Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Llena de Amor #65 Wed 11/10/10 Everything's Coming Up Roses....Not!
Okay. Seriously. Does Televisa sacrifice thousands of roses every time they do a love scene? Or do they just have a warehouse of fake rose petals somewhere? I hope it's the latter since every big romance has bedrooms (and tonight a restaurant) strewn with petals. The candle franchise is something else again.
But enough with the romance and roses. That's later. We start tonight's episode with one of those unfortunate scenes where someone gets the wrong idea, there's some useless babbling, and nobody listens to anybody. Emiliano interrupts the rehearsal with Netty and her nerdy lawyer. Thinks he's been duped. Doesn't listen to her attempts to explain. Tells her she's horrible and what's more, she ruined Gretel's life as well by supporting her romance with Oliver. Now Oliver's destroyed Gretel's life and Netty has ruined his. Stay away from me and our family forever! And exit Emiliano. Nice work.
Now another lovely scene. Lorenzo slinks back to his cell after learning of his baby son's alleged death, much to Orange Boy's amusement. However, Low looks so devastated, Orangey actually becomes concerned. From one cell to another, now we see Oliver. Trying to explain his actions to his boss. "I did it for love". Fine but you were "quebrando la ley" (breaking the law). We have to find Gretel so she can testify in your behalf that she wasn't kidnapped but went willingly. Oscar starts to dash off, intending to head out to Misery Manor and confront Fedra. But he's not going anywhere. Nopis. The Comisario slams the door shut and Oliver is locked in. Probably a good thing. That shoulder needs to heal.
Gretel, watched over anxiously by Nice Nurse, is still out and still strapped down on a stretcher. She comes to after Nice Nurse leaves though and quite lucidly realizes she's in an insane asylum. Get me out of here! she shrieks.
Our main shrieker, Netty, is beside herself. Lawyer Eugenio wants to fix it. He's her legal representative, and by golly he's going to make Emiliano learn the truth. Off they go to the big house.
Doris is already there, hanging out with Delicia and Paula and worrying about Mari's dondeabouts. Sassy little Delicia is hoping that she IS with Eman and that they're having a wonderful time!
And indeed they are. Our busy little Emanuel has reserved an entire restaurant just for him, Mari, some waiters and Luis Fonsi who's going to serenade them and wish them an eternal love. I'd be a bit more impressed if Fonsi hadn't just divorced his lovely wife of three years. Kind of ruins the sentiment of the song. But whatever. Serenade he does. Eman and Mari exchange some more soft-lipped kisses (Crankypants though I am, can't complain about the besos. Valentino Lanus is doing a great job.) and gooey schmarmy goshdarnit I'm in luv looks. Feeling slightly giddy and nauseated, we break for ads.
When we come back, we're at Misery Manor. Creepy theme music plays in the background. Creepy groveling by Emiliano in the foreground. It's all his fault but we can't leavel Gretel in that place. Oh yes we can, snaps Fedra. And mum's the word. Ditto for Kristel. Must keep up appearances, y'know. What are we going to say, that they're "on a trip" scoffs Emiliano. Not a bad idea. We'll say Switzerland. That's where all the "nenas popis" (posh young girls) go.
Brandon arrives. Ilitia close behind. Brandon wants to take Fedra and Bernardo down to the station to "assist the police in their inquiries" as the Brits say. Ilitia wants Emiliano to get her dad out of jail and lays her sweet head on his manly chest as she asks. Mientras tanto, Eman and Mari have arrived home. He's still keen on running away but she wants to face the music. We're strong and we love each other, she argues. So we can stand up to them.
Aaaaaaand...it hits the fan. Fedra, Axel and Ilitia are absolutely scandalized, horrified and sick sick sick that Eman spent the night with his fat cousin. Emanuel replies calmly that not only did they spend the night together, they're spending the rest of their lives together because......drum roll.....WE'RE MADLY IN LOVE.
Netty is having a hot flash. Fanning furiously. Fedra is fuming. It's all just too too much. We break for more ads.
We come back to a slew of insults. Ilitia calls Mari a fat fiancé stealer. Fedra dismisses her as a "conjunto de lipidos" (collection of fat). But that's not the worst of it. No, what worries Fedra is that Mari's going to end up with all their money if she marries Emanuel. And Axel is outraged that the fattie is destroying the family.
There's a break where Brandon pulls Ilitia out of the room, reminding her that she cheated on Emanuel with him, just as Emanuel cheated on her with Mari. So where does she get off causing a scene? He's sworn to secrecy. And goes along with it.
Back to the main fight. Eman wants to know why the family is destroyed. You'd know if you'd been around, rather that rolling in a bed with that slab of meat, sneers Fedra.
More drama. Ilitia is wailing that it's all "too much"remembering to say that in his posh little English. Her dad's in prison...her best friend's in the hospital.....
Fedra shuts her up. Agrees to go with Brandon to the station because she's going to see that Oliver is shut up in prison for the rest of his life. Slurping up a big swallow of booze through a straw, she prepares to leave.....
But not before Emanuel puts in the last dagger thrust. We're in love, he shouts, holding on to Marianela. Yes, LOVE! I want to marry her!
Okay. Time for that little Father-Son talk. Emiliano draws him aside and explains that since they're "primos hermanos" and the same blood flows in their veins, marriage is out of the question. Eman reminds him that it's the 21st century and there are tests for inherited diseases. They can reduce the risk of harm to their children. And if he has to give up the Ruiz y de Teresa name to marry his cousin...well, then he will!
In another room, we're having a little Aunt-Niece talk. Netty can't support this union. For one thing, Eman is the Son of the Serpent. And Fedra will kill you. Doris chimes in at this point and says Your love is condemned like that of Gretel and Oliver. You don't know what happened yet but....Ugh. While we ponder that painful memory, we trudge through another bunch of ads.
The talk continues. Listen, if you weren't first cousins, I'd be fine with your marrying Marinela, concludes Dad. Don't care, don't care. I'm staying with her, sez Son. Today is the worst day of my life, wheezes Emiliano. And Ilitia peers in the door. Wow, Emanuel is in for another verbal beating.
But we don't get to hear it yet. First we have the Netty misunderstanding to sort out. She's crying on her lawyer's shoulder when Emiliano arrives again, ready to throw her lying behindrear out the door. Not until the lawyer explains! Which he does. And Emiliano listens. And asks forgiveness. And doesn't get it. Nopis. You didn't believe in me, whimpers Netty. You said things that hurt me deeply. You didn't believe that Gretel and Oliver were deeply in love. So forget me forever! And she flounces out.
Doris is still trying to talk reason to Marianela. Oliver is in jail. Who knows where Gretel is. But if that's what Fedra did to them, imagine what she'll do to you!
And Ilitia is trying to talk reason to Eman....her Reason anyway. I mean how could he sleep with that fattie!? How could he throw her over for that gross piece of meat!?(lonjas y carne) Surely you couldn't have seen her nude and not have been completely disgusted! Emanuel wants to remain friends. No way. Hopefully you'll die, crushed by that tub of fat, she concludes.
Having communicated clearly in that room, Ilitia heads for an additional showdown with Mari. Doesn't go quite as well. She calls Mari a "zorra" (bitch) Delicia opines that maybe Eman was tired of an airhead model and that's why he fell in love with Mari. Delicia is then dissed as an "igualada" (uppity servant-class bitch). Warming to her discourse, Ilitia suggests that Manny just slept with Mari out of pity. So noble he had to do you a favor. AND THAT'S IT. RESOUNDING SLAP. Mari's going for Slap II but Doris breaks it up. And we break for ads.
Poor Low is resting his head against his cell walls, thinking back to the day he bought balloons for his baby boy and dreamed of the happy day he and Muñeca would adopt him. Or the happy day he'd have some henchmen murder his young mistress. Take your pick. Whadda guy.
Of course, wee babe has landed safely at the orphanage where Muñeca's noble maid and chauffeur have been helping out. When they see the medal of the Virgen de Guadalupe around the little guy's neck, they know the Holy Mother has saved him.
Back to the girls. Delicia's applauding the slap and mocking Ilitia's way of saying "Bye". Dead on. Mari's happily gushing about making love to Emanuel and regretting nothing. Doris isn't quite sure if it's love or lust. Mari's so upset she gets nauseous again. Is it the poison or pregnancy? Poison I guess. Speaking of....Axel arrives. Nope, he's not here to harangue her about the night out. He just wants to know why she's telling everyone he's gay. When in fact he's very manly. And ready to show any of you! And not only that, he's going to try and do everything he can to get rid of Mari. The fight is on.
Ditto for the General who's ordering Benigno to bring down the truant Marianela immediately. He's going to give her what for. But not until Paula sets him straight. Marianela and Emanuel love each other. And he's willing to defend his love. Unlike you, years ago, General! If you try and split them up, you'll be my Enemy. And I won't cook for my Enemy or cuddle him either. Okay. Serious threats here.
Serious promises elsewhere. The fatal kind you know. Always leads to Drama. Emanuel is vowing that Nothing Will Separate Us. I Love You. Anyone hear dun de dun dun's? Mari does. That's lovely but Fedra won't rest until she separates us, she replies. Hush darling, whispers Emanuel and covers her lips with his soft silky kisses. And on that tender note, we end.
Previews:
Emanuel vows to "luchar" for their love.
The General tells Emiliano he suspects that Emanuel is NOT his son.
Marianela is exultant at this news and tells Delicia.
Fedra's cookin' in the kitchen again, adding poison to food.
Vocabulary:
está desvariando = she's delirious (Nice Nurse talking about Gretel)
atribulada = anguished (nerdy lawyer worrying about Netty)
guardar aparencias = keep up appearances (Fedra's game plan)
las nenas popis = posh girls, upper class girls
tragar este cuento = swallow that story
primos hermanos = first cousins
revolcando = rolling in the hay, getting it on, getting busy (dismissive term for making love)
conjunto de lipidos = amalgam of fat (Fedra's insult)
tinaco de grasa = big tank of fat (Ilitia's insult)
tinaco = water tank
quebrando la ley = breaking the law
Dicho of the Day
Llegar al punto en que ya no tiene remedio To reach a point of no return
Have Emanuel and Marianela reached that point? Tune in Friday and find out. Tomorrow is the Latin Grammy Awards. Whoops..Maggie says Llena is on tonight. Well tune in and find out! So much the better.
But enough with the romance and roses. That's later. We start tonight's episode with one of those unfortunate scenes where someone gets the wrong idea, there's some useless babbling, and nobody listens to anybody. Emiliano interrupts the rehearsal with Netty and her nerdy lawyer. Thinks he's been duped. Doesn't listen to her attempts to explain. Tells her she's horrible and what's more, she ruined Gretel's life as well by supporting her romance with Oliver. Now Oliver's destroyed Gretel's life and Netty has ruined his. Stay away from me and our family forever! And exit Emiliano. Nice work.
Now another lovely scene. Lorenzo slinks back to his cell after learning of his baby son's alleged death, much to Orange Boy's amusement. However, Low looks so devastated, Orangey actually becomes concerned. From one cell to another, now we see Oliver. Trying to explain his actions to his boss. "I did it for love". Fine but you were "quebrando la ley" (breaking the law). We have to find Gretel so she can testify in your behalf that she wasn't kidnapped but went willingly. Oscar starts to dash off, intending to head out to Misery Manor and confront Fedra. But he's not going anywhere. Nopis. The Comisario slams the door shut and Oliver is locked in. Probably a good thing. That shoulder needs to heal.
Gretel, watched over anxiously by Nice Nurse, is still out and still strapped down on a stretcher. She comes to after Nice Nurse leaves though and quite lucidly realizes she's in an insane asylum. Get me out of here! she shrieks.
Our main shrieker, Netty, is beside herself. Lawyer Eugenio wants to fix it. He's her legal representative, and by golly he's going to make Emiliano learn the truth. Off they go to the big house.
Doris is already there, hanging out with Delicia and Paula and worrying about Mari's dondeabouts. Sassy little Delicia is hoping that she IS with Eman and that they're having a wonderful time!
