Caray, Caray!

Hot ziggety-dawg I'm getting the hang of it! Well, hope y'all enjoy this. Corrections always welcome. Off to bedy-bye!
 

Thank you, Lila! This is some fine, fine work!

Speaking of fine work, "Jarocha, holding the babies gets a nice behind the back embrace from Pablo." I smirked at that myself. Pablo may be a dip, but I wouldn't say "no" to an embrace of any kind from Daniel Arenas.

And, hell yes, it did feel good to watch him beat the snot out of Meatball!

Mariano doing the slow walk away from his dad was funny, like he'd just realized he didn't even have to run, he could just take his time.

Esme's quick changes in attitude are frustrating. She didn't want Pablo to pay for Leti's treatment, and then she got mad because she thought he didn't. He shows up to try to help out and she shrugs him off like what's happening is somehow his fault when she didn't give Mariano that attitude. And then she tells him to shut up. So I guess...only be a parent when I tell you to be and no talking unless I give you permission? I thought we were supposed to have the main couple fighting FOR their love, not fighting AGAINST each other.

I have so much more to say, but I'm starting to quote your entire recap here! It sure was an action-packed episode.
 

I'm afraid this is going the way of Corazon Indomable - the utter stupidity of the whole thing is mind-boggling:

I love you, I hate you!
I don't want your money! Why don't you give me money?
I can't stand that pig! I might marry that pig!
You're the father I've always wanted! Who do you think you are, my father?

UGGGGGHHHHHH!! And I'm gone!
 

Thanks Diva!! Diva and Anon, I feel your pain and frustration! Esme's attitudinal flip flops are maddening! It makes it hard to root for her. Yes, she's the Gata, we get it but let her show some of that attitude to Lowrenza or somebody: "I thought we were supposed to have the main couple fighting FOR their love, not fighting AGAINST each other." You're right, Diva! Maybe as Gisela gears up her "I want me some Pablo" plan Gata will bare her claws to HER and let Pablo have some purrs and snugglin'.

Don't leave Anon! Yelling at these people is cathartic and it will all work out in the end!
 

Dang it Lila, this is really, really good!

"[Well, well, well! The cat has got La Gata’s toungue!]"

"Ines looks around trying to discern what the blind girl sees."

"Oh, La Gata is furious and is going to create an additional anal orifice for El Italiano when she sees him!"

Anon 1:36, yes it is but unlike CI there are a few other characters that I actually like so until they hide them in a closet somewhere I stay. Pablo & Esmeralda, I do not care.

Somebody please help me. I know Esmeralda recently has run off the tracks but prior, what relationship mistakes has she made? Pablo always throws out they both made mistakes, I know his, believing the worst of Esmeralda and shouting it but....

Kat, "Mariano doing the slow walk away from his dad was funny, like he'd just realized he didn't even have to run, he could just take his time." I love Mariano.

There were nuggets all over the place once I stopped obsessing on the stars of the show (and that's a shame because Maite is great). Lorenza, getting to the phone right before Augie, love Ines and her facial expressions, particularly the Cheshire cat grin, Virginia rocks, Mariano succinctly drawing a fine line, Carlo's naivete in the big house, even Monica's shame for ever going along.

Meatball - show me a receipt and we'll talk

Virginia - the blind sage

Lorenza - Well, I don't want no Poor People
Don't want no Poor People
Don't want no Poor People
'Round here

Augie - who the hell did I marry

Comandante - what's the problem not like we're forcing you to bathe

Fernando - Marquis de Dump

 

Virginia needs to be free of her overbearing mother, who's an aggressive tyrant.
 

Lila, I haven't read the recap yet. I can't wait to read it. I felt for you last night. This was just a rough episode.
 

Thanks, tofie! Your lists which capture the essence of the character's vibe during the episode are awesome! I really like how you and our admittedly small but warm and witty group on the patio notice and draw out other interesting dialogue and interactions!

Steve! Yes! And I think Virginia declared her independence tonight. She'd rather face a place that must assault her senses, the terrain is unfamiliar and littered but she feels Carlos' people are her people and she's willing to wait with them for him. Yah, Lorenza is a psycho-tyrant and she's not done yet!

Thanks Sara, it was rough! See ya later!
 

Great recap Lila thanks, I haven't watched my tape yet but can't wait after reading recap and comments.

I'm glad I didn't watch Corazon Indomable. The characters were able to start with a clean slate for me.

I recall that one part of Fernando's vengeance plan is that Pablo will come crawling to Esme. I'm wondering if all the trying he's doing now counts as crawling or if there's more to come?

OK, I'm off break, back to work, see yall later.
 

