Saturday, July 21, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo, Week of July 23, 2012: Discuss amongst yourselves.
Here's a fresh page for your thoughts. Have a great week, everyone!
Labels: diamante, maid, pablo, rostro, telemundo, valiente
El Rostro de la Venganza-Index
Friday, July 20, 2012
Weekend Discussion: The Great and the God-Awful Telenovela Clichés – Part I
We
mention them extensively on this blog and most of us know the most popular ones by heart. I thought it would be a good idea to
discuss them on their own so as not to distract from the more
specific discussion of each series, as we only have a day to discuss
each episode.
Based
on my nearly two decades of viewing novelas, I have to say that some
clichés
will probably be with us forever, such as the concept of the One True
Love, which is reinforced by romance novels and love songs. Most
people can love again after loss, but One True Love always makes for
a good story.
As
the daughter of a narcissist, I also endorse the Toxic Parent Villain
clichés,
which not only make for good drama but actually run true to form.
Every good dramatist from the ancients to the modern age has at least
a few of them and great dramatists win awards for theirs.
So
which clichés
irritate the most? I'd like to start with the medical ones, which I
would completely dispense with. It can't inspire confidence in the
medical profession to see situations where the first operation
doesn't work, when an obstetrician says “You must choose between
your wife and your baby,” or a medical situation handled out of
specialty. Not to mention the idea that any man knows a virgin when
he gets one.
Sound
off, amigos.
Labels: telenovelas, weekend
Por ella soy Eva #4 Friday 7/20/12: The Sea. The Sun. A Droning Argentine. Nostalgia?
At the restaurant, Helena sees Pluto (she thinks he's JC) and wants to give him a piece of her mind. Panicked, JC tells Helena HE'LL take care of it. He goes to Pluto's table and spins a wild tale about Helena being a clingy crazy ex-employee he regrets having gotten involved with. She's pregnant, the baby is certainly not his, but she forced him at gunpoint to make a scene at their table. They should pay no attention to anything she says. Antonia expresses some sympathy for Helena's desperation. Only then does Pluto jump to his feet and scold JC for his careless behavior with women.
Eventually Helena gets tired of waiting for JC and comes over to the table to tell them off herself. This works out to be the perfect misunderstanding, mercifully cut short by a phone call from Helena's mom. (Antonia tells her brother she's lost her appetite. He insists that they have dessert. Yeesh, is he trying to kill her too? No, I think he's just an idiot.)
Helena is upset about Adriano's rudeness. JC says no woman should be treated that way; he wanted to bust those guys' faces. He also wants to talk about Playa Majagua, but she has to go home; Dad is waiting. She insists on taking a taxi. She is barely out the door when JC picks up another woman. He takes her back to his place and kicks her out when he's had enough of her.
Helena's father gives her a hard time about getting home late. They are mutually offended. He stomps off to bed. Helena's mom wants to know how it went. No, not the business dinner, but the man! Helena admits he was great.
At home, Antonia doesn't feel well. She calls 911 and flops over on the bed. Pluto looks delighted when she says she feels like she's dying.
At JC's apartment, his bimbo du jour is now wearing a big t-shirt and tells JC he was sensational. She wants to stay all night, but he says he's too busy and calls her a cab. It doesn't take long - apparently he's a regular. The taxi dispatcher knows what he wants as soon as they hear his voice. He dismisses her brusquely.
At the hospital, Pluto is clearly disappointed when the doctor reveals that Antonia is still alive. (Really. He asks twice.) Turns out she's come down with diabetes. Her glucose was way high. Of course, there are ways to make it more manageable, the doctor says, and he'd like to keep her there for some tests... but Pluto says no, we're going home. He hammers her little shoes onto her swollen feet and tells her he doesn't trust doctors. She's just got a touch of the diabetes, that's all. Very easy to control. Antonia thinks that could be serious, but Pluto has a gift for her - chocolates! Sugarless and calorie-free, he says. She says they taste just like the regular ones. They agree not to tell her brother - he'll worry. Anyway, Pluto says, it's no big deal. He'll take care of her. "Put your life in my hands."
Next day, Pluto tells Rebeca all about it. They laugh about Antonia's diabetes. If only she would die! On top of obesity, Rebeca says, Antonia's also got high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and snores like a bear! A hahahahaha!
Helena tells Lucia how hot JC is and how he defended her in front of the Grupo Imperio people. JC has come up with some plan that requires Helena to accompany him to an Acapulco resort and show him around. Helena volunteers Lucia in her place. Lucia pops out (from the door she's been hiding behind) to shut down that idea. Helena finally agrees. They'll leave at 7 the next morning. JC gives the door a good whack on the way out, smacking noisily eavesdropping Lucia in the forehead. (There's a window in the door, for heaven's sake. He could see her hiding there.)
Back at GI, JC and his pals go to the restroom to rehash and pee. I must say, this is an interesting twist on the rehash sessions that female characters often have in restrooms. They talk about beating Pluto with their plan. JC is sure this "business trip" will work out. She won't be able to resist him. He'll dress up in a skirt and heels before he suffers over a woman. Santi jokes about JC falling in love with a fea. "Like the one Pluto married," JC laughs. They all walk out. Pluto steps out of a stall. He's overheard everything, and he doesn't look happy.
It's already evening. Santi ad Ferni are working late. But the files they've been working on have been deleted. (You'd think that after similar fiascos in other TNs, they'd know enough to back up their files regularly.) Pluto gloats.
Helena tells Dad she's going out of town. He says no, she can't travel alone. Um, did she ask his permission? She assures him she won't be traveling alone. Is she referring to JC?
No, it turns out she means Lalito, her son. JC is quite surprised when he arrives to pick her up. He wasn't expecting a kid. He's not happy. Neither is Lalito. They make faces at one another. The kid scowls at JC. JC ruffles his hair. The child actor fights to stifle his smirk and angrily tells JC not to touch his head.
The IT guy brings Pluto the Playa Majagua project files he stole from Santi and Ferni's computers. There's not much too see. So much for stealing their work! (It turns out that Santi, at least, was working last night not on the PM project, but on setting up reservations for JC's trip.)
Lalito and JC fail to bond over lunch at a roadside café. The boy puts hot salsa in JC's taco and generally acts like a brat. He jumps up and down in the back of JC's car. He drops a sticky snack on the upholstery and wipes his saucy hands on JC's shirt.
Back at the travel agency, Helena's mom brings lunch to Lucia. Lucia tells her how great "Juan Perón" seems. "He's a true caballero," she jokes obliviously.
Finally JC & co. get to the hotel. Some of the employees recognize JC. JC asks one of them to rustle up a babysitter to watch the brat. The brat refuses to be handed off to a babysitter and is rude to JC, but somehow he ends up going off with the babysitter anyway.
Meanwhile, at the office, Pluto (wearing a very shiny suit), knowing that JC is out of town, puts Santi and Ferni in the hot seat with Adriano. They try to bluff their way out of it, but they obviously don't have their facts and figures on Playa Majagua. Adriano gives them a deadline and kicks them out.
Furthermore, Santi's and Ferni's paychecks are being held back "until further notice." Ferni is upset that he'll have to rely on his wife's pay.
JC hatches a plot with a yacht captain. When JC puts his hands over his face, that's the signal for the captain to cut the engines. He calls it "Operation Honeymoon."
On a shopping trip with Antonio, Pluto has a run-in with the owner of the car Rebeca crashed Pluto's car into. The other guy says it happened outside a cheap motel. He wants money. Pay up or he'll call the cops. Antonia is getting restless in the car. Upon seeing that the woman in the car is not the same woman he saw yesterday, the other guy manages to extract a few more pesos in blackmail money.
Lalito gives his babysitter the slip at the pool. A couple of hotel employees gossip about JC seducing the single mother and breaking her heart. Lalito overhears and runs off.
On the yacht, Juan is laying it on thick with Helena. He says he feels nostalgic. He drones on and on about natural beauty and el sol y el mar. (Hmmm... this feels familiar. I keep expecting him to mention the sabor de la vida.) Helena says she's heard that story before and let's just stick with business. She mocks his Argentinean accent.
The babysitter searches for Lalito and finally reports him missing.
Juan continues trying to flirt with Helena. He asks if she likes him. His pal from the hotel calls with the news: Lalito's lost. "¿¡QUE!?"
Next time:
You call these avances? They're useless! Here are my own predictions for Monday: One of the men acts like a jerk. Someone gets angry. Nobody dies just yet.
Eventually Helena gets tired of waiting for JC and comes over to the table to tell them off herself. This works out to be the perfect misunderstanding, mercifully cut short by a phone call from Helena's mom. (Antonia tells her brother she's lost her appetite. He insists that they have dessert. Yeesh, is he trying to kill her too? No, I think he's just an idiot.)
Helena is upset about Adriano's rudeness. JC says no woman should be treated that way; he wanted to bust those guys' faces. He also wants to talk about Playa Majagua, but she has to go home; Dad is waiting. She insists on taking a taxi. She is barely out the door when JC picks up another woman. He takes her back to his place and kicks her out when he's had enough of her.
Helena's father gives her a hard time about getting home late. They are mutually offended. He stomps off to bed. Helena's mom wants to know how it went. No, not the business dinner, but the man! Helena admits he was great.
At home, Antonia doesn't feel well. She calls 911 and flops over on the bed. Pluto looks delighted when she says she feels like she's dying.
At JC's apartment, his bimbo du jour is now wearing a big t-shirt and tells JC he was sensational. She wants to stay all night, but he says he's too busy and calls her a cab. It doesn't take long - apparently he's a regular. The taxi dispatcher knows what he wants as soon as they hear his voice. He dismisses her brusquely.
At the hospital, Pluto is clearly disappointed when the doctor reveals that Antonia is still alive. (Really. He asks twice.) Turns out she's come down with diabetes. Her glucose was way high. Of course, there are ways to make it more manageable, the doctor says, and he'd like to keep her there for some tests... but Pluto says no, we're going home. He hammers her little shoes onto her swollen feet and tells her he doesn't trust doctors. She's just got a touch of the diabetes, that's all. Very easy to control. Antonia thinks that could be serious, but Pluto has a gift for her - chocolates! Sugarless and calorie-free, he says. She says they taste just like the regular ones. They agree not to tell her brother - he'll worry. Anyway, Pluto says, it's no big deal. He'll take care of her. "Put your life in my hands."
Next day, Pluto tells Rebeca all about it. They laugh about Antonia's diabetes. If only she would die! On top of obesity, Rebeca says, Antonia's also got high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and snores like a bear! A hahahahaha!
Helena tells Lucia how hot JC is and how he defended her in front of the Grupo Imperio people. JC has come up with some plan that requires Helena to accompany him to an Acapulco resort and show him around. Helena volunteers Lucia in her place. Lucia pops out (from the door she's been hiding behind) to shut down that idea. Helena finally agrees. They'll leave at 7 the next morning. JC gives the door a good whack on the way out, smacking noisily eavesdropping Lucia in the forehead. (There's a window in the door, for heaven's sake. He could see her hiding there.)
Back at GI, JC and his pals go to the restroom to rehash and pee. I must say, this is an interesting twist on the rehash sessions that female characters often have in restrooms. They talk about beating Pluto with their plan. JC is sure this "business trip" will work out. She won't be able to resist him. He'll dress up in a skirt and heels before he suffers over a woman. Santi jokes about JC falling in love with a fea. "Like the one Pluto married," JC laughs. They all walk out. Pluto steps out of a stall. He's overheard everything, and he doesn't look happy.
It's already evening. Santi ad Ferni are working late. But the files they've been working on have been deleted. (You'd think that after similar fiascos in other TNs, they'd know enough to back up their files regularly.) Pluto gloats.
Helena tells Dad she's going out of town. He says no, she can't travel alone. Um, did she ask his permission? She assures him she won't be traveling alone. Is she referring to JC?
No, it turns out she means Lalito, her son. JC is quite surprised when he arrives to pick her up. He wasn't expecting a kid. He's not happy. Neither is Lalito. They make faces at one another. The kid scowls at JC. JC ruffles his hair. The child actor fights to stifle his smirk and angrily tells JC not to touch his head.
