Zorro: La Espada y La Rosa Recaps/Summaries from Telenovela-World April 30, 2007 – June 1, 2007
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Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Mon 30
Apr 2007) Author: B. (---) Date:
04-30-07 16:44 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as
of 5p Pacific, LAI still hasn't posted the recap for #54 (last Friday) yet. at
this point i think it's unlikely he will post anything before tomorrow...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Esmeralda
sufre por olvido...
Mariángel tiene una
sospecha.
Esme suffers from being
forgotten...
Mugre has a suspicion.
(ruh roh! a suspicion about what, though? about her father? about the Unmasked
Miracle? the price of tea in China? that Mentally Impaired Diego might be more
than he pretends to be?)
TITLE: Sin
noticias del ser amado. (loosely, no news of the beloved) (i guess that means
that Esme still hasn't heard that Diego has amnesia. and i guess Yoda Tomás
hasn't heard that Esme is in jail. i know he's had a lot on his plate lately,
what with MIDiegorro insisting on behaving like a spoilt moron and all, but
you'd still think he'd've made an attempt to find out about Esme and/or get
word to her about Diego...)
DATE: Monday, 30 April
2007
EP #55
-Mariángel sospecha de un
embarazo.
Mugre suspects a
pregnancy. (if this is just LAI writing badly and he's talking about Mugre
suspecting that SHE is pregnant, then oh, crap. just what i DIDN'T want. the
stupid who's your daddy story. and now that MIDiego has amnesia, it will be
easy for her to pass the kid off as his. alternatively, if this is LAI writing
in a deliberately vague fashion so he can pull a bait-and-switch, then we're
talking about some other pregnancy. like maybe she suspects that Blabmu is
pregnant or something. not nearly so dramatic, so i can see LAI trying to get
some mileage out of it while he can. still, i bet it's the former. Kooko
probably feels he got cheated of the opportunity with Tinhorn Despot and Esme's
baby, so...)
-Alejandro de la Vega le
hace una fuerte confesión a Almudena.
Rat Pecs de la Vega makes
a strong confession to Blabmu. (hmmm, sounds like he 'fesses up to spending
Blabmu's wedding night with Yummy. do we think he's also going to try to say,
"but it's ok, because Buffie gave Yummy to me and Yummy understands that
you're my legal wife" or WTTE?? even if he doesn't, that's going to make
for a really cheery living arrangement at Chez Infidelity... this probably also
explains why the promo for today shows him shouting at her to calm down. well,
i'm not overfond of hysterics myself, but really, he should cut her a BIT of a
break here...)
-El Zorro sigue soñando
con Esmeralda.
MIZorro (and, i would
imagine, MIDiego) continues to dream about Esme. (but has anyone actually told
him who she is yet?)
-Esmeralda piensa que
Diego ya no está interesado en ella.
Esme thinks that Diego's
not interested in her anymore. (don'tcha just LOVE these Tru Luv 4Evah stories
where one or both parties are so desperately insecure in love that if they
don't hear from, see, or otherwise receive near-constant reassurances as to
their feelings being returned, they get all "my beloved doesn't love me
anymore!!" and spend the rest of the episode boring us and everyone around
them with it...?? Esme demanded to see Diego, not because she wanted any proof
from Pizza or anything like that, but just because she had to see him to be
sure he was alive AND STILL WUVS HER. but did she think about the consequences
of this demand??? NOT. AT. ALL!! because if she'd stopped to think about it
even for a second, she would have realized at least one of the following
possible reasons that demanding to actually SEE Diego with her own eyes is a
Really REALLY Bad Idea: 1.- she's been told the de la Vegas have been declared
criminals by Tinhorn. which means that if Pizza is caught bringing Diego in,
Diego gets locked up in jail, too. 2.- if Zorro was as badly shot as she has
been told, then there's a good chance Diego is still recovering. if he's still
recovering, he might not be ABLE to be seen without being known that Diego =
Zorro. 3.- Zorro might be in hiding somewhere while he recovers. insisting on
seeing Diego as a condition of going forward with the plan might mean Pizza
triple-amps up the search for "Diego" and in the process finds the
Zat Cueva. clearly, MIDiegorro's amnesia has extended to Esme as well... or
rather, it's even more obvious now that Kooko hopes we believe the Supposed
Stupidity Effect of amnesia is contagious, like a staph infection, when all it
is is him not wanting to use his head.)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #55 (last
Monday) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-02-07 15:13 PDT
LAI just posted the recap
for last night's episode as well --again using a white font which really
doesn't show up at all well on the ochre background they're using. maybe LAI
has a hangover and can't deal with sharp contrasts...? at any rate, i'll do
what i can to get it posted today as well, so we'll be all caught up.
RECAP FOR MONDAY
TEASER: Mariángel
juega con Diego. El Zorro sueña con Esmeralda. Mugre toys with Diego. Mentally
Impaired Zorro (except it was MIDiego, LAI!!! remember: MIZorro, Zorro-Zorro,
Bernardorro, and Toborro are all the ones in the MASKS. when they're NOT
wearing a mask, they're not being -orro anything!!) dreams about Esme. (and
initiates the Great Debate on the TNW forum: IS that actually La Favela dancing
or is that someone else that we're to believe is Esme? because MIDiego doesn't
know it's Esme he's dreaming of, just that he can't seem to get this gypsy
woman out of his head, but he can't see her face...)
NEW TITLES:
Mariángel tiene una sospecha. / Sospecha de embarazo (Mugre has a suspicion. /
Suspected pregnancy.) (you're behind the times, LAI. we've suspected this ever
since she woke up and went immediately to barf, which in real life would
probably be a symptom of the massive hangover she certainly had after Diego got
her drunk the night before, but is invariably Novela Shorthand for She's
Knocked Up, Y'All. well, or WTTE.)
DATE: Monday, 30 April
2007
EP #55
-Mariángel se da cuenta
de su embarazo y corre a manos de Montero para contárselo.
Mugre realizes she's
pregnant and she runs to the hands (and rest! but LAI has this obsession with
hands...) of Tinhorn to tell him about it. (yeah, and that was a fun
converstation, now, wasn't it? you know, because Tinhorn is such a caring,
nurturing type underneath all that bluster. but that's for the recap for #56,
whenever it appears...)
-Alejandro le cuenta a
Almudena que Fernando mató a Regina, la madre de Diego. Y que Yumalay y Regina
eran hermanas.
Rat Pecs (disappoints
those who think he's really a good person at heart by continuing to lie to
Blabmu about L'Affair Yummy and instead) tells Blabmu that Peep murdered
Regpurnia, Diego's mother. and that Yummy and Regpurnia were sisters. (well, i
guess they still are, even though one of them isn't alive any more. but being
dead doesn't make you stop being sisters. or brothers. or cousins. or whatever.
at any rate, as could be expected, Blabmu is distressed to hear this. so
distressed, Rat Pecs has to tell her to get hold of herself. hah. just WAIT to
see how she reacts when she finds out about your other wifey, Rat Pecs!!! even
your Braid Ray won't be able to protect you!!)
-Diego sigue soñando con
su bella gitana, pero no logra recordarla y nadie le quiere ayudar.
MIDiego continues to
dream about his lovely gypsy woman, but he can't manage to recall who she is
and no-one (Yoda Tomás, i'm looking at you and i'm NOT HAPPY) wants to help.
(yeah, Yoda T has time for sword practice and to comment on how good it is
MIDiego at least hasn't forgotten his fencing skills, and evem to explain to
MIDiego yet AGAIN why when he's in Diego Mode he has to pretend to be a total
pansy, but he immediately claims not to have any more time to talk as soon as
MIDiego brings up his dancing gypsy woman again. Yoda T, why haven't you
figured out than as soon as MIDiego gets his memory back, you are going to have
some SERIOUS 'splainin' to do??!? and if you think Diego is going to be the
least bit interested in understanding your pathetic non-reasoning for not
telling him about Esme, you've got another think coming...)
-Esmeralda piensa que
Diego no está interesado en ella, porque aunque sabe que está encarcelada, no
hace absolutamente nada por rescatarla.
Esme thinks Diego isn't
interested in her, because even though he knows she's imprisoned, he's not
doing absolutely anything to save her. (that prison is Hotel California, the
way everyone just waltzes in and out. even if they don't yet know Esme is in
there (and if they don't, then their grapevine has suffered a serious
breakdown), how come Yoda T or Bernardo hasn't found time to walk (Yoda T) or
sneak (Bernardo) in to at least check on Dololes and the rest of the Chez
Infidlity employees who were locked up during Tinhorn's takeover bid?? also,
what is the Hoodie Gang doing during all this uproar?? why are they suddenly
no-where around? no money for the extras? they dyed the robes purpley-blue to
use for the Exorcist and Peep? what??)
i think there was more
going on this ep, but right now i can't really remember it.
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Tues,
May Day) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-01-07 16:19 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as
of 5.10p Pacific, LAI still hasn't posted the recaps for #54 (last Friday) or
#55 (yesterday) yet. that boy is really slacking off!!
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Se acerca
la emboscada...
Un embarazo provechoso.
The ambush looms...
A useful pregnancy. (gag.
me.)
TITLE: La hacienda
De la Vega quedará sin protección. (Chez Infidelity will be left without
protection.) (ruh roh, Scooby! also, when i saw this line i had to wonder: if
this is a triple-cross on Pizza's part, could it be that he went out to tell
Rat Pecs about Esme's being locked up --along with Dololes and others from Chez
Infidelity's staff-- on the theory that Rat Pecs would be likely to go charging
down to storm the jail to free them and thus leave his hacienda unguarded so it
could be attacked and taken over by Tinhorn or even by Pizza himself??)
DATE: Tuesday, May Day
2007
EP #56
-Alejandro busca a sus
mejores hombres para atacar la prisión.
Rat Pecs looks for his
best men in order to attack the prison. (because now they've seen that the
largely under-armed gypsies were apparently successful, why shouldn't a small militia
made up largely of ranchhands but led by a former General be way more
successful?? plus, they have the Blindness Factor on their side, from all the
gold braid. the only person in Faux Angeles i've seen with sunglasses is Diego,
after all, and he probably has them because Rat Pecs is his father and so he
needed them when he was younger, to protect his growing-boy's eyes...)
-Bernardo trendrá la
responsabilidad de cuidar a Diego y a las mujeres.
Bernardo will have (ahem,
LAI, there is no extra "r" in TENDRÁ) the responsibility of taking
care of Mentally Impaired Diego and the women. (well, while i totally have
respect for Bernardo's capabilities --he's one of the more sensible, skilled,
and quick-thinking characters on this show AND he's often able to get people to
'listen' to him-- it really is a problem when you can't shout to warn people.
and it's especially a problem when the person you could have counted upon to
understand you and act decisively in a crisis may be able to act decisively but
is presently severely hamstrung by not understanding you pretty much at all as
well as by having to make sure no-one sees he's already wounded, never mind
that he keeps forgetting he's supposed to pretend to be a total wuss while in
public... although given they seem to have WonderWound® spores in the air there
--after all, there have been three characters so far that have received
injuries that would, even with the treatment available today, require at least
a week or two if not more to heal and yet within about two days of nearly
dying, two of them are up and running around like they were never shot and the
third looks like she's about to start running around in another day or so at
most, so there's gotta be SOMEthing in the air!-- by tomorrow's episode MIDiego
probably won't even have a scar to show he was shot, so the only real problems
are that he doesn't necessarily know the good guys from the bad guys from the
hard-to-tell guys, and he doesn't understand Bernardo. oh, and he doesn't take
directions too well. oh, and he keeps forgetting he has to fake it fake it fake
it -- BIG time. so basically, this leave-Bernardo-in-charge thing might not be
such a good idea after all, even if Bernardo is the smartest being at Chez
Infidelity, after Wheelie. and Bernardo's way less vain than is Wheelie...)
-Mientras tanto Montero
prepara atacar la hacienda De la Vega, pero pide que cuiden a Mariángel.
Meanwhile, Tinhorn Despot
prepares to attack Chez Infidelity, but he asks [his soldiers?] to be careful
with Mugre. (i guess that would be because he knows she's pregnant with his
spawn. or was he maybe warning them so she doesn't do anything horrible to
them...? nah, he doesn't care about his soldiers' feelings, it's gotta be the
first reason. the thing here is, is he attacking Chez Infidelity because he
knows it's going to be left unguarded? or because he's pissed off that Rat
Pecs, armed only with some ranch hands and his Blinding Braid-Ray, managed to
retake the hacienda that he, Tinhorn, was already starting to regard as his
own...?)
-Diego le revela a
Mariángel sobre la mujer de sus sueños.
MIDiego discloses to
Mugre that he's dreaming of a woman. (presumably he has already determined it's
not her? because if he's hoping she's going to say, "oh, yeah, that's
probably my despised half-sister Esme. you're actually in love with her and not
with me, you know... in fact, i had to set a trap for you so that you would be
forced to marry me, because even after Esme got married to someone else, you
still wouldn't have married me!" he's WAY off. and once again, while i can
understand how Yoda Tomás would feel it's best to see if MIDiego's memories
will come back on their own --not to mention he may be hoping that, what with
each of them now married to someone else, MIDiego might actually forget about
Esme The Impossible Dream and Major Distraction and settle down to a nice,
married life with Mugre-- but under the circumstances, and ESPECIALLY after
Yoda T already told MIDiego he doesn't love Mugre and MIDiego's told Yoda T
that he keeps dreaming of this other woman, Yoda T and/or Bernardo really
should have told MIDiego about Esme. there just isn't any excuse for this,
other, of course, than Kooko being too lazy to think of a more intelligent way
to make both Esme and MIDiego (or even just Diego) believe there's no point in
even hoping any more. blech.)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #56 (Tuesday) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-03-07 02:27 PDT
RECAP FOR TUESDAY
TEASER: Mariángel juega
con Diego. El Zorro sueña con Esmeralda. (Mugre toys with Diego / Zorro dreams
about Esme.) (and again, LAI, Zorro is the in the ACTUAL mask. you know, that
swatch of black fabric across his upper face, with eyeholes cut out?? Diego's
metaphorical one doesn't apply here -- Kooko's not that subtle.)
NEW TITLES: Todo está listo para
atacar... / Se prepara la emboscada... (Everything is ready for [the] attack...
/ An ambush is prepared...) (ambush... attack... aubergines... amoebas... what?
oh? we're not listing words starting with a?)
DATE: Tuesday, May Day
2007
EP #56
-Mariángel sigue jugando
con la memoria de Diego, diciéndole que va a tener un bebé de él.
Mugre continues toying
with Mentally Impaired Diego's memory, telling him she's going to have his
child. (LAI omits to mention the part about how Tinhorn Despot was the one who
suggested --practically ordered, in fact-- that Mugre try this tactic after he
basically told Mugre he absolutely didn't care she was expecting his child. and
you know, for all she seems to have his number, and sometimes to disdain him,
it's interesting her first reaction on realizing she was pregnant was NOT to
try to pass the kid off as Diego's, but to immediately tell Tinhorn. and she
actually seemed shocked, and disappointed, at his completely dismissive and
even contempteous reaction. but now that she's had a chance to realize the
benefits of lying to MIDiego, she is going at it with all cylinders. she even
tried telling MIDiego that of course SHE is the woman he's been dreaming about.
MIDiego seems unconvinced.)
-Alejandro prepara a sus
mejores hombres para atacar la prisión.
Rat Pecs prepares his
best men in order to attack the Hotel California. (Rat Pecs' Ranch Hand Militia
has now been augemented by the arrival of most of Peep's former ranch hands,
who are currently under a cloud of suspicion for no other reason than having
the misfortune to have been the ex-Governator's tennants and/or employees up
until his recent disgrace, breakdown, and disappearance. their leader, who La
Tormented veterans might recognize as the good town doctor (and LMEEE veterans
as the bad guy known as RoadKill), assures Rat Pecs that they just want a
chance to live a good and honest life. Rat Pecs is glad of the additional
manpower but can't quite bring himself to trust them yet. MIDiego, meanwhile,
again forgetting he's supposed to be a total pansy, keeps telling his father he
feels he should be part of the raiding party as well. Mugre doesn't reallly
manage to conceal her relief when Rat Pecs vetoes this -- no way does she want
to take the chance of her hubby catching a glimpse of his beloved Esme and
perhaps either Remembering All or falling victim to Esme's wiles before she,
Mugre, has had a chance to make completely sure she's got a hold on MIDiego
that even Superman couldn't break. luckily for her, no-one really noticed. and
Mugre also didn't at all like how MIDiego pricked up his ears at the first
mention of Esme's name, or how he immediately asked about Esme. she immediately
jumped in to change the subject and since Rat Pecs is equally reluctant to
answer any of MIDiego's questions about Esme, he totally supported her in this.
now, as you may recall, Rat Pecs has been climbing on my sh¡t list for a while
now (see here for more on this), but Rat Pecs' current cowardice about
explaining Esme and especially how and why Diego came to marry Mugre in the
first place has put him firmly at the top of the list. i will grant that it
would make even an actually brave person quail at the thought of having that
conversation, given how a truthful conversation would involve revealing the
very large part he played in forcing Diego into a marriage he didn't want in
the least and would not have entered into at all but for his father, so it's
not surprising he seems to be hoping that either MIDiego recovers his memories
all by himself and thus obviates the need for an uncomfortable chat, or he
never gets his memories back at all and falls for Mugre instead of Esme and so
obviates the need for an uncomfortable chat. (but does he suppose that Esme
isn't going to say anything about MIDiego being her baby's father?) but an
intelligent brave person who cares about the amnesiac would also realize that
having a conversation about Esme and Mugre, and sooner rather than later, is
the only right thing to do. Rat Pecs isn't supposed to be a coward, and he's
supposed to love his son. yet once again he's proving what a hypocrite he is.
ummmm, where was i? oh, yeah: since everyone feels it's Rat Pecs' place to tell
MIDiego about Esme and Rat Pecs is too chicken to do it because he's afraid of
the honest answers to the questions he knows any even minimally intelligent
person would ask, Rat Pecs not only gratefully let Mugre completely change the
subject but he then watched as she led poor MIDiego off with her to their
"nuptial bower" -- and all this knowing that if/when MIDiego ever
gets his memory back, there is a good chance he will find he has inadvertently
become so completely compromised with Mugre that he no longer has any other
option short of murder to just living with her no matter how unhappy he is.
boo, Rat Pecs, boo!!!!! oh, and while we're at the dinner table, someone
notices that Yummy is absent. Rat Pecs takes it upon himself to go looking for
Yummy, and he discovers that she's gone and, from the little jars of war paint
she for some reason left lying out on a trunk in her room, that she is off
doing something to do with being a warrior. look out - the Warrior That Can't
Shoot Straight is on the loose again! later we see her and she is, indeed, in
her Warrior Disguise, headed for the Hotel California, which she just waltzes
into and roams around in for some time until she is finally noticed by some of
the soldiers...)
-Mientras tanto Montero
prepara a sus tropas para atacar la hacienda de los De la Vega.
Meanwhile, Tinhorn Despot
prepares his troops in order to attack the hacienda of the de la Vegas. (so
apparently LAI deems Pizza's plan unworthy of discussion, and unfortunately,
i've gotten the whole thing pretty muddled in my mind through being so
distracted by trying to do stuff with sunglasses on to protect my eyes from Rat
Pecs' Blinding Braid Ray, so i'm not sure i could tell you right now, either.
suffice it to say that Tinhorn's announcement that he will personally join the
attack to retake Chez Infidelity totally messed with Pizza's plan as
agreed-upon with General Hypocrite Rat Pecs. and here is where Pizza shows
that, unlike GHRP, he DOES have the courage to stick to his word and the
ability to think fast on his feet, so it's really a shame he's pretty much a
villain even if he might be working more for the good guys at the moment. LAI
also neglects to mention that, as Gomis (Pizza's portrayer) had revealed
recently over on the Telemundo forums, Pizza is a mestizo, and the child of a
verbally and physically abusive father who constantly put him down and told him
he'd always be a "segundón" (literally, a second-placer or also-ran;
loosely, a loser). and also that when stressed out (and perhaps under other circumstances?),
Pizza suffers from asthma attacks that he works very hard to control --which
could be an explanation for his emotionless and expressionless demeanor most of
the time. it's probably his way of making sure he never finds himself in a
situation that could trigger an attack and make him appear "weak" at
exactly the wrong moment. anyway, Pizza manages to not only work out a revised
plan, but to alert at least some of his key confederates to the change.)
-Bernando se queda
cuidando a Diego y las mujeres en la casa, mientras Alejandro se enfrenta a los
soldados de Montero.
Bernardo stays behind
taking care of MIDiego and the women in the house, while Rat Pecs confronts
Tinhorn's soldiers. (yeah, i already mentioned that i thought this maybe wasn't
such a good plan in practice as it might appear to be on paper, so i won't
repeat myself here.)
as usual, LAI's left some
stuff out apart from the stuff i already pointed out that he left out. some of
it was little stuff, like B.OB. moaning to his Untrustworthy Associate about
how he was going to have to figure out a way to salvage his plans or something.
and like Pizza, as part of his agreement with GHRP, stashes Dololes in with
Esme so that she can learn how Esme is expecting Diego's baby and reassure Esme
that Diego does love her, he does!! or how Pizza was going to leave Gleem out
of the Great Breakout III except Esme refused to leave without him. but some of
it is rather bigger stuff, like how, back in "Spain," the Eeevil Duke
of La Fea breaks it to Queenie-pie that, alas, the guy who murdered the
"King" has himself now died before he could reveal any pertinent
information. or how, after Queenie-pie was out of earshot, ED of La Fea drops
the solicious and mildly servile demeanor and talks to himself about how he is
going to be very put out if it turns out his highly-paid man in Faux Angeles
(B.OB.) has let him down and hasn't disposed of the Unmasked Miracle after all.
i think there was also some stuff with the gypsies but i don't really remember.
but then again, i've still done better than LAI AND i didn't have the episode
in front of me to refresh my memory. so hah!!
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Wed 2
May) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-02-07 12:37 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as i
mentioned earlier, LAI finally posted the recap for #54 (last Friday). so far,
there's still nothing for either #55 (Monday) or #56 (yesterday). i'll keep
checking...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Diego
pregunta por Esmeralda...
Desaparece Laisha....
Diego asks about Esme...
Dance Tramp disappears...
(hmmmmm.... if Gleem hears about that, will his loyalties be torn?)
TITLE: Almudena y
Alejandro. (Blabmu and Rat Pecs) (LAI must really be feeling lazy, that's not
much to work with there...)
DATE: Wednesday, 2 May
2007
EP #57
-Surguen preguntas en
Diego sobre su relación con Esmeralda.
Diego has questions about
his relationship with Esme. (duh, ya think???)
-Se desaparece Laisha y
todos se preocupan por su paradero.
Dance Tramp disappears
and everyone is worried about her whereabouts. ("everyone," LAI?? are
you sure? is B.OB. worried? how about Camba? the exorcist? are THEY worried?)
-El amor entre Alejandro
y Almudena crece cada vez más.
The love between Rat Pecs
and Blabmu grows more every day. (and Rat Pecs' true colors are showing
themselves more every day. when does he plan to 'fess up to Blabmu about Yummy
being his wife too? but of course, LAI just glosses over that because Rat Pecs
is his Lurve...)
-Más sufrimientos para
Fernando.
More suffering for Peep.
(what? like he doesn't deserve a little suffering after everything he put
everyone else through for YEARS???)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #57 (Wednesday)
- completed Author: B. (---) Date:
05-03-07 19:17 PDT
RECAP FOR WEDNESDAY
TEASER: Yumalay
salva a Alejandro. Almudena sospecha de Mariángel. (Yummy saves Rat Pecs. (i
wonder if this time she aimed at Rat Pecs so she would be sure to hit Tinhorn
Despot?) Blabmu is suspicious of Mugre. (gee, i can't imagine why, since Mugre
just is SO trustworthy, honest, open, and above-board...)
NEW TITLES: Nadie
le cree a Mariángel / Nadie le cree a Mariángel (No-one believes Mugre.) (duh.
as it should be, given that even when she's telling the truth she's still
lying, to whit: she IS pregnant but it's NOT either Diego's baby.)
DATE: Wednesday, 2 May
2007
EP #57
EP LENGTH: 90 minutes
-Yumalay salva a
Alejandro de la muerte, impidiendo que Montero lo asesinara.
