Wednesday, November 23, 2011

La Fuerza del Destino #77 Tue 11/22/11 Loose Lips Sink 'Ships (Relationships, that is.)

¡Hola a todos! Sara here, filling in for Gloria who had some pre-Thanksgiving commitments. Y'all know the drill--bullets are my specialty...as are requests for fill-in where needed. (Psst: Maybe it's just me and my lack of comprehension, but there wasn't a whole lot of new stuff. The end makes it all worth it, tho.)

El Refrito
DWMMB (emphasis on the MANIPULATIVE) hasn't changed since my last recap. She's planting seeds of doubt in Camilo's head. She tells him all about Iván helping change Lucía's tire (literally...no euphemism...I swear!)

Lo Nuevo

  • Berenice and David are enjoying a quiet evening at home. She's spilling the beans about Perlita's paternity. She's really sad about it and so is Dave, but what can you do? Berenice says you can get a divorce and marry the guy you love for one. Dave says Camilo adores Lucia and besides...the scandal!  appearances! (groan.) Berenice says there are some loves that just can't be forgotten and Ivan and Lucia have one of those  loves. David asks if he and she have one of those and she coquettishly says "we'll see." smoochies. 
  • Camilo confronts Lucia about Ivan and the tire. He haz a big jealous. She explains it was just a co-inky-dink and she doesn't care if Camilo believes her or not. He wants to know what they talked about. She doesn't want another argument and is tired of it all. She and Perlita will stay with Carlota. Camilo says no. She can stay right there. He'll leave.
  • Esther and Judith on the phone. They miss each other and Esther is continuing with the plans to divorce JJ. Saúl comes in as the ladies are saying goodbye. He tries to convince Judith that they need to convince Esther to return. Judith thinks it's a terrible idea...mom return to this hell hole? Saúl thinks she's exaggerating. He tells her to think about it. If Esther isn't there to take care of JJ...Judith may have to spend the rest of her life doing it. (ew)
  • Meanwhile Tía Whatserface (Evangelina? Esther's sister) is convincing Esther to return to JJ. Have to avoid the scandal, you know. It's a woman's lot to put up with (aguantar) crap. What sort of role model is she being to her daughter? (A mighty fine one if you ask me.) Thanks for nada, Tía. 
  • Lucia enters Carlota's room with Perlita and asks if she can stay there. Carlota asks if there are problems and Lucia asks her if she told Camilo about the tire business. Carly says no and asks if Camilo is freaking out. Carly apologizes to Lucia for pushing her into the marriage (really? now she's sorry?) Lucia takes some of the blame saying she wanted a dad for Perlita, but that Camilo changed so much and can't control his jealousy. Carlota tells her no more than Lucia can control her love for Ivan. Lucia says at one time she was willing to try to bury that love, but now that Camilo is being a twit...not so much.
  • Meanwhile, Camilo is discovering that Lucia is AWOL. Commercial break
  • Ditch digging.
  • Lucia comes back into the once happy...er...room...and Camilo is not there. She goes to the dining room and asks Gloria if Camilo left early. Gloria confirms he left and says she has to get breakfast to her royal B!tchness, MP.
  • Camilo takes his camión de compensation to Iván's house and bangs on the door. Inside Tony, Ivan and Alex are enjoying breakfast. Alex wants to go see Lucia and the baby. Ivan says maybe tomorrow and he'll go with him. Benito announces Camilo's visit. Ivan tells him to send Cam to the office. Alex wants to say hello but Tony tells him to finish breakfast and go take Bruno for a walk. He advises "cordura" (good sense) to Ivan. Cute scene where Alex wants to know what "cordura" is. Tony says he'll explain...later (isn't that what they always tell this poor kid?)
