Caray, Caray!

 




In this issue: JudyB’s Jems; Capturing Episode Essences; Food for Thought; The Poets Corner


WE BEGIN WITH JUDYB’S JEMS
Thanks for the reminder about ship protocol. Maybe we'll learn how to say "Permission to come aboard, sir" in Spanish. I'm sure that will come in handy here in central Ohio.

They say that danger and the presence of death makes you verrrrry lustful. Something about wanting to plant your seed before your permanent exit from planet earth. So yeah, makes sense that Marina and Dam Fab were feeling especially hawt last night while those bullets were whizzing. And us right along with 'em!

Hernán looks quite fetching from a distance, and our DamFab is always delicious.

We all need a St. Eusie in our lives, and an Elna June as well.

Ay yi yi..don't throw tomatoes at me but Pestercita doesn't look particularly miserable with Ernesto. She seems content to be adored, spoiled and given lots of gifts.  She has amnesia but not a lobotomy. Still, we never see her cringing in revulsion. We're all appalled but she doesn't seem to be.

This episode had me muttering Estupido! Estupido! If Candy and cohorts don't get this straightened out soon I'm going to have to take a Sulk Break from this telenovela.

I do continue to be amused by how many scenes Monica Miguel has scripted of her hugging our muscular sculpted Damian. Do you think I could manage to get cast as a wise old woman in his next movie? Certainly be worth a try.


CAPTURING EPISODE ESSENCES

JudyB, resident psychologist, says:
Well, we have a lot established by this second episode.

Damian is a lusty, macho guy who leads with his lance if it's a lady, and with his fists if it's a man. And the poor doofus is already in love.

And Marina is a modern take-charge woman who's going to be seduced by an inherently lovable cave man. Awwwwww.

Fulgencio is a sh#t who disrespects his wife and is all about his daughter and face-saving.

Mayuya hates Estercita, with reason. Estercita is an over-privileged drip.

Hernan is a creepy, stalker bad guy involved in white slavery. And obsessed with Marina.

Mercedes has been used and abused but has triumphed. And of course we're hoping that her other daughter, presumably used and abused will make it too.




Hernán's red skinny pants were most unfortunate. They are alas unfortunate on anyone who wears them, man, woman or child. Proof positve, if we needed it, that he will NEVER GET Marina. Ever. [JudyB]

When I saw the red pants I thought Peter Frampton!! Yes, because once when I saw PF live he wore bright red pants and it scarred my eyes for life. [Cap’n]

Wish I had seen Hernan’s red pants. Gah. Mejia has a good sense of humor. Or the absurd. [Doris]

JudyB, excellent point about the red pants. They are not a chick magnet. Period. [Cap’n]

Hey! I thought Hernan rocked those red pants. Is it me or does he (the actor) look smaller than he did in LaReinaDelSur? He seems shorter/thinner. [Eli]

I too liked Hernan’s red pants on It’s... so Italian/Euro looking; he's got the slim build for it. [Shallowgal]

Eli, it's The Pants!!! [Cap’n]

Yes! The red pants! (Just like Roy el Rollero's in Amores Verdaderos!). Villains wear silly pants and heroes get to wear tight sexy jeans. It's the rule. BTW, did anyone else notice the baggy-bottomed yellowish pants Hernán Haskell wore the other day? It ain't easy being mean. [NovelaMaven]

I do not know how I missed those red pants. [CeCe]

Thank you for addressing the red pants right in the title! From the moment I saw them, I thought, "Hernan is channeling Howard Wollowitz!" [TN4ever]

The red pants have been very hip for young guys for a few years now. Along with the skinny leg, it's an import from Europe. I don't like the look personally, but it's fashionable. [Vivi]

So, I kept reading your comments about Hernan's pants and how red they were and realized that even if I did notice them from the very beginning, they didn't look weird at all to me. [Shallowgal]

Vivi then said something that might explain this: apparently this type of pants are very fashionable in Europe - I have no eyes for men's fashion, but now that I think of it, that is sooo true! My brother has several pairs, I know a lot of guys who wear them and they're all pretty men-ish. Heck, even my husband has a pair in dark red, that I bought. [Shallowgal]

I noticed Iván Sánchez dresses very Euro style; he is after all Español. [Shallowgal]

The audacity of Hernan to wear those red pants in back to back episodes. He's not in Mexico City or Barcelona for crying out loud.... He is in a sleepy little fishing village . Show some respect for the simple folk and wear some partially worn blue jeans. Por favor! In Hernans defense, at least when Damian punches him in the face his blood won't ruin his precious pants. [Gertie]

