Thursday, January 15, 2015
La Malquerida #100, 1/14/2015: Esteban is Unmasked, But There Are Still Truths to Be Revealed
Hector’s words have had their effect, and Cris sits on her bed going through pictures of Este and Acacia, particularly the pictures she took of them on her honeymoon—the ones that got Hector’s mind going in the first place. Cris seems to be seeing the light, and asks God to not let it be true—it can’t be true. Esteban wouldn’t have dared. Her expression is much less certain than her words.
E: Are you serious?
C: I told you I would do anything to make sure my daughter is ok. And I see that your presence does her no good. If you leaving will be good for her, then that’s what we’re going to do.
E: Acacia, do you really want me to leave?
N: There are few times when I’ve spoken so seriously as I will now. I came to offer you an apology. I ask your pardon for what Juliana said to you, and for all the ways I also insulted you. But most of all, I regret having ever asked you to get rid of my grandchild.
E: I’m the owner of this house, and Acacia…
U: Acacia is what? Say it! Because now I know you don’t love her as a daughter, but as a woman.
E: You’re crazy! How dare you say something like that?!
Este tells him to leave or he’ll call the police. Uli ignores him and tries to pass. Este pushes him so hard he hurts his hand, which is sore from his machete adventures the other evening.
C: What are you saying, Esteban?! It’s true! You desire my daughter as a woman!
C: Stop sullying my daughter with your prohibited thoughts!
E: Look, Cristina. Don’t put the blame on me. You were the one who asked me to get close to your daughter.
C: Yes, as a daughter!
E: I swear that I tried, but I couldn’t help seeing her as a lovely woman…
C: You weren’t man enough to leave, instead of sullying our love! Instead you stayed. You stayed for her!
E: I swear that I wanted to rescue our relationship, and that’s why I married you in the Church.
C: What?! Since way back then you’ve been pretending that you love me?
C: I need to know the truth!
E: The only thing you need to know is that I made a mistake. And yes, you’re right that I should have left when I realized what I felt for your daughter.
C: But you didn’t! Instead you stayed here, pretending and lying to my face! In my bed! You swore your love for me, while you were thinking of my daughter!
E: I thought staying by your side was the best thing I could give you.
C: I am too much woman to receive love out of pity! I would have preferred a thousand times that you shouted to my face that you didn’t love me. Now, answer me! How far were you capable of going with my daughter?!
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Not only did you recount the events we saw in vivid detail, but you filled us in on so much that we missed! I didn't cry last night but did just now when I read "German tells Norb that he’s changed a lot, and he will proudly carry the name Palacios for the rest of his life".
So many wonderful lines but "Juli can’t believe she lives in a world where her two baby-daddies are co-parenting successfully without her" and " Juli continues to berate Cris for also having the flea-ridden Luisa there..." were a few of my favorites. I've always thought Norberto sported too much jewelry so really appreciated "Norb goes to speak to Luisa. (He’s wearing WAY more finger bling than any woman in this show.)" Exactly!!
I will start with Ale and German. “He walks away, and she turns away. Then he comes back and calls her name. They rush into each other". Star crossed lovers no more. Hopefully, Lizzy's valiant release of German will lead to their being together.
Hector's words did seep into Cris' conscience and as the intelligent woman she is, began to correctly process what occurred. I thought the writing clever as Cris pieced the elements together to see for herself (with only gentle prodding from Hector), what was there all along. It will be interesting to see how she receives Acacia's recounting. Will she see it as the ultimate betrayal or will she hold Este (and perhaps herself) more accountable?
Where exactly does Este think he is going on horseback with no money and no resources??
Norberto was making amends at lightening speed it appears. German is embracing him with the gentle, supportive love of the son he believes himself to be. I am happy he is keeping the Palacios name. As Susanlynn noted yesterday, I think he will be a loving abuelo.
Now knowing he has been betrayed by everyone he trusted, caged animal Danilo is more dangerous than ever. He is also without money, but he may have resources. I cannot see him languishing in that filthy hotel hell hole much longer. I fear he will be on the move shortly.
