Saturday, March 29, 2014
Weekend Discussion: Are Novelas Getting More Violent?
We've referenced this before, but with the recent incidents in Lo Que La Vida Me Robo, Mentir Para Vivir, and even the attempted rape in De Que Te Quiero Te Quiero we can't help but wonder whether novelas in general are going down a slippery slope that can't be tilted back.
In a previous discussion on this issue we seem to have come to the consensus that the rise of the narco stories came from the networks' desire to get more male viewers. I don't know whether that's been working for them, but edgier has been the order of the day in all television and we need to ask ourselves whether there should be a limit. In the US there is an irrational fear of sexual content in ad-supported television which until relatively recently hasn't affected the Spanish-language networks very much. We're complaining here -- and justifiably -- when we become aware of hot love scenes being censored because they are censoring mostly scenes that show couples who actually love each other and actors who have the right chemistry to do scenes like that. Why are television networks so afraid of the conservative moral watchdogs who -- if they were truly what they say they are -- aren't even watching these programs and theoretically shouldn't care about them? These people don't control all the money in this country although they are trying hard. We should not allow them to get a foothold into our private lives.
Why instead are they not censoring violence? Violence is the real obscenity in modern society and the constant exposure to it takes away much of its shock value. The occasional violent scene with bruises, bloodshed, etc., can be powerful; too many such and people will begin to shrug it off. Is this some unconscious Darwinian element nobody has identified?
Villains are also becoming more perverse as we continue down this path. Porque el Amor Manda gave us a female villain who emotionally abused her own child (as in 5 years old in the opening of the story), Amor Bravio had a male villain who raped his own niece, even planning it so that it happened just as she became mayor de edad, and a sexual blackmailer forcing the heroine into her Tosca moment (as an opera fan I sometimes wish she would have taken the same action). LQLVMR and PSMA are currently giving us villains of such extreme sociopathy they're making our flesh crawl. Not an episode goes by on this blog that someone doesn't comment on that.
At the moment in a series like LQLVMR violence is the price tag we're paying for the otherwise good writing and the chemistry of the two leads. I'm not ready to walk away from such a situation, but if Televisa reads this blog, this is to let them know that there is only so much violence we should be able to tolerate in the name of ratings.
Sound off, amigos.
Labels: bravio, Manda, mentir, robo, te-quiero, telenovelas, weekend
Saturday, March 01, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #101 Fri 2/28/14 Free At Last!, Free At Last! (El Fin)
[I'm trying to get this one up especially ASAPPPPPP for y'all, amiguis. In the meantime, my wholehearted thanks goes out to all of the fabulously talented and dedicated recappers on this team for your unfailing "sticktoit" dedication and your fantastic and varied humorous styles which were always good for at least one belly-laugh a read. Also, a big thanks to all the bloggers on this telenovela which got a bit draggy half-way through (as most of them do) for continuing to read and to comment so regularly, making this site so much fun seven days a week. A bundle of besos to all of you!]
Parte 1: The Great Escape
Lo del Pasado:
Oriana realizes this “vacation” is a trap Jose Luis set to kidnap her and Alina. She’s seen locks on the windows and JL has demanded her cell phone which he’s now destroyed. Lina had to leave her “guard dog” home and is outside exploring. JL has gone out to get the rest of the luggage.
Lo Del Nuevo:
Back in Hermosillo at the Blue Bayou Bachin’-it Bungalow, Ric is whining to Piero that he is dying to hear something from 2nes to make sure she’s okay. Piero suggests that they use the GPS data and drive that night to wherever she and JL have stopped for the night. They can park off aways and hang around in case there’s an emergency or something. Suddenly Ric gets a call from her using the emergency cell she snuck along in her purse. She’s frantic and tells him she’s sorry she ever decided to go with Jose Luis. “—It’s a trap! She hears JL’s footsteps. “--I have to hang up!” “—Did he do something to you?” Click. She hides the phone just as JL re-enters the room. He’s irked cuz she didn’t answer him right off. “—I suppose you brought the CD with you. (Like did he ask her to or something?) When she tells him she didn’t think to he accuses her of giving it to Homero and gets physical. She denies that and insists that she forgot it, period and breaks loose of him. He tells her not to play games with him; that she left it home on purpose. (Like she really thought she was supposed to keep it taped to her body 24/7 or something?) “—Who’d you give it to? Your ‘grandma’, that Ricardo? Who in Hell’d you give it to? ANSWER ME!!” Slap!!
JL has knocked Ori down and she’s flailing on the couch just as Lina races back in to witness the beating. She races back out again, screaming for some adult to help them. (Sorry, kid, but all the adults were probably paid off to leave.) JL races after the kid and stops at the doorway, turning around to take a last look over at Oriana and spew a mouthful of blame at her. However, she has a big surprise for Psycho Spouse: a whopper of a whang-bang in the face with the handy tool-shed shovel [pala] one always keeps inside a vacation cottage in the wilds of Mexico. Out she races on tippy toes, careful not to catch her CMF spikey boot heels in the mud, to fetch the still uselessly screaming Lina, dumping her into the backseat of JL’s Beamer. “—We’re leaving. Don’t forget your seatbelt!” Keys in hand, Ori and Lina drive off in the Beamer back down the rough, rocky one lane back road they’d used to get there.
The guys pull up in Ric’s silver Mercedes, meanwhile, and Ric pulls a gun when he sees JL’s white Beamer pull up. He cocks it just as the Beamer stops and 2nes jumps out of the car to explain what’s just happened.
Back in Hermosillo, Cesar is visiting his mother, Mathilde, at the prison. She asks him what’s going on with her case. She knows that Escalona testified she didn’t know a thing about the money-laundering but she’s still stuck in jail. Cesar explains that it will take time for the investigation to finish. She’ll have to be patient and may be stuck in there a while longer.
Mad Hilde doesn’t like having to mix with the masses and tells Cesar to scream at the judge and bribe him to get her the heck owdathere! The buggy, stinking mattresses and buggy, stinking prisoners are too degrading for somebody like her! Unless this is his way of taking it out on her. Is it, she asks? Cesar shakes his head in disbelief. She continues making up her own version of why things are going so slowly: Ruben is purposely taking his time with the lawyer…blah, blah, blah…. Cesar tells her she’ll never change. She’s sick, wicked and hasn’t seen the light. Her pushiness, her arrogance and snobbery—her willingness to trample over everybody, including the law, are what got her stuck in jail in the first place. She scolds him for talking to her so disrespectfully. He gets up to leave. “—I’d better go.” She apologizes for getting on his case, but he walks off and leaves her crying.
Later that day at Paloma’s, Snoops and Michael listen to 2nes’s horror story. Snoops assures them all that if JL is dead, they’ll claim righteous/legitimate/lawful defensive action. Ric gives Snoops the copied CD and he hands it off to Mike to hand deliver it to the MI labs via private plane. (I swear it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard calling a Spanish speaking male with an English moniker!) She won’t spend a day in jail, Piero promises. The nightmare is over, Homero declares. With more reason than ever she has earned the right to the name Ines Valdivia. However, she still has to give her statement to the police. Nope. She won’t step foot into another jail cell ever. Ric and New-nes smile at one another
Gadget and Manolo take a few uniforms with them to pick up JL’s body. Ooops! The body’s not there. Manolo points out there’s only a puddle of blood where his body should have been. They check the grounds, but get bupkis. As the lot of them head over to give their statement, Manolo calls Snoops who tells the others. No trace of JL anywhere.
