Caray, Caray!

Ay! Simona is up to her boobs in trouble!
 

Raq cries crocodile tears over Ivan then comes back and shoots him twice before giving Mariana the gun to pump in a couple more. Talk about cold hearted.

Curious about who was filming Mariana shooting Ivan. My guess is faithful Melania so Raq will have a weapon to set her up for his murder.

Love how she tells Juanita now everyone who worked for ivan works for me. Wonder if all those men will fall into line with that one.

Ed gets ready for the DNA test and sets of Sofia in a brat snit. Wonder how Raq and Mariana will fool around with that so that Ivan shows up as the father so the little girl will be heir to all his money. Mariana finally admitted she had no idea who the father was.

How nice of Raq and Mariana to set up a trap so that Simona could sell her virginity for 3 million dollars. I've said all along the girl's IQ matches her bra size. I also wonder how they mange to get the body into a fancy hotel.

I wonder what the point of having Diego commit suicide was. Now in addition to whiny Ramón I'm all alone in the world Cat is echoing the same song. YAWN

 

Poor Ivan is Dead.
Just when I was beginning to like him (tongue in cheek).

Don't you think that Raq & Co. would have had the decency to undress Ivan before throwing him ON the bed?

It was 3 mil pesos, a far cry from 3 million, but in Simona's eyes it's all the same--Money, mucho money.

Deciegirl--Don't ponder obvious anomalies. They had Ivan all wrapped up like a mummy, too. They must have brought him in through the loading dock near the kitchen, no?

I ponder how a little bit of white powder in a huge glass of wine that Simona didn't want and only took two sips of could knock her out in 2 minutes flat for the whole night.

I saw $$$ signs in Mariana's eyes when Raq took over her employment contract from Ivan. Little did she know she'd have to dispatch him to secure her continued employment.

The only person that could have been filming was Melania. No one else knew about the poisoned tryst.

Deciegirl--I agree, why Diego, he was the best looking thing in the whole tn. What shame? He's in New York, far from the madd-en-ing crowd in Acapulco. It should have been Daddy Clem who, maybe under suspicious circumstances committed suicide in prison. Maybe that's coming. He is Raq's last weak spot.

There were sure surpising elements the writers threw at us last night. Once I got over the shock of seeing a bloody Ivan, I would have expected Raq to fire away at Mariana to get her out of the way. Thus Raq keeps the whole bag of goodies. Lordy, she has enough goons and security folks and hidden resources at her beck and call. Then I saw the filming and I said, a-ha. Bingo. I noticed Raq was definitely not in the scene during the little red light action.

So after disparaging Cris for his whole life, Raquel now tells him he is indispensable and ambitious, just like her.
 

What happened in the final minutes? My recording cut off right as Rafael was arriving.
 

Sara

As I remember it Rafa took one look at Ivan and was horrified and then told her it was Ivan Montenegro. Cut to commercial, advances and now we wait while the witch spins her web to send another person to prison.

Anita

I have a logical mind and sometimes it is hard to watch novelas when bizarre things happen but that is part of the fun. As smart as they think they are Mariana and Raq are sometimes incredibly stupid. They put a dead man in Simona's hotel room. Now even in the poshest hotel someone surely would have heard four gun shots. And when an autopsy is performed surely they will find poison.

Oops Raq controls everything and thinks she is going to be the most powerful woman in the country. Can't wait to see he downfall.

What was all that talk between juanita and Mariana. Is sh trying to swing the woamn over to her side of things as she surely would like to get Raq out of the way.
 

Hmmm, in true Mariana style I can't tell if she is gaming Raquel and wants Juana's help or gaming Juana to make sure she goes along with Raquel's plan. Girl is good.

Poor Simona still can't give it away, her second attempt shot himself in the chest 4 times.

Sofia sure likes Hugo and he trust her but at least he knows something smells about her grandmother.

If Diego was in NY no one would have given a crap but at least that removes him as a possible lost son.

How uncomfortable for both Chris and Ramon to be there with a distraught Cat. I thought it would be a segue for a Chris & Cat reunion.