And indeed they are. Our busy little Emanuel has reserved an entire restaurant just for him, Mari, some waiters and Luis Fonsi who's going to serenade them and wish them an eternal love. I'd be a bit more impressed if Fonsi hadn't just divorced his lovely wife of three years. Kind of ruins the sentiment of the song. But whatever. Serenade he does. Eman and Mari exchange some more soft-lipped kisses (Crankypants though I am, can't complain about the besos. Valentino Lanus is doing a great job.) and gooey schmarmy goshdarnit I'm in luv looks. Feeling slightly giddy and nauseated, we break for ads.
When we come back, we're at Misery Manor. Creepy theme music plays in the background. Creepy groveling by Emiliano in the foreground. It's all his fault but we can't leavel Gretel in that place. Oh yes we can, snaps Fedra. And mum's the word. Ditto for Kristel. Must keep up appearances, y'know. What are we going to say, that they're "on a trip" scoffs Emiliano. Not a bad idea. We'll say Switzerland. That's where all the "nenas popis" (posh young girls) go.
Brandon arrives. Ilitia close behind. Brandon wants to take Fedra and Bernardo down to the station to "assist the police in their inquiries" as the Brits say. Ilitia wants Emiliano to get her dad out of jail and lays her sweet head on his manly chest as she asks. Mientras tanto, Eman and Mari have arrived home. He's still keen on running away but she wants to face the music. We're strong and we love each other, she argues. So we can stand up to them.
Aaaaaaand...it hits the fan. Fedra, Axel and Ilitia are absolutely scandalized, horrified and sick sick sick that Eman spent the night with his fat cousin. Emanuel replies calmly that not only did they spend the night together, they're spending the rest of their lives together because......drum roll.....WE'RE MADLY IN LOVE.
Netty is having a hot flash. Fanning furiously. Fedra is fuming. It's all just too too much. We break for more ads.
We come back to a slew of insults. Ilitia calls Mari a fat fiancé stealer. Fedra dismisses her as a "conjunto de lipidos" (collection of fat). But that's not the worst of it. No, what worries Fedra is that Mari's going to end up with all their money if she marries Emanuel. And Axel is outraged that the fattie is destroying the family.
There's a break where Brandon pulls Ilitia out of the room, reminding her that she cheated on Emanuel with him, just as Emanuel cheated on her with Mari. So where does she get off causing a scene? He's sworn to secrecy. And goes along with it.
Back to the main fight. Eman wants to know why the family is destroyed. You'd know if you'd been around, rather that rolling in a bed with that slab of meat, sneers Fedra.
More drama. Ilitia is wailing that it's all "too much"remembering to say that in his posh little English. Her dad's in prison...her best friend's in the hospital.....
Fedra shuts her up. Agrees to go with Brandon to the station because she's going to see that Oliver is shut up in prison for the rest of his life. Slurping up a big swallow of booze through a straw, she prepares to leave.....
But not before Emanuel puts in the last dagger thrust. We're in love, he shouts, holding on to Marianela. Yes, LOVE! I want to marry her!
Okay. Time for that little Father-Son talk. Emiliano draws him aside and explains that since they're "primos hermanos" and the same blood flows in their veins, marriage is out of the question. Eman reminds him that it's the 21st century and there are tests for inherited diseases. They can reduce the risk of harm to their children. And if he has to give up the Ruiz y de Teresa name to marry his cousin...well, then he will!
In another room, we're having a little Aunt-Niece talk. Netty can't support this union. For one thing, Eman is the Son of the Serpent. And Fedra will kill you. Doris chimes in at this point and says Your love is condemned like that of Gretel and Oliver. You don't know what happened yet but....Ugh. While we ponder that painful memory, we trudge through another bunch of ads.
The talk continues. Listen, if you weren't first cousins, I'd be fine with your marrying Marinela, concludes Dad. Don't care, don't care. I'm staying with her, sez Son. Today is the worst day of my life, wheezes Emiliano. And Ilitia peers in the door. Wow, Emanuel is in for another verbal beating.
But we don't get to hear it yet. First we have the Netty misunderstanding to sort out. She's crying on her lawyer's shoulder when Emiliano arrives again, ready to throw her lying behindrear out the door. Not until the lawyer explains! Which he does. And Emiliano listens. And asks forgiveness. And doesn't get it. Nopis. You didn't believe in me, whimpers Netty. You said things that hurt me deeply. You didn't believe that Gretel and Oliver were deeply in love. So forget me forever! And she flounces out.
Doris is still trying to talk reason to Marianela. Oliver is in jail. Who knows where Gretel is. But if that's what Fedra did to them, imagine what she'll do to you!
And Ilitia is trying to talk reason to Eman....her Reason anyway. I mean how could he sleep with that fattie!? How could he throw her over for that gross piece of meat!?(lonjas y carne) Surely you couldn't have seen her nude and not have been completely disgusted! Emanuel wants to remain friends. No way. Hopefully you'll die, crushed by that tub of fat, she concludes.
Having communicated clearly in that room, Ilitia heads for an additional showdown with Mari. Doesn't go quite as well. She calls Mari a "zorra" (bitch) Delicia opines that maybe Eman was tired of an airhead model and that's why he fell in love with Mari. Delicia is then dissed as an "igualada" (uppity servant-class bitch). Warming to her discourse, Ilitia suggests that Manny just slept with Mari out of pity. So noble he had to do you a favor. AND THAT'S IT. RESOUNDING SLAP. Mari's going for Slap II but Doris breaks it up. And we break for ads.
Poor Low is resting his head against his cell walls, thinking back to the day he bought balloons for his baby boy and dreamed of the happy day he and Muñeca would adopt him. Or the happy day he'd have some henchmen murder his young mistress. Take your pick. Whadda guy.
Of course, wee babe has landed safely at the orphanage where Muñeca's noble maid and chauffeur have been helping out. When they see the medal of the Virgen de Guadalupe around the little guy's neck, they know the Holy Mother has saved him.
Back to the girls. Delicia's applauding the slap and mocking Ilitia's way of saying "Bye". Dead on. Mari's happily gushing about making love to Emanuel and regretting nothing. Doris isn't quite sure if it's love or lust. Mari's so upset she gets nauseous again. Is it the poison or pregnancy? Poison I guess. Speaking of....Axel arrives. Nope, he's not here to harangue her about the night out. He just wants to know why she's telling everyone he's gay. When in fact he's very manly. And ready to show any of you! And not only that, he's going to try and do everything he can to get rid of Mari. The fight is on.
Ditto for the General who's ordering Benigno to bring down the truant Marianela immediately. He's going to give her what for. But not until Paula sets him straight. Marianela and Emanuel love each other. And he's willing to defend his love. Unlike you, years ago, General! If you try and split them up, you'll be my Enemy. And I won't cook for my Enemy or cuddle him either. Okay. Serious threats here.
Serious promises elsewhere. The fatal kind you know. Always leads to Drama. Emanuel is vowing that Nothing Will Separate Us. I Love You. Anyone hear dun de dun dun's? Mari does. That's lovely but Fedra won't rest until she separates us, she replies. Hush darling, whispers Emanuel and covers her lips with his soft silky kisses. And on that tender note, we end.
Previews:
Emanuel vows to "luchar" for their love.
The General tells Emiliano he suspects that Emanuel is NOT his son.
Marianela is exultant at this news and tells Delicia.
Fedra's cookin' in the kitchen again, adding poison to food.
Vocabulary:
está desvariando = she's delirious (Nice Nurse talking about Gretel)
atribulada = anguished (nerdy lawyer worrying about Netty)
guardar aparencias = keep up appearances (Fedra's game plan)
las nenas popis = posh girls, upper class girls
tragar este cuento = swallow that story
primos hermanos = first cousins
revolcando = rolling in the hay, getting it on, getting busy (dismissive term for making love)
conjunto de lipidos = amalgam of fat (Fedra's insult)
tinaco de grasa = big tank of fat (Ilitia's insult)
tinaco = water tank
quebrando la ley = breaking the law
Dicho of the Day
Llegar al punto en que ya no tiene remedio To reach a point of no return
Have Emanuel and Marianela reached that point? Tune in Friday and find out. Tomorrow is the Latin Grammy Awards. Whoops..Maggie says Llena is on tonight. Well tune in and find out! So much the better.
Labels: llena
La Fea Más Bella #83-84 11/10/10 Hot Lips and the Cold War
Capitulo 83.Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 82 to 84. Then come back here to discuss it.
Capitulo 84.Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 82 to 84. Then come back here to discuss it.
Capitulo 84.Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 82 to 84. Then come back here to discuss it.
I read through Julie's recap and this episode sounds hilarious. I can't wait to see it later today. We don't have any translations from Paula's page, however Pata came through again with an amazing series of screen shots to donate to the page. Thanks Pata!!
Labels: fea-2010
Eva Luna #7 Tue 11/9/10 Too many novias and too many fake butts
Eva Luna Episode 7—November 9, 2010.
DISCLAIMER: As always, please everyone, fill in any blanks I missed!
We start this episode with Eva watching Daniel kiss his novia, Victoria. Eva understandably looks a bit crestfallen over this, considering the flowers and touching card Daniel just sent her.
Daniel sees Eva walking away and knows that she saw what she saw. He looks a bit crestfallen himself. I don't know why. Dude, you have a girlfriend already! Couldn't you see this coming?
Back at the Big House, Julio is asking Renata about La Bonita (Eva). He wants her to look after him all the time, only her. Renata agrees to this but does not look happy.
Bruno (hunky, hulky friend of Leo) is talking with Leo at the fashion show. He's saying how surprised he is by Leo's mom. So elegant! Bruno is pumping Leo for info—how is his dad doing? Leo obligingly explains that his dad has taken to his bed since he had an accident, and the mom looks after the business. They don't know whether the dad is going to recover, but . . . Bruno attempts to look sympathetic.
At the strip joint where Marisol works, old ex-boxer guy comes in, sees her dancing, and shakes his head mournfully. Behind him, Scary Guy with Hat is saying something about the old guy (I think he wants to get back at him for fighting him off earlier).
We're at a 7-11 type place with Alicia and Tony the Stud Burglar. He is being a (rhymes with stick) and stuffing cans of beer and candy in his clothes and also forcing them on Alica. Alicia doesn't look happy about this, but instead of NOT BEING AN IDIOT and telling him to stick his cans where the sun don't shine, she just looks worried but goes along with it. STUPID.
Bruno is sucking up to Marcy at the fashion show and she seems to be buying it. Slimy.
Leo is smooching his girlfriend and flattering her about her participation in the fashion show. Daniel sneaks off to look for Eva as Victoria (Bimbo 1, his girlfriend) is being interviewed by the press.
Tony the petty shoplifter—aka Stud Burglar—is at the checkout counter and only has a few items he's paying for. The clerk is suspicious, but Tony insists that's it. "How much is it?" Tony asks in English (and no trace of accent either!). The clerk gives an amount in Spanish. Alicia looks miserable and scared. Tony finishes his transaction and tries to drag Alicia along out of the store, but she balks and all the stuff that's been crammed in her clothes cascades out. "Security! Security!" the clerk yells (in English), as our two petty thieves run off. But Alicia doesn't make it and is detained by the clerk, as our hero Stud Burglar bravely runs off as she pleads with him to not leave her.
Eva is observing a time-honored telenovela tradition of talking out loud to herself about her innermost feelings in a public area, where anyone can walk on by and hear her. Of course Daniel walks by and hears her. She's saying, "Why were they kissing?" and Daniel, unseen by her until then, answers, "Because Victoria is my girlfriend." She swirls around, impactada, as the theme song swells and we go to commercial.
Stud Burglar Tony slinks in the shadows looking at Alicia being detained by the 7-11 people, but naturally does nothing. He does throw away his ever-present lollypop, though, which I suppose is meant to indicate his inner turmoil.
Back with Eva and Daniel. Eva is pissed, and asks Daniel how come he gave her flowers and a card when he already has a novia? Daniel tries to say that she and he still have to have a conversation, but she says, forget it buddy, go back to your girlfriend and leave me in peace!
Here are some screenshots from this scene:
At the 7-11, the clerk is speaking (in English) about how the shoplifters they caught, and how the security guard was "on top of 'em." (Again, no accent that I can hear!) Alicia sits on the curb and cries. "She's not going anywhere" the security guard says (in unaccented English). Alicia cries even more and begs to be let go, but the guard says that the police will come. "Why did you leave me, Tony?" she cries, as Tony hides in the shadows. Then he looks like he's decided swhat he's going to do.
