (QE), though I could be wrong.

It looks now as though the last episode will be on Thursday instead of tomorrow (at least that's what my DirecTV schedule now indicates) so tune in Thursday for wedding pictures.

Somehow I felt that the bottom photo would be popular.

Carlos
 

Carlos, I agree the young girl looked familiar but I couldn't place her. I think Ana Layevska (Lorena) would have been older than that girl. IMDB says AL was born in 1982 which would put her in her twenties when Alborada was produced. But yes, she certainly looks like Lorena. I wonder if she has a little sister?
 

caray caray fan
I did look up that site but it only says Diego was nominated, but not who won. Can't imagine who could win over his performance.

Variopinta
 

Vario, I just looked up the TVyNovelas awards for 2006 and it looks like Sergio Goyri won best villain that year for Piel de Otono. I didn't see the novela but Sergio Goyri...well he is usually pretty awesome. I remember at the time thinking Guzman was robbed for not winning for Diego. He really took that role to an amazing level. I had never seen Goyri at the time but now that I've seen him in a couple of roles I don't feel as cheated.

By the way, Manuel Ojeda won that year for playing Francisco. Does he seem familiar? bHe played Zolo in Romancing the Stone. It seems he is a very prolific actor and quite convincing as a bad guy.
 

Variopinta, were you by any chance referring to #90 and not 89? There was no executioner and no wedding and no Luis getting his seal in #89. I haven't seen or read the last episode yet.

Sergio Goyri won an award over the guy who played Diego? That's hard to imagine, except that Goyri was one of the very few good things about STuD. I mean, the character was super-evil, but Goyri really brought it.

Carlos, that really does look like Ana Layevska. If that's not her, she must have a doppelganger, or at least a younger sister as Sylvia suggests.
 

Oh, Pasion. Yes, a lot of us had trouble with it, but I don't think it was difficult in the same way that Juan Q was. (I didn't recap JQ, but I remember what people were saying about it.) Juan Q had a lot of folksy language that was hard to nail down. (Some of FELS was tricky in the same way too.) Pasion's vocabulary wasn't nearly so bad - obsolete words are much easier to look up than local slang and dichos - but there seemed to be something odd about sentence structure, or grammar, or something like that. I never could figure out just what it was, but I found the sentences harder to parse. Someone suggested that perhaps it was difficult in the same way that Shakespeare might be difficult for modern readers of English.

I am attempting to recap the first episode of Una Familia con Suerte right now and having more of a Juan Q. problem with the main character.
 

Thanks for all the suggestions in learning Spanish. I can tell you that after watching Triunfo del Amor (blech!) and Alborado, my Spanish has improved greatly. I use the recaps as I watch Alborado and use Google Translate a lot. I am even in the process of making my games Spanish.
I am an old French teacher (and current university faculty member). I find Rosetta Stone to be fine for vocabulary but poor in grammar, even with the addition of the home study materials. Your resource will be invaluable, Paula. Thank you! Honestly, though, I really don't have time to do another TN at the moment. After Alborado, I know that I prefer the historical kind.
I did check yesterday and was happy to see that Pasion was recapped, so I can use that resource when I start watching it.
One of my goals is to be able to understand my two hair dressers as they talk. It bugs the heck out of me to have them talk over my head, and I have no clue. Now, I sometimes do have a clue.
Well, on to the final episode which has been playing here at 5 AM. I hope my DVR got it.

Cindy
 

And they cut the ending of today's episode! It ended at the exchange of the Conde symbol.
 

Oh! It now sounds as though the episodes that are identified as 89 and 90 on YouTube were split across three episodes for the Telefutura run. (Actually I suspect the re-edit started at #86 or so, since that's when people started mentioning a mismatch between the photos and what they saw on TV that day.) So the Telefutura run will total 91 installments instead of 90. Does that make sense?
 

So Luis got the Viceroy to end the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico! Woo Hoo!!!!

Audrey