Thursday, October 10, 2013
Breaking news! Brain injury reported in a Narvaez family member, details below! Wed 10/09/2013
Ah yes, you read that right, we started last nights episode with Simona riding up on her horse and seeing her husband and his ex-wife sharing a small kiss, he was just kissing her forehead but this was more than our dear Simona could deal with so she took off on her horse and suffered an accident.
Octavio and Maricruz both become alarmed and worry that Simona could be injured and that the baby she's expecting might be in danger-well, let me just say that maybe they should of thought about that before they started whatever the hell it is they have going on with each other, I mean seriously, Octavio is married, Maricruz claims to hate him, so why not just part ways? Never mind, if I think about this too much my head hurts.
So apparently Simona has gone missing and a search party is set up to locate her, Maricruz stays behind and frets, Santa and Perico urge her to go to bed but she refuses, it seems like our girl is feeling a little bit of guilt over Simona catching her and Octavio together, again, should of thought about this before she started going after a married man.
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La Tempestad Capitulo 53, Wed 10/9/13 - See ya, wouldn’t wanna Bea ya
This was an awkwardly edited episode. I combined some scenes which helped me but not necessarily the continuity of events. Did Uni combine episodes again?
¡Por supuesto que no!
Remember where we left off last night? Fully drops the bomb, he wants Laz to Kill DamFabre! Will Laz do that for him? Oh hell no! avers Laz. He won’t do anything against Dam. Fully says too bad, don’t you want me as an ally? Laz pops off that he won’t bloody his hands for Fully again and he stomps out. Fully laughs, Laz has got spunk (agallas), he’s Fully’s son all right.
Bea staggers around and clutches her chest, then pretends she feels fine when Becky bops in with newspaper pics of Queen Bea getting crowned. (By Hernan? How odd.) Becky babbles that this shows the townspeople are on their side. Bea makes the big mouth bass face some more when Becky’s not looking.
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Mentir Para Vivir #3 Wed 10/9/13 Oriana meets Ines and Alani meets Catalina.
Villa El Descanso:
Lucina and Manolo share a brewski on the patio. She tells him Raquel is off trying to drum up
business for their hotel. He wonders if
she might have gone to visit her friend Oriana.
Lucina repeats, again, they don't know where that woman went. Manolo doesn't hide the fact that he doesn't
believe her. Lucina changes the subject
to “la ahogada” (the drowned
one). Manolo shares she had drugs in her
system, poor thing. Lucina complains
that drunks and druggies are always coming here. She asks again that he allow her to put up a
fence. Why, just the other day there
were some drunk hooligans who came and even fired some shots. She didn't bother
to call him and ran them off herself.
Manolo's impressed, saying she sure has agallas (guts). Lucina
switches back to La Ahogada – so, did anyone claim her yet? Nope, no one's come by yet but that's not
what he came to talk to her about. He
wanted her to know that the Columbian authorities didn't waste any time
investigating her friend, Oriana.
They've discovered there is a bank account in her name with over $1.2
million dolares (GUAU!). She's shocked
and Manolo doesn't believe she didn't know about the money. Hell, if she'd known, she would've asked her to
help them pay some bills, maybe buy them a new hotel! Manolo explains it's too late cuz the
authorities have confiscated that money since it was surely ill gotten booty.
He asks again if she knows where Oriana is.
“Ya deja de chinchar! (stop
bugging)” She tells him again neither
she nor Raquel know Oriana’s whereabouts.
She takes back her beer and tells him to scram. I like this friendship.
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013
PEAM #152- 10/9/13: I Saw Paris, I Saw France, I Saw Chatita's Underpants!
Recap By Pablo
From above, she looked like one of those cabbage patch dolls, with the cloth body and the plastic legs sewed up. I hope this fall makes her only two neurons touch and she recovers her memory. Let's all make a chain of prayer tomorrow at noon to the Virgen of Guadalupe so she can be all right soon.
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Selective memory vs. accidental memory loss
Flying over Cerro de la silla and through the morning traffic we get to the Hospital del IMSS, where Chatita lays unconscious after the big fall she had when she was pushed by Marta. The doctor asks for relatives of Luisa Herrera (related to Tomasito, maybe?) but nobody knows her by that name. After looking at each other for several moments, they come to realize that the person they're referring to could be their beloved Chatita. She is! But she is so bad that now she doesn't remember anything. Before this fall she only remembered what she wanted to remember, right? Well, be careful what you wish for, because it can hit you in the head. The doctor needs to find her relatives but since nobody knows who Luisa Herrera is he has to describe her: Looks like a penguin.
-Oh, she is my mother! - says Jesús
-She is my girlfriend! -says Pánfilo.
-NOW she is? I thought you were after Susana again!- says Marisela
Once inside, Jesús and Pánfilo are mistaken for a pair of thieves who want to rob her. So sad, this half done miracle has sent Chatita's mind to a restore point dated before her Chato's death. She insists that she doesn't know them even when Pánfilo swears he is her Boyfriend, and if there's a thief in this room it is her, who has stolen his heart!!
