Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Sueño de Amor (SdA) US #113 (MEX #114, #115). Tuesday August 23, 2016. Darn You, Kracy, You Had One Job!
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-- It appears that the geniuses at Looneyvision got scissor-happy again and are doing some creative editing to this creative show. They smushed two episodes together, #114 and #115 as per the Mexican broadcast. Recapper Jarifa has kindly contributed a summary for Episode #115, added at the end.
A closer look
A brouhaha ensues, CVV screams for an ambulance and wrestles with Kracy who manages to escape in the end. Guests rush to Ricardo’s side, who comes to just long enough to ask about his kids. Esperanza and CVV wail next to their man’s inanimate body. The only people I feel sorry for in this boiling cauldron of piping hot mess are the poor children and Baby Luca.
Looneyvision forcefully squeezed in the following scenes from MEX Episode #115. Thank you, Jarifa! Pox on you, LooneyV!
Summary of MEX #115, by Recapper Jarifa
A quote from the capítulo
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Anyhoo, glad to be back with my Patio Pals. Thanks ever so much to Pablo for covering for me yesterday. You're a star! Many many thanks to Adriana for covering the past Fridays and to Jarifa for helping my fellow recappers hold the fort in my absence. You guys are the bestest! A heartfelt thank you to our faithful commenters Diana, Nina, Julia, Steve, Emeraldrose and any other commenters that popped in over my break to share their views and keep this patio lively. You are the greatest part (and the only good thing) about Sueñolandia! OK, there's Ernesto too but I feel that my mad crush on Julián Gil is shared only by Diana (and maybe a little Jarifa).
I haven't had a chance to read all the previous recaps and comments because I'm still away on holiday, but I feel the love and the kindness you send my way and I am ever so grateful! Forgive the silence but I'll be back to full immersion in Sueñolandia after September 1.
Much love and light to all! :)
As I was saying yesterday after watching the episode, the one they showed was the #115. I knew because it was the one assigned to me for "turd"sday. Thanks to my OCD I had to get to the bottom of this and I found out that For some reason, Loonyvision decided to make us a YUUUGE FAVOR and fastforward this for us. They combined episodes 112 and 113 to make monday's and 114 and 115 for tuesday.
I don't know if this count as a spoiler, but I have the list of the scenes we missed, that's why it was so suspicious that Salma prepared breakfast and has already one week of therapy with Mireya.
What's wrong with Loonyvision? Why are they doing this? Do they want to end the novela on friday and not have to show the 2 hour ending on sunday? Juaréver! I am glad is alomst over and this time I mean it, it is the last time I recap for osorio. Period. Don't matter if his novela is about el chapo de sinaloa or paquita la del barrio, jajaja!
What a perfect screen shot! That baby is downright adorable. Your recap was absolutely sensational and the vocabulary greatly appreciated.
"That man is indestructible!” proclaims Márgara, who has always secretly wished she could get a piece of that" made me laugh out loud.
Others of many included "boiling cauldron of piping hot mess" and "She is in sterile garments but she takes off her mask so we can see her perfectly painted lips to fully appreciate her aesthetic crying". Excellent.
I can't watch in "real" time so I cannot comment about the possibility of whether or not they might be combining episodes.
So "Ricardolt" (heh, heh) lives. Shocker! Well, this is one way to bring things with Cris and Espe to a head.
"CVV replies that Esperanza saved Ricardo’s life but the blonde menace doesn’t look very happy or grateful that her love rival gets this huge credit". I might suspect she may be even more unhappy toward the end.
Can't decide if I should be happy or sad that I missed the kids singing and dancing. Kiko is one of my favorites so I guess I will just look forward to seeing the rerun. I detest the way Salma is treating him. I guess she has learned nothing.
Interesting development to have Anastasia offer her kidney (and for her to do the testing first). She is redeemed in my eyes. I wish she hadn't raised my hopes again for Espe and Ernesto. But, this story is so crazy, I count nothing out yet.
Yes Nandicta, Julian is simply dreamy (ugh - that makes me sound about 12). Seriously, I just loved him here. Look forward to your return!
Diana
Thanks very much for the information. So Uni IS slicing and dicing with so little left? It defies logic.
Makes sense. They are cutting now, when the real action is occurring. Ack.
