Thursday, January 22, 2015
Que Te Perdone Dios on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 "You're a Nasty, Mr. Grinch."
Ren asks if what she heard is true and Bruno confirms. She says she will never forgive him while he throws more salt in the wound and says she'll never see Pablo ever again.
Lucio (complete with toothpick) eggs on Pablo who gets a little mad and is ready to charge towards him. That being said, Lucio pulls out a gun. He orders Pablo to put some pep in the step and head out (Hup 2, 3, 4 - Hup 2, 3, 4.)
Ren's luggage is being packed and Connie has one last talk with her daughter before Bruno's Operation : Gaudencia 2.0 is fulfilled.
Lucio has brought Pablo to an area where he is ordered to literally dig his own grave.
Bruno yells at Amanda, Mateo and Lucha (OK what is her name?) not to tell anyone about this and dismisses them. Unfortunately for Connie, she is staying with Bruno and that's final.
Pab is still digging and stops to reason with Lucio who can't be. Lucio says this is not the first time he has sent someone to meet their maker (or the undertaker.) Some talk later and Pab tussles with him over the gun; he knocks the gun out of Lucio's hand and then whacks him with a shovel (nice shot Pablo!) Fausto then comes out and after a few choice words, does Pablo in himself (if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.) Luc then wakes up bloody-faced and buries Pablo.
Bruno whisks everyone except Macaria away and they debate.
Renata is sad but fondly remembering the tender love she made with Pablo (and I get to see his exercised-through-horseback-riding-denim-dressed rump roast all over the TV screen again.)
Brute bitches at the ranch-hands and Fausto comes. He turns on the charm and Brute straight up asks Fausto if he is interested in marrying Ren. Fausto pretty much responds with a sure, why not?
Ooh, time has passed and Ren is showing! Ren says if it hadn't been for Mac accompanying her she would have gone crazy.
Connie says Ren will never marry or accept marrying Fausto and neither will she. Brute
-calls his granddaughter a bastardess,
-says that he will NEVER give Renata a cent again
-and lastly states the world accords to him. He thinks marrying Fausto with Ren would be a good investment (not really.) Connie is so against all of this but has little to no spine at all.
Ren prays and well whaddaya know, she is calling Macaria because she is having contractions!
Mac has called Connie; Ren is in labor!
Ren hopes for the best while birthing.
Brute sits in a chair as the baby's gender is determined; it's a girl! (thus an Abigail is born <3)
Mac says the baby was born OK and a girl while Brute just shrugs it off; he is going to pay her off for a job and she asks what it is.
The baby has been taken from Ren for the night.
At Registro Civil, Mac and Bruno are getting the baby registered under Mac's last name.
Ren wakes up and asks where the baby is. Brute comes in and says if Ren wants to be around the baby AT ALL, then she will do as he says.
Brute's Commandments
-She is to wash herself of the embarrassment she brought upon the family name. (Ren has had enough and so has Brute.)
-Ren will never be able to be involved with the baby as her mother. Mac will be however.
- She is to keep in mind he has the power to make sure the baby is never seen ever again. (He has no sympathy for the kneeling, crying Ren and twists the rusty knife some more by saying she is dead to him.)
-He says what he is offering her is a lot more than she deserves.
-Bottomline; Mac is the mom now and Ren is to have the least amount of contact with Abigail as possible!
BrujoGuyMel has come to help Connie out and she whisks him away.
Ren calls for her daughter when Mac comes in with Baby Abby and Brute says to cut the "mi hija" stuff; since it was in his commandments, she is not the mother anymore!
Mac hands her to Ren who laments and resents this painful situation. Mac begs for a pardoning as she was obligated to obey Brute's commands.
Mac tries to vouch for Ren by stating that it is heart-wrenchingly unfair that Ren is forbidden from seeing her own daughter and Brute's berserk button has been pushed for the umpteenth time; OldFart curses, "YOU ARE THE MOTHER NOW AND NOT RENATA! GET WITH THE "PROGRAM" IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO SEND YOU TO HELL WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS!" Mac who doesn't look phased at all says she shall abide his laws.
