Thursday, July 26, 2012
Refugio Para el Amor #79 Thu 7/26/12 The Long Goodbye
-Luci falls asleep peacefully over her books, cradling her engagement ring; while Rod has a restless night and slams their wedding bands against his night stand.
-The next day, after Luci’s exam, Rod arrives at the vecinidad and he and Luci manage a civil and pleasant conversation. He gives her the box with the wedding bands, tells her not to open it till she’s alone, and says she’ll know what to do with it. His “adios” sounds sort of final this time, but I wouldn’t bet on it. He beats a downspout in frustration. Luci looks at the rings, then closes the box, looking more determined than before.
-After an exhausting first day back at the office, Rod puts Pato to bed for a nap. Before he goes to sleep, Pato wants to speak to Luci to hear how the exam went. He is majorly annoyed that Rod went to see her that morning after her exam, and that he dumped the rings on her.
-Pato asks Rod a deeply personal question. Did he make love to (pure, innocent) Luci? NimRod admits that he did. Pato is livid that after taking her virginity, Rod is tossing Luci aside, in addition to not protecting her. If he were healthy and strong, heck, even in his current state, he would have protected her and wouldn’t let her go!
-Pato continues to make Rod his b!tch by making him call up Luci for him, stand silently as he speaks to her happily, and take down the phone number of the Het Het funeral parlor so that HE can call her when she’s back in the pueblo.
-Aldo comes to El Inferno to keep an eye on things, on Max’s orders. This bugs the hell out of Ivan and Lastra, who don’t seem to know what the heck Aldo’s doing there. Aldo mentions to Lastra how angry the jefe was about the Lorenzo-jail affair. Lastra says HE’s the boss at Inferno!
-Marcial el Estalker, shows up in Vio’s dressing room, and she has to yell for security to get him to leave.
-Connie remembers Rosa’s harsh words about her decrepit body, then the witch herself arrives to drive the dagger in deeper. What’s a younger man like Oscar want with an old hag like Connie? Connie ignores her and goes to bed to dream of her upcoming dirty weekend with Oscar. Atta girl Connie!!
-Rosa la Loca invites Padre Honesto to the dinner where Rod will be served up on a platter to Gala, so that he can witness how she’s kissed and made nice with Rod. Her family is better than ever! Padre very reluctantly agrees to attend.
-Gala looks for the perfect rubber band dress to help her trap Rod at the dinner. Valentina tells her she would have better luck if she wore a long skirt, peasant blouse and band around her waist. Atta girl Vale!!
-Rosa boasts to Julie that the ambush dinner for Rod is all planned. Rod will be clueless (as usual), Julie and Gala will just happen to drop by to say farewell on their way to the farewell dinner Vale and Fernie have planned, then Rosa will invite them to stay for dinner and invite V&F and their novios over as well.
-Rosa’s veneer begins to crack and her crazy shows through when she finds out that 1) Pato, Melissa, and Hannah have disappeared shortly before the ambush dinner; and 2) Boris dared to set foot in Hannah’s bedroom earlier, and was alone with her there. Mati is the lucky winner who gets the tongue lashing for all of this.
-Paz gives Lorenzo and Fabian the blessing for the first day of their taco biz, and gives Luci the blessing for luck on her exam.
-Luci takes the exam with a lot of other young folks, and seems pretty confident in her answers.
-Lorenzo and Fabian find a perfect spot to park their bike and taco canasta (basket), in front of a convenience store. The store owner lets them stay since their tacos will drive people inside to buy drinks. They immediately draw a crowd of young neighborhood maids. Either the tacos are really good, or the maids are drawn to the cute boys selling them. I think it’s both.
-Melissa brings Claudio her final thesis chapter. He’ll review it right away so that she can schedule her final exam. She’s very nervous about the final exam, but he assures her she will do marvelously. This makes Melissa’s heart pitter patter, and a huge grin comes to her face. Claudio is clueless about his effect on this lovely young woman.
-Boris organizes a romantic scavenger hunt for Hannah, which takes her around the city to pick up various gifts and notes, and ends right back in her bedroom with a sweet kiss and a rose.
-Unfortunately, for Boris, the scavenger hunt takes Hannah right by Lorenzo’s taco stand, and they make moon eyes at each other before she runs off to the next clue.