Marisol goes back to her dressing room, and now it's her turn to talk out loud to no one in particular. She's tired of all of this. All the drunks. You're a phony, she says to the mirror as she wipes off her makeup. She invents rich boyfriends but she shows her body for money while she dreams of a better life. Old boxer guy from the pension walks in at this moment and hears her. If you want to change your life, do it, he says. She looks shocked but he gets to business. He's looking for Tomás, Adrian's dad. He's missing and the kid is sad, thinking that his dad has abandoned him.
Creepy hat guy comes in and confronts boxer guy and Marisol.
Back at the fashion show, Marcy (Gloved Weirdo) confronts Eva about tripping over the power cables earlier and causing the show to go dark when Victoria was on the catwalk. But Leo walks up and takes the blame. He is insistent. Eva gets out of there, and Marcy says that if Leo wants to tangle himself up with Eva, that's fine, just do it elsewhere.
Back to creepy hat guy and old boxer guy. Hat guy tries to hit boxer guy with something and they struggle.
Eva is outside walking away from the fashion show.
Bimbo 1 (Victoria) and Bimbo 2 (Claudia) are toasting champagne and talking about how great the fashion show turned out. Daniel walks up and joins them and pours himself a drink. He congratulates Victoria on her success as her furtively looks around the room (presumably for Eva).
At the pension, Adrian sleeps fitfully as Dona Justa looks on and talks to herself about her worries for the kid and for Ricardo (boxer guy).
Back with Ricardo (boxer guy) and Hat Guy who are going at it, and Ricardo is holding up pretty well until Hat Guy gives him a low blow and Ricardo goes down. Hat Guy approaches with a broken bottle and a threat, but just then Marisol comes at him with a gun.
Eva is trying to catch a bus but the bus passes her by. (The bus service in LA is rather sucky and they WILL pass you buy unless you are at an actual bus stop.) But Eva seems surprised by this and looks crestfallen when the bus goes by.
Back at the 7-11, Tony the Stud Burglar has finally gathered up his courage and approaches the security guard and Alicia. "Excuse me, Officer" he says in unaccented English. Alicia jumps up. Tony says that he's to blame for the theft and he put Alicia up to it, so please let her go. The security guard says they can both see the police, as the cop car is just then approaching.
Eva is walking down the street, asking herself how could she think Daniel would be interested in her. Up drives a car and stops. "You?" she says.
Everyone's trying to reason with Marisol as she shakily points the gun at Hat Guy. It discharges and she falls to the ground, as everyone looks impactado. (Correction: Someone else shoots a gun, it's not Marisol's that goes off. Thank you ladies for the correction!)
Daniel and Bimbo 1 & 2 continue the toast, as Bimbettes talk about watching their calories. Yawn.
It's Leo in the car and he gets out and offers Eva a ride. He asks her if she's angry with him, and she says a bit, but she's glad he told his mom the truth about what happened when she tripped over the power cables. He says that's his style, to be truthful. (GAG!) He presses her some more to take a ride.
It turns out Marisol got a flesh wound in her shoulder. Hat Guy is mad and warns her and boxer guy to not say anything to the police or they'll be sorry. (I think that's what he's saying.) Another stripper rushes in and Hat Guy shoos her away.
The store owner isn't going to press charges against Tony or Alicia. They are elated. The policeman yells, "Go, get out of here!" in somewhat accented English. The police think what happened is somewhat remarkable. (I think referring to Tony returning to try to save Alicia.)
Victoria and Daniel are at the party, and Victoria wants to get together with him privately later on. He seems agreeable to this.
Leo has driven Eva back home. She thanks him and he asks her to call him Leonardo. As they are chatting amiably, Tony and Alicia come up and Alicia sees Eva with Leo and assumes he must be Daniel. Then Tony asks that Alicia keep what happened that night with the shoplifting scare between them, and not tell her sister.
Back at the fashion show, Claudia is wondering where Leo is. She's called his cell a thousand times! (Wow, that's the way to endear yourself to a guy—stalk him via cell phone!)
Leo sees the messages on his phone. He is not amused by this.
Boxer guy is talking to Marisol about going to the police about her troubles, but she doesn't want to. Boxer guy promises he won't say anything to anyone.
Tony is at the pension, talking on the phone to scary gambling boss guy. He (Tony) says he got away and is fine. Scary gambling boss guy says something (I think) about how those beers he stole will be the payment he (Tony) was supposed to get. Scary boss guy says something about whether he decides to press charges or not. (I am getting a little confused here. Did he own the 7-11-type store?) Tony gets off the phone and then says something about how those beers were the most expensive (or dear? "caras" was the word used) of his life!
Marcy is chatting with Bruno. They're flirting with each other in a rather slimy, creepy way. Then they start talking about work. Turns out Bruno is into investments, and he is often traveling, looking for more business. They flirtily say goodnight, and then Bruno thought-bubbles, with a scheming smirk on his face, that everything is going perfectly.
Leo joins Clingy Claudia at a bar and she says that she doesn't want to interrogate him about where he's been, but he should know that she's jealous.
Back at the pension, Alicia and Eva are talking. Eva tells Alicia that the guy who dropped her off is not Daniel, but a joven from the house where she works. Alicia laughs and says that no less than two rich, handsome guys are at her (Eva's) feet! Eva is not amused. Eva says she found out that Daniel has a novia.
Meanwhile, said gentleman is in bed with said novia, trying to make a passionate evening of it. However, despite novia's best efforts, he seems distracted.
Alicia is disgusted and astonished to learn that the author of that card already has a girlfriend. Alicia could have sworn that he was in love with Eva! Nope, says Eva, looking disappointed.
Back with Daniel and novia, she finally asks him what's up, and he says he's just a little tired, that's all. She says that's okay, she's a teensy bit tired too. She snuggles up against him, as he remembers Eva chewing him out for sending flowers and a card while he's still got a novia. (Personal note: This scene in the bed was not shot in a flattering manner for Guy Ecker. Please Univision people, in the future, give him softer lighting or more smoothing filters, please! We—well, at least I—would prefer that he not look old enough to be Eva's father.)
It's morning at the big house, and Eva cheerfully says good morning to Marcy as Eva goes to give Julio his medicine. Marcy stops and looks particularly venomous at Eva, as if Eva is something that needs to be scraped off of the underside of her shoe.
Eva calls into Don Julio, asking if he's ready for his medicine. He is. She notes that Max (the big scary dog) is resting on his bed. He laughs and says that Max is now friends with them both.
At the breakfast table, Marcy is telling Renata that Eva is to blame for the fashion show fiasco, by tripping over the power cables. Blah blah blah. Marcy wants Eva outta there, but Renata has to tell her that Don Julio has specifically requested that Eva tend to him.
Victoria sees Eva outside of Don Julio's room. Much to Eva's surprise, Victoria is happy about the aforementioned fiasco with the power cables. Eva owns up that she was the cause of that fiasco.
Daniel is talking to an assistant at work about his schedule. A computer monitor is on. Ewww, it's still one of the old fashioned 4:3 (not widescreen) kind. (I'm such a techno-snob, LOL.) Assistant is saying that the internet is reporting that the fashion show was a success. Daniel seems distracted, and assistant notices this. He explains that he's got a lot of things going on in his head. (Well, it's more like one thing, and it is spelled E-V-A.)
Victoria says she knows that Eva caused the fiasco, and she's decided to forgive her because (I think) everything turned out so well for her (Victoria). Eva then talks about how she got a ride home with Leo, and Victoria seems impactada that her brother would bother to give Eva a ride. You can see the wheels turning in Victoria's head.
In the kitchen, Renata tells Eva in the snottiest, most ungracious way possible that she is to go shopping for some fruit for Don Julio.
Eva is picking up fruit at an outdoor market. Meanwhile, as we should have anticipated, Daniel is nearby drinking drinks with what I assume are work associates. Back with Eva, the chauffeur lets her stay a little longer because they're near the beach and she's never been to the beach.
Bimbette 1 and 2 (Victoria and Claudia) are chatting. Victoria is warning Claudia that Leo seems to be shifting his attention towards a servant, Eva.
At the beach, Eva is admiring the ocean and looking beautiful. She recalls seeing Daniel kiss his novia at the fashion show. She thinks to herself that it hurt to see them kissing because she's foolishly allowed herself to fall for him, but that's going to end. She's not going to think about Daniel anymore. Well, speak of the devil, here comes Daniel walking along the same beach, as the theme song plays in the background. "What are you doing here?" she asks as we go to break.
The two fake-butted bitches (Bimbo 1 and Bimbo 2) are talking about Eva. Victoria (Bimbo 1) is conceding that while Eva doesn't have the education or class that they (the aforementioned fake-butted bitches) have, she does have a certain charm. Of course her Daniel would never be interested in such an inferior creature (okay I added that last bit, but you know that's what Victoria's getting at). But would Victoria's brother Leo be interested in this lower form of life (aka Eva)? Sure.
Claudia mentions that she couldn't reach Leo by cell phone. She says all of this is getting to her pride. She seems cansado with it all. Victoria advises that if she loves Leo, fight for him! Especially don't lose him to a mere employee like Eva! (She's certainly showing her snobbery now, isn't she?) Victoria then goes on to say that if her Daniel was interested in someone like Eva, she (Victoria) would be fighting mad and would kill the girl! (We see what's coming, don't we?)
And now we go back to Daniel and Eva at the beach. She's telling him that in her hometown they had mountains and apples, but no beach, so she's never seen the ocean before.
Daniel wants to talk about stuff, but Eva says there is nothing to talk about. Daniel asks her, why did it bother her to know that he and Victoria were novios? Why was she bothered to see them kissing? She then asks him, why, if he's got a novia, did he give her a card and flowers?
Leo is chatting with Renata in the kitchen. He says he's tired from the party the night before and he's not going into work.
Eva says to Daniel, you stay in your world and I'll stay in mine. He asks how come they keep on fighting? She says because there is much to separate them.
Renata is telling Leo that his girlfriend (Claudia) has been calling him and hopes to get a response. He seems peevish about this.
Adrian and old boxer guy are at a police station looking for Adrian's dad. No luck.
Eva has returned from the beach and her fruit-buying excursion and meets Leo. They make pleasant small talk. He says he has a headache from the party the night before.
At a hospital, boxer guy and Adrian are looking for his dad. No luck.
Eva goes into Leo's bedroom. He's sprawled across his bed, lying on top of the covers and fully clothed. She's delivering some headache medicine for him. He asks her to bring the pills to him.
Boxer guy asks Adrian if there was anyone else—a friend of the family, perhaps—that his father might have visited? Adrian doesn't seem to know of any. Boxer guy asks Adrian (I think) if he's sure he wants to get his dad back. Adrian says yes, he's the only person he has. Boxer guy nods and says it's time for them to go back home.
Eva comes over to Leo's bed to give him the pills. The pills drop on the bed and as she crouches over Leo to retrieve them, in walks Renata, looking scandalized because it "looks" like Eva and Leo are having an intimate moment. Leo doesn't seem at all bothered by this.
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We start this episode with Eva watching Daniel kiss his novia, Victoria. Eva understandably looks a bit crestfallen over this, considering the flowers and touching card Daniel just sent her.
Daniel sees Eva walking away and knows that she saw what she saw. He looks a bit crestfallen himself. I don't know why. Dude, you have a girlfriend already! Couldn't you see this coming?
Back at the Big House, Julio is asking Renata about La Bonita (Eva). He wants her to look after him all the time, only her. Renata agrees to this but does not look happy.
Bruno (hunky, hulky friend of Leo) is talking with Leo at the fashion show. He's saying how surprised he is by Leo's mom. So elegant! Bruno is pumping Leo for info—how is his dad doing? Leo obligingly explains that his dad has taken to his bed since he had an accident, and the mom looks after the business. They don't know whether the dad is going to recover, but . . . Bruno attempts to look sympathetic.
At the strip joint where Marisol works, old ex-boxer guy comes in, sees her dancing, and shakes his head mournfully. Behind him, Scary Guy with Hat is saying something about the old guy (I think he wants to get back at him for fighting him off earlier).
We're at a 7-11 type place with Alicia and Tony the Stud Burglar. He is being a (rhymes with stick) and stuffing cans of beer and candy in his clothes and also forcing them on Alica. Alicia doesn't look happy about this, but instead of NOT BEING AN IDIOT and telling him to stick his cans where the sun don't shine, she just looks worried but goes along with it. STUPID.