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Mentir Para Vivir #2 Tue 10/8/13 Nice Try, Rhoda Penmark*
Casa de Don Gabriel
(Foyer): We watch patiently as Pretty
Ricky, agonizing over the death of his beloved father, performs several facial contortions
while he struggles to produce a single tear.
He informs his aunt, Fidelia, of Don Gabriel’s death. He was shot dead by a woman in a hotel. Pretty Ricky will travel to pick up the body
and she will contact Mariano, the priest and Sebastian, his younger brother.
Hotel El Descanso
Foyer: Lucina and Raquel (who's wearing Barbara
Eden’s genie costume) return to the lobby of the hotel. After a long day of hiding murder evidence,
Raquel is ravenously hungry and asks Felipe to whip up some sandwiches. Felipe tells them that all of the guests have
checked out. Once Felipe leaves, Raquel
thanks Lucina for helping her friend. Lucina
did it because she doesn’t want Allina placed in an orphanage. Raquel hid the gun in a flower pot and Lucina
has Oriana’s passport. Lucina tells
Raquel that Pretty Ricky, Gabriel’s son, is on his way to town.
Police Station: Lila, Don Gabriel’s widow, and her brother,
Berto Martin, visit the lead detective. Berto,
who looks like a cuter, younger, greasier, and slightly nervous version of
Grizzly Adams, listens as Lila and Det. Lopez discuss the shooting. Lila wants to take the body back to Tiajuana,
but Det. Lopez says they can’t release it until after the autopsy.
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PEAM, Tuesday 10/8/13 (#151): Cloak. Dagger. Banana Peel. Lobster?
New stuff in blue
Rewind: Chucho has given Valentina a cell phone and tells her to call him if she needs anything. He wants to talk to Rogelio; he's not home and Domitila doesn't know when he'll be back. Chucho asks about Vero's behavior. Domi says she's taken to her bed. She promises to keep an eye on Vale and let him know if Vero does anything to Vale. (But Domi doesn't, at least not in this episode.) As Domi prances away, I wonder if there are any podiatrists in Monterrey. Between the way Domitila walks and the way Jessica walks, they're going to need one.
Chucho tells Alma about Zsa Zsa's, I mean Tracy's, long-lost son Hector. He wants to reunite them. Alma offers to look into it. She apparently has no trouble tracking him down (she knows his first name, his mother's name, and it can't be all that hard to find out who his mom married by looking through old newspapers and records online) and he even agrees to meet with her the same day. Unfortunately I don't remember Xochi's "Dad" photo well enough to say if this is the guy and he looks way too young, but he's bitter about his mother. It was her obsession with work that drove his father to abandon them. (Wonder if that's the guy Mari's mom ran away with?) Hector has a wife and three kids of his own. Alma is shocked that these kids have never met their grandmother. Family is the most important thing. "Tell that to my mother," Hector says.
Depressed, Vero whines that Rogelio doesn't love her. Maybe he'll feel differently when she loses the baby! She doesn't care about anything, she says. She wants to stay in bed and sleep forever.
Valentina asks Vero to sign a permission slip or something for school. Vero has a temper tantrum. "I'm tired of you! Can't you see I'm sick?" She raises her hand to strike Valentina. Rogelio stops her. Vero is offended that he would side with his "archenemy" against her. Rogelio explains that little pranks are one thing, but hitting your daughter? Never! "As long as you live here, you won't touch a hair on her head," he tells Vero. I will never call him Rogue again!
Domitila sees Valentina crying. Vale says Mommy was going to hit her. She thanks Rogelio and even gives him a hug. He seems surprised to realize that he sort of likes this paternal feeling. They apologize to one another for all the pranks and agree that they were fun. But now she's missed the bus - so he drives her to school!
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Rewind: Chucho has given Valentina a cell phone and tells her to call him if she needs anything. He wants to talk to Rogelio; he's not home and Domitila doesn't know when he'll be back. Chucho asks about Vero's behavior. Domi says she's taken to her bed. She promises to keep an eye on Vale and let him know if Vero does anything to Vale. (But Domi doesn't, at least not in this episode.) As Domi prances away, I wonder if there are any podiatrists in Monterrey. Between the way Domitila walks and the way Jessica walks, they're going to need one.
Chucho tells Alma about Zsa Zsa's, I mean Tracy's, long-lost son Hector. He wants to reunite them. Alma offers to look into it. She apparently has no trouble tracking him down (she knows his first name, his mother's name, and it can't be all that hard to find out who his mom married by looking through old newspapers and records online) and he even agrees to meet with her the same day. Unfortunately I don't remember Xochi's "Dad" photo well enough to say if this is the guy and he looks way too young, but he's bitter about his mother. It was her obsession with work that drove his father to abandon them. (Wonder if that's the guy Mari's mom ran away with?) Hector has a wife and three kids of his own. Alma is shocked that these kids have never met their grandmother. Family is the most important thing. "Tell that to my mother," Hector says.