Diana
Well... this recap doesn't match the episode I saw yesterday, and my question is, instead of saying last weeks, because there is actually only three weeks left (or less if they keep chopping this) they butcher it? What is the hurry?
Part 2: The rest of the Univisión episode:
Viviana asks Esperanza what she plans on doing now that the wedding was cancelled between Ricardo and Cristina. Esperanza looks like she has to think on that one.
The nurse in Ricardo's room sends Cristina home until 9:00 tomorrow morning. She kisses m goodbye reminding him of the future and how they all need him.
Pato and Luca are talking about the timetable for Ernesto's surgery if he does get a kidney from Anastasia and how they want to have the wedding before his transplant operation to help cheer him up. Since the prep and recovery will probably take a month or more the wedding will be happening very soon. The answer is a wedding planner. The next thing is how, when, where are they going to tell Esperanza and what are they going to do if she does not give them her blessing.
Esperanza is at Ernesto's telling him how Ricardo protected her and how he is in intensive care. Tracy should be happy that she wounded Ricardo because the wedding ceremony never finished. Ernesto looks bad and is in a strange mood talking about how much it has hurt losing her and how he told her his life would have no meaning without her. He has changed completely due to her. Esperanza insists she did nothing but become ill. No, Ernesto argues, she let him into her life. Esperanza counters with now he has to let her into his. She knows he is suffering because Ricardo is her one true love but she loves Ernesto too and wants to be with him in his time of trouble. She does not want m to push her away. Ernesto gives her the good news of Anastasia maybe being able to donate a kidney to him. If it is compatible the surgery could happen in two to three weeks.
Félix is taking care of Cristina by making her some food and Margarita is taking care of the children so she does not have to worry about a thing.
Erasmo and Anastasia are enjoying an interlude in bed together when she asks him how he feels about her since she told him she loved him earlier. Wrong question: she wants him to move in with her so they can live together. Not so easy and not going to happen because he feels like they are just getting to know each other and he has the responsibility of his siblings. Also, he doesn't feel the same about her as she feels about him. Anastasia does not take that well and tells him to leave. She is left alone sobbing.
Back to Esperanza and Ernesto, where Ernesto is in bed and Esperanza is now taking care of him as he did her. She is not leaving and will be taking care of him until he is better. Then Ernesto goes all TWISTY on her(and us!!!) : he was just thinking that if she were dead, then they could be together in the "the great beyond: life after death". Esperanza looks concerned.
Part 3 will follow.
Thanks Jarifa for filling in the blanks, because I am making a list and checking it twice, of all the scenes that ended on the editing room.
I don't understand why they did this, because I was in charge of all episodes ending in 5 and 0 and 130 was going to fall on thursday, so the grand finale was the only one not fitting in the 2 hour slot. México's 130 was showed on friday, then the special on sunday.
Why not show the finale unaltered on friday from 2 to 4, right?
Whew.
It is the next morning and Ricardo is conscious. He is in a little pain. It isn't the first time he has been shot. She hasn't slept. The kids are with the nanny. As for Tracy's church attack, the kids did not see anything but they did hear Tracy threatening him.
Tracy is back in action calling Ciro the orderly for some assistance.
Anya stops by to visit Ricardo and take care of him and asks Cristina to leave for a moment. (She works in the oncology department with chemo and now does intensive care nursing??? What is wrong with this picture???) Anyway, Cristina leaves to get some coffee and then gets a call from Rodrigo while she is outside the room. When she goes back into the room to give Ricardo the call she stops at the door which is ajar and hears Ricardo tell Anya to call Esperanza for him. She saved his life so he needs to talk to her. Cristina is not happy. Sheb comes in to give Ricardo the call. The kids have a video call with Ricardo.
Tracy is packing up jewelry in a scarf thinking about how she hopes Coro does not rat her out. She knows he always liked her. Suddenly there is a knock at the door and it is Ciro. He agrees to help her out and not testify against her in exchange for money and sex.
Ernesto is out of bed and has just met Pato and Luca at a condo that he is giving them as a wedding gift. It is the least he could do for his two kids.
