Friday, February 06, 2015

La Gata #112 2-5-15 Call CPS Quick, Fast, and in a Hurry!!!


La Gata Patio Peeps, the suffering is not over.  Let’s come together to support one another and do all we can to prevent PTSD.  I don’t know about you but I certainly need some positive vibes and some laughter cause there sure wasn’t much of that tonight.  This episode was surely two-in-one the way it jumped all over the place.   Please y’all, show this no mercy.  Don’t follow my lack luster example in this recap.  As they say on Fox:  LET IT RIP!!

About eight or nine years have passed and we open with a birthday party for . . .who?  There are eight or nine candles on the cake and the gang’s all there including Virginia, Pablito and Leti.

Carlos and little Virginia are doing well.  She is an absolute doll and yes, she is blind, and attends the institute.  He adores her and is a loving and proud daddy but little Virginia isn't the only one blind, as we shall see later.


Victor (Garabato) did indeed set up the baby purchase and has a warm and close relationship with his son, Carlos Horacio De La Fuente Olea, named primarily for his lifelong friend, Carlos, "Centavito".

The landfill has been demolished and there is some kind of weird, ugly building and a plaza that somehow Esme is responsible for?  I didn’t get this at all.  The (former) Basurero Boys, Willy and Tony work there as well as Victor but Rey is, well, I guess a street person now that the dump is gone.  One day Pablo and Esme are walking the grounds of the ugly building and are accosted by an aggressive beggar:  It’s Ines with a sure sign of depravity:  wavy hair.  Her dirty, unkempt locks hang around her butt, she’s ragged and still full of vinegar – and stupidity.  She curses “La Gata” and tells her she may be dressed all purty and such but she’s still a land fill cat.  Somebody needs to give this crazy heffa a mirror.  In a later scene Ines and Rey see each other for the first time in ages, greet each other with happiness and she curses La Gata for being responsible for the progress that surrounds them.

Joarocha and Pedro are married and trying to conceive.  She has just come back from the Dr. and gotten another negatory on her preggers test.  Well, they’ll have to keep working at it!
 
There follows a truly bizarre scene in which Monica has come to visit Esme at Lo’s.  Monica wants Esme to leave the past behind and be her BFF and she wants to bond over shopping, like NOW!  Esme reluctantly goes to get her purse.  Monica looks after her with an evil eye.

Oh, lord, have mercy!  It’s the cowboy shrink!  HatBro has taken his hat off and is talking to Gisela about how he fell in love with her because she was so defenseless.  How could he help but love her?  She doesn’t love him maybe she can learn after he helps her get vengeance against Pablo and La Gata for all the harm they did her.  He’s going to clear her name!  Doorbell rings.  There’s another person who wants vengeance just like us he says as he answers the door.  In walks Lorenza.  Gisela rises, surprised and pleased, tells her how glad she is to see her and asks her pardon for all her craziness and all the harm she did.  HatBro  gives Lo an approving nod and says “she knows everything.”  HOLD UP!  Isn’t HatBro supposed to be Mariano’s friend?  So he’s a psychotic psychiatrist who picks women off the street and then takes them back to his place to play house after they’re discharged from the psych hospital?

Back with Monica and Esme.  Who knows where she’s been for the last decade but she’s got some lessons on living she wants to impart to Esme.  Monica wants Esme to losen up, try new clothes, update her look so she can keep Pablo interested!   She asks how she’s getting along with Lo.  They tolerate each other for the kid’s sake.  Monica thinks if she spent less time at home she’d have fewer problems.  Esme likes being a stay at home mom, taking care of Pablo and the kids.  Hold up again, I thought Esme was an entrepreneur, an urban planner or some such! Oh, well.   Monica says leave it to her, forget the past, now that they are friends she can live real life.  Monica leaves.  Esme looks a little bewildered. 

Pablo comes in, he seems a little surprised to see Monica has visited.  Esme tells him they went shopping.  Goody, he’d like her to get out more.  Esme says Monica was very nice with her.  She asks if he loves her.  He assures her he does, she is his One True Love Forever.  They kiss.  Lo comes down the stair loudly interrupting them and fussing about them kissing.  [What?]

Switch to Victor at home fixing lunch or supper.  Willi calls and says La Gata has ordered some water proofing materials for a roof and he needs to go see about it.  He tells his son he has to go and he will stay with Jarocha but little Carlos wins and they go together.   Victor and Carlos Horacio arrive at the ugly building.  Little Carlos sees a beggar and asks for money to give her.  He runs over and gives her a coin, of course it’s Ines.   Victor and Ines lock eyes, there is a brief shock of recognition but no warmth.    Carlos Horacio feels the call of the blood and tenderly caresses Ines’s face—for a LONG time.  She looks at him but without any recognition, instinctive or otherwise.  Victor leads his son away.  Ines cries.

Now we’re back at Fer’s where he, Blanca and Metche cluck, cluck over one of Lo’s maids telling them that Lo does not respect Esme’s intimacy.  Ok, it’s late, y’all can imagine what form this intimacy-interruptus is taking and how the maid knows.

We’re back at Lo’s again.  [Augie was smart to have blown this pop stand!]  Lo comes running down the stairs yelling that Pablito has a fever.  And you talking about he doesn’t need his medicine.  Pablo and Esme are on the sofa, she reams them out and yells to call the Dr. right away and don’t be useless!