Yummy saves Rat Pecs'
life by preventing Tinhorn from assassinating him. (ok, i was making dinner
during the early part of the episode where most of the immediate pre-battle and
actual battle stuff was going on, so i'm not entirely clear on everything, but
this should be most of the main points, i hope: Tinhorn gets all pissy with
Pizza again about things not being how His Highness Tinhorn The Great feels
things ought to be. he's finding fault with everything Pizza and telling him
that he's really starting to rethink Pizza's desireability as a
second-in-command type. after he escapes out into the passageway and is alone,
this triggers another set of flashbacks to Pizza's childhood days with his
horrible father, and another, more severe asthma attack that it seemed like
Pizza controlled, but only with an effort. meanwhile, some of the soldiers have
captured Yummy wandering around eavesdropping in the Hotel California. they
either take her to Tinhorn or take her to Pizza (not sure which, i wasn't
looking only keeping half an ear out at that point). whichever it was (i think
Tinhorn), he saw through her Warrior disguise and recognized her as Rat Pecs'
goddaughter. at any rate, whichever it was, the soldiers ended up being
directed to take her to put her in a cell near Esme, so i suspect Pizza had a
hand in it somewhere. meanwhile, either Pizza manages to get word to Rat Pecs
about how Tinhorn wants to horn in on the Chez Infidelity attack or Pizza
successfully employed delaying tactics to keep Tinhorn from leaving before the
attack or Rat Pecs just managed his timing better, because Rat Pecs and his
Ranch Hand Milita attacks Hotel California before Tinhorn's had a chance to get
organized and get himself off. (just remembered: i think Tinhorn asks Pizza
where the soldiers Pizza's supposed to be organizing for the attack are, and
Pizza explains how he already sent them on to wait for Tinhorn at Chez
Infidelity. but i was VERY distracted during this, so...). now Tinhorn is
shouting all over for Pizza, who is down in the Hotel arguing with Esme who is
refusing to leave if they don't take Gleem. after she points out that Gleem is
the one who knows where the gypsies are, Pizza agrees to bring him along. back
up in the patio, the battle is raging. Tinhorn and Rat Pecs are personally
duelling with each other. after the events in the first part of the next line
in LAI's recap occur, Yummy, who had headed toward the battle to see how many
of her allies she could shoo-- i mean, to help, arrives just as Tinhorn totally
gets the drop on Rat Pecs and is about to run him through with his sword. she
whips out her trusty dagger --which the soldiers had somehow neglected to take
from her even though she was holding it at the time they captured her!!-- and
throws it at Tinhorn. amazingly, it actually hits him and not Rat Pecs, right
in the hand holding the sword. Tinhorn is defeated (Curses, foiled again!!) but
inexplicably, Rat Pecs does not make any attempt to capture him, never mind to
kill him. go figure. what General school did he go to?? later, on the way back
to Chez Infidelity after the battle, Rat Pecs lovingly chastizes Yummy for putting
herself in danger again, then thanks her for saving his life. either she kisses
him or he kisses her or maybe they kiss each other. but then when the RHM +
Yummy gets back to Chez Infidelity, it's morning. again breaking with protocol
and all custom for the era, Blabmu is hanging around in her negligée and
"robe," anxiously watching for her husband's return. when she sees
them all arriving, she runs down to greet him. they exchange a big hug and a
loooong kiss even though Blabmu is not at all decently dressed and the RHM
militia are all milling around. Yummy watches, hurt, then surprised and stiff
when Blabmu, learning Yummy saved Rat Pecs' life, gives her a grateful hug.)
-Esmeralda logra escapar
con Renzo, Dolores y Yumalay. Y se va con con Renzo y Pizarro en búsqueda de su
madre.
Esme manages to escape
with Gleem, Dololes, and Yummy. And she goes with Gleem and Pizza in search of
her mother. (as mentioned earlier, as agreed with Rat Pecs, Pizza uses the
distraction of the RHM attack on the Hotel to sneak out Esme and Dololes, with
Gleem and Yummy along for the ride. outside the Hotel, they meet up with some
men who i think are Pizza's soldiers (remember, making dinner), who are to take
Dololes and Esme to Chez Infidelity while Pizza goes on to find the Unmasked
Miracle. Yummy takes off on her own (see previous for Yummy's continued
adventures). Dololes is bundled off in the cart with the men and arrives back
at Chez Infidelity with the RHM (where Rat Pecs tells her he doesn't want her
doing any chores until she's had a chance to rest and wash up, but then in a
later scene tells her to take food to the men in the RHM). Esme was supposed to
go in the cart with Dololes, but she refuses. Gleem proposes that he go meet
with the gypsies and explain things, then see if the UM will agree to meet with
Pizza and accept his protection, but Pizza flatly vetoes any plan that doesn't
involve his going along after the gypsies. Esme insists on going along too for
some reason i don't remember. anyway, in the end, Pizza, Esme, AND Gleem all
head off to meet up with the gypsies. Yummy relays all this to Rat Pecs after
she saves him, so he knows that Pizza kept his part of the bargain. (oh, and
later when Tinhorn is again shouting all over looking for Pizza after he's discovered
that Gleem and Esme escaped and the guy Tinhorn ordered to guard them is dead,
one of Pizza's remaining trusted soldiers tells Tinhorn that Pizza took some
soldiers and went "to the north" in pursuit of them. by which i take
it they were all headed south or something.) meanwhile, the gypsies are taking
a break in their trek to wherever. Javier and Jonás discuss how they're taking
the long way to wherever it is they are going, and the next leg of the trick is
going to take them through territory where it's very easy to get lost if you
don't know your way, which means even in the unlikely event someone has figured
out the route they're taking, they will lose them. Dance Tramp, it seems, has
been complaining and making fatalistic predictions non-stop since they set out;
everyone tells her to shut up already except the UM, who is apparently now
become Forgiveness personified. what. ever. when we see the gypsies again, they
have reached the place they were supposed to meet up with Gleem after he found
Esme. they're calling and whistling for him and shouting that it's ok to come
out, it's only them, but of course, Gleem isn't there yet. the pessimists in
the group are sure he was captured and is long dead by now, which makes
everyone notice that the lead pessimist, Dance Tramp, isn't chiming in with her
usual lack of cheer. uh, oh...? where's Dance Tramp??)
-Olmos los intersecta en
el camino y se crea un gran caos de intereses y traiciones.
B.OB. (and Untrustworthy
Associate) intercept them en route and there is a big mess of motivations and
betrayals. (B.OB. and Untrustworthy Associate, along with some other citizens,
are still in the tavern when the Battle of Hotel California (v.2) starts.
hearing gunshots, they all cower and cringe and hide out at the tavern. at some
point --maybe when B.OB. is returning from the men's room?-- he is pounced upon
by a pair of the Eeevil Duke of La Fea's emmisaries, who apparently have a
direct ESP connection to ED of La Fea even though ED of La Fea is 6,000 miles
away in Spain and the first transatlantic telegraph line --which only operated
for three weeks!-- won't be laid for another 40 years -- go figure. they act
all tough and fierce with him, telling him they knew he'd failed to kill the
Unmasked Miracle and, even worse, he'd helped her escape in the first place.
B.OB. cringed and tried to assure them that the escape was all part of his plan
(so he could be sure he had her body to send back to ED of La Fea -- if she
were killed in the prison there could be no guarantee he could get the body),
and that he has everything under control, etc, but they weren't at all
convinced. after more threats, they let him rejoin UA, but now he's Desperate
B.OB. eventually, the citizens hiding out in the tavern realize the battle is
over and it's safe to go, so they do. B.OB. somehow figures out that Esme and
Gleem escaped and where they were headed. meanwhile, Pizza and crew take a
break in a small clearing where Gleem again tries to insist that he go on alone
and offers to leave Esme (or maybe she offers herself, not sure) as proof he
will return. Pizza again vetoes this plan, and even though they were distracted
by the ensuing squabble between the three of them, it still doesn't say much
about the abilities of the three of them OR the couple of soldiers Pizza
brought along that B.OB. and UA were able to sneak up close enough to the group
to put guns to people's heads. standoff. eventually Esme points out that
they're not going to get anywhere if they all kill each other and everyone
lowers their guns. except then Gleem grabs one and trains it on B.OB. or
something. here we go again...)
-Ni Alejandro ni Almudena
creen el embarazo de Mariángel. Almudena piensa que su sobrina pudo heredar las
locuras de su madre.
Neither Rat Pecs nor
Blabmu believe in Mugre's pregnancy. Blabmu thinks her niece could inherit her
mother's insanity. (now that he's back from the Battle of Hotel California
(v.2), Blabmu again tried to urge Rat Pecs to Have The Esme Talk with MIDiego
NOW. since the only thing Rat Pecs is LESS interesting in doing is telling
Blabmu about The Yummy Situation, he kept trying to find excuses for why he
shouldn't have The Esme Talk with MIDiego, so Blabmu finally had to pull out
her trump card: she believes that Mugre is totally capable of anything to get
what she wants, even to the point of inventing a pregnancy in order to make
MIDiego feel obliged to stay with her. furthermore, Mugre's mother was
seriously disturbed, mentally -- she was obsessive and dangerous, and had to be
locked up. and Blabmu's seen signs that that Mugre has inherited her mother's
illness. she insists that MIDiego has got to be warned about the true state of
things between him and Mugre and about Esme, before he believes all of Mugre's
lies and finds himself in a situation from which he has no escape and all
because he didn't have what he needs to make informed decisions. Rat Pecs sees
that there really is no excuse he can give to put this off any longer and
agrees to go speak with MIDiego. however, as he's hedging around trying to find
a way to start the conversation he doesn't want to have, MIDiego tells Rat Pecs
that Mugre is pregnant. this news immediately makes Rat Pecs decide he can't
say anything about Esme now that Mugre's going to have MIDiego's child. he lies
and says he was only going to tell MIDiego about how the battle went, and
scurries away. but MIDiego notices GHRP's blank expression at the news that
Mugre is supposedly pregnant with their child and later that Bernardo has the
same expression when MIDiego tells him about it as well. he asks Bernardo about
that and again raises the subject of the gypsy woman. he says that he feels
this connection with her that he doesn't feel at all with Mugre. and he presses
Bernardo for information about Esme. Bernardo looks like he's about to tell
MIDiego something when Mugre sails in, and the moment is lost.)
-Fernando sigue como
misionero en búsqueda de Dios, pero le toca la fuerte prueba, de visitar a una de
las tribus de indios a quienes más les hizo daño en el pasado.
Peep continues as a
missionary in search of God, but he is presented with a major test, that of
visiting one of the Indian triebes that he most hurt in the past. (Yummy's
tribe. as i mentioned in part in this post, after the fiasco with the humble
indians and the dish of water, the Exorcist asked the name of the tribe Peep
massacred, then told him there were a few still left in the tribe and guess
what? they were going to their territory! well, as you can imagine, Peep was
less than thrilled with this whole plan, but the Exorcist insisted and off they
went. only to be greeted by the Bad Indian boys (the same ones that wanted to
execute Yummy plus some of their pals from the tribe). fortunately for Peep,
the Exorcist talked them out of summarily executing Peep right then and there,
and now they've got him on the end of a long rope attached to his tied hands
and they're going back to Let The Tribe Decide.)
in other news not
mentioned by LAI, we have one small, somewhat amusing, and potentially
important bit (or not -- this is Kooko writing the story, after all!):
somewhere, either during the fight with Tinhorn's soldiers in the plaza earlier
in the day, or during the Battle of Hotel California (v.2) many MANY hours
later, Toborro managed to get himself stabbed and/or shot in the butt. his
exasperated wife Gata Miau Miao (aka Cata) brings him to the local
doctor-slash-mortician for treatment, but as Toborro is still in his Zorro
getup, our doctor is, under the circumstances, somewhat hesitant about treating
a wanted criminal (no Hippocratic oath for Morty, obviously!) because of the
trouble he could get into if Tinhorn should find out. both Gata Miau Miau and
Toborro assured him repeatedly that he wasn't the REAL Zorro, he was the fake
one --the REAL one was the other guy even though he didn't have the full
costume on for some reason-- so in spite of his fears of retribution from
Tinhorn, Morty began treating his wound.
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Thu 3
May) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-03-07 12:58 PDT
RECAP STATUS: for
a change, LAI has already posted last night's recap (#57). i've been jammed
this morning but hopefully this afternoon will have a chance to get it finished.
stay tuned...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Más
problemas para Esmeralda...
Diego se acerca al
Zorro...
More problems for Esme...
(yeah, must be fun trying to play den mother to a bunch of boys who won't play
nice with each other!)
Mentally Impaired Diego
gets closer to Zorro... (um, ok.)
TITLE: Más
problemas para Esmeralda. (More problems for Esme.) (LAI, we've done this
already!! the strain of getting back on a regular schedule of getting today's
and the previous episode's recap posted before lunchtime is really showing
today. but you know, if you hadn't let yourself get so very behind with the
recaps, this might not have been such a trial... an ounce of prevention and the
early bird and all that... my point is, i hope you've finally learned that it's
a lot easier if you stay on top of things in the first place, rather than
letting them slide...?)
DATE: Thursday, 3 May
2007
EP #58
-Un episodio de
traiciones y combates.
An episode of betrayals
and action. (vague much, LAI? but this does tend to make me believe that there
is at least one more double-cross in store for Esme and her band... lessee,
whose turn is it? maybe Gleem?? he's about due, don't you think...?)
-Pizarro muestra su
verdadera cara.
Pizza shows his true
face. (his TRUE true face? as in, he quadruple-crosses everyone? again??)
-Diego se acerca a El
Zorro cada vez más.
MIDiego gets closer and
closer to Zorro. (who's actually telling him anything? Wheelie??)
-Laisha se enfrenta a
Montero.
Dance Tramp confronts
Tinhorn Despot. (the question here is, was she captured or did she go to him
and give herself up, hoping to negotiate for better treatment than she would
get if she forced him to keep chasing her? because, given all her negativist
commentary and carping last night, i seriously doubt she's Sacrificing herself.
still, Kooko IS writing this, so...)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #58 (last
night) [Thu 3 Mzy] Author: B.
(---) Date: 05-04-07 15:59 PDT
RECAP FOR THURSDAY
UPFRONT DISCLAIMER:
just like many of you, i am finding much of the current story to be often
watchable except in FF mode and since that is not a viable option (yet!)
watching and recording in real time, my main defence is to lower the volume a
fair amount and pay more attention to housework, solitaire on the computer, the
cats, etc. and that's what happened last night, so i suspect there will be
blanks i can't fill in unless or until i can find the strength to make myself
rewatch this ep. um... don't hold your breaths...
TEASER: Atrapan a
Esmeralda.... Pizarro le da la máscara de hierro. (They capture Esme... Pizza
gives her the duct tape ma-- i mean, IRON mask.) (well, it looks like he does
more than just GIVE it to her...! too bad the gypsies weren't in a position to
do something creative with the mask after they took it off the Unmasked
Miracle. like toss it down a bottomless pit (surely they have those in Faux
Angeles? they've got just about everything else!!) or, i don't know, TAKE IT
WITH THEM INSTEAD OF LEAVING IT THERE TO PROVE THEY WERE THERE TOO!! geez!!!)
NEW TITLES:
Atrapan a Esmeralda (They capture Esme...) (LAI, you've really gotten lazy
these days!!)
DATE: Thursday, 3 May
2007
EP #58
EP LENGTH: 90 minutes
-Los soldados de Montero Atrapan
a Alejandro, pero él los alienta a revelarse y unirse a sus tropas.
Tinhorn's soldiers
Capture (no capitalization necessary there, LAI -- not even for your
bitsy-pookums!!) Rat Pecs, but he urges them to switch sides and join his Ranch
Hand Militia. (Rat Pecs' insistence on going out (and with half his posse, no
less!! did he think just changing into mufti was going to make him invisible to
his enemies??? "oh, i don't have my uniform on -- they'll never recognize
me now!!") to visit his sister at the convent is just another instance of
why this character is on my sh¡t list: Rat Pecs is All About Rat Pecs, but he
totally has himself and everyone else snowed into thinking that he's the
picture of Nobility and Selflessness. yes, let's endanger ourselves, our men,
and our property (which is being left underprotected), by just riding out in a
gang to make a personal call that only matters to me and that doesn't actually
NEED to be made RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT. AND let's not even bother to take a back
road or sneak around!! in fact, let's just stop on the way back and take a
rest, because the trip from town has been so exhausting. as for Tinhorn's
troops, was it just me, or did that soldier not look too convinced that joining
up with the RHM was the way to go? let's see... i've captured you, and you
think i should let you go and join your gang? what's wrong with this picture??
as for his meeting with María Pía, it was pretty smug, really. Rat Pecs told
her how Yummy is, it turns out, Regpurnia's little sister. "of course, i
should have guessed!" is María P's first reaction, immediately followed by
"so according to native custom, you have to marry her...!" they talk
more about this in a very complacent kind of way that just makes you want to
smack both of them repeatedly for being such smug hypocrites, the pair of them.
the gist is, of COURSE Rat Pecs HAD to do accept Yummy as his wife, and of
COURSE Blabmu would NEVER understand so why distress her by telling? Rat Pecs
does kindof mention that Blabmu has a lot of affection for Yummy (affection he
seems to be trying to discourage -- guilty, much, Rat Pecs??) but his worry
seems to be more over how Yummy might feel about it rather than how Blabmu
might feel to discover that Rat Pecs has moved the woman who is effectively his
mistress into the hacienda AND has let Blabmu befriend her. María P seems to be
dismissive of any potential conflict, saying something on the order of Yummy
Will Know How To Handle It, and they go back to agreeing that Rat Pecs did the
only thing he could because you have to respect the native traditions, even
though Rat Pecs certainly never seems to have respected them in the least when
he was married to Toypurnia, given that he expected her to wear Spanish
clothing, use only her Spanish name (he doesn't refer to her as Toypurnia, but
as Regina. the only reason he refers to Yummy as Yummy, in fact, is because she
refused to answer to the Spanish name he forced on her, and because he wants
her to like him), and conform to the tennets of his religion to the exclusion
of her own. and Kooko, if you think this lame retcon is going to make us any
more forgiving of Rat Pecs, then you are fair and far off. not only have you
effectively SuperGlued Rat Pecs to the Hypocrites list, but you've put María P
on it as well. nice work!!)
-Debido a la desapación
de Alejandro de la hacienda, Diego se ve obliado a reunir a sus hombres y
encaminarlos en búsqueda de su padre. Pero se niega a acompañarlos porque cree
que estorbará.
Due to Rat Pecs'
disappearance from the hacienda (or rather, not so much his disappearance from
it but his failure to return), Mentally Impaired Diego finds himself obliged to
gather [Rat Pecs'] men and head out in search of his father. (yes, that's
another excellent plan. leave the hacienda even MORE undefended!) But he
refuses to accompany them because he thinks that he will be in the way. (good,
he's finally remembering the role he's meant to be playing!! plus, that way he
can go get kitted out as Zorro and try to "help" that way instead. or
if not, he can stick around and try to guard what's left. or something. you
know, i totally don't remember seeing this part. i must've been paying even
less attention than i thought i was last night....)
-Atrapan a Laisha, y se
enfrenta a Montero escupiéndole en la cara.
They (also) capture Dance
Tramp, and she confronts Tinhorn, spitting in his face. (well, i guess she
feels she doesn't have much to lose at this point, so she may as well take what
satisfaction she can. i'm still trying to figure out exactly what she thought
she was doing. at least, since she knocked out Javier --who Jonás had sent to
find her-- it looks like Tinhorn and his gang aren't going to capture him as
well. but Tinhorn seems to have Plans for Dance Tramp. that can't be good. i wonder
if Dance Tramp is starting to regret that she didn't stay with the tribe after
all...?)
-Diego, se acerca cada
vez más al Zorro, y ésta vez con una carta que le da Bernardo.
MIDiego (NO COMMA, LAI!!
i don't want to have to speak to you about this again!!) gets closer and closer
to Zorro, and this time with a letter Bernardo gives him. (LAI... i know you
know Diego and Zorro are the same person because i'm constantly having to
remind you that Zorro's the one who literally wears a mask. and if Diego and
Zorro are the same person, then what Diego knows, Zorro knows. and when Diego
gets shot, Zorro gets shot. and especially, when Diego gets amnesia, Zorro gets
amnesia. which means that it's not a case of MIDiego trying to find Zorro, but
a case of MIDiegorro trying to find Diegorro. so stop talking as if Zorro is
some other person who has all the answers that MIDiego seeks, because he
doesn't. other PEOPLE not Diegorro have them and mostly won't give them to
MIDiegorro, which is not at all the same thing. now, as for the story in last
night's episode, this is the rest that LAI decided wasn't worth garbling:
MIDiego puts on a jacket, then finds the note Esme wrote to him right after she
publicly told him she was staying with Tinhorn --the note she gave to the
little boy to give to Diego, telling Diego that he is her whole life and that
she will never give herself to Tinhorn. fortunately for all of us viewers'
sanity, she actually signed the note, so now MIDiego has something tangible
telling him that there was something going on between him and Esme, something
big enough that she, at least, fell in love with him; the implication in the
note is that she knows he returns her feelings. (later, MIDiego gives Bernardo
a scolding for holding out on him about Esme, but if he was going to demand
more information, something happened to prevent it.) at a later point, we see
MIDiego and Yoda Tomás --again out of uniform-- doing some more Zorro training
in the Zat Cueva. at some point, i think Bernardo gives MIDiego a copy of the
oath he took when he officially became Zorro (or maybe he wrote out what Zorro
represents? sorry i'm so vague on all this, but....) at another point, Dololes
comes looking for her MIDieguito and say hi to him now she's back from the
Hotel California. she seems convinced he would know his nana even if so far he
hasn't recognized anyone else, but he doesn't. he asks her about Esme and she
reveals that Esme is the love of her Dieguito's life, but then clams up and
doesn't tell him much more except that she doubted he would see her again any
time soon because she was on her way to Spain with her mother the True Queen.
MIDiego apparently remembers that García commented to him about how they'd
often enjoyed a drink together, because the next time we see him, he's in the
tavern with his pal, having a drink, and trying to pump him for information
about Esme by asking if García knows her. when García says he has met Esme on
several occasions, MIDiego encourages him to Tell, so García starts with the
first time, he ever saw her, and how Esme and Zorro's medallions got tangled up
together. MIDiego totally pricks up his ears at the reference to medallions,
since, looking at Zorro's medallion, he'd observed to himself that a medallion
definitely meant something --if only he could think what!-- to him, but that he
didn't think it was the Zorro medallion, because the Zorro medallion wasn't
speaking to him. MIDiego encourages García to continue with his story...
-Pizarro lleva a
Esmeralda a la cárcel del Callao y le da la máscara de hierro.
Pizza takes Esme to the
Hotel California and gives her the duct tap-- i mean, IRON mask. (i don't know
why LAI decided not to mention all the arguing that Pizza and his men had to do
to try to convince Tinhorn that they weren't traitors (to Tinhorn, at least)
after all and that what they were actually doing was PRETENDING to be traitors
so as to gain everyone's confidence so that Pizza could recapture the Unmasked
Miracle and bring her as well as all the gypsies AND Esme back to Tinhorn.
Tinhorn didn't seem to be the least bit convinced the last time i paid any
attention at all, but since in the end Pizza was the one who was there putting
that stupid mask on Esme, i guess Tinhorn must have grudgingly decided to give
Pizza one last chance to prove himself. whatever. still, i have to wonder if
this might not be some kind of a double-double-cross, in which Pizza --who,
remember, is one of the few characters who seems to be able to think on his
feet and change tactics on a centavo as needed-- still has "Crush
Tinhorn" as his ultimate goal, but has pitched this latest story to
Tinhorn and will go back to pretending to be on Tinhorn's side for now until
the next opportunity presents itself. in favor of this possibility is the fact
that we've seen how he appears to put Tinhorn on a par, more or less, with his
despised and abusive father. also, he went to some lengths to ensure that
Tinhorn was at the Hotel California when Rat Pecs and the RHM attacked
(remember how Pizza was not at all pleased when Tinhorn informed him that he
was going to horn in on what was supposed to be the attack to take back Chez
Infidelity?), leading one to theorize that he was at least ok with the
possibility that Tinhorn might be killed in the attack, or possibly was even
hoping someone would kill him. but there are things that argue against it, too
-- the only problem is, i got interrupted as i was doing this and i've
forgotten what they were except for one, which i mention below. either way, i
think we have clearly seen that whatever Pizza's ultimate goal is, he is
utterly ruthless about doing anything that needs to be done, no matter how
extreme, in order to make sure his plan proceeds. which tells me that Tinhorn,
at least, has SEVERELY underestimated Pizza all along, and continues to do so
now. needless to say, this is a serious mistake on Tinhorn's part...)
and now, for the
ever-popular Things LAI Left Out Entirely:
*BEFORE Esme, and soon
afterward Pizza, his soldiers, and B.OB. and Untrustworthy Associate were all
captured by Tinhorn and his men, they had called a halt to their trek. i don't
remember what the whole deal was because it seems like a lot of it was
repetitious, but the end result was that Pizza and his men, B.OB. and UA would
all wait there while Gleem went on to meet up with the gypsies and explain the
story. Esme would stay with the men as a guarantee that Gleem would return. as
he left, Esme caught up to Gleem and exchanged a few words with him in private,
but i think it was just more of the same conversation from before. of course,
Gleem again took the opportunity to swear his undying love for Esme. she told
him what she always does, that her heart belongs completely and irrevocably to
Diego. as he watches her head back to rejoin the rest of the men, Gleem mutters
that he can wait. then, a little later, Esme made a bid to escape. on the
excuse she had to go to relieve herself, managed to walk away from the group.
but she doesn't get too far: she practically walked right into Tinhorn and all
his men. then after they'd found the rest of the runaways, and as further proof
to Tinhorn that he was really intending to double-cross Esme and co, Pizza
tells Tinhorn that one of his men is following Gleem to the gypsies and then
will come back to report so they can go and round them all up. and this, it
turns out, is true: one of Pizza's soldiers IS following Gleem. but Gleem
suspects he's being followed, and as soon as he has proof, he gives the guy the
slip.