Well I wondered how Raquel could legally get her hands on Ivan's fortune and Sofia is the vehicle though the whole parentage thing still unresolved because Mariana doesn't know.

For once I give Blanca credit on a good point. She told Adriano the love he and Val shared as youths may not still exist between the Val & Adriano of today. She of course had to make it somehow relate to she and Ed but the point was relevant.

 

I loved last nights episode. I figure Raq has enough goons that can pay off hotel people that putting a body in the bed while Simona is asleep is not a problem. I really thought it was poison in Simona's drink. Was surprised to see her wake up. At last we know now why Simona was written into this TN.

Ivan lived through one poisoning, Raq shooting him twice. Man of iron. It was Mariano who finished him off. I was excepting him to survive that too!

Disgusted that Chris is worming his way back into Cat's life. He is such a slime ball. I really liked him until what he did with Mariana...I can't make the writers do what I want so may as well accept it.

What is it with the guys in this novel? They are all so weak.

I must have missed the filming part. I do not remember anyone filming anyone. I am sure it will be in the rerun tonight.

Just when I think things are getting summed up more surprises happen.

April

 

The guys are limp and sad Ed hasn't a clue what's going on even with the girl he thinks is his daughter.

Twas silly, Adriano was trying to chide Blanca when she spoke to Raquel. He was telling her to keep her cool and this was the guy who twice barged in brandishing a knife and once a gun ranting and raving.
 

April--
The filming sequence was from the perspective of the filmer. All we saw were the parameters of the lens's eye and the little red button in a corner that usually indicates: Recording.

Decie--I was only stating the obvious, hehe. There is nothing logical about this tn. And you are right, it's part of the fun, partially because it's not meant to be a fantasy, like Once Upon a Time. It's like these few characters live in a vacuum and no one else outside the range of the camera can see what is going on. (Did you ever watch Red Dwarf and the episode on Time Slides? No one could walk out of the edges of the photograph, but they could enter it and move around inside it. Very clever episode.)

Tofie--Your Hmmmms have it. We are at the writers' mercy at this point.

If this follows true tn law, Simona will be arrested and charged with murder. Did Mar & Raq leave the gun in the hotel room? Maybe she and Rafa will load the body onto a housekeeping cart and dump him in the laundry. Stranger things have happened in real life!
 

I don't think Raquel wants Simona in jail. I think she expected Blanca to come rushing to her sister's aid so she could grab her up. Or maybe make a deal to destroy the video of Simona in the hotel if Blanca gives herself up.

And now she has Hugo! She can't exactly make the little guy a prisoner and threaten Blanca under her sons' noses, or can she? Plus Sofía knows she took him.
 

tofie

Hugo has known from the beginning that Raq is evil. His little friend found the phone with Tuerto's famous cheep and both the boys saw it. Sofia fortunately didn't. Hugo is also street smart which Sofia isn't and figures something is off when the witch is being nice to him.

Unfortunately she now has Hugo in her power and soon Simona which she figures will bring Blanca to heel.

I felt very sad when Blanca was talking about how Val and Adriano's love as kids may not be the same as adults. Technically she is right but because of how they were separated they are still locked in the youthful love. If they don't end up happy to together when this is over I am going to be royally pithed since their story is really the only one that is interesting.
 

interesting that Raquel, poisoned Ivan, then shot him twice, but Mariana killed him,

also interesting were the gun exchanges, where Raquel always held the pistol by the barrel forcing Mariana to take it by the grip,

Mariana was not smart about this at all.

 

good point Deb and when I saw the recording thought that Raquel set it up so she will have leverage over Mariana at anytime.

I too still think Chris a worm and know he wants Cat back but she doesn't seem as resistant to his comfort and counsel. Before Ramon came a knockin I thought they would be knockin boots. Silly of Ramon to think if he just quits drinking the cupid stars will align and she'll be his again.

 

Deb

Raq was clever in passing the gun the way he dd but you cn sill lifr fingerpints from a barrel, of couse this is Novelaleand where blanca got convicted on nothing more than a video which didn't even show her face.
 