Victor and son arrive at Carlos house where little Virginia is.  Victor is stricken.  He says his head hurts a little.  He thinks his Dad is sad because they saw a lady in the city begging but she was pretty, very pretty.

Ines boo hoos to Ray about the pain of seeing Garabato all gussied up and quite the señor while she’s all skanky and disgusting.  She muses that he must have married because he had a child with him.  [Dumbass would never guess the child is hers cause she thinks she sold their son.]  Rey reminds her she’s the one who told him to take a flying leap.

Victor is still hurt over Ines’s rejection but firm in his resolve to let her have no part in his life or Carlos Horacio’s.  Carlos gives him a fantastic talk right after the Ines begging incident.  Willy and Tony take the kids to the park and Carlos and Victor have a heart to heart.  Victor feels like education only planted the seeds of evil in Ines.  Before she went to school she wanted to marry and have children.  Carlos makes him see that it’s about life choices.  He chose to change, she didn’t and she’s living the consequences of that choice.  Victor is not to blame. 

Rita and Cha Cha come over later and Rita tries to give him a message from Ines.  Victor wants no part of Ines and promises if Rita gives Ines his address he and Carlos Horacio are outta there!  Rita cries that she just wants her granddaughter to have peace.  Victor tells her she should have thought about that before she sold their son!

Esme wants to go up and see Pablito and Lo lights into her for questioning her ability to recognize when a child is sick.  They need to call Dr. Suarez right now.  Esme doesn’t agree and doesn’t know why the family Dr. is a Psychiatrist.  She doesn’t want her children going to Dr. Suarez, HatBro no less, Gisela’s Doctor!  [WHAT THE FREAK!]  In a later scene Damian and Vicky go to see Hatbro.  They’re going to dine together but he wants them to meet someone who will be joining them for dinner.   Gisela slimes into the room.  Damian asks what is this woman doing here.  This “Psychiatrist” actually says, “She is my special guest since she got out of the hospital.”

Damian tells Fernando about his surprise and disgust at seeing Loca Gisela at Vicky’s brother’s house.  Fer doesn’t like it one bit, he is the Dr. for his grandchildren!   Oooh, it’s strange, he’s not a pediatrician, he’s a psychiatrist and a business man!  Fer does not want her to poison the children’s minds with the past.  Damian wonders if Lo could continue to be a danger!   Fer is going to protect his own, regardless of the cost.  Well, looks like Damian's been bitten by the dumbass bug!

I’ll just summarize a couple of the scenes that really torqued me, how these shit for brains idiots, chief among them Pablo, Esme, Fernando, Blanca and their household and I’m sorry to say even Carlos allow these children to be treated like shit and outright emotionally abused by Lorenza.   Lo has Pablito isolated and is brainwashing him, turning him against his mother.  In a sickening scene she’s playing with him in his bedroom and tells him that his mother went away to have fun instead of taking care of him when he was sick.  “Your mother is not as good as you think.  She did very ugly things.  It’s a secret between us two.”  She leaves him, goes to her room and declares to the mirror that  slowly she is winning the affection of Pablito, soon it will be all for her.  “I can’t stand la maldita gata.  She’s the same cursed, four-legged cat.”

Lo dotes on Pablito but does not try to hide her hatred of Leti and Virginia to the extent that the girls know and each told their parent!  Virginia told Carlos and he poo pooed her!  Leti told Esme and apparently she’s some kind of perverse maternal sadist that allows her own child to be abused!  Both of them KNOW what they suffered from Lorenza , not to mention Rita.  They KNOW what caretaker abuse is like, first hand!!! 

So in the last scene Leti is at Lo’s doing homework, sitting tailor style on the sofa.  Lo barks at her to take her feet off the sofa.  What are you doing here?  Leti answers she asked Alicia to bring her so she could play with her brother. 

WHAT?  WHERE DOES LETI LIVE?  In an earlier scene Esme was pissing and moaning to Fer and Blanca that she didn’t like living with Lo.  That they did it so she wouldn’t be alone and she doesn’t hate her, she just doesn’t want to live with her.  She’s so difficult.  Well call me Hershey’s and kiss my ass!  WHAT?  A little difficult!Esme even knows and told Fer and Blanca that Lo is trying to steal her son’s affection, trying to separate her from Pablo and Pablito and that “Leti has made it clear that Lo doesn’t like her because she resembles me.”  Esme.  You are dead and buried.  You and Pablo too!

Little Leti is crestfallen when Lo won’t look at her homework nor let her see her little brother.   The doorbell rings.  Carlos brings in Virginia.  Lo greets them coldly without looking at them and refuses to shake Carlos’s hand.  He leaves.  Virginia says hello abuela and goes over to talk to her but Lo pushes her away with a look of distaste and tells her to go and play with Leti.  She waves them away and rolls her eyes after them.

Ok.  I could fuss more but it’s 12:30 and this episode has taken all the sleep out of my eyes.  Have at it, y’all.  I condensed scenes so feel free to add or correct.

I’m outta here!


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Can't wait to read y'all's comments! Please, rip this a new one! Off to hibernate, see y'all in the morning!
 