*there is something where
someone --i think Blabmu-- tells Mugre that Esme is in direct line for the
Spanish throne, but i don't remember the context of the whole thing. Mugre, not
too surprisingly, is not pleased. she mutters to herself that Tinhorn had
BETTER come through on his end of their deal, and make sure he kills Esme and
her baby. unbeknownst to her, however, if Tinhorn did originally mean to kill
Esme --and he may have, i have tendency to tune him out when he rants, which
means most of the time, so...-- he's changed his mind now: just as Peep had the
Unmasked Miracle being held on ice as some sort of insurance policy (or that
was a side benefit), Tinhorn has realized that Esme can work the same way. so
he's definitely not interested in killing her, either. and he's certainly also
not going to publish her whereabouts to anyone, so he doesn't have to deal with
any pesky rescue attempts, though on that point he can't have been paying
attention to the word "novela," since it certainly means there will
be pesky rescue attempts, at least at some point...
*the closer they get to
the indian camp, the more Peep gets nervous. he manages to get his hands out of
the rope binding them and takes off running. the Exorcist calls after him, but
Peep just keeps running. for whatever reason, the Bad Boy indians don't go
after him. or maybe they do but he manages to elude them, which seems a bit
ridiculous considering they were mounted and he's on foot and in a full-length
robe and i can speak from some experience here: kilts are one thing, but it's
not so easy to run in a full-length skirt, and even less-so for someone not
used to wearing them. so if they had tried to chase after him, i don't see how
he could give them the slip. but whatever, he gets away. the next time i saw
Peep, he's found a peasant couple asleep under a tree with their mule grazing
nearby. Peep creeps up, steals their burlap "saddlebags" and the
man's hat, takes the mule, and leaves. yeah, he's definitely still on a path to
God. NOT!!!
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Fri
4th); recap status update Author: B. (---)
Date: 05-04-07 13:07 PDT
RECAP STATUS: LAI
actually posted the recap for last night (#58) several hours before he finally
got around to posting today's avances. i've got the recap partially done but
figured since he did finally get around to the avances (they're only for today,
after all...), they take priority. you know, as it were.
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Esmeralda
sigue sufriendo...
Alejandro se enfrenta...
Esme continues to
suffer... (and so do all of us. is this stupid mask story NEVER going to end??)
Rat Pecs confronts...
(not clear on who or what. maybe himself...? if only!!
TITLE: Esmeralda
tiene que luchar. (Esme has to fight.) (and so do all of us viewers. but in our
case, it's fight not to damage our television sets, remotes, or remaining
neurons with all the totally stupid stuff going on.)
DATE: Friday, 4 May
2007
EP #59
-Las traiciones estan al
pie del cañón.
(loosely) Betrayals are
coming thick and fast. (literally, "at the foot of the cannon" but
the phrase usually means you have to stay on your toes or WTTE. as for what
this is referring to, since double-, triple-, and other mutliple-crosses seem
to be all the rage in Faux Angeles these days, maybe, in spite of being in a
position of weakness AND without his Blinding Braid Ray, Rat Pecs manages to
convince Tinhorn Despot's soldiers to join the Ranch Hand Militia? or maybe
Pizza decides he can no longer hide his feminine, saintly side, and he joins
the nunnabes? or maybe Blabmu finds out about l'Affaire Yummy --nah, that would
be too much to hope for....)
-Esmeralda se enfrenta a
todos los obstáculos.
Esme confronts all the
obstacles. (what? even the ones that aren't in front of her? that's a pretty generous
thing to do! i wish she'd come here and confront the obstacle that is my VISA
bill...)
-Diego recuerda cosas
importantes sobre El Zorro.
Mentally Impaired Diego
remembers important things about Zorro. (FINALLY. or at least,
"FINALLY" if LAI's use of the word "remembers" means that
he actually, on his own, remembers the stuff and it isn't a case of his
"remembering" something because someone else told him....)
-Fernando sigue su camino
hacia Dios.
Peep continues his path
toward God. (shouldn't that be, Peep gets back on his path toward God? because
from what i saw yesterday, it sure looked like he got well off that path...)
Telenovela-World: LAI's RECAP for #59 (Fri
4 May) Author: B. Date:
05-07-07 15:46 PDT
RECAP FOR FRIDAY
NOTE: as mentioned
previously, i already wrote a summary for the whole episode, which you can find
here. for that reason, my comments on this recap will be much more brief. it's
kindof interesting to see what LAI considers to be the major points of a given
episode... see if you agree.
TEASER: Supuesta
muerte de Esmerlada. Todos creen que Pizarro fue fusilado. (supposed death of
Esme. (LAI, your spell-check totally let you down. you make Esme sound like some
kind of mint marmalade...!!) Everyone believes that Pizza was executed. (if by
"everyone" you mean García and anyone he's told, which so far has
been limited to his mule Rosina. but everyone else who knew about the
"execution" --i.e., soldiers at the garrison-- all know that Pizza
isn't dead after all.)
NEW TITLES:
Esmeralda muerta (Esme dead.) (yeah, been there... done that... let's move on,
shall we?)
DATE: Friday, 4 May
2007
EP #59
EP LENGTH: 90 minutes
-Mariángel les hace creer
a todos que Esmeralda esta muerta.
Mugre makes everyone
believe that Esme is dead. (well, let's clarify this a little, shall we, LAI?
because the way you phrase it, you make it sound like Mugre actually knows the
truth --that Esme isn't dead at all, but stuck wearing her mother's mask and
locked up in the dungeon at the Hotel California-- and is deliberately trying
to make everyone believe a lie. but that's not the case at all. Tinhorn Despot
is in the process of making everyone believe that Esme is dead, and one of the many
people he lied to was Mugre. and now that she believes the lie, she's in the
process of making sure everyone believes it. but she figures if she doesn't
tell people, they'll still find out anyway. it's just that if she's the first,
then she gets to have all the fun. so far she's told Gata Miau Miau --because
she knows Gata will spread the news all over town, which will later help to
reinforce Mugre's story if there are any non-believers in her main target
audience-- and the immediate family, i.e., Blabmu, Dololes, Rat Pecs, Yummy,
and, the main target, Mentally Impaired Diego. but the last time we saw her on
Friday, she didn't look too pleased, because MIDiego a.- didn't show signs of
immediately believing her; b.- didn't make the slightest move to try to console
his poor wife, who was supposedly grieving for her poor dead half-sister, but
instead c.- he brusquely ordered her to take care of Dololes then when running
off to "see his father" --who was with Blabmu, who truly WAS
distraught at the news.)
-Olmos hace lo posible
para ver a Esmeralda en la cárcel del Callao.
B.OB. does everything
possible to see Esme in the Hotel California. (no, not really. he does
everything possible asking to see her body, since he, too, has been fed the
story that she's dead. what isn't clear is whether he wants to see her body
because he wants to confirm for himself that she's dead, or because he doesn't
believe it in the least and is hoping someone will confirm he's being lied to,
or because he thinks she still has something he wants or needs and he wants to
get it from her even if she is dead. personally, i suspect he thinks he's being
given a line of bull and at least one of his reasons for wanting to see her
"body" was to allay that suspicion...)
-Almudena quiere convertir
a Yumalay en una señorita.
Blabmu wants to turn
Yummy into a [proper Spanish] lady. (this was all of two lines from last
night's episode, and they were mostly there for two reasons. the more obvious
surface reason was as a delaying tactic to keep everyone in the dining room so
Mugre could break her "terrible news" about Esme's death to everyone
all at once. the secondary, and i think stronger purpose was to remind us that
one of Rat Pecs' initial propositions for dealing with Yummy was to turn her into
"Guadalupe" -- not just to hide her from Peep but also because he
feels that's proper (remember: he turned her sister Toypurnia into
"Regina"). Blabmu, more, i suspect, because she is in love with Rat
Pecs and wants to please him, but also because she is a Spanish lady and knows
all the rules (well, supposedly. but really, it's Kooko that doesn't know the
rules, so we can't blame Blabmu for transgressions...) and because she has been
raised to believe that she belongs to a civilized, cultured society and that
natives are neither civilized nor cultured, so therefore anyone should WANT to
be part of the superior society, has several times told Yummy --at least once
at Yummy's request, as i recall-- that she would help show her how to be a
proper Spanish lady. and certainly, part of being a proper lady is that she is
not a servant.)
-Todos creen una supuesta
muerte de Pizarro, pero todo es una trampa de Montero.
Everyone believes a
supposed death of Pizza ("a supposed death," LAI??? how many supposed
deaths have been suggested for Pizza in this story?), but it's all a trap by
Tinhorn. (except that "everyone" who believes in this supposed death
is GARCÍA, so far, and no-one else. although i suppose that once he has a
chance to report on it to the folks in the de la Vega camp, they will believe
it, too. or at least, for a while. but no-one at the garrison believes he's
dead because they've almost certainly heard about the faked execution if not
actually seen Pizza walking around alive at this point. and having everyone at
the Hotel believe Pizza is dead would sortof defeat the purpose of the
punishment, anyway. Tinhorn did the faked execution as much as a warning to
Pizza as to anyone else in his command who might get any ideas of working
against him. although if and when Pizza's men start turning up dead all over,
there are sure going to be those who wish that Pizza had actually been executed
rather than just "executed.")
-Almudena comenta frente
a Diego sobre el hijo que esperaba Esmeralda, y el comentario lo hace
sospechar.
Blabmu says something
about the baby Esme was expecting in front of MIDiego, and the remark makes him
wonder. (hah. LAI finally got one thing completely right in that not only does
it not need to be explained or expanded upon, but it actually was also a key
point to the episode (the point about turning Yummy into a lady was right in
that it did happen. but while it may be a significant point in terms of the
overall story --especially as it affects the Rat Pecs-Blabmu-Yummy
relationship-- it was not really a significant point in the episode. he might
have been better ditching that comment and remarking instead upon Baldie
getting Dr Death drunk so he'd reveal the supposed true identity of Zorro. or
mention how Peep has enlisted the Scruffy Gang to go with him to try to take
over Faux Ángeles. but no, i guess those aren't as important to the last
episode as Blabmu reminding Yummy and everyone else that she promised to turn
Yummy into a real lady.)
SUMMARIES OF
EPISODES FOR WEEK OF APRIL 30 – MAY 4, 2007
Telenovela-World: Re: I missed most of the epi (DVD
probs)...(questions) [USA, 5/1/07] Author: Jen Asha Date: 05-02-07 08:20
PDT
I'll believe it was mostly boring, but I
was dying to know how Monte would react to Mangle's BIG NEWS. Anyone want to
fill me in?
Monte was a lot less than the proud papa -
he began by asking how she could be sure the baby was his (ja!) Essentially, he
told Mangle that the baby is her problem, and she might as well use it
conveniently to keep Diego trapped. Mangle explained to him that she and Diego
never had sex, but Monte thinks she can use the incident of the
"emborrachera" to say that's when the baby was conceived. He also
revealed that he has Esmeralda in the prison. When he was particularly
unhelpful, she started giving him the verbal smackdown, and that seems to be
Monte's aphrodisiac, because they immediately started going at it and had sex
right there in his office. (the sex happened in the middle of the conversation)
Also, what did we learn about Pizzaro's
past?
During a tense exchange with Montero, in
which Monte insults him by saying he'll never be "Comandante"
materials, Pizza flashed back to being a little boy. An older man - his dad? -
was telling him he'd never amount to anything, because he's just a mestizo. The
little boy started breathing heavily, and when Pizza left Monte's office, he
was breathing the same way (early stages of asthma attack). He talked himself
down by repeating a phrase like, "No one is as powerful as me" or no
one has power over me, or some such.
Tell me more about Ferni and La India?
During their endless walk in the woods,
Brother Aaron and St. Fran- I mean, Fernando, come upon a group of indios at
the banks of a river/lake. They're truly humble-looking folks, mostly women.
Brother Aaron wants to get some water, maybe food, but Peep is freaked out, and
entreats him not to engage them. Bro A tells him not to worry, he's familiar
with this tribe, and he addresses them in their tongue before switching back to
Spanish. Peep cowers behind him. Aaron begs for a little water. After slight
hesistation, a young woman brings it up the hill to them, Aaron drinks, she
turns toward Peep, and he flashes back to Regina's murder. When he comes out of
it, (I think he had accepted the bowl) and he throws it down, or back at her,
then runs away, with Aaron trailing after him. They later have a
heart-to-heart, and Aaron tells Peep that he has to open up his heart to
forgive the Indians, because of his parents' murder.
That's what I remember! ;>
Telenovela-World: I woke up for only two things [USA, 5/1/07] Author: Jen Asha
Date: 05-01-07 23:28 PDT
When Montero threw the wrench into everyone's BIG PLAN by
saying he'd accompany Pizza to the de la Vega attack. Finally Montero does
something that shows how invested he is in this whole deal. It seems like
forever that SK escaped, Alej took back the hacienda, and there's supposed to
be chaos in town, Montero's supposed to be on the loose, but everyone seems to
be moving around pretty freely now...End this storyline soon Kiko!
Fernando being offered water by the young
India...I really didn't know what he was going to do - drop to her feet begging
forgiveness, start calling her Regina, take out his dagger (ooh, but where
would he keep it <eg>) and just kill her dead? Yikes!
Otherwise,
there was no tension, there was no comedy, nothing was sexy. Diego didn't make
any great funny faces, Montero didn't stretch out any words, even Garcia's
index finger in the air didn't do much for me. Maybe Almudena's faces at the
dinner table. But it was so zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Mon
7th) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-07-07
10:09 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as
of 10a Pacific, LAI hasn't posted his recap for #59 (last Friday's episode)
yet, but fear not!! i found myself with time on my hands in the wee hours one morning
over the weekend and i wrote up a summary, which you can find here. i will
still put up LAI's summary, whenever he gets around to it. you know, because
why not...?
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Fernando
planea volver.
Diego tiene una
esperanza.
Peep plans to return.
Mentally Impaired Diego
has a hope. (a hope of... what? getting his memory back? finding Esme? finally
being told the whole story? being able to market the WonderWound® spores? LAI
actually posting avances that make sense?)
TITLE: Diego tiene una
esperanza. (MIDiego has a hope.) (LAI, on the other hand, is hopeless...)
DATE: Monday, 7 May 2007
EP #60
-Suplicios se encuentra
en peligro, pero alguien querrá rescatarla.
Sister Untwisted finds herself
in danger, but someone will want to rescue her. (in danger from what? from
Eeevil Camba? maybe the demon liked being in her better than it likes being in
him and wants to jump back? or maybe this means we're going to start to get
more of her backstory, and the danger comes from somone from her past, perhaps
arriving with Peep and his Scruffy Gang...? in which case, maybe her rescuer is
once again going to be Camba, eeevil or not. except the "will want"
part of it is intriguing... hopefully it's not just that LAI had one to many
café cubanos on an empty stomach and it's making him more delusional than
usual...)
-Alejandro se enfrenta a
Fernando y se da cuenta que no esta loco.
Rat Pecs confronts Peep
and realizes that he's not crazy. (no, not crazy-crazy, per se. really more
just single-minded to such an extreme that he does crazy things. but here's the
bigger question: the man who you once considered your friend but who you have
since discovered tried to turn your sister into a bigamist and, more to the
point, was responsible for killing your beloved first wife and most of her
tribe, not to mention very nearly your son suddenly reappears on the scene just
as you're trying to fight off the power-mad self-appointed dictator who wants
to wipe out you and yours so he can claim everything you have for himself. your
former friend is also Hell-bent upon dealing with the dictator and has brought
a gang of ruffians along with him to help him do it. do you decide that he is
the lesser of two evils and ally yourself with him against the dictator even
though his idea of dealing with the dictator are only marginally less repulsive
than the dictator's methods? or do you stand on your principles and righteous
indignation, and risk the possibility of having to fight two battles at the
same time?)
-Diego se entera de su
amor hacia Esmeralda.
MIDiego finds out about
his love for Esme. (LAI, he already knows a little about this. are you trying
to say someone finally gives him the whole story, maybe? that he gets some of
his memories back and remembers about being in love with her and not with
Mugre? a LITTLE attention to detail here would be nice...!)
-Almudena sufre por la
supuesta muerte de Esmeralda.
Blabmu suffers over the
supposed death of Esme. (another black mark against Tinhorn. like he cares.)
-Esmeralda tendrá que
superar más obstáculos dentro de su celda.
Esme will have to
overcome more obstacles in her cell. (they're putting in a gym course?? won't
it be a little cramped?)
Telenovela-World: LAI's recap for yesterday
(#60) [USA, Mon. 5/7/07] Author: B.
(---) Date: 05-08-07 16:22 PDT
RECAP FOR MONDAY
NOTE: it was hot
and i couldn't sleep again last night so i again made notes that turned into a
summary. which is just as well, when you see what LAI considers a viable recap
of last night's episode... i'll post my summary in a few, in this same thread,
once i've got it cleaned up a bit.
TEASER: Montero
intenta violar a Esmeralda. Diego no pierde la fe. (Tinhorn Despot tries to
rape Masked Esme. Mentally Impaired Diego doesn't lose faith.) (we, on the
other hand, might be another matter... when is this stupid mask plot going to
be over once and for all??)
NEW TITLES:
Fernando vs Alejandro (Peep v Rat Pecs) (and the showdown really was good.
props to Peniche and Ríos, who even managed to keep Rat Pecs' invisible cape
flying to a minimim...)
DATE: Monday, 7 May
2007
EP #60
EP LENGTH: approx 70
minutes, give or take
-Alejandro lucha contra
Fernando, por todas sus malas acciones. Pero se da cuenta que no está loco y
que está decidido en recuperar la gobernación.
Rat Pecs fights against
Peep, for all his bad deeds. (um, sortof. see my summary for a better
explanation. also, that comma wasn't necessary, LAI. again!) But he realizes
that [Peep] isn't crazy and that he's set upon recovering the governorship. (as
they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend... at least for now.)
-Diego le pregunta a
Almudena por Esmeralda, pero ella se niega a hablar por el sufrimiento de su
muerte.
MIDiego asks Blabmu about
Esme, but she refuses to talk because she's too upset by [Esme's] death.
(usually you can't get Blabmu to shut up. not that i blame her for kindof
collapsing in on herself, though.)
-Esmeralda sufre
encerrada con la máscara de hierro, y Montero intenta violarla.
MEsme suffers locked up
with her duct tap-- i mean, IRON mask, and Tinhorn tries to rape her. (like
MEsme wasn't having a lousy enough time as it is. i have to say, it's just a
little bit disturbing how far Kooko is willing to take things. i thought some
of the Dance Tramp-on-the-rack scene was pretty gratuitous, although Geithner
is doing a GREAT job as the thoroughly twisted and unbalanced Tinhorn.)
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Tue 8
May) Author:
B. (---) Date: 05-08-07 14:28
PDT
RECAP STATUS: i'll
get the recap for #60 up as soon as i can manage. and it's a good thing i was
bored last night and wrote up another summary, because these avances are longer
than LAI's recap for last night. seriously.
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Pizarro
tienes nuevos planes.
Diego sale al ataque
Pizza has new plans.
Mentally Impaired Diego
goes on the attack. (MIDiego goes on the attack? or does MIZorro go on the
attack that MIDiego planned? try to remember LAI, the Zorros are the ones
actually WEARING actual masks, not the ones who aren't wearing masks but are
pretending to be someone they're not. when they remember to, that is.)
TITLE: Esmeralda
pide por su héroe. (Masked Esme asks for her hero.) (and so do we, because
we're tired of MEsme already. let's move on with this already...!)
DATE: Tuesday, 8 May 2007
EP #61
-Diego quiere encontrar a
Esmeralda porque tiene fe de que está viva y que la recordará.
MIDiego wants to find
Esme because he has faith she is alive and he will remember her. (yay, and why,
since Kooko doesn't care about anachronisms, hasn't he retconned in a
photograph of Esme somewhere so Diego can get his memory back already and we
can move on? i'm just saying... plus, it would be fun if Diego did get his
memory back but kept faking it to Mugre that he hasn't. i want someone to toy
with her the way she's trying to mess with everyone else.)
-Alejandro teme por el
regreso de Fernando y tomará medidas.
Rat Pecs is worried by
Peep's return and he takes steps [to protect himself].
-Esmeralda reza para que
Diego la salve.
MEsme prays that Diego
will save her. (and so do most of us. as revolting as Diesme could be, MEsme is
just way worse.)
-Mariángel sigue
planeando más conflictos para quedarse con Diego.
Mugre continues planning
more conflicts to hang onto MIDiego. (i guess LAI means, ways to make MIDiego
forget about Esme now that he hasn't remembered her...? Mugre's going to be so
screwed once he does get his memory back. i bet she hasn't taken that into
consideration at all...)
-Pizarro planea otra
traición.
Pizza plans another
betrayal. (and who's he gonna get killed this time?)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #61 (Tues 8
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-09-07
18:59 PDT
RECAP FOR TUESDAY
TEASER: Diego
recuerda a su amor,Todos piden el cuerpo de Esmeralda, (Diego remembers his
beloved, Everyone asks for Esme's corpse.) (what? no-one wants HER?? as for
LAI, he seems to be unusually out of it today. for one thing, he appears to
have forgotten that commas and periods are not interchangeable...)
NEW TITLES: Diego
lo recuerda todo (Diego remembers everything) (well not quite everything, yet.
he himself said it was still mostly just confused images that he had to sort
out, but he knows who everyone is and all that.) / Diego lo cuerda todo (ok,
more of LAI's confusion: "cuerda" is not a verb form, it's either an
adjective meaning "sane" --something i don't think Kooko or LAI have
much familiarity with-- or a noun meaning "cord" "string"
"rope" "tightrope" or similar. you can make it do verb-y
duty if used in conjunction with an actual verb, like "dar," but that
isn't the case here. now, I know that what happened is LAI, instead of cutting
and pasting what he'd already written, found that chore too difficult and decided
to just type what he'd already typed, "Diego lo recuerda todo," over
again only this time somehow he left off the "re" part. but i mean,
REALLY...!!)
DATE: Tuesday, 8 May
2007
EP #61
EP LENGTH: approx 75
minutes
-Diego recordó a
Esmeralda en sus sueños y ya nadie podrá engañarlo.
Diego remembered Esme in
his dreams (actually, he wasn't dreaming. he was remembing something he's
dreamed about. and he didn't just remember Esme, he remembered everyone else,
even if he hasn't got it all sorted out yet.) and now no-one can trick him.
(now don't be hasty, LAI. "no-one" is also over-optimistic. people
tricked him before when he had his memory, so there's nothing to say he can't
be tricked again. however, it will certainly be harder for them to trick him
than it would have been when he had no memory of what happened before on which
to fall back. so, hee!)
-Fernando recupera la
gobernación y se enfrenta a Montero para que le muestre el cuerpo de Esmeralda.
Peep recovers the governorship
and confronts Tinhorn Despot so he will show him Esme's corpse. (which of
course Tinhorn won't do, given Esme isn't actually dead. Tinhorn's excuse for
not having a corpse is that she was shot out somewhere in the wilds and her
body fell into a ravine, but Peep doesn't buy that. in other Tinhorn/Peep news,
Tinhorn accuses Peep of being a major hypocrite re Esme -- what is all this
concern for her when before he all but paid Tinhorn outright to take Esme off
his hands? he also brings up the whole walking around town naked thing. Peep
doesn't really have a good answer for that. but he makes a recover by telling
Tinhorn he's back in charge now and Tinhorn answers to him. Tinhorn doesn't
like it and doesn't plan to accept it, but he pretends to go along with it to
Peep's face, just as Peep pretends to accept Tinhorn's story about Esme being
dead. when he leaves, Peep sets ex-Roadkill to spy on Tinhorn. he won't believe
Esme is dead until he actually has proof. and then, back at the Hotel, Tinhorn
tells his men to spy on Peep. ya just gotta love the trust in the air...)
-María Pía le niega su
amor a Fernando por no haberse unido a Dios, y le cuenta sus planes de ser
madre superior.
(after finding out that María
Pía has recovered from her wound (thanks to the WonderWound® spores in Faux
Ángeles -- someone needs to market that stuff, i'm telling you. we could all be
RICH!!) and is back with the nunnabes, Peep goes to visit her at the church to
pick up a chapter or three before the one where he convinces her to elope with
him.) María P refuses to give her love to Peep since he didn't go through with
his plan to find God, and she tells him of her plans to become Mother Superior.
(um, i heard that last night but i think i must've missed something from an
earlier episode, because i'm sure i remember her suggesting Sister Untwisted as
the appropriate person to make Mother Superior since she --María P, i mean--
had pretty much abandoned her place in line to be Mother Superior when she
renounced being a nunnabe and ran away with Peep. but there were a number of
episodes last week where i wasn't paying hardly any attention, so i could've
gotten that wrong, or they could've had another discussion where they said,
'no, in spite of you running away, we still like you for this job.' anyway,
even though María P told him that she totally didn't want to know from him any
more, and this time he could tell she really meant it, he's still not going to
give up on getting her back. and we're back on the merry-go-round again...)
and that, folks, is all
LAI deemed worthy of being included in a recap -- and i had to expand on even
those!! so herewith some brief notes on some of the multitude of other things
that also happened in last night's ep:
=before we joined the
scene, Tinhorn apparently decided that Esme's lack of enthusiasm for giving
herself to him was all because of the mask and nothing to do with the rape
aspect, so he took the mask off. plus, even though in Monday's episode he'd
been licking the mask, he then decided it was a major turn-off for him. but in
spite of not having the mask on and all, ungrateful Esme is still not into the
whole rape idea -- go figure. in any event, Tinhorn doesn't get much further
because, carefully looking away the whole time, Aguirre interrupts to let him
know Peep is back, has retaken the governor's palace, and has sent for Tinhorn
to come see him immediately. cursing, Tinhorn leaves Esme in her cell and
hurries away. the mask is still on the floor.