It's possible that the actor who played Diego had other acting obligations, and pulled out of this project. Raquel doesn't want to do anything more than have leverage on Mariana, and Blanca. She's successful in this last episode, but everything should unravel quickly since they are in the capitulos culminates.

I see Rafael is going to be redeemed, Hugo is still annoying, and Ramon and Cat might have a shot in the end. I don't think it's over for them. Is Cristobal going to be the son who exposes Raquel, but also the one who will die in the process?

Now I have no idea where they are going with the paternity results in regards to Sofia. I'm sure that even if Sofia does belong to Eduardo....well, I woudknt put it past Raquel to switch up the DNA results in order to use her granddaughter and get that capital. She never married the dude, so how else can she do so?

And wow! I'm still not convinced that Ivan's body could have been snuck into the hotel so easily. But in the upcoming scenes, we saw Simona and Rafael dump the body off a cliff or something. Even those two dolts can hide a corpse out of a hotel, so go figure.


 

Is Clemente out on bail or something? I thought he was locked up. And how is it possible that they knew where Simoma and Rafael where going? Come on, writers. The goon was already set up in the bushes? This is hogwash.
 

*were I didn't catch that until now.
 

Laughed at Raq's photographer somehow getting pix of Rafa and Miss Boobs in the hotel when for all he knew they could have left Ivan in the room or wrapped him up and thrown him down a laundry shoot, then somehow getting to the dump site without being seen and apparently before the dim wits.

Very clever to have a three way DNA test, blood, cheek swab and hair. Unfortunately when getting DNA from hair you don't just chop off a hunk of hair it had to be hair with a root bulb attached.

Raq is so involved in her scheming she may not know that Ed went to have it done so she can't play with it.

Love how Raq and Mariana are riding high and thinking they've got Blanca trapped. It's always that way before the big fall which is coming rapidly.

I don't know how Clemente is walking around unless he had a vey short sentence but it is nice to see that he finally grew a pair and is going to provide info to bring Raq down. Once again because Raq is caught up in her get Blanca out of Ed's and her life she doesn't know about Diego's death and how that might loosen her grip on Clemente. Once again she is outsmarting herself.

I thought it was interesting when she told Blanca she couldn't kill her because Ed would be suspicious. I think she is giving him more credit then he deserves.

Juana is supposed to have been the perwon that knows all of Ivan's business dealings andyet they have her looking like the housekeepr not some shrew financial wizard.
 

La Impostora is in "últimas semanas" since monday,

I fell in love with Ivan tonight, he was so cool as they rolled him around in the wheel chair, his head flopping this way and that, and then when they threw him in a ditch and Rafa dumped a load of dirt on his face, it's not always roses being a handsome actor.

deciegirl- yes, Ed has good insurance so he gets the works, and I agree, that Raq isn't in on this one yet, but I'm thinking the dna test will reveal Ed's parentage.

everything is going Raq's way, but are the dominoes are starting to fall.

 

Macarena Oz & Julieta Grajales are by far the best actors in the TN

Loved the whole burial scene with Rafa and Somina. True bonding moment for them.

Sal - will die for her, no truer words spoken

Ivan - future so bright I gotta wear shades

Blanca - great deal from Raquel, take it

Raquel - I'm no doctor but guarantee a DNA test will agree with me

Clemente - to bad it took the death of a son

Simona - scared straight?

Mariana - shoving your weight around

 

tofie-I couldn't agree more about Mararena and Julieta.

Both of the kids on this one are really good actors. I wish there were more like them (and the girl who plays Lupita.)

I kind of wish Raq would just get rid of Blanca. What a dull character.
 

dull for Blanca is too bright a descriptive word

Loved Fernanda Sasse (Lupita)last night on DQTQTQ

Like little Ricardo Sevilla (Hugo) too and saw more chemistry with them than the adults and believe the really like each other and don't want to inflict pain so struggle with truth but come out with it after learning a lie hurts more from someone you think you trust.
 