JL has been hiding in the woods with his trash baggy of dinero. He flags down a pick-up truck in the rain along the back road, claiming he was assaulted and needs a ride into town. The driver says fine, get in. JL starts to get into the driver’s side but pulls his gun and shoots the driver dead instead. He dumps the body and takes off.
The next day in Hermosillo, Homero calls Orines to check on her. Still no word, but the good news is there’s no dead body either. She’ll be free to come and go in a few days, but until he turns up they’ll need to be extremely careful, he warns her. No problem. Ric’s doubled the security.
As for JL, he must have run out of gas or the truck gave up the ghost. He’s got a rag around his wounded head and is resting on a hillside, calling Patrick for help. Patrick won’t give him the time of day now, tho’, cuz JL supposedly gave his CD to Homero de la Garza and they gave a tip off [dar el pitazo a – lit. whistled to] to Interpol who gave it to them (I think). The mobsters have got to grab their things and run like rats in the night, and it’s all his damned fault, he snarls back at him. JL begs for his help, but Patrick tells him to let his “grandmother” help him! “—I hope you die like the dog you are!” Click!
~~End Parte 1~~
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~~Parte 2~~
Up in Smoke!
Lucina, Ori and Raquel go back to the clinic a few days later. The baby is in fact JL's. So much for condoms…..Raqi worries about who’s going to care for her baby since its daddy is lost or dead. Lucina says she will, of course! Raqi warns her what an expensive pain it will be, but Ori says they’re a blessing and she’ll realize it soon enough. "--BTW, I am preggers also! So, now the baby will have all sorts of half-brothers and sisters to grow up with." Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Months later…..Ric experiences the joys of giving birth vicariously as he coaches 2nes through the birth of little Mariano. More happy, happy, joy, joy!
Six months later after that…..Raqi has realized how much she loves motherhood. Lucina asks her to consider having a dual baptism. Still no word from JL and they’re certain he’s dead or left the country. Raqi is no longer in love with the brut, either.
Ric comes to tell Paloma that the baptism is the following weekend and that Piero will be Mariano’s padrino [godfather]. Also, his divorce is final and he and New-nes will be getting married at the same time. They are going to want to live in their own house, however. Paloma is bummed and offers them her house.
Outside, on the grounds, Leonardo tells Fabiola that he’s taken a job doing portraits; it’s not his thing, but at least it pays well. They’ll be getting married, but she wants to wait till she gets her veterinarian degree. He wants it sooner cuz he wants to sleep with her already, but she’s worried he’ll become infected. He suggests they see a specialist about the precautions they’ll have to take. (Good luck with that.) Okidok. She’s satisfied. They will get married soon then.
That night a bum in a dirty raincoat with oily long hair and beard shleps along the stairs to Fort Falcon. He’s stopped by a security guard holding a gun to the back of his head. “—I knew you’d return! Patrick sends his greetings!” Why, it’s JL and he does a quick number on the guerrero and kills him. He then enters the house, garbage bag in hand, and stares at the dusty picture of him and his family at the fair.
The next day, Oriana and Alina come to invite Raqi and Lucina to the wedding/baptism combo affair. Raqi wonders if she really should go. She was such a rotten friend there for a while. Raqi is definitely wanted there, says Ori, and she's definitely invited to the thing--and no, no hard feelings, blah, blah, blah….. She thought Raqi might want to have a dual baptism with little Lucia while they're at it. Raqi can’t believe she’d be so nice to her after the rotten way she treated her. Not a problem. All forgotten. In fact, Ori feels she’s going to be forever in their debt for all they did for her! (You can say that again! Cha-ching!!) Raqi nods okay.
One week later…..
The wedding/baptism combo affair takes place (and Viewerville has to do a double-take). Is that a bikini or a wedding dress? It’s a totally backless wedding dress, tied on with tiny spaghetti straps at the neck and the back; it’s tea-length with that crazy dippy back duck-tailed hem so popular now—and expensive and chic as all get out. Ori’s got only a jeweled ribbon as a headband for the non-existent “veil”. It’s got a lacy trim at the bottom which goes around the entire hem of the short skirt and the train.
The two babies are baptized afterwards. We’ve all got more happy, happy, joy, joy than they—or Viewerville—could ever imagine or hope for. That is, more than wacky, wigged-out JL, who is outside the walls of the church, torturing himself by being there as the happy couple and the guests exit en mass (pardon the pun) should hope for.
Sometime later, JL decides to bury his bag o’ dough. Dunno where or when, just that it’s also during the small high school celebration party that Piero, Paloma, Ruben and Fidelia, Ric and 2nes are having for Sebastian. Hugs all around. Seb calls Piero "Papa". Leo and Fabi show up for the little backyard reception with smiles on their faces. Leo doesn’t seem to have any more problems with Seb. Fabi gives him their gift. Seb apologizes for the grief he caused her. She’s not holding any grudges. (Whoooeee! That’s a relief.)
At the same time, Mad Hilde finally gets out of prison. Cesar is there waiting for her. He’ll take her anywhere she wants to go, but she has to tell him she really hasn’t got any place to live now. Can she live with him? Nope! But she’s changed. Really she has. Nobody changes completely, he tells her, and he’s not about to go through what he did before. So, he’ll take her to some hotel. Sorry, but she’s got no money for a hotel. Cesar takes out a check from Paloma that he says is more than sufficient to find her an apartment with and to live comfortably. “--Very generous, and a very subtle way of getting rid of me.” (Yes, exactly—and not for the first time, shall we add?) Cesar says she was only thinking of what she might need and not to take it badly. Ok. “—Taxi!” (He decides to call her a taxi after offering to take her in his own car?) She asks about Ruben and finds out he married Fi. “—See ya ‘round.” He leaves her there. She gets into the taxi, realizes she’s been abandoned, and cries her heart out as it takes her away.
Back at Paloma’s, Ric and 2nes are getting ready to take a drive somewhere. He tells her he’s buying the manse next door for them to live in happily ever after. What a great compromise!
Outside the grounds of Paloma’s manse, no security is visible. Ric crosses the quiet street to put the stroller into the trunk of his car. JL is a block or so away in another car, hiding and watching for him. Suddenly Ric is accosted by Jose Luis who is pointing a pistol at his chest. “—You’re going to die now. You took away everything that gave my life meaning: my love, and my daughter, the light of my eyes, and you’re going to die for that! Because, you don’t deserve to live.” Ric tells him that he might kill him with a bullet, but JL is already dead. Yeah, his life no longer has any meaning, but he didn’t cause that. Jose Luis did it to himself! He lost it all because of his ambition and his blindness. "--When I found them they were no longer yours. You’d already lost them!” JL cocks the pistol.
