Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Sueño de Amor (SdA) #102. Monday August 8, 2016. Ricardo The Lionheart Has Nothing On This Ricardo!

Students, faculty, cancer-ridden ex-fiancée: I cancelled your coffee break and gathered you in this auditorium to gloat about my shacking up with this beautiful, voluptuous and definitely cancer-free blonde!

Hello Patio Pals! I’m away on holiday until August 22. Mini-recaps for Monday and Tuesday are scheduled to post the next day at 6 am EDT. Be well and see you soon, Sueñolandia dwellers! 

Esperanza has a lot of fever due to the cancer virotherapy. The little inspirational board that hangs in her bedroom says: “After a brief dream, to wake up eternally”. Juaréver that means. Pato and Pedro take turns in taking care of their mother.

Ricardo visits Kracy in jail. Kracy thinks it must be divine justice that she’s now locked up in a cage. She informs Ricardo that the prison headshrinker (loquero) examined her and concluded that she is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. She also complains that there is no hot water here and that the toilet (el excusado) is but a hole in the ground. Ricardo says he wants Kracy to receive the best treatment possible; she is the mother of his children after all. Kracy reminds him that she tried to kill him twice and that, on one of those occasions, his kids could’ve died touching that poisonous frog. “I tried killing you twice (...), yet you are here, worrying about me. What’s up with you? You’re stoopid or what?” Ricardo asks what happened to Kracy. She had everything. Why did she turn out this way? Kracy says she didn’t have everything because she didn’t have Ricardo’s love. He was always in love with somebody else. Ricardo wants to talk to the judge and have her interned into a psychiatric hospital, a private one with better conditions than a public-run facility. And obviously Ricardo will be covering all the related expenses. Kracy mocks him: “Ricardo Corazón de León/The Lionheart has nothing on you, Reecherd!”

Anastasia apologizes for what happened with Adrián. She says she regrets how she was before. Ernesto is skeptical: People don’t change overnight. Love changes people. It is changing Ernesto and it has had the same effect on Anastasia. She is turning a new leaf out of love for her baby. She advises Ernesto that the first step towards positive change is to stop lying to yourself and to others, so that others can love you for who you truly are.

At Casa Alegría, Ricardo, his kids, Abril and Pamela brainstorm ideas for his upcoming marriage proposal to Cristina Vélez Valderrama (CVV). The three choices for the venue are: A swimming pool, an amusement park or the woods.

Ernesto confesses the truth to Luca about the fake La Sombra who attacked Pato on her birthday to make Ernesto look like a hero. Luca goes berserk: Kracy had a loaded gun! Pato’s life and the safety of the party guests were at stake! What in Lala-less hell was Ernesto thinking? Ernesto cries and begs for forgiveness. 

Pato advises Pedro to dedicate time and effort to win over Anya. She could just be the love of his life.

Félix confirms to Margarita that his mom does indeed knit him baby clothes every month. Margarita asks if he is dreaming of having a mustached baby but he doesn’t answer her question. The couple decides to Blim and chill. Or Blim without the chill since their evening plans are ruined by Félix’s mother, who wants to subject them to a couple’s compatibility test. The answers to the test reveal that Margarita likes to sleep with socks on, prefers sleeping to going to the theater, doesn’t like jogging in the morning and doesn't want a dog. Félix replies the exact opposite to every question.

A baby ultrasound photo is doing the rounds in Sueñolandia. Salma shows it to Adrián and says she is having second thoughts about giving the baby up for adoption. The baby is a girl and Salma wants to name her Margarita. Mireya and Andrés show the same photo to CVV and Ricardo. Mireya wants to call la bebita Mireya . 

Kracy is interned in the maximum security section of a psychiatric clinic called MENCLINIC. Oh, for Lala's sake! Who comes up with these names? You say MENCLINIC, I automatically think either male fertility clinic or gay bar! Still, nothing, absolutely nothing beats Salvador Mejía dressing a poor chubby child actor in a red jersey that says PERVERT 69 in La Madrastra! I swear this is true! You can't make this stuff up! Hands-down the biggest blunder I've seen on TV! OK, sorry for the winding digression. Back at MENCLINIC, Kracy mocks Ricardo for going the extra-mile for her, in spite of everything she did to harm him: Does he want to be canonized? Does he wish to become a martyr? She confesses a secret to Saint Ricardo: Ernesto sent someone to kill her and make it look like a suicide. 

Esperanza wakes up looking like death warmed over. She can barely stand or walk she is so weak.

Pamela tells her dad to stop pestering CVV and Ricardo or else she’ll stop loving him. “You know how many hugs I remember you giving me?” she tearfully asks. “Cerito/zero!” And unlike her past Ceritos, this was a sad Cerito, without any sassy gestures or fairy dust sound effects. She says she prays that her daddy changes and she runs away crying. As a result, Isaac Rey decides to withdraw the charges against Ricardo for assault and promises CVV he’ll publish a retraction for the “defamatory” article. He also assures her that his financial contributions to Instituto Palacios will continue and that he’ll try to discipline his demonic spawn, Paulo. 

In a distasteful and déclassé gesture, CVV and Ricardo gather the whole school, students, teachers and admin staff, to announce that the two of them are a couple, that their love is genuine and that it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Their relationship is formal and they will soon set up home (formar un hogar). Esperanza looks like a sad cadaver while her kids and Aranza give the happy couple the stink-eye. 

Thank you for the pleasure of your company. Please join us again for the next capítulo. We’ll be saving you a seat!