-The old Padre has been feted and buried, and Procopio looks exhausted. But after this big funeral, he and Theo have enough to pay the phone bill. With all the sadness and crying, he’s not so sure the funeral biz is right for him. He’s thinking about going back to Don Aquiles, who was way more fun than a weepy funeral, even if he was always in a foul mood. Aquiles thinks Copio is a gossiping traitor when he overhears this. He also seems to think he’s betraying him with Luchita.
-Luchita and the Gossip Girls rub it in Aquiles’ face how successful and in demand Copio has been since he left Aquiles. Aquiles blusters that he doesn’t want Copio back, but we can tell he doesn’t mean it.
Empresas Torreslanda
-The Pueblo folk start to say their goodbyes to the big city. Vio takes Luci, Magda, Paz, and Ariche on a tour, which ends at one of the city’s beautiful old churches. They each pray to the Virgin. Ariche asks the Virgin to look out for the people he loves; Luci asks for protection and for help forgetting Rod; Magda asks for protection for Vio; Paz asks for strength to tell Claudio the truth, and the strength to handle it if Luci decides to leave her. Ariche gets a Virgencita statue to take home to his mama.
-Claudio tells Norma he has decided to surprise Luci and her crew by flying with them to Het Het for the weekend. But he’ll be back in time to continue working on his case. Things are looking good now that the judge who originally oversaw the case has agreed to reopen it. Norma is impressed by his love for Luci. He says she, and her family, have turned into the family he never had. Oh yeah, and he still has to talk to Paz about that urgent matter.
-Luci tells Estelita that she doesn’t think she’ll ever come back to D.F. Never say never Luci!
-Not yet knowing that Claudio is traveling with them, Paz hyperventilates and tries to figure out how she will take him aside to talk alone in the airport.
-Lorenzo and Vio have tearful farewells with their mamas at the airport. Vio promises not to lie to her mama anymore.
-Hannah, Pato, Melissa and Boris come running up to the airport security gate, surprising Luci. They wanted to say farewell. Hannah grabs Luci into a hug, and Pato gives her a huge, lovely smile. *Sigh!*
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Thanks much for subbing tonight Vivi!!!
Marta- Yes, Rod really needs to find a better way to deal with his hurt and frustration other than hitting things. Don't kids learn that in pre-school?
Madelaine, good luck nursing your DH, hope it goes well for both of you.
In many ways, this episode was very sweet with the gang showing up at the airport. It was blessed relief after some of the really dark stuff that has been happening.
Nimrod is getting worse by the day. Too bad it was not him that was injured instead of Pato. Even better than Nimrod injured would be Gala! Yes, Martaivett, Pato is our hero, but I don't think my DH would approve of a tattoo.
Ariche is stealing the show, he is doing a great job of acting for someone so young. I think he has a great future.
OT: Audrey, I made your Cochinita Pibil today. Thank you once again for sharing that wonderful recipe.
Rosemary Primera
Pardon the expression but La Loca is going to shit bricks when she finds out the young uns went to the airport to say goodbye to Luci. They are all going to be late to her big dinner and she probably won't be able to contain herself when they tell her where they went. Another round of Tums coming up and maybe Mati should order a large jug of Maalox for the table.
That Inferno scene seemed really choppy to me like they cut something out. Marcial should be careful about showing up around Vi. That bitch wife of his could also show up and blow his cover and cause danger for Vi. Witch probably hasn't thought about that yet.
I am amused by how subtly Pato sticks the knife in both his mother and DimRod when it comes to Luci.
Rosa never gives up. Going to Conny's room to do a bit more lecturing about old hags and young men. Glad Conny ignored her and wished her good night. Should have told her not to let the door hit her on her self righteous backside on the way out.
OK enough already with the teasers. Will Paz tell Claudio the truth tomorrow? Will the dunce fall for Gagme's well used charms and set up, God forbid, a fake pregnancy story? And why oh why during the opening ceremonies for the Olympics. Have not got an idea how I'm going to handle the Games and this novela. Oh right i can watch a tape of this at midnight and hope to post with a minimum of typos.
Rosemary P- Yes, there were some really sweet moments in this episode. I think setting us up for tomorrow's drama. I really liked Boris' scavenger hunt, and I think Hannah's feelings for him are growing. But she and Lorenzo have a magnetic pull, that she has never had with Boris.
I don't know whether to just be annoyed by Marcial, like Vio is, or to be really scared for her. The guy's a stalker, and I can't tell if that will turn dangerous, or if he's just pathetic and in love with a woman he can't have (anymore). Plus, he's a cop, and if he did cross a line with Vio I could see it being covered up or Vio not being believed.