I keep wondering what is happening to Val. Have they got her locked up in a closet somewhere? And where is Raq holding Hugo - it doesn't look like Ivan's place but would she dare hold him in her own house?

The whole thing with ivan's body made me laugh and think about that old movie Weekend at Bernie's.

Those scenes with Sofia and Hugo were very well done and touching. There are some very talented little kids on some novelas. These two compare favorably with the little ones in PSMA who were light years more interesting, charasmatic, and talented then any of the adults. Better looking too.

The scenes with Sofia and Ed were also touching and that little girl is tough when she insisted on having the DNA test when Ed was to no great surprise waffling.

Only 17 episodes to go so come on writers tell us who the son is, free Val and make Raq and Mariana pay for the crimes.
 

Thanks for the name of the actor playing Hugo. He and Macarena did show a lot of chemistry last night!

"Dull...is too bright a descriptive word." HA!

I've missed a lot of this but I'm glad I'm catching the ultimas semanas. Tonight looks like it will be fun!

I've never watched a Telemundo TN from beginning to end, yet I still find them very entertaining.
 

That scene when Ed and Sofia were getting their DNA tests was very touching. I liked how they were smiling and hugging at the end of it. I hope she turns out to be his biologically as well just so she'll feel better.
 

If Ed is and Raquel finds out she will change it to Ivan so Sofia can be his heir. Another potential DNA switcheroo
 

tofie

It is another potential switch but with only 17 episodes to go it would be stupid and a waste of valuable story telling time. The only way it might work is if Raq got caught trying to do it. Let's face it she has done it twice already and it's time the truth came out.
 

How does telemundo handle these reveals it's my first? Televisa waits till the last couple episodes leaving the last 30 minutes for everyone to make up and pair up. Right now Raquel & Mariana are acting like they got all the time in the world. However, if Clemente starts spilling the beans should be fun.
 

The Telemundo novelas I've seen have sometimes strted wrapping things up about this point. Since we have the two parentage questions and the ramifications especially the Adriano son a handful of murders my guess is in about 5 episodes we'll see some real action but then again you never know.

One of my main gripes about Televia is that they save everything, dump in in the next to the last episode and save the last episode for all the pairing off. I've also seen them wrap everything up a couple of days before then end and then drag out a lame finale.
 

You have to love Christopher---the Altamira pillar of integrity---excoriating Mariana for her subterfuge and unreliability. What a hoot.

Glad Raquel has made a nice recovery from her loss . I' impressed how in 24 hours she has thrown herself back into the work of creative mayhem. The still waters of love ran deep in that woman.

I keep hoping the doctor will show up to repossess Simona's enhancements. I wonder if Rafa's transformation will include pairing off with her. Oh-- oh, here she comes...watch out boy she'll chew you up...she's a wallet eater.
 

I'm tired of all these sudden flashbacks. Too bad about Sofia being Eduardo's daughter. You know what I did like? Mariana's zipper pants. I wonder where she got those. Stupid Catalina got her daddy killed by confiding in Cristobal, those boys always blab to their mom.


 

I don't mind flashbacks when they are short and remind me of stuff I might have forgotten.

So Mariana has once again been exposed as a cheap liar and lucky for Sofia she still has her real father and doesn't have to deal with the upheaval that Ed is about to.

Cat may dress better than almost all of the women but unfortunately she is stupid. Why when she knows exactly what Raq is would she tell Chris who ran back to mom. Yep she first got her father sent to prison, for a few days, shades of Lindsay Lohan and now she got him killed.

Not to carp to much but oh please Mariana strangles Clemente something that is very hard to do and now she is going to string him up to make it look like he hanged himself. One good forensic exam would disprove the suicide theory because of the marks on the throat.

I'm wondering if Clemente gave Adriano the proof that will let the boys know that their mother murdered their father or at least the father of two of them. Looks like Leticia may be getting out of prison if Adriano can show the cops the proof, whatever it is.
 

Couple surprises both good and bad.