Ay, Lila! Gracias for the recap! I don't know what show this was tonight. It was like the premiere episode of La Gata II: Revenge of the Beads.

"It’s Ines with a sure sign of depravity: wavy hair." Hee, hee! Yes, she had Esme's original hair. Ines has screwed up her own life, seemingly for the sole purpose of being able to continue complaining about how everything is the fault of that maldita Gata!

"So he’s a psychotic psychiatrist who picks women off the street and then takes them back to his place to play house after they’re discharged from the psych hospital?" Awesome alliteration! I'm going to believe them when they mention "hospital" even though I had a strange suspicion that the original padded cell was just something Doc Evil had installed in his basement.

"Dumbass would never guess the child is hers cause she thinks she sold their son." I know! I didn't think she was so stupid! However, "Before she went to school she wanted to marry and have children." Sorry, Victor, but that's not how I remember her. She was smart, but she wanted to do things the easy way. Wasn't her girl gang back in the day talking about how/who to cheat off of for the next test? What happened to her 2 million pesos?

"She doesn’t want her children going to Dr. Suarez, HatBro no less, Gisela’s Doctor! [WHAT THE FREAK!]" Yes! I know! QTH! How did that even get started and why was it allowed to continue?!

"I’ll just summarize a couple of the scenes that really torqued me, how these shit for brains idiots, chief among them Pablo, Esme, Fernando, Blanca and their household and I’m sorry to say even Carlos allow these children to be treated like shit and outright emotionally abused by Lorenza." Sing it, sister! I am sick, sick, sick of all this "forgiveness" crap. Forgiveness does NOT mean allowing that horrid woman to be ALONE with those children. If they want the kids to have a relationship with their grandmother, on principle, then they need to supervise that time. They KNOW what Lorenza is doing to the two girls and they just sort of shrug it off. Irresponsible! I want to kick them all for their negligent parenting!

OK, do you think that perhaps the "pills" that Doc Evil has been prescribing for Pablito, that Esme doesn't want him taking and Lorenza insists on, are part of the reason that he is either (a) so malleable or (b) getting sick now? Is Lo slowly poisoning him? Or is he just taking after his dad, the original puppet?

Where is Mariano? I don't remember seeing him tonight.
 

Lila, thanks much.
Ay, Ms. 5 Ft, that was what I was whining about yesterday, all those forgiving!!! And the venganzas I want, they're coming from the wrong people i.e. Hatbro for Gisela. And Sil, and his team of expert being right on the money, why can't they do some actions right away based on the gravity of the past events about Gisela, LO, Tilico and now the new comer, HatBro. What are they waiting for? I guess El gran final. Yeah, can they please at least mention what happened to the 2 million pesos. Also, yesterday, what was the name of that degenerative disease? Haven't heard of it.Anne
 

Lila, thank you for the recap! It was just perfect and full of details. And questions that we are all asking.

That building project, so ugly. And where's all the garbage that those people make their living off?

I don't get the sudden appearance of HatBro and his conversion to a villain so late in the show. He appeared to be a loving supportive brother...and suddenly he goes to the dark side when he sees a psycho chick with a lighter?

I am still incredibly angry that the writers not only killed off Virginia, but the daughter she died giving birth to suffers from the same mystery disease. (The actress is a little cutie and I loved her Ugg boots!)

Agree that Esme has lost her maternal radar if she doesn't get how poisonous Lo is. And Pablo should know better too. He and Mariano once vowed to have no more to do with her! How on earth did Lo become such buddies with Doc HatBro? And has Gisela been in Psych Hosp for 8 years and just getting out now? How did Vicky/Damian never catch wind of this?

Too bad Mariano was a no show.
And Principe. Our feline hero has disappeared without a trace. So sad.

On the plus side, I enjoyed the positive updates: Garabato and the basurero gang (incl. HotBeard guy) are doing well. El Sil has glasses and I kept trying to verify if his ponytail was gone. Loved Jarocha's new look. At least that put a smile on my face.

J in Oregon






 

Random thoughts, like the equally random estupidez that this tn has devolved into ...

As they take their "romantic" stroll through what was once the beautiful basurero:

Pablo: Que bonito y que tranquilo es este lugar (Umm, Dude! Bonito? It looks like the L.A. County jail's big brother!)!
Esme: Todavia conserva su magia (I'm sorry, what? The damn garbage dump never had any "magic" to conserve! Have you forgotten the cold and hunger? The torn clothes and open-toed dirty shoes? The filth and sickness? The begging and selling chicles? Dirty faces? Lecherous vermin including the meatball? The real vermin and starving dogs? Are you insane? Magic?)!!

What is Damian doing with Sergio Goyri's mustache? They didn't feel the need to age anybody else (other than the kids, of course) - why him? And why like that?

Too Funny: When Rey came out of jail/prison and met Ines then he saw what had become of his "hood" and he joked, "Eww, let's get out of here, it gives me chills!" Ines, laughing, agrees with him, "Es que huele a limpio!" (That's because it smells clean) - I cracked up, but it sounded like an ad lib on the part of the actress.