Renata (in peace at last) gets to spend time with her baby rocking her back and forth in the pink'n'brown-adorned-cradle.
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I love that Brujo is getting his anvil at last though his best punishment would be for his wife to send him to the fregado with him having to suffer the consequences ,death is too easy (Of course then we would have more Brujo rants and no one wishes that maldicion around..)
You captured the horror and chill perfectly with "She is to keep in mind he has the power to make sure the baby is never seen ever again. (He has no sympathy for the kneeling, crying Ren and twists the rusty knife some more by saying she is dead to him.)".
Thank you for the excellent recap.
What can you say about Bruno? As you so rightly noted "Will he keel over at last? (One can only hope.)" What a horrid man. How could he do that to his own daughter?
I'm sorry but I am perplexed. How could Renata go along with her child being taken from her and reared by Macaria? I though she was fiesty (as evidenced by her tirade to Fausto), but whatever fight she had seems to have sadly dissipated. I'm going to cut her some slack here as she is likely worried some harm will come to her daughter.
Poor Pablo!
I'm a bit surprised that I like Alejandro in the Lucio role - he is very good. Although I have to say no one uses a toothpick as skillfully as Rubio in LM. Count, I thought "mini Fofito" was a good description although I think you are giving him a bit more credit than I.
Was Macaria in the least bit sincere to Renata? I thought I saw a glimmer of regret but it seemed to quickly pass.
With the wedding tonight, Renata's bad luck continues.
Diana
As for Mac being honest to Renny,it is just like Merlito/Manuel Ojeda said when he said that she is known to shed her "skin" to suit her interests.Who knows if she felt anything while being Ren's ally,she is the perfect example of a stone cold manipulator.
1.) Bruno is the male version of Greta: more deadlier & violent!
2.) Renata is WEAK to stand up to him!
3.) Connie needs to WOMAN UP.
4.) Poor Pablo: once Renata blurted out she was pregnant with his baby, his death warrant was all but sealed.
5.) I'm going to be interested to see how Mac raises Abigail as her "kid".
Such a sad episode. I can see how Renata, after being sequestered for months and now worried about her newborn's whereabouts, would give in to Bruto. He seems all-powerful to her. Maybe she thinks she's buying time and plans to run away with her baby when she gets the chance?
But I don't get Macaria. I thought her motivation for backstabbing Renata was to have Fausto for herself. Becoming a "mother" to the newborn doesn't seem to help her with this.
no one uses a toothpick as skillfully as Rubio in LM
Diana, hilarious and so true.
I'm still not sure about this story. The ad showing middle-aged Fausto pouncing on young Zuria Vega's character doesn't inspire me. But I'm still testing the waters, waiting for Fabian Robles and Rebecca Jones to show up.
I'm worried about getting into this one. LQLVMR had a very unsatisfying ending for me. I felt like the bad guys really did win in the end. Once you compare the body count of the good guys vs. bad guys, the fatherless children, the hearts broken...the anvils just didn't fall frequently and hard enough. I'm worried this show will be the same.
The novela has some potential and i look forward to watching and writing about it!
Although we could use some more people to join our team to ease our schedule since we both are doing 3 recaps each per week.I am not complaining though since i know that when people will wish to join,they will and we will be very grateful (Although we could keeep the snarkiness to ourselves too :) )
Last night I had a light-bulb moment. The whole episode was crying interspersed with yelling, plotting, mayhem, and do-it-yourself grave digging. When Wise Indian scared the bejeebus out of La Senora by appearing before her and intoning her family’s fate based on the temperature of the wind, I about fell off the couch. And then it dawned on me!
Stick with me here, because this pertains to our show: If you missed Reina de Corazones, you missed a treat. The whole thing was played very seriously, and had every single cliché known to telenoveladom, plus some we’ve never seen. (Sample: at the last minute, just before the boda, our muscle-y handsome hero has a heart attack, but that’s okay because the bride gives him CPR, and we’re all good to go!) R. de C. was a tongue-in-cheek send-up of telenovelas, a satire. We in the Caray feed went absolutely nuts commenting and having a glorious time with it.
