Friday, November 08, 2013

CI capítulo 128, Thur. 11-7-13 -- The Good, the Bad, and the Crazy. (You Decide Who’s Who.)



            Simona involves Maricruz in the main drama of this episode. The Narvaez brothers share in this problem, while some secondary characters stir and simmer their own drama in the background.  The smaller matters will be summarized first, then on to the juicy stuff. 

Previously
            Simona puts on a convincing show for the doctors, answering their questions correctly and appearing quite sane and logical. They leave.
            Perico discusses marriage at Solita (not with, exactly.) She understands once he points to his ring finger. She happily mimes a wedding crown, veil, and long train on a dress. He can’t afford a lavish wedding and somehow makes her understand. She happily agrees to a simple ceremony.     
            Valdez of the rodent face is visiting Vargas and saying the people must move from the Rancho Narvaez settlement so gold extraction can begin.

Land Grabbing and Gossip
            Valdez and Vargas discuss the wild colony (Realengo) and the rancho colony (Narvaez). If Vargas would just cooperate in moving everyone out, he could become the CEO of a utility company in the city. If he doesn’t, who knows where he could end up? (So much for Solita and MC hosting his wedding at the hacienda.)

            Clorinda stops by to visit Ester. The people are restless and miserable; they need to see a solution to the land and housing problem. By the way, Amador is doing better with his daughter Lina. He brings her treats and pays more attention to her. And Simona is BSC. Clo needs to find Padre Julian and let him know there’s violence brewing with the poor folk.  That evening, Padre Julian visits Ester and Clorinda returns. There are five sick people at the riverside and the situation is dangerous.


Love Is Blind or Otherwise Impaired
            Perico will find out the requirements for their marriage. Solita is hesitant and starts crying (not sure why). Perico promises the padre will marry them later in a church wedding. If she’s not willing, they’ll call it off. He knows they’ll have to live in a shack, since they can’t ask MC to support them. 

            Solita relents, bids her sleeping son “Shadrack” goodbye, and sneaks out the back door with her beloved. We don’t get to see the actual wedding, but they return as man and wife. Perico says they’ll have to act decent and dignified. He reflects “I thought I was getting married to free me from painting (i.e. Natrasha), but I realize I love you.” For the sake of Solita, we hope that’s true. (We haven’t seen much evidence of backbone and character on Perico’s part, but we’ll accept almost anything to move the action along.)

The Couple Who Dropped In from Another Telenovela
            Abelardo, perhaps on his deathbed, is watched sadly by his wife Nilda. They have a heartfelt conversation (The only thing tying them to CI is Nilda’s motherhood of Solita. We’ve heard their back story and probably don’t care. I’m assuming they had influence with someone somewhere to be plugged in here. An Appendix at the end summarizes their story and tonight’s conversation.)

A Wild Savage Can Still Be a Gracious Hostess
            Maricruz is hugging Lupita on the couch. Juanita comes in to remind her they need to go to town for medicine and the child’s checkup. Meanwhile, the hermanos Narvaez are saying the doctors were confused by Simona. A woman on horseback thunders through the fields. Ofelia runs into the living room to report that Simona, wearing riding clothes, is missing along with a horse and saddle.  

            Simona arrives at MC’ door, enabling MC to mark her bingo card with “Que haces aqui?” A smiling Simona hopes her hostess will offer her a drink. Juanita leaves for the kitchen, as Simona wonders what her friend did with Ofelia. MC realizes that Simona is delusional and believes she is visiting Lucia. Simona carries a parasol, but the wind kept her from opening it. She tells the news of her upcoming marriage with Octavio to “Lucia,” then mentions Miguel and wonders how the cow business is doing.

            Maricruz manages some bright false smiles and quick thinking to keep the conversation going and the situation calm. Simona suggests lunch and the “old friends” sit down to a table with a lovely embroidered cloth, fine china, and delicious food.  Simpatica Simona is very congenial and charming. She confides that the Angel of Death appears to her, although he’s now her friend. MC realizes that Simona has gone completely crazy, but continues playing along. 

            The two bros are out searching for Simona, Tav on horseback and Mig in the SUV. She’s nowhere on the rancho, but they’ll keep looking. Later, they plan further action. Should they notify the police? No!  They decide to use the guards to search. They have to find her, even if it means people will know what’s going on. (Migreedy thinks she's crazy enough to be stored in an institution until she dies. He has the bestest ideas, doesn’t he?) 

            A weary JA arrives and reports on his search. Since she used to go to Rancho Narvaez, JA went as close as he could without seeing any signs. Tav moans it’s his fault that Simona is the way she is. He’s determined to go find her. Migreedy tells him to quit blaming himself—it’s fate. (Right—that way no one has to take responsibility.)    