=Mugre has gotten all
dressed in black, which causes Mentally Impaired Diego to comment. she claims
she's grieving for her poor dead sister, but MIDiego doesn't seem to be buying
it. he tells her he's going out for a ride or something. she offers to come
along, but he says he wants to be alone, plus it wouldn't be good for her in
her condition. she tries to get all kissy with him before he leaves, but he
gently pushes her away and kisses her hand (very lightly and not at all
passionately) instead. she calls him on this and he says it's the amnesia, he
doesn't know anyone and not that he thinks she's lying to him or anything and
she is certainly a beautiful woman and all, but he wants to let things come
naturally, and not force them. he doesn't want to go jumping into a
relationship based on what she's telling him, but rather to wait and let it
develop (or not). Mugre says she is ok with that but moves in again to
"remind" him of how much he loves her. however, before she can get
too far with this, they are interrupted by B.OB. who asks to speak with her
alone. MIDiego takes the opportunity to head off, supposedly for his ride
around the property but really for more Zorro training in the Zat Cueva, and
Mugre goes off somewhere else with B.OB. once they're wherever they went (into
town? i think so), he tells her how Tinhorn's trying to take all her father's
$$$. Mugre hustles herself off to town to yell at Tinhorn. Tinhorn insists that
B.OB. misreprsented things and he wasn't trying to appropriate her $$ too, just
to take control of things for her father in his absence. yeah, right.
=Esme, getting desperate,
promises Aguirre everything she has if he will just let her out. he says he
can't -- he has a wife and children, if Tinhorn found out he'd kill him and
then where would his family be? Esme says, do it for your family -- with the
money you'd get from me you could move anywhere, but Aguirre is still more
scared of Tinhorn than he is greedy (or at least, now). later (the next day?)
she is watching him with big sad eyes as he eats his dinner. Aguirre notices
and asks if she wants some. she accepts and says the food tastes really good.
he says that's only because she hasn't eaten in three days. hee.
=B.OB. catches Aguirre
somewhere in town, i guess as he's on his way home after his shift is over (in
which case, who guards Esme? this question wasn't answered.) he again tries to
bribe Aguirre to give him Esme's body. Aguirre is totally spooked and tells
B.OB. to go away. it turns out B.OB. is desperate to get hold of Esme's body so
he can prove to Eeevil Duke of La Fea that he is too doing his job.
=Jonás shows up at Yoda
Tomás', desperate to speak with the Unmasked Miracle. he says he has to tell
her Esme's dead, but Yoda T won't let him. he reminds Jonás that no-one's
supposed to know the UM is even there and that visitor traffic of any kind is a
dead giveaway -- it's just too big a risk. also, is it certain Esme is dead?
Yoda T says that until they know for sure, beyond any shadow of a doubt, they
should not tell the UM anything. Jonás unhappily agrees and goes away. i ask
myself if Jonás has developed something of a Thing for the UM. because, you
know, this whole we've-been-told-Esme-is-dead thing is not exactly news that
has to be given to the UM in person by Jonás and only Jonás, since his news is
already third-hand at least. Jonás himself was the one who brought the UM to
hide out with Yoda T and he knows how important it is that no-one have any
suspicion that the UM is anywhere near Faux Ángeles, so why couldn't he give
the message to Yoda T to give to the UM if it was so important that she be
told? conclusion: because either Kooko wanted to give Yoda T an excuse to
exposit about how the UM isn't supposed to have a parade of visitors, or
because he's laying the foundation (ha ha) for a parallel unreturned love story
á la Gleem and Esme with Jonás and the UM. in which case, spare. me.
=in one of the more WTF??
series of scenes of the night Yummy consoles Blabmu over losing Esme (though
from what i can tell, her consolation seems to more consist of, 'hey, i know
how you feel -- first your brother murdered my whole tribe practically, then
your brother murdered my brother,' but i wasn't completely paying attention so
i might have missed something), who does seem to feel a bit better (maybe she
was going on the possible intent rather than the actual words?). so far, so
good. but then the next time we see Yummy, she's sneaking up on Rat Pecs who
seems to be hitting something in the stable (any excuse to get him to have to
open his shirt...). she puts her arms around him in a lover-like way, gets him
kindof all sexually worked up, then tells him to go work it off consoling his
wife. um, right.
=Pizza goes to see Esme,
who doesn't seem to be too happy to see him. he tells her he's totally risking
his life doing this since if Tinhorn finds out he will have him shot for real
this time. Esme just doesn't trust Pizza. Pizza says he understands why she
wouldn't, but assures her his original intentions haven't changed. she should
understand that when Tinhorn caught them, he had to do and say what he did in
order to preserve his life and certain freedom of movement. by the end, Esme is
--very much against her will-- starting to believe. she still doesn't trust,
but... as Pizza goes to leave, he orders Aguirre to remove the mask from the
cell and "lose it." i wonder how we're going to explain that to
Tinhorn later. i mean, he may be crazy, but at some point he's bound to
notice...
=Gleem and Sister
Untwisted huddle together next to a tree while the slavers that captured Camba
are looking for Sister Untwisted. she goes to say something but Gleem puts his
hand over her mouth and tells her to be very quiet so they don't give
themselves away. one of the slavers is fed up and wants to go already -- he
figures they have the slave, which is the whole point, so why keep on chasing
around in the woods? but the other slaver is determined to capture Sister
Untwisted, too -- he wants to enjoy her favors. as the slavers find Gleem and
Sister Untwisted in their terribly clever hiding spot right next to a tree that
wouldn't conceal a cat, let alone two people, i wonder if Sister Untwisted is
regretting that exorcism around about now.
=Mugre goes to visit
Daddy, who tells her he thinks Esme might still be alive. despite all the
moaning she did to the de la Vegas about how upset she is over her poor dead
sister, Mugre doesn't seem to be the least bit pleased about Peep's theory.
=MIDiego he tells Blabmu
and Rat Pecs about his memory starting to come back. everything's still a
jumble of images, but at least he knows who everyone is again. they're
delighted.
=the Cardidiot, María P,
and Yoda T have been looking for Sister Untwisted with no success and now that
it's getting to be nighttime, they're even more worried. María P mentions that
Camba is also missing. the Cardidiot says it's ok, then, at least they're
probably together and Camba can protect Sister Untwisted, María P says, yes,
except what if the slave traders that were looking for Camba have captured him
-- or both of them...?
=Sister Untwisted was
apparently asleep or had passed out. anyway, she comes to to find herself
sitting on the floor in the slave trader's hideout or camp or whatever it is
(actually, it looks a lot like one of the gypsy encampments in the early
episodes), propped up against a wall or a door jamb or something. her hands are
tied in front of her. Gleem is similarly situated against another wall not too
far away, and as soon as he sees she's awake he hastens to tell her where they
are and to try to reassure her. Sister Twisted asks about Camba and they look
around. Camba's chained to the ceiling or something -- at any rate, his hands
are chained above his head and he's standing. as Sister Untwisted notices him,
he seems to be having some kind of a fit, just like she used to have. hmmmm,
can it be the demon's not too happy about being chained up? well, he should
have thought of that sort of thing sooner.
=in yet another
anachronistic move, Rat Pecs and Blabmu are in their PJs sitting at the dining
room table. (at least Blabmu's PJs are getting MORE discrete rather than less.
maybe by the end of the story she'll be completely covered from head to
toe...?) they're wondering why Mugre isn't back yet -- it's getting late and it's
not like it's so safe to be running around town or anything. Mugre finally puts
in an appearance. she explains about how of course she had to go see Daddy and
then she had to wait until one of his men could accompany her home, and seems
to think that no other accounting is necessary (well, maybe not in the 21st
Century). Rat Pecs tells Mugre she shouldn't be traipsing around in her
"delicate condition" and basically puts her on notice he wants to see
her sticking around the hacienda a lot more. Mugre barely has time to register
this when Blabmu pretty much adds, 'if you're even pregnant, that is. a lot of
young women have hysterical pregnancies.' Mugre confidently assures Blabmu she
is indeed pregnant, as they will see. she thinks she's had the last word. ha
ha. Blabmu breaks it to her that Diego's got his memory back. the look on
Mugre's face...? TOTALLY worth the price. and then some. ha ha!!
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Wed 9
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-09-07
13:35 PDT
RECAP STATUS: and
once again, the avances for today's episode are longer than the recap for last
night. i'll get something up later, but just so you know...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Ya no
sirven los engaños...
El Zorro da la pelea.
Deceptions don't work
anymore...
(loosely) Zorro goes to
battle. (i was all happy seeing Diego confronting Mugre about the infamous
Potion but i bet she comes up with some excuse that sounds at least marginally
plausible. last night i even thought of the excuse she could come up with, too,
but now i've forgotten it. everything smells burnt around here, even inside
this climate-controlled office building, and it's making my eyes itch, so small
wonder...)
TITLE: El Zorro da
la pelea. (literally, Zorro gives battle.) (um, yippee? or more likely:
whatever. i am restrained in my joy like this because last time Zorro
"gave battle," he had a perfect opportunity to shoot Tinhorn Despot
and injure him severely even if he didn't feel like killing him and what did he
do instead? he wasted his anachronistic six-shooter bullets making Tinhorn
dance, which i couldn't find amusing or excuse on the basis it was Mentally
Impaired Zorro and not Zorro-Zorro because regardless of which Zorro it was, he
knew Tinhorn's a Really Really Really Bad Guy and, more to the point, we're
supposed to believe they were fighting to the death. i mean, GIVE. ME. A.
BREAK. already!! i'll cut Tinhorn's minions some slack because reportedly lots
of flintlock pistols were often inaccurate, not to mention unwieldy, and maybe
between that, the confusion of the battle, and fear of MIZorro's obviously
superior weaponry, it's possible they could've all fired at him and missed. but
as for MIZorro... no slack. at the very least Kooko could've had Zorro shoot to
wound and Tinhorn only escaping injury because he ducked behind a convenient
table or something -- yeesh.)
DATE: Wednesday, 9 May
2007
EP #62
-El Zorro se enfrenta a
Montero, pero está a punto de ser descubierto.
Zorro confronts Tinhorn, but
is on the verge of being unmasked. (see rant in the bit for the title. the same
thing applies here. whatever happens, i bet Zorro manages to escape. or he's
used some sort of Indian SuperGlue that will hold the mask on until he says the
magic word and then poof! off it comes. or something. because even with Kooko's
notorious lack of patience at work, i don't see Zorro being unmasked by Tinhorn
any time soon. or if he is, then i see Tinhorn getting amnesia until the second
to last episode, which is totally unlikely.)
-Fernando tiene planes
para Montero, y está decidido a recuperar a Esmeralda.
Peep has plans for
Tinhorn (heh heh), and is determined to recover Esme. (you know, Tinhorn had a
really good point last night when he asked Peep what was up with this sudden
fervor to see Esme when before he'd been so dismissive of her, and so
uninterested in her wishes, desires, and happiness, that he pretty much gave
her to Tinhorn on a golden platter. so i have to wonder: is this because Peep
wants to use Esme for his own ends, because she's in line for the throne? and
if that's the case, how come it's only now occurring to him that she could be
useful in this way? or is this because even though the Original Peep is mostly
back, that partial Fear of God scare thingy he had after shooting María P has
caused him to have a genuine change of heart with regard to Esme and her
well-being, even if she isn't his biological daughter? or maybe is it just
because even though he still doesn't really care about Esme, he both hates
Tinhorn more and wants to punish him, and/or wants to Save Esme as a peace
offering to María P, sortof in the 'See? i HAVE changed!' vein...?)
-Mariángel buscan
reclamarle a Montero y averiguar ella misma si le mintió o no.
(LAI wrote this REALLY badly,
using a plural verb form talking about a single person, so i'm not sure if he
meant to add someone else to the list of people looking for Tinhorn, or he just
messed up his verb and it's only Mugre. FYI.) Mugre looks to complain to
Tinhorn and find out for herself if he lied to her or not. (ok, i'm guessing
this is about Esme being dead. and if Tinhorn didn't tell Peep, you can be sure
he isn't going to tell Mugre. i see Tinhorn lying through his teeth about this
to everyone and their dog now that the only people who definitely KNOW Esme is
still alive are himself, Esme (natch), Pizza, and Aguirre. i mean, he thinks
he's got Pizza and Aguirre firmly under his thumb and who is Esme going to
tell...? so i don't really see him saying to Mugre, "oh, well, yes,
technically i did lie to you about Esme being dead. but trust me, she won't get
out of this jail, ever!" yeah... that doesn't really track for me.)
-Pizarro trama otro
engaño para Esmeralda, pero algo malo le depara.
Pizza plots another trick
for Esme, but something bad is presented. (um, ok. the smoke isn't helping me
but even so, LAI is really unintelligible today -- just wait until you see the
next avance!-- so i'm not sure exactly what he's on about. i THINK he's trying
to say that Pizza has another plot involving Esme but that something prevents
him from carrying it out. or maybe that something bad happens to him. or maybe
that something bad happens to Esme. or ... )
-Fernando defenderá sus
intereses frente a Fernand.
Peep will protect his
interests from Pee. (see what i mean about LAI???)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #62 (last Wed, 9 May) Author: B.
(---) Date: 05-14-07 23:35 PDT
RECAP FOR WEDNESDAY
UPFRONT DISCLAIMER:
since LAI waited until nearly a week later to post this, i've gone and
forgotten most of the details of what happened in this specific episode. see,
if he'd just done this the day after, the way he'd been doing for the previous
several episodes, we'd have a different story here, but no.....
TEASER: Ya no
sirven los engaños. Diego enfrentará sus enemigos. (loosely) Deceptions don't
work anymore. Diego will confront his enemies...) (including Mugre. except even
though something inside is telling him the truth, he's still letting himself be
swayed, so the confrontation wasn't quite the smackdown it could --or should--
have been. still, it made a dent, at least.)
NEW TITLES:
Mariángel confrontada... (Mugre confronted....) (not confronted enough, though.
and as we will see in a later episode, she bounces pretty much right back.
argh.)
DATE: Wednesday, 9 May
2007
EP #62
EP LENGTH: approx 75
minutes
-Suplicios sirve como
pago de especies para los guardias de Montero.
[the slave traders use]
Sister Untwisted [to serve] as a sort of payment for Tinhorn's guards. (the
worst of it was on Thursday's episode. in Wednesday's we just see them dragging
poor Sister Untwisted over to the leering soldiers as both Gleem and Camba
protested and struggled against their bindings, to no avail.)
-Alejandro se entera de
que Yumalay escapó.
Rat Pecs discovers that
Yummy escaped. (hah. LAI makes it sound like Yummy was a prisoner, which she
totally wasn't. and besides, Rat Pecs put the Blinding Braid Ray uniform back
on -- no wonder Blabmu's been fainting. she'd probably run away, too, if only
she had somewhere to run to. and who could balme her??)
-Almudena va a visitar a
Fernando, y le pide que cuide a Alejandro. Además le cuenta que ya sabe que
mató a Regina.
Blabmu goes to visit
Peep, and asks him to take care of Rat Pecs. (as i recall, she doesn't so much
"ask" as "demand.") What's more, she tells him she already
knows that he killed Regpurnia. (i guess he's completely given up trying to
insist that he didn't do it. just as well -- it seems pretty clear that he's guilty.)
ok, i think about the
only things i can think of that i KNÖW LAI left out were:
-Zorro went over to have
a chat with his pal Tinhorn, who was already in his snazzy PJs, ready to retire
to bed until he was rudely interrupted. if i remember correctly, Zorro wants to
know where Esme's body is, because it's just SOOOOO likely Tinhorn's going to
tell him. anyway, Tinhorn manages to grab his sword, which apparently he
manages to keep handy at all times, even when he's going to bed. they have a
fight and for a leeetle while it looks like Tinhorn is going to unmask Zorro,
but no, Zorro manages to get out of the armlock. they fight some more, somehow
it ends up outside with servants looking on. Zorro gets the upper hand and then
the upper foot, too: Tinhorn is disarmed, on his back, with Zorro's boot on his
chest. he tells Zorro to kill him, because he can't stand to be humilliated
like this. instead, Zorro carves a "Z" in Tinhorn's chest, right
above his "heart" (well, if he had one), and takes off. meanwhile,
Pizza, over at the Hotel, has gotten word that Tinhorn needs help and has
called for rinforcements. García is running around cluckin-- i mean, trying to
gather a posse of soldiers to go racing over to Tinhorn's hovel. Pizza tells
him to go, but to take his time about getting there. hee! later, Tinhorn sends
for Dr Death to come treat his new scar. Dr Death tries to tell him that there
is only so much he can do to minimize the scarring -- no matter what, there
WILL be a scar. Tinhorn seems to feel if he just threatenes Dr Death enough, he
will magically find a way to make the scar disappear. maybe he doesn't believe
in the WounderWound® spores...? or maybe he already knows they won't work for
him. maybe you have to have at least a little good in you somewhere before they
do their stuff.
-now Tinhorn's Really
Mad. he wants to make someone pay for Zorro humilliating him, plus he's still
got a bug up his butt about the de la Vegas, so he decides the soldiers don't need
to be paid after all --their pay is only a few months late, i think i remember
him saying-- and he is going to use all the money that's coming to cover all
the back pay to hire lots of mercenaries and especially guy lots and lots of
really big buns so he and his mercenaries will be Invicible through sheer force
of arms if nothing else. he orders Pizza to put lots of guards on the carriage
bringing the money. Pizza deprecatingly reminds him that the last time they
sent soldiers to guard the carriage bringing the pay money, Zorro ended up
attacking it and stealing all the money, and at that time they'd decided the
wiser course would be to try to keep a low profile, bring the money in
incognito. although Tinhorn admits he recalls making that decision, he doesn't
want to take any chances with this money because he wants to be able to buy
lots and lots of guns, so Pizza is to forget that and send a whole posse of
soldiers to bring the pay money. so Pizza does. and Zorro finds out about the
carriage with the gold, he attacks it, he makes all the soldiers look like
idiots, and he steals all of Tinhorn's gun money that was supposed to be the
soldiers' back pay. and Zorro gives it to some poor people, who of course cheer
him. and Tinhorn is even more irate than he was before, if that is possible.
Pizza was expressionless, as usual, but you could tell he was secretly pleased
that Zorro had done exactly what they had, in marginally saner times, decided
he would almost certainly do the next time they were so stupid as to
practically send the money with a neon sign over it.
-Diego returns from
running around town in his Zorro suit. Mugre is lounging on her bed --well, i
guess it's supposed to be their bed-- in her undies, trying to look seductive.
i don't remember what she starts to stay --likely some playful reproach trying
to make him geel guilty for "neglecting" her, or else something about
how much she loves him or something. at any rate, she doesn't get too far. he
tells her he knows that she tricked him into marrying her -- that she set a
trap using the potion so he wouldn't remember what happened and so she could
get him into her bed so they could be found in a "compromising"
situation that would effectively force him to marry her. Mugre tries to disavow
the potion, but Diego's got her cold and she pretty much knows it so instead
she just pettishly smacks the potion out of his hand so the little bottle
shatters against the wall and then changes the subject to remind him about the
baby. i think i am reembering correctly that he also hints she might be lying
about being pregnant, but if he does or not, he assures her that he will not
abandon his child just because he doesn't want to know from that child's lying
tramp of a mother, and that neither she nor the child will lack for anything.
but he doesn't want to pretend that he and Mugre have something when she knows
very well they don't. she points out that Esme's D.E.A.D. and he says that
doesn't matter. dead or not, Esme is still the Only Woman For Him --as Mugre very
well knew when she decided that she was going to have Diego for a husband, not
because she loves him, but because he was the most eligible man around. Diego
warns her that he won't tolerate so much as one more lie from Mugre, and
leaves. now Mugre's Mad. she swears she will make sure that Diego can't ever
get rid of her, if she has to give him a dozen of Tinhorn's bastards.
-later, Rat Pecs trys to
be Firm with Diego when Diego tells him he had a bit of a Throwdown with Mugre.
Rat Pecs tries to pull the old "you married her to save her honor"
line but Diego just cut him right off, telling Rat Pecs to not even bother
pretending he didn't know the marriage was a farce from the start. he informs
his father that Mugre laid a trap for him and he, like an idiot, fell right
into it. he will of course make sure the child --if there is one, that is-- is
taken care of because the child shouldn't have to be made to pay for the
mistakes of his or her parents-- but he's not going to put up with to much more
from Mugre.
-the Cardidiot says that
he's going to go ahead and consecrate the nunnabes as actual nuns, with María
Pía as their Mom Superior. María P fusses that Sister Untwisted really should
be there, too. the Cardidiot agrees, but says they still need to go ahead. or
something, i wasn't really attending. anyway, Peep knows that María P's back on
the Nun Track and he's not happy about it, so he's once again doing his best to
throw a spanner in the works. he sends for the Cardidiot.
-lastly, i might not be
remembering correctly, but i THINK this is the episode that ended with Esme
asking Aguirre to just do her one little favor -- nothing big, he doesn't have
to get her out of there or anything like that. she just wants him to tell Diego
that she's alive -- just that.
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Thu 10
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-10-07
12:37 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as
of 5p Pacific, LAI still hasn't gotten around to posting his recap for #62
(yesterday's ep) yet -- at this point i suspect it won't be posted until at
least tomorrow. here we go again...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Tantas
súplicas...
¿Serán escuchadas? .
So many pleas...
Will they be heard? (why
should anyone's pleas be heard since ours aren't being listened to? i'm just
saying...)
TITLE: Diego sabe que
fue engañado. (Diego knows he was tricked.) (yes, but can he prove it?)
DATE: Thursday, 10 May
2007
EP #63
-Ahora Diego está
conciente que Mariángel le tendió una trampa.
Now Diego is aware that
Mugre set a trap for him. (old news, LAI -- in fact, this was in yesterday's
episode. again. since it's come up before. unless you're trying to say that he
gets proof that Mugre set a trap...? in which case, that will be fun, given
that he told Rat Pecs that if he caught Mugre in one more lie, he was done with
her. am i wrong for wanting to see that conversation??)
-Y como su corazón le
dice que Esmeralda está viva, buscará la verdad.
And since his heart tells
him that Esme is alive, he will search for the truth. (yaddah yaddah. get to
something we don't know, LAI!!)
-Por su parte, Esmeralda
recibe ayuda inesperada.
For her part, Esme
receives unexpected help. (well, if LAI's referring to Aguirre promising to get
word to Diego that she's alive, that's no so unexpected, given that we watched
her asking him to do that in last night's episode. or is LAI trying to tell us
that someone really unexpected, like, i dunno, Pink Bandana, ends up helping
her out...?)
-Tantas súplicas podrían
encender una luz de esperanza.
So many pleas could light
a light of hope. (oh, LAI, please... it's nearly lunch time!!)
-¿Hasta dónde llegará el
peligro?
How far will the danger
go? (well, not so far as killing anyone in the main credits, yet. or at least,
that would be my guess. but that doesn't say much for Aguirre's chances, since
he's a day player...)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #63 (last
Thursday) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-15-07 18:18 PDT
RECAP FOR THURSDAY
TEASER: Mariángel
confrontada.¿Hasta dónde llegará su maldad? Mugre confronted. How far will her
evilness go? (way too far, before she gets stomped the way she deserves to be,
if Kooko's previous shows are anything by which to judge.)
NEW TITLES: ¿El
final para Sara Kalí? The end for the Unmasked Miracle? (not a chance. she's in
the main titles.)
DATE: Thursday, 10 May
2007
EP #63
EP LENGTH: approx 75
minutes
-Suplicios es violada
cruelmente por los guardias. Pero Renzo la lleva en brazos para huir y
salvarse.
Sister Untwisted is
cruelly raped by by soldiers. (and it was nasty. even the aftermath, which was
all we saw, was more than enough. afterwards the slavers put Sister U on the
cart --where Gleem is now sitting, along with Camba and one or two others-- as
if she were a used rag. Sister U is out of it. Gleem cradles her and tries to
comfort her; he's furious about what happened, even though there was nothing he
could have done to have prevented it.) But (later, when they've camped for the
night, Camba is overcome by another fit and this time manages to escape. when
the slavers take off after him), Gleem (seizes the opportunity presented by
Camba's escape and, over Sister U's objections that she is worthless and a
total waste,) picks her up in his arms and runs away to save them both (from
the slavers. they run in the opposite direction, of course. i don't think it
will be long before the slavers discover they're missing two more of their
captives --the wonder is that others didn't decide to do the same as Gleem--
and get their dogs on Gleem and Sister U's trail, but for now they have gotten
away. yay! i haven't been a big fan of Gleem's so far, but i'm definitely
liking him in this plot.)
-Olmos tiene en sus manos
la carta de Esmeralda, y aunque duda de su veracidad, sabe que tiene mucho
valor ese documento.
B.OB. has Esme's letter
to Diego in his hands (given to him by Aguirre, as proof that Esme is alive),
and although he doubts its authenticity, he knows the document has great value.