  •  Ivan sees Camilo. There are stilted niceties. Camilo doesn't shake Ivan's hand. Camilo wants to know if Lucia called Ivan for help with the tire. Ivan confirms it was pure coincidence. Camilo says that ever since Ivan arrived, he's being destroying the happy marriage he and Lucia have. Ivan gives a rehash of the MP plot-line (ok. We know; so does Camilo.) Camilo says that was a decision Ivan made.
  • Lucia and Carlota are making plans for the extra room (I believe they called it the "bodega" later in the episode.) Carly asks if this is really what Lucia wants. Are they really not going to live as a married couple? Lucia says "and pretend? No." Carlota says well, then get a divorce, one more scandal won't hurt anything. Big Sis walks in and I have to pause and take a deep breath. Really.Hate.Her. She asks in that fakey innocent voice "so whatcha doin?" Carlota spins a tale about crying Perlitas and sleepless Papás. ¡Huy! ¡Qué mierda! Maripaz clucks a little and leaves. Lucia calls her a víbora after she's left. Carly says she wishes she could find a way to get her out of the house. (You and me both, hermana)
  • Camilo says he tried to respect Ivan and not get involved with Lucia. Ivan says his plan all along was to  get rid of MP and come back to Lucia and he finds out that a mere month and a half after he left Cam and Lucia got married? Why? Cam claims it's because they fell in love. Ivan says maybe you were in love, but Lucia wasn't. Camilo says Ivan always thought he was better than Cam...especially after he found his gringo that gave him everything. No, says Ivan it's because I can see it in your eyes (how she looks at him?) Camilo shoves him. Ivan says he knows Lucia was already preggers when the two of them married. Camilo lies like a rug and says she sought comfort in him and they made love. He wants Ivan to leave them alone. They have a family...a happy one. It's not his fault Ivan and MP didn't make a happy family. Don't try to destroy his...Camilo won't allow that.
  • Judith asks for time off to help mom (?) They yammer. She about Carlos, David about Berenice, both about their jacka$$ dad and mom's decision.
  • Ivan tells Tony about the conversation. He can't believe Lucia would sleep with Camilo so soon. Tony reminds him that the slept with Maripaz pretty quickly, too. Ivan says he already explained: He thought of Lucia (What, so it doesn't count?) Tony says maybe Lucia did the same.
  • Camilo arrives home to discover Lucia is moving into the bodega. Oh snap!
  • Lucrazy is of course freaking out about appearances and Carlota is slinging the crying baby/sleepless daddy crap again. Camilo comes in and wants to talk to Lucia. He starts is celos act, the dialog speeds up and basically Lucia tells him he's been a butt ever since Ivan came back to town. He apologizes (as he does at least once every episode since they married) and tries to kiss her. She is a little cold fish...but luckily Carmen interrupts them.
  • Lucrazy knows something is up and Carlota tells her it was a mistake for Lucia to marry Camilo. She's knows now that she'll never come to love him as she came to love her Teodoro. Lucrazy starts flipping about a possible divorce and MP walks up just in time to hear that. She says that Lucia couldn't possibly divorce Camilo since he adores Lucia and Ivan is really just about the sex. Why, they went at it like bunnies in LA. Carlota calls her a liar. MP asks to take Lucrazy's car and Lucrazy says ok (idiot. accessory to murder, I say.) Of course Lucrazy believes MP's story about nightly nookie and thinks they should tell Lucia. Carlota says Tony swears it was just once. Lucrazy doesn't believe that. Tony could be lying. Anyhoo, upshot is Lucrazy doesn't want Lucia divorced. When Carly reminds her MP married David and divorced weeks later. Lucrazy says MP is MP and Lucia is Lucia. Oh for pete's sake.