So my light-bulb moment was – maybe this is a send-up too. I mean, think about it. First off, there’s the title song with its tuba farts. Then there’s the over-the-top melodramatic acting. And every cliché you can think of. Why, the fellow about to off Pablo even had the required piece of hay or something between his teeth. And then there’s the huge lineup of Televisa stars. Could it be they couldn’t wait to get on board with a send-up?
Brian P. Seems doomed in every the he is in . Well, I wonder how long it will be before we see all these kids grown up. Will they jump in the river and come out as young adults?
I read that Eva Longoria is going to be in a comedy TV show called ''Telenovela'' about backstage at a telenovela.
I started watching ''Jane, the Virgin.'' It is pretty good.
I must say this TN has a great cast. I barely noticed Laisha Wilkins in the opening credits last night.
Poor Pablo. At first I thought he hit Lucio in the neck with the shovel, but I guess it was his eye. I'm assuming there was an unspecified time jump between him dying and Ren having the baby?
Countx, I noticed that during the scene with Ren and Mac towards the end, the same piano music from Abismo was being played.
I can't believe Bruno carried out his plan so quickly of putting baby Abigail in Mac's name and care. Poor Renata will now be stuck in a marriage from h ell. Will Bruno not live to see it?
TF ,i did not notice the music from Abismo,it must have gotten out of memory,thanks for remembering that! I like that some of the music is reused so they dont need to resort with creating crappy sounds but i am sure they will create some new ones) . And yes,there was an 8 month time jump after Pablo's death.
So who are these boys related to? Fausto killed his brother to get full control of his sub-standard hacienda, right? And the one boy is his nephew, and that boy’s mother has a secret yearning for Fausto (blech) right?
But who is the other boy related to? And did Fausto say he was going to send one away, or both? Why?
I didn't know what you meant with BrujoGuyMel but you helped clear that up a little. Ok, he's the man with the long hair and the leather hat but---who is he? Pablo's father? friend? Who is the younger handsome guy usually seen with him?
Who is Lucio? Is he Fausto's son, brother, ranch foreman?
Thank you Susanlynn and anonymous
1-21 7:54 for four answers from yesterday.
My rant---I know that we are dealing with another culture here.
However being born in the US and growing up here, it is hard very hard to believe that life/families like this still exist. I haven't seen a car yet but did see candles. Is this from 100+ years ago? I know maybe India and the Middle East but this is close to home--just across the border.
I understand that Renata has no money, no job and maybe no education but---being man handled
like that with hard slaps, being thrown down and having your baby taken from you goes almost beyond
my understanding. Can we have a woman with a fighting spirit against all odds. Instead of wailing and crying papa--papa, no please papa! I would have loved to see Renata stand up an say-Papa
when you go to sleep at night you had better either lock the door or sleep with one eye open because where there once was love now there is only hate. Don't ever turn your back on me. Maybe best to not even warn him, just do it.
Will mean Bruno die tonight? I'll
be watching the trials of Renata from a front row seat.
the gringo
I think I saw about 5 mins of this last night. Enough to hear Bruno say that he is going to disinherit Renata and leave the ranch and everything to his asshole neighbor, simply because she was born female. He wouldn't even listen to common sense coming from his wife when she pointed out that said neighbor and his macho mustache have run his own ranch into debt. But of course he'll fix that eventually, thinks Bruno, because he's a MAN, and a macho one at that. And Bruno is sure his lands will be in fine man hands after he kicks the bucket (which can't happen soon enough). The only thing bad about Bruno's impending demise, is that he won't get to see the macho jerk he's sold his daughter to, drive his beloved ranch into the ground (ojala!).
when you go to sleep at night you had better either lock the door or sleep with one eye open because where there once was love now there is only hate. Don't ever turn your back on me. Maybe best to not even warn him, just do it."