(make up your mind, LAI: if it's false, then it's not so valuable. but i
digress. B.OB. tells Aguirre that if his handwriting expert (where did they get
one in Faux Ángeles?? i mean, i know it's Untrustworthy Associate who claims to
know the handwriting expert, but still...) confirms the letter is definitely
written by Esme, then he will pay up the rather large sum Aguirre demanded. he
asked Aguirre if he'd read the letter, and was surprised to learn that Aguirre
apparently can't read. B.OB. was also interested to learn that Esme is pregnant
with Diego's baby, not Tinhorn's.)
-Fernando se enfrenta a
Sara Kalí, y ella le reclama todas sus maldades.Fernando no soporta tantas
verdades y le dispara.
Peep confronts the
Unmasked Miracle (after attacking the gypsies with the Scruffy Gang and
dragging the UM away to a secluded location at the edge of a small cliff) and
she berates him for all his evil deeds. Peep can't stand so many truths and
shoots her. (she falls over the edge of the cliff and lies motionless at the
bottom. Peep thinks she must be dead and leaves.)
-Sara Kalí cae herida por
un barranco de gran altura.
the Unmasked Miracle,
injured, falls from a high cliff (not SO high, LAI. we're not talking the Grand
Canyon or the Cliffs of Dover here.)
and once again, in other
news that LAI didn't see fit to print...
-Tinhorn and his soldiers
barge into the mission and convent and search it, looking for the Unmasked
Miracle. they tie up Yoda Tomás and beat him to make him him tell them. one of
the soldiers finds a handkerchief in one of the rooms that Tinhorn decides is a
gypsy handkerchief. María Pía lies and claims the handkerchief was left there
ages ago by a gypsy woman who briefly visited the mission, but even if it were
the truth, Tinhorn wouldn't believe her because he doesn't want to believe her.
he puts a gun to Yoda T's head and threatens to kill him if he or María P don't
'fess up about the UM being there, but they continue to insist that she's not
there. Tinhorn pulls the trigger but he hadn't loaded the pistol (deliberately)
-- he hadn't thought Yoda T and María P had such guts. after making lots more threats,
he and his soldiers leave, having not found the UM. they didn't find her, it
turns out, because she's already left the mission. she's with Zorro, and once
again being a total pain in the butt about going anywhere. she insists she
doesn't want to leave Esme, and i've about had it with the UM and her
intransigence, considering she believes that Esme is dead so it doesn't mean
finding Esme so much as seeing her body, and especially considering that her
presence in Faux Ángeles --and in California, even-- is endangering herself and
everyone around her. Zorro points out to her that she's totally not helping
anyone by insisting on staying at the mission and convinces her to go with him
to the gypsy camp where she is to hide out until they stop guarding the port so
intensely and she can leave California and go to Spain. later we learn that
Zorro couldn't take her to hide out in the Zat Cueva because there are too many
soldiers around the de la Vega place, but considering that everyone and their
cleavage seems to be galivanting in and out with impunity and Zorro himself
managed to gallop out on Wheelie the showoff horse, i am not sure i completely
buy that. my guess is, he was figuring on taking her to the Zat Cueva until he
discovered what a whiner she is, which is when he decided to take her to the
gypsies instead. unfortunately for the gypsy decision, one of the Scruffies had
been spying on the not-at-all-hidden gypsy camp and as soon as he saw Zorro and
the UM arriving, he dashed off to report in to Peep, which is how Peep knew
where the gypsies were and that the UM was likely there in the first place.
-Aguirre gave Esme a big
basket of food, enough for two days, because he had the next day off and
figured that no-one would be by to check up on her, never mind actually give
her anything to eat. he tells her he hid some paper, a pen, and ink underneath
the food. you know, in case she feels like drawing or writing or something, to
pass the time while he's gone. as soon as Aguirre's gone, Esme all but dumps
the food on the floor in her haste to get to the writing utensils to write a
letter to Diego. meanwhile, wearing a really bad disguise, Aguirre makes B.OB.
happy by telling him he'll help him out with the Esme matter if B.OB. will give
him the sum he demands. B.OB. says yes yes yes, then is astonished to learn
that Esme isn't dead after all, which he does when Aguirre tells him to NEVER
involve him in another escape. Aguirre promises to bring him proof she's alive.
B.OB. wonders why Tinhorn is keeping Esme alive. Aguirre tells him he doesn't
know -- all he knows is that so far everyone else who knew Esme is still alive
is now dead, so... meanwhile, i just want to know why Aguirre is trusting B.OB.
again, given that their earlier relationships haven't turned out quite as
planned... oh, well.
-in other B.OB. related
news, it seems Untrustworthy Associate fulfilled (or claims to have fulfilled)
B.OB.'s order to dispose of someone. i wasn't paying much attention, but my
guess is we are referring to the Eeevil Duke of La Fea's goons who threatened
B.OB. in the tavern a few episodes ago. UA tells B.OB. that before the goons
died, they told him the King is dead. this news worries B.OB. because he
suspects its likely this will effectively make the ED of La Fea effectively the
King, even if not in name. they have to find the UM and kill her ASAP or the ED
of La Fea will kill B.OB.
-speaking of the ED of La
Fea, he tells Queenie-poo that her people need her, but she says she's still
too upset over the death of her husband the King. the ED of La Fea offers to be
her advisor, claiming he was that for the King. he says he'll teach her what
she needs to know.
-Yummy sees Rat Pecs
kissing Blabmu. she doesn't look very happy. later, Blabmu asks where Yummy is.
Rat Pecs claims Yummy is a free spririt and that she's vanished. he thinks
maybe she needed to be with her people. and that would be about right, since
the next scene we see Buffie telling Yummy that she shouldn't've left her
husband Rat Pecs like that -- it goes against their customs. Yummy tells Buffie
that she had to leave because Rat Pecs has another woman --a white woman-- and
when Buffie tells her that's no reason for Yummy to leave her husband, Yummy
adds that Blabmu is a nice woman that Yummy likes and respects, and she doesn't
want to take Rat Pecs away from her. meanwhile, back at the ranch, Rat Pecs is
telling Blabmu that he loves and needs (yes, in that way) her. Blabmu says she
returns the feelings, but not right now. she says she doesn't feel like she can
be happy or make anyone happy. Rat Pecs apologizes for pressuring her and says
he'll give her time to heal from Esme's death.
-Mugre sneaks into
Diego's room and starts snooping around. fortunately, before she can find the
Seeekret Bookcase entrance to the Zat Cueva, Bernardo arrives. he tries to get
her to leave but she doesn't go, so he doesn't either. she tells him to go
ahead and clean, she'll just hang out. she's sure there are lots of secrets to
discover in her husband's room. when Diego gets back later, Mugre is gone.
Bernardo tells Diego about finding Mugre in his room. Diego tells Bernardo this
is a problem and from now on, his door is to be locked whenever he's not there.
he looks through his stuff to see if Mugre took anything with her, and
discovers that Esme's note (the one he found in his coat when he was still
Mentally-Impaired Diego) is gone. sure enough, Mugre took it. she showed it to
Tinhorn and mocks him for not ever managing to sleep with Esme. needless to
say, this does not do much for Tinhorn's already cranky mood.
-the Cardidiot wasn't the
least bit happy about being summoned to see Peep again. Peep tells him that
since he wasn't officially informed about the Cardidiot's visit, therefore the
Cardidiot has to leave. Peep adds that it's also for the Cardidiot's safety.
the Cardidiot says he won't go, but Peep gives him three days to get out of
town. (this is why the rush to do the consecration, i'm guessing. because the
Cardidiot knows Peep is running him out of town to stop the consecration of
María P, specifically. and also because he wants to get it done in case Peep is
successful at running him out of town within the three days.)
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Fri
11th May) (slightly edited) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-11-07 12:55 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as
of 3.40p Pacific, LAI still hasn't gotten around to posting his recap for #62
(Wednesday's ep), never mind #63 (last night's ep). this does not bode well...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Unos
presienten el dolor.
Otros se burlan de la
vida..
Some sense the pain.
Others mock life. (we
know from the promo for tonight that Estwit is in the former category; i'd
guess Poop and Tinhorn Despot are in this latter category...)
TITLE: Se presiente
el dolor.. (Pain is sensed.) (yes, the pain we're all feeling with Poop's
savage backsliding, not to mention Diego locking the barn door after one of the
horses has fled, though at least he might manage to salvage the others.
although, keeping his bedroom door locked from here on out is sure to make
Mugre 50 times more determined to get in and find his secrets. he should just
take anything he doesn't want her rifling through out of the room and put it in
the Zat Cueva, then make sure the Seeekret Bookcase entrance is locked from the
Zat Cueva side so she can't stumble across it by accident. is it convenient?
no. but it will be way more inconvenient to have Mugre stumble across the Zat
Cueva, and it's not like they don't have other ways to access the Cueva from
the house. with Mugre on the prowl it's dangerous to go disappearing into your
room anyway...)
DATE: Friday, 11 May
2007
EP #64
-Esmeralda presiente que
algo le pasó a su madre.
Estwit senses that
something happened to her mother. (which, if Kooko is telling us they have some
sort of Karmic Konnektion --which, ok, fine, nothing wrong with that-- makes me
ask how come Estwit didn't sense it when the then-Masked Miracle was being
tortured by Tinhorn to tell who she was. or when she was down in the ravine,
where she was cold and hurt and what-all else? i mean, i understand how she
might not necessarily have noticed sensing her mother was alive or anything
about her the rest of the time (i.e., the rest of her life) because it would
have been a feeling she had been living with since she was born. but if Kooko's
trying to tell us that Estwit has a sort of link to her mother, then, even if
she didn't understand what or why she was feeling it, how come Estwit didn't at
least sense it when Tinhorn and Pizza nearly killed her earlier in the story? i
just ask for a LITTLE consistency, is all...)
-Y confía que El Zorro
sabrá que está viva.
And she trusts that Zorro
will know she is alive. (yeah, well, that seems to be more a case of 'hope
springs eternal' than anything else. although i can't really blame Estwit for
hoping -- she really thought she got through to Aguirre. but he is SO the dead
man, and given what i remember of B.OB.'s plans for Estwit, somehow i don't see
him delivering that note to Diego, either. the only thing we can hope is that
maybe Bernardo finds out about it, or overhears something while keeping an eye
on Tinhorn. gee, aren't all these spies going to trip over each other and end
up giving the game away to the people being spied upon...? maybe they can form
a union and then spell each other so only one is ever there at any given
time...)
-Por su parte, Montero se
burla de la vida, de los sueños y del amor.
For his part, Tinhorn
mocks life, dreams, and love. (this is news, LAI?? not a chance!!! we already
know this about Tinhorn!!)
-Una vez más...amenaza la
muerte.
One more time... death
looms. (admit it, LAI: you're just trying to fill up the page, aren't you? this
is a Kooko novela -- death is ALways looming, and, more often than not,
arriving.)
-Montero y Fernando han
perdido los estribos. ¿Hasta cuándo?
Tinhorn and Poop have
totally flipped out. for how long? (they've not only lost their tempers, but
also their minds, their self-control --not that they had any, really!-- and pretty
much everything else except maybe their hair. Poop in particular. as for how
long, i'd say probably until just about the end of the novela. of course, your
mileage may vary...)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #64 (last
Friday) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-15-07 18:48 PDT
RECAP FOR FRIDAY
TEASER: Unos
presienten el dolor. Otros se burlan de la vida. (Some sense the pain. Others
mock life.) (and this is even worse the second time around, LAI!!)
NEW TITLES: Una
madre en peligro (A mother in danger) (yes, but which mother? not the one i'd
like to be in danger, alas.)
DATE: Friday, 11 May
2007
EP #64
EP LENGTH: approx 75
minutes
-Montero le dice a
Esmeralda que la reina podría estar muerta, pero ella no le cree.
Tinhorn Despot tells Esme
that the queen could be dead, but she doesn't believe it. (you know, i remember
this scene happened, but i totally don't remember anything else about it, so
i'll just let that stand.)
-El Zorro explota la
bodega de municiones y Montero enfurece por sus acciones.
Zorro blows up the
munitions stores and Tinhorn is infuriated by his actions. (oddly, i also don't
remember Zorro blowing up the munitions stores, but a comment in last night's
episode confirms this, so i guess he did. what was i doing on Friday that i was
paying so little attention...?? oh, right, i remember: i was late getting home
from work so i was in the kitchen making dinner for parts of the episode.)
-Pizarro encunetra a la
reina muerta y la revive a punta de golpes en medio de su desesperación por conseguir
más poder.Pizarro le pide a Montero que asesine a Alejandro y a Diego De la
Vega.
Pizza finds the queen
dead (well not quite dead) and (after dragging Dr Death out to treat her only
to discover that she's died while they're standing there) revives her after
hitting her his desperation to gain more power. (LAI: there is usually at least
ONE space after a period at the end of the sentence. there are supposed to be
two, but at least one is required.) Pizza asks Tinhorn to assassinate Rat Pecs
and Diego de la Vega. (except that it was Tinhorn who ORDERED Pizza to
assassinate the de la Vegas. and Pizza who was trying to think up excuses. not
very successfully, though.)
-El Zorro se encuentra
con Fernando para arreglar cuentas.
Zorro meets with Peep to settle
accounts. (LAI, you make it sound like it's gambling debts or something. Zorro
wants Peep to 'fess up or something. which, as with the earlier attempt with
Tinhorn, proved to be more of an excuse for a sword fight than actually getting
the bad guy to admit to much of anything useful. whatever.)
and once again, some of
the things LAI decided were unworthy of mention:
-Peep didn't stay to make
certain the Unmasked Miracle was actually dead, and he certainly didn't climb all
the way down the high cliff that wasn't THAT high to make certain of it.
instead, he went home, then sent ex-Roadkill off to get the UM's body and bring
it back to him at the house. which was a mistake, since the UM wasn't actually
dead, and before ex-Roadkill found her, Pizza had happened across her and
realized she was actually not dead. he took her off to some shack somewhere,
then went off to get Dr Death and bring him out to treat the UM. at the time,
neither realized that they were being followed by Dr Death's greedy friend, who
has apparently been hanging around Dr Death's place, spying on him, convinced
that eventually Dr Death will lead him to Zorro so he can then discover for
himself Zorro's true identity and collect one of the rewards offered for this
information. oh, well.
-Mugre has a busy day at
Chez Infidelity, basically telling a series of totally lying sob stories in a
largely effective campaign to get everyone there to feel sorry for her. the
most inspired one is probably the one she plays on Dololes, in which she goes
to Dololes to ask her for the name of an Indian midwife so she can have an
abortion, since Diego doesn't want the baby or her. well, of course Dololes is
shocked and falls all over herself in her haste to talk Mugre out of this idea.
Mugre really played her various hands quite well, i have to say. but if any of
the people she played them on ever get together and compare notes, well, she
might be in trouble.
-Rat Pecs and Buffie have
a conversation wherein, if i recall (and i'm pretty not interested in this
whole "you must accept Yummy as your wife even if you already have a
wife" thing, and especially from someone who actually at one time seemed
to be pretty on the ball, so i wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to this),
Buffie basically tells Rat Pecs he's a mean man for not making Yummy feel
accepted as his wife. or something. and Rat Pecs tries to explain about Blabmu.
yaddah yaddah. if any decisions were made, or conclusions reached, i completely
missed them.
-Blabmu faints for the
second time in three episodes. now, typically this is a classic novela clue
that she is definitely pregnant, but a discussion in this thread would seem to
conclude that it's more likely she's just sick. in which case, maybe it's all
that blinding braid from the uniform Rat Pecs is now wearing 24/7 for whatever
reason.
i think there was other stuff, too, but offhand i don't remember it.
SUMMARIES OF
EPISODES FOR WEEK OF MAY 7-11, 2007
Telenovela-World: SUMMARY for Friday (4 May) Author: B. (---)
Date: 05-06-07 16:58 PDT
i couldn't get to sleep last night, and
since there wasn't anything i wanted to watch on TV, i thought i'd try
rewatching Friday's episode to make notes for whenever LAI gets around to
posting his recap, and for a change (well, recently) i'd actually know some of
the stuff he forgot or got wrong. only my notes turned into a summary and i
figured, why waste it? so, here goes...
SUMMARY FOR FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007 (episode
#59)
Pizza puts her mother's former mask on
Esme.
the Unmasked Miracle is still insisting on
exchanging herself for Esme. Jonás continues to say that's a really bad idea,
since all that will happen is Tinhorn would kill both her AND Esme. to try to
cheer UM up, Gleem offers to go back and find some way to rescue Esme. UM says
he's talking like that because he's in love and lovers have no sense of
perspective. (well, they certainly don't in novelas, at any rate!) Jonás
insists they stick to the original plan, pointing out that when UM is in Spain
and has her crown back, she can come back and all doors will be open to her. in
the end, the gypsies, UM, and Hermes all continue their trek, except for Gleem,
who dashes away, back the way they came.
Tinhorn Despot tells Mugre that Esme was
shot by a soldier while trying to escape -- she's dead. Mugre doesn't trust him
and wants to know all the details, but Tinhorn says that's in really poor
taste. (!! he's one to talk!) Mugre snarls that he'd better be telling her the
truth. Tinhorn says the only one who will miss Esme is her aunt, but in any
event Blabmu will be too busy crying over the fate of the de la Vegas to have
time to cry for Esme. Mugre snaps at him to leave the de la Vegas alone -- she
wants their fortune and she's worked too long and hard for it allow him to take
it away from her. Tinhorn replies that he wants all the de la Vegas dead
("hanging from trees" -- so nice. NOT!) so he can take their land.
Mugre tells him that so long as he leaves her the de la Vega fortune, Tinhorn
can have their land, ceded to him by the terrorized but defenceless tenants.
she turns to leave but he grabs her and kisses her. more sex on the desk, I'm
guessing, tho fortunately we don't see it.
in one of the bits of #58 when I wasn't
paying attention, García apparently told Blabmu that Rat Pecs was taken
prisoner by Tinhorn's soldiers. Blabmu's freaking out -- she KNEW it was a bad
idea to go traipsing off to visit people in the middle of the night. García
tries to reassure her: surely some of the men they sent out to rescue him will
manage it. Blabmu's pessimistic. García says he still has some friends at the
Hotel. although Blabmu tries to stop him (“who will protect us here?”), he
heads off to see what he can do.
the soldiers are still on the way back to
the Hotel. conveniently, they're riding single file through some sort of gully
thing, and they're going at a walking pace as Rat Pecs is on foot, being led on
a rope with his hands tied together in front of him. Mentally Impaired Zorro
and Bernardo ride up to the edge and even though they're only a few feet above
the mounted soldiers, naturally, no-one notices them. looking down at the
squadron of soldiers with their prisoner, MIZorro says to Bernardo that they
have to do something before the group reaches the Hotel.
now Tinhorn is slithering all over Dance
Tramp, touching her in very intimate ways and kissing her. although she's
totally not into it, she can't do anything to stop him because she's on a rack
being tortured already, so it's not like she (or we!) needs this additional
torment. Tinhorn wants to know where UM is. Dance Tramp doesn't know, but he
doesn't believe her and cranks the rack. between screams, she proposes a deal:
the lives of the gypsy women he's still holding prisoner for that of UM.
Tinhorn tells her it's her lucky day, he accepts her deal. he goes to leave,
then says he's going to give her a little demonstration of what will happen to
her if she doesn't come through and tells the soldier there to continue
torturing her. she screams again as the soldier presses a hot brand onto her
flesh.
MIZorro attacks the soldiers who have Rat
Pecs. for his part, Rat Pecs shoves a few around, but mostly he stands still
and watches MIZorro intently as MIZorro mutely does battle with his captors.
after MIZorro chases off the soldiers, he approaches Rat Pecs, who wants to
know why MIZorro's helping him and who he is. MIZorro doesn't say anything --
he just cuts the ropes binding Rat Pecs' hands. Rat Pecs asks why MIZorro won't
speak: "Do I know you, perchance?" but MIZorro just turns and stalks
off.
Tinhorn orders one of his soldiers to find
three marksmen. after the man hustles off, Pizza approaches and tells him that
"the prisoner" is in the cell as ordered. he hands the key for the
mask to Tinhorn, then volunteers to take some men and go after UM. Tinhorn
coldly informs him he's not going anywhere. he orders some other soldiers to
take Pizza's weapons. it seems that Tinhorn's still mad about that little
matter of the escape -- he doesn't believe Pizza's story how Pizza was actually
doing it to capture all the gypsies and bring the lot back as a present for
Tinhorn, and tells Pizza he's going to send him to Hell.
B.OB. is pacing around Tinhorn's office.
the soldier guarding him tells him to settle down. B.OB. says he has to go to
the toilet, he's desperate, but the soldier doesn't care that B.OB. isn't a
prisoner -- he has orders not to let B.OB. go anywhere. he hands B.OB. a
pitcher and tells him to go in that -- "It's all I can do for you."
B.OB. doesn't look too thrilled. (i wonder if he'd figured that since the
i-need-privacy-to-go-to-the-toilet excuse had worked for Esme with him and
Pizza, it would work for him with the soldier? if so, i guess he forgot to take
into account that he and his guard are both guys...)
Pizza is up against a Hotel wall with his
hands tied behind his back, and Tinhorn shouts for the firing squad to get
ready. one soldier goes to put a blindfold on Pizza, but he says if he's going
to be shot, he wants them to do it with him looking at them. Tinhorn isn't
going to let him have that dignity and he orders the blindfold put on anyway.
meanwhile, on the wall overlooking the courtyard where this is going on, García
approaches the young soldier who said García's still a sergeant in his eyes and
asks what's going on. he's stunned to learn that Pizza is about to be executed.
"Fire!" shouts Tinhorn. the soldiers fire and Pizza slumps against
the wall.
out in front of the Hotel, García scurries
to get his mule, Rosina, talking the whole time: what is happening? the whole
world's gone mad! these are dark times, my Captain Pizza is dead! what can have
happened to Miss Esme? they were supposed to escape together! "This is the
end," García tells Rosina. "This is the end!!"
in a scruffy bar somewhere, a bunch of
tough-looking guys are sitting around a table over some beers. one of them, a
bald guy with a pinkish bandana, has apparently just finished describing how
the whole gang of them can take advantage of the total chaos in Faux Ángeles to
take over the town for themselves. another tells him he's an idiot --
"Have you forgotten about Zorro?" but Pink Bandana says that Zorro
was fatally wounded. not noticing the guy in the big hat at the next table is
obviously eavesdropping, Pink Bandana continues explaining why now is their big
opportunity: "There's no authority [in Faux Ángeles] -- the Governor fled,
and Commander Tinhorn has gone crazy. They tell me that he hasn't even
respected the property of General Rat Pecs de la Vega! His only objective is to
make an end of [the de la Vega] family and take over the town!!" the guy
in the big hat stands up and we see it's Peep. apparently either the saddlebags
he stole from those sleeping peasants contained clean, uncreased clothing and
boots in just his size and/or were full of money. either that, or he held
someone up, or perhaps traded their mule that he also stole, because the purple
robe and sandals are long gone and now we have him in new clothes. and athough
the clothes probably aren't the quality Peep is undoubtedly used to, they are
still nicer, more tidy, (and cleaner!) than what the toughs at the table are
wearing, and they totally don't go with the hat, so i don't know why he didn't
trade it in, too. he accosts Pink Bandana, grabbing him by what would be his lapels,
if he had a jacket on, and shoving him back onto the table, growling that he's
the governor and demanding answers. Pink Bandana says yeah, it's true [that
Faux Ángeles is in complete chaos] -- he saw with his own eyes. glaring at
everyone, Peep pulls out a pistol and waves it around at them all; they
obviously are none of them are so tough as they'd like to think they are,
because instead of realizing they outnumber him 15- or 20-to-one and tackling
him, they all cower away from the gun -- which isn't even a six-shooter but can
only fire a single shot before needing to be reloaded. "Listen to me,
everyone: I'm going to go back and retake charge of the city of Faux Ángeles! I
need allies! Allies who want to have a better life at the Governor's side!"
Tinhorn, laughing mockingly, walks over to
Pizza, who is in the early stages of an asthma attack but is otherwise
unharmed. the rifles had been loaded with blanks -- it was all to teach Pizza a
lesson: "I am the only one who gives orders here. Don't do anything on
your own initiative again without consulting me," he snaps coldly. Pizza
glares at him and tries not to wheeze too audibly.
Peep and his gun still have the floor at
the scruffy bar. he wants to know who's with him: who wants to have the good
life with all the good things as his ally, and who wants to keep on living the
life of a scruffy fugitive? not too surprisingly, all the toughs decide they
want the good life, and someone proposes a toast: "Down with Commander
Tinhorn!!" they all drink enthusiastically.
Esme wakes up and realizes it's not a
nightmare -- she IS in the Hotel and wearing her mother's mask. she cries.
"Diego can't have forgotten about us -- he can't!" she prays to God
to take care of her mother.
UM won't take another step: even though
she's the True Queen, she's a Mother first. she won't leave California without
rescuing her daughter.
Yoda Tomás has called another meeting of
the Hoodie Gang. they're in the Zat Cueva. (I thought it was supposed to be
Seekret from everyone except Diego, Bernardo, Esme, and Yoda T?) everything
that is going on in Faux Ángeles is a mirror image of the Crown's struggle for
power, according to Yoda T. he tells the Hoodies there will soon be a
revolution in Spain: the True Queen has escaped and is on her way there with
her daughter. if the people of Faux Ángeles rise up in revolution, the Hoodies
have to be ready to help. the Hoodies agree, but they feel that Zorro is the
best person for the job, except they've heard that Zorro is dead -- or could it
only be a rumour that Tinhorn was spreading around to dishearten the people?
