Caray, Caray!

Sorry i did not get to the recap (or even watching the ep) until now... was a bit anxious of folks in TX going to closing for the sale of my house so i had no head for any recaping until today. Hope you all enjoy it.
I enjoyed the scenes where the avon calls did not get sales (in reverse for Vicky and Max), Pato/Rod, Rod/Luci and Luci/Padre M. LOVED the Frigida takes a shower moment... priceless!
 

Hi Ms. Marta...Hope the closing went well and that house is signed, sealed and delivered.

So glad you gave the complete text of the "esperanza....fé...valentia..." quote by Padre Honesto. That was a fine scene.

Also got a kick out of your saying that Connie was "having tea with THE OLDER WITCHES". hAH.

But my favorite was your oh-so-discreet "lying up her rearview side". Ah, go ahead and say it, girlfriend, she was lying up her a$$! But bless you for being such a lady. Roselena sure isn't.

Utterly miserable watching a baby cry unattended while Chelo struggles with drowning his sorrows again in alcohol. Please writers, get this baby back to Luciana cuanto antes!...a como dé lugar. Can't stand this.

But great recap SuperMarta. And again, hope all went smoothly with the house sale.
 

Thanks Marta mucho. I found it cringeworthy when Chelo tried to stuff Mateo into his "box" by pushing down on his head 2 or 3 times to get him under the handle. He finally pulled his legs forward and slid him in. I can't get that scene out of my head. They are cruel to these babies in TNs.
 

Marta- Many thanks amiga for working so hard to get us this wonderful recap. No need to appologize. We have the whole weekend, and your house sale is WAY more important. Hope it turned out to be profitable for you.

I also cringed when Don Chelo tried to stuff Mateo back into the wooden carriage that's too small for him. I once again invisioned the real mother on the other side of the camera biting her nails.

Mateo does not like Don Chelo drinking. I hope this is a one time fall off the wagon, and that he soon finds his resolve to kick the bottle again. He was definitely scared about those nosey women taking Mateo away from him and got the heebie jeebies from Rosa, as he should. I don't like the previews of Rosa realizing the baby might be Luci's.

I loved Aldo's snide comments about Gala's maternal instincts. He just said out loud what the rest of the family was thinking. Rod is basically going to be a single parent with that girl. I don't know where he got the idea that Gala was going to wait till the baby was three years old before going back to work. More like three MONTHS.

Max and Lastra need to give it up already and leave Vicky and Ofelia in peace. Viejos rabo verde!

I laughed at Hannah's word play about Lorenzo being FINE/it being ok for her to call him, and her interaction with Pato about it. Rosa is bound to catch her talking to him one of these days. She's just been too busy baby-stealing and covering her tracks the last few months to notice.

I also enjoyed Padre's talk with Luci. I think they are playing Luci's grief just right. You could see her struggling to pretend to be happy when she was with her friends and Pato, and when she saw the picture of Rod's baby girl. But she was honest with Padre Honesto about how she really feels. The Padre gave her good advice I thought.
 

Thanks as always Martha. I lurvvv that Frigida is taking a shower. How often does she take a shower. once a year? I too am so afraid of the baby being crammed into that make shift box. and why does it even have chicken wire on it! Truly cruel!At the end of every Holywood movies, where there are animals involved, they always have a disclaimer that no animals were hurt while the movie was being shot. This is a real and big cute baby not a doll. Cringe is really aptly said by Anon6:17.
 

Thank you for recapping for us MartaIvett even though you had such an anxious day, hope it went well.
Loved you referring to Rosa as the wicked witch of the east. Theres karmageddon for her someone should drop a house on that character.
I hope there isn't much more of that baby being with that hobo, it is getting on my nerves. I hope Rosa doesn't decide to do something.
 

Good work, Marta.

Roselena is in for a serious fate for all this. The flip way in which she talks about Luci's baby most likely being dead is so way beyond abnormal I'm surprised neither of her other children is saying anything, even to the other.

If I were writing this I would have Roselena steal the baby back and get caught by Rodrigo. The fires of hell would feel like a cold fjord compared to his anger if that happened.
 

Marta-thank you so much for this fab recap and I too hope the sale of your house went well. I forgot to tell you the other day, your grandson is sooo cute! Love the avatar. And amiga, you can use my phrases and titles any time. You use them so well.

I just knew Gagme was so NOT going to be a good Mom, or any type of Mom at all. She just happened to hook Rod the Bod with that bebe. She is adorable. It's sad Gagme is rejecting her bebe. Rod will make a terrific parent though. That little girl will get a lot of love from not only Rod, but Pato, Jana, and Max. I don't think Rosa is capable of any love.