How stupid is Esme to allow her son to call her monster-in-law "Mama Lorenza?" With the way the kid is being brainwashed about how his mother buys him ugly toys and cheap clothes and now being told his mother doesn't care for him, it should be obvious that SHE (Lorenza) wants to become his mother and raise him just like she raised his spineless daddy - only I'm sure this time she'll be keeping an eye out for any little gatas that might cross his path. In other words, she wants a Pablo do-over and the dummies all around are letting it happen!

Why is mid-thirties Monica dressing like a teeny bopper?

How unoriginal ... they renamed the "Ciudad Perdida" ... wait for it ... wait for it - Tadaa - the "Ciudad Encontrada!" Really, writers?

One cool thing - Carlos and Victor sharing an apartment.

But what is with the greasy side bangs on Victor and the other ex-dump dude? They looked better with their long dirty hair!

I totally believe Puppet Monica is pretending to be Esme's friend and taking her out and giving her bad advice on orders from Lorenza. That's how they are going to distance her from her son so Low can finish the brainwashing job.

Hey, nothing ever happened to Monica's mother? No anvil for her part in the Juan Garza baby daddy fiasco? Just saying.

 

*sigh* Thank you for the review, 5ft you are very brave to deal with this dribble. I absolutely hate parents who knowingly put their children in situations that they know are bad. The fact that Esme forgave a woman who tried to take away her kids and then tried to kill them is bad enough, but then you have your kids live with this woman?? I want only bad things to happen to these idiot parents. Also, I thought Pablo and his brother disowned their mother why is living with her?

Also, Carlos doesn't get a pass either. He's also a moron for allowing his blind daughter to be around a woman that he knows hates him and the child. This show is just P*****g me off to no end.
 

Lila, Sumpin about your sentences move me. Oh, full disclosure here, nobody made me say that under duress.

"Her dirty, unkempt locks hang around her butt, she’s ragged and still full of vinegar – and stupidity."

Cock a Toddle ain't even trying, the end in sight, moneys tight, fans leaving the arena and the roadies & die hard groupies take the stage.

So much nastiness abounds and it astounds me. We are seeing a small snapshot in time and boggles my mind this crap has been going on for 8 or 9 years and no one really at a breaking point. Oh, Esmeralda is a little put out but as long as Pablo throws a mi amor out she's good.

He's still living with mama and along with it she goes, allowing the dry hag to wet nurse their son.

Dammit Damien, shave that thing off and if being whipped by Vicky did this to you, stop it.

I seethed or laughed through most of last night but came off the couch when Lorenza shoved Virginia away, I want to strangle the bitch.
 

Diva! Thank you, Girl for your appreciative and detailed review of my recap. Honey, I have never been so disturbed by a tv show but I'm sure LaDookey-oo is going to top it, or bottom it, in the next few days.

Okay, let's have adultry and fornication, lying, cheating, stealing, let's even have murder and protagonists who are as dumb as a bag of hammers, but child abuse? NOOOOOOO! That shit is NOT entertaining!! I actually could not slelep. Not to mention Fernando's new deep, gravely voice was disturbing more profoundly than I realized!

You are right. This is NOT forgiveness. What kind of whack out world does this production crew live in for cripe's sake! And yet another whip of the lash as in yesterday's ep Lo is all contrite and snotting all over the dying Virginia and now she's treating that innocent little girl like something she dug out of her crack?

And what the hell, Esme, LA GATA lets Lo keep her from going upstairs to see about her own sick son allowing Lo to spin it in to lies against her. What the flaming f*ck!?

Good call on the pills, Diva! Didn't think of that. I think you're right. Those useless idiots are probably allowing Doc Crazy to drug Pablito. Uuuuuf! I'm getting pissed all over again!

And no, now Mariano sighting. He's probably the only one left with brains and has moved far, far away.

Hey! What happened to Pablo and Mariano cutting their ties with mommy dearest?

More ranting later. Thank you, Diva!


 

You're welcome, Anon at 2:10 a.m. no less!

Be cool if you or somebody reposted those dangling plot pieces at some point. Maybe after this turd has finally gone down the toilet.
 

Wow Lila! YOu've managed to make chicken salad out of chicken sh!t.

Two lines that I enjoyed:
"Well, looks like Damian's been bitten by the dumbass bug!"

"Well call me a Hershey's and kiss my ass" (This one I particularly love and I will be stealing it...both here and in real life.)

I don't even know what to think about this same crap, but ten years later "plot" development.

gringo and tofie I hope you see this...was little Carlos Horacio one of the hats from PSMA?
 

Let me guess, Gisela is escalating the ante even further?
 

Good morning and thank you, J in O! Amen to all your points and thank you for sharing some positives! I thought it was cute that Jarocha and Pedro want to have a baby. Those two are obviously literally "getting busy" and don't have time for the madness going on with Fer and their wacky daughter, Esme. Good for them!

Not only is it a mystery how Lo hoocked up with HatBro, it's just so stupid that she's still growling about la maldita gata after all these years. She'll probably survive the ending and give us a smirk right into the camera signaling a La Gata 2 where everybody, including Pablito, is seeking revenge on Leti.
 

Oh, Jeez. . .

Lila, so sorry you had to wade through this, but you did it with style and elan, pointing out all the terrible plot twists and inconsistencies.

We are not given a reason why HatBro went off the deep end and took up with Gisela. Why, after 8 or 9 years didn't his sister know anything about this, when they seemed so close before?