Vivi, I have mixed emotions. I am so grateful and appreciative of the heart and effort you put into this and knowing everything that occurred was very gratifying.
I am sad though that we did miss the opportunity to actually see the emotional scenes you gave us.
Gracias amiga.
Diana
I must confess, I am starting to weaken. If Uli loves Acacia that much, and if he can put the past behind him, and if Acacia returns his love, I am not going to protest any longer. For Uli's sake.
Diana
"(Did you ever think 50 episodes ago that we’d see this scene?)" Nope
"(Sorry. This is going be less like an Oprah girlfriend chat, and more like Jerry Springer, Cris.)"
OMG, the Esteban admission to Cris and her anguish and rage. Only one person could attack Esteban like that and live.
Cris, begging Acacia to forgive her not knowing the whole truth, incredible scene.
Norberto & German when it acknowledged Norberto had changed. Gosh these guys are good.
Yes, I also loved the German and Norberto scenes. The acting has been beyond stellar, hasn't it?
Diana
The writers and actors are bringing it to these final episodes. My favorite line of the night was Cris telling Este she is too much woman to need pity love. You go, Cris!
But of course now Cris feels it's all her fault, and it so is not. Can't wait to watch Acacia come clean and tell her the whole truth.
As for Este, maybe his horse heard from the cows about all his sins and will throw him into a ravine. Adios, Estebad. Will the murder of Alonso stay hidden?
Does it mean German will keep both last names -- not just Norb's name!
Ann-NYC
Norberto is one of the most about faced redemptions I've seen in a while.
Kirby, I had dreamed a sequence early on of Norberto looking over the cliff, seemingly to cause Alonso's death. So, you aren't alone.
Susanlynn, Rubio has really nothing to lose (he's already lost Luisa (whom he never had) and Memo (whom he thinks is dead). He's turned on Danilo. He hasn't killed anyone so he may well use his knowledge that Este killed Alonso as a bargaining chip. Speculation only.
I can't believe I'm saying this but that news might be too much for Acacia to handle. Cris will - she is strong but to me, Acacia is the more fragile of the two.
Diana
Yes, what she did was reprehensible but I think she's paid the price.
Diana
I think Aca is truly repentant. Now. I do think in fairness though, much of it was triggered by Este rounding the bend to violence and insanity, particularly to her. Had that not occurred, I don't know what would have happened.
Uli is the prize and I also hope she tells Cris everything and is truly contrite.
Diana
His abusive, psychotic behavior and murder of Manuel was punishments.
Diana
While Acacia did fan Esteban's flame and it is a result of her behavior, I liken it more to bait and a fish took it. That is not a negative consequence but an intended one.
Now, he needs to continue with the redemption road show (Uli, Cris) and end things with Juli, once an for all. They are not good for each other.
Juli, on the other hand...there is no hope for that woman.
I also, noticed that Esteban didn't go for the kill shot with Cris and tell of Acacia's involvement. Despite all that Esteban has done, I think he has struggled most with hurting Cris and why he stood there as she slapped and beat him with the riding crop, knowing he deserved that and worse.
Once again, I think Esteban is a sicko and doesn't really know how to love. But interesting that he's made that distinction between Cris and Acacia in his mind.
A definite distinction as you noted Vivi in Este's mind betwween Aca and Cris.
"Sick as he is, under that facade, he knows only one person ever loved him unconditionally and saved him from the gutter". Well said tofie.
Diana
I wouldn't necessarily say Este saw Cris as a mother figure (certainly not in bed)-- he saw Rosa as that. But he definitely flourished as her partner. He spoke with great joy about those years they worked hard side by side to get the hacienda back on its feet. He taught her about hacienda work, and she encouraged him and supported him going back to school and taking on leadership in the hacienda community. He taught her to take the reins of the hacienda, and she built his confidence and supported him trying to improve himself. But his true nature was bound to reassert itself, and it did when Acacia came back a woman.
Sergio Goyri, in spite of what appears to be a huge ego, would not have been the right man for the part. How unprofessional to publicly state that Christian was not "the one", but Goyri was definitely NOT the one.