Yoda T confirms that Zorro is fine and totally ready to fight together with the
people of Faux Ángeles.
MIZorro and Bernardo are riding around the
countryside. MIZorro can't stop thinking about something he just learned: that
he loves a woman who loves him back. (except he's known that for a few hours
now -- geez!) "Esmeralda..." he sighs. he wants to go to the places
Esme used to go, and suggests the Hotel California. Bernardo emphatically
disagrees with this plan, signing firmly that Tinhorn will kill him, but
MIZorro, who finally seems to have started to pick up on Bernardo's sign
language, chides him, pointing out that supposedly they're a pair that's afraid
of nothing. he adds that if something should happen to him, Bernardo is there
to protect him. (!!) "Besides, I already passed the test: I rescued my
father." Bernardo gives in and off they go.
down in the dungeon at Hotel California,
Aguirre, (formerly Suborned Soldier, the soldier with the dark curly hair who
was B.OB.'s inside man at the prison) is on guard. one of the soldiers Aguirre
suborned in turn, López, comes down and Aguirre frantically asks what has been
going on, he heard shots. López explains about Pizza's faked execution by
firing squad. he's really worried about recent events and especially about
Tinhorn's behaviour, and wonders if Tinhorn plans to punish them, too. he
reminds Aguirre that they went along with Pizza's plan. Aguirre frantically
shushes López, telling him not to talk about that with anyone -- not even with
him.
in an empty inside room, Pizza, gasping for
breath, washes his face in cold water and tries to get himself under control.
"It wasn't the right moment," he tells himself between wheezes,
"but soon the time will come to do things my way." (cue Sinatra...?)
Mugre's walking through town. Gata Miau
Miau catches sight of her and hurries over. she wants to know where her friend
Mugre has been recently. Gata Miau Miau is shocked to hear Mugre's been to see
Tinhorn, seeing as how Tinhorn hates all the de la Vegas and all. Mugre puts on
her sad face and "artlessly" confides that Tinhorn sent for her to
give her the news that Esme was dead, apparently shot when she tried to get
away after helping an important prisoner escape. Gata Miau Miau is shocked,
saying that terrible things sure have been happening to Mugre lately what with
her father and the de la Vegas and now her half-sister. she assures Mugre that
if she needs anything, Mugre can count on her. they kiss-kiss goodbye and after
Gata Miau Miau's out of earshot, Mugre smiles in a nasty way: you can tell she
has only contempt for the woman she pretends is her friend (actually, i'm
beginning to suspect that there's little love lost between them on both
sides...), but is pleased because she knows Gata Miau Miau the gossip will see
that the news of Esme's death gets spread all over town, which is just what she
wants.
Tobobo is gingerly trying to check out his
wounded butt in the mirror as Gata Miau Miau arrives back with the bicarbonate
for the ailing fencing master's stomach. (i guess this is Kooko's way of
telling us he hasn't forgotten the supposed maestro hasn't left town yet...)
she scolds Tobobo for even being out of bed and tells him he can't even think
of going outside because Tinhorn is running rampant all over town and guess
what? Esme's dead. Tobobo wants to leave town immediately but just turning
around hurts him. Gata Miau Miau helps him limp back to bed.
the alcoholic town doctor-slash-mortician,
Dr Death, is just about to leave the tavern, where he has been knocking back a
few to try to calm his nerves after treating the infamous bandit “Zorro” and in
the process discovering his true identity. the barmaid doesn't believe he
really has a Beeeg Seeekret -- she thinks he's just making it up to be
Interesting. goaded, Dr Death finally reveals that he knows the true identity
of Zorro. he practically shouts this in his frustration with her, and this
causes a bald guy at a nearby table to prick up his ears.
Rat Pecs still hasn't gotten home yet and
Blabmu's worried. Dololes says that as women, the only thing they can do is
pray. she tries to reassure Blabmu by pointing out that Yummy went with the men
and Yummy would give her life for Rat Pecs. Blabmu is frustrated because it's
not her lot to be daring and feisty. if only she had even half the courage of
Esme or Yummy!!
the Ranch Hand Militia and Yummy are making
plans for the search for Rat Pecs when Rat Pecs gallops up (where did he get
the horse?) and joins them, invisible cape flying and not a hair out of place.
he tells them that Zorro freed him from the soldiers. "The bandit?!"
asks one of the RHM leaders. Rat Pecs doesn't answer. instead he suggests they
all head up to the house. as the RHM heads off, he and Yummy exchange a long,
longing look.
at the Hotel, MIZorro decides he should
climb up to the roof to be better able to spy on things. he still hasn't quite
got his whip technique down and fumbles the first try to get it hooked on
something so he can do his patented Zat Climb up the side of the wall. Bernardo
tells him to be sure to disguise his voice if he should talk to anyone.
Tinhorn goes to visit his wife down in the
dungeon. (except didn't he say in #58 that so far as he was concerned, Esme was
no longer his wife?) he gloats at what she's become, how she's “fallen” from
the haughty woman giving orders that, according to Tinhorn, she was when she
arrived in Faux Ángeles, to an anonymous prisoner that no-one cares about,
stuck in a dungeon for the rest of her life. "I've become the woman that's
going to destroy you," she tells him, but he's not scared. he points out
that he holds the key to the mask, and when she replies that she has powerful friends
who will soon rescue her, he laughs and asks who she's talking about. if she's
thinking of Diego, well, he's enjoying the delights of his marriage to Mugre.
Diego betrayed Esme and won't be coming to get her. moreover, Esme will soon
have company: her mother.
from the roof, MIZorro realizes they're
releasing gypsies. down in the courtyard in front, all the imprisoned gypsy
women dash out the front gate. last to leave is Azucena. she turns to ask the
soldier at the gate if he knows the fate of her son Gleem, or that of UM, or
Esme. the soldier wants her to just get out of there. he brusquely tells her
that Esme is dead and that soon they will have recaptured UM and to go away.
Azucena is distraught and the soldier snaps that it's all the gypsies' fault.
he again orders her to leave, and the other gypsy women come and gather round
her, trying to lead her away. Azucena just keeps crying. up on the roof,
MIZorro wonders what the deal is with letting the gypsies go. "It's
obvious they've been mistreated," he observes. looking away, he asks
himself why he feels an urge to go down and check out inside the prison.
"What should I do?" he wonders.
Tinhorn snaps at B.OB. that Peep caused a
big problem for him for which he was unable to imprison him because Peep went
crazy and fled. but Peep will have to make restitution for this, so as Peep's
accountant, B.OB. is to sign over Peep's fortune to Tinhorn. B.OB. tries to
stall, saying that he can't just hand over Peep's money because there's Peep's
sister and daughters to consider. Tinhorn tells B.OB. that he's changed his
mind and it won't work for him to deal with B.OB. because he's nearly certain
that B.OB. took part in the jailbreak. B.OB. disclaims, but Tinhorn just
insults him, saying B.OB. is ugly inside and out. he warns B.OB. not to try to
cheat him, or B.OB. will suffer the same fate as Esme, who, he mendaciously
states, was shot by "a soldier" when she tried to escape. (note he
doesn't name the soldier, as if Esme isn't worthy of anything more than
complete and ignominious anonymity.) “People still haven't learned that those
who try to cross me end up dead,” he snaps. B.OB. cringes and stops trying to
stall. he assures Tinhorn he will make an inventory of Peep's property and work
it out so that it all ends up in Tinhorn's name. after making a hasty exit,
B.OB. unhappily tells himself that if Tinhorn was capable of killing his own
wife, then he's certainly capable of killing B.OB., so he'll have to do what
Tinhorn wants. he doesn't add, “for now,” but you can tell he's thinking it.
in the tavern, a now thoroughly inebriated
Dr Death is taking his leave of the barmaid since he's run out of cash and
can't buy any more drinks. the bald man who overheard him saying he knows the
true identity of Zorro comes over, bottle in hand, and invites Dr Death to have
a drink of something that will make him feel good ("derived from mescal
and cinnamon, with black powder (gunpowder!!) and cloves" -- um, yum...?).
Dr Death says that it tastes good, but announces that he isn't going to share any
more secrets. (maybe Baldie has tried to pump Dr Death for confidential
information in the past? if so, it must've been when i wasn't paying
attention.) Baldie encourages him to drink up.
Tinhorn has sent for Pizza, who now has
regained his habitual blank demeanor. Tinhorn says he hopes Pizza has learned
his lesson. Pizza says that if Tinhorn doesn't trust him, he'd rather Tinhorn
just execute him rather than turn him into a joke in front of his men. Tinhorn
assumes his gracious mein and concedes that he put a lot of pressure on Pizza.
he says they should just put this all in the past, and offers his hand to
Pizza, saying they should be united. after a slight hesitation, Pizza gravely
if somewhat warily shakes the proffered hand. Tinhorn points out that if it's
true that UM is the true queen of Spain, then he and Pizza are up sh¡t creek,
so they need make sure she never gets aboard a ship. Pizza asks what he can do
to help Tinhorn, and Tinhorn springs his trap: "We cannot permit the men
who fled with you to find out that Esme is still alive, so you will find a way
to eliminate them." Pizza can't quite keep himself from blanching, though
i don't think Tinhorn noticed since now he's convinced he's totally in control.
Pizza assures Tinhorn that his men are loyal and he is confident they won't
talk, but Tinhorn says he doesn't trust anyone. the only one of Pizza's men to
live is the one guarding Esme (Aguirre); all the rest must die.
Peep is giving his new gang a pep talk,
saying they have to work quickly and eliminate anyone who gets in their way. he
notices the Exorcist is outside, listening. Peep goes out and faces his
would-be mentor. the Exorcist wants to know what Peep is doing -- it wasn't
enough for Peep to kill that "little Indian" (one of the bad boys bit
the dust when Peep ran away?) -- now he wants to start a war?! Peep tells the
Exorcist that he still feels angry and isn't ready to serve God. the Exorcist
says that Peep should have said something, they could have worked it out --
Peep had made such a good start and the Exorcist was here, willing to keep
working with him. Peep says that he can't just now anyway, because he's learned
that the woman he loves is in danger and so is all of Faux Ángeles, really.
he's got to do something.
MIDiego and Bernardo come into the house
through the Seeekret Bookcase. MIDiego tells Bernardo that Bernardo was right
when he said it wasn't the right time to enter the Hotel, but at least now he
knows what the place is like. then he says that he's going to go see Rat Pecs.
he thinks that Rat Pecs recognized him during the rescue. Bernardo disagrees,
but MIDiego is convinced he's been found out, because of the way Rat Pecs was
looking at him so intently during the rescue. just at this moment, Rat Pecs
knocks at the door and tells MIDiego he wants to speak with him in private.
Bernardo leaves, looking at bit worried. looking intently at his son, Rat Pecs
tells MIDiego he thinks they need to have a very serious conversation about
Zorro. MIDiego gets all nervous. Rat Pecs says that he's seen Zorro do great
things in the past, but always from a distance. but today he had a chance to
observe him up close because Zorro rescued him from Tinhorn's soldiers. Rat
Pecs says that Zorro risked his life to save him, then left before Rat Pecs
could even thank him. in a pretty good imitation (at last!) of the old Diego,
MIDiego stammers that it was good luck that Zorro was around, and that he feels
like a total lame-o compared to Zorro. "If only I were like Zorro,"
he concludes. Rat Pecs assures MIDiego that he doesn't want him to be Zorro,
but rather to just hang out with him and learn how to run Chez Infidelity, and
to be a worthy heir to the de la Vega name.
Peep tells the Exorcist that María Pía is
the only thing that he cares about in this world and he's going to protect her
no matter what. the Exorcist points out that Peep wants to cleanse his heart
first, so he can go to María Pía with a clean conscience. Peep has to lay down
his arms if he wants to achieve the happiness he yearns for, the Exorcist
exhorts, gently removing the weapons from where Peep had stashed them in the
front of his cummerbund thing. Peep gets angry, snatches his weapons back from
the Exorcist and shoves him, then realizes what he's done and apologizes,
adding that he's beyond help. the Exorcist is still trying, telling Peep that
Eeevil has made a nest in Peep's heart and Peep can't run away. it's the
Exorcist's job to fight that evil, so wherever Peep goes, the Exorcist will be
there, too. Peep looks disconcerted.
it seems Rat Pecs went to see MIDiego even
before going to reassure his supposedly beloved wife Blabmu, because now he's
striding along heading for another room when he looks to one side and,
evidently seeing Blabmu and Dololes with Yummy, stops (although i didn't get
the impression he was looking for Blabmu at all...). Blabmu rushes over to
greet him, Yummy keeping pace just slightly behind her and Dololes bringing up
the rear. Yummy watches stone-faced as Blabmu gives him a big hug and Rat Pecs,
with many nauseating endearments, assures Blabmu that he's well and happy to
see her. but when Blabmu and Rat Pecs exchange a kiss, Yummy looks away. Blabmu
says that Yummy told them all about what happened, and Rat Pecs confirms that
Zorro saved his life. Yummy looks like she wishes it could have been her that
saved him. Blabmu says she wants to hear all the details.
Dr Death and his drinking buddy Baldie are
on their way to somewhere together. Dr Death is now quite drunk and is
staggering all over the place; Baldie is the only thing keeping him upright at
this point. Baldie has steered the conversation back around to Zorro and his
true identity, but just as he finally gets Dr Death to Tell All, Dr Death
dashes away to vomit. Baldie: foiled again!
Rat Pecs has made his escape, again
abandoning his wife to Dololes. the two women are having a chat, unaware that
Mugre has crept up and is listening at the door. Mugre is not at all pleased to
hear that even though MIDiego hasn't recovered his memory, he has found out that
he and Esme were in love. Dololes thinks it's time that MIDiego was told the
truth about Esme and how Esme is expecting their child. Blabmu says that Rat
Pecs was going to tell MIDiego but they found out that Mugre is pregnant.
Dololes doesn't believe in this pregnancy, either. Blabmu says that she had the
same reaction at first, but even though Mugre is a major liar, after talking to
Mugre she thinks it might just be true that Mugre is pregnant. she sighs and
says that life has been really unfair to Esme. Dololes tells Blabmu not to
worry, that God will get Diego and Esme together -- “You just watch!” behind
the door, Mugre smiles a really nasty smile to herself.
Esme's frantically fussing at the mask,
trying to get it off. Aguirre suggests, not so much in a mean way as a
practical one, that she stop messing with it or she'll hurt herself. she asks
him why they're doing this to her. he says he doesn't know, but it would cost
him his life to disobey Tinhorn, so... he says maybe she won't end up in the mask
for as long as her mother was. after he walks away, Esme prays for Diego to
come rescue her.
MIDiego, Blabmu, and Rat Pecs are sitting
down for a meal, and Blabmu is saying Grace. she adds a fervent prayer asking
God to watch over and keep Esme safe, and also Esme's mother. MIDiego, thirsty
for anything he can learn about Esme, listens avidly. as Blabmu finishes her
prayer, Yummy walks in carrying plates of food, followed by Dololes, who is
carrying another plate of food that she places in front of MIDiego. Yummy
starts to put one plate in front of Rat Pecs, but Blabmu jumps up and tells her
she shouldn't be doing that. she should be eating at the table with them. she,
Blabmu, had promised to turn Yummy into a proper Spanish lady and she is going
to keep her word. she seats Yummy in a chair next to her own and asks Dololes
to bring another plate for Yummy, but before Dololes can leave the room, Mugre
comes in, pretending to sob. in a very dramatic fashion she breaks the news
that Esme is dead. everyone is shocked.
B.OB. has found Aguirre. while carrying on
an "official" conversation pretending to be more or less strangers in
louder voices, they have their real conversation in an undertone. B.OB.
frantically asks why Esme was killed and asks where her body is. Aguirre tells
him about Pizza's fake execution and says he thinks it was a warning to all of
them. B.OB. insists he has to recover Esme's body, claiming it's for her
family, so she can be buried in sacred ground. (i wonder, does he want to see
Esme's body because he wants to know she really is dead, or because he thinks
she has something he wants or needs that he's hoping to retrieve?) Aguirre
tells him firmly that he can't help B.OB. and adds that he doesn't know why
B.OB.'s so insistent about getting Esme's body when B.OB. was the one who
betrayed her. realizing he can't risk pressing his point, B.OB. scurries off
without another word.
Blabmu tells Mugre that it can't be true
that Esme's dead. Mugre insists that it is. MIDiego says, hang on, didn't Esme
supposedly escape with her mother? Rat Pecs points out that Pizza was with the
women -- did he betray them? Mugre says she doesn't know the details and
explains that Tinhorn found out she was at her father's house so he sent for
her to give her the news about Esme. she says apparently Esme tried to escape
and a soldier shot her. Blabmu still can't believe it and is so overcome she
faints. Rat Pecs sends Yummy to get some smelling salts and carries Blabmu off.
Dololes just keeps saying "It can't be..." MIDiego helps Dololes into
a chair, then orders Mugre to take care of Dololes -- he's going off to see his
father. Mugre looks annoyed and as if she's going to object, but he's already
gone. Mugre, almost through gritted teeth, offers Dololes some water.
García and Rosina arrive at the de la Vega
barn. Ex-Roadkill and Juan, the head of the RHM, rush over. García salutes and
says he's reporting in. he apologizes, saying he tried to approach his contacts
at the Hotel (about saving Rat Pecs), but just couldn't. things were so bad he
had to go have a little drink. he's so drunk, the other two men can smell it
from where they are. they tell him not to worry about failing in his mission
because they have excellent news. he says that's good, because he's got disastrous
news: he saw them execute Pizza. García is really upset.
B.OB., having had a chance to get cleaned
up and change his clothes, arrives at the Hotel with Peep's accounting books
under his arm. Pizza says scornfully, "So that is the price of your freedom:
You're going to pay with money and property that isn't yours." B.OB. isn't
fazed, pointing out that each does what he has to and that apparently Tinhorn
swallowed Pizza's little story about being loyal to Tinhorn. when Pizza warns
him to be careful, B.OB. points out that he's not fooled and that they're both
playing the same game. he says he knows Pizza was going to help the UM escape,
that he was playing for the favours of the future queen of Spain, who would be
a really rich woman. Pizza says B.OB. is very mistaken (meaning, in his
assumption that Pizza was helping UM so he could be richly rewarded either with
money and/or property), but B.OB., who apparently can't conceive why anyone
would do something so dangerous without the expectation of getting rich rich
rich, has a dismissive attitude about this reply. B.OB. thinks he has the upper
hand in this situation and wonders whose side Pizza is on -- the side of his
commander who nearly disposed of him like an unwanted stray, or the side of the
future queen of Spain. B.OB. adds, "I know they killed Esme, but we still
have the UM. THINK ABOUT IT."
Blabmu is practically hyperventilating
saying that Esme can't really be dead and that scum (Tinhorn) killed her. Rat
Pecs is sitting next to her, trying to calm her, but she just keeps on talking
and doesn't seem to have registered that he's there even though he's holding
her hand. MIDiego offers her a glass of water. he says he's really sorry about
Esme, and now that he knows he and Esme had something... he doesn't know how to
finish and he turns away. Yummy, the only other person in the room, watches the
trio wordlessly. Blabmu only seems to be aware of MIDiego. she says Esme was
like her daughter, she raised her. MIDiego turns around and tells Blabmu that
he doesn't think Esme is dead -- he's sure she's not dead. Blabmu stares at
MIDiego like he's her lifeline. she doesn't seem to hear Rat Pecs swearing that
if Tinhorn did indeed kill Esme, he will make Tinhorn pay with his life. Blabmu
is still talking to MIDiego... "She was so happy, now that she was going
to have her first child. She was going to have a baby, and they killed her.
They killed them both."
Telenovela-World: SUMMARY for #60 (Mon 7th May) Author: B. (---)
Date: 05-08-07 17:17 PDT
SUMMARY FOR MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
Mugre is still pissed off that everyone
ignored her “i’m so sad my sister’s dead” act and that Mentally Impaired Diego
summarily relegated her to taking care of Dololes (a mere servant!), so she
pretends to have a stomach cramp from her baby as an excuse to get away and be
by herself. Juan arrives to give Rat Pecs the news about Pizza being dead and
learns of Esme's supposed death from Dololes.
Mugre, alone in her room, totally enjoys
the idea of Esme being dead and especially how her aunt is all upset. “That's
what [Blabmu] gets for meddling in my plans!”
Pizza talks to López and the other soldier
who isn’t Aguirre who also knows about MEsme's existence in the Hotel. he
congratulates them for doing their work so well, and tells them that the
Unmasked Miracle is just another woman. “The True Queen of Spain is... IN
Spain.” he tells them he is going to spare them the torment he was subjected to
with the false execution and shoots them outright.
MIDiego goes to speak with Rat Pecs about
Esme. he knows he did feel something for her because he found her note, but he
doesn't feel anything now. he wants to know if her baby was his? Rat Pecs
confirms it and tries to excuse not having been upfront with MIDiego about Esme
and the baby right from the start. understandably, MIDiego recognizes it for
the totally crap non-excuse it is and stalks off before Rat Pecs can get more
than a few words out.
Aguirre gives Masked Esme a cup of water
and warns her to be careful drinking it. MEsme spills half of it down her
chest. Aguirre tells her with practice she’ll learn how to manage it and goes
to bring her more.
Dance Tramp finds a piece of cloth, and
tells the soldier accompanying her that the gypsies have to be nearby. the
soldier tells her in very plain terms what her fate will be if she's lying
about leading him to the gypsies. she wants some privacy, she says, to go to
the toilet. the soldier insists she has to go in front of him or not go -- he’s
not going to let her out of his sight..
Sister Untwisted sees Camba in the garden
flagellating himself with a branch. she remembers how she used to do it in
front of the altar with a kind of whip.
Dance Tramp pretends she is going to
relieve herself, and just as she squats, Gleem leaps out of the bushes and
knocks out the soldier. Gleem and Dance Tramp hurry away.
Jonás asks Yoda Tomás to let the Unmasked
Miracle hide out at the mission since she won't leave California without Esme.
Yoda T says of course.
Peep gives the Scruffy Gang a pep talk:
since Tinhorn has a big army that totally outnumbers the Scruffy Gang, (where
is this army??) they're not going to bother fighting them -- they're just going
to go after Tinhorn himself as his squad of personal guards is about the same
size as the Scruffy Gang and the Scruffy Gang can totally take them. then, with
Tinhorn out of action, the army will collapse and welcome Peep’s taking
command. two of the Scruffies will fake a fight in front of the palacio to
distract the guards so two other Scruffies can capture them. then Peep and the
rest of the Scruffies will invade and dispose of Tinhorn and his cadre of
bodyguards. “Our lives are in play: he who does his job well will be
compensated. Kill anyone who gets in our way!”
Tinhorn comes to see that everything is in
order with his wife, except his real mission is to tell her maybe he'll take
the mask off if she gives herself to him and he likes how she behaves herself
with him. late tonight he’ll have her brought up to his private rooms and he’ll
expect her compliance. after he leaves, MEsme says, “I’ll die first.”
Bernardo comes into MIDiego’s room through
the Seeekret Bookcase to find MIDiego waiting to Pounce. he bawls Bernardo out
because, like everyone else, Bernardo held out on him about Esme and the baby
and MIDiego is totally fed up with not getting the whole story. Bernardo starts
to say something, but MIDiego brusquely cuts him off and pushes him over to the
desk. he tells Bernardo he won't be lied to any more -- Bernardo is to write
down EVERYthing about Esme, and the baby, and about why they killed her, and so
on. looking uncertain, Bernardo picks up a pen.
Rat Pecs goes to the stable to talk to
García. Juan sez he's not really in any shape to talk as García saw Tinhorn
shoot Pizza.
it turns out García isn't even at Chez
Infidelity -- he's on Rosina running away. he's trying to decide where to go:
to his aunt in Mexico, or maybe his other aunt -- what does Rosina think? but
what’s that? Pizza is there in the middle of the road, waiting for him. García
falls off Rosina in a faint.
Blabmu doesn't want Rat Pecs to go to war
but he insists that Tinhorn has got to be dealt with. yaddah yaddah.
Gleem yells at Dance Tramp, asking what she
was trying to do by betraying the Unmasked Miracle. he realizes Dance Tramp
doesn't hate the UM -- it’s Esme she hates. Dance Tramp says she was trying to
save the other gypsy women, including Azucena. Dance Tramp blames Esme and the
UM for everything that’s happened to the gypsies.
Yoda T is waiting for the UM’s arrival when
María Pía shows up wanting to discuss something. he tries to get rid of her but
Jonás arrives with the UM while María Pía is still there. María Pía and the UM
stare at each other.
Rat Pecs and his Ranch Hand Militia are en
route to attack Tinhorn when Juan, who apparently was acting as the advance
scout, comes running back saying a bunch of men are coming. the other men
gallop around the corner and stop on seeing the RHM. it's Peep and his Scruffy
Gang.
MEsme tells her baby not to worry,
everything will turn out ok... “Daddy will come for us soon.”
Mugre tells her baby he's her golden goose,
her ticket to riches and the good life and she is going to totally make sure
she exploits it to the fullest.