Depressed, Vero whines that Rogelio doesn't love her. Maybe he'll feel differently when she loses the baby! She doesn't care about anything, she says. She wants to stay in bed and sleep forever.
Valentina asks Vero to sign a permission slip or something for school. Vero has a temper tantrum. "I'm tired of you! Can't you see I'm sick?" She raises her hand to strike Valentina. Rogelio stops her. Vero is offended that he would side with his "archenemy" against her. Rogelio explains that little pranks are one thing, but hitting your daughter? Never! "As long as you live here, you won't touch a hair on her head," he tells Vero. I will never call him Rogue again!
Domitila sees Valentina crying. Vale says Mommy was going to hit her. She thanks Rogelio and even gives him a hug. He seems surprised to realize that he sort of likes this paternal feeling. They apologize to one another for all the pranks and agree that they were fun. But now she's missed the bus - so he drives her to school!
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Tuesday, October 08, 2013
La Tempestad Cap #52. October 8th 2013. Love Making At The Cabin Of Love
Wow wow wow! What a DamHot scene.
Working on the recap. I'm still fanning myself from that hot (although edited) scene at the cabin. Sigh. Recap will be up once I'm done fanning myself and writing it up. Feel free to start discussing it if you are like me and live on East Coast and have the seen episode already.
Laz and JazLu have set the date for their upcoming nuptials. ShutUpRosy thinks the kids are going too fast. Laz doesn't agree. JazLu and him will start living together and they want to get married as soon as possible to do things right. Robles, in his homeless disguise, begs for money. Laz approaches him. ShutUpRosy takes this opportunity to stick it to JazLu that she may not be able to wear white at the wedding. SHUT UP ROSY. Meanwhile, Robles tells Laz that his men have not been able to find out the location of the new camp where the merchandise is unloaded. Laz is sure one of Fully's lackeys knows the info. Robles agrees. He tells Laz that they'll go after the lackeys one by one until they find out what they want to know. They'll first go after Dumber err Lara.
Hernan and Fully send Lara on the mission to sneak into the packing plant without the alarm going off and sabotage the freezers.
Olinto and employees are off to the Singles Mingle (thanks Susanlynn). Olinto activates the alarm but unfortunately it is too late because Lara the LowLife is already inside. He heads off to the motor room and sabotages the motor to the freezer.
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Corazon Indomable, #106, Tuesday, 10-08-13 Tav might be the dashing hero, but Mari's dimples are more powerful
Introducing the Realengo Rebellion of 2013 (thanks for the inspiration, La Paloma)
Fair warning: this is going to be a short recap, because this episode has been all over the place
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Fair warning: this is going to be a short recap, because this episode has been all over the place
a lot of scenes have been condensed, for a better flow.
Maricruz finally
starts making the rounds, asking the tenants why they haven’t paid their rents.
Tenant 1: I couldn’t
pay because the insects destroyed my profit.
Maricruz (channeling
Donald Trump): If you don’t pay, you’re fired…I mean, expulsed!
After Mari leaves, the
guy tells his wife that he needs to go fix something.
Tenant 2: I always
paid, I’m a hard working man.
Maricruz: Well, if you
say so, and you have this cute child with you, then I believe you.
After the tenant
leaves, Mari thinks to herself that there is something fishy going on… Good
catch, girl, you’re quite intuitive!
Tenant 3: We’ve had
some problems, people who were supposed to pay us haven’t done it, yet. This
week you’ll have your money. How strange that you are having financial
problems, though, the business has been working well the last few months.
Mari: Yeah, sure… (Are
the little grey cells in her head starting to function now?)
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Mentir Para Vivir #1 Mon 10/7/13 PRIMER CAPITULO Where we find out how your perfect life can go from bad to worse faster than a speeding bullet
Once upon a time in … Santa Marta, Colombia
On a construction dock
A man named Falcon
(Diego Olivera, as handsome as always, although I could do without the slicked
back hair) is on the dock, carrying a clipboard and rushing to a bridge, when
he’s told by an unseen voice that the boss wants to see him in his office.
Before that happens, though, he gets a call and the cell screen says it’s from Joaquin:
“Que hiciste, imbecil? Estan a punto de descubrirnos!” (What have you done, you moron? They are about to discover us/ they’re on to us!) – Joaquin is obviously not happy, someone blew the whistle on them and their shady business, so Falcon has to disappear and FAST!
“Que hiciste, imbecil? Estan a punto de descubrirnos!” (What have you done, you moron? They are about to discover us/ they’re on to us!) – Joaquin is obviously not happy, someone blew the whistle on them and their shady business, so Falcon has to disappear and FAST!
Falcon is scared but
he can’t just leave, he has to make sure that his family will be alright,
first. “Lo siento, Joaquin,” he says
and hangs up, no matter how much Joaquin insists that if he’s caught, they’re all
finished.