The IT guy brings Pluto the Playa Majagua project files he stole from Santi and Ferni's computers. There's not much too see. So much for stealing their work! (It turns out that Santi, at least, was working last night not on the PM project, but on setting up reservations for JC's trip.)
Lalito and JC fail to bond over lunch at a roadside café. The boy puts hot salsa in JC's taco and generally acts like a brat. He jumps up and down in the back of JC's car. He drops a sticky snack on the upholstery and wipes his saucy hands on JC's shirt.
Back at the travel agency, Helena's mom brings lunch to Lucia. Lucia tells her how great "Juan Perón" seems. "He's a true caballero," she jokes obliviously.
Finally JC & co. get to the hotel. Some of the employees recognize JC. JC asks one of them to rustle up a babysitter to watch the brat. The brat refuses to be handed off to a babysitter and is rude to JC, but somehow he ends up going off with the babysitter anyway.
Meanwhile, at the office, Pluto (wearing a very shiny suit), knowing that JC is out of town, puts Santi and Ferni in the hot seat with Adriano. They try to bluff their way out of it, but they obviously don't have their facts and figures on Playa Majagua. Adriano gives them a deadline and kicks them out.
Furthermore, Santi's and Ferni's paychecks are being held back "until further notice." Ferni is upset that he'll have to rely on his wife's pay.
JC hatches a plot with a yacht captain. When JC puts his hands over his face, that's the signal for the captain to cut the engines. He calls it "Operation Honeymoon."
On a shopping trip with Antonio, Pluto has a run-in with the owner of the car Rebeca crashed Pluto's car into. The other guy says it happened outside a cheap motel. He wants money. Pay up or he'll call the cops. Antonia is getting restless in the car. Upon seeing that the woman in the car is not the same woman he saw yesterday, the other guy manages to extract a few more pesos in blackmail money.
Lalito gives his babysitter the slip at the pool. A couple of hotel employees gossip about JC seducing the single mother and breaking her heart. Lalito overhears and runs off.
On the yacht, Juan is laying it on thick with Helena. He says he feels nostalgic. He drones on and on about natural beauty and el sol y el mar. (Hmmm... this feels familiar. I keep expecting him to mention the sabor de la vida.) Helena says she's heard that story before and let's just stick with business. She mocks his Argentinean accent.
The babysitter searches for Lalito and finally reports him missing.
Juan continues trying to flirt with Helena. He asks if she likes him. His pal from the hotel calls with the news: Lalito's lost. "¿¡QUE!?"
Next time:
You call these avances? They're useless! Here are my own predictions for Monday: One of the men acts like a jerk. Someone gets angry. Nobody dies just yet.
Labels: por-ella
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Refugio Para el Amor #74 Wed 7/18/12 The Showdowns Begin
Mexico City:
We begin with the Marcial and Vio meeting and things aren't going well. Marcial lurrrvvves his Vio, if she waits a bit, he will be free. Vio isn't down with that he lied to her, he's still married, doesn't want anything to do with him. He is not taking no for an answer, when who should walk in, wait for it, Flor, Marcial's wifey. And boy is she pithed. Accuses Marcial of betraying her with this esta. Vio says I'm no esta, my name is Violetta. You will respect me in my own home. Marcial doesn't want to air his dirty laundry with Flor in front of Vio, but Flor says she ain't going anywhere!
Julie and Gagme are in Gagme's office. Julie gets a call from the hunkalicious guy she met the other night, for a meet. He's Italian or the wine is. Anyhoo, Gagme gets a call from her informant, at the Torreslanda's , we all know who that is, on the count of three, Frigid. Frigid informs Gagme that Luci's Moms, Paz has come to pay a call on ole Rosa. Gagme is shocked.
Norma and Claudio are in his office and he is telling her how much he loved meeting Luci's family last night. It was like a party, their hospitality was wonderful and he drank some tea, and enjoyed meeting the people from the North. He loves her family! (Note to Claudio: I hope you always feel this way).
Aldo is at the salon where Vicky works talking to Nichole. Aldo is telling Nichole how much he likes Vicky. Nichole tells him to stay away from Vicky, cause it is causing her problems, effecting her work, and his Tio will not be pleased.
Max is talking to Pato, via the computer. Pato tells him his therapy went well, but he's tired. Max reminds Pato that Dr. Drexel said that was part of his therapy was to rest. Max sends hugs to Pato. Afterwards, Max calls Vicky. He says great your dad is back at work. How are you? Miss you. Click!
Luci has picked up Marianita from school and is going to help her with her homework. Mari wants to know why Luci is not marrying *dead to me* Rod. He's busy lots of work, can't be together. Mari wants to know if she used Mari's magic wand to wish with all her might to marry Rod? Luci changes the subject and helps Mari with her homework.
Vicky is at home, arranging some flowers in a vase, when guess who has come to call? That's right, its the boogeyman, oh sorry, no it's Aldo. She has opened the door wide and is now trying to slam it in his face. Aldo, however, has got his foot in the door. Vicky tells him she doesn't want to speak to him, and how terrible his Tio can be. He tells her to calm down. Vicky tells him your Tio could kill us. Well Aldo is flabbergasted, but he goes. Vicky is releived.
Het Het:
The Chisme Ladies are walking down the street talking about Copio. They run into Dona Luchita who says she used the phone over at Don Serapio's and saw Copio there. She tells the ladies she is diversifing her clothing line and something about her reputation. She goes and the ladies have a little giggle.
Don A is in his office, seems he has a replacement for Copio already and is mad the guy is tardy. He is starting to witch at that ring tailed cat on his desk when the guy comes in, I think his name is Babosa, but I have a feeling this means monkey, lol. Anyhow, Don A wants him to be on time, don't interrupt when Don A is speaking and now go and do what I told you.
Mexico City:
Rosa exists her white SUV all nose in the air.
Meanwhile, Magda and Estella are in the kitchen talking a mile a minute and Frigid comes in and tells them that Senora Torreslanda has come home and to pipe down. They just look at her like she's dumb.
Paz is still with Mati in her room. Paz tells Mati now is the time for the truth and to finally confront that minion of satan, oh, excuse me, Rosa. Frigid has taken herself upstairs to announce that Rosa is home, and Mati and Frigid escort Paz down to the library.
Rosa is in the library, and Paz with her head held high, goes into that library. Rosa wants to know who are you, and what do you want? Paz with her stiff spine intact says I am Paz Jacinto Flores, mother of Luciana. Well that shuts ole Rosa up, she has the deer in the headlights look. Paz continues and says, yes I am Paz, wife of Galindo, mother of Luci. Mati and Frigid are still by the doors and Frigid is openly gawking. Paz tells Rosa, you know very well it's me. Well, Rosa turns to Mati and Frigid and tells them to leave her alone with Paz and no interruptions. You can tell Frigid wants to hear it all, but Mati is the one that closes the doors and makes sure they are closed.
Luci and Marianita are still talking and Luci explains to Mari that sometimes reasons keep people apart. Ariche walks in as Luci is speaking and he wants to know why she isn't marrying Mushashon. The poor boy looks heartbroken. Now Ariche wants to know where Rod is. Luci says busy working. Ariche wants to call Rod. He wants Luci to call Mushashon.
Now back to Paz and Rosa. Rosa starts right in. I know why you came back, you want more money as she reaches for her purse. Paz still with the stiff spine is very, very pithed now. Paz says she doesn't want money. Rosa is not listening, and says por favor, as she is stroking a check and asking Paz how much we talkin' here. Paz says this is all your fault about Luci. Rosa says she never wanted Luci to return there, eva. Paz tells her it's the Torreslanda's family fault. Now Rosa starts the name calling, calling Luci a wretch, as she sticks her index finger toward heaven. Paz, with that ramrod stiff spine, looks at Rosa and says how is Luci a wretch, what cause she fell in love with *Dead To Me* Rod, and because of your manipulations and lies she got her heart broken. Rosa reminds Paz she isn't to tell Luci anything about her true past. Paz tells Rosa she knows she is a liar, cause Paz went to Rod is Dead To Me and got the whole story out of him, with the other two brujas you ganged up on her and told a bunch of lies and the funny thing is there was noone here to defend my Luci. Paz then tells Rosa she is a miserable person with no heart. Paz rolls up her sleeve, like she is going to give blood, and tells Rosa she loves Luci like her own blood and that Rosa treated Luci shamelessly.
Meanwhile, Max and Rod have gone out to lunch. Max wants to know how Rod is doing, really. Max is concerned, what with the divorce, all the work Rod is doing, not speaking to Rosa and Frigid listening at doors. Ha! Rod asks if Frigid is a necessary evil, they laugh. Max just wants Rosa to be tranquil at home, as if. He tells Rod to go ahead tell him, it's better to talk about it. He's his dad and will listen. Rod regurgitates all the crap about Luci being a liar blah, blah, but Max tells Rod, you ever think the girl is innocent of all this crap? Max thinks she is. Well Rod is just shocked. How can he think that. Besides she has a little somethin', somethn' going on with Linares, you know our #1 enemy, she was even hugging him in public! Now we know Max knows what the real relationship is, so Max tells Rod he was happy married to Luci not happy now, go talk to her, make it right. We're divorced says Rod, yeah, but try to talk to her anyway, so what if you're divorced. Rod says you don't know Luci and why is his Papa defending her all of a sudden. Max says he isn't defending her, just that Rod's heart wants what Rod's heart wants. Max tells Rod he cares about both Rod and Luci and wants them to be happy. Max thanks Rod for talking to him and Rod is grateful to have a listening ear. Lunch is over and Rod hugs his papa and cries like a big ole baby on his shoulder.
Magda, Estella and Mati are all in the kitchen waiting on Paz. Frigid is there too, making her disapproval known by that face. (Note to Frigid, hey hope your face freezes like that, jus' sayin'). Anyhoo, the ladies are chatting and Frigid is starting the insulting comments she is so good at, and she is harping on Mati. Mati leaves the room, with Frigid right behind and Magda and Estella make a joke about Frigid. Someone please comment about that, cause they sure had a good yuk.
Now back to the showdown. Rosa is yelling at Paz. Rosa is trying to tell Paz they are both alike trying to protect their children. Paz says no way, she tells Rosa she is selfish, she has no charity, no kindness. Rosa reminds Paz she is responsible for what happened to Luci too, in the past. Paz tells Rosa that may be but it's Rosa's fault this happened. Rosa of course says this is so NOT her fault, (were we expecting anything less?). Paz is still holding her own in mama bear mode and lets Rosa have it. She tells Rosa due to the bruja's and their lying they broke Luci and Rod up. Of course, Rosa is shaking that head, (Note to Rosa, oh, are your screws loose again, jus' sayin'). Of course Rosa is saying that is all a lie. Paz says no its the truth, and not only that, Luci only worked at that job, ONE NIGHT, and how Rod defended Luci against Lastra. And that says Paz is the TRUTH. She says those brujas, along with you cooked up all these lies. Now Rosa is name calling again and calls Paz ignorant. Really. Now Rosa is trying to tell Paz that Luci is a liar. Well Paz is so not having that. Of course now Rosa is in screaming mode, and screams that her whole family was so happy, until Luci showed up, and that Rod was gonna marry a great woman (Gagme is great, just wait) and because Rosa saw with her own eyes, how Luci essentially stole Rod. Paz aint having that. No siree bob, she says Luci is way better than that. Roselena, oh, Senora Roselena, it's your fault and you are culpable. Rosa is now swearing Luci will never, eva come near her family again. So essentially Paz says, who died and left you in charge. Rosa tries the guilt trip now. She tells Paz oh, you sent Luci here, cause your husband died, you have a mountain of debt, you have many problems and you really came here for more money for your silence. Oh, Paz is sooooo pithed, way beyond pithed now. Paz lays it on Rosa. She says for being intelligent, you are pretty dumb. Rod came and chased Luci, he came to Het Het looking for her, Paz tells Rosa that she saw Rod face to face and he asked for Luci's hand in marriage, and Paz wants to tell the WHOLE WORLD the truth. ( You go Paz!).
Break time and back to the other showdown. I beleive Flor is saying that Marcial is a cop, investigating the Inferno! Vio is beyond mad now. She rounds on Marcial and thinks he used her to get info about Inferno. She pushes him around and is joined by Flor, who does the same. Well, Vio ain't having that, and wait for it, grabs a skillet (Note to whoever talked about the skillet waving on another tn's comments) and waves it around, chasing Flor right outta there! Next she waves that skillet at Marcial and tells him to LARGATE! She closes the door and has to take a little rest on the sofa where she cries her eyes out. One of the best scenes with skillet waving ,second best scene of the night.
