Monday, February 24, 2014
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: SANTA DIABLA -- ¡Gran Final!
Gran Final
Sue in TN - you get the prize for having your prediction of the ending be the closest to what actually happened. Let's see how you did:
SUE- Humberto comes downstairs to find Santa is gone. He drops off willy with Willy at the hospital and then somehow figures out where Santiago is and heads to the warehouse.
ACTUAL - very close. Bert comes downstairs, finds Santa gone and takes willy to Begoña's house. Willy is at the hospital with Barb and Begoña is tied up in the warehouse with Santi but Paula is there.
At the warehouse, Santi is in a tux with his hair slicked back. He has made Santa put on a wedding dress and tells her to stop telling him that he is sick. Santa finds Begoña's phone and manages to mute the sound and call Bert with the phone behind her back. She gives Bert some clues about where she is but when she keeps asking Santi how he found this place, even he gets suspicious and finds the phone.
SUE - Pancho also heads to the warehouse.
ACTUAL - Bert heads off to the warehouse and Paula calls Pancho and gives him the information.
SUE - As Father Milton is about to pronounce Santiago and Santa husband and wife, Bert arrives. He and Santi have a life or death struggle. Bert loses. Bert lies Pietà-like in Santa's arms. She forgives him all his sins. He dies, redeemed at the end.
ACTUAL - Very close, again. Bert comes in just as Father Milton has said, “you may kiss the bride.” Santa uses her Diabla skills to elbow Santi in the neck and run towards Bert. In excruciatingly slow motion, Santi raises his gun, Bert pushes Santa away and takes the bullet. Bert just dies on the floor, doesn’t say much and Santa just calls for an ambulance. Very undramatic. Maybe they didn’t think Gaby Espino could handle a scene like you describe.
SUE - Meanwhile, Pancho - who has lost the most as the result of Santiago and who is the real hero of our story - ends up killing him. Then, he disarms the bomb by cutting the right wire.
ACTUAL - This was wrong. Nobody kills Santi, he is arrested and the whole bomb part of the story is ignored. Lucky that Santi didn't keep his finger on the detonator. Zero drama there.
SUE - Willy arrives. Comforts Santa. She goes back home with him and Begoña to pick up the pieces of her life shattered by the Canos. Pancho is done with police work and decides to leave Marrero
ACTUAL - The last part is right. It’s “meses despues,” “months later,” Pancho tells Lucy that he is leaving the police force and Marrero. He tells her that he doesn’t like women and thanks to Ulíses, whose grave they are at, he now understands his true self. Lucy is pretty calm about losing her chance at marriage. They say that they will always care about each other.
SUE - Other characters
Lucy joins Tránsito in the restaurant business
ACTUAL - Novela Maven was closer on this one. We see Tránsito singing her version of the Santa song in the restaurant (with improved decoration). I don’t know if the video has gone viral but maybe. Pancho asks her if she has seen Patricio. “No,” replies Tránsito, “it’s as if the earth (or her customers) have swallowed him up.” Lucy does not seem to be involved.
SUE - Ivan gives Victoria the Christmas she never will see. She dies in his arms
ACTUAL - 100% correct although that was pretty easy to predict.
SUE - Elisa decides to use the plane ticket and leaves for Canada, since there’s nothing there in Marrero for her anymore
ACTUAL - Elisa didn’t make the gran final.
SUE - Paula and René leave for Guatemala and a new life with René’s family
ACTUAL - Much weirder. In the “meses despues” we see Paula with a baby, presumably her baby. Willy is there but no René. Santa is pregnant. She is sad that Bert never knew that he had fathered yet another child but she is happy in her flat affect way.
SUE - Father Milton reschedules the baptisms and weddings he missed due to having a bomb strapped to his chest.
ACTUAL - I'm sure he did but we don't see that.