Gringo- Yes! Loved this!
Question- Are there any strong women in this tn so far, period? I'm not talking about villainesses (and even they seem weak and subservient)?
As for Diego,i think i heard in the first episode that his mother abandoned him but his current whereabouts and everything else about him remains unknown.
Vivi,so far i havent seen any moderatly strong women except that servant( The one who potrayed Lucha in Por Siempre Mi Amor) .But these were only the flashbacks/younger times of the novela so i could expect more in the future in that aspect.
threatened to take Mateo away and to shoo Diego away from Bruno's hacienda after he marries Renata,that was the scene before Fausto entered the grand house and received the bad news.
You nailed it.
Diana
Gringo – so true about no strong women! Now, my question is: Is there no alimony in Mexico? In Malquerida we had a wife being told she wasn’t allowed to leave the house. In addition, when she did try to leave her marriage, she was penniless. So somehow the husband could order her to stay home, and could refuse to give her any money. Other characters thought that wasn’t very nice, but they weren’t outraged. Since she was an antagonista, and a money-grubber who thought work was beneath her, we didn’t mind so much. But still, I wondered at the time.
And now here’s Bruno’s wife, cringing and weeping and he seems to have complete control over her. Can she also not leave because of having zero money? Why can she not just call a taxi and go visit her pregnant daughter? I understand this husband is a bully, but she doesn’t seem to feel her life is in danger. Yet she doesn’t leave. Financial reasons?
Tuba farts, ha, tuba farts showed up on CI when Sergio Goyri did, his trademark and I suspect this is really to showcase him.
Maggie- In LM when Manuel married Acacia, Norb was eager to know if they married with joint or separated assets. I have heard this mentioned many times in other tns as well. I guess Juli (LM) and weak mama here (sorry, don't know her name) did not marry with joint assets and didn't bring their own assets into the marriage. Also on tns, other than folks who live in Mexico City, divorce is a difficult and cumbersome thing that can be drawn out for a VERY long time. This seems to be true life in Mexico. But a person certainly can't drag it out forever. If you're motivated enough, then you can get out. You can at least physically separate yourself from that person. Of course, this lady might be very Catholic and wouldn't dream of leaving her husband. Till death do part and all that.
I'd be a cold day in hell before I'd allow anyone to take my baby from me!
There is no excuse for Renata's mother stepping aside and letting Bruno abuse her.
I don't think she know yet that her grandchild is going to be raised by Macaria yet. I have a feeling even that won't prompt her into action. Unfortunately.
Diana
Here in the U.S. if you kept your wife imprisoned, the law would be all over you. In California, which is a community-property state, if you’ve been married all those years you get alimony. I realize not all Mexican marriages are community-property, but still! The La Malquerida’s husband’s rationale when his wife said “But I raised our sons!” was that she had servants, so she didn’t do anything. It’s no fun seeing a mother’s contributions (she did love her sons) devalued in that way. Plus somebody has to manage the servants and the household. I guess your efforts don’t count unless they turn into money. Again, as she was a antagonista, there wasn’t much comment when the husband popped out with that.
There is definitely some male dominance going on. I guess Renata's mother (Constanza?) had no other choice but to let Bruno take Ren away. Did he say "I'll be back in 3 months"?
We got used to Cris-I-am-woman-heasr-me-roar, so these cowering , weeping, yelling mujers are hard to take.
Yes, Vivi, I thought Iran was going to play grownup Renata, but I guess it will be a different actress. So..why didn't they cast a teen to play a teen ????
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_zZTL4tdCw
I'm still trying to get through the episode.
I hate saying it because she's younger than I, but Iran was a bad choice for the young Renato. It's really bothering me and it's making it hard to enjoy this part of the story. I nominate Tania Lisardo for the role.
Caridad Bravo Adams writes great stories, but they really seem old fashioned. Couldn't they have at least set this in the 20s,30s, 40s or 50s? This macho bluster and cowering females are insane.
That being said, the show is growing on me. Even the theme song (but I listen to banda in my car so...)
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