Friday, December 12, 2014
TELEMUNDO Y MENOS: Reina de Corazones, Project Chapter a Day, Thursday, December 11th 2014 Cap 140: El Gran Final.
Now on to the recap of the finale....
He's Been A Very Bad Cop This Year
The "Black Falcon" in CIA uniform and sunglasses enters his car where ORBO is waiting for him at the wheel. ORBO is dressed in black and wearing a cap. His glasses are nowhere to be seen. Thank goodness. Victor and ORBO have a nice chuckle. Victor sarcastically laments Chrstian's fate and calls him a poor sap. Victor pulls out the red diamond and shows ORBO.
Reina stands next to Izzy and Navier. Then she goes upstairs.
PELS tells her that Nicolas is one lucky dude.
"Why are you putting the gun down?" Junajo asks. "Aren't you going to kill me?" "You can say it was self defense and no one would know".
Labels: reina-corazones, telemundo
I didn't understand that it was the mini ID-3000 that Connie dropped into the vase until you pointed it out!
A sequel? I think they need to find a different studio. Is Caracol still in business? I will surely keep an eye out for Marcella's next novela.
I'm sure I'll have more to say later...
The big news is that I didn't cry and I almost always do at the end of a novela, especially one I like as much as this one.
This gran final seemed very chopped up, which may be the explanation for the change in Reina's dress and necklace.
Some random thoughts:
Once again a sniper, or in this case, two snipers, stand in full view of a whole bunch of people and no one looks up. So poor Connie (but obviously not Izzy) thought Reina, Navier and Clara were dead until Reina shows up at her house?
I thought it was funny that women (Moto and Asuncion) had to keep giving Navier his pills as if he was a 6-year old.
Susana had a vaginal delivery of three enormous babies! Wow!I guess they'll keep her busy.
Estefi's looney bin appeared to be an abandoned church.
There was absolutely no explanation of why ORBO decided to kill Victor.
Another thing that wasn't explained was Reina's being hit by the limo at the very beginning of the novela. Maybe it was just an accident.
Did anyone notice that there was an exterior scene of the S&S Detective Agency just before FELS and Esmeeth got in on? I guess FELS left the CIA and started a detective agency and was asking Esmeeth to join him.
I'm sure I'll have more later.
I actually hope that this one will come out on DVD or something, as I know it'd be one that would continue to give pleasure with repeated viewings... Anyway, my thanks again to everybody, and my continued best wishes to all from here in Nicaragua.
Siate felice!
Stevey :-)
(P.S.- Lorenza from 'La Gata' called: she wants her necklace back.)
Nicole
Think of all the casting directors, photographers, actors, caterers, costume designers, set designers, directors, writers, etc whose work was BUTCHERED when Telemundo decided to edit this telenovela to the point of sometimes squishing three or four episodes into one. Shame on them.
~ Clarita's Pencilcase
Again, many many thanks.
Jean - I noticed the S & S building and wondered what that was about. Smith & Smith makes no sense because there's onlu one Esmeeth....
LOLA when Victor put a Mimi-me Injecto-Death 3000 on Neron's wrist. I was so glad Connie dumped it into that vase no wondered why she waited so long to do so. I guess she and Izzy will raise the spawn of Victor and Cobra. Eek.
Stefy stole the show,as far as I'm concerned. That was a very swanky manicomio and her Reina 2.0 was just plain fun. I loved how much she actually looked like ReinaAnteOjos! Catherine Siachoque deserves some sort of award for this role.
When the sniper shot our happy three, it struck me funny how they were lined up when they fell, instead of naturally falling.
The alley where Javier found the latest victim looked a lot like the alley where not-quite-dead Izzy was found.
After Victor died, who acquired the four red diamonds? Who was that female vic and why would her killer leave the diamond with her? Methinks a sequel is in order.
It has been a pleasure watching Reina with all of you. It has been a while since I enjoyed a telenovela as much as I enjoyed this one, and my viewing companions here ( all y'all ) made the experience an even richer one. I'm sure I'll think of more to say (LOL)but I might wait until I'm home and back in my desktop. :-)
Maybe the S&S private detection agency stands for Smith & Sleazeball.
Sexy& Short?(Smith only)
Slimy and Sad-faced (Picasso only)
Sister Shagger (Picasso only...remember the bookshop lady?!)