Tinhorn is looking over the accounting
information B.OB. left for him and TOTALLY counting his chickens before they've
hatched when the door bursts open. he gets up to close it and as he turns back,
there is Mentally Impaired Zorro holding a sword to his throat. he points out
that it seems the UM's escape made Tinhorn so crazy he did all sorts of extreme
things, including killing his own wife. Tinhorn gives MIZorro his party line
about MEsme being killed by the soldier. MIZorro says he wants to see MEsme's
body. Tinhorn pretends he's going to lead him there but then manages to
distract MIZorro long enough to grab his own sword. as they fight, Tinhorn
shouts for his soldiers.
Peep tells his gang not to shoot Rat Pecs,
he knows him. he walks over to greet Rat Pecs as a friend but Rat Pecs calls
him out for being Regpurnia's murderer. Rat Pecs swears that Peep will pay for
that with his life and slugs him. the Scruffy Gang goes to back Peep up but he
calls them off, saying its between him and Rat Pecs. he lets Rat Pecs hit him
several times without fighting back. then he announces in a loud voice to
everyone that he killed Rat Pecs' Indian wife. all Indians are the same to him,
he states, but had he known Regpurnia was in the village he would have
respected her, as he did when she was Rat Pecs' wife. this relatively unforced
admission is not enough for Rat Pecs, and he holds a cocked pistol to Peep's
head. Peep calmly tells Rat Pecs to pull the trigger and put him out of his
misery.
García tries to scramble away from what he
thinks is Pizza's ghost. Pizza shoots off his pistol but misses García on
purpose. he points out he can’t be a ghost because ghosts can't shoot pistols,
and tells García that he was excuted with blanks because Tinhorn wanted to put
his loyalty to the test and he passed. he tells García he has the same plan as
before, to save the True Queen. she hasn't been captured, but she's on the
verge of it -- Tinhorn sent a traitor gypsy to find the UM and she has a
soldier with her . García says he was thinking of leaving town at this point,
but Pizza paints a picture of García covered in glory for helping save the True
Queen and García says he's with Pizza.
Yoda T introduces the UM as Sara and tells
María Pía Sara’s going to be staying at the mission on a spiritual retreat and
needs utter privacy. María Pía promises to help and then leaves. Yoda T kneels
before the UM and apologizes for the informality but it was for her protection.
she totally understands and invites him to call her Sara.
MIZorro and Tinhorn fight some more.
Tinhorn’s soldiers have arrived but they're no help to Tinhorn. MIZorro runs
out the door.
Rat Pecs lowers his gun. two things are
saving Peep’s life: the love Rat Pecs claims he feels for Blabmu, and the fact he's
not an assassin like Peep. Rat Pecs says he leaves it up to God to make Peep
pay for all the horrible things he’s done. Peep assures him that God is doing
just that. Rat Pecs wants to see Peep on his knees apologizing to everyone else
Peep hurt, though he, Rat Pecs, will never forgive Peep for killing the woman
he loves the most in the world. (so where does that leave Blabmu, then, Rat
Pecs?) then he tells Peep to get out of his way because he's going to go get
Tinhorn. Peep says that Tinhorn is his -- Peep’s going to go take back the
governorship. Rat Pecs can't believe getting his old position back is all Peep
cares about. he guesses Peep doesn't know that Tinhorn killed Esme.
Jonás rejoins the tribe after dropping the
UM off with Yoda T at the mission and sees that Javier the Sensible and the
women are all back. Javier tells Jonás that Dance Tramp isn’t with him because
she set a trap for him and ran away. also, he doesn't know why, but for some
probably nefarious reason, Tinhorn let all the gypsy women go. Jonás wants an
accounting of everyone in the tribe -- who's there, who's missing, who's dead,
etc. Azucena rushes over wanting to know where Gleem is. she's too upset to
tell Jonás that MEsme is dead, so Javier has to tell Jonás it for her.
Gleem tells Dance Tramp she's going to take
her back to the tribe and then go back to look for Esme. Dance Tramp tells him
there's no point, Tinhorn's certainly got Esme locked up now. Gleem says he
promised the UM he’d take care of MEsme. Dance Tramp says no, he’s not insiting
on going back for Esme because he promised the UM -- he’s doing it because he's
in Lurve. Gleem announces (again) that Esme is the love of his life. Dance
Tramp says she thought SHE was. Gleem dismissively replies that that was kid
stuff, plus she married Miguel and made her life with him and all. Dance Tramp
agrees she was willing to do anything for love of Miguel, but in the end she
betrayed him -- she gave herself to Tinhorn, but it didn't change anything
because Miguel still ended up dead. Gleem says he understands her grief, but
Dance Tramp says he doesn't because he's never lost anyone he loves. hopefully
one day soon he will understand.
Aguirre is determined to protect MEsme.
they can hear all the commotion upstairs from the battle with MIZorro, but he
has no idea what’s going on. MEsme thinks it's got to be Diego coming to resuce
her.
more fighting between MIZorro and Tinhorn
and his soldiers. Zorro’s anachronistic six-shooters make another appearance,
and this time MIZorro uses them to make Tinhorn dance, then runs away. (why
didn’t he just shoot him??!)
Aguirre tells MEsme that it's all her fault
all this is happening. MEsme corrects him, saying it's all Tinhorn's fault --
he’s been rampaging around like a lunatic. Aguirre doesn't care whose fault it
is, really. what worries him is that soldiers are turning up dead all over the
Hotel. he figures MESme's his ticket to staying alive and he’s going to make
sure nothing happens to her.
Bernardo asks MIZorro what he found out at
the Hotel. MIDiego sez not much -- maybe the UM is still alive but Tinhorn is
such a maniac he could very well have killed Esme. MIZorro is confused -- all
this Esme stuff affects him but he still can't remember her. he just has
confused images with no face. but she was going to give him a child, just like
Mugre is... how did he let his life come to this?
Peep flatly states he doesn't believe
Tinhorn has killed Esme. Rat Pecs sez the info is from Peep’s own daughter
Mugre. Peep still doesn't believe it, and says he won't until he sees proof. he
knows how Tinhorn thinks -- it's WAY more likely Tinhorn's got Esme locked up
somewhere so he can use her because she's the UM's daughter. Rat Pecs is still
determined to go after Tinhorn. Peep points out that Rat Pecs's not a killer,
while he, on the other hand, totally is. Rat Pecs should go home and leave
Tinhorn to Peep, because Peep won't have a problem killing Tinhorn. Rat Pecs
sees his point, so he decides he and the RHM will go home and leave the way
open for Peep and his Scruffy Gang. Peep notices ex-Roadkill among the RHM and
calls him over. he reminds ex-Roadkill that he was one of his men, and asks him
to join the Scruffy Gang. Peep’s attitude is matter-of-fact, and i have the
impression if ex-Roadkill had said he’d rather stay with the RHM now, Peep
would have let him. but ex-Roadkill points out to Rat Pecs that Peep is his
overlord and anyway, the two gangs are pretty much fighting on the same side.
Rat Pecs gives his ok, and ex-Roadkill goes with Peep and the Scruffy Gang.
Sister Untwisted is out in the woods when
she hears gunshots and then sees Camba go racing past her. she runs after him.
Gleem and Dance Tramp reach the tribe.
Gleem says he’s leaving right away to go back to get Esme, but as he turns to
head off he is given the news she's dead. Dance Tramp got her wish, but she
doesn't look too happy about it.
Aguirre almost shoots Tinhorn in his zeal
to defend MEsme. in spite of the near-miss shot, Tinhorn praises Aguirre for so
assiduously following his orders and promises him a bonus in his next pay
packet. (uh, oh. i bet the bonus is he gets killed...) he orders Aguirre to
leave him alone with MEsme, then he gloats that no-one's come to rescue her and
rubs it in about MIDiego and Mugre being happily married. he tells her that
Mugre is expecting MIDiego's child. also, it's all thanks to Mugre that
MIDiego's even still alive right now, because otherwise Tinhorn would have
killed MIDiego.
Gleem can't believe Esme is dead. he runs
away from the tribe.
Camba's running, and Sister Untwisted
chases him. she stumbles into him sitting against a tree; he takes her bonnet
off, takes her hand, and they get up and run some more. men with dogs are
chasing them. they keep running until Sister Untwisted stumbles. she gathers
herself and encourages Camba to keep running but he looks around, finds a
branch and starts trying to flog himself again. he makes motions telling her to
run away. she does, and is just out of sight when the men catch up to Camba,
capture him, and start beating him up. she watches from a nearby hiding place,
unnoticed and horrified.
MIDiego tries to get Blabmu to talk to him
about Esme, but she is too grieved to tell him anything. he points out that he
lost Esme too, but Blabmu sez she can’t talk about it.
MEsme thinks about Tinhorn's nasty words
about Mugre being pregnant but decides that Diego couldn't have betrayed her.
Rat Pecs and the RHM return; Blabmu and
MIDiego greet him. Rat Pecs says they didn't make it to the Hotel because on
the way they came across Peep. Peep's not crazy, and he's determined to take
back his position as Governor. he's got this gang of guys with him that Rat
Pecs is pretty sure are all criminals. Blabmu guesses that Rat Pecs and Peep
had a major throwdown. Rat Pecs admits it but says he doesn't want to talk
about it. he says they need to prepare themselves, because Peep's actions are
going to bring serious consequences.
Gleem running one way through the woods all
but crashes into an exhausted Sister Untwisted stumbling along in the other
directions. between gasps, she begs for help.
MIDiego tells Rat Pecs he asked Blabmu
about Esme but she didn't tell him anything. Rat Pecs says that Esme was like a
daughter for Blabmu and her hope was to see Esme happy; i guess he figures that
explains why Blabmu won’t talk about Esme to MIDiego when before she was all,
“we HAVE to tell him about Esme and the baby.” um, yeah. whatever. MIDiego asks
why Tinhorn would bother to kill Esme anyway, and Rat Pecs says he's going to
tell MIDiego something he didn't want to say in front of the women and which he
wants MIDiego to please keep to himself for now: it's very probable that Esme
isn't dead -- Peep is convinced that Tinhorn is keeping her alive and locked up
somewhere. MIDiego: “Esme... and my child... alive?!”
a very drunk Tinhorn shows up at MEsme’s
cell and orders Aguirre to get lost. he tells MEsme he’s decided not to wait
for her answer, and forces himself on her, including icky licking of the duct
ta—i mean, IRON mask. MEsme struggles.
Telenovela-World: thanks, Mabou! AVANCES
for today (Mon 14 May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-14-07 12:23 PDT
RECAP STATUS: LAI
has finally posted the recaps for #62 and 63, and as has been his wont of late,
they are shorter than the avances (a 75-minute episode summed up in three short
bits). of course, now i don't remember at all clearly what happened in #62 at
all, as opposed to more recent ones (i have some notes for #63 so that one
should be a little easier)... at any rate, i'll try to get at least #62 posted
later today but we're jammed here at work with the upfronts being this week, so
no promises....
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Montero
descarga su furia...
..Y vengará su desamor en
Esmeralda.
(loosely) Tinhorn Despot
takes out his fury on Esme
...and will use her to
avenge his indifference. (sorry, i know... this is compounded by LAI trying to
be Poetic and Obscure at the same time as i am very distracted. basically,
Tinhorn's pissed off --as usual-- and takes it out on Esme.)
TITLE: Los De la
Vega son amenazados.. (the de la Vegas are threatened.) (this is news?? they've
BEEN under threat for practically the whole novela now!)
DATE: Monday, 14 May
2007
EP #65
-Montero quiere a Los de
la Vega muertos.
Tinhorn wants the de la
Vegas dead. (are we to assume this now includes Mugre? because apart from her
--and she's only a de la Vega by marriage-- he's wanted the de la Vegas dead
pretty much since this story started, so i'm trying to see how this time is
anything more than LAI just using up space instead of giving us something
substantive)
-Su desamor no tiene
límites.
His indifference has no
limits. (or possibly, his hurt feelings have no limits. i don't have time for
LAI today, really... if it's the latter, then boo hoo, poor baby. now get over
yourself already, Tinhorn!)
-Y Esmeralda pagará por
su desprecio.
~And Esme will pay for
her scorn. (what. ever. again, this isn't anything new.)
-Un acto de maldad...
An evil act... (such
as...?)
-...podría ser la llave
para que Aguirre confiese que ella vive.
...could be the key to
make Aguirre admit that she's alive. (except he's already admitted it. unless
LAI is trying to tell us that it could be the key to making Aguirre admit to
Diego that she's alive. one can but hope.)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #65 (Monday)
Author: B. (---) Date: 05-16-07 18:44
PDT
RECAP FOR MONDAY
TEASER: Montero
descarga su furia......Y vengará su desamor en Esmeralda. (Tinhorn Despot vents
his fury... and he will avenge on Esme the indifference shown him) (you know,
Tinhorn has such a fragile ego, it's really a wonder he got to the position he
got to. he must've bought his way in.)
NEW TITLE: Esmeralda arde
en fiebre (Esme burns with fever) (hardly surprising after the treatment she
got. the wonder is she doesn't look more shabby by now.)
DATE: Monday, 14 May
2007
EP #65
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
-El Zorro se enfrenta al gobernador
Fernando, y logra conseguir información sobre Sara Kalí.
Zorro confronts Governor
Peep and manages to get information about the Unmasked Miracle. (he did? all i
remember is about this is a big ol' sword fight and Zorro --as has been his
wont-- making Peep and his men look like idiots for not being able to catch
him. hmmmm, i should've paid more attention. did Peep tell Zorro that the UM is
dead, perchance?)
-Mariángel le ofrece a
Olmos que se vaya a trabajar con ella y deje al gobernador.
Mugre offers B.OB. the
chance to come work for her and leave the governor. (and which of B.OB.'s
brains will win? will the "little brain" overrule his rather healthy
sense of self-preservation? also, why do we think that Mugre is offering him
the job in the first place? is it that she just wants to have ONE person she
thinks is on her side at Chez Infidelity? or because she needs the ego boost of
being able to at least get a reaction out of B.OB.? she can't actually think
that his adoration of her will make Diego jealous...!!)
-Montero sigue con su
plan de que Pizarro mate a ALejandro y a Diego De la Vega.Pero enrealidad
espera que Pizarro muera en el intento.
Tinhorn continues with
his plan to have Pizza kill Rat Pecs and Diego de la Vega. (LAI: remember what
i said about spaces after periods? clearly, not, so i'll repeat it here: you
have to put at least one space after a period. you're also supposed to put
spaces BETWEEN WORDS, by the way...) But in reality he hopes that Pizza will
die in the attempt. (actually, Tinhorn hopes that Pizza succeeds in the attempt
to kill both de la Vega men and THEN dies. because it's not part of Tinhorn's
plans to have any of the three of them live, really... Pizza seemed to figure
out right away what was likely Tinhorn's real plan, and he did his best to
present reasons why Tinhorn's plan might not work out the way Tinhorn was
hoping, but Tinhorn wasn't interested in being told his plan has tons of holes in
it. i guess he's forgotten that Diego is the hero...)
-Fernando intenta impedir
la consagración de María Pía, pero no lo logra.
Peep tries to impede the
consecration of María Pía [as Mother Superior], but he doesn't succeed. (are we
sure it wasn't just because of those wreaths the nunnabes were all wearing?? it
wasn't? ok, well... anyway, talk about a guy who just doesn't know how to take
"no" for an answer -- yeesh!!! well, i guess everyone has to have
that character flaw that makes them Tragic... at any rate, he sends ex-Roadkill
to find the exorcist for some reason. i wonder if it's that he's hoping the
exorcist will keep him from killing the Cardidiot (since he has got to know if
he actually follows through on his threat to kill the Cardidiot, María Pía
really will never forgive him), or he wants the exorcist to plead his case with
María P and tell her she has to give up this stupid idea of being a nun,
renounce her vows, and marry Peep? the former makes sense, so i'm guessing it's
the latter. in which case, Peep is clearly COMPLETELY delusional when it comes
to María P. as if we didn't know...)
right, the only things i
can remember that LAI forgot to at least touch on above are:
-Blabmu's not eating. are
we sure she's just depressed about Esme and not pregnant and depressed about
Esme?? or maybe blinded by Rat Pecs' Blinding Braid Ray (now that he seems to
wear his uniform 24/7), depressed, and pregnant??
-Tinhorn for whatever
reason (wasn't paying attention again, sorry!) decides to toss a bucket of cold
water on Esme. i think he ranted at her a little bit, and have a vague
recollection he said something about how every time one of "her"
people (i'm guessing Diego, Rat Pecs, Blabmu, etc, and maybe even Peep) did
something to piss him off, he was going to take it out on Esme. well, though of
course i don't approve and i do think it's incredibly juvenile, it also makes
sense, knowing Tinhorn. because he's got Esme right there in a cell she can't
get out of on her own and with extremely limited options (short of dying) for
fighting back, whereas he's having a very hard time laying his hands on any of
the people who he feels are frustrating him. in any event, after his little
rant, he storms off without even offering her a towel or dry clothing or anything.
and he didn't look like he felt a whole lot better from his tantrum. i wonder
when he'll realize that it's just not as satisfying to make someone pay for
someone else when a.- the punching bag (Esme) won't work any more if she dies
from your abuse; and b.- the person or people who are frustrating you don't
know what you're doing so they can't suffer from guilt feelings. then again,
he'll probably never figure this out -- Tinhorn doesn't seem to go in much for
deep thoughts.
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Tue 15
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-15-07
15:19 PDT
RECAP STATUS:
things are going to be nuts all this week with the television upfronts, but i
will try to get to these in a timely fashion, even though LAI has only just
today started posting HIS recaps in such a manner....
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Olmos
recibe una oferta de Mariángel.
¿Abandonará a Fernando?
B.OB. receives an
offer from Mugre.
Will he abandon Peep?
(hah, not if he knows what's good for him. then again, very few on this show
know what is good for them -- in nearly all cases, the characters' "little
brain" overrides the one located above their shoulders, and i suspect that
is what will happen again here -- B.OB.'s desire to be near the object of his
obsession will be stronger than any other more practical considerations.)
TITLE: Esmeralda
pide por su vida. (Esme begs for her life.) (and again, this is news?? c'mon,
LAI! you can do better than this.)
DATE: Tuesday, 15 May
2007
EP #66
-Los ruegos de Esmeralda
podrían ablandar el corazón de su custodio.
Esme's pleas could soften
the heart of her guard. (if they do, i bet this is what ends up getting him
killed. which would suck, because in spite of his stupidity, i'm kinda getting
to like him.)
-Ella está segura que su
rescate se acerca.
She is sure that she will
be rescued soon. (poor, deluded girl...)
-¿Se enterará Diego que
su amada está viva?
Will Diego find out his
beloved is alive? (ok, Kooko, stop dragging this out. i know it's Dramatic and
all, but where is your famed impatience?? we could use a little of it about
now.)
-Por otra parte, el mundo
de Mariángel se le vendrá abajo...
On another hand, Mugre's
world will fall apart... (yes, but can we count on it staying that way? my
guess is "no." unfortunately.)
-Cuando Diego le
comunique una decisión.
When Diego relays a
decision. (and, thanks to the promo after last night's episode, i think we can
guess what that is...)
-Diego
quiere...¡Separación!
Diego wants to...
separate! (YAY! of course, Mugre will go cry all over Rat Pecs and Rat Pecs
will guilt Diego into staying inthe marriage "for the child" and blah
blah blah. stick to your guns, Diego!! even if you don't believe Esme is alive,
stand fast on this "separation" plan!!)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #66 (Tuesday)
Author: B. (---) Date: 05-16-07 22:38
PDT
RECAP FOR TUESDAY
TEASER: Olmos
recibe una oferta de Mariángel. ¿Abandonará a Fernando? (B.OB. receives an
offer from Mugre. Will he abandon Peep? (i can't decide if i want B.OB. to work
for Mugre or to tell her he has to stay with Peep. on the whole, i think i'd
prefer he tells her he can't, that he has to keep working for Peep. but i bet
he accepts Mugre's offer...)
NEW TITLE: Llega
la Marquesa (The MarquieMarq arrives) (again. on what would be one of the more
unlikely excuses in the story, except that there have been so many far more
unlikely ones --including the excuse for her arrival earlier in the story--
that really, by comparison this seems practically logical.)
DATE: Tuesday, 15 May
2007
EP #66
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
NOTE: don't you just love
it that now we are getting one hour episodes again, LAI's recaps have gotten
longer, while when we were getting "supersized" episodes last week,
his recaps were shorter than the avances???
-La Marquesa de
Santillana y la Roquet llega al pueblo de Los Ángeles, y con su aparición
interrumpe el plan de Montero de matar a Alejandro y Diego De la Vega.
The MarquieMarq de
Santillana y la Roquet arrives at the town of Faux Ángeles, and with her appearance
interrupts Tinhorn Despot's plan to kill Rat Pecs de la Vega. (and Diego. and
Pizza, for that matter. though actually, her arrival was merely Pizza's pretext
for not opening fire on Rat Pecs when any idiot could have seen Rat Pecs' men
--if not Rat Pecs himself-- would have returned fire, and one of them would
have been bound to hit Pizza. of course, that's Pizza playing along that he
doesn't realize Tinhorn intended for him to die as well. i'm telling ya, that
Pizza thinks fast on his feet. he's nearly the only one in this story who
does.)
-Fernando se enfrenta al
padre Tomás y a María Pía para quitarle el terreno de la iglesia, pero ellos lo
enfrentan.
Peep confronts Yoda Tomás
and María Pía to take away the church's land, but they confront him. (LAI,
that's just terribly written, even for you! it's not just Peep against Yoda T
and María P. it's Peep and his Scruffy Gang and their guns against Yoda T,
María P, the nunnabes, and a few peasants who live at the mission. Yoda T was
forwarned that Peep and the Scruffies would be coming, and they had done their
best to barricade the place and to find what arms they could before Peep and
his Scruffies arrived. and after the attack started, some of the nunnabes were
shooting the guns, and others loading them. everyone was fighting.)
-Suplicios, Renzo y el
esclavo Camba logran escapar.
Sister Untwisted, Gleem,
and the slave Camba managed to escape. (barely. and really, the slavers were so
close, they could've just waded into the water and grabbed the raft. and the
guys with the raft... some guy is standing there on the shore of the very
narrow and certainly shallow river with a gun pointed at you looking like he
has every intention of firing, and you're not going to stop and do what they
want...?? um, yeah. still, ít is looking like our fugitives got away, and for
that i'm glad.)
-El custodio Aguirre le
miente a Esmeralda, diciéndole que ya le había entregado la carta a Diego, pero
ella hace un segundo intento para que su amor la rescate.
Aguirre the guard lies to
Esme, telling her that he gave her note to Diego (no, he told her he gave it to
B.OB. because, as one of Tinhorn's soldiers, he didn't dare try to get near the
de la Vegas to give Diego the letter, but B.OB., on the other hand, could), but
she makes a second try. (LAI, LAI, LAI... you forgot a really important part!
not the one where Aguirre lies to her about his reasons for giving the note to
B.OB. instead of trying to get it to Diego, but the one where he tells her that
B.OB., for his part, gave Diego the note but that Diego doesn't want to know
from Esme. for shame, LAI! and for shame, Aguirre!!)
-Montero se preocupa y
tiene que cambiar sus planes debido a la llegada de la Marquesa de Santillana y
la Roquet. Ahora no va a matar a los De la Vega, si no que va a tener que hacer
las paces con ellos.
Tinhorn is worried and
has to change his plans due to the arrival of the MarquieMarq de Santillana y
la Roquet. Now he's not going to kill the de la Vegas, but rather (uh, LAI? in
this case, i believe the word you want is "sino," not "si
no") is going to have to make peace with them. (i wasn't paying complete
attention, but i believe that's according to the MarquieMarq. i don't think
Tinhorn knows this yet. and he was pretty annoyed about having his big plan
ruined. you know, he really doesn't think ahead.)
and now for the
ever-popular Things LAI Forgot To Mention:
-Peep's conversation with
the Exorcist. as i predicted, Peep had indeed summoned the Exorcist because he
wanted the guy to go tell María Pía she had to give up being a nun and come do
what Peep whated her to do, i.e., marry him. as my friend 42nata said, the look
on the Exorcist's face when he heard this was priceless -- " 'you brought
me back from [wherever] for this?? you must not have read my business card
correctly... I get rid of the Devil and his work, I don't help him...!'
ooooooooohhhhh you gonna be in troouuuubllllle!"
-Blabmu is not only not
eating, she's nauseous, another favorite piece of Novela Shorthand for
"she's PREG-NANT!!!" are we SURE she's not?? and if she is, i'm just
wondering: are we also sure
the baby that Gomis
predicted will die is necessarily Esme's or Mugre's?
in addition, it brings up
another question? since all the other main credits women who had sex on this show
would seem to be pregnant, who wants to bet that Yummy's pregnant, too?
-we got some of B.OB.'s
backstory, how his mother didn't want him and how nobody liked him when he was
a kid and how he was raised by some lady who took him in and he used to play
with the chickens. in the process of telling this story to the bar maid in the
tavern, he gets completely toasted. later Aguirres interrupts this pity party
when he tries to come to him about something, but B.OB. is really drunk and
only focused on feeling sorry for himself, and he basically shines Aguirre on.