Cat - your choice in men, a blabber mouth bumpkin and a carrier pigeon

Blanca - you'll need to change that powerpoint take down plan

Simona - don't accept all the blame from Blanca, she contributed immensely

Sal - woman of your dreams bout to hook up with her ex

Clemente - risked your neck

Mariana - airplane mode next time

Raquel - I love being me

Jorge - you won't be missed at the shipping company

Ed - not all women lie you're just gullible

Sofia - just hope that both your mother & fathers genes are recessive

Chris - even if you butter her toast you'll never be her favorite

 

It cracks me up when Mariana has these killin' scenes and Sofia always seems to call.

But wouldn't a trained killer know to at least put the phone on silent?
 

Mariana is just a soccer mom underneath I guess
 

Sara

Of course a trained killer would turn off their phone but Mariana while lethal is not as smart as she thinks and she is arrogant which will be her undoing. I think the writers want us to know what a crappy mother she is killing people while chatting on the phone to a child. Her days are numbered — poor Sofia who really does love her.

It amuses me that Raq went all kill Clemente thinking he was going to reveal her lies about Memo's death and she has no idea that the anvil with her name on it is for the murder of her hubby whose name I don't even remember being mentioned. Somebody needs to gag Chris but then again who doesn't picture his jaw dropping when the truths he only vaguely admits to are all out in the open.
 

It was a bad/dumb move on Catalina's part to tell Crystalballs that her father was going to confess everything Raquel has done. She should have known that he would go running to mommy with the news.

 

Crystalballs!!!!!!!! OMG that made my day.

I think dead Mr. Raq was named Juan Carlos. Is that what Adriano said?

I was relieved to hear Sofia is truly Ed's. She will need that security if her mom ends up dead or in jail.
 

Sara

I'm pretty sure that Mariana will end up dead probably at Raq's hands. If she lived she would always be the super-heroine Sofia thinks she is and no one will tell the little girl what a monster her mother is. After she initially deserted the child when she was an infant, and left her alone in an empty house, Ed raised the girl to think her mother was dead and in heaven looking over her. While it might have seemed a good idea at the time the child is fixated on mommy being good and the truth will be a terrible shock.
 

I don't see how the little girl with hold up. Desertion at birth,oops mama ain't dead but a contract killer, gonna marry dad but he might not be dad but some other old dude mama was with at the same time might be, a little Vicky/Blanca thrown in, grandma a thug, grandpa murdered by grandma, great grandpa assist in locking his own daughter away and drugging. Whew there's a whole nuther TN in that story when she grows up.
 

hope cat opens her eyes when it comes to chris..now he got her father killed..i hope the gov had good sense to leave the info on raq some where where adriano can find it, or at least cat..
never thought sofia was eds..i always hope the priest would be alive and have a duplicate of the tape incriminating raq..but its only a dream..
hope sofia finds out who her mom really is...She needs to know..
hope mariana and raq go to jail, not die like ivan..
 

tofie

Unless Sofia is extremely strong she is going to need help somewhere along the line. In addition to all the things you mentioned don't forget aunt locked away for years, subjected to drugs and electric shock oh and Dad isn't really grandma's bur nice Adriano is new abuelo.

She does need to know and sure wouldn't want to be the one to do it. Although when I think about it she was pretty gutsy to actually force Ed to take the DNA test because of course he had to have had his doubts knowing Mariana and her lack of morals.
 

Given tomorrow's preview, it is my hope that Raq tells Chris he is Adriano's son in order to hide that it is Ed.

If mama pushes him away far enough, maybe Christobal will be the one to do her in. Not sure that would be the path to redemption...he is pretty loathsome.... but you got to start somewhere.

Rafa---already on the path of redemption.
Simona already--on the path of redemption.
Rafa & Simona on the path to a wedding night? Earth to Rafa...we've already seen the wedding night...hope you can adjust expectations.

If they end this telenovela as I suspect with Blanca in white and Eduardo in a tux. I may barf.

Sal...Sal...Sal...on the path to the ultimate proof of love with nothing but gratitude as recompense. So sad. The one adult in this telenovela I still care what happens with him.
 