The crack about the blushing as red as the pants, and then Variopinta's baboon butt comment- bahahahahahahaha! [Bailey Marie]

And there is Hernán still running around in his tight red pants looking like some kind of malevolent elf. What's next? Those dreadful midcalf pedal-pushers? [NovelaMaven]

Okay. Hernan + red pants + violin = Big Bang Theory: Mexico version? [Doris]

Hey, what is it with red pants, because El Papacito was also wearing red britches. Oops, not y'all know I was peeking at his undies. [Cap’n]

If Hernán Gasbag Orange Pants were aware of  [Madrina’s destiny for Marina], he'd know he had nooooo chance. Still, his clothing selection alone damns him for any chance of future  happiness anyway.  Dress like a man, Hernán! You need a nice sloppy pair of middle-age Dockers and some lowered expectations for a love interest. Tain't gonna be Marina, boy. [JudyB]

I almost can't wait to get home so I can start watching this, just so I can see Hernan's flaming rainbow of pants. [Doris]

What a rainbow of skinny jeans we're getting from Hernan! We've seen red and mint green, and last night we had orange and aqua. I'll be terribly disappointed if he doesn't wear a hot pink pair by the gran final. [Bailey Marie]

Well, part of Hernán Haskell's lack of appeal is that his pants are actually TOO tight. The pockets bulge and flare, which they wouldn't if the fit was right. Lord knows, the man doesn't have an inch of flab on his body, but the wardrobe people still have him in a size too small. [JudyB]

Ever since Hernan started prancing around in his RED pants I have noticed these very colorful pants everywhere. Even Fernando in Porque El Amor Manda has a pair of red. You're right, Hernan does wear them well, but I think he looks even more stunning in his towel. [Cap’n]

I have to confess I have, as we speak, a pair of red stretch skinny jeans in my closet. HOWEVER, it's not every guy that pull off that look. I agree with EJ that Hernan can rock the colored denim look and then some (I also hate his character!). [Katy]


Perhaps it's Ful-of-himself's physical presence that makes him (to me) more of a viable villain than Hernán. A man with an achilles heel (obsession over a woman he will never have) has too many chinks in the armor...[Diana, Goddess of Wisdom]

As for a viable villain, Hernan is the worst kind, because he comes off as being the normal, solid citizen, charmer. He's the kind we are shocked to learn later is a serial killer.  Fully is right out in the open. We expect him to be bad with that open, nostril-flaring temper. However, except for some lapses in public, he keeps all this anger in check and defuses himself on his family. [Anita]

I like that Hernan is creepily protective of Marina. He is convincingly charming and attractive, until his eyes get even darker, then looks completely loco. What a transformation. [Shallowgal]

Hernan is the creepiest sort of bad guy. He is very insidious. Sometimes I wonder if there really is a Big Boss or if Hernan himself is the puppetmaster. Probably not because he's also got businesses to run. [Cap’n]

I agree with everyone about Hernan being insidious. As much as I love Cesar Evora, Hernan seems to be a much smarter, vicious villain. Foolgencio has too much of a temper to last the entire TN. [Bailey Marie]

Little skinny Hernan could never look menacing. Sinister, sneaky, perturbed, creepy stalker - yes. [Anon]

Hernan is such a child. And all this time I was thinking Fulgencio was the melodramatic villain, Hernan the saavy businessman. But both characters are wallowing in the their self-pitying pasts. Hernan's skinny pants do make for some entertainment though. [Bailey Marie]


Poor Hernan. CapDamFab's guitar is bigger than Hernan’s violin, So Marina will naturally end up with Brad Pitt...er...CapDamFab. [Doris]

Snort! (In my opinion, our boy is Prettier than Pitt.) [NovelaMaven]

Doris - I was thinking last night that the guitar was a poor man's version of a violin. but I like your version best! tee hee [Shallowgal]

Question about band practice..... If Dam has a GUITAR and Hern has a violin, does Fulofhimselfio have a ukelele ? Just asking. Also.. is anyone playing a cello or the bass? [Susanlynn]

Great comments everyone about the guitar vs. violin, and Hernan's violin obsession. I thought Hernan did a better job of air violin than Dam did with air guitar. [Cap’n Sylvia]

Doris--shame on you, amiga, and, holding a fluttery fan so no one could see, laughed at the comparison between violin and guitar. [Anita]

"The Fishing Boat Meets the Yacht" conjured up the matter of size. Does it indeed matter?  [Shallowgal]


My seasick advice to Marina is 1) have the beer, 2) don't stick your head in the seafood pot and 3) stop staggering around the boat and stay low (on deck). Sheesh. [Cap’n]