Margarita is at the hospital talking with Cristina about the good news that Ricardo is being transferred to a regular room from intensive care., Cristina is worried about Esperanza coming. Cristina says she is feeling like a villain in all of this because Ricardo and Esperanza loved each other from way back. Margarita tells her she is no villain. Cristina says she feels like she is the villain because she is the only thing keeping them apart. Margarita says how was Cristina supposed to know what was going on. Cristina asks. does she have to ask for permission or apologize for loving him. Esperanza arrives on the scene. Esperanza says she is only there because Ricardo wants to speak to her. Cristina says she knows and apologizes for not being very subtle and for fighting for the man that returned her faith in love. She leaves the scene. Esperanza asks Margarita what was that about. Margarita says Cristina is very much in love and uncertainty is killing her. Margarita is going to go be with her and Esperanza can talk to Ricardo.
Cristina talks to Margarita saying she could use a shot of tequila. With all of the tension, Margarita would join her in a shot. Just 24 hours ago she Cristina was about to get married to the love of her life and now 24 hours later the love of her life is with another woman, the woman who saved him. Margarita reminds her how she Cristina risked her life trying to save everyone from that crazy Tracy. Does Ricardo know about that? Cristina is so very tired that she just wants to disappear.
Esperanza visits Ricardo. He asks why she came to the wedding. She tells him about the threat from Tracy and how she tried calling him and Cristina. She came to the wedding to save his life. They talk about having saved each other's lives so that makes them even. He wants to thank her in person. She showed that she loves him yesterday by demonstrating she was capable of giving her life for him. Now he can also tell her looking her in the eye that he forgives her. He is grateful that she was capable of giving her life for him and he forgives her for everything from the day that was going to be their wedding. Esperanza just cries.
End of Univisión 114.
Uh oh. "Then Ernesto goes all TWISTY on her(and us!!!) : he was just thinking that if she were dead, then they could be together in the "the great beyond: life after death". Esperanza looks concerned". Yes, I am too!!! Please, please writers don't go off the deep end (even more than you already are)!
Geez Erasmo. You fall for every woman in your path, yet, you couldn't fall for this one? Anastasia has turned into a kind woman (always a good mother to her son too). Please, please don't tell me they are going to resurrect Kristel. I have a bad feeling we've not seen the last of her.
So, things weren't bad enough. Rock bottom anyone??
Thanks again Jarifa.
Diana
My jaw has dropped. Literally.
"Now he can also tell her looking her in the eye that he forgives her. He is grateful that she was capable of giving her life for him and he forgives her for everything from the day that was going to be their wedding. Esperanza just cries".
HE FORGIVES HER????? OMG. I can't. Even...
Now I am really praying that Ernesto gets that kidney and gets well. Esperanza, you dodged a bullet (in more ways than one). Run away and get on with your life. Let Cris have him...
Speechless...
Diana
I obviously didn't see the scene you mentioned, but it sounds as though it was very well acted. I liked both of these actors together initially but I like Betty Monroe with Ernesto too so she deserves much credit. As you can tell, I am done with Ricardo. I think him unbearably selfish...and insensitive.
I wish you the very best in your job search. Please keep the faith, something will come along. Will say a prayer for you today.
Diana
Diana, Ernesto looked sort of crazy talking about them both being dead together. I sure hope they are not going there with him either.
Dona Felipe, it is always good to hear from you when you have time to stop by. Wishing you the best of luck in your job search!
Novelas never start on a monday anyway and then they are preempted so many times that those friday endings never match and you get the cliffhanger on a wednesday and such. God, what a mess!
-Jon
If they are incapable of making series, why not hybrids, somthing like a novela but with only 26 episodes?
See? They're thinking about us after all...
I unwittingly got pulled into this show when the actors shaved their heads. I was just fast forwarding thru to Julian Gil scenes but now I'm watching Ric and CVV too. Aye help me!
Anyhoodle, I'm thinking that since blondie, not CVV the other, is going to give Ernie a kidney and bec the guy she liked doesn't love her, that Ernie and blondie will end up together raising their child. Otherwise, why break up her and tall, dark guy?
I still don't understand how Pato and Luca aren't halfsies but since I ff thru their scenes I guess it doesn't matter.