I think the Esteban character was played correctly by Meier. He is a sociopath. Many sociopaths have that innate ability to fool people for a very long time. There are aspects of them that make them lovable. There have been moments in this story, that the blank look in Esteban's eyes have bugged the heck out of me, but as I see now that they really bothered and disturbed me. Kudos to the actor for having that ability.
It was perfectly played in the pivotal scene between Cris and Esteban. That he could stand there and continue to lie in the face of being caught was played to perfection.
I do not believe that Goyri (in what few TN that I have seen) would have brought that to the table. I am reminded more so of that when I see these previous to the upcoming TN. He's a macho with a mustache and a cowboy hat. The Esteban part required nuance and not just over the top macho.
My .02 for what they are worth.
Fatima
As you all know. for the last few days I have been sending Univision Corporate emails strongly complaining about the cuts--editing they often seem to do when a great novela such as La Malquerida is nearing it's completion. This isn't the first time that Univision has done this.
With all of the emails that I have sent, I have yet to get an answer. I now believe that the Univision Corporate contact, send us an email is there for people or companies that are interested in some way with doing business with Univision and not as a complaint forum.
I went to the regular Univision website, not the corporate site and checked around. Yes, you can register, sign up for the website and check out everything that Univision offers including an email chat room. When you sign up they want your name, email address
and date of birth. Date of birth?
Don't know why they want that, maybe for age demographics of their listeners. Do you have to give them your real date of birth?
I don't know but this seems like a way to let Univision and people that use Univision know what we think about what they have been doing, editing to pieces several great novelas that they have been airing.
Comments please.
the geingo
Speaking of SG, why is it that in the new tn, he gets to play his character both in the first part, AND the rest of the tn which takes place some 20 years later? While all the other characters appear to have different actors play their younger selves and their older selves (e.g. Iran Castillo/Rebecca Jones, Alejandra Garcia/Sabine Moussier). We get to watch him and his old mustache kiss on young women throughout the entire tn. Blech!
I thought it was a hoot that Esteban took off on his horse – a splendid creature (I love his feathered fetlocks) more suited to carrying a knight in heavy armor in a joust than to speed – and the police and Ulysses followed ON FOOT. Didn’t the police come in cars? Did they actually think they could catch up with even a slow horse?
But the police aren’t entirely feckless – somehow they managed to find the machete in all those vast fields.
I’m sorry, but the Esteban actor (CM) just can’t hack it. It was his big scene last night and, as has been the case all along, he just can’t bring conflict to his character. He didn’t look agonized, just listed his bad doings almost in a matter-of-fact way. During this whole show, all he has managed to do is to be large and masculine. And he’s good at looming, and stomping down hallways.
I’ve been contemplating the upcoming turn of events when Acacia will tell her mother that she was guilty too. This is telenovela justice, but is it really a good plan? Can poor Chris, who had a breakdown over her baby, take anything more? Her whole life with her husband is now trashed, and he’s cheated on her, not just with some other woman, but with her daughter for heaven’s sake, all the while pretending that he still loved her – even sleeping with her.
This puts me in mind of a letter I once read in an advice column where the lady writing in said she’d been married all her life to one man, and on his deathbed he confessed that he’d had a single affair decades ago. She was absolutely devastated, all her memories trashed. She not only had to mourn a dead husband, but also the grief of knowing that her life with him wasn’t what she thought, and that she’d been betrayed. At that juncture, was it necessary to tell her? He may have lifted the burden of guilt from himself in his last moments, but the time to tell her was back when it happened. I’m thinking the time for Acacia to tell her mother would have been while it was going on. This will give Acacia the punishment she deserves, but what about the price to Chris? Is it the right thing to do? Does Chris really need to know this?
I think Cris finally saw that Hector was right when she saw Esteban's reaction to Uli going to see Acacia. She finally started to get the hint. Esteban had the cojones to shout from the rooftops (in an arrogant way) to Uli that yes he indeed did love Acacia and who should overhear it but Cris. I loved when she started slapping and hitting him.