            Maricruz believes that God and fate have placed her enemy in her hands. She decides it would be a good thing to scare Octavio a little, in retaliation for his kidnapping Lupita. She’ll have her stay a couple of days. Simona is pleased with the invitation. “What fun! We’ll sew and gossip!”  She hints at the Death Angel topic, but MC says if the dark angel comes, they’ll beat him off with their brooms. To keep away from this grim topic, MC convinces Simona to think about her upcoming wedding. The new BFFs settle down for a fun afternoon. 

            As evening approaches, Santa is teaching Lupita a bedtime prayer about angels watching over her. It’s a sweet scene and Lupita is very involved in the action. The accountant comes in and hears from Santa about the crazy lady who needs watching because she is unpredictable and dangerous.

            MC explains to the accountant she’s keeping Simona to frighten the Narvaez. They had no pity on her when they kidnapped Lupita.  He suggests she only keep her “guest” for one day, then send her home. MC thinks Simona used to be her enemy, but that has been nullified by her illness. Meanwhile, Simona is happily knitting something random with black yarn. As evening falls, she plays the piano while MC and Juanita listen.

            A knock sounds at the hacienda door and MC sends Juanita to answer. JA is there to speak to MC but is distracted by the piano playing. MC says it’s someone he’s heard before. He doesn’t have time for riddles—he’s on a Simona search. MC tells him craziness destroys boundaries and it’s Simona playing. She treated the runaway well, better than the Narvaez treated her child. JA enters and tells Simona he’s taking her home.

            The tired brothers conclude they’ll have to search tomorrow—it’s 8:00 pm. Migreedy believes it would be better if Simona dies. Tav exclaims he should have taken better care of her! JA knocks at the door and they hear Simona’s laugh announcing her return.

Previews:  Padre faces the land crisis, Alvaro asks MC to marry him.

Appendix:  The Sad Tale of Abelardo and Nilda.
(Nilda is the bio mother of Solita. She abandoned her at a very young age and now wants to find her.)
            Abelardo is a wealthy but bitter man who is trapped in a wheelchair. His wife Nilda is his caretaker. We learn that he found her years ago living an unsavory life and married her as a form of revenge on his estranged family. He planned to go home and present his wife as an insult to his family. Because of the accident that crippled him, he couldn’t do this. Nilda has spent their married life taking care of him, although she longed to go find her daughter.
            Matters reached a critical point when Nilda tried to open Abelardo’s safe to get money for her journey. He had caught her, challenged her, and learned about her plans. She decided to leave anyway and sold much of her clothing for traveling money. He said he would accompany her, but then, suffered a heart attack. Late in their marriage, they find warmer feelings emerging from the bitterness of their years together.
            Nilda is pondering the arrangements to ship Abelardo’s remains back to his family once he dies. Abelardo tells Nilda to visit his tomb. His illness and death is punishment for a life of evil deeds. She begs him to live to meet her daughter and says she needs him. He tells her there is something beautiful in her heart. Again, she begs him to live for her.   (Classic TN sappiness here.)

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Comments:
Great recap. I especially liked Maricruz being able to mark her bingo card and "the couple who dropped in from a different telenovela." Thanks.

Maricruz was at her very best dealing with Simona as she did.

Jarifa
 

La Paloma:

What a terrific recap! Way better than the epi.

I too was surprised by MC's treatment of Simona. I really thought yesterday that Sickmona was faking, but I don't think she is now. Simona with MC is more like the Simona of old. I didn't like the idea of MC keeping Simona for a couple of days. I think Migreedy and DEADTOMETAV would have made sure MC ended up in jail, they are that petty.

I can't believe that DEADTOMETAV puts up with Migreedy. Yeah, just let her die, all alone in the cold, thrown from a horse. What an a**hat! And DEADTOMETAV, he wants to search but Migreedy stops him. Yeah, he has no brain cells. Oh, and don't call the police. They are mice and not men.

Oh, and loved the little snippet about Nilda and Abelardo. I don't know how she put up with him all these years, but he is showing some heart. Amazing!

I'm just waiting for the anvils. Where are they????
 

Nifty recap!!! I can just hear that wonderful theme song for G,B and the U playing in the background. They should have put that as the song for this TN.

This Simona is so much easier to take, but I'm on the fence on why MC is playing along. This is a sick woman, can we not use her as a revenge tool? Though she does offer an nice evening of entertainment.

Maybe it's me, but anyone else miffed that this is how Solita's story is playing out? Now she's married to this guy? I mean, is this frustrating mess of no one, and I mean NO ONE bothering to get her help for the trauma she's gone thru or upped her education ( gees, give her a new hairdo!!!) just a set up to meet mom and get what these writers think is a happy ending? This is a poorly written show, but honestly, her plot line has been the worst.