Bruno is sucking up to Marcy at the fashion show and she seems to be buying it. Slimy.
Leo is smooching his girlfriend and flattering her about her participation in the fashion show. Daniel sneaks off to look for Eva as Victoria (Bimbo 1, his girlfriend) is being interviewed by the press.
Tony the petty shoplifter—aka Stud Burglar—is at the checkout counter and only has a few items he's paying for. The clerk is suspicious, but Tony insists that's it. "How much is it?" Tony asks in English (and no trace of accent either!). The clerk gives an amount in Spanish. Alicia looks miserable and scared. Tony finishes his transaction and tries to drag Alicia along out of the store, but she balks and all the stuff that's been crammed in her clothes cascades out. "Security! Security!" the clerk yells (in English), as our two petty thieves run off. But Alicia doesn't make it and is detained by the clerk, as our hero Stud Burglar bravely runs off as she pleads with him to not leave her.
Eva is observing a time-honored telenovela tradition of talking out loud to herself about her innermost feelings in a public area, where anyone can walk on by and hear her. Of course Daniel walks by and hears her. She's saying, "Why were they kissing?" and Daniel, unseen by her until then, answers, "Because Victoria is my girlfriend." She swirls around, impactada, as the theme song swells and we go to commercial.
Stud Burglar Tony slinks in the shadows looking at Alicia being detained by the 7-11 people, but naturally does nothing. He does throw away his ever-present lollypop, though, which I suppose is meant to indicate his inner turmoil.
Back with Eva and Daniel. Eva is pissed, and asks Daniel how come he gave her flowers and a card when he already has a novia? Daniel tries to say that she and he still have to have a conversation, but she says, forget it buddy, go back to your girlfriend and leave me in peace!
Here are some screenshots from this scene:
At the 7-11, the clerk is speaking (in English) about how the shoplifters they caught, and how the security guard was "on top of 'em." (Again, no accent that I can hear!) Alicia sits on the curb and cries. "She's not going anywhere" the security guard says (in unaccented English). Alicia cries even more and begs to be let go, but the guard says that the police will come. "Why did you leave me, Tony?" she cries, as Tony hides in the shadows. Then he looks like he's decided swhat he's going to do.
Marisol goes back to her dressing room, and now it's her turn to talk out loud to no one in particular. She's tired of all of this. All the drunks. You're a phony, she says to the mirror as she wipes off her makeup. She invents rich boyfriends but she shows her body for money while she dreams of a better life. Old boxer guy from the pension walks in at this moment and hears her. If you want to change your life, do it, he says. She looks shocked but he gets to business. He's looking for Tomás, Adrian's dad. He's missing and the kid is sad, thinking that his dad has abandoned him.
Creepy hat guy comes in and confronts boxer guy and Marisol.
Back at the fashion show, Marcy (Gloved Weirdo) confronts Eva about tripping over the power cables earlier and causing the show to go dark when Victoria was on the catwalk. But Leo walks up and takes the blame. He is insistent. Eva gets out of there, and Marcy says that if Leo wants to tangle himself up with Eva, that's fine, just do it elsewhere.
Back to creepy hat guy and old boxer guy. Hat guy tries to hit boxer guy with something and they struggle.
Eva is outside walking away from the fashion show.
Bimbo 1 (Victoria) and Bimbo 2 (Claudia) are toasting champagne and talking about how great the fashion show turned out. Daniel walks up and joins them and pours himself a drink. He congratulates Victoria on her success as her furtively looks around the room (presumably for Eva).
At the pension, Adrian sleeps fitfully as Dona Justa looks on and talks to herself about her worries for the kid and for Ricardo (boxer guy).
Back with Ricardo (boxer guy) and Hat Guy who are going at it, and Ricardo is holding up pretty well until Hat Guy gives him a low blow and Ricardo goes down. Hat Guy approaches with a broken bottle and a threat, but just then Marisol comes at him with a gun.
Eva is trying to catch a bus but the bus passes her by. (The bus service in LA is rather sucky and they WILL pass you buy unless you are at an actual bus stop.) But Eva seems surprised by this and looks crestfallen when the bus goes by.
Back at the 7-11, Tony the Stud Burglar has finally gathered up his courage and approaches the security guard and Alicia. "Excuse me, Officer" he says in unaccented English. Alicia jumps up. Tony says that he's to blame for the theft and he put Alicia up to it, so please let her go. The security guard says they can both see the police, as the cop car is just then approaching.
Eva is walking down the street, asking herself how could she think Daniel would be interested in her. Up drives a car and stops. "You?" she says.
Everyone's trying to reason with Marisol as she shakily points the gun at Hat Guy. It discharges and she falls to the ground, as everyone looks impactado. (Correction: Someone else shoots a gun, it's not Marisol's that goes off. Thank you ladies for the correction!)
Daniel and Bimbo 1 & 2 continue the toast, as Bimbettes talk about watching their calories. Yawn.
It's Leo in the car and he gets out and offers Eva a ride. He asks her if she's angry with him, and she says a bit, but she's glad he told his mom the truth about what happened when she tripped over the power cables. He says that's his style, to be truthful. (GAG!) He presses her some more to take a ride.
It turns out Marisol got a flesh wound in her shoulder. Hat Guy is mad and warns her and boxer guy to not say anything to the police or they'll be sorry. (I think that's what he's saying.) Another stripper rushes in and Hat Guy shoos her away.
The store owner isn't going to press charges against Tony or Alicia. They are elated. The policeman yells, "Go, get out of here!" in somewhat accented English. The police think what happened is somewhat remarkable. (I think referring to Tony returning to try to save Alicia.)
Victoria and Daniel are at the party, and Victoria wants to get together with him privately later on. He seems agreeable to this.
Leo has driven Eva back home. She thanks him and he asks her to call him Leonardo. As they are chatting amiably, Tony and Alicia come up and Alicia sees Eva with Leo and assumes he must be Daniel. Then Tony asks that Alicia keep what happened that night with the shoplifting scare between them, and not tell her sister.
Back at the fashion show, Claudia is wondering where Leo is. She's called his cell a thousand times! (Wow, that's the way to endear yourself to a guy—stalk him via cell phone!)
Leo sees the messages on his phone. He is not amused by this.
Boxer guy is talking to Marisol about going to the police about her troubles, but she doesn't want to. Boxer guy promises he won't say anything to anyone.
Tony is at the pension, talking on the phone to scary gambling boss guy. He (Tony) says he got away and is fine. Scary gambling boss guy says something (I think) about how those beers he stole will be the payment he (Tony) was supposed to get. Scary boss guy says something about whether he decides to press charges or not. (I am getting a little confused here. Did he own the 7-11-type store?) Tony gets off the phone and then says something about how those beers were the most expensive (or dear? "caras" was the word used) of his life!
Marcy is chatting with Bruno. They're flirting with each other in a rather slimy, creepy way. Then they start talking about work. Turns out Bruno is into investments, and he is often traveling, looking for more business. They flirtily say goodnight, and then Bruno thought-bubbles, with a scheming smirk on his face, that everything is going perfectly.
Leo joins Clingy Claudia at a bar and she says that she doesn't want to interrogate him about where he's been, but he should know that she's jealous.
Back at the pension, Alicia and Eva are talking. Eva tells Alicia that the guy who dropped her off is not Daniel, but a joven from the house where she works. Alicia laughs and says that no less than two rich, handsome guys are at her (Eva's) feet! Eva is not amused. Eva says she found out that Daniel has a novia.
Meanwhile, said gentleman is in bed with said novia, trying to make a passionate evening of it. However, despite novia's best efforts, he seems distracted.
Alicia is disgusted and astonished to learn that the author of that card already has a girlfriend. Alicia could have sworn that he was in love with Eva! Nope, says Eva, looking disappointed.
Back with Daniel and novia, she finally asks him what's up, and he says he's just a little tired, that's all. She says that's okay, she's a teensy bit tired too. She snuggles up against him, as he remembers Eva chewing him out for sending flowers and a card while he's still got a novia. (Personal note: This scene in the bed was not shot in a flattering manner for Guy Ecker. Please Univision people, in the future, give him softer lighting or more smoothing filters, please! We—well, at least I—would prefer that he not look old enough to be Eva's father.)
It's morning at the big house, and Eva cheerfully says good morning to Marcy as Eva goes to give Julio his medicine. Marcy stops and looks particularly venomous at Eva, as if Eva is something that needs to be scraped off of the underside of her shoe.
Eva calls into Don Julio, asking if he's ready for his medicine. He is. She notes that Max (the big scary dog) is resting on his bed. He laughs and says that Max is now friends with them both.
At the breakfast table, Marcy is telling Renata that Eva is to blame for the fashion show fiasco, by tripping over the power cables. Blah blah blah. Marcy wants Eva outta there, but Renata has to tell her that Don Julio has specifically requested that Eva tend to him.
Victoria sees Eva outside of Don Julio's room. Much to Eva's surprise, Victoria is happy about the aforementioned fiasco with the power cables. Eva owns up that she was the cause of that fiasco.
Daniel is talking to an assistant at work about his schedule. A computer monitor is on. Ewww, it's still one of the old fashioned 4:3 (not widescreen) kind. (I'm such a techno-snob, LOL.) Assistant is saying that the internet is reporting that the fashion show was a success. Daniel seems distracted, and assistant notices this. He explains that he's got a lot of things going on in his head. (Well, it's more like one thing, and it is spelled E-V-A.)
Victoria says she knows that Eva caused the fiasco, and she's decided to forgive her because (I think) everything turned out so well for her (Victoria). Eva then talks about how she got a ride home with Leo, and Victoria seems impactada that her brother would bother to give Eva a ride. You can see the wheels turning in Victoria's head.
In the kitchen, Renata tells Eva in the snottiest, most ungracious way possible that she is to go shopping for some fruit for Don Julio.
Eva is picking up fruit at an outdoor market. Meanwhile, as we should have anticipated, Daniel is nearby drinking drinks with what I assume are work associates. Back with Eva, the chauffeur lets her stay a little longer because they're near the beach and she's never been to the beach.
Bimbette 1 and 2 (Victoria and Claudia) are chatting. Victoria is warning Claudia that Leo seems to be shifting his attention towards a servant, Eva.
At the beach, Eva is admiring the ocean and looking beautiful. She recalls seeing Daniel kiss his novia at the fashion show. She thinks to herself that it hurt to see them kissing because she's foolishly allowed herself to fall for him, but that's going to end. She's not going to think about Daniel anymore. Well, speak of the devil, here comes Daniel walking along the same beach, as the theme song plays in the background. "What are you doing here?" she asks as we go to break.
The two fake-butted bitches (Bimbo 1 and Bimbo 2) are talking about Eva. Victoria (Bimbo 1) is conceding that while Eva doesn't have the education or class that they (the aforementioned fake-butted bitches) have, she does have a certain charm. Of course her Daniel would never be interested in such an inferior creature (okay I added that last bit, but you know that's what Victoria's getting at). But would Victoria's brother Leo be interested in this lower form of life (aka Eva)? Sure.
Claudia mentions that she couldn't reach Leo by cell phone. She says all of this is getting to her pride. She seems cansado with it all. Victoria advises that if she loves Leo, fight for him! Especially don't lose him to a mere employee like Eva! (She's certainly showing her snobbery now, isn't she?) Victoria then goes on to say that if her Daniel was interested in someone like Eva, she (Victoria) would be fighting mad and would kill the girl! (We see what's coming, don't we?)
And now we go back to Daniel and Eva at the beach. She's telling him that in her hometown they had mountains and apples, but no beach, so she's never seen the ocean before.
Daniel wants to talk about stuff, but Eva says there is nothing to talk about. Daniel asks her, why did it bother her to know that he and Victoria were novios? Why was she bothered to see them kissing? She then asks him, why, if he's got a novia, did he give her a card and flowers?
Leo is chatting with Renata in the kitchen. He says he's tired from the party the night before and he's not going into work.
Eva says to Daniel, you stay in your world and I'll stay in mine. He asks how come they keep on fighting? She says because there is much to separate them.
Renata is telling Leo that his girlfriend (Claudia) has been calling him and hopes to get a response. He seems peevish about this.
Adrian and old boxer guy are at a police station looking for Adrian's dad. No luck.