Night time, pretty house near the ocean
The first thing we see
inside the house is a family portrait of Falcon with a woman and a little girl.
As the camera pans to several other pictures that show a happy, loving family,
someone puts a bottle of wine on the table behind the photos, lights up some
candles and then leaves.
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Corazon Indomable, #105, 10/07/13 Poor Don Ale must be turning in his grave…
(Filling in for Vivi, who is away, enjoying her vacation)
Thanks God he’s already dead, he’d die a hundred more deaths if he witnessed the way his entire fortune is being wasted and what an idiot he has for a daughter.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves….
There is a big bad storm outside and Mari is scared– thank God the good
people of Realengo have shelter on a night like this, unlike she when she lived
with Abuelo and Solita in the hut. If only she could help more…
Tav is watching the rain, too, when Simona hugs him from the back – is
she in the mood for some lovin’?
Apparently, she likes the storm, that’s when she feels more secure in
her warm, comfortable home – hey, I feel the exact same way about storms, does
that mean I am like Simona? She feels double happy today because she has Tav
and his baby on the way – oh, I feel triple happy, because I have none of that…so
I guess Simona and I aren’t quite the same, after all!
She hugs him again, while he looks like he has a death wish…you know,
his usual face since becoming Mr. $imona. He also thinks to himself that she
doesn’t care about the poor, she’s so unlike Mari.
He tells her that he wishes the sun came out faster, so the less
fortunate suffered less – where was all this philanthropy when you had your own
ranch, Tav?
Simona is bothered by his words, asks for an explanation, but he just
leaves her standing by the window, alone.
Remember how we always complained that we have no clue about time
passing because they never show us? Well, we should have kept our mouths shut…
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La Tempestad, October 7, 2013. Capitulo 51. Hernan goes BSC
The butler tells Ernesto to keep his eyes on his little wifey. She's getting to chummy with Hernan.
Cande consoles DamFineInWhite. She tells him to recall the good times that he had with Madrina and the love they shared. They also talk about Marina. He doesn't think that he can get her back. Cande tells him to fight for her and not give up.
Marina is in her office and Hernan pops it. He thinks it's a crazy idea to break off the engagement. Marina says she only agreed to marry him because she had a special affection for him, but does not love him. Hernan insists that he can make her love him. (my dear boy, you are delusional) He begs for more time. Marina says if I agreed, it just wouldn't be right. We just need to end as friends. Hernan begs her not to break it off. She tells him that he has to accept it and returns the ring. He notices that she wasn't wearing the ring and asks why? Because I felt dishonest wearing it replies Marina. I know this is hurting you but I have to be sincere. This engagement cannot go on. He grabs her and tries to reason with her. She fights him off, yelling out that he's hurting her. Hernan ignores her plea and says that he won't accept it. You're mine! You belong to me! I cannot accept you being with another man. He tries kissing her, but she keeps fighting him off. I need you!, says Hernan. Marina says that he can't make her be with him. “You have to to forgive me, I'm desperate. No, replies Marina. This isn't the first time you acted this way and I don't like it. I'm sorry, but this cannot go on. She leaves and he stares at the ring.
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Monday, October 07, 2013
PEAM #150 - 10/07/2013 - Can't You Hear the Laughter from Icky Robots & Violent Wedding Receptions & Evil Times Without End?
Our PEAM story has gotten so silly, so inane, I just couldn't help but start out tonight by bringing our thoughts to someone who deserves our thanks that an intelligent voice in the world speaks reason when so many others are speaking only madness and stupidity. I am Malala, I am Malala, I am Malala!!
Catching up… Jesica does a bit of pout and whine ruining her bride face while she chastises her parents for being late and scaring her that they were not coming. The priest says let's get on with this and everyone takes a seat. Tracy places a jeweled if wrinkly hand on Jesus' thigh, sigh. He plucks it off with dexterity.
Papa warns Cardy to be very careful with his daughter and Mommy rubs his bald head for good luck. Both Cardy and Jesica cry with love as they begin their vows. Jesus explains to Valentina that people that love each other go through this ritual.
Alma and her Poppy talk about old times and his excitement to spoil his only grandchild. He seems happy to be getting a chance to be a better grandfather than he was a father. He can't wait to know if it is a boy or girl. It will likely be one or the other so Alma tells him not to worry.
Already at the post ceremony reception. Valentina wants to make friends with the robot baby and Tracy wants to drink tequila so she orders two when the waiter is hailed. She admits that she has a son but she never sees him.
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TELEMUNDO Y MAS - week of October 7
It's Monday so we're starting a new week for all things Telemundo and beyond!!! Go for it!!