Speaking of Rosa, she sure was staring at the bebe when her car almost hit Don Chelo and lil Mateo. Isn't it funny how Dios always puts her crimes right in her face? First Luci returns to the same house Rosa got rid of Luci from and then she Claudio gets released from prison and she has to deal with the disinternment and then she just happens to run into lil Rodrigo/Mateo on the street. Interesting. Seems Dio IS listening to her, and showing her the error of her ways, which she is so NOT getting.

Poor Luci is suffering, but slowly coming around and worrying about Rod's lil girl. I am glad she is back at work, and about to help kids on the street. I like how she always thinks of others. I like the Padre so much in this TN. I loved how he compared Luci losing the bebe to the Virgin Mary losing Jesus and then finding him in the Temple. Padre Honesto is so wise.

I was really hoping Don Chelo would NOT hit that bottle again, and I too hope he gives it up. I like how Dona Chuy got on him about that and is continuing to keep after him as the advances show. He really needs to clean up his act and I didn't like the way he forced lil Mateo in that carriage either. He needs a bigger one and also some type of a bed. That poor bebe has been sleeping sitting up in that carriage. He is probably uncomfortable.
 

Sorry I typed she in front of Claudio in my comment. That is a typo.
 

Marta - Thanks for a lovely recap.

This is tough to watch with no one suspecting RE and Gala. I know Rod and Luci will most likely wind up together raising both kids, but I always hoped he'd "earn it."

Luci not heeding her dream of RE and Gala as nurses taking her baby is colmo. Has she never heard of women's intuition? Luci, follow your instincts. You're praying for your baby to be found, but you don't pay attention to the signals you're given.

The opera singer is a sweet old drunk. Hopefully after he wakes up from downing that bottle, he'll realize Mateo deserves better than he can offer.
 

I don't know if Luci remembered her dream. She seemed to have forgotten what exactly happened in it as soon as she woke up-- which is normal.
 

I'm not a big fan of Aldo but i did have to laugh when he said what everyone else is thinking. It is obvious that he like Pato and Jana has absolutely no use for our dear new mother - gag me.

Felt so sorry for Luci during the scene with the padre. It is obvious she is now losing her faith on top of having lost her baby. I keep remembering how young she is and how so much has changed for her in a year, getting married, getting divorced, finding out the truth about her life, having a baby, losing the baby. That's a lot to handle for a 19/20 year old especially a sheltered one from the boonies. I also really felt for her when she helped Pato with the phone and saw the picture of Rod's new baby it must have been like a knife in her heart.

Max seemed a little more subdued in his scene with Vicki who suddenly has grown a backbone. I'm curious to see how that relationship will play out. I can't help thinking that Max drugged and handcuffed the wrong woman, it should have ben Rosa.

Not to be too picky here but the Rosa recognizing, maybe, LRod/Mateo is a bit far fetched. She saw Luci only as a newborn and now thinks a two month old looks like her. That has to be her guilty conscience if she has one. It is too frightening to think what she might do to Don C and the infant.
 

Martaivett--Now we know why they call you SuperMarta--multitasking. Why didn't you have your house drop on the WW of the West before the signing. Congratulations on the sale.

The title fit perfectly--I liked Avon calling, too.

Three months? I bet it's three WEEKS--unless she can milk some more attention from Rod. I still think the whole "wants a real marriage" Rod is a sham. She never tires of telling Viewerville how much she hates him and wants to make him suffer. The best way is for her to ignore the child and get back to work. I'm pretty sure Julie and RE aren't going to let her go that route.

Too funny, Aldo buying himself a car with Max's funds. We don't know whether he ever found Lastra or not, but Lastra doesn't look as though he's been hobo-ing in the park. He looks clean.

Also, in that exchange Aldo had with Max in the office about the break up with Vicky. Max says that's not what you said in the restaurant, you said you were novios. Aldo replies they really were only friends, but he said that to protect Max and divert suspicion. It wasn't important, but I thought I'd add it.

Gets me why RE even got out of the car, if not to make the point to Viewerville. Knowing her as we do, she would have let Genaro get out so see what was going on--or asked him to drive on and avert her eyes as he did so, since the old guy wasn't even hit.

I missed the sarcasm in Juli's comment about the exemplary marriage. You brought it out.

"Funiculì, Funiculà" is a famous Neapolitan song written by Italian journalist Peppino Turco and set to music by Italian composer Luigi Denza in 1880. It was composed to commemorate the opening of the first funicular cable car on Mount Vesuvius. The 1880 cable car was later destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 1944.(Some remains of the top station were still visible in September 2012).