Thanks Anon at 9:00! I don't know. . .Pablo last night seemed to have an air of amused indulgence about Esme's fits of anger and rejection like, "she's so hot when she's mad" but the lie about marrying meatball and seeing how she was so willing to believe it was meatball paying to save his daughter's life just made him hit the reset button: upside the meatball's head! I felt he was totally in control the way he confronted her and I haven't really felt that he's crawled yet. Mimed, yes. Crawled, no. So if El Sil has that up his sleeve it hasn't materialized yet. Looks like Giselle may provoke some big time drama for which Pablo will be blamed thus leading to some crawl-worthy behavior on his part!

Lila
 

It hasn't appeared to me Pablo near crawling. Angrily defiant, scampering away like a coward, passively aggressively funneling money to Meatball from a windfall orchestrated by a sugarmamma. Yes, Yes, Yes. I do give him credit last night for the nearest thing to an adult conversation he's had with the mother of his children and he didn't hop upon his high horse only a pony.
 

tofie: go get 'im girl! "he didn't hop upon his high horse only a pony." Hee Hee!

Lila
 

tofie, "I know Esmeralda recently has run off the tracks but prior, what relationship mistakes has she made?" I'd say about the same as Pablo. Believing the worst, trusting more in other people than him. She's just getting a lot worse about it, and she saved that for after they'd cleared up all the misunderstandings, which doesn't make any sense to me. She keeps referencing the things Pablo did "wrong" as if he's doing them right now, or as if he actually did them in the first place. I don't know where this whole "Pablo is a rotten lying liar who lies" thing is coming from. Maybe the botched engagement party? She saw it as a lie that he asked her to marry him, but then didn't go through with the formal asking?

Steve...word! Of the two environments, the dump is less toxic than living with Lorenza.

Anon at 9, I think Pablo's mostly there, but Fernando wants a little more public groveling. Or maybe he's forgotten.

tofie, "passively aggressively funneling money to Meatball from a windfall orchestrated by a sugarmamma" Love it! It's funny 'cause it's true.
 

Thanks Lila and Tofie for your responses. Tofie, your takes are humorous and colorful. I may not always agree but admit they provide a much needed chuckle.
 

Guess what I'm focused on (because I don't like Pablo one itsy bitsy bit) is Pablo's nasty rants and name calling consistent with his family's view of Esmeralda and they went on and on and on (also would sit there as they attacked her). I never recall she doing anything comparable. Yes, both are guilty of misunderstandings precipitated by Pablo's parents, Rita & Meatball and she did attack him at the rodeo but I don't think she ever schemed to make him butthurt like he would do with Monica. Hell, the guy would be married now had Jarocha not waved a baby around like a challenge flag.

 

I enjoyed this so much Lila. One of your comments really resonated with me:

"Somehow this leads to Maria reassuring Pablo that Virginia will be fine."

It's that "somehow". I enjoy watching and recapping this show, but sometimes I wonder how a conversation goes the way it goes. I know my mind tends to wander, but terrible transitions are the hallmark of this show's writing. One minute Esme and Pablo are talking to Virginia about leaving, the next thing you know they are arguing again. There seems to be so little sense to the dialogue.

I agree with you that the eviction scenes were all to real. I found them them hard to watch...and it was driving me crazy that Esme didn't IMMEDIATELY protect her babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Me too Sara, it was like Esmeralda was playing red rover, red rover with that riot police line and forgot about them
 

It really really pissed me off.
 

Oh, and have I missed the explanation as why Fela is MIA?
 

nope, I didn't see her last night and no reference made
 

Thank you Sara! Sara that WAS a weird conversation. Why didn't Pablo go after Esme instead of staying back telling Maria what a sweet young thing she is? Yah, we're good people here in the basurero, we abandon our kids sometimes but hey, your blind sister will be just fine here while her boyfriend is in the pen! (Does Virginia know that her Mom and Dad were responsible for another man eventually spending 20 years in the hoosegow and now they are behind beloved Carlos' imprisonment!)

But, back to the point of weird conversations, I think our little world is being heavily edited but we're troopers and not making a big stink over it. There's enough to fuss about I guess!

Lila
 

Lila---Like La Diva yesterday, I'm having a LOT of trouble deciding which and how many of your great lines to put down. This is really hard. What a GREAT recap, I will pay extra for and autographed copy when your book comes out. But for now, back to your recap.

Well, well, well, the cat has got Gata's tongue.

Your Virginia Ines conversation was superb, I had to read it twice

From shabby shack to Monica's pad.

Augie and Lowrenza toast the eviction with orange juice while classical music plays gently in the background.

Her eyes give a feline flash.

Maria fights fiercely. The mismatched fight continues. Fuerza
Juntos! is the basurero residence battle cry. Lila, you make me feel like I was there.

Lila, your last paragraph was exceptionally sweet.