And Lorenza. Ugh. I hope there is some reveal about her past that could help explain how she could have become so twisted. And I am also confused how Pablo and Mariano could have seen Lo for what she is, and swore never to be around her again, then Pablo and Esme and the kids wind up living with her?

Lo barging in on a moment of tenderness between Pablo and Esme might explain why there are no younger children in their family.

I wonder if the suicide rate has gone up in the general population while this thing has been airing.

I am still here out of a morbid curiosity to see just how low this thing can go, and also to support you wonderful recappers who have never let us down.

Thanks again, Lila.

David
 

Lila- I hope none of Laturd's crew saw your idea. They would probably love it. Lol. You've only got one more to go!
 

Anon at 5:02, thank you for that righteous rant! Those are great details that I didn't have the . . I don't know what it is, to cover. Thank you! That Esme talks about the magic of the dump is mind-boggling and another example of what LaDooDooHead thinks about the aesthetics of the poor.

Pablo, Esme, this whole batch have brain damage from the toxic environment they grew up in and are unable to imagine and make real a better life for their children, even with big bucks at their disposal. They are molded like soft shit by Lo, Monica, hell, anybody. That's fine. Just hate to see the kids suffer!
 

Hey, Brhan, thank you and I take it as a compliment that you credit Diva (5ft) with this recap! Thanks!


 

tofie, hey, Girl! Thank you! I have moooved the tofmeister! Yaaay!

tofie, this thing upset me so badly, even though I went to bed at 1:00 a.m. I could not sleep. The breath taking stupidity of this whole frickin' flock of fools and loathing for Lo are just not the right vibes to lay down on. Damn it all!

We're not done yet, tofie. I'm making my way down the comments hope you can crank a list out of this crap!
 

Hey Sara! Thank you, Girl! Sara. There are no words, just no words. This whole thing just reeks of such contempt for EVERYBODY, especially viewerville! AAAARRRRRGGGHHH!
 

Hey Steve. Yeah, in an unanticipated and original plot twist - NOT - Lo and Gisela ride again but this time with cowboy shrink, the batty bitch whisperer, HatBro.

Shit. Let Lo and gang them wipe them all off the face of the earth! Let's just call CPS first and get the kids outta there!
 

Thank you David! Thank you for the support you give us by reading our offerings, adding to our observations, emoting with us and sticking through this til the stinky end. You are so welcome and I so love hanging out with all of y'all. We can do this! Gosh, isn't this just the worse thing ever?

David, I plan to be on the team for the next show. I hope watching something awful will help me as I do my first steady gig recapping a drama. That will be the saving grace!
 

Sara, they would so do a Gata 2. Yah. Let's hope they don't see!
 

Sara, the kid look familiar, especially with the hat, but since the hat was different, it blew right by me the connection to PSMA.

At least Virginia and Leti get to play with each other, while the milk toast, bed ridden little P and CH may not know each other.

Pablo is not clueless to what's happening, he just thinks it normal, how Lo dotes on the boy, she did him and see how great he turned out.

Esmeralda's continued suffering is of her own making, in a effort to please that worthless excuse of a husband. No wonder she has no friends, they'd see it, counsel her to leave, get sick of the roundabout, and bail. You could tell, even Fernando & Blanca were just tired.
 

Hola Lila,
My apologies, that's what happens when I type to fast and don't proof-read. I even misspelled my own name..lol.

 

What I don't get, tofie, is why a galan that suffers from erectile dysfunction of the spine and the leading lady who hypocritically thinks she is a fiera but is a masochistic enabler of abuse of first herself and now her children all surrounded by a band of bozos; why is this seen as a winning combination. Sure people can't look away but what could it have been if . ..

. . .what could it have been if it were good. Yeah. Right.
 

Because both are purdy
 

Ha Ha ha! Yah, tofie, it ain't no more complicated than that!

Bryan, hee hee! I thought Brhyn was a new commenter! No prob, hon!
 

Thanks Lila, enjoyed your take on this poor excuse for entertainment. And like so many others in viewerville it does give me similar symptoms. However, I've hesitated to comment after the time I wrote a comment that so many things in this novela makes my blood pressure rise. I was reprimanded and told to stop watching if that was the case. I'd be lying if I said that I'm not still angry over that remark.
But I degress ... Thanks again
 

Thank you Sue and you are welcome. Thank you for watching and for being a part of what's turned into a mutual support group. These shows CAN get stressful. Last night was the first time I couldn't sleep. I'll hang in cause everybody else is and I'm honored to be a part of the recap team. But Sue, if you seriously had a blood pressure spike this show and nothing else is worth harming our health. Thankfully this mess is almost over. I hope you join us for the next one though it looks somewhat dark. I tend to fuss a lot on the board so I hope people will put up with ME if our next story gets too freaky/violent.

Thank you, Sue. If you can, please stay with us until the end!

:D
 

Thanks, Lila. I surfed in for a few minutes. I cannot believe that this tn has become even worse than CI. I did not think that was possible. What do you think the actors think when they read these scripts ?

Does Low live with PAblo and Miss Kitty and the kittens ? If so...why so ?

Who is writing this stuff? Do we have names so that we can avoid them in the future ?
 