Eva has returned from the beach and her fruit-buying excursion and meets Leo. They make pleasant small talk. He says he has a headache from the party the night before.
At a hospital, boxer guy and Adrian are looking for his dad. No luck.
Eva goes into Leo's bedroom. He's sprawled across his bed, lying on top of the covers and fully clothed. She's delivering some headache medicine for him. He asks her to bring the pills to him.
Boxer guy asks Adrian if there was anyone else—a friend of the family, perhaps—that his father might have visited? Adrian doesn't seem to know of any. Boxer guy asks Adrian (I think) if he's sure he wants to get his dad back. Adrian says yes, he's the only person he has. Boxer guy nods and says it's time for them to go back home.
Eva comes over to Leo's bed to give him the pills. The pills drop on the bed and as she crouches over Leo to retrieve them, in walks Renata, looking scandalized because it "looks" like Eva and Leo are having an intimate moment. Leo doesn't seem at all bothered by this.
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Llena de Amor #64 Tue 11/9/10 You can’t always get what you want…unless you’re Emanuel.
Marianela and Emanuel cool off from their hot night with a stroll through the woodsy park where they used to play as children. Emanuel promises Mari that he’ll always be there for her and says he wants to marry her someday. Mari starts to agree, then stops abruptly. Their family will never accept it, the problem being, of course, that it’s FAMILY, singular. “Just think what my name would be…Marianela Ruiz y de Teresa de Ruiz y de Teresa!” Emanuel laughs and says that’s sexy. He likes it. Kissy kissy. Mari thinks it’s time they head home, but Eman takes off running through the trees and says she’ll have to catch him first. She says they’ll get lost again. He says good, he wants to get lost and never go back.
Over at the hospital, Fedra is off on her usual tirade against Netty and rather emotionlessly asking Emiliano why he’s necking with this slut while their daughter is dying. Netty takes her leave, and Fedra wants to go give Kristel hell for daring to get pregnant. Emiliano stops her and says to leave her alone. It’s much worse than a simple miscarriage; they had to do a hysterectomy. Then he has to tell Fedra what that word means.
Netty goes to the hospital chapel for a chat with San Antonio. She’s upset that she gave up her career for so many years in exchange for an impossible love, and it seems she’ll end up with neither. I’m not sure ol’ Tony ever signed that contract. Anyway, Netty wants a little miracle of some kind. Her phone rings. It’s someone from the office of Ezekiel Zapata, a producer who wants Netty to be in his next telenovela. The auditions are tomorrow morning, early. Netty remembers to thank San Antonio profusely before she heads out to pick up the audition materials.
Brandon’s at the station, telling Comisario Tejeda that Oliver committed a little crime, sure, but so did Fedra and Bernardo. Tejeda agrees and tells him to extend a friendly invite to the gruesome twosome to come in for a chat. If they refuse, they’ll feel free to deal with them as criminals. Tejeda says he’ll take charge of Oliver’s issues himself, and he doesn’t appreciate Brandon’s advice on how to do his job. Maybe Tejeda has multiple personalities. One of them loves Brandon, and the other hates him.
Ilitia arrives as Tejeda leaves. Brandon makes a big show of being too busy to look at her. She asks him (quietly, and without any whining, hard to believe) if he won’t help her at all with her father’s situation, especially considering that the two of them… True to his word, this naco gentleman pretends not to know what she means, but he finally looks at her and says simply that the judge is going to give the order to move Lorenzo to prison any minute now.
Lorenzo and Mauricio are in the hoosegow, stewing in their own vileness. A guard comes and takes Lorenzo away. Low gloats that his wife and daughter must have gotten him the best lawyer, and he’ll be free and clear while Agent O rots away there forever. The orange one yells that he will regret this.
Fedra frets. Now that Kristel has had that histerie, hister…that thing so she can’t have children, no one will want to marry her! “How can you be thinking of marriage when she just nearly died?!” Emiliano snaps. Fedra whines that she’s always just thinking of her children, and a woman with no womb is not a woman. Ummm. Emiliano blinks but realizes there’s no point trying to reason with Fedra’s short-circuited brain. He asks her where she was all night while he was here. Fedra claims she went to rescue their kidnapped daughter Gretel from that monstrous degenerate poli. Emiliano angrily says Gretel wasn’t kidnapped; she was in love and happy for the first time ever. Fedra claims she found Gretel tied up naked in a filthy room full of rats, raped and completely crazy. “You’re lying!” Fedra calmly continues…that poli just took what he wanted and left Gretel to die. It’s a good thing her dear mama arrived in time. Emiliano says that can’t possibly be true but he’s crying at the thought. Fedra gives him the address of the manicomio and tells him to go check for himself how bad she is.
Gretel is restrained in bed, crying and remembering the few good days she had with Oliver, when he told her he would never leave her, and then when he was shot and she thought he was dying. She asks him to forgive her. Doctor Doom and the orderlies come in and haul her off to electroshock. She protests bootlessly.
Nereida’s back in the laundry room, which has been repaired since the fire. Axel asks her where she got the idea that he is gay. She says it’s what people said, and no, she does not care to ask his girlfriend for evidence to the contrary. Axel demands to know who exactly told her, and Nereida claims it was Marianela. Axel is furious at his beastly cousin and storms off to demand satisfaction. Nereida smirks.
Marianela and Emanuel are lounging around in the woods. Marianela wants to use Eman’s phone to call Netty, but he claims there’s no signal here and the battery is dead. She knows that’s a lie, and also that Netty and everyone is probably very worried about her. He admits he just doesn’t want their perfect day to end yet, then employs his smoooove moves of seduction to get her to agree.
Fedra calls Dr. Doom to alert him that Emiliano is on his way and must find Gretel in the worst state possible. Dr. Doom reminds her of the charge for this service. Fed says Spiderus is all over it.
Oliver is finally getting some medical treatment, also the old-fashioned way. He’s on the couch at the pensión with the ladies looking on, biting a pillow for the pain as Doctor Arnaldo digs the bullet out of his shoulder. Gladiola thinks he should be knocked out for this. Oliver says he needs to be alert and asks the doctor to hurry so he can go. Doc says where Oliver needs to go is to the hospital. Oliver screams and bites his bloody hand as the doctor continues butchering him. Doris helpfully tells him to be macho and quit screaming and crying.
Over at the station, Brandon tells Ilitia her father committed a very serious crime. She says that’s a lie. Her daddy is good, and also rich. He doesn’t need to traffic contraband. Brandon says maybe it’s just a hobby, then, but the fact is, he’s a criminal. Ilitia insists Brandon is making the whole thing up to blackmail her into his bed. He indignantly says his work is sacred, and he only ever takes women to bed because they want to go. Anyhoodle, he is too busy for this chatter. He’s got to head over to Misery Manor. What a coincidence; she’s going there, too.
Lorenzo asks his lawyer why his wife isn’t there. The lawyer knows nothing about his wife; he was hired by León Garduño. Apparently Garduño thinks he owes Lorenzo one. Lorenzo wonders why. He spoke to Baldomero and Basurto and they said it was a clean job and they had his son. The lawyer says it was a clean job, but unfortunately the baby died.
Elsewhere, the big boss is yelling at the two thugs, who are throwing the blame around. Fittingly, Baldomero is the bald one, and Basurto is the one who threw the baby out like basura. Garduño is furious at what this might mean to his hot hooch biz. He says it’s best to tell Lorenzo the kid is dead, but Baldy and Bas had better look under every rock and find him.
Barf. Axel and Lorena are in swimwear by the pool, and he’s giving her a massage to ease the stress of her useless existence. Then she decides he needs a massage, too, because he must be so tense over Kristel’s trauma. He says that’s not all; he’s also worried because Gretel has vanished. Lorena says Gretel’s fine; she just left with her boyfriend. Well, Axel is ALSO worried because Emanuel and Marianela seem to have vamoosed together. Lorena says yeah, and will there ever be fireworks when Ilitia finds out. What fun! But wait, there’s more…Axel is ALSO worried because everyone seems very surprised to hear that Lorena is his girlfriend. Why do they all say that Axel doesn’t like women?
Kristel has woken up and is crying and fussing, wondering where she is. Fedra coldly says she’s in the hospital, and it’s her own stupid fault. Fedra snarls that the good news is that she’s not pregnant anymore, but the bad news is that she’s no longer a woman and she will die an old maid, broken and empty. Bet you all didn’t know that a hysterectomy came with a free sex change and a severing of all the nerves and muscles that would allow you to sign a marriage license. Doctor Carlos will corroborate. Maybe Emiliano needs to explain that word to Fedra one more time. Kristel cries some more.
Oliver is patched up and wants to go arrest Spiderus, but Doctor Arnaldo tells him he has to rest. The ladies team up to force him to stay put. He cries that he wants to go find Gretel. The ladies tell him to wait for Netty. She can ask Emiliano where they’ve put Gretel. Netty arrives just then, but she’s accompanied by Tejeda. Tejeda tells Oliver he’s under arrest. This is absurd.
Emiliano tries to talk to Gretel. She’s in quite a state. Emiliano asks her who hurt her. She hugs him and rambles about someone who wants to hurt her and is a murderer. Naturally, Emil thinks she’s talking about Oliver. He says that bastard is going to pay. Gretel freaks out more and the doctor sedates her. Emiliano cries.
Oliver tells Tejeda he’s got to find Gretel before Fedra kills her. Tejeda is robotically obstinate because the writers couldn’t be bothered. He’s got to arrest Oliver; that’s the law! He gets out the handcuffs. Oliver says he’ll take responsibility for his actions, but no cuffs, please. He’s not some delinquent. Tejeda finally agrees. Off they go. All the ladies cry. Then Doris tells Netty that Mari has been gone since the pageant and they have no idea where she is. Doris offers to go look for her.
Fedra is still campaigning for that Mother of the Year award. Kristel insists that Mauricio loves her and will still want to marry her even if she can’t have children. Fedra says that’s nonsense. He’s a slimy ratbastard. What did he do when he found out Kristel was pregnant? Did he offer to marry her then? {Fedra utterly fails at logic.} Kristel cries that Malicio was just nervous. I’m almost feeling bad for Kristel. She’s obviously in a great deal of pain and misery, and her mother keeps heaping on the torment. Fedra mutters that the whole family is a bunch of disappointments. The only one who will never let her down is Emanuel. He knows what he wants, and he doesn’t stop until he gets it. {If only she knew…yeah, as many candles and kisses and deep meaningful looks of amooooooor as it takes, he will get what he wants.}
Emanuel and Marianela flirt and kiss some more amongst the trees. Mari jumps on his back and he nearly collapses. Har har. They go into the church and smooch at the altar. They throw flower petals all over themselves outside and kiss some more. Practicing the wedding, now that they’ve already started practicing for the honeymoon, I guess.
Lorena convinces Axel that everyone who says he’s gay (a word he can’t bring himself to pronounce) is just a lying gossip. Especially his nasty cousin Marianela. She’s just out to get the whole family.
Emanuel tells Mari they’re going to have the most beautiful wedding ever, and she will be the most beautiful bride in the whole world. Would she prefer the cathedral, or this little chapel? Hold yer horses, buckaroo, she says. They need to go home. He says they should go out to eat. She says they just had quesadillas. In that case, he counters, they should exercise. She thinks they’ve been stalling long enough. “Do you like horses? Have you ever ridden?” is his answer to that. Then he steamrolls her protests.
Netty tells Gladiola about the audition, but says she can’t focus on it what with everything else going on. Glad tells her this is the perfect distraction. She’s got to jumpstart her career, and besides, Mari is surely fine. Netty pulls out the script and sees that the scene is with a man. Who could possibly help her with this? “You called?” asks her lawyer, walking right in to the unsecured house.
Lowrenzo’s lawyer tells him to claim that Agent Orange deceived him, and he didn’t know the business he was investing in involved bootleg booze. Lowrenzo can only think of his baby. He tells the lawyer to tell Garduño he won’t be placated with free legal services. He wants the heads of the idiots who killed his child.
Netty and her lawyer (sorry, I cannot remember his name right now) rehearse the scene. She’s begging him to leave his wife. He says he can’t. She says get out of my house, then. Emiliano walks in just in time to hear the lawyer say he can’t leave Netty, and he especially can’t let her go back to THAT guy. “That guy is an imbecile! He means nothing to me! I only love you!” Netty says. “Netty! What is the meaning of this?” demands Emiliano.