Lila---when your book gets published, be sure to tell us out on the patio so that we can get our pre-orders in.
the gringo
 

gringo, oh, yes, the juice toast! It was so deliciously evil! And the juice will make a nice splash when the anvil hits.
 

tofie, true. Nothing she's done comes anywhere close to the almost-marriage out of spite. The closest she comes is saying things like "How could you think I would marry Meatball?" and "Well, at least he's been around for the kids." instead of just saying "No, it's not true, and I don't have any intention of marrying him or any other man because I'm completely hooked on you, you lunkhead!" I understand her annoyance--his constant questioning is incredibly rude--and giving direct answers might not necessarily get him to cut it out, but the non-answers are definitely not helping. It's like when he asked several times whether they were his kids and she wouldn't ever say "yes" or "no." It was a rude, stupid question in the first place because, come on Pablo do the math!, but not answering didn't help.
 

Wow! What an episode last night, I wasn't expecting all that much. When the riot police squad came in
I that that they were going to go house to house or shack to shack looking for Virginia but no, that wasn't the case. The intent was to take what little the poor people had put them out on the street.

As Lowrenza said---The important thing is that those filthy starving to death lowlifes will be homeless.

I hope that El Diablo has the fire plenty hot for Lowrenza's arrival.

Esmeralda really fought like a cat. I remember thinking that after that days shoot at Televisa,
Maite must have been very tired. That scene must have taken a lot out of her. And hey, Maria didn't do bad either, she threw everything she had at the police storm troopers.

The show did start better though.
Pablo goes to see Meatball and before you know it, the Meatball is down. A minute later the Meatball is down again. After he gets up he checks his teeth to see if they are all there or if any are loose.

I remember a couple of episodes back, Pablo was arguing with Meatball when four ladies started to walk in for a pizza but when they saw what was going on they turned around and left. It was a loss revenue day.

There was so much last night and today too---Lila, you made a great comment with--That maybe as Gisela gears up her "I want me some Pablo" plan, Gata will bare her claws to her and let Pablo have some purrs and snugglin.

Did you guys notice the war of the necklaces between Lowrenza's
pearls and Eugenia's gold?

Tofie---Pablo and Esmeralda, I don't care. Bite your tongue!
Let them fight, they will work it out.

Your list was great today though.

The comandante--What's the problem
it's not like we're forcing you to bathe.

Virginia---The blind sage.

Augie---Who the hell did I marry?

Fernando---Marquis de dump.

Tofie---one more thing. You said that you liked Ines and her facial expressions, particularly the Cheshire cat grin. Tofie I have those exact same thoughts. Ines is just great that way, her eye roll, her grin etc. are fab. I love watching Ines, it's too bad that her heart is black or maybe a dark gray.

What a great Gata recap and blog today. You guys are the best.

By the way, where is David?
the gringo
 

Lila – Spot-on title and smoking recap. Lots of action and you pulled it all together so well. Thanks. My favorites:

He walks away bloodied but pride intact.

Virginia glows and Ines looks like o_O.

Augustine rolls toward the phone on a table. Lorenza gets there first. She takes the phone and looks at him like, so there.


I like watching Augie. I never FFW--> through his scenes. At least he had a heart about Virginia being evicted along with the others at the dump.

When he got locked up Carlos told Virginia to go stay with Esme and Jarocha at Fernando’s. He’s scared for her to be alone at the dump and I am too. I would put nothing past Garabato and Ines.

 

Hey Brother Gringo! Thank you, man! You got me blushin' and aw shucksin'! Seriously, thank you! It is so much fun watching this with you. I'm glad you're not mad at me for some harsh words I had for your raven-haired goddess!

Thanks Niecie! One thing about it, at least in my opinion, these actors are stellar! Maria's green but that's okay. Augie and Lorenza really show up every episode, don't they?

Ahhhh. This was Thursday. Lord, what are they going to do today? I wish Esme and Pablo could join forces but I'm afraid Gisele is going to mean a loooong separation!

 

Lila....loved your recap. Is this a reworking of CI? Seems the writers have lifted the plot, motherless waif, rich daddy lurking about, and stud muffin hankerin' after the waif. Lady in question is a fast study and becomes extremely beautiful, very smart and ( I would guess very successful.). And way, worth wading thru to see Daniel.

But, I must say, he made a creepy mime.
 

Hi, Emerald Rose! Thank you so much! Vivi answered this same question which I posed several weeks ago. Apparently there's a writer who writes essentially the same story over and over: poor, dark-haired waif falls in love with rich boy and later learns she's truly a blue-blood herself, they battle all kind of foes and forces to obey love's call! I guess the writer is married to a powerful producer or something thus her novelas get air time and big stars. C.I. is only one of them. But yah, Daniel's a hottie, would love to see him in something else.