Labels: dyo, marido, santa, telemundo
Sunday, October 06, 2013
LA TEMPESTAD EXTRA–CONFIDENCIAL, Issue #1
LA
TEMPESTAD – CONFIDENCIAL
And Guide to proper attire For a small seaside
village in Mexico
(Voted
The Best Occasional Supermarket Gossip Rag by Two or Maybe Three Patio Denizens)
Issue #1 – October 6, 2013 Underwritten
by The Storm-Cellar™
In this issue: JudyB’s Jems; Capturing Episode Essences; Food for Thought; The Poets Corner
WE BEGIN WITH JUDYB’S JEMS
Thanks for the reminder about ship protocol. Maybe we'll learn how to say "Permission to come aboard, sir" in Spanish. I'm sure that will come in handy here in central Ohio.
They say that danger and the presence of death makes you verrrrry lustful. Something about wanting to plant your seed before your permanent exit from planet earth. So yeah, makes sense that Marina and Dam Fab were feeling especially hawt last night while those bullets were whizzing. And us right along with 'em!
Hernán looks quite fetching from a distance, and our DamFab is always delicious.
We all need a St. Eusie in our lives, and an Elna June as well.
Ay yi yi..don't throw tomatoes at me but Pestercita doesn't look particularly miserable with Ernesto. She seems content to be adored, spoiled and given lots of gifts. She has amnesia but not a lobotomy. Still, we never see her cringing in revulsion. We're all appalled but she doesn't seem to be.
This episode had me muttering Estupido! Estupido! If Candy and cohorts don't get this straightened out soon I'm going to have to take a Sulk Break from this telenovela.
I do continue to be amused by how many scenes Monica Miguel has scripted of her hugging our muscular sculpted Damian. Do you think I could manage to get cast as a wise old woman in his next movie? Certainly be worth a try.
CAPTURING EPISODE ESSENCES
JudyB, resident psychologist, says:
Well, we have a lot established by this second episode.
Damian is a lusty, macho guy who leads with his lance if it's a lady, and with his fists if it's a man. And the poor doofus is already in love.
And Marina is a modern take-charge woman who's going to be seduced by an inherently lovable cave man. Awwwwww.
Fulgencio is a sh#t who disrespects his wife and is all about his daughter and face-saving.
Mayuya hates Estercita, with reason. Estercita is an over-privileged drip.
Hernan is a creepy, stalker bad guy involved in white slavery. And obsessed with Marina.
Mercedes has been used and abused but has triumphed. And of course we're hoping that her other daughter, presumably used and abused will make it too.
Degrees of Hotness
(but not the Inferno kind)
The kiss-in-the-cave scene was visually surrealistic, what
with that spotlight shining down, etc. I was half expecting Damian to sprout a
beard, reach up to the sky, and receive the ten commandments on tablets from
the heavens above. [Doris]
Does the Patio think there is chemistry between Marina and
Damian? [Doris]
Doris, the patio feels William Levy could have chemistry
with a wall. [Cap’n]
Red Pants in the Sunset
Hernán's red skinny pants were most unfortunate. They are
alas unfortunate on anyone who wears them, man, woman or child. Proof positve,
if we needed it, that he will NEVER GET Marina. Ever. [JudyB]When I saw the red pants I thought Peter Frampton!! Yes, because once when I saw PF live he wore bright red pants and it scarred my eyes for life. [Cap’n]
Wish I had seen Hernan’s red pants. Gah. Mejia has a good sense of humor. Or the absurd. [Doris]
JudyB, excellent point about the red pants. They are not a chick magnet. Period. [Cap’n]
Hey! I thought Hernan rocked those red pants. Is it me or does he (the actor) look smaller than he did in LaReinaDelSur? He seems shorter/thinner. [Eli]
I too liked Hernan’s red pants on It’s... so Italian/Euro looking; he's got the slim build for it. [Shallowgal]
Eli, it's The Pants!!! [Cap’n]
Yes! The red pants! (Just like Roy el Rollero's in Amores Verdaderos!). Villains wear silly pants and heroes get to wear tight sexy jeans. It's the rule. BTW, did anyone else notice the baggy-bottomed yellowish pants Hernán Haskell wore the other day? It ain't easy being mean. [NovelaMaven]
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Saturday, October 05, 2013
CI: #104: An Episode of Repetitive Conversations and a Splash of Bravado from Octavio!
I do not like JA 3.0
4.0 (oh heck I have lost count on how many personality transplants he
has had with each episode). He is convincing MC to not invite the dirty
poor children she has invited onto her lands. They have the same old
argument they seemed to be having these past few episodes. JA thinks she
is absurd to invite them (JA you did grow up in the same neighborhood,
no? Why the snobbery)? MA does not care about their appearances, they
may be dirty rascals on the outside but they are pure and beautiful on
the inside. She has not forgetten where she came from….blah blah blah.
In the end Santa convinces her not to invite the children since it is
late and to celebrate the following morning. She agrees but is sad that Oblivio has not showed up.
Everyone has sad faces and seems more like mourning than a
celebration. MC doesn’t help with a depressing dialogue of how hurt she
is and how hard life has been on her. (Easy solution: forget your
vengeance, show Lupita
lots of love and raise her so that she wont live the same way you did,
concentrate on strengthening the empire you own because too many people
are worrying about your finances, and ward off any evil people around
you (like JA)).