Now back to the other showdown. Rosa says the only truth for her is that Paz took Luci away, and now Rosa wants her to LARGATE MI CASA! Paz says she isn't leaving until the whole world knows what she truly is, that Rosa is not a good woman, she doesn't tell the truth, and she ain't no good mama either. Rosa says you don't know me. Paz says oh, I know you, you are a liar and ruin people's lives. Now Rosa wants Paz to listen to HER!!!!!
Another comedic break, and this one is good. Magda, Mati and Estella are all in the kitchen having a little coffee, when Magda remarks that kitchen is nice, but Het Het is better, cause of the fresh air, when Magda notices something, goes over to the door and gives it a good wack with her leg, on the other side that door goes into Frigid's butt and side of her face. Well Frigid comes right on in, calls them animals and that all Luci's friends are animals, and Magda, Mati and Estella are all trying very hard not to laugh.Frigid wants to tell on them, especially Mati, whose fault it is of course. Magda says I'll go with and tell your boss all about your listening at doors! Frigid backpedals and says on orders of the patrona you must stay here! Frigid goes nursing that face and Magda, Mati and Estella finally let loose with the guffaws. Mati says she wishes she had thought of that and thanks Magda. Third best scene of the night.
Back to the showdown again of Paz and Rosa. Rosa warns Paz of the consequences of telling about the baby napping. And by the way during this whole part of the convo, Rosa has, what I'd like to call, the manicomio look on her face. Rosa is laying it on thick that Paz wasn't a mama to Luci only for the money. Now Paz, poor thing, is starting to lose it, she is starting to cry (Note to Paz: Por favor straighten that spine, she is only messing with your head, jus' sayin'). Paz says that may be true, but I have loved Luci, ever since you put her in my arms, like my own, with all my soul. Now Rosa is trying to scare Paz, by telling her that Claudio has a relationship with Luci and what would Claudio think if the truth came out, about Paz taking Luci all those years ago? Do you think he would forgive you? Rosa warns Paz if she opens her mouth, there will be all kinds of grief for Luci. Besides, Claudio thinks his hija is dead, let it go. Now Rosa is trying to convince Paz it's too late to tell the truth. Besides if you tell the truth Luci will be lost to you foreva. Paz says you don't know my Luci. Rosa is trying to convince Paz, who she has by the arm now, to go back to Het Het with Luci and Luci will always beleive that Galindo and Paz are her parents. What good will it be to tell the truth now, anyhow? Besides she is laying the guilt trip on Paz, how this is really Paz' fault. Poor little Luci.
Melissa has come to see Claudio with her thesis. I think she put some finishing touches on it and is going to submit it. She thanks him for all his help, cause he was a big part of it, and he says you did the majority of the work. Claudio tells Norma he is going to Luci's and Melissa is going with.
Hanna and Boris are at school and I guess Boris is looking at the cd Hanna made for the project and Hanna is wanting to know how she did , when Boris snaps on her. She wants to know what's up. He says he's precoccupied. And what about she asks? He jumps right in and asks if she likes Lorenzo. She has a secret little grin and doesn't answer.
Vio gets company again, but it is Lorenzo and Fabian this time. She is telling them how much she was in love with Marcial and now its a mess. Lorenzo and Fabian assure her, she'll find someone better, when there is a knock on the door and it is Polo, with a bouquet of flowers for Magda. How sweet and bless his heart.
Magda and Estella are still in the kitchen and talking about Rosa being Mati's boss, and something about the devil, someone please clarify. They were still laughing.
Conny has come home, sees Mati in the hall by the library and Mati brings Conny up to date on the Paz/Rosa meet. Conny tells Mati not to worry. It will take care of itself. Conny goes off to see Pato, and he is happy to see her. Pato tells her about Luci going to therapy with him,he was very happy and Conny wants to know if Pato likes Luci. He says yes, and wants her back at the house. Conny says well maybe in time, and does some hand therapy with him. Conny also tells him, you will never guess who is meeting with Rosa as we speak, Paz the mama of Luci. Pato can't beleive it.
Paz and Rosa, meanwhile are winding up their convo. Rosa tells Paz that now it is in her hands, what to do. Paz has gotten her spine back, and says damn right, not really but Paz is determined. Pato, on hearing Paz has come to beard Rosa in her hellfire pit, comes in and greets Paz, as Rosa gives them the stinkeye. He says Dona Paz and she says jouven you must be Pato, and he says pleased to meet you and she says no the pleasure is mine as she grabs his hand and holds it.
In the best scene of the night, Ariche is in the court yard in the hood with a slingshot, when Rod has come to call. Rod calls Ariche's name, and Ariche turns around and wants to know why Rod isn't marrying Luci, while Ariche aims that sling shot straight at *dead to me Rod's* head. (Note to Ariche: Little dude you are one brave mushashon, but really aim a little lower, it will hurt *dead to me Rod* more and he will be begging for mercy, jus' sayin).
Advances:
Will Paz tell Luci the truth?
Gala says Rodrigo es Mio, SOLO MIO
Rod meets with Luci
Labels: refugio
Abismo de pasión #91 7/18/12: the loud water works are threatening Hoover Dam, but we have team Elisa at full force, Gab gets a broken face and team LoopGael bid for putting on a PI agency
Recap by Marta
Refrito:
Gael and Paloma at cenote
G:
No-one was there, not Abraham Lincoln, not Leurk, not the Undertaker, no
not Elisa either, only Dam because Loopy asked him to come.
P: I thought by now you would be with Elisa.
G: well, I am not that clingy, as you see.
P: And what is holding you back, Gael? Dam will marry Flo and Elisa is free, as you are.
G: Can we talk about anything BUT Elisa?
P: why did you come, then? (really, Paloma? You say you love this guy and can only nag him about your competition?)
G: I feel bad for the way we split.
P:
You don’t have to, you were honest. And I have you to thank for that.
It’s not your fault I am so pathetic. If you don’t love me, I am the
loser. I get it, I am not woman enough for you…
G: Don’t say that!, any man would feel proud to have you…
P: Yes, any man!, any man but you!...
G:
You think I am wooden? You think I don’t feel when I kiss you, when I
caress you? If I have not gone farther with you is not because I don’t
desire you but because I respect you and care for you a lot and I think
it would be unfair if I ended up hurting you!!…
P: Don’t tell me that!! Don’t say it!! Just admit that You don’t feel for me what you feel for Elisa…
G:
Ah will you stop the silly chatter?!! (that’s what I say!... they go
right into smooch… and powwow… ALL snipped off by Univision… including
the lovely song)
Ramona arrives at church, tells Padre she is to blame for Augusto’s fate!! .. Padre is clueless
- what are you saying, woman?? …
- I killed him!! I killed him!!...
- I am not getting it yet… do I get two more tries?
- You
were so right when you told me I should be careful with what I knew! I
did not listen to you, I went to Augusto and told him all about Carmina
and Rosie, and he could not handle the truth, and killed himself with
the shotgun in the study (another round of clue game, anyone? Not
possible to kill yourself in that game, only someone as ‘tortured soul’
as Augie can manage that)!...
- Augusto?...
- yes! Now how will I face Elisa again with? What explanation will I give her?? …
- For the love of God!!
Back to house of M &M.. More Braulio whooping-ass, he is all bloody by now..(YAY!!)…
B: Vicente is your son!! He is your son!!...
II: Is that true Gab?
G: course not!
B: He is asking for his father!! He is asking for you!!...
G: I have nothing to do with that chamaco!...
B: Get this you shmuck!! Tona and you wont take me for a ride again!. Admit in my face that you were with my wife!...
G: I
might have bad moment, but not bad taste…I wont admit to anything..
(Braulio shakes him more).yes I was with her, but it was when she was
still single, and I am a gentleman, did her the favor… (POW!).. cough cough.. sorry, forgive me, it is not my fault you married a woman I tasted first (is this from CS93?)
II: You are a filth of a husband! You miserable slump!
BR: Chente is awake and is asking for you! he needs you! you have to go see him!
Gab:
I don’t know if he… I don’t care! … with that woman, you have to
second-guess even the priest… (yikes! I wonder what Loopy would say
about that)
Br: you filth!! Early tomorrow you will go to the centro de salud!!.. Chente is very seriously ill, he needs a kidney! You are his father! And you have to donate it for him!
Gab: I cant give him something I don’t have! I don’t have anything to do with that chamaco.
BR:
You will do it, and you better not refuse, because I swear even if I
have to drag you there personally you will go and I will rip it(the
kidney) off of you with my own hands!! (throws him down)
At Castigo Manor… Lolita keeps calling Hacienda. Still gets busy signal.
Carmina comes… Lolita says she was going to call Padre and Gael.
Carmina orders her not to, she does not want to see anyone come.
Lolita insists not doing it for you, Elisa needs the ones that really love her to be with her.
Carmina insists it will be done as she wills and walks Lolita out of studio.
Lolita tells her this is not her house, because Don Aug had kicked her out.
Carmina assures Lolita that since he is now dead, by law she is now owner of the quinta.
Lolita says you might own half, but there is also my nina Elisa!…
Carmina remembers the moment Augusto walked toward her and she shot him… gets crazy upset…
Elisa
walks in her mom’s room totally deflated… still bloody white tee..
finds the pic of her mom and Nina on the bed.. wonders how the pic got
there. Lolita brings her a tea. Elisa asks her about how the pic got
there. who would have brought it? my dad? Surely it was him, surely he
was here. If he was here in the house alone, surely it was him, But why?
What was he thinking about? Lolita insists she stop the whaling and
take the tea.
All
this is because of what happened years ago when my mom died. My dad
began deteriorating and his unhappiness and mine originated then. Can’t
believe we suffered for so long and the suffering continues on. Lolita
insists she stop whaling. Elisa continues whining she is all alone now,
don’t even have Dam’s love. Lolita continues reminding her of the folks
she has in her support circle. You are not alone. Elisa says her dad
told her he would have liked to see her marry Dam the last time she
talked with him. Lolita agrees, your dad made many mistakes, but in that
he was right. Dam must know you are not siblings.
At
hacienda, Dam is dreaming, remembering when he was little right after
his dad died, and Alfie yelled that Stefie was to blame for Rosie being
dead, and how she separated Dam and Elisa, telling Dam Stefie was a
murderer, and he should not go near her daughter. He wakes up yelling
‘NOOO!! Elisa is my friend, mother!!’. (oh thank God he yelled that and
not ‘I AM A PATHETIC LOSER!!!’ which would fit him better) Alfie and Flo
are there faster than a witchy nose wink. Alfie wants Flo to stay with
him, Dam insists he is ok and they should go back to bed. Alfie stays
behind… she insists, he nags at her that she continues to treat him as a
child. Alfie acts offended, I was just worried about you. good nite.
Back to cenote. They are sitting still on same spot, hugging, arms tight around each other…
P: Do you regret it?
G: No.. but I don’t want to see that the one that will regret it later is you.
P:
No.. I am sure everything will not change between us. I love you so
much…so much.. I want you to swear that you will never look at another
woman. (he gets sad, stays quiet) why don’t you answer me? You don’t
dare say it, right?...
G:
come here… (he holds her in his arms again… ) I swear it.. I swear from
here on out I won’t think of another woman but you. I swear it. (they
are about to start all over but we see the famous wide skirt… yep its
Ramona watching them kiss, she is sad, and concerned…)
CB1
R:
You are a slut! I would have forgiven anything BUT THIS!.. how can you
be here, when Elisa’s father is layin’ cold who knows where?
G: What are you talking about?
P: speak clearly Grandma, do you mean to say Elisa’s dad is dead?
(Ramona nods to confirm)
G:
‘No puede ser! No puede ser!’ (one of our fav phrases! he takes off
running, Paloma runs after him calling his name, but Ramona pulls her
back by her mane/hair ‘where the hay-ride are YOU going??’)