I borrowed Rita's cards and predict Ines has a come around, cleans up and becomes a country club icon. Victor of course will marry her. Lo will do a turn around and become a loving grandma. Carlos will remain single and devoted to his daughter. ALL WILL BE FORGIVEN and we will close with all sitting together at the table high fiving each other.
 

I love Garabato. I am not a fan of Ines, but they both committed crimes. Ines went to jail. Garabato committed manslaughter and is free (which honestly I can deal with...I like him that much.)

BUT

When I think about them and how Virginia DIED it just really rankles me!! I am no TN pro, having only been watching since STuD, but Virginia's death seems so damn senseless to me.

I'm harping. Sorry.
 

There is a saying ''Everything will be all right in the end , so if it is not all right, it's not the end.'' However, I am beginning to think that nothing in this hot mess will ever be right...and it seems as though it will never end.
 

Lila, I forgot to thank you for another great recap. You have certainly earn your stripes and are a real asset to the recap team.
 

Thanks Susanlynn! So sorry we have to meet under these conditions! Please, let us NEVER forget how bad this is! Yeah, it's got CI beat by a lot and it's not over! I have asked that we flag all future novelas for anything else this group extrudes!
 

emeraldrose! It fits cause it's totally not consistent with the characters, inconsistency being a hallmark of this piece, but it's too positive a scenario!

;D
 

Susanlynn: ''Everything will be all right in the end , so if it is not all right, it's not the end.'

That's what I'm afraid of! That it's NOT the end and there will be a Gata 2! But why should I be afraid, I will not torture myself like this again!

******

Awwww, thanks emeralrose! That means a lot!

:D

 

Thanks for the wonderful wonderful recap!

No time to read people's comments today but just let me say I agree about the stupidity of allowing Lo anywhere near the children. I was angry as Centavito for brushing away VA's comments when she said Lo didn't like her. He knows the abuse she heaped on her mother. Red flags should have gone up all around.

Finally, can't stand Gi, hatbro, Lo, and now Monica. I guess she decided to go to the dark side. It's been like 9 years people, get over it!
 

Thank you, Carvivlie! Get over it, indeed! I hate to have seen what would've happened if La Gata had grown up in the lap of luxury with riches and power at her disposal: she makes this kind of enemy, a dirty-faced, snot-nosed little kid living in a garbage can! Sheesh!
 

dammit Sara, you harpie
 

Before I forget, Lila, thank you for this. My favorite line was "revenge of the beads". That had me spitting coffee.

This is shit. Why are you living with a woman who tried to kill your children?

Pablo and Gata deserve anything that they receive, but their poor children are another matter. At the beginning of this tn, Gata was smart, but the moment she had those kids she turned brainless. Pablo has been dumb as a box of rocks since the beginning and is the sorriest excuse of a galan that I have ever seen. The reason they don't have any more children is that he is not only spineless, but probably dickless. Has he ever done one damn thing for Esme? One? How can we possibly root for them?

And in another whip lashing inducing moment, Monica is bad again. WTF?

Damien's mustache is horrible.

Jarocha looks lovely, but she is too old to be having children...come on.

I am picturing the patio and it is no longer a sunny place with flowers and tables populated by smiling people, sipping adult beverages, laughing, chatting, and waving to one another. It is dark and there is a growing mob with torches and they are demanding venganza against the producer.



 

LN, you pen the furrow in my brow and menace in my gaze.

I say soon as Pablo sprung on her last minute, I'm headed to NY for "us", she agreed to marry him and consummate that sham, she was a gonner. Not because he knocked it out of the park but that she went along with that tripe.
 

So I have a few minutes and glad to see the patio is on attack!

First, agree with those that think Jarocha is way too old to be having a kid. Isn't she in her fifties? Why can't two people just be happy without them?

Saddened that Damien has been spending time with Vicky for 9 years and they are not married. Seemed like just friends from the dinner invite.

Where is Mariano? Surely he would see right through his mother.

First Rita doesn't get her anvil, just finds love and wins the lottery. Now Ines is going to be redeemed and live high on the hog with Victor's money? After all she has done?? Angers the hell out of me. Victor couldn't find a nice girl after all these years. Still pining for devil's child?

Hate, hate this show! Hate myself for not being able to look away either. Can't wait for the misery to end!!!
 

Well it looks like I'm gonna have to fake my death again. *sigh*
 

I like LN's succinct eloquence "This is shit."
 

Anne, they never did bother to give the disease a name...not that I heard anyway. And the doctor saying that Virginia's medication was keeping it "under control" was the first mention of her taking regular medication for it. Now that I see Lo with Pablito and know that HatBro is acting as his doctor, I wonder if Lo has a lot of practice at administering medications without people noticing. Pure speculation. Though it then begs the question of who was medicating Virginia in Italy? And once she moved out of the house? Was Lo just going to let her go without treatment, as long as she didn't try to marry anyone? Too many questions, making it impossible to suspend disbelief.

J, I'm afraid Principe must be long gone. For him to still be alive, he would have had to be a pampered housecat. Everybody else got to have kids...they couldn't have thrown in a Principe II? And, yes! The rat-tail is gone! So much better!

Anon at 5:02, Monica couldn't have been more transparent, but Esme just...refuses to see it. "Hey, let's go shopping and then go out clubbing later. That'll be just the thing to help your strained marriage." Really?