~ Clarita's Pencilcase
What a fun ride it's was!
Penny
Overall, I think they did a good job tying up the storylines. Yes, making Juanjo the accomplice was good twist, but I'm still not buying the motive, or really the motive of any of the members of the I Hate Reina Club. Their motive was so flimsy that anyone could have been a member of the club. They could have out of the blue said that Connie and Laz were the kids of the Cayote cook, who was killed by Pedro, and they too would have been members of the club. Or that Moto was the daughter of the gardener, and she too would have been part of the club. Let's face it, having that many people being ticked off enough at a person because her dad (who they already killed) had killed their parents when she was a baby, is just a weak plot device. But it also meant anyone could be a suspect.
But, I was glad to see our Dragon family all together at the end. Connie and Izzy raising the spawn of Vic and Cobra- I'd watch out for that kid. I was happy that Laz chose Moto. I totally think Greta is the new killer. And just how is she doing this joint custody thing with Laz and Moto? Isn't she a fugitive, because he know, she killed someone?
S&S -- Smith and Son? :D
Does anyone else remember how the over-the-top thriller, Aguien te mira ended? The kid, the BSC killer's son, looked at the camera and brushed back his hair in a gesture that was the signal that the evil side of his father (played creepily by Rafael Amaya) was taking over. At the time, we had a little discussion about it and what it meant.
Now, I think it was just the writers winking at us. I think the same is true of the "years later" montage in the very alley where all bad stuff seemed to happen in this novela -- the writers were winking at us.
Certainly, there are plenty of potential demons running around, or at least characters who are, shall we say, genetically loaded -- Greta and Nerón both have a double-whammy, genetically speaking. Agatha might take after her mother. Who knows how Juanjo's kids will turn out.
Motivation for the I HATE REINA club --
Yes, at first blush, it seems quite flimsy. The club depended completely on the influence of its charismatic leader. It was Estefi who kept the flames of resentment going. Underlying the IHR club was the CULT to the Queen of Diamonds.
The EDITING --
Some ham-handed editing is evident in these final episodes. The difference is that, at the very end, the Mexican audience was subjected to the same treatment as we were.
So when Mauricio, like the rest of us, puzzles over Reina getting dressed up in her "fugly dress" and absurd necklace which then disappear from sight, we know that an intervening chunk of material was removed. This scene had to stay because it had the Garnier product placement.
I'm sure they shot more scenes about Greta than were shown. They used what they considered the bare minimum to resolve the Laz/Moto dilemma while completely ignoring Greta's legal and emotional issues.
There was probably more Emilia stuff too -- why introduce a new character with such a detailed background only to drop her like a hot potato?
And what happened after Connie was shot? When did the CIA decide that Izzy had "earned" the De Rosas mansion? (This, by the way, was wonderful -- the faithful dog and the little seamstress end up in the palace!)
It's possible to go on and on about missing scenes -- I wish they'd have a heart and just show the final 20 episodes as they were originally shot. Wouldn't you love that? I would!
Javier should really be Nicolas Nunez (or de Rosas), and we know Smith is really Virginia de la Vega.
Mauricio, you sure set a high bar when it comes to excellence,
thank you so very much!
Bad Cops,
Bad Cops,
Whatcha You Gonna Do?
(novela song of the year)
and Jean as well!, (since I only get Telemundo I enter this blog through that door and wasn't aware of your recap until after Mauricio's appeared)
and many thanks to NovelaMaven, Caroline, Sara, Anita, Stevie , the Commenteers, and anyone else who added to this wonderful experience.
and as we sit here in the Library, in our big chairs (gowns and jackets) sipping fine cognac, (cigar anyone?), savoring this fine novela, what I find to be most satisfying, is to be here with you all.
ah yes the story,
I think of Catherine Siachoque (Estefania) as being one of the greatest actresses that I have ever seen, (which was really brought home in ¿Dónde está Elisa? where you could begin to see how she was layering more than one identity into her one character), and as in the intro when she takes a big draw on that cigar, I always have to think, who is this woman?
Paola Núñez (Reina), wow, a flower in the desert, and mi poor Reina, what a trooper, I don't think there was one epi where someone wasn't tormenting her, and when the bad guys took a break, Clarita and Javier jumped in, but always the passion!