Emanuel and Marianela ride horses. They carve their initials in a heart in a tree. Poor tree. They smooch some more. Yadda yadda yadda.
Tomorrow: Marianela and Emanuel go out for dinner and Luis Fonsi sings for them, while everyone gathers in Misery Manor and wonders where in tarnation they are. They finally show up and announce that they are in love. Many vapors are had.
Labels: llena
La Verdad Oculta #040: Roberto the Highwayman
In the club office, frustrated and perplexed Roberto and Carlos dither over why Juan José is hiding his name and throwing around so much money -- when only recently he was desperately poor. Carlos suspects Juan José is behind the Mirador purchase, too; and Roberto keeps momentarily mum on the name deception to uncover the truth.
Out in the bar, Adolfo conversationally pumps unsuspecting Bertha about Mario and his family and quietly plays on her resentment and ambitions, even initiating familiar address to foster intimacy. Some innate sense leads Bertha to disavow her interest in David when Adolfo asks.
Secretly content to hear Mario seems ill, Adolfo assures her he himself is happy to help with whatever she might need, which pleases Bertha. When she exits for the powder room, Roberto enters; and Adolfo cuts Roberto's grinning wink about Bertha short, disgusted Roberto lost his entry to Mario's and now Adolfo must cultivate another way with Bertha.
Absorbed in a family photograph, Gabriela weeps in her new bedroom at Mario's; when David enters, he assures her Santiago will improve seeing Gabriela is happy. She's comfortable with Mario, and David insists he will deal with problems Bertha might cause. She entreats him to never cease loving her, and David in turn that she never hide anything; and they seal it with a kiss.
Back at the club, Adolfo exits with Bertha for more private digs; and Carlos approaches Julieta demanding why his dad is with Bertha. Julieta wouldn't know and irritably blows him off; whereupon David rudely and publicly reminds her she's just a waitress and can't come in late just because Gabriela married David. Julieta turns and shouts that Gabriela married a real man -- and quits the building.
In his office, Mario expresses his pride in Alejandra and that he's now going to fill her in on the rest of the plan, which she will need to know. She watches him switch the cameras on, and they exit the secret door; inside the tunnel, Alejandra points out Juan José's old well spot, assuring Mario Juan José suspects nothing.
Luckily outside Julieta's apartment, Leonardo pulls up the same time as her taxi, so he can lend her the fare, having left her purse behind. She explains the dust up; and Leonardo will help her find another job, as well as retrieving her things. Julieta gives Leonardo a tender look as he pays her taxi.
Emerging into the tunnel house, Alejandra insists they must replace the louvers and set an alarm against another break in. Mario amazes her with the studio; but as they sit, most surprising is Mario's contention of who and what Juan José really is. She is horrified and incredulous to hear Mario painfully tell the frame-up murder story and his unwitting part in it.
When Alejandra shoots to her feet, begging to know what harm she herself did to make Juan José want to use her like that, Mario guesses it's to approach himself and Adolfo. Mario can see Juan José likes Alejandra and hopes she can uncover his intentions -- and help him prove his innocence. Weeping bitterly, Mario begs her to convey how deeply sorry he is; and to keep up a friendship with Gabriela.
Leonardo accompanies Julieta to her apartment door; and she kisses him goodbye on the cheek, securing a promise he will take her to the movies. At breakfast at gorgeous Juan José's, Asunción's relieved Juan José took his Elsa pep talk alright; it's just the truth, Juan José says. However, it's also true that he likes Alejandra very, very much, Juan José rhapsodizes -- before informing Asunción they're finalizing the hotel sale that day.
Dora introduces herself to Gabriela, sitting lonesome at the big breakfast table -- the workers already gone and slacker still abed -- making Gabriela feel a little more comfortable. In town, a generously smiling Mauricio introduces an apprehensive Elsa to her new job and explains the company will invest in a new wardrobe commensurate with their image. So, there will be shopping; and Elsa is smiling.
Julieta cheers lonely Gabriela up on the phone with her good-natured envy; just then Leonardo rings the bell, and she greets him with a smile and the uniform he'll return to the club for her. When asked, he admits Gabriela's marriage surprised him and that he really liked her. But now Julieta reminds him he's taking her to the movies and kisses him on the cheek goodbye again. He'll return with her purse that evening.
Juan José phones Gabriela to meet about the subject of his name change. And then there's a segment of complete identity change, revealing how Santiago becomes Mario in the studio. When he's finished, Mario frightens Santiago by insisting he try the disguise out right away.
At Mario's, Alejandra is gushing over dozens of red roses anonymously sent to Bertha, when "Mario" zips by dismissively in the hallway, prompting Bertha to observe he's getting nuttier every day. David enters to speak urgently with "Mario," who dives to close the office draperies. David insists the Ávilas be invited to the wedding to downplay the importance of the beach-house flap.
"Mario" seems to have passed his first test, as he heaves a sigh once alone again. At a restaurant, Juan José and Gabriela agree to keep each other's secrets: his fantastic tale -- and that she met him at the market. Her husband is the jealous sort, and Juan José makes it plain he can definitely see why. They agree to be friends.
While "Mario" sweats it out at the big house, Mario and Abelardo wait at the tunnel house, where Mario explains that tomorrow after the wedding he will set off for Veracruz and the ocean liner carrying him to Europe -- never to return. He's leaving behind a letter for David in case Santiago is discovered.
Susana lays on Elsa's doorbell to no avail, when Carlos appears and seizes on Susana's mistaken assumption that he's Juan José to spend time with her and pump her for information. At a restaurant, Bertha greets Adolfo affectionately and flatters him for sending the flowers while he gathers intel about the family. Importantly, he learns Mario will be traveling by car tomorrow for Veracruz.
At a different restaurant, the less-deft Carlos makes a gaff, spooking Susana, who rushes away. He claimed he intends to spring Elsa's brother from prison. So he learns nothing about how Juan José suddenly acquired so much money. Meanwhile, Adolfo rushes to Roberto's condo to excitedly instruct him he will dispatch Mario on the road tomorrow!
Out in the bar, Adolfo conversationally pumps unsuspecting Bertha about Mario and his family and quietly plays on her resentment and ambitions, even initiating familiar address to foster intimacy. Some innate sense leads Bertha to disavow her interest in David when Adolfo asks.
Secretly content to hear Mario seems ill, Adolfo assures her he himself is happy to help with whatever she might need, which pleases Bertha. When she exits for the powder room, Roberto enters; and Adolfo cuts Roberto's grinning wink about Bertha short, disgusted Roberto lost his entry to Mario's and now Adolfo must cultivate another way with Bertha.
Absorbed in a family photograph, Gabriela weeps in her new bedroom at Mario's; when David enters, he assures her Santiago will improve seeing Gabriela is happy. She's comfortable with Mario, and David insists he will deal with problems Bertha might cause. She entreats him to never cease loving her, and David in turn that she never hide anything; and they seal it with a kiss.
Back at the club, Adolfo exits with Bertha for more private digs; and Carlos approaches Julieta demanding why his dad is with Bertha. Julieta wouldn't know and irritably blows him off; whereupon David rudely and publicly reminds her she's just a waitress and can't come in late just because Gabriela married David. Julieta turns and shouts that Gabriela married a real man -- and quits the building.
In his office, Mario expresses his pride in Alejandra and that he's now going to fill her in on the rest of the plan, which she will need to know. She watches him switch the cameras on, and they exit the secret door; inside the tunnel, Alejandra points out Juan José's old well spot, assuring Mario Juan José suspects nothing.
Luckily outside Julieta's apartment, Leonardo pulls up the same time as her taxi, so he can lend her the fare, having left her purse behind. She explains the dust up; and Leonardo will help her find another job, as well as retrieving her things. Julieta gives Leonardo a tender look as he pays her taxi.
Emerging into the tunnel house, Alejandra insists they must replace the louvers and set an alarm against another break in. Mario amazes her with the studio; but as they sit, most surprising is Mario's contention of who and what Juan José really is. She is horrified and incredulous to hear Mario painfully tell the frame-up murder story and his unwitting part in it.
When Alejandra shoots to her feet, begging to know what harm she herself did to make Juan José want to use her like that, Mario guesses it's to approach himself and Adolfo. Mario can see Juan José likes Alejandra and hopes she can uncover his intentions -- and help him prove his innocence. Weeping bitterly, Mario begs her to convey how deeply sorry he is; and to keep up a friendship with Gabriela.
Leonardo accompanies Julieta to her apartment door; and she kisses him goodbye on the cheek, securing a promise he will take her to the movies. At breakfast at gorgeous Juan José's, Asunción's relieved Juan José took his Elsa pep talk alright; it's just the truth, Juan José says. However, it's also true that he likes Alejandra very, very much, Juan José rhapsodizes -- before informing Asunción they're finalizing the hotel sale that day.
Dora introduces herself to Gabriela, sitting lonesome at the big breakfast table -- the workers already gone and slacker still abed -- making Gabriela feel a little more comfortable. In town, a generously smiling Mauricio introduces an apprehensive Elsa to her new job and explains the company will invest in a new wardrobe commensurate with their image. So, there will be shopping; and Elsa is smiling.
Julieta cheers lonely Gabriela up on the phone with her good-natured envy; just then Leonardo rings the bell, and she greets him with a smile and the uniform he'll return to the club for her. When asked, he admits Gabriela's marriage surprised him and that he really liked her. But now Julieta reminds him he's taking her to the movies and kisses him on the cheek goodbye again. He'll return with her purse that evening.
Juan José phones Gabriela to meet about the subject of his name change. And then there's a segment of complete identity change, revealing how Santiago becomes Mario in the studio. When he's finished, Mario frightens Santiago by insisting he try the disguise out right away.
At Mario's, Alejandra is gushing over dozens of red roses anonymously sent to Bertha, when "Mario" zips by dismissively in the hallway, prompting Bertha to observe he's getting nuttier every day. David enters to speak urgently with "Mario," who dives to close the office draperies. David insists the Ávilas be invited to the wedding to downplay the importance of the beach-house flap.
"Mario" seems to have passed his first test, as he heaves a sigh once alone again. At a restaurant, Juan José and Gabriela agree to keep each other's secrets: his fantastic tale -- and that she met him at the market. Her husband is the jealous sort, and Juan José makes it plain he can definitely see why. They agree to be friends.
While "Mario" sweats it out at the big house, Mario and Abelardo wait at the tunnel house, where Mario explains that tomorrow after the wedding he will set off for Veracruz and the ocean liner carrying him to Europe -- never to return. He's leaving behind a letter for David in case Santiago is discovered.
Susana lays on Elsa's doorbell to no avail, when Carlos appears and seizes on Susana's mistaken assumption that he's Juan José to spend time with her and pump her for information. At a restaurant, Bertha greets Adolfo affectionately and flatters him for sending the flowers while he gathers intel about the family. Importantly, he learns Mario will be traveling by car tomorrow for Veracruz.
At a different restaurant, the less-deft Carlos makes a gaff, spooking Susana, who rushes away. He claimed he intends to spring Elsa's brother from prison. So he learns nothing about how Juan José suddenly acquired so much money. Meanwhile, Adolfo rushes to Roberto's condo to excitedly instruct him he will dispatch Mario on the road tomorrow!
Labels: verdad
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Life after El Clon: El Mundo de Telemundo
What makes a TN watchable, I’ve decided, are the engaging featured players at its heart. Now that doesn’t make the thing great, only divertido. And using that criterion, Aurora is definitely fun. Sara Maldonado (Aurora), Jorge Luis Pila (Lorenzo, 2010) and Eugenio Siller (Lorenzo 1990, Martín 2010) are easy on the eyes and ears and all know their craft. But they are also all very likeable. What do you all think?
What has happened so far in Aurora?
We’ve been invited into the murky world of cryonics where people deny the finality of death by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their corpses preserved at very low temperatures in the hopes of eventual resuscitation when the cure for their death is readily at hand.
As a cursory Google search will show, this world really does exist. Since the 1960’s, actual versions of Dr. Ponce de León have been selling space in their freezers; and if you can’t afford the deluxe full-body version, they’ll happily welcome you into their heads-only (or even brain-only) bargain basement.
Could it work?