Technically Rafa should do time for some of his crimes but since he seems on the road redemption it won't happen.

Looks like some anvils are on the way for Raq. And Mariana got a little one when Sofia rejected her for lying about who was her father. Mariana can't stop and tells her it was Chris but the sharp little girl reminded her that Chris loves her and didn't believe her mother when she tried to claim she also cared. And proving that she is an heiress to the Altamira flip flopping she now doesn't want Ed and Mariana together. She may be in for some shocks but it looks lie she'll survive.

Sal, Sal you are an idiot. You've pushed and pushed at Blanca and never given her a minute to get over Ed. i'm sort of sorry you got hurt but you asked for it.

Interesting that Adriano is now pushing Ramon the Weeper at Cat. I guess he figures he owes him something. Maybe the two of them will end up together since now she has nobody and Raq kindly pointed out that the people hate her.

I've always liked Adriano but he pithed me off by not going to see Val. After all this angst and misery is he just going to forget all about her?

Really looking forward to tomorrow and with a weekend to discuss what may be the beginning of the end. 15 episodes and counting. 14 for the Blanca and Ed haters who don't want to see the inevitable wedding LOL
 

Was thinking this morning that Chris now is very suspicious of Raq. He told her about Clemente and now Clemente is conveniently dead an apparent suicide. Since Chris is the See No Evil son his eyes are now pretty much open but what he will do about it remains to be seen.

Must be brutal to be Cat her brother and father suicides. Interesting too that she was all over Blanca and her hating on the Altamira's and now she gets it and wants to join forces to bring down Raq.
 

Creeping toward the end

Raquel - this is so easy and downhill from here

Chris - Mothers little helper

Sal - fantasy crushes are always one way

Blanca - one more for the road

Ed - woohoo, next time I want her to wear the blond wig

Cat - nothing to lose

Ramon - not so sure you'll ever measure up again

Adriano - your obsession with Raquel started this whole mess

Jorge - hope the stress doesn't turn you into a groomzilla

Mariana - Pilot fish also serve as good dentists, and will swim into the obliging shark's open mouth

 

Lulu, I too would like to see Raquel and Mariana in prison. I would love to see Raquel pull that "I'm not afraid of you" line with the head butch in prison like she did with Ivan and with that idiotic pose she does. And as far as Mariana goes, I'm 50/50 on her anvil. Part of me wants to see her dead but part of me wants to see her in prison and to never see Sofia again as punishment because Sofia has written her off. That is if Mariana actually cares enough about her that it would be a punishment.

 

Raq can't end up in prison she owns the administration so she has to die or end up crippled or in the manicotti. She may own the people in that place but she is likely to finally lose it when Adriano, Blanca Cat and everyone else gets their revenge.
 

Just finished watching last night's episode.

Cat had a point, there is nothing left for her to lose. What can Raq possibly threaten?

I kind of hope Blanca dies. Cold-hearted, I know. She's so bland. Ed deserves better.
 

Drat I did't mean the manicotti I meant the manicomio although the picture of Raq face down in a plate of manicotti isn't that all bad. LOL

Deciegirl
 

Adriano drops his bombshell on the boys leaving them slack jawed while Raq insists it is all lies. By this time the three have had enough of all the lies and let her know it. Who knew that it would be so easy for them to believe Adriano. I didn't like the way he talked about Va.l She's gone from being the love of my life to she is a marvelous woman and I wonder if the two of them will end up together.

Is it really possible that Melania always believed Letty was guilty and is that why she acts like such a slave to Raq?

Another loving mother and son scene NOT when Chris asks Raq if Adriano is his father since that explains the way she has always treated and abused him. She sure didn't like hearing that and tossed out a few more insults in case she hadn't already beaten him down enough.

Ramon and Sal need to join the She said no chance, she said it's over, adios club. I can see them at the end sitting around swilling tequila and wondering what went wrong, never getting they never had a chance.

I keep thinking that rather than all rush down to the clinic for a round of DNA tests that they just ask Val (who may or may not be talking) What is your baby's birthday. Surely that should clear up the issue unless Raq changed the baby's birthday.