SUE - Francisca cannot accept that Barb is disfigured. Newly sainted Lisette says she can live in her home. There's plenty of space. Daniela decides to keep her baby because, in her mind, she doesn't want to reject her child as Francisca did hers.
ACTUAL - Not quite. Barb’s face is so damaged that even Alicia’s surgeon can’t repair it. She and Fran are living in the Cano house. Fran is annoyed at having to wait on Barb who has wrapped herself up in black, stays in the dark and keeps saying over and over, “Fui bella,” “I was beautiful.” This is driving Fran nuts. Those two deserve each other.
Daniela gives up her baby for adoption to a couple we’ve never seen before. [Too bad Arturo and Mara]. Padre Milton looks on approvingly. Daniela gives a little speech saying that when she saw her baby, she loved her but she knows that she is not ready to be a mother, etc. etc.
SUE - And speaking of Fran, she's all alone - her family either dead or gone. But at least she has that big home to keep her warm.
ACTUAL - see above.
Other stuff not in Sue’s prediction.
Ivan writes another book called, “Immortal,” about his love for Victoria and that also will warn women to get mammograms to get early warning of breast cancer.
Willy goes to see Alicia. He says that it is too bad she let her desire for vengeance be stronger than their love. They could have been happy together. Alicia asks if he will wait for her. Willy seems to indicate that he will but that seems unlikely.
Santi is locked in an asylum. He says “Santa” over and over. A nurse brings him food but he doesn’t want to eat - actually he can’t feed himself since he is in a straight jacket. The nurses carelessly leave the door of his room open ...
Santa and family have ordered pizza at Begoña’s house. The doorbell rings. Santa goes to get it. For some reason, the pizza guy is standing about 10 feet from the door. How did he ring the bell? Santa has to go down the walk to pay the guy. She looks up and there is Santi standing by a tree across the street. A car goes by. She looks again and Santi is gone. Begoña comes out and asks what is wrong. “Hug me, mother,” she says, “Todo esto debió ser un mal sueño, nada más” “All this had to be a bad dream, nothing more.”
“All this” what? The pizza guy? With this sort of enigmatic ending, we get the Fin and it’s over. I give this gran final about a C- . It had less drama than one of Carlos Ponce’s State Farm commercials. Aaron Diaz managed to make what my sister calls, “fierce face” but Carlos Ponce looked like he was just phoning it in. On to the next novela. I’m going to watch (and probably recap) En Otra Piel. Thanks for all the great recaps and comments. It was fun.
Sue in TN - you get the prize for having your prediction of the ending be the closest to what actually happened. Let's see how you did:
SUE- Humberto comes downstairs to find Santa is gone. He drops off willy with Willy at the hospital and then somehow figures out where Santiago is and heads to the warehouse.
ACTUAL - very close. Bert comes downstairs, finds Santa gone and takes willy to Begoña's house. Willy is at the hospital with Barb and Begoña is tied up in the warehouse with Santi but Paula is there.
At the warehouse, Santi is in a tux with his hair slicked back. He has made Santa put on a wedding dress and tells her to stop telling him that he is sick. Santa finds Begoña's phone and manages to mute the sound and call Bert with the phone behind her back. She gives Bert some clues about where she is but when she keeps asking Santi how he found this place, even he gets suspicious and finds the phone.
SUE - Pancho also heads to the warehouse.
ACTUAL - Bert heads off to the warehouse and Paula calls Pancho and gives him the information.
SUE - As Father Milton is about to pronounce Santiago and Santa husband and wife, Bert arrives. He and Santi have a life or death struggle. Bert loses. Bert lies Pietà-like in Santa's arms. She forgives him all his sins. He dies, redeemed at the end.
ACTUAL - Very close, again. Bert comes in just as Father Milton has said, “you may kiss the bride.” Santa uses her Diabla skills to elbow Santi in the neck and run towards Bert. In excruciatingly slow motion, Santi raises his gun, Bert pushes Santa away and takes the bullet. Bert just dies on the floor, doesn’t say much and Santa just calls for an ambulance. Very undramatic. Maybe they didn’t think Gaby Espino could handle a scene like you describe.