We in the Navy use butter. Really butter, lol. It stops the seasickness. It has some natural sea sick stopping components. lol. [Madelaine]

Butter? I'll have to remember that. OK then, a nice big piece of bread with butter, or some crackers with butter. And the beer. [Cap’n]

Hmmm...beer, bread, and butter...I might hurl right now while I am sitting at the dining room table. [Susanlynn]

Susanlynn, sometimes a beer can help because it messes with your equilibrium, which can help with seasickness. But in general I don't really condone drinking while operating a boat of any sort. It's not like Marina is doing much of anything except running around with her notebook. [Cap’n]

Nice under water action with the bomb under the boat. Lloyd Bridges would have been impressed. [Gertie]

What in the heck happened to the bomb? We were denied an underwater explosion, harrumph! [Cap’n]

You're right.  How come we didn't get to see the bomb go boom? [Adriana Noel]

Pirates probably learn how to plant bombs under boats during the Pirates 101 level class. [Doris]

And I bet we'll learn many other things about ships, captains, crews, pirates etc.. while watching this. [Adriana Noel]

Hernan is talking to his outside water feature with a glass of wine in hand. I always find a glass of wine loosens me up when I want to converse with a cement pond, don’t you? [Tomas the Magnificent]

Iván Sanchez sure makes a nice yacht decoration! [Audrey]

Seeing "his" woman being kissed by DamTenderKissableLips is torture to Herny. Think about your personal Red Harem Herny. Or go blow up something. Or play a short etude. Just go away.  [Vita]


The following are allusions (or illusions) to our favorite worst telenovela ever.

NovelaMaven reporting:

We cannot see the belt buckle of el tal Robles but we do see a large shiny badge hanging close to his heart.  (So much gravitas in one room. How do they fit it in?)

Comandante Unibrow knows better -- the unspeakable happens in the quietest of places.  They are launching a federal investigation.

DamFab walks through the dark cave of the orchids and stops near a pool (could be limpid -- too dark to tell) and a cluster of brilliant yellow flowers.

While Marina is sipping martinis with a love-sick criminal, DamFab is toting her mother like a not especially heavy sack of avocados.

Wish there were some way to work in orange pants, but Boda Bag Antonio wouldn’t have been caught dead in them—and he wasn’t. (Best death scene on record, in all our humble opinions.) [Anita interjects]

La Temp is nowhere near as bad as El Tal. [Cap’n]


DamFab prepares lunch and even makes gutting and scaling fish look sexy. He’s got such a big...knife! [Cap’n’s recap]

Thank you Sylvia. I read, "DamFab has a big ... knife" and almost died from laughter. He sure does. [Vita]

And no blame should be placed on those blinded by his big... kitchen utensils served in WWP. [Vita]

If Esthercita, who was WAY more drunk than Dam, can be woman enough not to blame the demon liquor and own up to sleeping with Dam because she DamWell felt like it, then he can be man enough to admit that he let his, uhm...knife take over his thinking that night. [Vivi]

Vivi, he took responsibility for misusing/misplacing that big kitchen apparatus. [Vita]

Even if Perversio-the-Uncle (I vomited a bit) pries his daughter's bedroom door open to pleasure his overused rusty knife with Maycucu... Ursula would hand him googlemaps directions to the snake's quarters. She is not interested. [Vita]

Did you notice how Delfina (or as I think of her, Dolphin) was stabbing her fork into her food as she sat at the table with Ful-of-himself-io. USE that anger, woman! [NovelaMaven]

Yes. I did notice Delfina showing some of her anger by stabbing at her tamale. Hopefully, one say she’ll stab Full-of-himself with that fork. [Vivi]

I expect great things from Delfina's fork in the future. [Anita]

I'm lovin' this show. I can't imagine why they're not eating this with a spoon in Mexico. [Carlos]

FOOD FOR THOUGHT (AND DRINKS)
This section is for Carlos and all the Foodie Wannabies (with a promise not to mention all the times someone is offered beer, tequila, pulque or tea—or spits tea or coffee on the monitor).

The local color of the fiesta, tiara notwithstanding, was such fun. What beautiful food. [Carlos]

Doña Rufi has laid out a bunch of food on the table. Jose and Beatriz sit down at the table to eat. [Mauricio’s Recap]

Only two episodes so far and already some tasty looking food... excellent. [Carlos]

Carlos, thanks for reminding me about the fantastic food in this episode. I think I finally figured out what Dona Rufi cooked up (it took a while). [Cap’n Sylvia]

I think she made:
Chilpachole de Jaibo (spicy crab soup)

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