Miguel deserves the biggest of anvils. No wonder Lucia spouted all her venom, all she did was echo what this a**hat was thinking as well. That poor little boy, hopefully he didn't inherit the Despicable Me gene.

Daisynjay
 

La Paloma- This recap was so much better than this show deserves.

I only saw snippets of this last night, but glad to see I was spot on about Simona pretending to be sane for the doctors last episode. She's crazy, but she's not stupid. She doesn't want to be locked up in an asylum. I hope she stays pleasant, but I'm pretty sure she'll turn violent soon enough. I hope she turns on Migreedy when she does, and takes him out for good.

Daisynjay- ITA about the whole Solita storyline.
 

I agree; this recap is much better than this series deserves. How did this series do in Mexico and why has this story gone so far off the rails?

I'm not sure how crazy Simona is now, but I'm also hoping she'll do a lot of damage before the writers take her out. MariCruz' regression to naivete is so wrong and so inappropriate I'm sure Ana Brenda had to keep telling herself "It's a paycheck; it's a paycheck."
 

@La Paloma - excellent recap, as usual.

@Eli - just read your recap of the previous episode too.

Both recaps were very funny and, as everyone else has said, much better than the episodes themselves.
 

Urban- It has done EXTREMELY well in Mexico, and it's doing really well here. Go figure.
 

Must be the cast that kept the audience; it can't be the writing.
 

I enjoyed seeing MC using her smarts to keep up with Simonaloca and manage the situation. And, we finally had some fun scenes with Lupita.

I agree that Solita has been totally cheated throughout this TN. No follow through on the education began with Don Ale, no training in life skills, no variety of hair style, no name for her son, and a half-hearted romance with a half-a$$ed bumpkin. We didn't get to see the wedding, so maybe there's a church ceremony coming up?
 

Thanks so much Paloma!

I really enjoyed the Simona visit - hilarious. I've been enjoying the Simona actress lately!

JA told MC that Tav was also hoping Simona would die quickly - taking another opportunity to drive a wedge between them. Of course MC believed JA.
 

What was that - snake out of the bedroom leaving kid, get married telling no one, sneak back in telling no one? That seems like a filler afterthought. So dumb!!!
 

Love Is Blind or Otherwise Impaired

Great heading la Paloma. You write so well and the recap was excellent. This telenovela and its fans continue to baffle me, but hey! the world in general and how it operates also has me puzzled!

Thanks for pointing out how odd it was to stick in this background story on Solita's mom and her husband. But maybe when Mom doesn't finally find her abandoned daughter SHE will take charge of getting her properly educated in sign language etc.

Do enjoy seeing the actress playing little Lupita beginning to make some eye contact and clearly she loves playing with MariCruz' hair!
 

Thanks Paloma, this is excellent and for the moment is the source of all that I know of last night's episode since I was occupied with watching my Baylor Bears play Oklahoma. We won, 41 to 12. Little Baylor U in the hunt for the national college football title? Looks like it.

So Solita married the Little Bird? I thought I said that I opposed this wedding.

Can't wait to watch Crazy Simona. Doesn't Maricruz toying with her like this seem a bit cruel?

Carlos
 

Congrats on the Bears' victory Carlos. Folks in Columbus are beginning to worry about you all. That's a good sign.

Frankly, I have no desire to see our little Buckeyes go up against those Alabama brutes, so better you guys than us!
 

OMG! I'm watching the epi. Did that jerk Perico really tell Solita that in addition to him not having the money for a nicer wedding, she couldn't have a nice white wedding anyway, because she already had a baby?!!! WTF? First off, what century is he living in? Second, has anyone bothered to tell this jerk that Solita was raped and wasn't just a promiscuous teen? And even if she was, so what?!
 

Thanks for the recap! I thought this episode was a nice change from the same ol' same old. At least the MC & Simona part was off the beaten path.

Didn't Solita's mother's husband say something about having enough money to get Solita the best doctors to fix her problems? Or was I imagining that or mistranslated my Spanish subtitles?

The whole Perico/Solita relationship is awful. After all that girl has gone thru they couldn't give her an absolute, head over heels, in love guy?!


 

Thanks La Paloma---I loved your line---The new BFF's settle down for a fun afternoon. I also liked your end report about Nilda y Abelardo. That cleared up a lot of questions, now I understand.

I think that Solita will get a makeover when Nilda finds her. I mean, there will be plenty of money for it after Abelardo dies.
A makeover, schooling, an operation, the works.