Oriana crosses the street and walks in front of her husband—er…the new one, Ric. “—If you shoot him, you’ll have to shoot me as well!” JL looks at her in horror. She challenges him to shoot—if he’s got the courage to. He can’t really think he’d recover their lost love, but go ahead and try. Just know that whatever happens, the love she and Ric share will be endless. Apparently he does have the courage to. The gun goes off. Jose Luis stands there with the pistol still in hand, his face showing the recognition of his hopelessness, his total loss of family and fortune and his fatigue after two years of trying to retrieve it.
Ori’s horrified—as is all of Viewerville—to see that Ric’s got a wound the size of DF in his chest and is bleeding and unconscious. He moves to shoot her dead also. She looks up at him. He sheds a tear, walks away into the middle of the street, suddenly turns and aims. Just as he cocks the pistol for a second shot, he’s hit by a racing truck that appears out of nowhere! Whap-thap!!! A couple of blocks away, the driver of the truck stops and dials his cell. “—Patrick. “—All set. The Fox is now dropped.”
That night at the hospital, the doctor shakes his head in doubt that Ric will survive. Paloma and 2nes look on at the comatose Ric and weep.
Months afterward, Leo arrives back at Snoop Mansion after a trip to the police station and tells Fabi and Grandpa Snoops that the police finally located Antonio’s corpse; and the bullet he was shot with matches the one found in Homero’s driver’s body. So, that proves JL did the deed to both sorry suckers, he says. Any news about Falcon? "--He’s a paraplegic now."
Raqi visits JL in prison at his request. Why did you want to see me, she asks, after remarking how bad off he looks (i.e., in the wheelchair, with his ratty hair and even rattier beard). He was hoping she’d bring him his daughter…er…their daughter. “—And who told you she was yours?” He’d supposed it was after all the times she’d sworn it was his. "--And you always swore it wasn’t!" Could have been her lying and that she only wanted his money, she adds. You cannot be that cruel, he says pitifully. (Yes she can!) "--Who’s accusing whom of being cruel?" After all the crap he pulled and all the hurt he caused he doesn’t deserve to know sh!t, she tells him. "--Why bother?" Well, he thought that after losing the other family he might still have this one to claim and he’d give the baby girl his cash. It was enough to secure her future with. Raquel swears she will never tell him one way or the other. She doesn’t give a damn about his dinero either! Ditto for the little girl. "--She doesn’t deserve to know she has a man like you for a father." Raqi turns on her heel and walks off. Bye! “--Won’t you even tell me if she’s mine?” “--Nope. You don’t deserve to ever know.”
Across town, Jackie gets a call from Ruben telling her that the manse she’s given over to the Holy Mariano?? Foundation is going well. Suddenly the workmen call him over. They’ve just dug up JL’s bag o’ bills! Halelujah! Manna from Mariano in Heaven above!!
Paloma and 2nes the New-nes are discussing their and Ric’s bad fortunes. Pain is a fact of life. We just have to find new reasons to go on living. Too bad a bout Ricardo. What a happy life they’d have had. So many dreams! So many lies she’d thought she had had to continue to live with to survive. Paloma is hopeful that even Ric’s trauma can be overcome some day soon with Dios’s help. “--Ricardo cannot continue like this, Abuela!”
Back at the hospital Ric suddenly opens his eyes.
Over at the prison, in his drab brick cell, JL realizes his family photo has gone missing and starts yelling wildly for it. Another prisoner/guard?? has it and sets fire to it with a match, and then throws it back into JL’s cell. He whimpers as he watches the photo, just like his life has, go up in smoke.
Sometime later, a fully recovered Ric and the New-nes are alone for a second honeymoon (note the white linen shirts and skirt) on a beautiful coast somewhere. Blue skies, fluffy clouds, interesting black pelican flying? He loves her and will till the end of time. She, for her part, is reborn. Oriana is dead and Ines Valdivia is newly reborn. She has the whole world ahead of her. Such a huge lie as the one she had to hide by is far in the distant past. She no longer—they no longer—have to lie in order to live….. They kiss and cuddle.
FIN
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Parte 1: The Great Escape
Lo del Pasado:
Oriana realizes this “vacation” is a trap Jose Luis set to kidnap her and Alina. She’s seen locks on the windows and JL has demanded her cell phone which he’s now destroyed. Lina had to leave her “guard dog” home and is outside exploring. JL has gone out to get the rest of the luggage.
Lo Del Nuevo:
Back in Hermosillo at the Blue Bayou Bachin’-it Bungalow, Ric is whining to Piero that he is dying to hear something from 2nes to make sure she’s okay. Piero suggests that they use the GPS data and drive that night to wherever she and JL have stopped for the night. They can park off aways and hang around in case there’s an emergency or something. Suddenly Ric gets a call from her using the emergency cell she snuck along in her purse. She’s frantic and tells him she’s sorry she ever decided to go with Jose Luis. “—It’s a trap! She hears JL’s footsteps. “--I have to hang up!” “—Did he do something to you?” Click. She hides the phone just as JL re-enters the room. He’s irked cuz she didn’t answer him right off. “—I suppose you brought the CD with you. (Like did he ask her to or something?) When she tells him she didn’t think to he accuses her of giving it to Homero and gets physical. She denies that and insists that she forgot it, period and breaks loose of him. He tells her not to play games with him; that she left it home on purpose. (Like she really thought she was supposed to keep it taped to her body 24/7 or something?) “—Who’d you give it to? Your ‘grandma’, that Ricardo? Who in Hell’d you give it to? ANSWER ME!!” Slap!!
JL has knocked Ori down and she’s flailing on the couch just as Lina races back in to witness the beating. She races back out again, screaming for some adult to help them. (Sorry, kid, but all the adults were probably paid off to leave.) JL races after the kid and stops at the doorway, turning around to take a last look over at Oriana and spew a mouthful of blame at her. However, she has a big surprise for Psycho Spouse: a whopper of a whang-bang in the face with the handy tool-shed shovel [pala] one always keeps inside a vacation cottage in the wilds of Mexico. Out she races on tippy toes, careful not to catch her CMF spikey boot heels in the mud, to fetch the still uselessly screaming Lina, dumping her into the backseat of JL’s Beamer. “—We’re leaving. Don’t forget your seatbelt!” Keys in hand, Ori and Lina drive off in the Beamer back down the rough, rocky one lane back road they’d used to get there.
The guys pull up in Ric’s silver Mercedes, meanwhile, and Ric pulls a gun when he sees JL’s white Beamer pull up. He cocks it just as the Beamer stops and 2nes jumps out of the car to explain what’s just happened.
Back in Hermosillo, Cesar is visiting his mother, Mathilde, at the prison. She asks him what’s going on with her case. She knows that Escalona testified she didn’t know a thing about the money-laundering but she’s still stuck in jail. Cesar explains that it will take time for the investigation to finish. She’ll have to be patient and may be stuck in there a while longer.
Mad Hilde doesn’t like having to mix with the masses and tells Cesar to scream at the judge and bribe him to get her the heck owdathere! The buggy, stinking mattresses and buggy, stinking prisoners are too degrading for somebody like her! Unless this is his way of taking it out on her. Is it, she asks? Cesar shakes his head in disbelief. She continues making up her own version of why things are going so slowly: Ruben is purposely taking his time with the lawyer…blah, blah, blah…. Cesar tells her she’ll never change. She’s sick, wicked and hasn’t seen the light. Her pushiness, her arrogance and snobbery—her willingness to trample over everybody, including the law, are what got her stuck in jail in the first place. She scolds him for talking to her so disrespectfully. He gets up to leave. “—I’d better go.” She apologizes for getting on his case, but he walks off and leaves her crying.