I still have some lingering questions on Asunción, (and yes she can pick them) did anyone get her timeline, was she married to Pedro, had Reina, cheated with Coyote, shot by Pedro, changed her name and worked for / slept with, Big O? (I guess Victor didn't give her a chance)
Wanda D'Isidoro (Susana) does clueless with the best of them.
and Eugenio Siller finally gets the recognition he deserves,
(he will always be the Dragon to me)
what an incredible cast this was!
thank you so much Marcela Citterio, for mastering this writing style,
a 2 hour action movie stretched into 140 hours, wow!
I didn't really care for the sewn lips corpse at the end. I guess I'm a sucker for romantic TN endings and prefer a wedding!
I always laugh when I see those dozens, maybe even hundreds, of candles when the protagonists are ready to get it on. Wouldn't finding all those candles and enough book matches and making sure they don't topple onto your naked flesh en plena acción kind of be a buzz kill?
I WAS hoping for a more fitting end for Victor. I think he deserved being locked up in a dungeon with no cigars, no brandy, and a scruffy orange prison jumper instead of his elegant black designer clothes.
This has been a terrific, fun journey with probably the best cast of recappers and commenters ever! I've enjoyed every minute spent in cyberspace with you all!!!
Reina never did get her memory back. I was hoping being whacked on the head by Estefy would help her get her memory back. But that didn't happen. Oh well. At least she was able to remember some things like when she met Navier.
I loved how Izzy became a published poet and an agent.
I think Estefy committing suicide was fitting since that is what she originally wanted Reina to do.
They could have been a little more creative wtih Victor's fate. But then again it was nice that Reina and Navier who Victor hurt so much were the ones that put a stop to him in self defense of course.
I wish we would have had an update on Juanjo after the time jump.
Neron could very well be the one who committed the crime at the end.
It would be great to have a sequel but I don't think it will happen. I agree with NovelaMaven that they did that to wink at us. I think Marcela did something similar at the end of Corazon Valiente.
~ Clarita's Pencil-case
Oh what the heck! It's the grand finale. Let me hug you and put an end to this whole "I hate my mother" storyline! This seems to kind of sum up the last episode. When Javier confronted Victor at the end, I was like "there are only 7 minutes minutes left, I want to start seeing the happy endings!!"
There was absolutely no explanation of why ORBO decided to kill Victor. I'm just going to assume that ORBO always wanted to take Victor out, but decided to wait till he thought he could take Victor unaware. Too bad for him that Victor trusted nobody.
I have no idea why FELS was smiling when he went to go visit Estefi & saw her in all her craziness (if it was someone from viewerville that would be more understandable). Would't he be sad that his precious sister ended up the way she did, no matter their deteriorating relationship?
I WAS hoping for a more fitting end for Victor. I think he deserved being locked up in a dungeon with no cigars, no brandy, and a scruffy orange prison jumper instead of his elegant black designer clothes. I was hoping for the same, as well for Estefi. Although, it's probably best that they both died. I feel like those two could lie, cheat, bribe, etc. their way out of any situation.
jlk
Here is the Gran Final of the Body Count:
80a. (Addendum to 80. The Real Dr. Toledo). Mauro Montalban mentions to Stefi that he knows she had her “gente” kill Dr.Toledo. She admits it. (The mystery person in the hooded robe was none other than Juanjo, as he told Javier later.)
81. Mauro Montalban – stabbed in the back, by Stefi in her doll room. She takes the time to sew his lips shut and then moves the body to his old hotel room.
82. Estefanía’s 7-month fetus, born too early – suffered trauma after she and Cobra had a couch fight, doctors could not save him.
83. Two thugs at Emilia’s Restaurant-Bar – by some expert shooting, by memoryless Javier.
84. Dra. Mrs. CWD (Corrupt Woman Doctor) – by Injecto-Death 3000, by Victor for letting his infant son die. He dumps her in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream freezer.
85. Dr. CMD (Corrupt Man Doctor) – by Injecto-Death 3000, by Victor because he already killed the doctor’s wife. Victor is glad to learn his baby is alive. He’s very “grateful” to the doc. He gives him a big abrazo and the Injecto-Death 3000 treatment at the same time. Victor leaves him in the refrigerated room with his dead wife.
86. Cristián’ father, the Coyote’s bodyguard and Stefi’s nanny – assassinated by gunshots, by Pedro Hugo Ortiz and his merry band of assassinators, killed at the same time as Stefi’s parents.