SUE - Meanwhile, Pancho - who has lost the most as the result of Santiago and who is the real hero of our story - ends up killing him. Then, he disarms the bomb by cutting the right wire.
ACTUAL - This was wrong. Nobody kills Santi, he is arrested and the whole bomb part of the story is ignored. Lucky that Santi didn't keep his finger on the detonator. Zero drama there.
SUE - Willy arrives. Comforts Santa. She goes back home with him and Begoña to pick up the pieces of her life shattered by the Canos. Pancho is done with police work and decides to leave Marrero
ACTUAL - The last part is right. It’s “meses despues,” “months later,” Pancho tells Lucy that he is leaving the police force and Marrero. He tells her that he doesn’t like women and thanks to Ulíses, whose grave they are at, he now understands his true self. Lucy is pretty calm about losing her chance at marriage. They say that they will always care about each other.
SUE - Other characters
Lucy joins Tránsito in the restaurant business
ACTUAL - Novela Maven was closer on this one. We see Tránsito singing her version of the Santa song in the restaurant (with improved decoration). I don’t know if the video has gone viral but maybe. Pancho asks her if she has seen Patricio. “No,” replies Tránsito, “it’s as if the earth (or her customers) have swallowed him up.” Lucy does not seem to be involved.
SUE - Ivan gives Victoria the Christmas she never will see. She dies in his arms
ACTUAL - 100% correct although that was pretty easy to predict.
SUE - Elisa decides to use the plane ticket and leaves for Canada, since there’s nothing there in Marrero for her anymore
ACTUAL - Elisa didn’t make the gran final.
SUE - Paula and René leave for Guatemala and a new life with René’s family
ACTUAL - Much weirder. In the “meses despues” we see Paula with a baby, presumably her baby. Willy is there but no René. Santa is pregnant. She is sad that Bert never knew that he had fathered yet another child but she is happy in her flat affect way.
SUE - Father Milton reschedules the baptisms and weddings he missed due to having a bomb strapped to his chest.
ACTUAL - I'm sure he did but we don't see that.
SUE - Francisca cannot accept that Barb is disfigured. Newly sainted Lisette says she can live in her home. There's plenty of space. Daniela decides to keep her baby because, in her mind, she doesn't want to reject her child as Francisca did hers.
ACTUAL - Not quite. Barb’s face is so damaged that even Alicia’s surgeon can’t repair it. She and Fran are living in the Cano house. Fran is annoyed at having to wait on Barb who has wrapped herself up in black, stays in the dark and keeps saying over and over, “Fui bella,” “I was beautiful.” This is driving Fran nuts. Those two deserve each other.
Daniela gives up her baby for adoption to a couple we’ve never seen before. [Too bad Arturo and Mara]. Padre Milton looks on approvingly. Daniela gives a little speech saying that when she saw her baby, she loved her but she knows that she is not ready to be a mother, etc. etc.
SUE - And speaking of Fran, she's all alone - her family either dead or gone. But at least she has that big home to keep her warm.
ACTUAL - see above.
Other stuff not in Sue’s prediction.
Ivan writes another book called, “Immortal,” about his love for Victoria and that also will warn women to get mammograms to get early warning of breast cancer.
Willy goes to see Alicia. He says that it is too bad she let her desire for vengeance be stronger than their love. They could have been happy together. Alicia asks if he will wait for her. Willy seems to indicate that he will but that seems unlikely.
Santi is locked in an asylum. He says “Santa” over and over. A nurse brings him food but he doesn’t want to eat - actually he can’t feed himself since he is in a straight jacket. The nurses carelessly leave the door of his room open ...