Steve, I dunno. I guess that's the plan, but Gisela seems a little blah. Maybe she'll perk up once HatBro gets things going again.

David, even without actually interrupting anything, I would think living with Lo would be a total libido killer.

Lila, "thinks she is a fiera" no joke! Girlfriend never whips those claws out when it really matters. What happened to not letting anybody mess with her kids? There's messing, Esme! Get to clawing!

Sara, I keep forgetting that Garabato did kill his old boss. It was an accident, and couldn't have happened to a nicer exploiter of children, but yep. Still a crime. Virginia dying is worse than Al dying on DQ, but at least Al got to stick around and ghost-mock.

lol, susanlynn, so true. It's not all right, so it's not the end, and yet it never will be right. Not for me, not since Virginia died.

Carvivlie, I see your "get over it" and raise you a "grow up already." They can't stand Esme because...people like her. What is this? Third grade? Ya basta!

LN, Augie took all the happy-inducing booze with him. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. (she says, as she sharpens the tines on her pitchfork....)

tofie, damnit, I'd forgotten about that stupid line of reasoning for why he "had" to go to NY. Oh, well, it's not like I'd suddenly started liking Pablo again. And Dan is starting to sink in my estimation as well. The furrowed brow with mouth half hanging open? Get another facial expression, STAT!

Eli, ok, ok, but only for, like 10 minutes, and then you have to come back. 1 more to go, amiga, 1 more to go.

Have I told my fellow recappers lately that I love y'all? Well, I love y'all, and I'm sorry I made this sound like a fun gig. And I swear, I will NEVER deal with a LaToodle production again. And I hope we have better luck with the next one!
 

Jeez Diva. I'm still smarting over Virginia and you remind me about Al *sniff*

I love you, too. Though I sort of feel like I dragged you down with me. Some may not believe this, but I was more enthusiastic about this than Diva was.
 

Oh, that's right. Thanks for reminding me. I was all "Ew...La Gata?" and you were all "Come on, it'll be fun!" But let's be real--we knew it would be bad, and therefore fun to snark on, but could we really have predicted it would be THIS bad?

At least Al was murdered. That doesn't really take the sting out, does it? I'm trying to think of other times a character like that has died. Someone who was one of the bright spots in the show, who the audience really cared about, where it was really a shock and not something we saw coming from a mile away.
 

Eli, don't go!!! You are my special peep after you posted (during CI) about being there for your mother in her last days. I will never forget you!

LN, you and I must have been on the patio the last few days. It is getting dark and scary.
 

Lila---Thanks for taking your time to help us through this mess.

The comments are long an critical
as they should be because nothing makes any sense at all.

There is nothing more that I can add other than to say that I think that Ms. Toodle-oo needs a shrink. She must because it's very
clear that she cannot think straight. Could it be that she herself is suffering from an unknown mental disorder of some kind?

Sara---I remember the hat children but not all that well, I
wouldn't be able to place them.
I do however remember Aranza's school in PSMA. It's the Institute in this one--recycled sets.
the gringo

 

gringo, now that you mention it, I think I also remember the "Instituto" exterior as the convent where Azul spent some time after she lost her memory in Amar Sin Limites. And maybe...was it also the convent where the two girls grew up in Querida Enemiga? I wonder if it's actually a working something--convent, church, school, hospital--that they use often or if it's not really in use, like maybe the exterior is in good shape, but the building itself isn't.

I wonder that about some of the houses as well. Whether it's just someone's house who gets a kick out of loaning/renting it out or if it's basically an abandoned locale or if maybe the studio has just bought some places outright to reuse at will.
 

Thank you, LN, so much! I think "revenge of the beads" my be one of my friends comments unless I've totally lost it and don't remember what I wrote!

Why are you living with a woman who tried to kill your children? AMEN!

I feel your rage over this pitiful pair. Great love my unmentionables!

I am picturing the patio and it is no longer a sunny place with flowers and tables populated by smiling people, sipping adult beverages, laughing, chatting, and waving to one another. It is dark and there is a growing mob with torches and they are demanding venganza against the producer. YES! YES!!

Nuff said!


 

Let it out, Carvivlie, let it out. Or, as our friends say, desahogate amigo!

What's wrong with romance, soft porn love scenes, drama and intrigue, intelligent leads and supporting cast. Isn't there enough unexpected trials and tragedies in life to fuel a novela without resorting to this kind of annoying, frustrating swill that has us ready to form a lynch mob!?

It's almost over!
 

Eli, Girl, you crazy!
 

"What's wrong with romance, soft porn love scenes, drama and intrigue, intelligent leads and supporting cast. Isn't there enough unexpected trials and tragedies in life to fuel a novela without resorting to this kind of annoying, frustrating swill that has us ready to form a lynch mob!?"

Lila, I love this statement so much! And I agree!
 

Thank you, gringo! Thank you for hanging in here and I hope your raven-haired goddess gets better material next time!
 

Aww, Diva, I love you too! And I love Sara and Eli and. . .hmmm, feel like I'm on "Romper Room". I couldn't have gone through this mind f*ck with a nicer bunch of people. Y'all ROCK!

Here's me and y'all in a group hug:

((((((((Lila & LG PatioPeeps))))))))
 

Thank you Dear Diva at 3:00!!