Raq seems to losing it a little seeing and talking to Ivan. I see a namicomio in her future if that keeps up and she can be visited by the ghosts of all the people she has killed.

14 Episodes and counting.
 

I'm still hoping she ends up in the manicotti. Lol.

I haven't watched yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
 

Maybe Rag could suffocate in the manicotti with prison witch handing her the plate. I have had a good laugh over that. Spell check has a sense of humor, it seems.

I am confused. Did not the first blood test indicate that Eduardo could not be the father of Sophia? What happened to that blood test?

Adriano seems to have given up. Can't say as I blame him but he is the one we have been rooting for! I am hoping at the end we will see him marry his Valentina.

I find it odd that Sophia so casually buffs Mom off even though she just went through the lie thing with Blanca. Maybe it is her way of surviving. There should have at least been some tears.

April
 

April

It was odd that the original test said Ed wasn't her father but looking back on it I don't think it was a DNA test per se, it was about her anemia and Chris asking Jorge about blood types. So I'm giving that a pass.

I think Sofia is rebuffing Mariana because her mother lied about who her father was. The Blanca/Victoria lie while painful to the child did not strike at the heart of who she is. Why Bitchy Mariana had to lie in the first place is a mystery me. I guess she just can't help it.

Honestly spell check and auto correct do sometimes come up with good ones. I've been extra careful every time I use manicomio because it always to manicotti but mised that one but that image is priceless. Considering what Melania may have learned I can now see miss meek actually shoving Raq's face into the manicotti.
 

Best scene was the Chris/Raquel exchange but not sure if this is enough to keep him from supporting her.

I have to cover my eyes when I see Sal and Blanca and Ramon & Cat. Kinda turns my stomach.

Sara, I'm with you and hope Blanca dies.

I like much better the Adriano/Cat team but she needs to find some other guy or go it alone.

Stupid and too far out for me to believe that either Mariana or Raquel would need much less let Rafa back in. Mariana is correct in her assessment of Raquel but expecting Rafa a legitimate back up, just no.

I can't figure if Melania came on her own to protect Raquel or was sent by her and don't believe the flimsy excuse she is somehow surprised her daughter didn't kill Juan Carlos though the writers will insist.

 

I guess it's mean to wish her dead, but of all the characters, Blanca just leaves me bored.

I *love* the new Cat/Adriano crime fighting duo!!!
 

When I see Cat & Adriano all I think is why did it take so much time for the right people to get together. I had hoped when she found the info on her father that exonerated Adriano, she and/or Ramon would have suggested the Adriano & Cat work on a plan to best use the information to take Raquel down. Had Blanca not jump in line, Cat's brother and father would be alive, everything documented and Raquel on the way to the pen.

It still angers me that Blanca blames Simona solely for their exile.
 

Blanca has got to the dullest crayon in the box, but I haven't watched it all so correct me if my thinking is off base.

BTW, she looked GREAT in those prison scenes. Why didn't they put her hair up more often?
 

No she is a one trick pony, same look no matter the situation nor emotion to be conveyed. In the pen she did look better without makeup. I still prefer her comatose as she really shines.
 

You are so funny, tofie!!!
 

Simona is responsible for them going into exile. Look at the things she has done. She told Ed Blanca was a prostitute, she denied that Blanca was her sister, didn't go to the trial or jail to visit her, took bundles of money from Raq at least three times, signed papers to have Blanca undergo electric shock, lured Blanca into a trap with Ivan's men. Then when she found out Raq had killed her father she repented, cried crocodile tears at Memo's grave, promised Blanca she had changed. Oh right then hot foots into a hotel to sell herself, again for money. That final trap by Raq resulted in the film that could be used to prove Simona murdered Ivan and she would be off to jail for life.

That betrayal gave Raq the card she need to hold over Blanca and force her to leave town. Without that tape, Raq would have had nothing to use to force the issue. Simona is responsible.

Actually Blanca would have been smart in the beginning to tell the jealous little bitch that she was taking a job impersonating someone in order to get proof to that Raq had murdered their father. By remaining silent she opened the door for some of Simona's actions.