The scene that actually stood out to me the most was the scene with German and Lizzy when she asked him if he was sure he wanted to marry her. As you so perfectly described, Vivi, the looks on their faces said it all. I think that was the moment when Lizzy knew what she needed to do. She is a good person and I'm glad she got to talk to Ale about it. I'm also glad that Uli talked to German and made him accept his true feelings. German felt that marrying Lizzy was the "right" thing to do but even Manuel had told him that he didn't have to do that.
The scene where Ale and German say goodbye to each other reminded me of the scene when German first confesses his love for Ale. When they went back for a final hug in this episode and didn't seem to want to let go that reminded me of when Ale had told German that a relationship between them wouldn't work and he starts to walk away but she pulls him back
into a hug like she doesn't wanna let him go nor lose him completely.
I'm glad Cris found the letter Esteban dropped. I am glad he was caught for that too. I can't believe he got away. Will he go hide out with Dan?
The Norbie/German scene almost brought tears to my eyes. It was so good. Superb acting. You can see Norbie loves German and German loves Norbie.
Sergio must have some clause he gets to mack on all the young girls. If I watch I'll be treated to more bad dye jobs. Fool. Swear, he thinks just by showing up we girls melt.
But I'll let my fangirl out for a second and say how much I loved that cut portion of the goodbye scene too-- how close they were standing, the way German stroked her cheek, the near kiss, and the desperate hug at the end. Can't believe these two were going to give up on each other. Thank goodness Lizzy took matters into her own hands.
As for Estaban being a sociopath – if he were, he wouldn’t have agonized when he first had the feelings for Acacia. He knows what he’s doing is wrong. Now, Dan is a sociopath, full of insinuating charm. And it’s a hardly a blip on his radar – more an inconvenience really - that Ale hates his guts and is terrified of him. And that the other women are kept sex slaves and, he feels, his possessions. All that seems right and fine with him, as long has he has what he wants.
That’s interesting about the Univision’s twitter feed. It’s beyond unbelievable that nobody is mentioning the cuts. Is it possible for Univision to sanitize its feed by removing tweets? I don’t know how to tweet, but it would be great if one of us who does would put a tweet up there about the cutting and then see if it’s still in the feed an hour or so later.
Vivi, I do think it would be tacky if German gave that ring to Ale. If he does give it to her maybe she can wear it on her right hand or maybe even attach it to a chain and wear it as a necklace.
A great speech from JC to Acacia
Norbie tells Juli to get out forever. WOW!
Este tells Acacia, so now you understand that you only belong to me. With all that was going on all around him, Esteloco was still pushing. What nerve this goy has.
Was that another cut scene? I would have liked to have seen when Norberto manned up to Luisa.
Juli can't believe she lives in a world where her two baby daddies are co-parenting successfully without her. What a shock Juli.
Vivi---such a great line, Juli's
head is going to explode when she learns German is no longer going to be with the shop girl but instead with the whore. I lost it when I read that. My wife was looking at me like WHAT???
Vivi---A great comment at 11:35
Fatima---I also think that Christian Meier was the perfect choice to play Esteban. That blank goofy stare of his was priceless and went perfectly with the role he was playing.
Vivi---I am not grateful because
Uni cut a few commercials. DAMN UNIVISION! they shouldn't be cutting this novela at all punto.
Right Diana---Este takes off on a horse with no where to go and with no money. What?
Right again Diana---Not only will DevilDan soon be on the move but I think he will be lashing out with a devil's rage to all that he thinks has done him wrong.
Diana yet again---You won't protest for Uli's sake---Well I will protest for Itzel's sake. It makes me sad that she has been written off of the script and forgotten about. We should remember that Ulises wouldn't even be alive with out her help. I hope that at least she will be there when Ulises and Acacia ride off together into the sunset.
This whole novela has made me remember something that I told a female co worker some time ago. I was only joking--really, just joking but I said something like,
See it's all you women's fault. You make us men go crazy with your beauty and your charms. LOL
Thinking about Esteban loosing his mind has made my comment of long ago seem to ring true.
the gringo
I would not want a ring my husband gave to another...
And in the end? I don't think that Ale even cares about a ring. German is all she has ever wanted.