Later that day at Paloma’s, Snoops and Michael listen to 2nes’s horror story. Snoops assures them all that if JL is dead, they’ll claim righteous/legitimate/lawful defensive action. Ric gives Snoops the copied CD and he hands it off to Mike to hand deliver it to the MI labs via private plane. (I swear it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard calling a Spanish speaking male with an English moniker!) She won’t spend a day in jail, Piero promises. The nightmare is over, Homero declares. With more reason than ever she has earned the right to the name Ines Valdivia. However, she still has to give her statement to the police. Nope. She won’t step foot into another jail cell ever. Ric and New-nes smile at one another
Gadget and Manolo take a few uniforms with them to pick up JL’s body. Ooops! The body’s not there. Manolo points out there’s only a puddle of blood where his body should have been. They check the grounds, but get bupkis. As the lot of them head over to give their statement, Manolo calls Snoops who tells the others. No trace of JL anywhere.
JL has been hiding in the woods with his trash baggy of dinero. He flags down a pick-up truck in the rain along the back road, claiming he was assaulted and needs a ride into town. The driver says fine, get in. JL starts to get into the driver’s side but pulls his gun and shoots the driver dead instead. He dumps the body and takes off.
The next day in Hermosillo, Homero calls Orines to check on her. Still no word, but the good news is there’s no dead body either. She’ll be free to come and go in a few days, but until he turns up they’ll need to be extremely careful, he warns her. No problem. Ric’s doubled the security.
As for JL, he must have run out of gas or the truck gave up the ghost. He’s got a rag around his wounded head and is resting on a hillside, calling Patrick for help. Patrick won’t give him the time of day now, tho’, cuz JL supposedly gave his CD to Homero de la Garza and they gave a tip off [dar el pitazo a – lit. whistled to] to Interpol who gave it to them (I think). The mobsters have got to grab their things and run like rats in the night, and it’s all his damned fault, he snarls back at him. JL begs for his help, but Patrick tells him to let his “grandmother” help him! “—I hope you die like the dog you are!” Click!
~~End Parte 1~~
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~~Parte 2~~
Up in Smoke!
Lucina, Ori and Raquel go back to the clinic a few days later. The baby is in fact JL's. So much for condoms…..Raqi worries about who’s going to care for her baby since its daddy is lost or dead. Lucina says she will, of course! Raqi warns her what an expensive pain it will be, but Ori says they’re a blessing and she’ll realize it soon enough. "--BTW, I am preggers also! So, now the baby will have all sorts of half-brothers and sisters to grow up with." Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Months later…..Ric experiences the joys of giving birth vicariously as he coaches 2nes through the birth of little Mariano. More happy, happy, joy, joy!
Six months later after that…..Raqi has realized how much she loves motherhood. Lucina asks her to consider having a dual baptism. Still no word from JL and they’re certain he’s dead or left the country. Raqi is no longer in love with the brut, either.
Ric comes to tell Paloma that the baptism is the following weekend and that Piero will be Mariano’s padrino [godfather]. Also, his divorce is final and he and New-nes will be getting married at the same time. They are going to want to live in their own house, however. Paloma is bummed and offers them her house.
Outside, on the grounds, Leonardo tells Fabiola that he’s taken a job doing portraits; it’s not his thing, but at least it pays well. They’ll be getting married, but she wants to wait till she gets her veterinarian degree. He wants it sooner cuz he wants to sleep with her already, but she’s worried he’ll become infected. He suggests they see a specialist about the precautions they’ll have to take. (Good luck with that.) Okidok. She’s satisfied. They will get married soon then.
That night a bum in a dirty raincoat with oily long hair and beard shleps along the stairs to Fort Falcon. He’s stopped by a security guard holding a gun to the back of his head. “—I knew you’d return! Patrick sends his greetings!” Why, it’s JL and he does a quick number on the guerrero and kills him. He then enters the house, garbage bag in hand, and stares at the dusty picture of him and his family at the fair.
The next day, Oriana and Alina come to invite Raqi and Lucina to the wedding/baptism combo affair. Raqi wonders if she really should go. She was such a rotten friend there for a while. Raqi is definitely wanted there, says Ori, and she's definitely invited to the thing--and no, no hard feelings, blah, blah, blah….. She thought Raqi might want to have a dual baptism with little Lucia while they're at it. Raqi can’t believe she’d be so nice to her after the rotten way she treated her. Not a problem. All forgotten. In fact, Ori feels she’s going to be forever in their debt for all they did for her! (You can say that again! Cha-ching!!) Raqi nods okay.
One week later…..
The wedding/baptism combo affair takes place (and Viewerville has to do a double-take). Is that a bikini or a wedding dress? It’s a totally backless wedding dress, tied on with tiny spaghetti straps at the neck and the back; it’s tea-length with that crazy dippy back duck-tailed hem so popular now—and expensive and chic as all get out. Ori’s got only a jeweled ribbon as a headband for the non-existent “veil”. It’s got a lacy trim at the bottom which goes around the entire hem of the short skirt and the train.
The two babies are baptized afterwards. We’ve all got more happy, happy, joy, joy than they—or Viewerville—could ever imagine or hope for. That is, more than wacky, wigged-out JL, who is outside the walls of the church, torturing himself by being there as the happy couple and the guests exit en mass (pardon the pun) should hope for.
Sometime later, JL decides to bury his bag o’ dough. Dunno where or when, just that it’s also during the small high school celebration party that Piero, Paloma, Ruben and Fidelia, Ric and 2nes are having for Sebastian. Hugs all around. Seb calls Piero "Papa". Leo and Fabi show up for the little backyard reception with smiles on their faces. Leo doesn’t seem to have any more problems with Seb. Fabi gives him their gift. Seb apologizes for the grief he caused her. She’s not holding any grudges. (Whoooeee! That’s a relief.)
At the same time, Mad Hilde finally gets out of prison. Cesar is there waiting for her. He’ll take her anywhere she wants to go, but she has to tell him she really hasn’t got any place to live now. Can she live with him? Nope! But she’s changed. Really she has. Nobody changes completely, he tells her, and he’s not about to go through what he did before. So, he’ll take her to some hotel. Sorry, but she’s got no money for a hotel. Cesar takes out a check from Paloma that he says is more than sufficient to find her an apartment with and to live comfortably. “--Very generous, and a very subtle way of getting rid of me.” (Yes, exactly—and not for the first time, shall we add?) Cesar says she was only thinking of what she might need and not to take it badly. Ok. “—Taxi!” (He decides to call her a taxi after offering to take her in his own car?) She asks about Ruben and finds out he married Fi. “—See ya ‘round.” He leaves her there. She gets into the taxi, realizes she’s been abandoned, and cries her heart out as it takes her away.
Back at Paloma’s, Ric and 2nes are getting ready to take a drive somewhere. He tells her he’s buying the manse next door for them to live in happily ever after. What a great compromise!