One more thing, Ric is like FBI or CIA right? So did he not have one FBI friend at the wedding? Those guys always carry a gun, wedding or not. And why is he still working at the school if he is an agent? Arnie took less time by half to find out what he needed in Kindergarten Cop. Ohhh no need to answer. Just throwing questions to the wind.
Carvivlie, Luca is Ernesto's step son (his ex wife Viviana's son) whom he raised. Ricardo quit the super duper spy business so he is an EX agent so no security for him at the wedding. He is a full time teacher now.
Carvivlie, thanks for joining the un-fun fun! It was a lot funner in the beginning, when the stoopidity was bearable! Tee hee!
You raise valid questions about Anastasia (blonde lady who offered Ernesto her kidney). She used to be Luca's ex but slept with his father, then went away to Italy at the behest of Luca's mother, Viviana, then came back, again at Viviana's behest in exchange of a bunch of money to separate Pato and Luca. She was obsessed with Luca and she was an accomplice of Kracy (beating her up to falsely accuse Ric of physically assaulting his ex to gain custody of the kids). Then, practically overnight, Anastasia gets a personality transplant and becomes the sweetest, kindest, most abnegated person ever! This show is the messiest hot mess ever! There are many inconsistencies in the backstories and behavior of everyone and most notably, in the main protagonists. We never knew why Tricky Ricky disappared and abandoned his one-true-love for 20 years, we don't know why or how he came back into her life. We don't understand how Espe, a woman who was dying of love for Ric, got married soon after his disappearance (with Pedro's dad) then after the latter passes away, she immediately falls in love with Ernesto, falls pregnant with Pato, discovers that Ernesto is married to Viviana. Espe breaks up with Ernesto, takes a vow of celibacy and raises her two kids on her own. Ernesto disappears and never asks about his child, yet he raises somebody else's child, Luca, a kid conceived as a result of Viviana's affair with Ernesto's best friend (Noone has ever known who Luca's bio father is. Luca knows Ernesto is his adoptive dad). This is the reason why Pato and Luca are not blood-relation, even though they share a father.
Ric used to be a secret super duper agent, a doozy of an incompetent agent, an utter loser who treated his subordinates like crap and who was absolutely aweful at his job. He quits his job as a super duper agent but continues telling everyone he meets that he is an ex-super duper agent. He becomes a self-appointed vigilante, beating up perps, breaking into people's houses without a warrant to investigate, locating disappeared, kidnapped and runaway children and teenagers. He fancies himself a Justiciero, an enforcer, an avenger, a people's hero, but really all he does is call Baxter, an ex-subordinate and have him risk his job to do Ricardolt favors. Baxter does all the work and Tricky Ricky gets all the credit, adulation and, in CVV's case, grateful nookie (he made Baxter find CVV's child and he got all the credit). And as your rightly pointed out, no law enforcement ex-colleague was invited to Ric's wedding, not even the faithful and ever-so reliable Baxter. Sorry about the verbose comment! Hope this answered your query. :)
Pablo, I completely agree with you about Osorio. I will never ever watch something by him again. I foreswore him after fastforwarding through 4/5 of MCET (basically I only watched the scenes where Silvia Navarro and/or Jorge Salinas were, except the kiddie songs and the celebrity cameos). Cris de la Fuente pulled me into this and I should've known better. He is charming and wonderful in good production, with a competent producer, a tightly-written script and a solid cast but he is not a good enough actor to carry Osorio-type nonsense. No more Osorio, even if the cast comes over to my house for tea after every episode! Never again!
By the way, I've been thinking about how much I'll miss this team of recapper and our fun delirium with these TNs. I have the perfect candidate for us to recap next. Something way better than this, an intentional comedy but the lovable doofus who produces novelas so exquisitely bad and clichéd that they become enjoyable masterpieces. It's "Las Amazonas" by Salvador "Chava" Mejía, who I affectionately call Chafa Mejía, the master of chafa novelas that become unintentional comedies. The cast of Las Amazonas is pretty much the same as "La Madrastra" and it includes elements of "Fuego En La Sangre" (I seem to have recognized the famous FELS cave in one of the promos of Las Amazonas). If you add in the ranch sceneries, the beautiful horses and, I'm hoping, the great music (Chafa Mejía is good with soundtracks), then we'll be in for a fun ride. There is no word on when it'll air on Looneyvision but it has already aired in Mexico and it's only 70-something episodes.