(Dam,
now fully awake, remembers as kids him and Elisa talking after burying
Rosie and Stefie, Elisa assuring him her mom was not to blame for what
happened, do you believe me? (he nods yes), and them hugging, Gael
approaching them and hugging Elisa, Gael saying he was sorry for their
losses, he does not like to see Elisa cry… Dam telling Gael now I know
how you feel, I just lost my dad for good, Gael saying he never met
his... Elisa asking are they in heaven?... don’t know, maybe… I want to
be with my mom, I miss her… Paloma joining them, telling Elisa that she
misses her mom even though she was very little when she died, still miss
her everyday…)
Dam: Elisa… my Elisa… (he basically whispered this cry, at least he is not breaking anyone’s eardrums)
Elisa
by a tree outside her house… crying a river… remembering Augusto’s last
few words with her about Dam loving her and wanting to see them marry.
Elisa gets on her horse and rides away…
At
Tovar house… Begone-Ya nags at Inmundo for arriving so late… he tells
her was at centro de salud, dealing with Chente’s status. Not in mood to
argue, early tomorrow have a tough surgery. Will go back to the hotel
while your friend Carmina is here… don’t worry, Carmina went back to her
quinta. She had to, they told her her husband was dead. Inmundo
impactado. What happened to Augusto? He killed himself with his shotgun…
[Inmundo impactado even more, probably remembering he had just
confirmed to Augie that Carmina had faked the DNA tests and also
confirming that Carmina’s baby already in the oven before their wedding]
Gab
knocking to II, apparently she kicked him out, he swears the chamaco
(Chente) is not his child… II just gets more confy in bed… lol
Loopy
arrives at quinta, asks Lolita why they didn’t tell him right away…
Lolita says Carmina banned them from telling anyone. Lolita says Carm
did not want anyone to come. Carmina does not want anyone to stand watch
either. They took his body to the station to do the autopsy and Carmina
wants to burry him early tomorrow. Loopy whines about
them burying Augie without even a mass.. In comes Carmina, firmly tells
Loopy Augie was her husband, she decides how things will be, go away,
there is no corpse to watch over here. Loopy says he won’t go without
seeing Elisa. Carmina lies saying Elisa does not want to see anyone.
That Elisa wants to be alone. Loopy insists that at least will give her
his condolences. Carmina firmly says respect others’ pain… leave
already. No-one needs you here. Loopy asks Lolita to let him know when
the burial will
be and loudly declares he will give Augusto his last rites ‘le guste a
quien le guste’. Carmina nags at Lolita about telling Loopy. Lolita says
‘sorry but I will never keep Padre Loopy away.. never!’. (you go
Lolita! Let me buy you a new dress complete with the crocheted colorful
flowers)
Paloma
and Ramona at home, Paloma upset asks Ramona what happened. Ramona not
willing to talk to her about anything. Yells at her on top
of the guilt load she is carrying, she does not want to hear anything
about what Paloma and Gael just did either. Paloma asks what guilt load.
Ramona just yells ‘get out of my sight’. Paloma now upset about that
too… but somehow she knew it would be so.
Elisa
on horse arrives outside Hacienda, yells Damian’s name several times…
runs around upset, keeps yelling her lungs out for him, to no avail. Is
sweating… yelling… crying a river… yelling… (would someone hire her as a
back-up ambulance siren and take her out of her misery? She comes
complete with her own windshield washer and plenty of ww fluid!)
CB 2
At hacienda… Elisa still crying a river… still yelling… she must have elephant size lungs…
Knocks on windows, runs over and back, yells ‘Damian its me Elisa!! Damian, I need you!! Damiaaaan!!’
Inside
the hacienda, Paolo is awake by door, he wants to open the door, Alfie
won’t let him open, Flo is miffed… wants Alfie to tell Elisa to go away.
Alfie says let’s let her scream till she gets tired…
Gael
has run all the way to quinta (background music is odd, sounds like
psycho style thriller theme?), rings the bell anxiously, Lolita confirms
to him it is true.. how did it happen? .. don’t know, the house was
alone, when we got here we found Don Augie dead in his study. (Gael
crying) With the shotgun on floor next to him… Elisa, how his she?... mi
nina is really bad… don’t worry, I will go see her… no don’t go, Dona
Carmina does not want anyone in, she even kicked out the Padrecito… What
do I care what that senora says, I wont leave Elisa alone in this…
Lolita and Gael look for Elisa in her room, they are both surprised
Elisa is not there… Gael will go find her. Lolita comes of Elisa’s room
out after him but has to give explanations to Carmina… ‘Don’t even ask,
it was Gael at door and I let him in. Elisa is not here, Gael went to
find her..’ (the Lolita table is mighty crowded tonight… and so is Padre’s … Gael’s is too)
Elisa
is still yelling for Damian at hacienda… FF>>… I would put duct
tape on her mouth but can’t help but feel sorry for her when I see her
short of breath for crying so long….
Inside
hacienda, they can’t believe she has not left yet.. Flo says Elisa is
capable of yelling all night… (I would not bet against that in Vegas)
Paolo says don’t look at me for messenger, I am tired and I won’t
interfere… Flo asks Alfie what time Dam left… don’t know, I did not
notice when he left…
Dam
has made it on horseback to the quinta… (he and Elisa never crossed
paths so there must be at least two different ways from quinta to and
from the hacienda) Dam is also wearing a white tee, but this one is not
blood-stained… he rings the bell, a bit anxious but not as much as Gael
was. Carmina comes out, he tells her he feels anxious
about Elisa. I know it is late, I felt the drive to come see your niece.
Just tell me if she is ok… she is sleeping and you are wasting your
time if you think I will wake her up (you ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssna
CB 3
Loopy
gets home, paces around very upset, yells for Gael, but Gael is not
there… From how he looks, Loopy may need Gael more than Elisa needs Dam…
he tries calling the hacienda, but gets a busy signal.
Outside Hacienda, Elisa still yelling for Dam that she needs him…FF>>…
Inside, Alfie yawning (LOL!) …
Outside, Finally Elisa slowly rides away, still looking back. (man, that is a beautiful horse)
Inside,
Flo and Alfie are relieved Elisa FINALLY left (and honestly, we all are
too… Hoover Dam is still standing… but recapper is getting dizzy with
the inside/outside/inside/outside/
Flo leaves in a huff..
(Gael
finally finds Elisa on the way, both still on horseback… I guess he
took the same way Elisa took back home, even though Elisa had taken a
different way to the hacienda, so there is a 50 50 chance Dam is also
somewhere along this path…)
G: (gets off his horse and helps her off hers) I am so sorry… really I am so sorry (sweet hug)....
(of
course we hear more horse steps… wait for it! wait for it! …
Dam-the-Scram comes riding and sees the hug scene… Elisa is still really
upset..(YAWN…) Don’t have to be smarter than a 2nd grader to predict Dam puts an angry face, makes a U-turn and leaves)
Morning
at La Ermita, they are carrying the gasket (Gael, Inmundo, Horacio and
Lucio), with the Castanon ladies and Lolita following, Paloma, Maru and
The Tovars, and only about a dozen other townspeople behind… Gabino is
on horse, asks a woman who died, she tells him Don Augusto C, Gabino
impactado…
At
cemetery, with plenty of flower arrangements (more than the people
there, who paid for them?)… All the good guys are there, including the
employees of the Cielo Abierto/ Green house. Elisa finds comfort in
Lucio’s shoulder… Begone-Ya runs to grab Carmina before she collapses
(no, Begone-Ya! Let her fall! But of course, with our luck she will miss
the hole!), Inmundo looks at them and feels sick to his stomach… Loopy
looks up to the heavens… Elisa can’t watch as they put the dirt on the
gasket after lowering it.
A few yards away, Ramona is watching, she is upset too.
CB 4
At
quinta, Gabino has arrived knowing no-one is home… he forces the door
with a tool, gets in the studio, looks for some papers (‘where is the
contrato, caray?’ surely looking for the papers Augusto was to sign to
sell him Cielo Abierto). Found them, from the face he puts in when he
sees some papers…
At
hacienda, Dam arrives at breakfast table and Flo questions him where he
was so late last night… could not sleep and went riding. Is this going
to turn into the 20 questions game?... it’s not such a big deal (nah,
his sister’s dad just killed himself and he happens to be in incestuous
love with his own sister, but nothing to write home about, right?),
don’t put a frown face, I don’t like it when we are fighting… I don’t
like it either but you should admit that lately you make a big deal of
spilled milk… you are right, but understand me, after all we’ve been
through, I am not so sure of anything… don’t know why, we will get
married in a few weeks, no?... just what I need to feel finally at
peace, to feel we are man and wife… me too, it is what I need.
(Paolo
comes and joins in) Hey Dam! Did you know Elisa came looking late for
you?... Elisa was here?... Yes, Elisa came yelling your name for the
longest time, she was desperate and woke everyone up… Dam mad at Flo for
not telling him… P: Surely it is for the tragedy she is living… what
are you talking about? What tragedy?... Haven’t you heard? Everyone is
at Don Augusto’s burial… what are you saying? … That Elisa’s dad died…
(Dam runs out just like Gael did). Flo mad at Paolo, then asks him about
the Sabrina trip plan. Paolo says it got delayed by Don Augie’s burial,
but he will pick Sabrina up in an hour.
CB 5
At
church, Loopy and Gael (a.k.a. private investigators) are having late
merienda coffee/bread… ‘ay mijito, these things wear you out, even more
when it is someone so close to you like Augie was to us’… Don’t know why
did this had to happen now? Don Augie was a tormented soul (not sure I
could have put it better, Gael, but you are a bit too nice to Augie, I
think) but lately he was in better spirits, he was even happy because
after so long he was beginning to get along with his daughter… you are
right, Gael, only God knows what was in his mind to push him to do what
he did… no, no. It is still not lining up for me, according to what
Lolita said to me, she saw Don Augie before dark, then he even sent
Lolita to get Elisa. But when they arrived, they found him dead… then it
is clear that it happened between the time Dolores left and came back
with Elisa … IIIIIIIII don’t
know, padre… why do you doubt it? you yourself just told me what
happened before and after his death… yeah but let me explain, before
dark I went to Elisa’s house, when I got there it was dark, and rang the
bell but no-one answered… maybe by then it had already happened…
honestly I doubt it, because when I got there his truck was leaving. ..
you know who was in it?... yes, it was Horacio driving and Carmina was
with him, and that means Carmina must have seen Don Augie still alive.
(he does not get it to line up so he gets flustered and stands up) But
why do we keep talking about it? the only thing clear is that Don Augie
is no longer with us. (and is that good or bad in your view, Gael?) have
to go take a shower, have to go to Cielo Abierto and the green house,
now more than ever I need to keep those fields up and going.
At
cemetery, Dam runs to Augie’s grave and is late.. excuse me, did they
just burry Don AC? .. yes… ‘no puede ser!’ (there it is again, did
anyone yell BINGO!??)… at least you got here, because there were very
few folks in the burial, only a few people… (Dam remembers the last
conversation he had with Augie, about how Augie told him ‘ I remember
you as a kid, now you are a man, I respect and admire and take my hat
off for you. and I have to recognize that as an old man I still have
much to learn from you. I am not your dad, but from here on, I want to
see you as a son.’ (they shook hands) Dam crying…)
Horacio
arrives at the butcher shop to open for business, Loopy arrives there.
Horacio surprised. Horacio makes small talk with him about the burial..
don’t worry padre, I will take care of Lolita and Elisa. … Loopy cuts
his talk off, I know what you did, not precisely last night, I know the
sin you are carrying, the only thing I regret is not knowing it in time
to stop your marrying her. Such a great sacrificial woman does not
deserve a husband like you. But don’t worry boy, what I know I know
under confession vow so that is the only thing that saves you, even if
you don’t deserve it. But I’m not here tot talk about your sins, but
about Augusto’s death…
Previews for friday:
Labels: abismo
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Por ella soy Eva #3 7/18/12
We open with a little recap of Juan Carlos doing some heavy foreshadowing... "Me? See the world from a woman's point of view? What is she smoking?"
Helena goes to her kid's school to console him. The other kids have been teasing him about his absentee father, and he got roughed up a bit. A triple scratch on his cheek makes it look like maybe a squirrel attacked him. What kind of school is he attending?
Anyway, she brings him to the friends-house-cum-travel-agency. She tells the him that grandpa can't know about about the business (because she payed for it by taking out a mortgage on his house without his knowledge).