Six years after "Funiculì, Funiculà" was composed, German composer Richard Strauss heard the song while on a tour of Italy. Thinking that it was a traditional Neapolitan folk song, he later incorporated it into his Aus Italien tone poem. Denza filed a lawsuit against Strauss and eventually won. Strauss was forced to pay him a royalty fee.[1] Another who mistook "Funiculì, Funiculà" for a traditional folk song was Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, who used it in his 1907 work, Neapolitanskaya pesenka (Neapolitan Song).[2][3] Modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg set a version for string quartet[4] which was used in an episode of the TV sitcom Seinfeld.

Here is a link to Andrea Bocelli singing it on Youtube (then pick out his link for Por Ti Volare---it's gorgeous, he sings it in Spanish--I couldn't find his solo version in Italian) Bocelli Funi

Bocelli Por Ti
 

It went before I could edit the Wikipedia entry for Funiculi.

The live link is there and seems to work...at least for me. Would someone please try it and let us know?
 

What bothers me the most right now is that unless the nurse confesses or one of the witches slips up they are going to get away with what they did. There is no proof. What they did over and above being heartless is a crime. All three of them belong in jail. Rosa skipping off to the manicomio and later being released "cured" would be completely unsatisfying.

If the state can't punish them then God has to and it has to fit the crime. What Rosa values most is her version of the perfect family so she has to lose her family. J and G most value their looks and money therefore they must end up with neither.
 

Oops I didn't mean the nurse i meant the janitor.
 

Max and Rosa are starting to lose it. I can't believe that Rosa looked at Mateo and thought he was BabyRod. (All newborns babies look the same and they change too much in 2 months). I think like others have said that she is just being confronted with her crime. She should see BabyRod's everywhere. And poor, dumb Max, telling Vicky to largate as she's walking out the door. She's over you, Bud. So glad this story line didn't get dragged out.

The pacing on this show has been really good. It's been a little slow lately but for the most part, everything moved ahead bit by bot with reasonable timing so that none of these weeks seemed unnecessary (looking at you LQNPA). And no one's been raped! Score one for these writers, unless they screw it up in the last weeks with Lastra and Ofelia. They better not.

Kelly
 

Kelly, I too was like WTH when RE said the baby looked like Rod... the baby was only hours old or maybe one day old when it dissappeared, and it has been over two months... how in the world would RE say it looked like Rod, although she is Rod's mother so she should remember what Rod looked like at 2 mos... however, everyone else said that when he was born, the baby looked like Luciana, not like Rod. BUt like you said, newborn babies are very much alike and change LOTS by a few months age.
 

i thought it was funny that Mati commented that since Gagme is hiring a nanny and two nurses for the baby, if Frigida also works for them, she would be Gagme's own nanny. LOL!
 

Thanks Marta (and Mad on Thurs) for giving the scene by scene play that I love reading so much. It was a tiring week in Lake Woebegon (any Garrison fans?) so I've been offline, and y'all have covered everything in your comments.

Like most of you, I find the mistreatment of the baby hard to watch and I ff through it. Don Chelo isn't fit no matter how much he wants to be and I can't stand the angry bickering between Chelo and Chuy, which is scaring the baby for real. Trust, bonding, safety ... it's all forming in Lil Matt/Roddie right now so there's real and lasting damage happening. The writers aren't into that kind of real life detail but they should get a clue if they're going to persist in kidnapping babies in novelas.

Gala has gone to Novelaland's Place Beyond Human Feeling. She kidnapped a baby and threw it in the garbage out of hate. She doesn't want to hold, feed or look at her own baby. We can only expect more of the same from her.

Rosa will be paranoid about the baby she saw being wheeled across the street. So true, Mad, Dios does put her crimes right in her face. Where would a street person get a baby about the same age as Luci's unless he found said baby in the trash on a rainy night, she'll ask. Some babies are recognizable as they grow and this one is her flesh and blood. But, shudder ... she was capable of throwing away her own grandchild and if she encounters Lil Roddy, she'll try to do it again. Terrible things happen in Novelaland and this one just makes me sad.

The relationship between Rod and Luci doesn't have that pull and passion in this section of the novela. It's overwhelmed by grief and the reality of his real life with GagMe. Rod really irritates me because he shows up, as always, and tries to be comforting and supportive but he still seriously lacks follow-through and a backbone. He's no Juan del Diablo that's for sure.

Anita, I too noted Aldo telling Max that he was covering for him by pretending to be Vicki's novio. We all know that Aldo was railroaded into the novio bit by Vicki so he's actually telling Max the truth of the matter in this scene though Aldo, the smooth operator, is making himself look selfless in the process. Max damn near snapped Aldo's throat because he thought Aldo was into his girl so Max should be just a little contrite, if he were capable of that.