Outside the grounds of Paloma’s manse, no security is visible. Ric crosses the quiet street to put the stroller into the trunk of his car. JL is a block or so away in another car, hiding and watching for him. Suddenly Ric is accosted by Jose Luis who is pointing a pistol at his chest. “—You’re going to die now. You took away everything that gave my life meaning: my love, and my daughter, the light of my eyes, and you’re going to die for that! Because, you don’t deserve to live.” Ric tells him that he might kill him with a bullet, but JL is already dead. Yeah, his life no longer has any meaning, but he didn’t cause that. Jose Luis did it to himself! He lost it all because of his ambition and his blindness. "--When I found them they were no longer yours. You’d already lost them!” JL cocks the pistol.
Oriana crosses the street and walks in front of her husband—er…the new one, Ric. “—If you shoot him, you’ll have to shoot me as well!” JL looks at her in horror. She challenges him to shoot—if he’s got the courage to. He can’t really think he’d recover their lost love, but go ahead and try. Just know that whatever happens, the love she and Ric share will be endless. Apparently he does have the courage to. The gun goes off. Jose Luis stands there with the pistol still in hand, his face showing the recognition of his hopelessness, his total loss of family and fortune and his fatigue after two years of trying to retrieve it.
Ori’s horrified—as is all of Viewerville—to see that Ric’s got a wound the size of DF in his chest and is bleeding and unconscious. He moves to shoot her dead also. She looks up at him. He sheds a tear, walks away into the middle of the street, suddenly turns and aims. Just as he cocks the pistol for a second shot, he’s hit by a racing truck that appears out of nowhere! Whap-thap!!! A couple of blocks away, the driver of the truck stops and dials his cell. “—Patrick. “—All set. The Fox is now dropped.”
That night at the hospital, the doctor shakes his head in doubt that Ric will survive. Paloma and 2nes look on at the comatose Ric and weep.
Months afterward, Leo arrives back at Snoop Mansion after a trip to the police station and tells Fabi and Grandpa Snoops that the police finally located Antonio’s corpse; and the bullet he was shot with matches the one found in Homero’s driver’s body. So, that proves JL did the deed to both sorry suckers, he says. Any news about Falcon? "--He’s a paraplegic now."
Raqi visits JL in prison at his request. Why did you want to see me, she asks, after remarking how bad off he looks (i.e., in the wheelchair, with his ratty hair and even rattier beard). He was hoping she’d bring him his daughter…er…their daughter. “—And who told you she was yours?” He’d supposed it was after all the times she’d sworn it was his. "--And you always swore it wasn’t!" Could have been her lying and that she only wanted his money, she adds. You cannot be that cruel, he says pitifully. (Yes she can!) "--Who’s accusing whom of being cruel?" After all the crap he pulled and all the hurt he caused he doesn’t deserve to know sh!t, she tells him. "--Why bother?" Well, he thought that after losing the other family he might still have this one to claim and he’d give the baby girl his cash. It was enough to secure her future with. Raquel swears she will never tell him one way or the other. She doesn’t give a damn about his dinero either! Ditto for the little girl. "--She doesn’t deserve to know she has a man like you for a father." Raqi turns on her heel and walks off. Bye! “--Won’t you even tell me if she’s mine?” “--Nope. You don’t deserve to ever know.”
Across town, Jackie gets a call from Ruben telling her that the manse she’s given over to the Holy Mariano?? Foundation is going well. Suddenly the workmen call him over. They’ve just dug up JL’s bag o’ bills! Halelujah! Manna from Mariano in Heaven above!!
Paloma and 2nes the New-nes are discussing their and Ric’s bad fortunes. Pain is a fact of life. We just have to find new reasons to go on living. Too bad a bout Ricardo. What a happy life they’d have had. So many dreams! So many lies she’d thought she had had to continue to live with to survive. Paloma is hopeful that even Ric’s trauma can be overcome some day soon with Dios’s help. “--Ricardo cannot continue like this, Abuela!”
Back at the hospital Ric suddenly opens his eyes.
Over at the prison, in his drab brick cell, JL realizes his family photo has gone missing and starts yelling wildly for it. Another prisoner/guard?? has it and sets fire to it with a match, and then throws it back into JL’s cell. He whimpers as he watches the photo, just like his life has, go up in smoke.
Sometime later, a fully recovered Ric and the New-nes are alone for a second honeymoon (note the white linen shirts and skirt) on a beautiful coast somewhere. Blue skies, fluffy clouds, interesting black pelican flying? He loves her and will till the end of time. She, for her part, is reborn. Oriana is dead and Ines Valdivia is newly reborn. She has the whole world ahead of her. Such a huge lie as the one she had to hide by is far in the distant past. She no longer—they no longer—have to lie in order to live….. They kiss and cuddle.
FIN
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #100 Thu 2/27/14 Beber para Sobrevivir
Ric goes to the prison infirmary to visit a still living Marilu. She's still feeling suicidal, on account of him wanting to divorce her. The nurse adds something…a sedative, I hope…to Marilu's IV bag. Ric reminds her she did commit a crime, y'know…killing Fabi's baby and nearly killing Fabi. Marilu's sorry and all, but she still doesn't want Ric to "abandon" her. He says he won't just as she drifts off again.
A tech swabs Alina's cheek and tells Inés they'll have the results in a week. Alina checks in with Raquel in the lobby and brags about how it didn't hurt her one bit when Raquel complains. Lucina fends off Alina's questions about why--if this is just something to check that Alina and Raquel are healthy--Lucina and Inés aren't getting tested too, by inviting everyone for a burger and fries…yum! Lucina and Alina lead the way out of the lobby as Raquel now complains to Inés, of all people, about how bossy and nosy Lucina is and, ugh, how annoying.
Jackie has decided to stay in Hermosillo and maybe take over Mariano's clinic. Rosa has two other kids to take care of, though, so she has to go back. Tears all around as mom and daughter say goodbye.
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A tech swabs Alina's cheek and tells Inés they'll have the results in a week. Alina checks in with Raquel in the lobby and brags about how it didn't hurt her one bit when Raquel complains. Lucina fends off Alina's questions about why--if this is just something to check that Alina and Raquel are healthy--Lucina and Inés aren't getting tested too, by inviting everyone for a burger and fries…yum! Lucina and Alina lead the way out of the lobby as Raquel now complains to Inés, of all people, about how bossy and nosy Lucina is and, ugh, how annoying.
Jackie has decided to stay in Hermosillo and maybe take over Mariano's clinic. Rosa has two other kids to take care of, though, so she has to go back. Tears all around as mom and daughter say goodbye.
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Mentir Para Vivir #99 Wed 2/26/14 Maricucu throws a fit, Alina throws a berrinche, and Ori throws her life out the window.
Maddie reaches out to Cesar for help, pleads her case, suggests he
hit up Paloma for help, then puts down her cellmates (She’d better hope they
didn't hear her)
We relive Antonio's death. Poor chump.
Lo Nuevo
Ricky and Ori talk about how happy they are about the baby.
Ricky swears by Mariano's memory that he will show no preference for his
baby over what's her name? Oh yeah, Alina.