Plutarco's bimbo gets his car in a fender-bender. He is quite displeased by what she had described as some lil rasguncitos (smashed-in-headlights), but all is mostly smoothed over by plans of a jacuzzi "business meeting" for the two of them when he gets a call from his wife the whale who is feeling fatal and must see him immediately. Wuh-woh! But when he gets there he finds that she's not literally dying. He looks momentarily disappointed before he remembers that she's his link to 40% of grupo imperial. Apparently her malaise was not physical. She was waiting for him and he was late. It's about their relationship - he's never there and she wants divorce. This time he remembers the shares immediately, and falls to his knees begging for another chance to show her romance.
Helena does her own share of foreshadowing, joking with her friend about what she'll do when her "hombre ideal" shows up. Cue Juan, who bursts into the agency for his meet cute. He's dressed absurdly, with a little kerchief about his neck and a silly shirt. He clonks heads with Helena about 3 times, she drops her stuff, their eyes meet, the whole deal! She wonders who he is. Him: "Yo soy Juan........ uh........ PERON [emphasis mine]...... de Argentina"[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] I laugh out loud. I was surprised that my mom didn't recognize the name (Juan Peron, immensely popular, immensely devastating beloved/hated populist autocratic president of Argentina off-and-on for several decades with an exile before the third term), but it's a real crackup. And his fake accent really made me giggle. He claims to be representing a bus of tourists arriving to D.F. in an hour and desperately in need of a tour guide. She says she's a bit rusty but agrees to give it a go.
Somehow, he came up with a bus full of people for her to guide. Maybe it was just some random tour bus. They give the tour together, are super cute, and even dance up top of the double-decker bus! We see many sights, but where's the tower they always include in every telenovela shot of Mexico city? They get off. He praises her tour guiding talents and tries to find out about her beach development project. He will continue his investigations when he takes her out to a fancy dinner tonight, ostensibly to discuss her leading more buses. I love the way he's stumbling at trying to figure out the "vos" form in his fake Argentinian accent.
Then Juan discusses the situation with his bud, who sees her as just another one of Juan's dames and wants to know if she's plebian, cortesana, o marquesa (some kind of chauvinist/bro-vinist classification spectrum).
At dinner, Juan is smitten by Helena, though she looks kinda like she did this afternoon. He falls all over her. "I don't drink," she says, but his plan was to get her drink, so uh-oh. I love watching him squirm when she gripes about that bastard Juan at grupo imperial who trashed her project and fired her for being a woman.
Plutarco's makeup romantic dinner, to which he conveniently accidentally invites his boss (so he can puppet-master his wife into asking her brother for some shares for Plutarco). He pushes the unhealthy stuff on his wife - she'll have the ribs AND the shrimp fountain! A shrewd boss (Adrian?) won't talk business, and frowns at Plutarco as the beloved whale (man, the fat jokes are getting old quick) smears her face with rib sauce.
Juan Peron wants to dance. Isn't it funny that he will change his identity into Eva from Juan Peron? Just as Eva Peron (remember Evita) picked up the populist mantle from her dead husband? As they dance Juan grabs her butt and tries his line, but she slaps him and storms out. But before making it to the door she sees Plutarco at his table and flips out (remember, she got the identities mixed up, because Plutarco was the only executive upstairs when she led her woman-revolution up there for the attack.
Juan tries to defuse her. He says HE will talk to them, and hauls her back to the table to try and fix everything. Awesome cliffhanger!
Then the avances show us nothing new - more like a preview of what they'll show in the in the recap tomorrow at 8:00 PM. Tune in!
Helena goes to her kid's school to console him. The other kids have been teasing him about his absentee father, and he got roughed up a bit. A triple scratch on his cheek makes it look like maybe a squirrel attacked him. What kind of school is he attending?
Anyway, she brings him to the friends-house-cum-travel-agency. She tells the him that grandpa can't know about about the business (because she payed for it by taking out a mortgage on his house without his knowledge).
Helena does her own share of foreshadowing, joking with her friend about what she'll do when her "hombre ideal" shows up. Cue Juan, who bursts into the agency for his meet cute. He's dressed absurdly, with a little kerchief about his neck and a silly shirt. He clonks heads with Helena about 3 times, she drops her stuff, their eyes meet, the whole deal! She wonders who he is. Him: "Yo soy Juan........ uh........ PERON [emphasis mine]...... de Argentina"[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] I laugh out loud. I was surprised that my mom didn't recognize the name (Juan Peron, immensely popular, immensely devastating beloved/hated populist autocratic president of Argentina off-and-on for several decades with an exile before the third term), but it's a real crackup. And his fake accent really made me giggle. He claims to be representing a bus of tourists arriving to D.F. in an hour and desperately in need of a tour guide. She says she's a bit rusty but agrees to give it a go.
Somehow, he came up with a bus full of people for her to guide. Maybe it was just some random tour bus. They give the tour together, are super cute, and even dance up top of the double-decker bus! We see many sights, but where's the tower they always include in every telenovela shot of Mexico city? They get off. He praises her tour guiding talents and tries to find out about her beach development project. He will continue his investigations when he takes her out to a fancy dinner tonight, ostensibly to discuss her leading more buses. I love the way he's stumbling at trying to figure out the "vos" form in his fake Argentinian accent.
Then Juan discusses the situation with his bud, who sees her as just another one of Juan's dames and wants to know if she's plebian, cortesana, o marquesa (some kind of chauvinist/bro-vinist classification spectrum).
At dinner, Juan is smitten by Helena, though she looks kinda like she did this afternoon. He falls all over her. "I don't drink," she says, but his plan was to get her drink, so uh-oh. I love watching him squirm when she gripes about that bastard Juan at grupo imperial who trashed her project and fired her for being a woman.
Plutarco's makeup romantic dinner, to which he conveniently accidentally invites his boss (so he can puppet-master his wife into asking her brother for some shares for Plutarco). He pushes the unhealthy stuff on his wife - she'll have the ribs AND the shrimp fountain! A shrewd boss (Adrian?) won't talk business, and frowns at Plutarco as the beloved whale (man, the fat jokes are getting old quick) smears her face with rib sauce.
Juan Peron wants to dance. Isn't it funny that he will change his identity into Eva from Juan Peron? Just as Eva Peron (remember Evita) picked up the populist mantle from her dead husband? As they dance Juan grabs her butt and tries his line, but she slaps him and storms out. But before making it to the door she sees Plutarco at his table and flips out (remember, she got the identities mixed up, because Plutarco was the only executive upstairs when she led her woman-revolution up there for the attack.
Juan tries to defuse her. He says HE will talk to them, and hauls her back to the table to try and fix everything. Awesome cliffhanger!
Then the avances show us nothing new - more like a preview of what they'll show in the in the recap tomorrow at 8:00 PM. Tune in!
Labels: por-ella
Abismo de pasión, #90 7/17/12: Of orange killers and blue houses and black widows, of damaged kidneys and broken hearts.
The old:
Bumble accompanies the Killer Orange back to the quinta.
At Casa bien Castigada, Elisa, still stained with Augusto’s blood, wails. Really loudly. [Mr. Maven hollers from the next room to turn down the volume but I can’t because then I can’t make out the mumblers and the low talkers. A door shuts noisily in the Maven house.]
Horacio recites Carmina’s alibi, as ordered. Lucio restrains Carmina. The draped body is removed on a stretcher. When Lucio says that an autopsy will be done, Carmina howls in protest: “Criminy! He killed himself with a shotgun! Why can’t they leave him in peace!”
Say what? Who said anything about a shotgun?
The new:
Elisa’s pathetic Nancy Drew (You just got here! How did you know about the escopeta?) is no match for Carmina’s mad improv skills. The shotgun? It was sitting out in the open, fully loaded, when she and Horacio left, right H? Even Dolores has to admit she saw the weapon. Oh woe! If the Orange Widow had known what Augusto was going to do, she’d never have left the damn quinta!
Alone in her room, the Rotten Citrus blubbers: ¡Tuve que hacerlo! (I had to do it!)
Hacienda Harango: Alfonsina tells Gabino about Chente’s accident. No skin off his nose. Wow. Cold, dude. Even Alfabitch shakes her head. Later, however, Gabino rides over to the Health Center. He lurks briefly but doesn’t enter.
Centro de Salud: Toña weeps over the ashen-faced Chente. She and Braulio are being tested for compatibility as kidney donors. (I’m betting neither is a match for the crucial filthybandanahandwrap factor.) Doc Tovar has scheduled the transplant first thing tomorrow. Medicine moves lightning-fast in La Ermita.
Wait ... Chente speaks. He’s calling for his dad. Awww. Braulio is touched. Until Chente says “Tell Gabino to come, mamá, I need him here.” Oh, THAT dad. Braulio storms out, undeterred by Toña’s pathetic protests.
Hacienda Harango: Paolo won’t take the blame for Chente’s accident. And if Alfie is sick of him, the feeling is mutual. After Flor’s wedding, he’s history.
Maru stops by the hacienda looking for Dam. Since he’s still out squabbling with Flor, she has to settle for leaving word of Augusto’s death with Alfie. Oh yes, Alfie will be sure to tell him.
When Maru leaves, Alfie, stunned as she may be, has the presence of mind to tuck this metaphorical amulet in her metaphorical bra. No way Dam is getting that message tonight. When he and Flor get back home, Alfie’s hands are sweating but her botox mask is more inscrutable than ever. As soon as Dam walks toward his bedroom, Alfie shuts off the house phone. Yes, she’s a bitch. But as our Cap'n has noted, she’s magnificent.
At Casa bien castigada, the decibel level is still unbearable. Dolores and Lucio soldier on. Elisa finally asks to be alone. She wanders into the study and picks up the phone, dials, and gets a busy signal. “Ay Damián, te necesito.”
You think you’ve got problems?
Braulio arrives to find Horacio comforting Dolores. Dolores asks innocently: “How’s your son?” “My son” Braulio echoes bitterly. He’s not in good shape. But Braulio’s there for another reason. “You mean about what happened with don Augusto?” That’s the third shock of the night for Braulio but that’s not why he’s there either. Horacio knows Gabino, right? Where does he live?
Now it’s Dolores who tries to phone Damían for Elisa. No luck. What about calling Padre Lupe and Gael? “Go ahead, they have to be told.”
Meanwhile poor Lucio has to shlep Carmina’s heavy suitcases back to her bedroom and then broach the delicate subject of funeral arrangements. There won’t be a wake, she declares. Let’s just get that sucker in the ground. And not next to my sister, either. He’ll be next to MY SON. “I think you should ask Elisa what she thinks” suggests Lucio mildly. “She...” begins Carmina, “is in no condition to make any decisions.” “But Carmina”, protests Lucio. And the Killer Orange thunders loudly: “Absolutely not! I don’t want him next to my sister!”
Back at Hacienda Harango, Flor follows Dam into his bedroom, and half-heartedly follows her seduction script. He boots her out saying he doesn’t want Mommy Dearest walking in on them again. It’ll have to wait until they’re married.
Will there be Passion in the Pit tonight?
It begins innocently enough. Gael comes looking for Paloma because he feels bad about the way they left things between them. They’d better walk to the other side of the cenote so Ramona doesn’t see Gael. She’s pretty mad at him right now.
Casa Tovar
Bumble comes home to find Enrique and Sabrina in a shouting match mostly about Paolo. They are silenced by the sober look on their mother’s face. “Where’s your father?” she asks. “Something really tragic happened.”
It will be a while before the news reaches Doc. He was on his way home, he really was, but on an impulse, he turned around and drove to Mérida. Too late, though. Curls had gotten tired of waiting for him and had left the restaurant more than an hour before. (Trust me, Edmundo. You don’t know how lucky you are.)
The Blue House of Shame
Gabino lounges. He’s grouchy and suspicious and maybe feeling prickles in that teeny-weeny vestigial conscience-like thing of his. When Curls gets home, he tells her that a boy who works in the Pro Ce had an accident.
Ramona’s choza
Enrique is looking for Paloma. When Ramona tells him she’s not home, he reassures her – she probably went to Elisa’s when she heard the news about Augusto. The news? Oh, Ramona didn’t know? “Parece que se dio un escopetazo.” (It seems he blasted himself with a shotgun). Ramona is absolutely stricken. Enrique is frightened by her reaction to the news and wants to help her but she sends him away.