Jon, thanks for letting us know about AQNMD. The audience has been petitioning Looneyvision for nearly two years to broadcast AQNMD, which had a lot of success in Mexico and they decide to show it at 2pm? Shaking my head to the point of dizziness!
Hey amigowz! Cheers for stopping by to leave your impressions. A huge thanks to Jarifa for providing a recap of MEX #115, I added it at the end of the recap.
I suggest to my fellow recappers that we label our recaps with the episode number of the US broadcast as well as the episode number of the Mexican broadcast for ease of reference by future readers. If Looneyvision continues smushing two episodes together into 42 minutes, then I have no choice but to do some "creative" editing of my own and summarize two episodes on the fly (I have no way of watching the US broadcast since I live in Africa and follow the Mexican broadcast online).
Diana, thank you, my lovely! I missed your comments, your great insights and your way with words! I think you and I, along with Julia and the much-missed Tofie are Ricardo's staunchest detractors! I can't take credit for "Ricardolt", it's Julia who came up with it, along with "Rickety Rick". Tofie is the intellectual author of "Tricky Ricky". (This is the bit that got removed from my comment. I can't remember exactly what said, but I'll try to recreate it here). Don't embarrassed for raining praise and admiration on Julián Gil. Swoon away my friend and I'll swoon right along with you! I first saw him in "Sortilegio" and LQNPA. I liked his work as an actor and admired his chamaleonic qualities both in his performances and the visual identity he gives his characters. However, I never felt attracted to him. He is an attractive man but he never registered with me. For some strange reason, I'm not attracted to blonds, strictly speaking of physical appearance. I appreciate and acknowledge blond beauty pero no me mueve la aguja, but it doesn't move my needle, so to speak. I had blond exes but I was attracted by a whole packet of attributes and personality traits, not just physical appearance. Anyhoo, this is all to say that I don't understand what happened to me with Julián Gil in this clunker. Is it because he dyed his hair darker at the beginning of the show? Is it because he was the only good thing about this heap of stinking manure (along with Betty Monroe)? I can't tell but now I have a major crush on him! I also have a treat for you and all of Julián's groupies on the finale! Stay tuned, amiga! ;)
And btw, starts in 8 minutes, bye!
Hiya, Steve! I'm glad that CVV has an avid supporter in you! I'm not a fan, personally, but I still think she can do way better than Ricardolt!
Can't wait!
Nandicta, actually, truth be told, I didn't care for him at all...I have seen him several times and I'd shrug and curl my lip (not really, but he registered0 on the "hawtness" scale.
I'm not sure what happened here. His "luke" was great but he is a terrific lead and totally believable as a good guy. I simply swoon now. What is sexier than a kind, loving man that puts the person he loves above all else? Nothing I can think of and he nailed it here. What a sweet expression he can wear. I've not seen it before but then he's always been a villain.
Thank you again for all your care...
Diana
Sounds like Ricardolt still hasn't turned into a real galán! He's running out of time. I want the glorious ending to involve Baxter coming out of the shadows, getting all the credit, and living happily ever after in whatever way he chooses. And could someone please change baby Luca's name? It's just wrong for him to have to share a name with his brother!
Up people. Well maybe there's hope. I was glad to see christyV wrestle the gun away, for awhile a least. I don't
See where espy saved his life, he wound up savin her and he still wound
Up getting shot. And christyV is feeling bad, I wouldn't, he almost got killed because of espy trying to help him. O Ricky what are you gonna do
With your women. Until he goes to christyV and say "I'm going back to
Espranza" she needs to stand by her man. Afterall espy kicked him to the curve. Yeah yeah because she didn't
Want him to suffer. Well all is forgiven. Now she needs to leave him alone.
I like anastasia. She's even prettier
As a nice person.
I don't like pato. She's loud and opinionated. But Luca loves this child. A childbride she will be.
Is Ernesto gonna stay goody good after
The kidney transplant? A lot of loose ends to tie up.
OK thanks Nandicta, and you guys that filled in the gaps. Uni is having fun Choppin up this show. A whole episode
Was left out. How could they? :-)
At this rate, instead of three weeks left, maybe the novela is ENDING THIS FRIDAY!!!
Now wouldn't be great?
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