Simona annoying waits around for Oblivio
since now that she is married she has nothing better to do with her
time. When he arrives, he feigns a headache and rebuffs her more by
wanting to rest in the guest rooms. Miguel looks disapprovingly in the
background while Simona is obviously worried. When Oblivio is alone, he is frustrated that he cannot go to his daughter’s baptism (I am not sure what the problem is here….I confess again to missing a few episodes but what is stopping him but himself? Tell SImona you have a
daughter, you need to be as present as you can in her life, and like it
or not he will be always be somewhat linked to MC so take it or leave!)
But alas my rants are too sensible for Oblivio to understand.
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PEAM #149- 10/4/13: I'm From Missouri, Show Me! or Indecent Proposal Avon Style!
Hola, Peam Peeps! This recap will not be in order, por supuesto! I like to kerfuffle nah, not that, the recap just flows better. It is hotter than two chickens in the oven today, and I am so very lazy.
We have the old news of Panfilo's eye operation, Chatita is now with him and I swear, his eye patch is see through. Why couldn't they have given him a cool pirate one? Arrggghh!! The one he has on, looks like what the Governator in El Zorro, El Espada y La Rosa wore! Anyhoo, they declare they still luuuurrrvvvve each other and Susana is now history for our AARP Babe Magnet.
Xochi doesn't want to hold that little robot baby. She isn't into it, so to speak. She is not Mama material in other words. Ferny loves the little Fernadito, and is taking good care of him. When she explains to the Secretaria's it's a robot baby they are que, que, what? Later, Jessy holds the baby and she is quite good with him also. Loved Ferny changing the diaper. Anyhoo, later Xochi is getting in bed, and is bothered cause Ferny is still canoodling with the robot baby. They argue a tad, Xochi so doesn't want a baby right now, it's a bother, and the baby starts crying. Who knew robot baby's could pick up on Mommy and Daddy not being cool with each other? The long and short of it is, Xochi wants some shut eye, Ferny has to care for the baby on his own. He is quite good at it, and looks like he really loves this baby.
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La Tempestad, cap. 50, Friday, October 4: Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da, Life goes on, bra
Madre Eusebia has gone to the light, as Mercedes reminds us. It is clear that her shocking departure from this earthly plane will have repercussions for those she left behind (whether they know it or not). There is a carpe diem vibe in the air. Seize the day.
Ya me estás cansando, don Ernesto, ya me estás cansando.
(Now I'm really getting tired of you, don E. Literally: You are tiring me.)
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Qué Bonito Amor #124 (Mex 162) Friday 10/4/13 ¡Qué Bonita Boda Del Barrio! ¡Qué Ridículo Fin De Los Villanos! ¡Qué Horror de Nueva Pareja!
Cap162
Santos last sees Giuliano
burning in the warehouse cuz now Old Goldie is no more than a crispy critter.
A while later, Mirna
calls the mariachis back to the bar and tells them the place is opening up
again. She presents the funny looking
guy in the crazy Denny’s horn rims and nose disguise as the new owner. He wants them to talk Maria into singing with
them—that’s the only way, but she’s not to know he’s the new owner. The guys try to convince her to sing again
with them, but she’s reluctant to dress up like a mariachi anymore because of
all the Jorge Alfredo memories. She
finally accepts, tho’, after they guilt her into it. They promised they’d always be together.
The night the
curtain at the bar finally goes up again, Maria dedicates the song and the
program to Santos. Before she can start
singing, up in the balcony JAntos begins singing. She cries tears of disbelief and joy. Fernando looks up and smiles, though he is
shocked and also relieved to see his best bud alive and in the flesh.
At the end of the
set Maria races up to the balcony and JA explains he had to fake his death in
order to save all their family and friends’ lives. They
kiss and then he goes to the stage and shakes everybody’s hand. Somehow all the guys have gotten their life’s
wish and realize it must have been JA who managed it. Although, for Fernando, his father’s freedom
was not manageable, JAntos tells him.
A
few minutes later, Fernando is alone in the back area behind stage near the
dressing rooms with his head in his hands.
He doesn’t hear his father approach.
When he looks up, there’s Don Nando, free at last and back in the barrio.
Turns out he’d never murdered anybody so
they let him go. He says he’d always
planned on coming back to them but life played a terrible trick on him and his
family. The only thing missing for Fernando is
Jalisquito.
Meanwhile, Elvira
connects with a man in black pea coat and black leather gloves who she promises
to help get revenge. We never see his
face.
Maria surprises her family by bringing the living Jorge Alfredo home with her. Isa (whose baby daddy and mommy are never found out) is thrilled he’s back.
The next day Maria
and JAntos, Justo and Wendy show Amalia and the girls their new fabulous
mini-manse in the burbs. Since she gave
them a home when they needed one and never asked anything in return, they felt
the least they could do was present her with this one. Justo has also brought her the deed to the
house in Guadalajara that she and Pedro had been so happy living in when first
married. Justo takes a moment to mention
that he’s been offered the position as French Amabassador for Mexico, his life’s
dream. When Amalia worries that they’ll
never see him again, Justo tells her that he believes she’ll see plenty of him—that
is if she allows him to initiate a formal courtship. She agrees.