Deserted Cabin
JL goes through Antonio’s pockets, removes his wallet, and drags
him away.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #98 Tue 2/25/14 Breaking News! Ricky Turned Down SEX! Oh and Antonio Got Whacked.
Ricky and Mariano fist bump one last time. Sorry, bro...I'm gonna have to "leave ya hangin this time'", says Mariano as he slowly drops his hand. The
heart monitor blares alerting the staff that the priest has flat-lined. Ricky steps aside so the doctor can check Mariano’s
carotid artery. This makes sense because
the flat-line noise is not proof enough that the priest
has croaked. The doctor tells Ricky that
Mariano is a goner and makes no attempt to resuscitate him.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #97 Mon 2/24/14 A human life is a story told by God*
*I couldn’t think of a snarky title
for this recap, so I chose this quote by Danish author and poet, Hans Christian
Andersen. It seems appropriate, all things considered.
Oriana
is hiding the copy of the CD in the cover of her luggage. She looks worried,
but she has to dissimulate in front of Alina, who comes to talk about Tito needing
a bath.
Jl
takes a good look at his copy of the CD and then leaves the house. John is
following him and as soon as JL notices, he stops his car and goes to John’s to
threaten him with his gun: if he doesn’t stop the spying, he’s a dead man!
At
Aresti Bretton Piero and Mariano try to make Ric see reason (part 253). Piero
calls him a hysteric, doesn’t think that his relationship with Oriana will last
if all he does is try to control her every move. Ric thinks he was on the right,
because Oriana met with JL behind his back. When Piero tells him that Oriana
and JL share a past and a child and they can’t stay out of contact, Ric reminds
Piero of his failed marriage (which means that Piero is not the best when it
comes to relationships). Piero gets upset (rightfully, in my opinion) and
leaves.
Mariano
tries to calm Ric, too, but then they talk about his relationship with Jacqui
and how nothing physical really happened so far. Mariano explains that he spent
all his life refraining his sexual needs, so now it’s very hard to act on
them. Ric thinks that if he truly wants a family, Mariano needs to learn to
listen to his instincts;but if he only likes Jacqui in a platonic way, he should just
tell her the truth and not let her get her hopes up.
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #96 Fri 2/21/14 JL Offers Oriana Manna From Heaven
Lo Del Pasado:
Mariano and Jaquie decide to continue dating and see where it leads.
Lo Del Nuevo:
Oriana brings Alina over to Fort Falcon for the weekly visitation. Samuel's thug spies on JL and the family's arrival. Things are great till Jose Luis and Ori argue about his thinking Ricardo would show preference to his own children over Alina if Ori marries the guy. (At least Lina and he still are able to have a good time together without Oriana prejudicing the kid against him again.)
The Widow Barragán and the head of the Syndicate's Big Dude Council, Patrick, discuss how likely Jose Luis is to keep his word about handing over the CD and keeping mum now that she's offered to keep Joquin's promise to JL about giving him his freedom from the mob. Her only worry is that her sociopath-etic BIL, Samuel, will go off the reservation and that will lead to one of JL's trusted contacts handing over another copy of the thing to Homero de la Garza. Then they'll all be toast. Rosa, Joquin's widow, says the best thing to do is just forget all about Falcon, but Patrick says they can't because de la Garza is a bloodhound [pero de caza= literal, a hunting dog] who won't let go till he's got them all in irons.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #95 Wed 2/19/14
Covering for Paquita del Barrio. Enjoy!
Homero advises Orinez to keep the beefed up security. (Does this include beefy Mike?)
Mariano, Rosa and Jackie talk about Tio Sammy.
Mariloca gets sent to federal prison until the trial. She begs her aunt to help her even though she was an evil witch to her for months. Tia Fidelia cries as Pretty Ricky tries consoling her.
Alina runs inside yelling for her mother to come see what just came. It's roses from...none other then Pretty Ricky thanking her for the “gift” she has given him. Alina doesn't understand why she got flowers since it isn't even her birthday. So what does it say asks Nosy Lina. Orinez tells her nun-ya business and sends her off to wash her hands.
Pretty Ricky, Mariano and Pierro talk about Mariloca's situation. Mariano, the good man he is, tries to defend Mariloca but Pierro silences him with a “Then why the hell did she bring the gun for”? Pierro wants to know when Pretty Ricky is going to divorce the crazy one. Soon replies Pretty Ricky especially after Orinez gave me a wonderful “gift”. I'm going to be a dad! Pierro wants to know why Pretty Ricky ain't jumping up with joy for knocking up Orinez. He says he doesn't feel much like celebrating knowing Fabs is still in grave danger. Mariano gives Pretty Ricky a brotherly hug and congratulates him . Child are a gift from God. Don't let the sadness from the Fabs situation rain on your parade. Pierro gets in on the action and offers his congrats too. He wants to be the godfather but Mariano says so does he. They decide to share the responsibilities in raising Pretty Ricky's son. What if it's a girl asks Pretty Ricky but Pierro reminds him that he already has a girl. Cielo is called to bring champagne to celebrate and when he asks what's the party about, Pierro says Pretty Ricky is going to be a father. Who's the chick you knocked up asks Cielo. Of course it's Orinez replies Pierro. Cielo offers his congrats and Pretty Ricky asks that they tell no one especially Tia Fidelia.
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Mentir Para Vivir #94 Tue 2/18/14 My Boys Can Swim Baby! I'm Going to Be A Father!*
On Blueberry Hill, Ricky, Jose Luis and Mariano continue the
brainstorming summit on ways to prevent Rhodalina and Oriana from
getting whacked by Sammy the Bull. The
CD is the only thing keeping him alive right now and he will only give it to
someone he trust. Rick is eliminated
because he is Jose Luis’ mortal enemy and keeps boinking his wife, Mariano looks like and angel, but
he has a big mouth and might go to the feds. Mariano says that Homero is a good man; Jose
Luis scoffs and says that Homero is trickier than he is. Jose Luis believes that the only way to
protect them is to lock them in the house.
After Jose Luis departs, Ricky and Mariano discuss how they will
convince Oriana to stay in the house and not send Rhodalina to school. Mariano thinks that Jose Luis will give it to
Rosa. Ricky’s tired of dealing with
criminals, assassins and smugglers…and that’s just his own relatives. Now he has to deal with Jose Luis’ problems
too? Again, Mariano suggests that they
involve Homero.
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Monday, February 17, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #93 Mon 2/17/14 Bad news travels fast and it’s really bad
Ruben, Cesar, Seb and Leo
are at the hospital. The doctor tells them that Fabiola has lost the baby and she’s
in danger, too – she lost a lot of blood and needs a transfusion. Seb mentions
the HIV and the doctor says this adds to her problem, too. Also, the baby wouldn’t
have made it anyway, because Fabi suffered from placenta previae (according
to Wikipedia, this is “an obstetric complication in which the placenta is inserted partially or wholly in lower uterine
segment” (for whatever it’s worth and for those who understand medical stuff
better).