And "Marcial el Estalker". Sweet!
So glad to have this as the storms knocked out Univision's broadcast for long periods in our area. Missed a lot. (and thank God that included Rosalena's continued attack on her sister.) But your snappy, fun recap made up for it. Gracias and then some, amiga!
And Madeleine...we've been missing you and your passionate involvement in this story, but happy to know you're an equally passionate and concerned caregiver. Your recovery hubby is lucky to have you.
Vivi, thank you for stepping in. Of course, the recap was wonderful (they always are) but your comments are equally as interesting. You notice every single detail:"he (Ariche) just reaches right up and buttons a button that had come undone on the boob area of Estelita's blouse. It was obviously unscripted"...I am beyond impressed.
Along with what Judy noted: "Pato continues to make Rod his b!tch by making him call up Luci for him, stand silently as he speaks to her happily" and "where Rod will be served up on a platter to Gala" were some of my favorites.
Pato stole my heart last night. It wasn't only his justifiable anger with Rod's disgusting "throwaway" treatment of Luci, but his megawatt smile at the airport. Yup, the deal is sealed for me!
I will not be able to see tonight's episode. Mercifully, I will miss Rod's ravishing of Gala. But, I will likely miss Paz's reveal to Linares. Sigh.
Happy Friday all!
Diana
Madelaine, hope hubby is up and about soon.
How much do I love Pato...let me count the ways. Are we sure Hannah and Pato are REALLY the natural offspring of Max and Rosa? Dumbass, yep, totally makes sense. But Pato especially, he took no prisoners last night. I'm not loving the idea that the writers are just making Luci and Pato such a perfect pair, yet, as everyone pointed out yesterday, Luci will wind up with Dumbass in the end.
Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with the fact that Luci and Pato do hook up, and THEY raise the baby we are suspecting Luci is having. Let the sorry excuse for a galan do the horizontal with Gala and be stuck with her.Which apparently said jerk will be doing tonight. So much for "I will love Luci forever". I guess it's more "but hey I'm a guy so I get to still tango on the side and will moon into the camera occassionally." Blech.
Bets that Paz doesn't get all her info out on Luci - I so hope we are surprised and Claudio does find out he's her father. But we have too many episodes left right? That would bust open all of Rosa's wrongs...seems to early for that.
Thanks, Vivi. you do such a great job.
Cathy in Wytheville (VA?) Luci will no doubt end up with Rod, telenovela rules and all... drat! They did break the rules in Querida Enemiga and let the protagonista have the one WE wanted her to end up with. The loser galan was none other than Gabe Soto, so I doubt it will happen again. Wouldn't it be fun if he ends up tagged "The little galan who couldn't?!"
Where are those nice young men in their clean white coats?
Looking forward also to Connie proving her sister completely wrong about Oscar.
Finally, how many episodes has it been since Luci fainted?
Sign me up for the road trip to Audrey's for some delicious food!
Diana and Daisynjay- Clearly the writers realize that they are making Pato out to be the better man here. You can't have such contrasting characters and not realize who the audience is going to love. I hope they will not make Pato a tragic figure and will give him a happy ending too.
On the face of it the pregnancy would tie Luci back to the DF but her other tie is Claudio. I'm pretty sure that he and probably Paz as well would want Luci to stay around and get to know him. Even if she did flee to Het Het and have the baby unless Dimwit went looking for her she would alas probably keep it a secret which would also mean hiding it from Pato and Jana.
The Pato/Luci relationship is sweet but as much as i agree they should be the lead pair it isn't likely to happen. In reality Pato has years of rehab ahead of him even with a miracle TN cure. In the previous version of this the relationship between the two was the same as it was here,sweet and protective. In that case however the Pato character paralysis was hysterical and he therefore did get back on his feet and made a run for the girl his dumbass bro loved and treated badly.
I was thinking about Rosa and her reaction a couple of days ago when Julie threw out the jab that Claudio's daughter was still alive and Rosa warned her what she was capable of. It puzzled me why she never questioned how the botoxed boob could have known. She warned th woman in black about talking and in her blind arrogance i guess she figured one threat from her and Frigida would remain mute for life like Mati.
I will be furious if the dumbass does the horizontal mambo with Gagme. I'm hoping that before he actually does the deed Gagme says something or he hears Luci 's voice and backs off and throws the skank out of the apartment. Either that or he can't get it up and she has to slink away in defeat.