Santa and family have ordered pizza at Begoña’s house. The doorbell rings. Santa goes to get it. For some reason, the pizza guy is standing about 10 feet from the door. How did he ring the bell? Santa has to go down the walk to pay the guy. She looks up and there is Santi standing by a tree across the street. A car goes by. She looks again and Santi is gone. Begoña comes out and asks what is wrong. “Hug me, mother,” she says, “Todo esto debió ser un mal sueño, nada más” “All this had to be a bad dream, nothing more.”
“All this” what? The pizza guy? With this sort of enigmatic ending, we get the Fin and it’s over. I give this gran final about a C- . It had less drama than one of Carlos Ponce’s State Farm commercials. Aaron Diaz managed to make what my sister calls, “fierce face” but Carlos Ponce looked like he was just phoning it in. On to the next novela. I’m going to watch (and probably recap) En Otra Piel. Thanks for all the great recaps and comments. It was fun.
Monday, February 17, 2014
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: SANTA DIABLA -- week of February 17, 2014
¡Últimos cápitulos y últimas locuras!
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Monday, February 10, 2014
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: SANTA DIABLA -- Week of February 10, 2014
We're into últimas locuras here on SD. The bad guys are getting good, the good guys are bad and those caught between them are ending up mostly dead. Who knows what will happen this week but this is where we hash it all out.
Monday, February 03, 2014
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: SANTA DIABLA -- Week of February 3, 2014
Here's a new page to chronicle the craziness that is Marrero as Santa Diabla careens toward…well who knows where it's going. But you can be sure we'll be around to find out if there is ANYONE left to root for at the end of the day.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Monday, January 27, 2014
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS -- SANTA DIABLA, week of January 27, 2014
I'm back! Thanks so much to Novela Maven for posting and doing the Monday recaps while I was away. I've been reading the recaps and those crazy kids in Marrero are going wild. I can't imagine what will happen this week.
Monday, January 20, 2014
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS -- SANTA DIABLA, week of January 20, 2014
We're moving toward the finish line on this one. Things should get even crazier than they have been. Wait -- is that possible?
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Monday, January 13, 2014
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Santa Diabla -- Week of January 13, 2014
Here's your page, folks. Enjoy!
Remember that Jean will be away for the next two weeks, so Monday's recap spot is open. If no one else comes forward, I will try to put up a quick and dirty summary of tonight's show.
Monday, January 06, 2014
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Santa Diabla -- Week of January 6, 2014
Here's your page, folks. Enjoy!
Remember that Jean will be away for the next three weeks, so Monday's recap spot is open. Anyone interested?
Monday, December 30, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Santa Diabla -- Week of December 30, 2013
Happy New Year to all Santa Diabla fans. Here is your post.
No programs on Tuesday and Wednesday.
No programs on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Monday, December 23, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Santa Diabla -- Week of December 23, 2013
HO HO HO! Don't look
now but Santa's packing heat! Better
just leave the milk and cookies by the chimney and run!
¡Felices Fiestas!
Monday, December 16, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Santa Diabla -- Week of December 15, 2013
Lots of Diablas - very few Santas and one Santi. Enjoy!!
Monday, December 09, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Santa Diabla -- Week of December 9, 2013
What surprises will our novela spring on us this week? Who will dare to be tough-girl Alicia's Pygmalion? Will she learn to wipe her fingers and mouth with a napkin when she eats pizza? Will Mara be released from jail, still innocent of the martial arts, on the basis of Hortensia's dying declaration? Will Santi remember who Inés is not? Will anyone find bayou woman's body? When Santa gets out of jail, will she still be the Diabla? What is wrong with Victoria? (physically, wise guys, physically.) Will Pancho catch Sebastián/Franco Narco guy? Will he come to terms with his sexual orientation? (Or do we still have doubts about this?) Will it be Transito or Victoria who finally dispatches Patricia to the great beyond? And Berto and Willy and willy and the baby and Begoña and Paula and Lucy and Daniela and Ivan and George and Lázaro and Elisa and Lisette and Arturo and their baby and Barbara and Francisca -- what will become of them?