87+. Too numerous to count – assinated by various gunshots, by Pedro Hugo Ortiz, Reina’s father. (Stefi gives Reina a run down of all the men, women, children and animals assassinated heartlessly, without mercy, for money by PHO.)
88. CIA Agent Ramallo (Bad Guy) – by some quick action shooting, by Izzy, Señor Quick Draw McGraw (Good Guy), when the would-be-assassin made it past security (QTH?) at Moto’s apartment, where the Rest of the Good Guys are trying to reverse the effects of Victor’s PHoo Juice on Javier.
FLASH! ONLY WOUNDED López 3.0 — by a bullet, by Victor when he tries to stop Vic from seeing Stefi and getting his baby. Vic orders his two goons to carry him out.
89. Two interlopers who have breached security, trying to get into Moto’s (formerly known as Javier’s hideaway) apartment to kill him – by some sharp shooting, by Patricio.
90. Pedro Ortiz, Reina’s father – by hanging himself and by poison, by Stefi administering poisoning in case he didn’t commit suicide to save Reina’s life.
The Reign of Death in Reina is Over With:
91-95. Cristián (becomes dead in a hail of CIA/FBI/LVPD gunfire), Cobra (by Victor and his Injecto-Death 3000), ORBO (by Victor shooting him), Victor (by Reina shooting him), Stefi (who hangs herself).
Victor needed to die at the end. If he had been locked up, he would have managed to escape or exact his nefarious evil-doing from the cell. Dead is best.
The final week of episodes felt chopped up and edited, so I agree with another post that there was probably a lot of great film footage left on the cutting floor. Wah.
It was a satisfying ending, for me. Izzy reformed and Connie got her Great Love Story (Yay!!!) All the baddies got their comeuppance, except for Greta, and that wink at the end with the sewn lips and red diamond were a nice wink to the viewers.
I still wonder what happened to the red diamonds after Victor died, but we will never know. Oh well . . . I enjoyed this telenovela immensely!
Deb--Loved your label for us. We were certainly the dedicated Reinamainiac Comenteers beginning with Capitulo Uno.
I fear the DVD will be chopped up even more than the last dozen or so episodes. Uni is probably patting itself on the back saying what a good job we did. They need sackcloth and ashes or ridden out of town on a rail.
Steve Boudreaux--you attribute the recap and captioning skills to the wrong person. It was not I--it was Mauricio whose delectable phrasing and captions gave us those comic pauses.
Mauricio--I'm still in awe of your recapping and screen shooting skills, with such zinging captions.
About the ending --
I loved that Reina got to save Navier's life, first by shooting Victor and then by doing CPR on Navier.
I loved the recapitulations of the very beginnings of the novela, not just in the scene where Reina is almost hit by Nicolas's car, but also her voice-over at the wedding (something like 'there are many reasons why a woman says 'I do' ... this time for love).
I agree that the arch-villains had to die. There was simply no other way to contain their malice.
I also think it was fitting that they weren't tortured. Victor and Estefi were the sadistic and vengeful ones; Navier and Reina just wanted to get their lives back. Of course, as Mauricio pointed out, it was particularly apt for Estefi to die in precisely the way she envisioned and tried to orchestrate Reina's death.
It's unlikely any of the people involved in this wonderful novela will get the recognition they deserve. It was labelled a ratings failure and simply shunted aside. All we can do is sing its praises and hope that the writers and actors and production folks know that their efforts did reach an appreciative audience.
I'm really bummed that this TN is over. Generally, by about the fourth to fifth month into a TN, I am starting to get antsy for it to end -- my blood pressure can only handle so much evil for evil's sake kind of stuff. But with RdC, I was enjoying every minute of it, up until they started butchering it and making it incomprehensible. Such a pity.
It would have been so much fun to enjoy it through the holidays! Oh well, such is life.
Regarding S&S, I was thinking Supremo & Smith. Let's face it, even if Picasso wasn't the boss anymore, he will always be the Supremo!