Cat would never have done anything to save Adriano over protecting her father even though she knew it would be the right thing to do. Clemente is dead not because of Blanca but because of blabbermouth Chris.

Blanca might be dull but she is the atypical protagonist. We have been spared her spending the final third of the novela weeping and ailing about losing her one true love. She may be annoying but I';; taker her over Monteserat in Robo every day of the week.

 

I agree that Blanca is not the weeping and hand-wringing archetype that Viewerville is constantly given. I just find Lisette Morelos' portrayal of Blanca rather dull.


 

Sara

I agree she is flat. Blanca was apparently written as street smart and feisty but Lisette makes her look stupid and self absorbed. I for the life of me do not get the woman's appeal if she has any. I'm putting her on my list of actresses I will not watch under any circumstances. Maite, Boyer and now her.

I have a list of men as well. To watch a novela you have to commit a lot of time and I refuse to waste it on people whose lack of talent or appeal remove any chance that I can enjoy the people around them.
 

"Maite, Boyer and now her."

I can handle Maite, but not Boyer (We'll see if I feel the same way after La Gata lol)

I'd love to know who the males on your list are!

Just for fun I looked up Lisette's filmography and saw she was in Niña de Mi Corazón. So I looked up a video. I just saw a snippet of the first capitulo and she seemed a little more animated, but she was playing the spoiled antagonist...I think (I didn't watch much.)
 

"To watch a novela you have to commit a lot of time..."

AMEN!! I wish they kept novelas to no more than 130 episodes (and that's pushing it.) It's one reason I'm moving to Telemundo. I can't take Televisa's epic episode counts anymore.
 

Blanca was apparently written as street smart and feisty but Lisette makes her look stupid and self absorbed. Hit the nail on the head and makes it impossible to believe the other characters interacting with feisty & street smart.
 

Sara

I agree about the length. LI is 120 which I think is ideal and more like novelas used to be. These bloated 180 and up novelas suffer because the writers end up dragging in new characters and deviating from the core story. PSMA and now Robo are classic examples of why i've moved to Telemundo.

Okay some of the males on my list and this is just how I react to these guys, others may vehemently disagree.

Colunga - past his sell by date as a galan but desperately hanging on and when paired with girls young enough to be his daughter the creepy factor is added.

Levy - mush mouth mumbler who always gives off the vibe that he thinks he is hot stuff (and he isn't for me)

Rulli - red rimmed eyes and trembling lips, he is becoming the male version of Victoria Ruffo - nuff said.


 

You've hit the Rulli nail on the head. The trouble with Colunga is I can't see him as anything BUT galán and that is definitely problematic at his age. I still can't quite see him in the dad role and he's definitely too old for the galan.


 

So, here is my wish list for the week.

Here is my wish list for the week.

1) I want Rafa and Mariana to decide they are destined for one another. That way, he can hold her and give her a life departing kiss after Raq. shoots her.

2. I want Sal to get fed up with Blanca. I don't care what he does after that. But, here is a thought. Maybe he could put Simona in her place and that could be the start of him having something other than a dishrag in his arms.

3) I want Chris to tell the truth about anything to anyone.

4) I want Cat to confront Chris in front Ed and that finally gets him the pieces of the puzzle that makes him so dense.

5)I want the DNA test to show Jorge is Adriano's son. That has the benefit of giving him an excuse for going through the rest of the novela with the sad puppy eyes he's had all the way through it.

6) I want Ramon to start attending unrequited love addicts anonymous when he gets a referral from AA. He, not Jorge is destined to become a priest and find fulfillment running an orphanage.

7) I want Melania to realize she's been a toddy and be the key to Raq's down fall.

8) I want Sophia to finally figure out who has been mala and who has been buena.

9) I want Valentina to smack Adriano and be the one who finally turns all of her sons against Raq.

Only one of those do I think is likely. But then this is a wish not an expectations or predictions list.
 

Fantastic list! I really like 3,7 and 9.