This is a singularly unpleasant scene.
Flor’s room in the hacienda
An Alfie invasion. How can Flor expect to get knocked up if she sleeps alone? Flor explains tartly that “Damián se puso pudoroso” (he became modest, or ‘chaste’) after Mommy Dearest walked in on them. And why is Alfie pushing so hard anyway? Isn’t Elisa safely out of the picture? “Hazme caso” (listen to me, sweet cheeks), “when you’re married and carrying his baby in your belly, then you can loosen your bandage dress.” (Well, that’s a rather loose translation.)
This scene is just evil. We can deal.
Elisa’s bedroom in the casa demasiado castigada
Elisa stares at her reflection in the mirror. The Killer Orange approaches. She is wearing black and affecting the grieving widow. She knows Augusto had many problems and didn’t deal well with emotional stress but it was Kenia that drove him to this. He couldn’t live with the guilty knowledge that a 17 year old girl had drowned herself because of him.
Yeah, yeah, Elisa knows all that, but she knows how much grief the aunt brought him.
With desultory cruelty, the homicidal Orange announces: “No va a haber velorio. No pienso seguir prolongando ese sufrimiento.” Having deposited her poison, she leaves. Elisa collapses, desolate and teary, on her bed.
Here is the most unpleasant scene of the night.
Damián’s bedroom in the hacienda
Alfie brings her boy a bedtime snack, apples and milk, and tells him to go boink Florencia. She dismisses Damián’s gut feeling that there is something very wrong going on (besides his mother invading his bedroom and attempting to orchestrate his sex life, that is).
In the Centro de Salud
Toña weeps over Chente’s bed and prays that he won’t be punished for her sins.
Here is the best scene of the night. No kidding.
On the outskirts of town, Horacio leads Braulio to the Blue House of Shame. (Just don’t say I told you, okay?) Braulio enters and, after expressing mild surprise at seeing Curls there, walks up to Gabino and begins to beat the crap out of him. (We have to get as much pleasure as we can out of this tonight because tomorrow, Irritating Curls is probably going to conk Braulio on the head or Gabino will pull a knife or something. Carpe diem, folks.)
The second best scene of the night.
Paloma keeps blathering about Elisa. She’s not woman enough for Gael and he’ll never feel for her what he feels for Elisa, she says. Gael shushes her. “Any man would feel proud to have a woman like you at his side.” He moves in very close. “You think I don’t feel anything when I kiss you, when I caress you ...” They move in for the smooch. The music swells in the background...
Scriiiiitch. The scene changes abruptly. Ramona interrupts Padre’s prayers with a startling declaration: “It was my fault! I provoked it! I killed him!”
Avances: In the dead of night, Elisa seeks out Damián at Hacienda Harango; Damián mounts his white steed and goes forth looking for Elisa. Let’s hope they manage to connect.
Bumble accompanies the Killer Orange back to the quinta.
At Casa bien Castigada, Elisa, still stained with Augusto’s blood, wails. Really loudly. [Mr. Maven hollers from the next room to turn down the volume but I can’t because then I can’t make out the mumblers and the low talkers. A door shuts noisily in the Maven house.]
Horacio recites Carmina’s alibi, as ordered. Lucio restrains Carmina. The draped body is removed on a stretcher. When Lucio says that an autopsy will be done, Carmina howls in protest: “Criminy! He killed himself with a shotgun! Why can’t they leave him in peace!”
Say what? Who said anything about a shotgun?
The new:
Elisa’s pathetic Nancy Drew (You just got here! How did you know about the escopeta?) is no match for Carmina’s mad improv skills. The shotgun? It was sitting out in the open, fully loaded, when she and Horacio left, right H? Even Dolores has to admit she saw the weapon. Oh woe! If the Orange Widow had known what Augusto was going to do, she’d never have left the damn quinta!
Alone in her room, the Rotten Citrus blubbers: ¡Tuve que hacerlo! (I had to do it!)
Hacienda Harango: Alfonsina tells Gabino about Chente’s accident. No skin off his nose. Wow. Cold, dude. Even Alfabitch shakes her head. Later, however, Gabino rides over to the Health Center. He lurks briefly but doesn’t enter.
Centro de Salud: Toña weeps over the ashen-faced Chente. She and Braulio are being tested for compatibility as kidney donors. (I’m betting neither is a match for the crucial filthybandanahandwrap factor.) Doc Tovar has scheduled the transplant first thing tomorrow. Medicine moves lightning-fast in La Ermita.
Wait ... Chente speaks. He’s calling for his dad. Awww. Braulio is touched. Until Chente says “Tell Gabino to come, mamá, I need him here.” Oh, THAT dad. Braulio storms out, undeterred by Toña’s pathetic protests.
Hacienda Harango: Paolo won’t take the blame for Chente’s accident. And if Alfie is sick of him, the feeling is mutual. After Flor’s wedding, he’s history.
Maru stops by the hacienda looking for Dam. Since he’s still out squabbling with Flor, she has to settle for leaving word of Augusto’s death with Alfie. Oh yes, Alfie will be sure to tell him.
When Maru leaves, Alfie, stunned as she may be, has the presence of mind to tuck this metaphorical amulet in her metaphorical bra. No way Dam is getting that message tonight. When he and Flor get back home, Alfie’s hands are sweating but her botox mask is more inscrutable than ever. As soon as Dam walks toward his bedroom, Alfie shuts off the house phone. Yes, she’s a bitch. But as our Cap'n has noted, she’s magnificent.
At Casa bien castigada, the decibel level is still unbearable. Dolores and Lucio soldier on. Elisa finally asks to be alone. She wanders into the study and picks up the phone, dials, and gets a busy signal. “Ay Damián, te necesito.”
You think you’ve got problems?
Braulio arrives to find Horacio comforting Dolores. Dolores asks innocently: “How’s your son?” “My son” Braulio echoes bitterly. He’s not in good shape. But Braulio’s there for another reason. “You mean about what happened with don Augusto?” That’s the third shock of the night for Braulio but that’s not why he’s there either. Horacio knows Gabino, right? Where does he live?
Now it’s Dolores who tries to phone Damían for Elisa. No luck. What about calling Padre Lupe and Gael? “Go ahead, they have to be told.”
Meanwhile poor Lucio has to shlep Carmina’s heavy suitcases back to her bedroom and then broach the delicate subject of funeral arrangements. There won’t be a wake, she declares. Let’s just get that sucker in the ground. And not next to my sister, either. He’ll be next to MY SON. “I think you should ask Elisa what she thinks” suggests Lucio mildly. “She...” begins Carmina, “is in no condition to make any decisions.” “But Carmina”, protests Lucio. And the Killer Orange thunders loudly: “Absolutely not! I don’t want him next to my sister!”
Back at Hacienda Harango, Flor follows Dam into his bedroom, and half-heartedly follows her seduction script. He boots her out saying he doesn’t want Mommy Dearest walking in on them again. It’ll have to wait until they’re married.
Will there be Passion in the Pit tonight?
It begins innocently enough. Gael comes looking for Paloma because he feels bad about the way they left things between them. They’d better walk to the other side of the cenote so Ramona doesn’t see Gael. She’s pretty mad at him right now.
Casa Tovar
Bumble comes home to find Enrique and Sabrina in a shouting match mostly about Paolo. They are silenced by the sober look on their mother’s face. “Where’s your father?” she asks. “Something really tragic happened.”
It will be a while before the news reaches Doc. He was on his way home, he really was, but on an impulse, he turned around and drove to Mérida. Too late, though. Curls had gotten tired of waiting for him and had left the restaurant more than an hour before. (Trust me, Edmundo. You don’t know how lucky you are.)
The Blue House of Shame
Gabino lounges. He’s grouchy and suspicious and maybe feeling prickles in that teeny-weeny vestigial conscience-like thing of his. When Curls gets home, he tells her that a boy who works in the Pro Ce had an accident.
Ramona’s choza
Enrique is looking for Paloma. When Ramona tells him she’s not home, he reassures her – she probably went to Elisa’s when she heard the news about Augusto. The news? Oh, Ramona didn’t know? “Parece que se dio un escopetazo.” (It seems he blasted himself with a shotgun). Ramona is absolutely stricken. Enrique is frightened by her reaction to the news and wants to help her but she sends him away.
This is a singularly unpleasant scene.
Flor’s room in the hacienda
An Alfie invasion. How can Flor expect to get knocked up if she sleeps alone? Flor explains tartly that “Damián se puso pudoroso” (he became modest, or ‘chaste’) after Mommy Dearest walked in on them. And why is Alfie pushing so hard anyway? Isn’t Elisa safely out of the picture? “Hazme caso” (listen to me, sweet cheeks), “when you’re married and carrying his baby in your belly, then you can loosen your bandage dress.” (Well, that’s a rather loose translation.)
This scene is just evil. We can deal.
Elisa’s bedroom in the casa demasiado castigada
Elisa stares at her reflection in the mirror. The Killer Orange approaches. She is wearing black and affecting the grieving widow. She knows Augusto had many problems and didn’t deal well with emotional stress but it was Kenia that drove him to this. He couldn’t live with the guilty knowledge that a 17 year old girl had drowned herself because of him.
Yeah, yeah, Elisa knows all that, but she knows how much grief the aunt brought him.
With desultory cruelty, the homicidal Orange announces: “No va a haber velorio. No pienso seguir prolongando ese sufrimiento.” Having deposited her poison, she leaves. Elisa collapses, desolate and teary, on her bed.
Here is the most unpleasant scene of the night.
Damián’s bedroom in the hacienda
Alfie brings her boy a bedtime snack, apples and milk, and tells him to go boink Florencia. She dismisses Damián’s gut feeling that there is something very wrong going on (besides his mother invading his bedroom and attempting to orchestrate his sex life, that is).
In the Centro de Salud
Toña weeps over Chente’s bed and prays that he won’t be punished for her sins.
Here is the best scene of the night. No kidding.
On the outskirts of town, Horacio leads Braulio to the Blue House of Shame. (Just don’t say I told you, okay?) Braulio enters and, after expressing mild surprise at seeing Curls there, walks up to Gabino and begins to beat the crap out of him. (We have to get as much pleasure as we can out of this tonight because tomorrow, Irritating Curls is probably going to conk Braulio on the head or Gabino will pull a knife or something. Carpe diem, folks.)
The second best scene of the night.
Paloma keeps blathering about Elisa. She’s not woman enough for Gael and he’ll never feel for her what he feels for Elisa, she says. Gael shushes her. “Any man would feel proud to have a woman like you at his side.” He moves in very close. “You think I don’t feel anything when I kiss you, when I caress you ...” They move in for the smooch. The music swells in the background...
Scriiiiitch. The scene changes abruptly. Ramona interrupts Padre’s prayers with a startling declaration: “It was my fault! I provoked it! I killed him!”
Avances: In the dead of night, Elisa seeks out Damián at Hacienda Harango; Damián mounts his white steed and goes forth looking for Elisa. Let’s hope they manage to connect.
Labels: abismo
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Por ella soy Eva #2 7/17/12: Everybody Yells at Juan Carlos
Rebeca cheerfully explains to Helena: you're getting dumped as part of the new austerity plans. You're always wanting special consideration because you're a single mother. Helena asks to get her project back, Rebeca denies having it. It turns out all the fired employees are women - either old, or single mothers.
JC and his buddies are striking out: all the projects he and his sidekicks review are lousy. He even goes to bed with the somewhat middle-aged Victoria Infante in hopes she has some ideas for him. He calls her his countess; she knows about his fiasco...
... and she tells him Playa Majagua is the next big thing, there will be tax breaks etc, but he better hurry, the window of opportunity is closing. He leaves her to make her own sandwich while he goes off...
... to trawl through the trash - he finds Helena's precious project soaked with ikkiness and her dvd is broken.
Meanwhile, Helena remembers the Canadian guy and calls him... he takes her to lunch and says he'll do business with her if she'll open a travel agency -- he as a foreigner needs a local legal entity. He makes her promise not to accept an offer from anybody else, especially G.I. and they sign an agreement.