Nothing was accomplished on either side, by Vicki going to Max's apartment except that we see that Max has lost his old chops or he would have intimidated her right into bed.

Lastra... what IS he still around for? I thought his park lurking would come in handy in the babynapping somehow, but not so. His storyline needs to get somewhere or go away.

Estelita's odd speaking voice: I mentioned Ofelia Guilmain (Brig's real life mother) who, it seemed to me, was given a part in La Otra as a plum for a long career or because she was under contract and had to be used, because she was barely in good enough shape for a role. I think the same of Este. She can hardly deliver the lines. Just my opinion.
 

Thanks Anita for the history on Funiculi, Funicula. More is there than I would have thought and it's such a catchy chorus that it's no wonder it came to the attention of several composers ... and I never imagined that the song was actually about a funicula. I figured it was an Italian word I'd never 'get.'
 

It is an odd subject for a song, but I guess if trains can be muses for songwriters, then why not this form of transportation?

On the subject of music, if anyone wants to be in San Diego on March 16, the opera is having special performances of "Cruzar la Cara de la Luna" with Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan. Yep. Mariachi opera. A musical novela (which is pretty much all opera).

Kelly
 

HOLA,HOLA,HOLA AMIGA(O)S,

I have missed you all so much. I have also missed all and any novelas of the last 6 months. I was literally stuck in WA State for all of that long with NO TV, only Hulu, and missed the beginning of the novelas they were showing.

I am happy to say that I am now living in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, about 20 miles from Tijuana- whoo hoo! Mom and cats and I got here two weeks ago. We're about 1.5 blocks from the ocean. Mind you, it ain't Cancun, but a bit more quieter, more vacant lots and under construction, showing that the Mexican economy is getting better.

Don't listen to the media about how dangerous things are. Sure, if you're looking for drugs and danger you'll find it. Crossing the border by car or foot from either side, there are NO problems. No one is trying to kidnap you or harm you. There is a military presence, but nothing to scare you. I'll get off my "caja de jabón" now and stop preaching about border crossings.

My neighbors are a mixture of Mexican, American, Canadian and British. There is a Super Walmart and outdoor mall complete with Sally's Beauty Supply, GNC, cinema and Applebees a little further than walking distance. I have also called and Splangished my way through ordering a Dominos pizza the other day with success-Ha!--

That being said, I am in the process of looking for a Spanish Language Immersion class, as well as the bilingual schools (one I am told is in my neighborhood) as I am certified TEFL instructor I can learn my new language and teach my old.

My husband will joining us late next month, he needs to finish up a work assignment in his home town in Durango, MX.

I will keep you posted on my new life here and will catch up on the TN's when my satellite is installed next month.

Feels good to be back posting here.
xo
Valeena
 

VALEENA...so glad all is well with you and you were able to order a pizza by telephone...speaking Spanish on the telephone is like graduating suma cum laude in my opinion. Way to go! and glad you're back with us.

The stories about Mexico are like the stories about America. To the Europeans, it sounds like we have muggings and killings going on every day in our neighborhoods, whereas for most of us that is not so. And would that it were not so in the poorer neighborhoods where good people are often terrorized and harmed.

CAROL...I agree with you about Estellita's oddly uninflected voice. It's absolutely without tone. She delivers her lines like the most woeful of non-thespians. I don't know why she was cast, poor soul, because clearly, acting is not her gift.
 

Nice to meet you, Valeena. No better immersion course than watching an evening of novelas! Glad to hear that Tijuana isn't what we always heard.

My cats send greeting to yours. That's my Figaro guarding my posts.

US television has influenced people in cities other than the one in the story. After 20+ years of various Law & Order incarnations and more years than I can count of sensationalist journalism everyone outside of New York thinks we're awash in crime. It's really safe here, too.

Gracias, Anita, for explaining "Fanicula." The first time I ever heard it (many years ago) was in something for children, sung by children, with stupid lyrics. I have hated it every since.
 

Welcome back Valeena! Nice to see you here again and to get an update on what you've been up to.
 

So Rosa thinks she recognizes LRod/Mateo when she sees him with Don Chelo. Dare I say it - the infamous novela Call of the Blood. LOL
 

I wish LRod/Mateo had started to scream when RE looked at him!
 

Anita

I thought he did. I'm also hoping that Gala's baby screams every time one of the witches looks at her, we know they won't touch her. I'm also looking forward to a spitting up on them scene.
 

He stared at her really long and hard and then started to cry.
 

Smart kid.