:D
 

Oooh yeaah gringo now I do remember where I've seen that exterior before.
 

Carvivlie:
A thousand times this:

Hate, hate this show! Hate myself for not being able to look away either. Can't wait for the misery to end!!!
 

They can't stand Esme because...people like her. What is this? Third grade? Ya basta!

hahahahahahah!!! But the sad thing it's true! All this abuse because everyone else likes her!
 

OK, so I'll grant that Lo is stuck with her because of Pablo, but the rest of them? If she bugs you so much, just stay away from her! Go live your lives and forget that there just happens to be a person out there that other people like more than they like you. The whole world doesn't have to like you. Go hang out with people who DO. It ain't that hard!

Or maybe they cut the scene that showed us the one horrible thing she did that screwed up all their lives and justified their anger. But I don't think so.
 

It seems that it was Virginia that held the reins on the brains in that couple (Virginia/Carlos) because with her gone he got totally Pablo-ized!

Hate that she's gone, but it's a good thing she's not suffering more due to her so-called mother's mistreatment of her beautiful little daughter.

I can't stand it when kids complain to adults of being mistreated and the damn adults respond with, "Oh, she doesn't mean anything by it," or "Oh, that's just how your grandma/sister/mother/whatever is," or "She's just 'special' you must be patient with her!" WHAT? No wonder a lot of children get frustrated and don't report child abuse. NO ONE LISTENS!
 

Sad but true Anon@3:43. This storyline with abuse of the children is lynch-worthy all by itself!

If you can stand it look at that last scene again. I think the "little Virginia" actress broke character and looked at "Lo". Whoa! It was brief but if looks could kill! That was one brief gratifying moment!
 

Apropos of nothing- Little Virginia must be a little dancer. She seems to move like she's been taking ballet for a while.
 

For an utterly absurd TN, this episode, so far, seems to have provoked the most comments ever for any TN!
When the child abuse scenes come on, I switch to Wheel of Fortune.
 

I'm not exactly a sunny side of the street kinda girl, but I actually think La Gata, brung some of the best outta all ya'll. Never laughed so much over a TN, never, and the great thing is without even reading the signature line, I know you guys. Sumpin special, tellin ya.

My last lament is I won't be around, should the recaps and comments be sealed in a time capsule and left for an unsuspecting whatever in a 1000 years. Decipher this fool and you'll have the keys to the universe.
 

I hope space aliens aren't watching his show to try to study human behavior. On the other hand, if they are, it should be easier to thwart the invasion.
 

I'm late to the Patio. Thank you so much Lila for the great recap! We have just a few more eps to go.

What?! The dump has been demolished and now a new apartment complex has been built. Ah yes the name "Ciudad Encontrada" is so unoriginal.

Didn't Garabato errr sorry Victor De La Fuente inherit millions from his parents? What is he doing working as a construction worker and living with Carlos and Virginia II?

Good quesiton - What did happen to the 2 million pesos? What did she spend it on?

I actually liked Damian's mustache. :)

What is up with Monica's skirt. It should be burned.

Why is HatBro still wearing the clothes he wore 8 or 9 years ago???
 

Gi can help Monica burn that skirt.
 

I'm picturing the multitude of ways a Gi and Monica bonfire could go horribly, horribly wrong. And snickering. Yeah, I'm going to hell.
 

Thanks, Mauricio! Yah! What happened to Victor's millions? didn't somebody say he was even richer than El Sil? Oh, how our minds and hearts fight for things to make sense and we're thwarted at every turn!
 

I was kind of pissed Hat Bro stopped Gi. I was hoping she would go up in flames and run around the courtyard while everyone else was safe.

Continuing to harp: I'm going to be pissed if they get the anvils from the P. Luche set.
 

I know diapers are expensive, but I hope that wasn't enough to spend through his entire fortune! And it's weird that the guys were going to get all educated and then working construction...maybe they're actually running the company?
 

Oh, Sara, you mad harpist, you :p
 

LOL.

I love tofie because she called me a harpy (probably closer to the truth) and I love you 'cause you made me a harpist (Aren't you sweet! I've totally conned you!)

We've got all kinds here!

PS: I got the impression they were a little higher up than just construction workers. (But I didn't pay close attention.)
 

It was vague, but there was just that hint, because the ex-Barrio Boyz were the ones who all went back to the office later and were high-fiving like they'd closed a deal or something. I dunno. I feel like I'm making a lot of things up in my head to make up for the details they're not really giving us.
 

Oh and did anyone else think that Oscar got left out of the makeovers? He looked just as scruffy as ever. I would have loved to see that beard all groomed.
 

Crap. He was Oscar on DQTQTQ. I don't know his name here.
 

Since I'm making stuff up anyway, how about this...

Garabato got his hands on his trust fund, but it was being managed by an unscrupulous administrator who pilfered some of it and lost quite a lot of it with some bad investments. What was left, he used to start the construction business and hire all his buds to help. The company is doing well, but of course, he's not pulling in nearly enough to be fabulously wealthy, just really, really comfortable. Carlos Horacio goes to private school, he's got his college fund all set, and daddy Victor just might have a modest fortune to hand over to him when he dies.

Tan, tan!
 

His name is Willy. He does need a shave.
 

Thank you, Mauricio!
 

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