Is it possible to raise the dead, unharmed? From what I’ve read, it’s a very tricky proposition. For one thing, it depends on what you mean by dead. If the holy grail of cryonics is bringing back an intact personality, well, it’s hard to imagine any definition of death that would allow that. If we assume that higher brain function is the first thing lost – the ‘brain death’ that justifies removing organs for donation from a still biologically living donor – how can we expect a ‘brain-dead’ popsicle to be neurologically intact years later? Would you have to anticipate death but not wait for it? That is, would you have to freeze people who were still neurologically intact?
All told, this business of cryopreservation and resuscitation is not totally impossible, theoretically speaking, but the science just isn’t there yet. And when the science eventually catches up with the desire, all those expensive popsicles will likely be out of luck since their antiquated preservation has almost certainly destroyed them.
And yet… and yet… we are in TelenovelaLand where the laws of nature and logic do not apply. Dr. Creepy has raised his lovely daughter from the near dead. It would be the scientific coup of the day and our old friend Augusto Albieri would not have hesitated to take credit for it. But surprisingly, Aurora’s father worries that her life would be blighted if the press were to get wind of her undead status. This leads to three major plot developments:
The latest Big Lie:
Inés and Gustavo (Aurora’s actual parents) tell Blanca (Aurora and Lorenzo’s actual daughter who has been raised to believe she is the daughter of Inés and Gustavo and sister of Aurora) that Aurora had a daughter who was abducted many years ago. Got that? Okay, now she has been found and she will be living at the Ponce de León home. That would make this Beta-Aurora the grandchild of los Ponce de León and Blanca’s niece. Everyone is supposed to believe that Alpha-Aurora is still languishing in the freezer.
The Betrayal:
One of the doctors in the Cryonics facility secretly films the Great Thaw and then sells it to the highest bidder, Eduardo Hutton, wealthy magazine publisher and member of the Ponce de León social circle.
Now Eduardo is a nasty piece of work:
He is married to Vanesa, Alpha-Aurora’s old frenemy and now successful telenovela villain who likes to boast that in real-life, she is worse than the characters she plays on the screen. (And just a glance at her surgically-enhanced enormous ass and lips would be a giveaway to her profession: she looks like a mandrill in estrus decked out in a mini-falda and tacones. She is in the sisterhood of Ivana in STUD and now, Victoria in Eva Luna).
Eduardo can’t understand why the Creepy One values his daughter’s well-being over his own scientific glorification. (Nor can we, really. Could Ponce de León be that rarest of telenovela beasts, a Multidimensional Character?)
A spiteful ex-lover has dragged Vanesa and Eduardo through the tabloids, an unforgivable humiliation in Vanesa’s view.
The First Murder:
I didn’t think this was a murdering kind of story, but apparently I was wrong. A woman – all we can see are her black gloves and black stocking clad legs -- poisons Eduardo. Why? For cheating on the mandrill? For spurning his girlfriend? For revealing the secret of Alpha-Aurora?
Since he’s not just a friend, he’s also a client, he manages to drag himself to Dr. Creepy’s lab for freezing. (Martín is excited about getting himself some cryo-action. Maybe he gets to empty some of the baggies of ice cubes into Eduardo’s capsule/coffin.) While Eduardo’s wife and lover both hated him enough to wish him dead, the killer turns out to be a dark horse: Dra Elizabeth.
Elizabeth is Dr. Creepy’s office wife. She has been in love with him for years but, alas, it has been un amor no correspondido (unrequited). Even now that Dr. Creepy and Inés live apart, their marriage a casualty of Aurora’s tragic fate, he is uninterested in her. When she confesses what she has done, Dr. Creepy threatens to call the police. But she threatens right back: She knows his secrets and where all the bodies are not buried.
Another plot thread yet to be embroidered in the tapestry:
Cesar is the son of Lorenzo and Natalia and half-brother of Nina and Martín, and currently in prison. He is about to be released, if his prison enemies don’t off him first.
Latest development:
Both Martín and Lorenzo open their hearts to loving Beta-Aurora now that she has assured them she is not sister to one nor daughter to the other. [My money is on Lorenzo. Alpha-Beta Aurora seems like an old soul in a young body; once she realized who Martín actually was, she no longer saw him as a lover. She, apparently, has boundaries.]
Last night, perhaps softened by Martín’s words, Blanca realized that neither Alpha- nor Beta-Aurora is her enemy. She and Beta-Aurora strike up an alliance.
The previews show Beta-Aurora arriving at Lorenzo’s dance studio. Anyone want to bet that Nina’s reign as top student is about to come to an end?
Comments about Aurora or any other Telemundo novelas? I'd love to hear what you think about Alguien te Mira. I still don't know where the plot is going although I was glad to see Lola and Pedro Pablo reconciled last night. Looks like their happiness isn't going to last very long though...
What has happened so far in Aurora?
We’ve been invited into the murky world of cryonics where people deny the finality of death by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their corpses preserved at very low temperatures in the hopes of eventual resuscitation when the cure for their death is readily at hand.
As a cursory Google search will show, this world really does exist. Since the 1960’s, actual versions of Dr. Ponce de León have been selling space in their freezers; and if you can’t afford the deluxe full-body version, they’ll happily welcome you into their heads-only (or even brain-only) bargain basement.
Could it work?
Is it possible to raise the dead, unharmed? From what I’ve read, it’s a very tricky proposition. For one thing, it depends on what you mean by dead. If the holy grail of cryonics is bringing back an intact personality, well, it’s hard to imagine any definition of death that would allow that. If we assume that higher brain function is the first thing lost – the ‘brain death’ that justifies removing organs for donation from a still biologically living donor – how can we expect a ‘brain-dead’ popsicle to be neurologically intact years later? Would you have to anticipate death but not wait for it? That is, would you have to freeze people who were still neurologically intact?
All told, this business of cryopreservation and resuscitation is not totally impossible, theoretically speaking, but the science just isn’t there yet. And when the science eventually catches up with the desire, all those expensive popsicles will likely be out of luck since their antiquated preservation has almost certainly destroyed them.
And yet… and yet… we are in TelenovelaLand where the laws of nature and logic do not apply. Dr. Creepy has raised his lovely daughter from the near dead. It would be the scientific coup of the day and our old friend Augusto Albieri would not have hesitated to take credit for it. But surprisingly, Aurora’s father worries that her life would be blighted if the press were to get wind of her undead status. This leads to three major plot developments:
The latest Big Lie:
Inés and Gustavo (Aurora’s actual parents) tell Blanca (Aurora and Lorenzo’s actual daughter who has been raised to believe she is the daughter of Inés and Gustavo and sister of Aurora) that Aurora had a daughter who was abducted many years ago. Got that? Okay, now she has been found and she will be living at the Ponce de León home. That would make this Beta-Aurora the grandchild of los Ponce de León and Blanca’s niece. Everyone is supposed to believe that Alpha-Aurora is still languishing in the freezer.
The Betrayal:
One of the doctors in the Cryonics facility secretly films the Great Thaw and then sells it to the highest bidder, Eduardo Hutton, wealthy magazine publisher and member of the Ponce de León social circle.
Now Eduardo is a nasty piece of work:
He is married to Vanesa, Alpha-Aurora’s old frenemy and now successful telenovela villain who likes to boast that in real-life, she is worse than the characters she plays on the screen. (And just a glance at her surgically-enhanced enormous ass and lips would be a giveaway to her profession: she looks like a mandrill in estrus decked out in a mini-falda and tacones. She is in the sisterhood of Ivana in STUD and now, Victoria in Eva Luna).
Eduardo can’t understand why the Creepy One values his daughter’s well-being over his own scientific glorification. (Nor can we, really. Could Ponce de León be that rarest of telenovela beasts, a Multidimensional Character?)
A spiteful ex-lover has dragged Vanesa and Eduardo through the tabloids, an unforgivable humiliation in Vanesa’s view.
The First Murder:
I didn’t think this was a murdering kind of story, but apparently I was wrong. A woman – all we can see are her black gloves and black stocking clad legs -- poisons Eduardo. Why? For cheating on the mandrill? For spurning his girlfriend? For revealing the secret of Alpha-Aurora?
Since he’s not just a friend, he’s also a client, he manages to drag himself to Dr. Creepy’s lab for freezing. (Martín is excited about getting himself some cryo-action. Maybe he gets to empty some of the baggies of ice cubes into Eduardo’s capsule/coffin.) While Eduardo’s wife and lover both hated him enough to wish him dead, the killer turns out to be a dark horse: Dra Elizabeth.
Elizabeth is Dr. Creepy’s office wife. She has been in love with him for years but, alas, it has been un amor no correspondido (unrequited). Even now that Dr. Creepy and Inés live apart, their marriage a casualty of Aurora’s tragic fate, he is uninterested in her. When she confesses what she has done, Dr. Creepy threatens to call the police. But she threatens right back: She knows his secrets and where all the bodies are not buried.
Another plot thread yet to be embroidered in the tapestry:
Cesar is the son of Lorenzo and Natalia and half-brother of Nina and Martín, and currently in prison. He is about to be released, if his prison enemies don’t off him first.
Latest development:
Both Martín and Lorenzo open their hearts to loving Beta-Aurora now that she has assured them she is not sister to one nor daughter to the other. [My money is on Lorenzo. Alpha-Beta Aurora seems like an old soul in a young body; once she realized who Martín actually was, she no longer saw him as a lover. She, apparently, has boundaries.]
Last night, perhaps softened by Martín’s words, Blanca realized that neither Alpha- nor Beta-Aurora is her enemy. She and Beta-Aurora strike up an alliance.
The previews show Beta-Aurora arriving at Lorenzo’s dance studio. Anyone want to bet that Nina’s reign as top student is about to come to an end?
Comments about Aurora or any other Telemundo novelas? I'd love to hear what you think about Alguien te Mira. I still don't know where the plot is going although I was glad to see Lola and Pedro Pablo reconciled last night. Looks like their happiness isn't going to last very long though...
Labels: alguien, aurora, clon, fantasma, telemundo
Eva Luna #6 Mon 11/8/10 A Night for Faux Pas
Eva refuses to consider that Daniel might be in love with her. She tells Alicia that he’s still trying to have a good time at her expense.
Daniel though, can’t get Eva out of his head; he’s wondering if she read the note yet and why he even sent it to begin with. He tells himself he can’t understand what’s happened to him or why her forgiving him should matter so much.
Alicia asks Eva why the guy who sent her the flowers can’t be in love with her? Eva says because they’ve only met and spoken a couple of times and each time it was one disaster after another. No way has it She tells her kid sis that this man is the last one on earth she’d ever fall in love with. Discussion over.
At Los Arimendi, old Don Julio is rolling around his room and moping. He tells Max that he is the only one he knows that still cares about him or loves him. Marcella even made sure that his two children deserted him and neither of them ever comes to see him any longer. In another part of the house, Renata is getting ready for bed. She takes out and fingers the packet of love letters she wrote over the years but never sent to Don Julio. And, in a third section of the manse, mean Murderous Marcy picks up a picture of her and Don Julio and says that while he’s dying more and more each day her desire to live life increases.
Back in Dano’s bedroom, he’s still pacing and wondering why he’s fallen in love with Eva. He remember’s Francisco’s mentioning that it wouldn’t be the first time a man fell in love with his protégé.
Alicia is now asleep, but Eva is awake and thinking about Dan and why he would make the effort to write her let alone send flowers and his driver over. She thinks about what Alicia told her and remembers his asking her to smile for him the next time they saw each other. She decides the best thing is to forget him and avoid running into him again. (Good luck with that, girlfriend! Not only is he close friends with Leo, but he dates Leo’s sister and lives in the neighborhood. No way you’re not gonna be tripping over him daily!) She turns out the light.
The next afternoon/early evening? Eva is in Victoria’s room helping her to look for a special bra for the dress she’s modeling during the fashion show. She makes lots of points for finding it and Vicky takes a minute to thank her for sewing the dress she needed for her interview earlier. Eva tells her her aunt taught her to sew and always said she had a knack for it. Vicky decides to give her one of her expensive bracelets as a sign of appreciation and she names her as her personal assistant. (Ok. One more reason she’ll be bumping into Dan continually.)