  • JJ, Tony and Ivan: insurance 90% small price increase, he'll take the same blabbity blah FF>>
  • Carmen tries to talk to Lucia about her and Camilo. Lucia doesn't really divulge anything and sends Carmen to do baby duty. (And we all know Carmen is just looking for scraps of gossip...she doesn't really care.)
  • JJ tells Ivan about Camilo and the Ag Ass presidency. Something is said by JJ about Ivan being his son and Tony says Ivan is *his* son.
  • Antolin and Cuthberto yammer. I think he campaigns for Camillo for Prez. Some Ag Ass meeting later?
  • Ivan calls Lucia. He tiptoes around the "when she had sex with Camilo/ when she last has sex with Ivan" subject. Eventually he straight up asks if Perla is his. She says no and hangs up. Ivan ain't buyin' it.
  • Carmen at home with mom. Fills mom in on the marital problems and wonders if Lucia will leave Camilo. Mom "¡ay ay ay's! and prays things work out. " She knows Camilo is a loose cannon ready to blow.
  • Anto visits Caro and they talk a little about the transplant and is work with JJ. She says again how much she dislikes him working for JJ.
  • Camilo comes to visit Lucia in her new quarters. She's tired of talking and Perla is asleep. He promises it won't end in an argument. He begs her to come back to their bedroom. She says they just need some distance (I'm thinking a "break" a la Friends?) He asks if she's leaving him. She says that she needs time for things to calm down. He says ok, but asks one favor of her: If Ivan asks, please tell him Camilo is Perlita's baby daddy. As he leaves, he is met outside by his soul killing sister in law. She offers him a sip of her drink. He takes a swig. She busts a move...a big one. They lock lips for quite a while. Cleto sees. MP tells Camilo she overheard her mom and Carlota talking divorce. He goes back to his room and beats on the furniture (again, literally....no double entendre) and says "no puede ser" a couple times.
  • Cleto and Gloria gossip FF>>
  • Tony, David and Ivan talk business and the other area farmers. Send and engineer out to make a report yada yada FF>> After David leaves, Tony says Ivan should be getting back to LA so Alex can go to school. Ivan says he'll be enrolling Alex in school in Alamos. He plans to stick around...for Perlita. Tony accuses him of trying to influence Lucia to get a divorce. Ivan denies it and Tony doesn't believe it. Alex comes in and reminds Ivan he said they would go visit Lucia today. Tony offers to take him. After they leave, Ivan calls Lucia. He asks about Perlita. I'm pretty sure he says he wants to meet her. He lets her know Tony and Alex are heading over to visit, he hopes it's not a bother.
  • Anto goes and tries again to convince Camilo to run for Ag Ass president.
  • Alex arrives to visit Lucia and in the meantime, Cleto goes to tell Carlota all about what he saw the night before.
  • Lucrazy and MP are returning from where ever. She greets Tony with "suegro" and he reminds her he is no longer her "suegro" (it.was.awesome.) MP asks Alex (who has a death grip on Lucia) if he's going to come give her a hug. Before he says a word, Carly comes flying out of the house and she.is.furious. She tells MP to get the hell out of the house. She then proceeds to tell all assembled about Cleto's news.
Avances:
  • DWMMB claims Camilo kissed her by force.
  • Camilo wants to know if Lucia knows (She does.)
  • A mistake is the beginning of the end for Camilo and Lucia.