How will $imonaloca dying quickly
drive a wedge between Tav and Maricruz? With $imonaloca out of the way, MC y Tav can get back together.

Urban---It's just a paycheck, it's just a paycheck. Ana Brenda was starving and destitute living out of a car on the street. She was so happy to get the job that she didn't care about her reparation or anything else. She signed the contract without even reading it as did the rest of the cast. Oh! Corazon Indomable is #1
in the ratings.

Can anyone tell me why La Tempestad has been cut way short?
It looked good to me. What went wrong?

Awful-felia is so loyal. Why does she always choose the dark side?

Will Mari say yes tonight? Must see TV.
the gringo
 

So the crazy continues. Thanks Paloma, great job.

This entire Abelardo and Nilda part is such filler, it makes me laugh. Why couldn't they just have introduced Nilda to us after the old guy died and left her the money? Because they had to extend the episodes, no doubt.

I agree about Solita and Perico's marriage weirdness. Why was it done this way?
Another thing about them, I don't understand how Perico could have fallen in love with her. How do you fall in love with someone who you have never talked to? What about her would he fall in love with? Just looks I guess. Why didn't they change Solita's look so that she doesn't continue to look like she's 14?

Miguel does make me laugh. He is counting the days until Simona dies. Let's not find her, let's hope that she's laying dead somewhere or getting sick so that she dies sooner.

Did anyone see when Simona was "playing" the piano, she lifted both hands off the piano and the piano still made music? I lol'd when that happened.
 

Gringo said: Can anyone tell me why La Tempestad has been cut way short?
It looked good to me. What went wrong?

Maybe if more viewers had your standards, it wouldn't have been cut short, lol.
 

Gringo- There isn't really any reason for the cut. It's a perfectly fine tn, which Uni is butchering. Luckilly, the recappers are watching the complete episodes and giving us the whole story, and recapper Mauricio has been providing videos of some of the best cut scenes.
 

Cathyx---my standards? What does that mean? Is it that bad? I haven't really watched it, just a few minutes here and there but it didn't look bad. Vivi says it's good, so what's wrong over a Uni?
the gringo
 

Cathyx---I mean, it's got William Levy. Isn't he a heart throb for the ladies? And they have Miss Universe Ximena Navarette for the men. Add every ones favorites Cesar Evora and Diniela Romo and I would think that you would have a big hit. Instead it's being cut.
the gringo
 

I'm guessing it's being censored. According to LT's Wikipedia page it only has 101 episodes.

I've been ignoring it because WL does nothing for me.
 

Ok, now let's see. We have a poor girl that becomes rich and fights back against her enemies. She looses it all due to several circumstances, bad decisions, mistakes and a desire to help the poor. She divorces her one and only love and after unhappiness on both sides, later remarries him and they both live happily ever after. Sounds like a good story to me.
the gringo
 

Gringo, I was just teasing. But maybe some people care more about the story line and less about the actors in it.
 

Gringo- Yes. The story outline for CI had so much potential. Too bad the writers messed it up. There isn't an adult character that I like in CI right now.

In La Tempestad, all of us love the hero, the heroine's twin sister (the heroine is being rather blind and stupid right now), the heroine's aunt, the aunt's boyfriends,one of the main villains (but all the villains are enjoyable), all of the hero's friends, the Padre, the Comandante...I really could on with a longer list. In short, it is full of some typical tn cliches, but the writers have done a good enough job that we really like and care for most of the characters and want all the good people to have a happily ever after.
 

thanks, LaPaloma. you are a trooper, and you produced an excellent recap despite the crazy continuing and increasing.

Yesterday in speaking class, we were talking about wedding customs. The girls from Cuba and Colombia said that in their countries, you can not wear white to your wedding if you have already had a child. The girl from Colombia said that you could wear beige but not white. The guy from Mexico said that a woman who had had a baby could wear white.
 

"I think that Solita will get a makeover when Nilda finds her. I mean, there will be plenty of money for it after Abelardo dies.
A makeover, schooling, an operation, the works."

Ah, gringo, I love your optimism. wish I had it.

Daisynjay
 

La Paloma this was brilliant from the title to the appendix. I know its your writing b/c its almost tempting to watch Simona's crazy; unfortunately, it won't be as fun as your recap.

Daisynjay - ITA about Solita. The writers should be punished for their treatment of her.

Gringo - It seems one excuse for Uni slicing LT is b/c it's ratings were bad in MX and they want to replace it w/this new tn. Unfortunately LT's rating have been high in the USA.
 

They should've expected the US ratings for LT to be high after the impact WL made with DWTS and his US commercials. I don't really like his acting all that much .. it's just okay to me ... but, boy, do I love to watch him! They didn't have to butcher it like they have.
 

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