Diana
Thank you for this recap. I have not read it yet, but I am sure it is awesome.
I might not have time to comment later, but I wanted to thank you in advance. I am sad to say that my dear grandmother passed away early this morning at the age of 96. I was able to spend time with her last night and say goodbye. She had a full life and I have peace in my heart that she is now resting.
If I feel up to it, I will comment after reading the recap.
Hasta pronto...
But Univision displays spectacular stupidity to cut down the final few weeks of any telenovela. The last ten episodes of Malquerida are by far the highest rated in the novela's whole run with people tuning in the see the shit hit the fan, but instead of 10 nights of good ratings, Univision will only get 5 nights.
I've also never understood why they don't post the full episodes of cut down novelas on their sites at Uvideos and Hulu. There must be factors I'm not seeing, because simple math tells us you sell twice as many ads for 10 full episodes posted on Hulu versus 5 edited ones.
(Equally stupid, though off topic, is when Univision has a hit like Corazon Indomable and they run it for 2 hours a night, so instead of having a strong ratings performer to act as lead in for their prime time lineup 160 nights a year, they squander it and only get a strong lead in for 80 nights. No other network would shoot themselves in the foot in that manner. Well, except maybe NBC.)
I'm a big Itzel fan but, sadly, since Uli still loves Acacia I'm granting my permission for them to get back together. Initially, Uli and Acacia were planning to take it slow while she attended university. So if they do this, that'll give her a little time to grow up and become less self-centered.
But it will always bug me that if Este had tried to boink Acacia in a meadow strewn with rose petals in a heart shape, instead of in her bedroom next to her mom's, she might've run off with him.
My favorite scene: Cris striking Este with the riding crap. Each time Cris's arm raised to give him a blow, I found my own arm raising to strike him too.
I also loved the Hector-Uli convo when Uli says "I knew it!" If you’ve ever had someone in your life that wasn’t what they were cracked up to be but you were the only one who could see it, you can relate to Uli's satisfaction at getting this confirmation from Hector.
Wow, I had no idea that Este's machete looked so different from Rubio's. As soon the hacienda worker saw it encrusted in dirt, he knew instantly that it was Este's.
Poor Rubio. Nobody seems to care that he was innocently locked up. Not Rosa, Luisa, his patrona... Sucks to be you, Rubio.
I give CM a thumbs-up. I thought he was especially good when he was the truly loving husband to Cris but tortured by his lust for Acacia. He’s not bad at BSC either.
German and Ale should talk about the ring. If I were Ale I wouldn't want it, but then it is a family heirloom.
I now feel compassion for Acacia. She is so young and so immature. As someone said earlier, she has a lot of growing up to do. Go to university, volunteer in some really hard places, and get a real life. She' too young and immature and unsettled for Uli. Wish he could have married Itzel.
I want to see Danilo dead and Esteban in khakis in a hellhole Mexican prison forever.
This has been an improved role for Victoria Ruffo. Less crying, more grounded to the earth wisdom and the capacity to get really pissed and dish out justice. I hope to see her in more roles like this. But first, I want to see Cris and Hunky Hector ride off into the sunset.
My heartfelt sympathy to you and your family. I'm sure your being with her gave her the strength and comfort she needed.
I hope that those you love are able to give you the same comfort. God bless.
Diana
He certainly isn't coming home to much. Now that he is free, I'm starting to wonder if perhaps Este's killing of Alonso won't be revealed (?) I had thought spilling that secret might lessen his sentence but now there would be no reason for this reveal.
Diana
Susanlynn, I especially cracked up with that cow gossip with Este's horse.
I am still wondering tho, did they do the deed as in the advances shown, were they cut by the editing or they did not do IT?
Initially, I thought of not continuing to watch this tn, due to the yucky subject matter, and the seemingly immoral handling of the topic. Like the characters are so humane and looked normal, and were just victim of a strong feeling for each other. But I continued, and I started to notice that they started giving Este dark secrets and sociopath behavior and Acacia, who was so clueless, started feeling sorry for her Mom and all that big guilt and anguish she is undergoing.
And all the actors are great!
Thanks everyone, I like all your comments. Anne
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