I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Monday, December 02, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: SANTA DIABLA, week of December 2
This the spot for comments on Santa Diabla!!
Monday, November 25, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: SANTA DIABLA, week of November 25, 2013
Here is the Thanksgiving week page for comments and mini-recaps of your favorite show, Santa Diabla.
What a wild episode we had last Friday! I wonder what's going to happen next in not so sleepy little Marrero…
Remember: Marido en alquiler has its own page. The Telemundo Front Page is the place to post your comments on La reina del sur or any other non-Univisión novelas.
Have a wonderful holiday!
What a wild episode we had last Friday! I wonder what's going to happen next in not so sleepy little Marrero…
Remember: Marido en alquiler has its own page. The Telemundo Front Page is the place to post your comments on La reina del sur or any other non-Univisión novelas.
Have a wonderful holiday!
Monday, November 18, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: SANTA DIABLA, week of November 18, 2013
This is the place for comments on Santa Diabla where there's a LOT going on. Who killed Vicente, a nueva etapa, the return of Willy... Whew! Have fun.
Monday, November 11, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: SANTA DIABLA, week of November 11, 2013
Jean and I decided to try something a little different this week. Since there is already a lot of interest in the continuing novelas, Marido en Alquiler and Santa Diabla, and the rebroadcast of La Reina del Sur is likely to stir up a flurry of its own, we have decided to post THREE SEPARATE PAGES:
This week, all your mini-recaps and comments on Santa can be posted here on this page.
For discussions about Marido, however, please go to its page here.
For discussions about La Reina del Sur, Elisa, etc, go to The Front Page here.
Monday, November 04, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MAS - week of November 4
¡Hola a todos! We crested 200 comments for the first time in a long time. We have great comments and commenters. Here's another post for this week.
Labels: elisa, marido, santa, telemundo
Monday, October 28, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Week of October 28, 2013
Good morning folks! I know you have told us before, but things tend to get lost in these looooooong threads -- so humor me, okay?
Who is recapping what? On what days?
I will bring the information up here so we are all up to speed. Thanks all! And have a great spooky week!
Okay, here we go:
MARIDO EN ALQUILER
Monday -- Novelera
Tuesday -- Adriana
Wednesday -- Anita: Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Dec. 11 and possibly Dec. 18. Vivi is willing to help out when she can with Wednesdays not spoken for.
Thursday -- Kelly
Friday -- Sue
On any given day -- UtahDesert will provide detailed versions of the Gris-Reinaldo stuff... Lord willin' and the crick don't rise.
SANTA DIABLA
Monday -- Jean
Tuesday -- Hombre
Wednesday -- Hombre
Thursday -- Deb*
Friday -- Mena
*Deb is willing to give up Thursday if there is another volunteer.
Anything else?
Who is recapping what? On what days?
I will bring the information up here so we are all up to speed. Thanks all! And have a great spooky week!
Okay, here we go:
MARIDO EN ALQUILER
Monday -- Novelera
Tuesday -- Adriana
Wednesday -- Anita: Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Dec. 11 and possibly Dec. 18. Vivi is willing to help out when she can with Wednesdays not spoken for.
Thursday -- Kelly
Friday -- Sue
On any given day -- UtahDesert will provide detailed versions of the Gris-Reinaldo stuff... Lord willin' and the crick don't rise.
SANTA DIABLA
Monday -- Jean
Tuesday -- Hombre
Wednesday -- Hombre
Thursday -- Deb*
Friday -- Mena
*Deb is willing to give up Thursday if there is another volunteer.
Anything else?
Labels: marido, santa, telemundo
Monday, October 21, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MAS - week of October 21
The Telemundo schedule seems to be patas arriba but that won't stop us from commenting! Go for it!
Labels: marido, santa, telemundo
Monday, October 14, 2013
TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Week of October 14, 2013
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