I could live with that here too. Change from predictability is a good thing. But if we HAVE to get the predictable, boy, this is one galan who needs a major attitude adjustment & a real dose somehow of humility. And as Vivi points out so perfectly, they better do right by Pato. No someone's sloppy seconds or having him just be the couples BF and smile for them at the end.
I keep praying for TN's that aren't just constant remakes of old predictable stories.
Madelaine---Will be waiting for your return.
Cathy---"Rosalooney" that's great.
Audrey---Are you going to invite us over for enchiladas?
Yeah---Good going Pato.
I am really going to hate watching tonights episode. No, not because of the Olympics but because NimRod will be back in Gagme's bed AAAGGGHHH!!! A pregnant Gagme??? Stupid NimRod!!!
the gringo
Last night I was puzzled by that choppy scene at Infierno and Aldo's walking around. I wonder if Max thinks Lastra and Ivan are skimming money and he wants Aldo to see how many folks are in there gambling adn what kind of money is changing hands. Both those guys know Aldo is Max's nephew so the whole thing didn't make much sense to me.
I think Rosa is arrogant. Like you said she, thinks she is smarter than everyone else. But she also thinks she understands human nature and that everyone else is like her-- they will do whatever it takes to hide their sins. She really does not think that Paz would ever reveal something that could hurt her and distance her from Luci. She doesn't get that other people actually put the interests of others (particularly their kids) above their own.
Gringo- Glad you liked the little factoid about nimrod and Bugs Bunny. :)
So I have a confusion about the marriage of our pair. I assume they had a civil, legal wedding (divorce necessary)but I missed it. In a Catholic culture, does that carry as much weight as a church wedding? How married were they? That was the quick-iest divorce I think I've ever encountered, more like an annulment, no?
Thank you all
I can only say that watching something like Refugio is refreshing. Up to date no real insanity like so many others seem to throw on the screen. Am off to watch the end of Corazon Apasionata which in the last couple of weeks has become a total train wreck. With one hour to go we have not one, not two but SEVEN horrible villains running around, they include killers, a rapist, three who have attempted murder and one looney who confessed to a murder while in the manicomio's padded cell and is out cured in two days. I swear it is going to take the Mayan End of Days or a nuclear holocaust to get rid of these people plus which we have a rape victim pregnant with her rapist child, one blind character who hasn't had a miracle cure, a heroine who had been strong now hiding in her room because of a scar on her face (they don't know about plastic surgery apparently) and one maybe two wedding yet to come.
The marriage was a civil ceremony with the religious one to come before all hell broke loose. A marriage in Mexico must be civil to be legal and yes the religious ceremony is important for believers. The marriage lasted one month and was consummated hence the divorce which did take place with the speed of light.
Anon 2:43 explained the marriage/divorce perfectly. Another reason for it being quick is that neither party opposed it, there are no children (yet), and there were no joint assets to deal with.
And Connie deserves better than her sister. I hope she still goes away for the weekend with Oscar and then comes back to tell Rosa all the erotic details. Maybe bring her back a gift of that Shades of Gray book so Rosa knows what she's missing.
Kelly
Rod has MAJOR ground to make to win the race for Luci in my mind.
And I think Emilia put it best...
Wouldn't it be fun if he ends up tagged "The little galan who couldn't?!"
YEs, Gabriel Soto was the leading man left out in the end of Querida Enemiga, so i dcubt they would nail him twice in two leading roles. so chances are Rod gets Luci but we REALLY want Pato to get a good girl in the end too.
Kelly, i like your thinking about Valentina joining the Pro-Luci young'uns team. She DEFINITELY deserves better friends than Gala.
and Connie and Oscar, definitely looking forward to watch those two put a smile in our faces even when the Luci/Rod situation seems hopeless.
The weekend photo gallery is in the posting queue for 11PM.
No point in following the plot, LOL, it was a completely disjointed free-for-all.
Two gigantic howls over the last week were the scene where four characters were slogging though the Mexican jungle one warning about dangerous animals when lo and behold a bengal tiger appeared and attacked one of them (who miraculously survived until he took a bath) and the fact that this took place in the boonies and there was an accidental flash of the Miami skyline long before scar girl went there for her surgery. No more afternoon novelas for me for a long while. LOL
Decie Girl - you're not going to try Sortilegio?
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