(Viewerville boos.)
JAntos shows Isa her new bedroom and inside there’s a puppet theatre with lots of puppets, all hers now to play with whenever she wants.
Fernando is about to
board the bus to Guadalajara to look for Jalisquito who has just gotten off the
same bus and left his little gift guitar on the seat. He and Fer pass each other in the bus
station, but don’t notice one another.
Jalisquito remembers he left the guitar on the bus and gets to it just
as it’s pulling away and Fer’s picked up the forgotten guitar. Fer looks out the window and thankfully
finally notices Jali standing on the station’s lot and gets the bus driver to
stop and let him off. They hug and all’s
well with the world. A couple of days
later we see them going to a recording studio and Jali gets an agent(?) to
listen as he cuts his first record--one
of many we figure our boy wonder will make.
El Coloso comes home
and Rodrigo is crying over Paloma again because apparently their last plan
failed. All Col can say is that there’s
plenty of other fish in the sea and he’ll help him find another.
JAntos isn’t done
with playing Santa yet. He takes Maria
to a beautiful high rise office building in the heart of beautiful downtown
Mexico City and gives her the keys to her new law office for charity cases
(QTH?)—er…women and children in need. (Wouldn't they normally be in the barrio?)
Meanwhile, Aaron
asks Pal to go steady. She’s not sure
she wants to and says they are really only friends. Sindy is listening in the doorway and barges
in to say that Aaron needs to tell her the truth: that he and Vanessa had a bet
for an MP3 player full of top tunes that he could score [ligarse] with Paloma
before Vanessa could score with Rodri. He
yells back that that was only at first, but since then he’d fallen in love
with her. Paloma slaps the craps out of
him and races off to apologize to Rodrigo.
Pal and Rodri are a truesome twosome once more. (Vanessa’s come-uppance was apparently left
on the cutting room floor.)
Back at Ruben’s,
hotel room, he and Elvira force Mirna to help with their plans of revenge
towards Maria and JAntos or her daughter gets offed. So, a bit later, while Maria is setting the
table for a special dinner, Mirna comes in screaming and yelling that she has
to come to the bar cuz Jorge Alfredo and Ruben are mixing it up over her or
some such. Maria races off to the bar
but doesn’t seem to find anyone there.
Suddenly Crispy Critter with half his face melted is on the balcony clapping
and asking for a personal performance.
His goons take her to a warehouse, tie her up, and gag her in a chair
with a sword dangling up top of her head. There’s a video set up and Elvira and Ruben
are there to laugh at her misery.
Santos, meanwhile,
has a feeling Maria’s in trouble and leaves to find her. He’s kidnapped off the street by another set
of goons who’ve we must assume been following him. They bring him to a different warehouse with
the same sword of Damocles set up where OG is waiting for him. OG shows him the video-cam hook up and says
they’ll watch each other suffer and die (huh?).
In between Maria’s tears and OG’s threats, Santos and Maria spit out
their gags and profess their profound and everlasting love for each other.
Suddenly Juli sees
Bruno appearing all around the room and threatening to take him to Hell. Santos taunts Juli about his seeing
ghosts. Ruben and Evile-ra can’t
understand what’s gotten into Juli and think he’s gone nutty. Santos breaks free and, in the worst
choreographed fight I’ve ever seen, overcomes Juli and manages to tie him up
under the same sword. Ruben thinks it’s
some sort of a trick Juli’s played on them and he races over to the other
warehouse to get even with Juli for letting Vargas escape.
Outside, Santos runs
into Derecho who tells him they know where Maria’s being kept. Viewerville assumes that Mirna called Malo who called Derecho and Curtis. They give Santos a lift with them. Ruben shows up in the meantime and surprises
Juli. Rather than untying OG, he brings
a box of something and sets fire to it.
Again, Viewerville assumes it’s some sort of bomb and that Ruben
finishes what Santos started and that Bruno now has his cuz as a roomy.
Apparently, Vi escapes
the warehouse and leaves Maria alone to be rescued. Santos pulls her off the chair only seconds
before the sword comes flying towards the empty chair.
Ruben is back at the
hotel room and throwing all the cash he made into a metal suitcase. Vi enters and asks if he’s intended to leave
her. Yep. There’s nothing between them, nothing in
common, he explains snidely. Each of them is better off going
ther own way. Ok, but she doesn’t have
any money. Too bad, says Ruben. He turns his back on her for something and
she pulls out a gun and shoots him in the back, taking the suitcase of cash
with her. (That's the last time any of us has to see that dude's crazy, bobble-headed smile. Yippee!)