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Comments:
Thank you Sara for your early and excellent recap.
It is hard to see Camilo's and Lucia's marriage go into the crapper, but it was circling the drain lately, anyway.
When I see MP; I think 'youth is wasted on the young!' Never saw a truer example than that character.
And having a hard time understanding how those two guys can't resist when she comes up to them and locks her lips on them with all the charm of an Elextrolux canister model. Can't wait to see the TN justice waiting for her. Any or all the fates described by the recappers and commenters would be fine with me.
 

Thanks, Sara. What an excellent, crisp recap! Better than the episode.

Antolin's the man. I just hope that he survives whatever lies ahead.

Yup, looks like it's over for Camilo and Lucia, though her reunion with Ivan will no doubt meet many bumps in the road (the DNA test, for one?).

Best to all for a grand holiday.
 

Sara- What a nice surprise to wake up to one of your funny and to the point recaps. Thanks for stepping in.

I agree. That was a great ending. But once again, little Alex is hearing some strong adult conversations about his skanky mama. Poor kid just can't escape her either. He was so sweet with Perlita, even though he's been told she's not his sister.

Can Lucia really be upset at Camilo for kissing MP when she was just kissing Ivan the day before by the side of the road?

I was impressed with the level of decisiveness and cold-bloodedness that went into Lucia's quick decision to move her and Perlita into their own room, which appears to be in what was the store room on the other side of the stables. Can't get much further away in the house than that! I did feel a little bad for Camilo, but the way he grabbed her, accused her of lying, and then locked her in the room was borderline abusive. He deserves it and needs to just accept the writing on the wall. I also did not like the way he confronted Ivan and then (in my mind) besmirched Lucia's reputation by saying she jumped into bed with him before Ivan was even out of the country.

By the way, after all his awkward attempts at asking when she slept with Camilo, Lucia denied that they had slept together when she and Ivan were together or had just separated (the last time they slept together). Which made Ivan sure that Perlita is his, even though Lucia said no to that question.
 

Thanks, Sara. Just to advise everyone: Since I can't get a head start on tonight's double header its recap may be a little more like this one than my usual, as I will be heading out to a friend's for Thanksgiving for a noon arrival (subway only, though).

I will probably say this again before the end: Lucrazia doesn't care about Lucia's happiness. In fact, I will suggest that she wants Lucia to be just as miserable as she and Maripaz always have been. If the family's reputation is truly in the crapper as she believes, another divorce will not matter. The entire town must know by now that Maripaz railroaded Ivan into marrying her and they probably know why despite there having been no real guests at the "wedding" (if one can truly call it that).

Unless, of course, they all think like Esther's sister. She is some piece of work. This town needs a priest like Padre Tadeo of FELS, Padre Juan Cristobal of ENDA, or Padre Juan of EPDA/TdA. None of whom would preach that any wife is required to endure marital abuse.
 

Urban- No worries about a late recap. I feel bad for you since you once again have a double header, AND it's right on the holiday. I am headed to my parents' house for the day and the night starting Thursday afternoon, so if the recap comes to me after tomorrow around noon, I won't be able to get it up till Friday late morning/early day when I am back home. So unless someone else can post it for you, I say there is no rush. If you want to just do bullets, I would totally understand given the two episodes and your Thanksgiving plans.
 

UA-I'm travelling so I won't even be able to catch up with the episodes until Saturday. I wouldn't be able to post until then either. Take your time, relax and enjoy. (At least we are being forewarned about double headers this time...with TdA we never knew. lol)

I'm also rooting for you to get Maripaz's downfall. I know you would to a stellar job and your insights would be great.

Happy Turkey Day everyone!
 

I'll do my best. The problem is I couldn't find the episodes online. I think I've solved my DVR problem, but I will be home for those episodes tonight.

I am probably leaving for Brunhilde's place at 11. I will e-mail before I leave. I just hope that there isn't a lot of stuff I have to play back more than once when I watch the episodes the second time.
 

UA--I had the same problem with last night's episode! I much prefer to watch online and take my time. It's hard to watch/take notes/recap/ get to bed at a decent hour. lol

Have safe travels!
 

Can Lucia really be upset at Camilo for kissing MP when she was just kissing Ivan the day before by the side of the road?
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It's just an excuse for Lucia to throw in the towel on Camilo.

Lucia is so silly. No, Ivan, I did not sleep with Camilo before we got married but Perlita is not your daughter. Um, ok.
 

No, Lucia shouldn't be upset because she knows her sister all too well.
 

I hope Berenice puts an end to this foolishness and just tells Ivan straight up what Lucia told her.

I felt really sorry for Esther last night. She FINALLY gets the courage to get out of that soul killing house, and she ends up with her sister who acts like they're in the 1800s. That's not much better than living with JJ. I was pretty ticked at Judith for even considering encouraging her mom to come back. She and David need to pool their salaries and move into an apartment together with Esther. Then Esther can wrap up her divorce and likely get enough money to buy a nice little house for herself and whichever of her kids (minus Saul) who wants to live with her.
 

Sara thanks for your great recap. I share your frustration over MP. She seems to have control over most men with little impulse control. The fact that Antolin resisted her means (to least to me) he should live.

I don't think Lucia was thinking Cam is awful b/c he kissed MP. It's the fact of the kiss and his crazy jealousy of her. He's going to be psycho about her even talking to Ivan and he's kissing (and if MP had had her way it would have been more) the skank sister who took the love of her life.
 

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