Helena drags her fired butt home. In private she tells her mom she's been fired ("don't tell your father") and that she needs 200,000 pesos to start a travel agency. The mom takes out a mortgage on the family home the next day. The cranky dad tells her son Lalo: "Your dad was an irresponsible coward, he ran away, he never wanted you." BUMMER. Later Lalo tells his mom it was his fault the dad left. "You think my dad loves me?" "I think he's losing the chance to see a wonderful boy grow up."
Meanwhile JC gets the list of fired employees from Rebeca (while staring down her cleavage). "You're not thinking of re-hiring them?" she asks like a proper villainess. She gives him pills good for gastritis. JC finds Helena's number and calls her. He's suave, but she's furious: "I'm not setting foot in that business. You didn't have time for me, now it's too late." She hangs up on him. He tells his buddies: "They get their period, that's why I hate doing biz with women!"
He goes and fakes it with his boss, airily describing chains of hotels, restaurants, spas, all with the G.I. logo on them. "Like the Caribbean or the Mediterranean." Plutarco whispers in his brother-in-law's ear that it's all a bad idea. The brother-in-law (boss of both of them) says he won't put his own money into it. JC says he'll get private investment. Adriano says if it goes well, JC will get a chunk of the business.
Plutarco is indignant: "I am your brother-in-law and you never offered shares to me." "You're married to my sister, she has shares. And JC has never failed me - except that once." Plutarco goes to whine to Rebeca his girlfriend (the same one whose cleavage JC was ogling). They have an argument; she threatens: "Fire me and I'll tell the whale [his wife] we're lovers."
At home Plutarco's wife again tries to give him a massage and again he spurns her. Turns out she owns 40% of the company shares.
With the money from the bank, Helena and her friend fix up the friend's place to be the new travel agency, which they call Viajes Moreno. The Canadians come through (the subtitles amusingly call them the Alberta Trouble Company but it's really the Alberta Travel Company).
JC's buddies report that at the beach, they have no local buy-in - the locals only want to do business with Helena! JC says no woman can do as well as men. Plutarco calls the three of them "Hugo Paco and Luis," better known to us as Walt Disney's trio of baby ducks, Huey Dewey and Louis. Plutarco has come round with a huge empty box; he says that because of the austerity program they have to turn in their cell phones. JC says this is sabotaging him! Plutarco says people did without cellphones for centuries, consider the Aztecs!
Adriano steps up the pressure for a quick solution - he wants a formal report on the Playa project immediately. Plutarco is listening.
Rebeca wants a chauffeur but she is refused (austerity). She goes and yells at Plutarco. Unsympathetic, he suggests she take a taxi or walk. Or there's a microbus. She rubs up against him until he gives her his car keys.
JC realizes Rebeca knows something about the Playa project, runs after her, offers to join forces with her, they end up in bed. He says afterwards, "I never take this sort of 'meeting' with women I work with." "Then I'm special." As a reward, she tells him: "I have contacts - and I know that Trouble company has the project underway."
There's some problem at Lalo's school so Helena runs out of the travel agency.
Hewey tells Dewey he's found out about the Alberta Trouble/Travel Company having an alliance with Helena's Viajes Moreno. "And she's an employee you FIRED." Rebeca comes in to hear JC whispering about her: "The woman I'm here with is nothing special, she's a courtesan by vocation, I'm doing her a favor." She yells: "You pig! Some day you should feel what I feel, be in my shoes!" "Ridiculous woman, you think such a thing could happen?"
Tomorrow: he greases his hair back and goes with a false identity to hit up Helena.
Labels: por-ella
Refugio Para el Amor #73 Tue 7/17/12 The Truth According to Rosa; Pato Gains Ground on Rod in the Pool
Luciana has just shown the infamous magazine to Paz and
Magda, who are flipping through the pages in disbelief.
Meanwhile, downstairs, Estella gets ready to join Marianita
in bed. Marianita cradles her magic wand and wishes with all her heart for her
mother to return and to return well. But if it’s dangerous for her to return, then
Marianita prefers that her mom remains in the States, and she’ll go find her
when she’s older.
Luci spills everything about the surprise attack by the
Blonde B/Witches and how she couldn’t defend herself. Magda and Paz are just as
upset as Luci to hear how it all went down. “My God, what cruelty (saña)
against my daughter.” Luci mentions that they even brought Aquiles from the
pueblo to be part of the attack. This really ticks off Magda. Paz asks if
Aquiles was there that day. Luci tells them how he came to the apartment to
find her, but nothing happened. He left after she told him to leave her in
peace. Magda can’t believe people could be so evil. Luci really starts to lose
it. Ever since she met Gala and Julie, they have done nothing but make her life
hell, just because she isn’t from their class. Paz wants to go tell those women
off. “Take me there Luciana! Take me! I’m going to put them in their place!”
Luci doesn’t see the reason to. Those women are so stupid that they don’t
understand that it’s what inside that counts, not what you have. They are heartless and soulless. Paz can’t
believe she wasn’t there with Luci in these tough moments. Luci tries to calm
her down. Everything is over now, and it wasn’t all bad. She also met great
people like Lic. Linares, who’s been like and angel for her. Paz’s eyes shoot
wide open again. She and Magda give each other the look.
Boris and Hannah are video chatting via their IPads about some
math she’s having trouble with. They agree to meet early (6 am!) before classes
so that he can help her. Melissa is spending the night in Hannah’s room and is
busily working on her thesis. Max comes in to check on the girls. He wants to
know how Melissa’s thesis is going, with Claudio. He manages to sound only a
little menacing. Melissa is all happy smiles about Claudio. Max tells her not
to trust Claudio, but Melissa just doesn’t buy it. “El Lic. is a brilliant man,
professional and transparent.” Max says he hopes she’s not mistaken. He’s never
doubted that she’s intelligent and hard working- the characteristics of success
( éxito).
Hannah jumps in and says she has all of those characteristics of success too,
except she’s not as disciplined as Melissa. Max chuckles and tells the girls
not to stay up (desvelar) too late, and leaves. Hannah goes back to her
conversation with Boris, just as Melissa’s phone rings. It’s Aldo with news
that Lorenzo is out of jail. Both girls squeal in delight, and Hannah
completely forgets Boris is there. Looks like his patience for Hannah’s
preoccupation with Lorenzo is wearing thin. “You’re really happy, right?”
Hannah picks up on his annoyance and tries to change the subject back to math,
but Boris now has a bad case of the green eyed monster.
Of all the bars in Mexico City, Gabriel and Marcos have to
bring Rod to the one where Gala and her crew are celebrating HIS divorce.
G&M are happy to run into their girlfriends Valentina and Fernanda and
immediately leave with them for the dance floor. Rod is left to sulk at the
bar, with Gala waiting to pounce on her prey. She makes the first move by
asking across the bar how he is. He gruffly says he’s here. She approaches and
says she heard about his divorce. “That’s how you planned it, right? You, Julie
and my mother. Congratulations Gala. You got what you wished for.” Gala acts like the offended party that he
would expect the worst of her. She says they shouldn’t continue the conversation
because she doesn’t want to fight. “It’s better that I leave, and you continue
to celebrate whatever it is you need to celebrate.” She calls for her posse to bounce. G&M
walk the ladies out. Rod can’t believe he was supposed to be marrying Luci in
just a few days.
Luci has fallen asleep sitting up in the couch. Paz looks at
her daughter and says to Magda that she was supposed to be marrying Rod in two
days. “Poor thing. How much she’s suffered. How they have mistreated her Magda.
And look at her. With all of that, still studying and trying to get ahead.”
Magda points out that Luci has always been a fighter since she was little. Paz
doesn’t think she can scold Luci for keeping quiet about things, when she
herself has been doing the same thing by not telling her the truth about her
origins. Magda says that Paz had to keep quiet because she gave her word/made a
promise (juramento). Paz thinks she and Luci have kept their secrets for the
same reason. Because of fear. The same fear she feels right now when she thinks
of telling Luci the truth. Magda thinks she can’t keep quiet for much longer.
Paz says she’s right. Keeping quiet would make her just as bad as Rosa. Luci
has the right to know. “Tell her Paz. Tell her now. God knows why we were sent
here.” “Yes. I can no longer continue to
keep quiet. My silence has ended.”
More angry workouts from Rod. He flings his water bottle
across the room. (Dude, try yoga! Your hair does look better today though.)
The next day, Luci studies for her exam, but visions of
Rod’s face break her concentration. Ariche runs in to say there’s a man
downstairs looking for her. She leans over the rails and sees…Patricio! He is
pleased that she actually called him by his name instead of Joven. She is
thrilled to see him and runs down the stairs with Ariche.
In Het Het, Procopio is taking his new job very seriously
and in the midst of counting candles. Luchita comes for a visit, and he brags
about all their funerary services, including flower arrangements and wreaths of
all kinds of exotic flowers. Luchita has really come to try to steal him to
help manage her clothing stalls. She’s diversifying and opening another stall
with cheap Chinese made products, like hair accessories and such. Copio thanks
her, but he’s already made a commitment to Don Serapio. He offers her use of
the phone.
In the apartment courtyard, Luci happily greets Pato. She’s glad
to see that he feels and is doing better. “Luci, if I came here today, it’s to
tell you that what happened between you and my brother has nothing to do with
our friendship. Please. Don’t distance yourself (alejarse) from me because of
your divorce.” Luci tells him that won’t happen. She has deep affection and
admiration for him. He tells her how good it is to hear that, then invites her
to accompany him to his first hydrotherapy session that morning. She’s always been important for his
recuperation. She agrees, but needs to tell her mom first. Pato would love to
meet her mom, but has no time now. Luci promises to pass on his greetings.
Ariche stays with Pato while Luci runs upstairs. They remember each other from
Het Het, before Pato had his accident. Ariche wants to know what happened;
why’s he in a wheelchair now? Pato explains he had an accident and how the
chair moves without anyone pushing it. Ariche is impressed and wants a ride. He
hops on and zips through the courtyard with Pato. Ariche even takes a turn
maneuvering the wheelchair controls. Inside Estella’s place, Paz is not pleased
to hear Luci is going out to hang with a Torreslanda, but must grudgingly give
her permission.
Rod is continuing to vent his pent up emotions by resuming
riding his motorcycle to work. Must be nice to have someone waiting at the door
with a freshly pressed suit for you. Once inside his office, he calls the big
house asking for Pato and finds out from Mati that he’s already left for his
first hydrotherapy session. Rod had wanted to accompany him, so he’ll catch up
to him. Mati tries to give Rod her condolences about the end of his marriage to
Luci, but Hot Head Rod nearly rips her head off and says he doesn’t want to
talk about Luci. He doesn’t even want to hear her name. Jerk!
Now that the older ladies have been left alone, Paz can let
loose about how p*ssed off she is about the whole Rosa situation. Her daughter
shouldn’t have to put up with so much suffering. And she regrets not having
told Claudio that Luci is his daughter. “I’m Luci’s mother, and I will put Rosa
in her place! The moment has come to confront her. To tell the whole world who
that woman really is!”
Luci and Pato’s therapist Jorge watch as he works in the
pool with the hydrotherapist. Pato points out that once again Luci is there for
an important milestone in his life. He thanks her.
Magda is ready to roll as part of Paz’s posse, but then she
wonders if Rosa will even still know who she is. Estella informs them that Rosa
remembers perfectly well who Paz is, and got the information out of her during
an interrogation. Then Rosa fainted and they had to take her to the hospital.
At the high school, Hannah is apologizing to Boris because
she forgot her flash drive with info for her part of their group presentation
with Lula. It’s obvious that he’s upset about more than the presentation. Boris
takes her home to get the flash drive.
Connie gingerly approaches Rosa as she pours herself some
tea, and notes that Rosa has seemed much better these last few days, than the
last many weeks and months. She’s been worried about her. Rosa apologizes for
all the bad moments over the last months, and thanks her for always being at
her side. “Come what may (pase lo que pase), you are my sister. And I love you.
I love you a lot. And I’ll always be by your side.” (Oh Connie. Rosa is so not worth
that kind of dedication.) Rosa asks her to help her recover Rod’s love and
respect. He was so rude (grosero) to her when she made that toast yesterday.