Sometime later, the
whole barrio is full of mariachis playing Negrita and Que Bonita Amor and Si
Nos Dejan, etc. JAntos is dressed in a
white charro and gets on his horse to lead the parade with the El Col and
Fer. They ride with the mariachis
throughout the whole of Garibaldi til eventually, he joins Maria, who is
dressed in her mariachi bridal gown.
Amalia is in her Mariachi finest also and doesn’t look half bad as she hands over Maria to JA. JA and
Maria chat about how today starts the rest of forever together. She rides through the rest of Garibaldi in a
carriage. Justo shows up in the crowd
and looks on.
Eventually the parade ends
back at the church again and El Coloso is there to walk her into the church and
to give her away forever. No, says
Maria. He’s her friend and will always
be her brother. Just then a beautiful
blue-eyed blond friend of Maria’s walks up and is introduced to El Col who asks
Maria if she believes in love at first site.
Maria says sure, cuz that’s the way it was for her and JAntos.
At the same time we
get Evilera also dressed in a wedding dress swearing this is her wedding
day. The ceremony begins. Somewhere in the middle of it, crazy Vi from
the back of the church pulls a gun and aims it at Maria. Out of nowhere, Lt. Curtis grabs her and grabs
the gun from her. She’s under arrest for
Ruben’s murder and for the attempted murder of Maria. Vi gives up without even a whimper. (Who’d a thunk that?) Just then the priest declares Santos and
Maria man and wife and they kiss.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There’s an homage to
mariachi’s and their world-wide appeal immediately following.
The cast is shown signing autographs for their fans who are in throngs
along the barricades of the set. Then
the cast is all on an inside stage setting once again waving to Viewerville as
the curtain at AJNTR Bar literally comes down on this performance and the screen reads ~~El FIN~~. Yipee! We can now stick a fork in it cuz it's done!
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Friday, October 04, 2013
Qué Bonito Amor #123 (Mex 161) Thursday 10/3/13 Que Desordenado Camino al Fin
Santos heads back to the prison to collect his stuff, now that he's been freed. Justo gloats just a tiny bit to Mr. "I'm Unbeatable" Summers.
Santos moons over Maria's pictures while she stands by the Emergency Traje and strokes her flat belly.
Summers' talk with Giuliano via cell phone, wherein he threatens OG that he has enough evidence to bring him down, is overheard by the judge. The judge orders Summers to hand over the evidence and the cell phone.
The mariachis start to promote the event, putting up posters.
Santos is summoned to…um…er…fill out paperwork…yeah…by OG's pet guard.
Ruben rips a poster off the wall, saying he and Maria are going to have a lot of fun tonight.
The guard points a gun at Santos in some dark hall of the prison dungeons.
Elvira is grumpy about the event at the bar, but OG tells her she's going to walk in there like a goddess, dripping with jewels…but first, there's something she's gotta do….
OG's guard gets busted by the warden and a couple of other guards.
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Santos moons over Maria's pictures while she stands by the Emergency Traje and strokes her flat belly.
Summers' talk with Giuliano via cell phone, wherein he threatens OG that he has enough evidence to bring him down, is overheard by the judge. The judge orders Summers to hand over the evidence and the cell phone.
The mariachis start to promote the event, putting up posters.
Santos is summoned to…um…er…fill out paperwork…yeah…by OG's pet guard.
Ruben rips a poster off the wall, saying he and Maria are going to have a lot of fun tonight.
The guard points a gun at Santos in some dark hall of the prison dungeons.
Elvira is grumpy about the event at the bar, but OG tells her she's going to walk in there like a goddess, dripping with jewels…but first, there's something she's gotta do….
OG's guard gets busted by the warden and a couple of other guards.
Read more »
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La Tempestad, Capitulo 49, Thursday October 3, 2013, The Passing of Madre Eusebia
Sometimes, in story or in truth, a single character so
closely mirrors the common values of a community that she or he can be said to
be the ‘soul’ of the story. Such was the character of Madre Eusebia in La
Tempestad.
This capitulo follows the happenings in the village of
Nuestra Señor del Mar, Veracruz, surrounding the passing of Eusebia; shaman,
curandera, holy woman, godmother of the story’s protagonist and the kind beating
heart of Our Lady of the Sea.
Eusebia Is Missing
Damian has discovered that his godmother, Eusebia did not
sleep in her bed last night. He is very alarmed and goes to Neptune Fish
Packing to gather his crew of fisherman to search for the missing Eusebia. We,
on the other hand, see Eusebia lying apparently bruised and broken at the foot
of a cliff, deep in the jungle. Her eyes are closed and it is unclear as to
whether she yet lives.
The sailors and Capitan Damian conduct a thorough search of
the rugged jungle where Eusebia is known to gather her herbs. The searchers
cry, “Madre Eusebia!” and Damian calls for his Madrina, but no one answers. After
a while the guys come together in a place that Damian notices has SUV tire
tracks—probably A TOURIST notes El Oso and the group decides to go on looking
for Eusebia.
“Eusebia”! Their cries ring through the jungle. But no one
answers.
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