Anyway, Dano comes by to take Vicky to the auditorium for dress rehearsal before going back home to get ready himself. He looks around the kitchen like he’s looking for somebody and Renata asks if he is looking for Leo. “Nope. Can you get me a glass of water, please though?” He sneaks out on Ren and heads into see Vicky. He’s surprised to see Eva there helping her and Vicky explains what’s up. He reminds her they need to get rolling. Vicky walks into another room for a moment and Dan grumbles mockingly tp Eva in a low voice about people who receive cards and flowers and don’t have the courtesy of mentioning them. Eva ignores him and hurries out of the bedroom. Vicky rushes back out and asks Dan what he did to Eva to make her race off like that.
Downstairs in the kitchen Eva’s cleaning up when Leo walks in and begins to tell her she’s pretty enough to be a model. He kicks into seduction mode, complimenting her eyes, hair and body. He’s close enough so that their bodies nearly touch.
Back in Vicky’s room, she tells Dan she was only joking about Eva. She tells him about the bracelet she gave her. She lays a beso on him. Lovey Dovey. FF>>
In the kitchen Eva excuses herself and nervously starts cleaning up again. He apologizes and smoothly changes the subject to her mother and father. She explains her situation and he milks her daddy’s death for all it’s worth. In a minute he’s got her weeping on his shoulder and hugging him. What a compassionate kind of guy! (Gag me!) A few seconds later Daniel walks back through the kitchen and spies the two of them. She’s got her back to Dan and doesn’t see him or Leo’s smug grin. Dan is saucer-eyed impactado, not to mention all shades of Jealousy Green.
Vicky stops in to say adios to Mama and starts to go to see her father before leaving. Mad Marcy stops her from seeing him by lying and saying he’s taking a nap and to let it wait till tomorrow.
Dano gets snippy and asks if he’s interrupting. Leo says actually he is. “Well, I’ll let you alone so you can continue “chatting”! Eva knows what it looks like and offers to leave but Leo stops her. Dan says no, but it seems your little boss-man here is about to “take advantage” of you. Eva takes offense and defends Leo actions by going off on Dan. “--And if you think that by sending me letters and flowers with your chauffeur you’re going to get anything from me, you’re mistaken!” She storms out. Leo laughs afterwards. “--You sent her notes and flowers? What a genious!” He says he prefers something more dirct: “action” to . “Dan warns him off her. “—Leave her in peace!” “—No, YOU leave her in peace. Come on. What do you say to doubling the bet since I’m going to win anyway?” Vicky walks through and Dan and she leave.
Back at the boarding house, Doña Justa notices that little Adrian’s been moping around the place all day. It seems that his father didn’t come home the night before and he still hasn’t heard from him. Her boxing trainer boyfriend tries looking for him but comes up with goose-eggs.
Downtown during rehearsal, designer Diego needs an extra seamstress to help out with alterations since one called in sick. Vicki says she knows just the right person and calls the house to Renata to have Eva sent over. Renata gives Eva the word. She goes for her things and leaves the kitchen. The cook mentions to Renata that it seems Eva has won over everyone in the house, including Don Julio. Renata frowns. Anyway, she calls Dan about Eva needing to be sent down to the fashion show to help out Vicky. She thinks better of it and says she’ll send her in a taxi instead, but Dan insists on taking her and hangs up. He smiles to himself at this additional chance to be with her.
Renata rushes Eva out of the house and tells herself she can’t understand why Sr. Daniel would insist on taking Eva to the fashion show. “Has to be something strange going on.”
The old boxer takes Tony outside and explains the situation. Tony has connections and says he will go around and try finding out where Adrian’s daddy might have gone.
When Eva sees it’s Dano standing there to take her she gets grumpy again. Dan asks her what’s the problem? Not only did he send her notes and flowers and his driver to ask her to forgive him, now she’s even gotten him to become her chauffeur! What’s it going to take, anyway? She gripes and grouses a bit more but eventually gets into the car and they leave.
Tony enters El Gallo’s gambling den of iniquity and starts asking the dealers for news of Tomas, Adrian’s daddy. He gets taken to El Gallo’s office right away. El Gallo tells him that he’s put a hit out on the guy. (I guess that means Thomas has taken a powder.) He warns Tony to keep out of his business. Tony says he isn’t really interested in what’s going on, but his little boy is involved. One of El Gallo’s goons reminds El Gallo that they didn’t take Thomas’s kid into consideration.
During the drive to the show, Eva asks why he specifically happens to be the one taking her there and why he always is after her and bumping into her. He keeps asking her about having read the note. She ignores him and says flowers and a card aren’t going to win her trust (I think). He asks if she’s going to keep scolding him all night. It’s getting old and she’s being unfair; he’s done everything he could think of to show her he’s sorry! Finally Eva is shamed into recanting and says, well since that was your intention, then you’re forgiven. Dan wants to know if she read the letter or not. She gives in and says yes, but if… Dan interrupts and says that was NOT my intention. They both end up trying to fight back a smile and when they pull up to a stop light Eva remembers the car show and Daniel and her staring at each other after he saved her from falling to the floor when she tripped.
People are driving up outside the fashion show. Some 30 something stud gets out at the same time Marcy does and notices her. Dan drives up a couple cars back and lets Eva out, but only after she asks him why he wrote the letter. He assures her it was only to make sure she didn’t think he was some kind of boorish lout who was just out to have a bit of fun at her expense. She smiles and says she believes him. He smiles back, relieved and happy.
Inside the building, Vicky calls home to find out how long till Eva arrives. Renata tells her that Sr. Daniel left a half hour earlier with Eva. Vicky is a bit surprised to learn that Daniel insisted on taking Eva rather than letting her take a cab. Outside again, Marcy meets up with Dano and Eva and wants to know what gives. Dan explains and after she gives Eva her blessing, so to speak, she asks Dan why he brought her. Dan explains it just made sense since he was on his way anyway. Marcy asks if it was out of kindness or self-interest. He sidesteps an answer and gives her his arm.
Back inside the building, Marcy and Dan meet up with Leo. Leo finds out that Dan brought Eva. Dan’s grins like the Cheshire Cat. “—Don’t worry! We talked about everything in the world, except you!” He offers to get Leo a drink, smiles and pats his shoulder, then heads for the bar. Leo is not a happy camper.
Eva rushes around in back and Marcy has dinner with a buddy of her husband’s. When asked she says D.Julio is really bad off and may not make it for very much longer.
During the dinner chat Thirty-Something Stud Guy keeps staring at Marcy from across the room and vice versa. Turns out Stud Guy’s name is Bruno and he and Leo are old pals.
Back in the dressing room, Eva is introduced to Diego. He makes a big deal about Eva’s skill and says he’s even more impressed by her looks. She could be a “Miss Universe.” Vicky overhears this and moves in to squelch the competition from The Help by taking another opportunity to thank Diego for the chance to close the show.
At the boarding house Alicia is bored and wants to go to work with Marisol. She actually becomes a pest and since Marisol can’t exactly take her to the strip joint (the real place she works at), she tricks Alicia into changing while she sneaks out and races off.
Leo introduces Bruno to Mama Marcy and they exchange double-entendres for greetings which apparently go over Leo’s head. After Mama leaves, Leo says it was a good thing he told Bruno she was his mother or knowing him, Bruno would have asked her to go out with him.
A few minutes later the fashion show begins. Eva is watching by the lighting technicians in the back of the room.
Marisol’s old squeeze/pimp, the strip-joint owner, tells him to put on a sexy dress and dance especially for him tonight. That’s the last thing she wants to do but of course, she hasn’t got a choice.
Dona Justa and Boxer Guy put Adrian to bed and wonder what to do with him if his daddy doesn’t come back for some reason.
During the fashion show Leo starts looking around the room and he sees Eva in back. He gets up and surprises her. Dano watches Leo walk towards her and flirt. Now Dano’s not the happy camper. For some reason she doesn’t suspect Leo of a thing even though the first thing out of his mouth is another flirtatious compliment: “It’s incredible, but even at a distance I can see your pretty eyes.” (Dunno. Maybe the music’s just too loud for her to make it all out.) Eva giggles and tells Leo he startled her. Leo mentions that if he’d known she was here he would have had her sit with them. She says no, she couldn’t have; she’s not even supposed to be there.
Dan keeps giving Leo the evil eye from across the room. Leo says of course it’s alright, and he’s rather glad she’s there so close to him. This finally puts her on guard and she hints at being uncomfortable. “Señor!” “—What’s with the Señor? It’s about time you forget the Sr. stuff and just call me Leonardo.” Now his voice turns seductive again. “—or maybe just… Leo.” He starts playing with her hair. Eva reminds him to behave himself. Leo invites her for a drink to make her relax. She angrily asks him if he’s crazy or what and tells him it would be better if he goes back to his seat.
Okay! Vicky and the wedding dress she’s modeling to close the show has just been announced and she begins to walk onto the stage. Across the room, though, Eva has just told off Leo.”—Back off! You don’t know what I’m capable of if you don’t!.” She storms away from him and-- Ooopss! Suddenly all the music, lights and sound go dead as Eva accidentally kicks the wires on the floor and disconnects the main wire. For an extremely embarrassing moment all seems to be lost. Eva apologizes to the crew. Leo taps her arm and tells her to just leave them alone so they can do their job and get it all working again. She hisses at him to leave her alone and not to touch her again!
Once the strobes come back on, Vicky saves the day by calmly explaining that this is exactly how they planned getting the audience’s attention for the best outfit of the evening. Everyone applauds and no one but Mama seems to notice it wasn’t. Eva thanks the Diosito that everything turned out alright despite her screw up.
Tony comes back home and he and Alicia go together to a disco for a little dancing. She can’t understand why Marisol dumped on her this way. Tony reminds her that Mari has her…”boyfriend problems.”
Back at the manse, Renata brings Julio his medicine and Juliio asks where Eva is. Renata says she’s taking care of him because Eva had something else to do. He whines to her about everyone abandoning him. She insists that she still is there for him and cares about him. (She tiptoes on eggshells when she says it. Viewerville gets a creepy feeling but we still don’t know the whole history here between the two of them.) Don Julio smiles at her and relaxes.
Daniel finds Leo during the reception. Leo smirks and hints that Vicky’s calling for him. Dan tells him he saw Eva with him during the show and how she nearly fell trying to run away from his harassing her. Leo says he’s taking his roll as “protector” a bit far. Daniel gets in Leo’s face and warns him to lay off or he will smash his face in and accuses him of sexual harassment. Leo dares him to just try putting a hand on him. Dan explodes and gives him a right hook to the jaw. In come the bouncer types. Bruno helps break up the fight. Dan reminds Leo in front of everyone that he dislikes threats. He repeats to Leo that he’d better lay off Eva and then struts off.
Bruno asks Leo what the dust up was all about and who this “Eva” is. Leo wipes the blood from his mouth and explains she’s a new conquest he’s got a bet over with the guy who just cuffed him.
After the show is over Mad Marcy goes back and threatens to have the production crew hounded out of the business for unprofessionalism. The head tech tells her that it was an accident cause by the model on the other side of the room. Mad Marcy looks as he points to Eva at the other side of the back. She explains she’s not a model. The tech says she should be because she’s really beautiful. Marcy suddenly decides to forget and forgive. She grumbles to herself: “—Ah! So she’s the guilty one.”
Marcy is smiling once again as she watches Vicky and the Univision interview/announcer give her publicity for saving the show with her remarks. Marcy tells Diego it was a good choice using Vicky to close the show with. Diego says her generous “donation” helped him make his choice.
Bruno flirts with Marcy while she watches Vicky and the press. He compliments her on her beauty and says it’s obviously inherited. Marcy says thanks, but it’s definitely not a question of being inherited. Bruno keeps bull-dozing with Marcy and says he thinks Marcy’s actually more beautiful than her daughter. They toast.
In another part of the reception, Vicky asks Dan if he knows what happened with the lighting and sound. He sidesteps and tells her to enjoy her well-deserved success and star of the show. Vicky smiles and says she wants to be his shining star for your nights as well. They toast and kiss again as Eva watches and sighs.
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La Fea Más Bella #81-82 11/9/10 Waiting for Ingala
Capitulo 81.Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 80 to 81. Then come back here to discuss it.
Paula asked me to post this link to dialog translations for these episodes.
Capitulo 82.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 82 to 84. Then come back here to discuss it.
Paula asked me to post this link to dialog translations for these episodes.
Capitulo 82.
Read Julie’s original recap which covers Cap’s 82 to 84. Then come back here to discuss it.
Thanks to Pata for the image of Ingala. Who is she???
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