Friday, May 17, 2013

Weekend Discussion: Las Mascotas; Animals in Telenovelas

We don't get enough animals in telenovelas that are characters.  We saw many prize bulls [Salud!] in Amor Bravio, horses in others, but rarely do these animals have names or enough screen time.  Animals are such big parts of many of our lives it's hard to believe that more novela characters don't have pets.  The mascotas in novelas, though, are often amusing and endearing.

In El Cuerpo del Deseo, the hero had a dog who was smart enough to spot his master after his spirit changed bodies (Dog may actually be star Mario Cimarro's dog):


Cuando Me Enamoro had a beautiful horse named Gitana that was much beloved by the heroine:
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Saturday, March 21, 2009

El Cuerpo del Deseo, Friday, March. 20 - The end.

Ok, kiddies, this is it. The last episode of Cuerpo.

Salvador is taken to the Donoso house where he seems to have a very reverential attitude to his shoes.

There has been another fight at Gaetana's bar and she loses her license and has to close up shop.

We find out that Rebeca hung her herself in a hotel.

Salvador is a slob and Abigail is horrified at the condition of his room.

He does not want to have a bath.

But he gets one anyway.

When Ángela, Antonio, Simón and Abigail go out to a restaurant to discuss the Salvador situation, they find Valeria playing the piano there.

She and Simón get back together. It is Valeria who realizes what seem perfectly obvious (as Marie Celeste noted) that Salvador is no longer PJ and is the person whose body PJ took over. And that person had a life somewhere else.

Antonio and Simón go to ask Gaetana about Salvador's origins. She didn't even know he was out of the hospital. Apparently, she thought he was in a permanent coma. She sends the guys to Tío Felipe, who is not helpful.

Finally, someone remembers or figures out that Salvador was supposed to have lived in a village called Las Cruces. Antonio asks him and Salvador says that he lives in the country outside the village.

Antonio tells Salvador that they are going to take him home.

Camilo and Lupe say goodbye to Gaetana.
Evaristo comes to make a last effort to win Gaetana. A sad serenata seems to do the trick.

Evaristo braces himself for an attack when Gaetana comes over to him.

But she kisses him instead and says that he isn't bad.

Salvador has a joyous reunion with Cantalicia and Moncho.


Ángela, Antonio and Simón wave goodbye...

and Salvador and his family go off into the sunset. Fin

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Friday, March 20, 2009

El Cuerpo del Deseo, - Thurs., March 19 - Walter shoots the wrong guy; Valeria and Rebeca leave; Salvador wakes up

Tía Rebeca finally leaves the Donoso house but she keeps seeing PJ/S and PJ.

Walter sneaks into the hospital and shoots and kills a patient but fortunately it's some other guy with really long hair. He is arrested.

Ángela comes home with the baby.

Gaetana goes to see PJ/S.

Valeria leaves the Donoso house to start a new life and everyone, especially Simón, is upset.

It's Salvador who is back in the body when he wakes up and no one understands what is going on.

The doctor tells Salvador that he can go back to the nice house or to an institution.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

El Cuerpo del Deseo, Wed., March 18 - Walter and Rebeca get caught with the goods

This episode left a lot to be desired - waaaay too little Mario and waaaaay too much Walter and Rebeca.



Our evil duo deside to decamp but before they leave, they ransack Isabel's and Angela's bedrooms for jewelry and other valuables. They do this when everyone is in the house and when they try and escape, they come face to face with Azur and are caught.



Abigail is too tender hearted to call the police so Walter just get fired. Rebeca has the nerve to claim that she is entitled to Isabel's stuff as her closest living relative but Antonio points out that Isabel was married to Salvador so he would have a better claim.



Meanwhile all we get to see of Mario is a few shots of him in intensive care. Gaetana finds out about what happened and asks the question we all have - who is in the lovely body? PJ? or the real Salvador?

Walter refuses his severance payment, finds his gun and tells Rebeca that he has nothing to lose and is going to kill Salvador.


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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

El Cuerpo del Deseo, Tues, March 17 - It's the end of the road for Isabel; Ángela has her baby

PJ/S and Isabel are enjoying their idyll at the beach while the police close in thanks to the odious Walter.


They dance...


Make love for the last time...

The next morning PJ/S finds out that the police have come.

They are stopped before they can get away but PJ/S overpowers the policeman.

A car chase follows in which PJ is sometimes Mario and sometimes the old geezer.

Finally, Isabel decides that this is the end. She closes her eyes, takes her hands off the wheel and the car goes out of control and flips into the water.

Since the geezer probably couldn't carry Isabel, it's Mario who gets Isabel out of the car and carries her onto the beach.

Isabel says that she has never been happier than on this day and dies. PJ turns into the geezer and I guess he dies again so he can be with Isabel forever.

Fortunately, there is time for all this before the police show up.

Salvador's body isn't dead so he goes to the hospital.

Ángela has her baby and everyone but Walter and Rebeca are celebrating when the police arrive with the news about Isabel.

The loathsome Rebeca screams, faints and puts on her usual performance.

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Monday, March 16, 2009

El Cuerpo del Deseo, - Mon., March 16 - PJ/S & Isabel are on the run

OK, I'm back from vacation and I am going to try and keep up with the last week of ECDD, which will end the 2008 Mario Cimarro marathon we've been on since LT started last January.

A cute pic of Mario from Friday's episode.


Monday-

PJ/S and Isabel are on the run. I haven't watched all the episodes I missed when I was away and some of them didn't get TiVo'd so I don't know why PJ/S and Isabel have run away but she apparently knows that he is PJ.

PJ/S tells Isabel that he doesn't feel well and is having visions of being with Cantalicia. (It doesn't seem like he has told Isabel that Salvador is trying to get his body back.) PJ/S and Isabel decide to do something to help Cantalicia.

It's blurry but Valeria slaps the unspeakable Rebeca in the middle of one of her tirades.

PJ/S mails a letter to Ángela and some money to the priest for Cantalicia. A policeman sees them.

PJ/S in his beach whites.

PJ/S and Isabel are kissing,,,

... when he gets the familiar psychic attack.

Ángela went to the hospital with false labor. She reads PJ's letter to her and says that even if they never meet again physically, he will always be the most important person to her.

Walter figures out where PJ/S and Isabel have gone.

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