That's right, a KIA Soul! Not toxic-waste green, a nice pewter color :)
Clarita's Pencilcase
Wish I could tell Telemundo and KIA that there was at least one good thing to come out of their ratings loss or whatever they think of RdC! Also, I bought the Enrique Iglesias song in the summer :)
Clarita's Pencilcase
~ Clarita's Pencilcase (proud new KIA Soul owner)
Subtitled: I Cannot Tell a Lie, Marcela Citterio Made This All Up
WEEK TWENTY-TWO – Mon Dec 8 – Fri Dec 12
An Amnesiac Dragon is a bigger pain in the butt than regular dragon.
A potent cocktail of PHoo Juice and Anti-Phoo juice drugs can make a dragon commit acts he wouldn’t normally make against his colleagues and loved ones.
A Dragon is not patient when time (and the novela he’s in) is running out.
A Drugged Dragon is not himself.
A Dragon Daddy only recognizes official dragona daughters, not switched babies.
Only a damsel’s love can save a dragon, as long as he’s well armed.
A Sleeping Dragon never sleeps.
A Dragon will self-medicate on the flimsiest of information; it only looked like a Pez dispenser.
A Dragon does not wear plaid—dead or alive.
A Dragon can >FF backwards faster through his life than ordinary people can >FF forward through commercials.
A Dragon can google the word Chiche in his mental data base and come up with a single hit, luckily.
A Dragon will risk immortality to save his damsel from a burning mansion.
A Dragon can stop a car on a dime to keep from running over his damsel.
An Immortal Dragon still has to stop and take his medicine.
A Dragon is way better than a chameleon, or a falcon, or a cobra.
A Dragon will hug his mother if it’s in the last few minutes of the Gran Final.
The best place for a dragon to get a math lesson is in a bubble bath, as long as it doesn’t confuse him.
A Dragon learns how to play dead and makes sure his damsel and dragona daughter have also learned the trick of not breathing and oozing fake blood.
A Dragon will never kill a friend, even if the friend turns out to be a killer.
A Dragon will kill his brother if the brother is a killer; his damsel makes a good back-up, though (and a great EMT).
The birth of a new dragon child heals a dragon's heart.
A Dragon makes a handsome groom, under the right circumstances.
A Domesticated Dragon will learn how to barbecue expertly.
A Dragon’s immortality is not inherited, it is earned through telenovela action.
This Dragon will live forever in our hearts. EL FIN
The Curse of the Red Diamonds is Eternal.
Anyway, thanks so much for doing this with such wit and skill.
I miss you guys a lot!!
(I know, way to many exclamations points.)
Bravo! What a great farewell salute to our show!
This Dragon will live forever in our hearts.
It makes me long for bumper stickers and t-shirts!
Wonderful show, wonderful people to recap with, wonderful commenteers -- how often does that happen, my friends? Not very.
"A Dragon will hug his mother if it’s in the last few minutes of the Gran Final."
My favorite part of El Fin.
"This Dragon will live forever in our hearts. EL FIN"
Absolutely.
I'm still going through Reinamaniac withdrawals. ~sollozos~
Until the next crop of Looneyvision/Telerisa novelas debut, I'm watching the original Colombian version of Las Juanas on youtube. Rafael Novoa is so young in it! He looks like a baby!! However, he just gets more hawt as he gets older!!! I much prefer the new millenium version.
I can already see that Las Juans is a wonderful comedy, even though I cannot understand half of what they say (none of that neutral-Mexican-speaking) but I get the gist of it and make up the rest in my mind. ;-)
A special shout out goes to Our NovelaMaven who steered, cajoled, moved, enlightened, entertained, provided us with some brilliant prose, and always used correct grammar, English and Spanish.
Thank you, ALL. It was a pleasure belonging to this Crazy for Reina bunch. It just didn't last long enough.
Anon at 9:53: Do like I'm doing. Go back and start watching RdC again. It's just as much fun. You can spend your time on the dialog, since we already know most of what had us scratching our heads for so long.
Thank you for the shout-out, amiga! I also have the episodes taking up space on my DVR, and I do believe it's time to start watching again from Episodio uno.
Your extras, plus your recaps and commenteering added enormously to our enjoyment here. Thanks for everything!
Our favorite RdC Spanish doctor, (who was NOT corrupt) and became enamored of Esmeeth - that would be Alberto Mateo - will play Sergio di Franco, a movie director in DdP.
So we're likely to have a slickly written, skillfully performed piece of ugly. Gah. I'll watch the first episode, but I definitely don't want to write about it ... well, unless it really surprises me.
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