(You know, the toast to his DIVORCE from the woman he loves.) Connie says that
Rosa has to understand that he’s really hurting. Stepford Wife Rosa pours her
tea and says that Rod will thank her eventually and see that everything she’s
done is for his good. Connie hasn’t yet learned that you can’t reason with a
crazy person (or a Pod Person) and tries to make Rosa see that she can’t
control and dominate Rod. Rosa begs for Connie’s help with Rod again. Connie
says she will always help Rosa, but she's worried about her. She’s not herself.
Sometimes, she doesn’t even know who Rosa is. (BINGO! Because she’s a Stepford
Pod Person!) Rosa gets all wide eyed and creepy. Whatever do you mean? You know
me. I’m your sister. You surprise me Connie.
C: I don’t know you completely. You went to see Claudio
Linares and you haven’t told me what you said to him.
R: I told him the truth.
C: What truth Rosalena?!
R: The TRUTH. Only the truth Connie.
C: There is only one *truth* Rosalena! And if you had told him, Claudio would be here, incriminating you for giving away his daughter when she was a baby.
R: What are you saying to me? I’m not Claudio Linares. Each person reacts differently. If Claudio has remained so tranquil after I told him the truth, then what do you expect me to do?
R: I told him the truth.
C: What truth Rosalena?!
R: The TRUTH. Only the truth Connie.
C: There is only one *truth* Rosalena! And if you had told him, Claudio would be here, incriminating you for giving away his daughter when she was a baby.
R: What are you saying to me? I’m not Claudio Linares. Each person reacts differently. If Claudio has remained so tranquil after I told him the truth, then what do you expect me to do?
Connie grabs her and tries to shake the real truth out of
her.
C: What did you tell Claudio Linares?!!
R: (Smiling and looking at Connie like she’s the crazy one.) Connie, I just asked you for some advice about my son Rodrigo. I didn’t want to speak about Claudio Linares. Ay, sister. At times you are so strange.
R: (Smiling and looking at Connie like she’s the crazy one.) Connie, I just asked you for some advice about my son Rodrigo. I didn’t want to speak about Claudio Linares. Ay, sister. At times you are so strange.
Rosa walks out of the room, as cool as a cucumber, and
Connie shakes her head in frustration.
Claudio meets with Barrera and Norma. They look at his
supposed signature on the fraud documents and his real signature. A side by
side comparison shows that they are very similar, but not the same. Norma thinks
they can prove he was not in Germany on those dates by getting old credit card
info and travel docs to show he was in another country at the time. Claudio is
sure that very soon it will be Max behind bars (las rejas).
Paz wants to just go find Rosa already, but Magda wants to
make sure they know where they are going first. Estella knows perfectly well
where the Torreslanda house is, so she will go with them.
On the corner, Ariche, Fabian, and Lorenzo are enjoying some
street vendor tacos. Aldo walks up and joins them. Lorenzo tells Aldo that he
and Fabian are still looking for work. In typical Aldo style, he offers to
invest in any business that Fabian and Lorenzo think up. Ariche suggests that
they sell tacos, since everybody loves tacos! Aldo thinks it’s a good idea. The
kid has imagination. Aldo decides to make Ariche one of their partners. Ariche
calls Aldo a mushashon loco. (Out of the mouth of babes.)
Padre Honesto is being driven to once again speak to his
superiors about his special case—Rosalena Torreslanda. This time he’s seeing
the Bishop about Rosa’s blasphemous “confession” about desecrating the graves
and lying to Claudio about the remains of his wife and child. Never in all his
years as a priest has he heard such a thing! The Bishop agrees that this is an
extraordinary act that would shock anyone. But their duty (deber) as priests is
to counsel precisely this kind of tortured soul. Padre Honesto wants his advice
as his spiritual guide. The Bishop doesn’t seem to quite know what to advise
him.
Paz, Magda and Estella arrive at the big house. Paz is
amazed. The Torreslanda’s did not live in such a big, luxurious (lujo) house
when she and Galdino were their gardeners. Max must have done well for himself
over the years. Paz wonders if they’ll let them in. As they discuss this,
Hannah runs out, greets Estella, and tells the guard to let them in.
Luci chats happily with Pato by the pool as his therapy
continues. Rod walks in behind Luci, says good afternoon, and initiates a stare
down.
Frigida is unfortunately the first person that Paz and her
crew encounter at the front entrance. She laughs at them when they say they
want to speak to Señora Torreslanda. Mati comes out of the house and is
shocked to find Paz there. Both she and Frigida seem very aware that the crap
is going to hit the fan with Luci’s mama come to find Rosa. Mati tells her that
Rosa isn’t there right now. Too bad, because Paz doesn’t intend to leave until
she speaks with Rosa about her daughter Luci. Estella takes Magda to the kitchen
(via the servants’ entrance), while Mati takes Paz off to her room to talk.
Rosa comes to Padre Honesto’s office, but luckily he’s away
seeing the Bishop. She orders the altar boy that’s in the office to tell the
Padre she needs to see him, ASAP.
In her room, Mati tells Paz that she knew this day would
come one day. Before she goes further, she walks over to her door, yanks it
open, and Frigida nearly falls in, ear first. “Brigida, did you lose something?
Come on in so that you can hear better.” Frigida says it’s not her style to
look for gossip. (Give me a fricking break!) Mati shoos her off, then turns the
radio on and puts it right up to the door.
Rod and Luci walk Pato out of the hydrotherapy center. Pato
explains how he picked up Luci because it was important to him that she be at
the first session. Luci says she’ll be at as many of them as Pato wants. Rod
asks how Pato feels. He’s super tired from the session, but he feels good. Rod
wants to drop him off at home, but Pato wants to drop Luci back home first.
Luci tries to say she’ll find her way home alone, but Pato insists. She leans
down and thanks him for letting her be part of something so important to him.
He thanks her. They smile at each other. Rod scowls. Rod offers to take Luci
home. She refuses, then slips away as he’s signing some medical papers for
Pato.
Paz tells Mati that it was never her intention to return.
But does she know how she felt last night when her daughter told her how Rosa
has treated her? How she manipulated her son in order to separate them, making her out
to be a slut. How she broke her Luci's heart separating her from the man she
loves.
M: What can I tell you Paz? What’s done is done.
Destiny, sooner or later, puts everything in its place.
P: That’s why I came Matilde. To tell the truth! To put Señora Rosalena in her place!
M: (Shaking her head.) Mi niña, Rosalena. (Oh, how I want to slap Mati each time she says that!)
P: Yes, Matilde. If your patrona hadn’t seen fit to tear my Luciana to pieces, I wouldn’t be here. But I’m not going to allow her to keep harming her!
P: That’s why I came Matilde. To tell the truth! To put Señora Rosalena in her place!
M: (Shaking her head.) Mi niña, Rosalena. (Oh, how I want to slap Mati each time she says that!)
P: Yes, Matilde. If your patrona hadn’t seen fit to tear my Luciana to pieces, I wouldn’t be here. But I’m not going to allow her to keep harming her!
The Ice Queen is at the moment in her chariot, and has
called Gala. She needs to speak to Gala urgently.
Rod returns to the office and gives Gabriel the update on
Pato’s therapy. He then says he saw Luci at Pato’s therapy. “And?” “Nothing.” The only thing Rod discovered is that he doesn’t want to see her anymore. Jerk! He
feels like an idiot (so true) and vulnerable when he’s near her. Gabriel says
there is always an opportunity to correct a mistake. This is Rod’s opportunity.
Max walks in and asks how Rod is. Rod says he’s fine, but Max isn’t buying it.
“In less than a month you got married and then got divorced. I want you to know
that I don’t want to know how you got to this point. You are what’s important
to me. I just want to know that you’re well.” Rod once again says he’s fine.
Max invites him out to eat, Rod’s treat.
Luci returns to Vio’s and asks where her mom is. Vio says
she went out with Magda and Estella. (If only they knew where.) Luci is just
about to tell Vio about running into Rod when there’s a knock at the door. It’s
the male version of cling-wrap, Marcial, wanting to “explain” the fact that
he’s married with kids for the umpteenth time. Vio doesn’t want to hear it. Luci
decides to leave them alone and heads to Estella’s. Vio explains to Marcial
that she’s no one’s sloppy seconds (plato de segunda mesa). “I love you
Violeta, and I know that you also love me.” “Let me go! Leave me in peace!”
(Sueltame! Dejame en paz!) She’s already got enough problems with her mama
there. She doesn’t need another. He asks, how can he leave her in peace when he
loves her?
Magda and Estella chat in the kitchen. Estella hopes that
speaking with Mati will help calm Paz down a bit before she speaks with Rosa,
because with the way Rosa is, things could get really ugly. Magda is surprised
to hear how scary Rosa can be. Although it shouldn’t surprise her given that
the woman was able to just give away a newborn baby.
Meanwhile, in Mati’s room, the pre-confrontation
conversation continues.
P: Tell me Mati, La Señora Rosa knew exactly who my Luciana is, right?
M: Yes Paz. Yes she knew. She found out a little while ago.
P: And even so, she had the cynicism to treat her as she did? That woman is a demon disguised (disfrazado) as an angel!
M: No Paz. What it is, is that she has a great fear that if the truth is discovered her family would judge her for what she’s done. (I don’t see how this negates what Paz said. Can I slap Mati now?)
P: That is an absurd justification! Cowardice! Wicked/Despicable! (Canalla) Not the actions of a woman who flaunts her morality/rectitude, her religiosity. With greater reason Mati, that she SHOULD have treated my Luciana well, if simply just to respect the memory of the woman who gave her daughter over to her care. Did you tell her that I was willing to come here and tell the whole truth?
M: Yes. And she told me that she was willing to confront you.
P: Well here I am. And if it’s necessary, yes I will tell. I won’t do it for me, but for Luciana. Because she’s lost part of her life. At what moment did my Luci decide to come here to try her luck/make her way? I should have never permitted her to leave the pueblo.
M: What you need to keep clear in your mind is that even if Luci learns the truth, for her, her mother will always be you. She adores you and will eternally be grateful to you and Galdino for all you have done for her as her parents.
P: Tell me Mati, La Señora Rosa knew exactly who my Luciana is, right?
M: Yes Paz. Yes she knew. She found out a little while ago.
P: And even so, she had the cynicism to treat her as she did? That woman is a demon disguised (disfrazado) as an angel!
M: No Paz. What it is, is that she has a great fear that if the truth is discovered her family would judge her for what she’s done. (I don’t see how this negates what Paz said. Can I slap Mati now?)
P: That is an absurd justification! Cowardice! Wicked/Despicable! (Canalla) Not the actions of a woman who flaunts her morality/rectitude, her religiosity. With greater reason Mati, that she SHOULD have treated my Luciana well, if simply just to respect the memory of the woman who gave her daughter over to her care. Did you tell her that I was willing to come here and tell the whole truth?
M: Yes. And she told me that she was willing to confront you.
P: Well here I am. And if it’s necessary, yes I will tell. I won’t do it for me, but for Luciana. Because she’s lost part of her life. At what moment did my Luci decide to come here to try her luck/make her way? I should have never permitted her to leave the pueblo.
M: What you need to keep clear in your mind is that even if Luci learns the truth, for her, her mother will always be you. She adores you and will eternally be grateful to you and Galdino for all you have done for her as her parents.
Paz says she knows, but thinks it will be natural for Luci
to feel betrayed when she finds out the truth. Paz will have to carry the guilt
of that the rest of her life. But Luci has to start living the life she was
meant to live. Just yesterday Claudio Linares was with them. “Do you know how
it was for me to see father and daughter together?” Mati freaks out. Paz says
that Linares is such a warm (calido) man, so caring and he loves Luci like a
father. “Luciana has a right to know that her father is alive.” She has a right
to live a better life without deprivation (privaciones). And most of all she
has a right to live with her father, if that’s what she wants.
Back at Vio’s, Marcial is still singing the same tune, but
he hasn’t worn Vio down. She opens the door for him to go. She gives meaning to his life. He’s just
asking for a little more time. Blah, blah, blah. “Take all the time you need.
But in the meantime, leave me in peace!” He can’t stop thinking about her a single
moment. He comes up behind her and puts his arms around her. Just then, his
crazy wife storms in, triumphant that she’s caught the pair of cheaters in the
act!
Avances: Rosa and Paz
rumble in the library! Who will come out the victor?
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