Raquel is explaining to Jacqui
about Oriana and Ric’s relationship (apparently skipping the whole fake identity thing, since she's calling her Ines); then Lucina gives them and Oriana the bad
news about the baby. Oriana thinks it was all her fault, but nobody agrees with
her. In her own, particular manner, Raquel makes a comparison between herself and
Marilu – she was at once interested in Ric, too, but that didn’t mean that she
decided to go around trying to kill people; Marilully is just crazy and if she
didn’t like suffering so much, Oriana would enjoy the fact that now she will be
able to marry Ric.
I think Raquel kind of has a
point here.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #92 Fri 2/14/14 Paloma's Birthday Bash Gets Crashed
capítulo 92
At Snoop Mansion, Homero listens to Jacqui's explanation and her desire to rectify her dead daddy's dastardly doings by using his vast wealth to do good deeds. Snoops realizes that Daughter of Ho King is not involved with the Mafiosi de Santo Domingo. She offers to get the inside skinny on the new realty development business that JL has invested her daddy's dinero in, if she can.
Later that day, Padre Huaraches 'n Socks has coffee with Piero. He tells Piero he's in love with Jaqui. Piero is all sour grapes-y and warns him about their going in cahoots with Snoops, cuz he only cares about the big collar and not about all the little people he uses and involves who might get hurt in the meantime.
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #91 Thu 2/13/14 Consultar para Confirmar
Homero discusses his intentions toward Jackie with Ric and Paloma. Paloma seems surprised, since Jackie is such a nice girl. Francisco's henchdude comes to pick up Lina's bicycle, but Ric refuses and Paloma backs him up. Paloma demands to know if Homero can't have him picked up already! But Homero's only mostly sure. What he is sure about is that we're nearly done with this schlock. And that Jackie doesn't know who he is, or that he was after her dad. "Or she's a good liar," Ric points out.
Mariano gives Jackie the tour of Hermosillo. She gets to see the Deer Dance in a plaza and then they go off to look at some pottery.
Mama Barragan shows up at Casa Bonito, where she's welcomed by Lucina. Lucina apologizes for not being able to give Mama B a room, cause they're all full up. After some confusion about Jackie's name, they establish that yes, she is staying there. Mama B looks anxious.
Mariano shows Jackie some Yaqui and Seri crafts in a little store. He talks about how long it takes to weave a basket that's nearly his size. Jackie asks about the Pitic festival. Mariano says that was the original name of the city and he'd really like her to stay and see it. He invites her to lookout point…makeout point?
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Mariano gives Jackie the tour of Hermosillo. She gets to see the Deer Dance in a plaza and then they go off to look at some pottery.
Mama Barragan shows up at Casa Bonito, where she's welcomed by Lucina. Lucina apologizes for not being able to give Mama B a room, cause they're all full up. After some confusion about Jackie's name, they establish that yes, she is staying there. Mama B looks anxious.
Mariano shows Jackie some Yaqui and Seri crafts in a little store. He talks about how long it takes to weave a basket that's nearly his size. Jackie asks about the Pitic festival. Mariano says that was the original name of the city and he'd really like her to stay and see it. He invites her to lookout point…makeout point?
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #90 Wed 2/12/14 Historias y Reflejos de una Novela que el Viento se Llevo
Precocious Alina shows Ricky her nifty new camera! Oopsie,
there’s a pic of Moms and Pops kissing! Ruh-roh! Ricky, true to
form, blows a gasket. To his credit, he waits until Alina is out of earshot.
Ines tells him not to let his imagination go wild. JL suddenly
turned to plant a hot one on her at the same moment Alina took the
picture. She couldn't very well reject him and put up a fight with Alina
there. Ricky wonders how far she'd be willing to go for her daughter and
she tells him as far as she has to. He's wrong if he thinks she's going
back to JL. Ricky starts to whine about having to go to Paloma's in the
hopes of running into her. Ines tells him she doesn't want her daughter growing
up bitter. She reminds him she was once very much in love with JL but
although Ricky may not believe her, he
is the love of her life. She walks away and he asks himself if he'll
continue to be her love tomorrow or the day after?
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir, #89, HIGHLIGHTS A photo is worth a thousand words
Yesterday I recapped by mistake Tuesday's episode (that's why you got that butchered version of Monday, but I hope I made it up to you all with that crazy hot video).
Cynderella already posted her snarktastic recap, so I won't go through all the details again; I just want to share some of the highlights, since this is an episode I quite enjoyed.
Cynderella already posted her snarktastic recap, so I won't go through all the details again; I just want to share some of the highlights, since this is an episode I quite enjoyed.
There is a new kid on the block
Ric and Mariano are in a bar, talking about the same old, same old. Ric is married, Ines is married and sick of men as of late; Ric is afraid Ines will accept the ex (who is actually still the current as far as I know) to make Alina happy; Mariano tries to cheer him up, but it’s obvious he’s just as annoyed as Viewerville is. Berenice shows up and Ric asks her if she ever talks to Alina about her father. Well, here is a bit of information worthy of a 1.01 Psychology class: when asked to draw pictures of her family, Alina either paints herself with Tito, mom and dad, or Tito, mom and Abuela Paloma – never Abuela and dad in the same drawing. How about that for some psycho-analysis?
Read more »Ric and Mariano are in a bar, talking about the same old, same old. Ric is married, Ines is married and sick of men as of late; Ric is afraid Ines will accept the ex (who is actually still the current as far as I know) to make Alina happy; Mariano tries to cheer him up, but it’s obvious he’s just as annoyed as Viewerville is. Berenice shows up and Ric asks her if she ever talks to Alina about her father. Well, here is a bit of information worthy of a 1.01 Psychology class: when asked to draw pictures of her family, Alina either paints herself with Tito, mom and dad, or Tito, mom and Abuela Paloma – never Abuela and dad in the same drawing. How about that for some psycho-analysis?
Jacqui just happens to be in the same place and she trips and falls in
front of the bar where the guys are chatting. They jump to her rescue and offer
to take her to a clinic that is not too far away.
From all the bars and all the streets in all of
Hermosillo she just happens to injure her ankle in front of the very people she
has to stay hidden from. Funny how that always happens in telenovelas. Labels: mentir
Mentir Para Vivir #89 Tue 2/11/14 Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold by a Little Girl Wearing Pony Tails
Diner: Mariano and Ricky are having high tea as they
briefly discuss the Breton marriage dissolution problem. Ricky is upset that Oriana hasn’t been paying
attention to him. Job’s counselor, aka
Mariano suggests that Oriana may not be into Ricky anymore. Maybe after being with you, she’s turned
lesbian. He also suggests that Oriana
may not want to wait ten months or longer for Ricky’s divorce to be final. They are interrupted by Bereniece. Ricky asks Bereniece if she has spoken with
Rhodalina about visiting her father. Yes,
she did. She’s shares that Rhodalina has
been drawing pictures of a her father, mother, Tito and herself lately. BUT, if she draws a picture with Paloma in it,
the father is not included. Ricky asks
what that mean. Bereniece doesn’t know,
but she is going to discuss it with the shrink.