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Comments:
Thanks, Nandicta, for the recap and the digression on "Menclinic", etc. I am laughing.

Tracy is going to maintained forever by Ricardo? Another harebrained idea. No trial??? Is Ricardo stupid enough to believe that a high security wing in a mental hospital is gong to hold her? Only a pine box six feet under will do that.

More raccoon makeup for Esperanza. I missed the "wake up eternally" quote but Esperanza seems headed in that direction.

Also looks like Salma's pregnancy is coming to an end. She was having more than "little pains" outside the school. If that happens, it will be a welcome end to another depressing story line. Funny but for the ultrasound she had a belly but none with her tight little jacket cinching her waist in this episode. No consistency.

They like yogurt! There was the LaLa commercial embedded in the episode and a Yoplait one during commercial time.

What is the deal with Félix and having children? He was so sad when Margarita brought up the topic. Maybe he is sterile? Just guessing.

I loved Luca's reaction to Ernesto coming clean and trying to make Tracy with the gun at Pato's head sound rational.
 

Thank you Nandicta!

The US Marine Corps veteran & Goldie Locks :)
 

Thanks as always!

I also laughed with that name that doesn't bring anything. Maybe if they call the clinic MentClinic we would have thought that they were making mints? How about the plain old fashioned Mental Health Institution?

Anya has no friends, so that's why she has to talk to herself so we know what's going on, because according to Osorio, we need to be told otherwise we won't get everything, right? This way we know she "tronó" anatomy, she has no time for love, she is in love, and that she is reminded every day how good she has to be in order to fulfill the promise she made to his dying father on his deathbed of being the best nurse/doctor and one day cure cancer. Ay ajá!

In one scene, Marjorie and Cristián could not get a straight face and kept laughing (at least I think that was not part and of the script), and was a little funny.

Also, when he said that he had the ideas but not the budget, well, you should have said so from the beginning!

Calderón de la Barca said that "Life is a dream and the dreams are just hat, dreams" and I thought, what if life is a dream and when we wake up is when we die?

Maybe that's what the Little board means, Esperanza is dreaming right now but she will wake up, IN THE GREAT BEYOND!! Jajaja! All this pain and suffering just to die afterwards, not funny!
 

I only watch this sporadically and haven't posted in here before but I did happen to catch yesterday's episode and I felt so bad for Esperanza. Ugh. By the way, thank you to the recappers, it really does help those of us who only watch once in awhile keep up!
 

Pablo, looks like Esperanza is headed for the great beyond so maybe we will find out. Will they let her die? Sure would make life easier for Ricardo and Cristina. How long to últimas semanas? Probably too long. Hmmmmm.
 

Juanita: Remember, "Pasion Y Poder" did kill off the leading male protagonist Arturo Montenegro.

Wouldn't surprise me if they kill off Espi barring a major miracle!

 

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Steve, I skipped PyP. Thanks for the info. Interesting.
 

Nandicta, fabulous recap as always. Enjoyed the title and "he’ll try to discipline his demonic spawn, Paulo" was my favorite line of many.

Who would ever have thought Anastasia would be dispensing sound advice to Ernesto?

Last night, I saw the episode where Adrian was freed and Ernesto met his newest child. He loves his children. And Esperanza. Isn’t that enough for redemption?

Jarifa, it seems you were onto something last week. "Esperanza wakes up looking like death warmed over. She can barely stand or walk she is so weak" and "Esperanza looks like a sad cadaver while her kids and Aranza give the happy couple the stink-eye" made me very sad.

Has this lovely woman suffered terribly for so long only to die in the end? It is not cosmic justice that Ric and Cris sail off into the perfect couple sunset, if Espe ends up dead and Ernesto ends up, well who the heck knows??

The actor playing Adrian is wonderful. I am so relieved he was freed.

I hope Salma does not lose the baby but of course now that she is changing her mind and wants to take care of her, that will most likely happen.

I believe that there is true insanity. And pure evil. Tracy is pure evil. Incarnate. I understand that as the mother of his children Ric wants her in more a more sanitary environment. I could care less.

Thank you Nandicta!

Diana
 

The actress portraying Tracy should get an Oscar!
 

Thank you, Nandicta.
I thought that Marjorie and Cristian were about to crack, too, during the scene with the kids. Also, he looked about ready to burst when talking to Tracy in jail.
Even if Espe survives cancer (big if right now), the actress was still subjected to some awful make-up for almost half the tn, while another woman was designated the "pretty" one. No fair, they really stole her protagonico.

Adriana Noel
 

Yes, Diana, Ernesto does seem to have learned his lesson at least with his children and Esperanza and even with Viviana. Maybe his win at all costs days are behind him, too. I hope they do not kill him of for send him off to jail before the end of this

Adriana, so mad I missed those "about to laugh" parts. Maybe I should just sit down and watch. : )
 

Good recap Nandicta. Why would Felix and margie , or rather Felix allow his wacky mother to put them in the position to wonder if they should even
Be together? Maybe the moma inlaw from
Hell is wishing this will brake them up.
And why is pato,Pedro and azranza giving ricky and christyV the stinky eye? This was espy's wish. She got. They're happy. I hope they stay happy.

Anya might be good for Pedro, but she's kinda strange. So is he. They're
The perfect match.

Thanks Mandicta. Good recap.
 

Is there redemption for kracy? Could be, look at Ernesto. But He has conscience, Tracy's non exsistant.
 

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