After the nurse leaves, Mariano is left alone to talk Ricky down from
the roof. They are interrupted by the
sight of Joaquina and her clown car hair falling on the sidewalk outside of the
restaurant. They rush out to assist her
up and escort her to Mariano’s free clinic so that he can examine her
ankle.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #88 Mon 2/10/14 Marilooney gives it her all and ... fails
It has come to my attention that I recapped the wrong episode last night. Because I didn't watch Friday's show and have no clue about what is happening in this tn anymore, I didn't even realize I had skipped one episode. The Friday episode is numbered 88, so that's why I made the confusion.
Here is a brief recap of what has happeend (many thanks to Vivi, who added her piece of work, too)
And, in the meantime, enjoy this video some more. Seriously, EVERYONE stop what you're doing and WATCH THIS! (Televisa galans wish you a Happy Valentine's Day). This is what wet dreams are made of.
Ha, I guess I can write a long Preview for tonight's episode, but I've spoiled you enough already!
Again, I'm very sorry for the mix-up.
Here is a brief recap of what has happeend (many thanks to Vivi, who added her piece of work, too)
- Ric and Oriana break up again, because she is not willing to wait on his divorce - regardless of that, she will still be married
- Joaquin's daughter, Jacqui, finds out about her father's affairs from her mom, Rosa; she is shocked and upset, she wants to go to Mexico to set things straight, see what really happened; her mother warns her to be careful with Uncle Sam
- Rosa agrees to free JL from his position, especially since he still has the CD; Sam doesn't agree with this, he wants to kill 'hem all
- Maddy offends Cesar one more time, when he refuses to work for the real estate company; later with Ric and Piero, Cesar expresses his worry about his parents being involved in said business
- Homero is wondering what will Joaquin's widow and his eldest daughter will do now that he's dead; will they continue the family business? also, he's thinking about asking Ruben to snoop for him
- Ruben thinks Cesar should find out if Raquel's child is his and Cesar agrees
- Marilu sneaks into Rick's room while he's sleeping and dreaming about getting it on with Ori. She gets a few sleepy kisses out of him, until he wakes up, kicks her out, and runs to the shower to wash her cooties off. While he does that, she rips apart his desk and bookshelves and finds Ricky's gun. She fondled it, looking crazy, and takes it with her. (Vivi)
- Sam asks the bodyguard to kill JL; the bodyguard tells everything to JL and asks for his protection, but JL couldn't care less - he fires the guy
- Tony and some guy, Feliciano, talk about the way the real estate business will work: fake invoices, poor quality materials
- Maddy doesn't want to hire Seb, she screams at Tony, putting him in his place
- Fabi isn't feeling too great; Seb apologizes once again and asks her to marry him; she says no
- Oriana and JL meet; she tells him he can see Alina twice a day, but first they have to convince the girl that he's not evil (Good luck with that!)
And, in the meantime, enjoy this video some more. Seriously, EVERYONE stop what you're doing and WATCH THIS! (Televisa galans wish you a Happy Valentine's Day). This is what wet dreams are made of.
Ha, I guess I can write a long Preview for tonight's episode, but I've spoiled you enough already!
Again, I'm very sorry for the mix-up.
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Saturday, February 08, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #87 Fri 2/7/14 Everybody’s Back To Square One Or, Redux Sucks...Er Almost!
Lo Del Pasado:
Samuel and Wife of Joquin, aka Sra. Barragan, sit through the reading of the will. All associates/employees of The Firm, including Jose Luis, and the widowed Missus, aka the Widda Barragan, drink a toast to the Ho King's memory (and an eternity in Hell beating bongos.) Foxy Francisco, aka JL, knowing that Ho King's daughter is now running the bidnez, explains the “agreement” he had with her daddy and fears Uncle Sam won't honor it, but then realizes she's ignorant of her dead daddy's dealings and makes a breakfast date for the morning to discuss it further. Meanwhile Sammy tells The Missus not to trust Foxy Franky around her daughter.
Lo Del Nuevo:
2nes asks Paloma to nix the extra security for Alina. Dr. Varonese calls to let her know that JL won back his visitation rights. He suggests allowing Berenice to have chat sessions with Lina to help her over her trauma re: her daddy. She says she'll tell JL.
In Santo Domingo, JL expresses his sincerest sympathies to The Widda, introduces himself to her, and, in between rude outbursts from Big Mouth Sammy, asks if she or her daughter will be running the bidnez from now on. Sammy tries an unsuccessful blocking maneuver by telling The Widda that JL's a useless meddler who's lost money on the last two ventures he's been in charge of. JL calls him on it. “--If that were the case why did you authorize me to go ahead with the real estate venture? You even sent the funds to me personally.” “--Because Joaquin told me to.” JL looks over to The Missus. “--No, he didn't want any part of it.” Sammy accuses him of lying. (Viewerville gets the sense that she doesn't care for Sammy anymore than her hubby did.) Sammy accuses JL of lying. The Missus sizes up JL like, hey, if Sammy doesn't like this Jose Luis guy, he should be pretty ok in my book. She tells them this isn't the place or the time to discuss it. JL excuses himself and walks away. Sammy keeps giving Foxy the evil eye.
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Friday, February 07, 2014
Weekend Discussion: Mentir Para Vivir Karmageddon Awaits!
Not
all of these are left, but the bad guys we have certainly have it
coming. While lying is normally included on the list of crimes
against Divine Law, it will not be mentioned here because everyone is
guilty of that.
Muchas
gracias to Adriana Noel and 5Ft Latina for filling in what I didn't
catch. Now, what do you think should happen to these evil-doers and what do you think the writers will do?
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Mentir Para Vivir #86 Thu 2/6/14 Reunir para Despedir
After all the over-testosteroned male posturing in the waiting room, Manolo pulls rank as the displaced cop from another town who doesn't even belong there, and says HE'LL be the one to tell Inés the news that she's being released. I'm betting he's not going to try to use it to get some nookie, either.
Inés is happy but worrying about what's going on with Lina.
Doc Veronese checks Lina out, not even in an exam room, but in the waiting room of Hermosillo's Only Clinic. She's fine, she just needs a sandwich and to go home to Paloma's.
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Inés is happy but worrying about what's going on with Lina.
Doc Veronese checks Lina out, not even in an exam room, but in the waiting room of Hermosillo's Only Clinic. She's fine, she just needs a sandwich and to go home to Paloma's.
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Thursday, February 06, 2014
Mentir Para Vivir #85 Wed 2/5/14 Little Orphan Alina
Spy vs Juez
Homero pays a surprise after-hours visit to the judge. “QTH? Whatta ya want,” cries the judge. Homero demands justice. He feels that if he hadn’t interfered, Alina
would be home w/Ricky and Ines would be with Paloma. But noooooo, judge had to have his little,
miserable revenge (desquite). “You ain’t all that,” replies the judge. Homero advises him he’s got a good sized file
of his errors: petty vengeance, bribes,
unlawful judgements. He demands that
Alina be returned to Ricky and Ines out of that jail ASAP. Judge thinks he can do something about
Alina’s plight (thank goodness), but Ines? No! He has a witness that says Ines
kidnapped that child. Furthermore, Ricky
is purportedly behind a grand scheme that puts Ines and Alina at the tia’s
beach house, supposedly on vacation.
Judge refuses to give up his source.
Homer accuses him of being more stubborn than a mule. Furthermore, he’s a bad person. (now that
hurt!)
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