-the whole time Pizza's
pissing off Tinhorn --who, with a cadre of soldiers, is hiding in the bushes
waiting for Pizza to shoot Rat Pecs so they can Attack and claim it was in
defense of poor Pizza and the judge-- by not shooting Rat Pecs in spite of what
Rat Pecs claims is the Perfect Opportunity and anyone with even an ounce of
self-preservation instinct can tell is NOT the Perfect Opportunity in the
least, it's because Pizza's trying to get Rat Pecs alone (and out of Tinhorn's
line of fire), likely so he can warn him about what is intended. or, failing
that, so if he is forced to shoot Rat Pecs, at least he stands a chance of
getting out of there alive (since i think it's safe to say Pizza knew Tinhorn
wouldn't hesitate to shoot him and later blame it on Rat Pecs or his men). or
if not, that the judge and the rest of the people in the little delegation
won't get killed in the crossfire. but Rat Pecs must've been blinded by his own
Blinding Braid Ray, because if the judge didn't slap down Pizza's hints, then
Rat Pecs displayed his total lack of any ability to discern subtleties and
himself shut Pizza down. hmmmm, these were the times when you got to be a
military officer if you had status and enough money --your abilities had little
or even nothing to do with your rank and, often, the higher the rank, the less
you actually knew about actual anything having anything to do with real
military matters. that would certainly explain a lot about how Rat Pecs got to
be a general...
-the MarquieMarq told
Diego she'd heard of Zorro and his exploits even in Mexico (Diego tried not to
look a little pleased), and that she knew about the True Queen and blah blah.
there was some chat about all ov them having their death warrants signed.
clearly she wasn't reading the main titles, or she'd know if any one of them is
going to die, she's It. rats, 'coz i like her. she has her prejudices, but she
doesn't seem to be fooled by Rat Pecs' uniform.
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Wed 16
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-16-07
16:28 PDT
RECAP STATUS: i
hope to get the recap for #65 posted by the end of today, but things are still
nuts with upfronts so... no promises, either for #65 or #66. (sorry!)
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Los sueños se
desvanecen.
Diego pierde la
esperanza.
Dreams fade.
Diego loses hope. (all
well and good, but we didn't really see signs he had much hope in the first
place, except for that first conversation with Rat Pecs. but after that...)
TITLE: Los sueños
de Diego se desvanecen.. (Diego's dreams fade.) (i am feeling stressed out with
the effing upfronts this week and it's making me cynical, so that may be
affecting my perspective a bit as i go out on a limb and say that i bet Diego's
not going to learn about Esme being dead any time soon and in the meantime that
Mugre and/or (more likely) Rat Pecs and/or Dololes (because of her fear of
Mugre's abortion talk) manage to convince, trick, bully, and/or nag him
dropping his plan to separate and to give Mugre a chance. i just have this
feeling...)
DATE: Wednesday, 16
May 2007
EP #66
-Esmeralda desea con
ansias ser rescatada.
Esme anxiously wants to
be rescued. (not that i blame her, but she really has to get practical here.
once she was told that no-one will come for her because they all think she's
dead, she should have started thinking long term. ok, the whole Aguirre/note
thing is proactive and cause for hope and whatnot, but again, as soon as he
said he gave the note to B.OB., she should have adjusted her plans. or
something. because she knows B.OB. is trouble. on the other hand, i suspect in
the same situation, i would probably also cling to whatever hope i had, not
matter how slender and feeble. it's not like there's much else she can do at the
moment...)
-Pero la pobre no sabe
que la engañan.
But the poor thing
doesn't know they're lying to her. (and again, while it doesn't do for a
Heroine to give up hope and she certainly is VERY limited in her options, once Esme
heard Aguirre's story about why he had to give the note to B.OB. instead of
delivering it to Diego directly, that's when she should have figured there was
a strong chance the note would never make it to Diego, unfortunately.)
-Para colmo, Diego
está perdiendo las esperanzas.
To make things worse,
Diego is losing hope. (and again i must ask: have we seen so much hope that she
really was alive on his part? why hasn't Zorro gone and snuck in to do a quick
check of the Hotel, just in case? because you never know who else might be
hidden down there even if Esme is dead. what.ever.)
-Y Mariángel no se
dará por vencida.
And Mugre isn't admitting
defeat. (duh. of course she's not. it's one of her less annoying qualities.)
-Una cosa es soñar, y
otra la realidad.
It's one thing to dream,
and reality is another. (well, yes, this is true. but it would help us feel the
Drama a lot more if we'd seen more signs of Zorro and/or Diego actually trying
really hard to find Esme, and really feeling distraught at the thought she is
gone forever. ok, yes, he's told Mugre that he will never be able to care for
her because Esme is the only woman for him even if Esme is dead, but talk is
cheap. where is the action to give truth to the words? he felt worse thinking
she was in trouble/dead when he was Mentally Impaired Diego and didn't know who
Esme really was than he seems to have since he got his memory back. yeesh!!)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #67 (Wed)
Author: B. (---) Date: 05-17-07 18:42
PDT
RECAP FOR WEDNESDAY
TEASER: Las monjas
se defienden. Montero teme por los cambios. (The nuns defend themselves. (yeah,
they were all feisty and stuff -- who knew?) Tinhorn Despot is afraid of the
changes.) (that would be the changes that the MarquieMarq might manage to
institute, since he really doesn't seem to be worried about anyone else, even
including Zorro, but more to consider them annoying pests that only need to be
squashed. maybe it's the MarquieMarq's wig that inspires such terror...?)
NEW TITLE:
Fernando cree en el amor (Peep believes in love) (he does??? LAI, LAI, LAI...
don't tell me you were fooled by his little rant!! you'd better go out and get
your creduilty meter checked, it's seriously deficient. but before you do, by a
happy coincidence, you owe me the same amount i owe VISA, so how 'bout you just
send them a check for me...?)
DATE: Wednesday, 16
May 2007
EP #67
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
-Fernando intenta invadir
la iglesia, pero las monjas y el padre Tomásse le enfrentan. Pero sólo El Zorro
puedo acabar con todos.
Peep attempts to invade
the church (well, not so much "invade" as "burn down," and
it wasn't just Peep -- it was Peep + most of his Scruffy Gang), but the
nunnabes and Yoda Tomás confront him (them) (LAI! remember: there are supposed to
be spaces between words!!!). But only Zorro could (your grammer-checker isn't
working at all, is it? you don't want "puedo" --i can-- but
"puede" or "pudo" --(he) can or (he) could) finish them all
off. (yeah, don't you just love that? the Scruffy Gang are so fearless they're
not afraid of nunnabes shooting rifles at them from such point-blank range
there's virtually no way they can miss, yet all Zorro has to do is shoot the
pistol out of ex-Roadkill's hand as he's about to shoot Yoda T, and they all
run away like sissies. and how about that ex-Roadkill, by the way?? when he
presented himself as leader of Peep's tennants who were displaced after Peep
went bonkers and ran away, he said they were all just decent guys who wanted to
earn an honest living, and that's what ex-Roadkill seemed to be. but barely 24
hours back in Peep's service and without even hesitating he's assisting in
assaults on gypsies, the mission, and even threatening to shoot an unarmed man!
what is Peep feeding these folks??)
-La Marquesa cita a Fernando
y a Montero para anunciar importantes cambios.
MarquieMarq sends for
Peep and Tinhorn (to come to a meeting with her) in order to announce important
changes (in how Faux Ángeles is to be governed from here on out). if we know
what these changes are to include yet, then it must've been while i wasn't
paying attention last night. but even though both Tinhorn and the Eeevil Duke
of La Fea have both proven to be less than effective in their attempts to
control matters in Faux Ángeles, if we end up adding Peep to the MarquieMarq's
list of People Who Want Her Dead, then i have the feeling whatever changes she
imposes will not survive her death, if even that long, and that it probably
won't even be long enough for the wax seals on the edicts to harden... i mean,
you gotta love the confidence of the woman, but at the same time, she didn't
get to be in the position she's in by not being able to read which way the
political winds are blowing. she has got to be aware that even if she does
consider Tinhorn a pipsqueak will-never-be despot who just needs to be put in
his place, even a cornered rat will turn and fight.)
-Fernando tiene en sus
manos un cofre de María Pía que mandó a robar con sus hombres en la invasión, y
donde encuentra recuerdos que ella guardó por muchos años de su relación con
él.Fernando piensa que ella guardó todo porque todavía lo ama.
Peep has in his
possession a box of María Pía's that he sent his men to steal during the
invasion (which begs the question: how did he know it even existed?), and in
which (you're missing a word there, LAI -- i filled it in for you but please
try to be more careful!!) he finds keepsakes from her relationship with him
that she has held onto for many years. (and once again you have forgotten, LAI,
that in to spaces between words, there is also supposed to be at least one
after a period at the end of a sentence!) Peep thinks that she saved everything
because she still loves him. (which just goes to show how completely delusional
he is. and he's only getting worse all the time.)
-La Marquesa quiere
que Alejandro y Diego convivan con el gobernador Fernando mientras consiguen la
manera correcta de encarcelarlo.
MarquieMarq wants Rat
Pecs and Diego to live with the governor Peep (LAI, Peep is the only governor!)
while they find the correct way to lock him up. (ok, i freely admit i didn't
pay ANY attention to most of this scene because i got a call from my mother,
but even so, this seems to be extraordinarily badly written, even for LAI. i
suspect by "live with" what he means is "get along with,"
and that by "lock him up" LAI is referring to Tinhorn and not Peep.
but maybe not, since Peep has also managed to go nearly all the way 'round the
twist (although at least he can be semi- sorta reasonable and even generous
when the matter has nothing to do with María P, unlike Tinhorn, who cannot be
reasonable under any circumstances). and speaking of the scene with MarquieMarq
and the de la Vegas, about all i do recall is a bit where it sounded like she
was telling the de la Vegas that even though the Unmasked Miracle is indeed the
True Queen, Esme is not in line for the throne because her father is a gypsy,
and that Queenie-poo isn't part of the scheming or anything, she's totally
ignorant of the possibility that the UM might still be alive and if she knew
would relinquish her title to the UM. or something. i think there was also
something about how even though a woman can be queen, for a little while in
there they had a rule that the actual ruler had to be a man, except then it got
rescinded again. i dunno, if anyone was paying more attention and wants to
post, that would be great. otherwise, if i have a chance tonight i'll try to go
back and rewatch these bits to see if i can make a bit more sense out of this.)
and now for the
ever-popular Stuff LAI Left Out section, which will be somewhat more restricted
because i missed part of the episode when Mom called:
-Blabmu still isn't
eating or doing much socializing. if she's not pregnant, then i bet it turns
out she's sick with something, in which case the question will be, will Yummy
be brought in to save her so that when Yummy turns out to be pregnant with Rat
Pecs' baby, Blabmu will be too grateful to be mad? or will, perhaps, she be
Doomed To Die, as some have speculated here, so that Yummy and Rat Pecs can be
together without guilt? even if she does die --which seems like kindof a mean
thing to do after all she's been through-- that still won't absolve Rat Pecs in
my book, so Kooko had better come up with a better solution.
-Dr Death pleads with the
UM, begging her not to die because if she does, then Pizza will kill him for
sure. i guess that's another character that hasn't been reading the credits...
-in spite of Blabmu's
depression and possible illness, Rat Pecs wants her to snap out of it and he
thinks he knows the way: sex with him. ("let me treat you like a fragile
flower" -- gag. or, as g put it, "I know you feel like crap, but I'm
horny so let's do it." Ick is right!
-despite the fact that in
REAL early 1800s life it would have taken at least a week --if not longer!!--
for news to reach Mexico City and MONTHS at the very least for news to reach
Spain from Faux Ángeles, the Eeevil Duke of La Fea is getting reports on the
current happenings in Faux Ángeles from an underling. he doesn't quite manage
to conceal his annoyance when Queenie just barges in wanting to know how plans
are going for her trip to California, something he has been delaying because
California is the last place he wants Queenie to be. but she is determined,
because the first thing ANY Queen obviously does when the King has been
assassinated is go off on a jaunt to a backwater colony thousands of miles
away. riiiiiiiiight.
-on the escape raft,
Camba seems to have fallen asleep from exhaustion or blood loss. Untwisted
Sister has his head in her lap and is stroking his shoulder soothingly. she
tells Gleem that she is sure Camba is a runaway slave. Gleem asks why Camba's
eyes sometimes go all white, and she explains that it's because he's possessed
by the same demon that once possessed her. but he's fighting it as hard as he
can.
-Aguirre insists to Esme
that Diego saw Esme's note but doesn't want to know from her, then when he sees
how upset she's getting and how she's arguing about it, he ammends his story to
something like Diego didn't believe it was from her. Esme demands that Aguirre
get a second note to Diego, to convince him. Aguirre is wavering and Esme is
writing another note when Tinhorn shows up unexpectedly. he sees the note and
demands to know where Esme got writing materials. Esme loyally keeps her mouth
shut, but Aguirre finally admits that he gave it to her so she could write her
"memoirs" -- he didn't see any harm in it. they both assure Tinhorn
that no letters from Esme have left the prison but of course, Tinhorn doesn't
believe them. he is convinced that a letter from Esme to someone is the reason
the MarquieMarq has returned to Faux Ángeles and, as usual, doesn't believe her
when she (truthfully) denies any knowledge of the MarquieMarq's return. Tinhorn
marches off with the confiscated letter (which, presumably, she wrote on the
last piece of paper she had?), leaving Aguirre and Esme with the threat that if
he hears of even one note from Esme making it out of the prison, Aguirre and
Esme both will be in really deep trouble. once he's gone, Esme produces another
letter she'd written earlier and hidden under the bench, but Aguirre is so
frightened by his narrow escape that he might not be willing to take it to
anyone.
-Diego is in his room,
thinking about Esme, when Mugre just walks in without asking, shutting the door
behind him. he asks what she wants, and she says she wants what any married
woman wants, her husband. Diego tells her he already told her his opinion in
their earlier conversation (i.e., he wants a separation) but she just sits down
on his lap, straddling him, and starts to slobber all over him, telling him she
wants a second chance. Diego revolts all of us when he starts kissing her back.
Telenovela-World: translated AVANCES for
today (Thu 17 May) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-17-07 12:58 PDT
RECAP STATUS: LAI
is back to posting recaps in a timely fashion, so, upfronts and other madness
permitting, i hope to have the recap for #67 (yesterday) posted later today...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Olmos
quiere ayudar a Esmeralda.
Montero tiene un plan
contra la Marquesa.
B.OB. wants to help Esme.
(yes, but help her to what end...? he helped her keep the bulk of her dead
husband's fortune by excluding her jewels from the marriage agreement to
Tinhorn Despot. on the other hand, he "helped" her free her mother
with the specific aim of killing the Unmasked Miracle and, possibly, Esme as
well. so...)
Tinhorn has a plan
against the MarquieMarq. (this is news?? since when???)
TITLE: Los sueños
de Diego se desvanecen.. (Diego's dreams fade.) (note, LAI used this exact same
title yesterday, too. he really is running out of what little creativity he
has...)
DATE: Thursday, 16 May
2007
EP #68
-Esmeralda tiene una
esperanza con la llegada de la Marquesa.
Esme has a hope with the
arrival (in Faux Ángeles, not at the Hotel) of the MarquieMarq. (i bet if Pizza
were in Tinhorn's shoes vis-à-vis plans for Esme, he would not have told her
anything at all about the arrival of the MarquieMarq. but Tinhorn has no
self-control...)
-Olmos, Pizarro y el
guardia ahora querrán ayudar a Esmeralda por temor a la Marquesa.
now B.OB., Pizza, and the
guard (Aguirre) all want to help Esme for fear of the MarquieMarq. (or
something. i wonder if Pizza knows about Tinhorn's big plan to off the
MarquieMarq? if he doesn't, i'm sure he soon will, since Tinhorn rarely likes
to do his own dirty work -- especially when it's dangerous.)
-Montero quiere matar
a la Marquesa.
Tinhorn wants to kill the
MarquieMarq. (duh. there's a surprise. NOT!)
-Mariángel tendrá otro
rechazo.
Mugre will have another
rejection. (and i can only hope that LAI isn't teasing us with this, hoping
we'll think "another rejection" is Diego telling her to get stuffed
when it's really B.OB. telling her he can't leave her father's service or
something. i mean, any rejection of Mugre is obviously a good thing, but i will
Not Be Pleased if it turns out that Diego succumbs to her too-obvious tactics,
and from comments on the forum i'm guessing i won't be alone...)
-Sara Kalí tiene quien
la ayude.
the Unmasked Miracle has
someone to help her. (well, Dr Death is helping her, and so is Pizza. is LAI
referring to someone else?? maybe the MarquieMarq, perhaps? i mean, i know it's
a stretch, but since she seems to have sources everywhere, who knows...?)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #68 (last
Thursday) (edited to add something i just remembered) Author: B. (---)
Date: 05-21-07 16:18 PDT
RECAP FOR THURSDAY
UPFRONT DISCLAIMERS:
Thursday was DAYS ago. i barely remember what i had for dinner on Saturday. but
i will try not to get things that happened on Thursday confused with things
that didn't happen until Friday. also, the later it got in the week last week,
the more tired i was and consequently the less attention i was paying to stuff.
so in all likelihood i will forget bits. on the other hand, there is a much
better recap than this is likely to be here on the Caray! Caray! site, for
those who want to know what actually happened, as opposed to LAI's
incoherencies and my ramblings on same...
TEASER: Fernando y
Montero contra la pared. Olmos falcifica una carta. Peep and Tinhorn Despot
against the wall. (as it were -- not literally, alas...) B.OB. forges a letter.
(pretty handy, a burg like Faux Ángeles having such a first-rate forger just
sitting around waiting for work...)
NEW TITLE: Cada
acción tiene su precio (Every action has its price) (the question is: who in
this story is willing to pay that price, even assuming they are smart enough to
know it's there in the first place...? offhand i can pretty much only think of
Pizza as both knowing and being willing, but his willingness, so far as i can
tell, is qualified as "only if i have sacrificed absolutely every possible
pawn i can think of and then some." because he's not only smart enough to
know there's a price (admirable), but also smart enough to at least try to put
pawns in place in case they're needed to take the fall (not so admirable; more
pragmatic.)
DATE: Thursday, 17 May
2007
EP #68
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
-Pizarro le dice a
Esmeralda que esta de su lado. Y además le confiesa que tiene a Sara Karí viva
y escondida.
Pizza tells Esme that
he's on her side. (yet who can blame her if she's just the teensiest bit
suspicious...?)
-Diego rechaza a
Mariángel, y ella empieza a tener problemas con su embarazo.
(Diego rejects Mugre (we
all breathe a hugh sigh of relief) and she starts to have problems with her
pregnancy. (LAI, don't make it look like Diego's rejection caused Mugre's
pregnancy problems -- the two aren't related. Mugre's baby is probably taking a
look at its biological parents and saying, "aw HELL no!!" on the
other hand, if she continues to have problems with her pregnancy, would i put
it past Rat Pecs to tell Diego that it's all his fault and he has to be Nicer
To Mugre so she doesn't miscarry? no way!! i'm totally sure that an idiot like
him who still thinks a woman who would trap a man into marrying her even
knowing he's in love with another woman is honorable, virtuous, or good, is
more than capable of telling Diego he has to lie in the bed that he didn't
make.)
-María Pía visita a
Fernando para reclamarle todas sus atrocidades, pero Fernando la besa a la
fuerza y ella termina muy afectada.
María Pía visits Peep to
bawl him out for all his atrocities (like that's had much of an effect the
other four million times she's tried it...), but Peep kisses her by force and
she ends up very affected. (the only really good part of that scene was when
María Pía did an about-face on her box, and went from demanding Peep return it
and its contents to her, to telling him to just burn it because it was full of
bad memories for her now. that did give Peep pause -- for about a second at
most. you know, someone (Mabou?) observed on the forum today that María P is
about as capable of making a decision about Peep and sticking to it as Peep is
capable of making a decision about God and sticking to it, so, really, they are
D4EO after all. sobering, but true. at any rate, Tinhorn's arrival pretty much
breaks up Peep's attempts to kiss María Pía into agreeing with him and she
escaped. but instead of going back to the mission, she decided to go over and
talk to her brother and Blabmu instead. or maybe that was later...? at any
rate, there is a point where she turns up just in time to find Blabmu passed
out on the floor and stays to chat for a while.)
-Olmos falcifica una
carta para Esmeralda de parte de Diego De la Vega y el custodio Aguirre se la
entrega.
B.OB. has his pet forger
forge a letter from Diego to Esme and the guard Aguirre gives it to her. (ah,
yeah, right. whatever. at any rate, whatever it says, she was pretty upset by
it and decided she had to confront Diego in person, she wasn't going to believe
it was true until she heard him tell her from his own lips. um, Esme...?
there's just one teensy tiny little problem with this plan...)
-La Marquesa interviene
los puestos de Montero y del Gobernador Fernando, y les deja bien claro que
ahora es ella quien manda y ellos sólo tendrán sus cargos administrativos hasta
que se prueben todos sus actos malvados.
the MarquieMarq
intervenes in the posts of Tinhorn and the governor Peep, and makes it very
clear to both that now she is the one in charge and they will only have
administrative duties until all their evil acts have been proven. (this is one
of the bits where i couldn't concentrate when it aired, so i don't know if this
is something LAI is making up, or Kooko seriously has the MarquieMarq telling
two men like Tinhorn and Peep --both of whom she knows are hotheaded, volatile,
resentful, and not used to being bossed around by ANYone up to and including
people who are their bosses-- that they're essentially stuck being paperpushers
while she gets evidence against them. i can believe that LAI would come to that
conclusion, but even for Kooko, that is a serious WTF moment...)
-Fernando va a visitar a
Alejandro para hacerle reclamos, y termina en el suelo con los golpes de
Alejandro.
Peep goes to visit Rat
Pecs to bawl him out [for calling in the MarquieMarq to give him and Tinhorn a
well-earned smackdown], and ends up being floored by blows from Rat Pecs. (the
same Rat Pecs who was trying to "cheer up" his ailing wife --and get
him some nookie-- by having a bath with her. him and his "needs." Rat
Pecs needs to get a life. a real one, i mean.)
among the things LAI
didn't deem worthy of mention:
-the Unmasked Miracle
convinces Dr Death they have to find a way to escape before Pizza gets back. Dr
Death is reluctant until he escapes over the roof (huh??) somehow and stumbles
across the body of his nosy buddy. ruh-roh!
-Yummy returns from
wherever she went and talks to Buffie. i think Buffie tells her she was
destined to love Rat Pecs. poor girl -- what a sucky fate.
-this was mostly in
Wednesday's episode, i believe, but i forgot to mention it then and Mugre
touches on it again in this episode, so here goes: while trying to convince
Diego that he wasn't just some caprice of hers born after her arrival in Faux
Ángeles because she was bored and he was simply the only eligible man around,
Mugre tells him that's not so at all -- she'd already started to fall in love
with him before she ever met him. it seems that even though Peep was a Reeeally
Strict Papi and never let her go to parties or anything in Madrid (huh? i mean,
not so much about the really strict part, but about the no party part. somehow
i just DON'T see Mugre standing for that in the least -- or for Peep even
trying to say "no" so much to his precious and often spoilt only
biological child), she still heard all about Diego when he was there from her
girlfriends who were always meeting him everywhere because he was such a social
butterfly and total flirt. (huh?!? not so much on the social butterfly/total
flirt thing, since he was at pains to be that way in Faux Ángeles, but i had
the impression (perhaps mistaken?) that he'd been in Faux Ángeles for years --
certainly since he was 18 or so -- so how would all these Madrileña friends of
Mugre's be able to tell her anything about him? and we've all seen she doesn't
have any friends in Faux Ángeles except for those she's made since she arrived,
so it's not like Gata Miau Miau was writing to her about Diego or anything). in
any event, Diego ignores all the huh?!? factors of this whole little speech and
tells her that Social Butterfly/Total Flirt Diego is gone, never to return. he
left town as soon as Diego met and fell in love with Esme. and even if Esme is
dead, he still isn't going to fall in love with another woman. and Mugre needs
to be VERY clear on that.
-the raft on which Sister
Untwisted, Gleem, and Camba made their escape from the slavers seems to have
landed somewhere --it's not clear (to me, at any rate) if they are just camping
temporarily or if the raft isn't going any further. at any rate, Camba is
asleep and Gleem is who knows where. the two guys from the raft decide they
can't let this opportunity for some easy sex get away from them and they accost
Sister Untwisted, who starts to yell. i'm not sure why this doesn't attract
Camba's attention but it definitely attracts Gleems, who comes running back
from wherever he was. he deals with the rafters. i don't remember after that,
but i guess the three of them take off on their own at that point. at any rate,
they find a posada (or maybe that's in the next episode?) and Sister Untwisted
and Gleem, after telling Camba to hang tight for a sec, go over to
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Fri 18
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-18-07
12:14 PDT
RECAP STATUS: work
lunacies permitting, i will try to have the recap for last night (#68) up later
today.
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Esmeralda
no le cree a nadie.
Y ahora es ella quien los
engaña.
Esme doesn't believe anyone.
(healthy, in her situation)
And now she is the one
tricking people. (ha! take that!! although, even though i know Aguirre isn't
really a good guy, i still can't help feeling sorry for him.)
TITLE: Esmeralda
se venga. (loosely, Esme strikes back) (i hope it works!)
DATE: Friday, 17 May
2007
EP #69
-Olmos y el custodio
Aguirre creen que pueden engañar a Esmeralda con la carta falsa de Diego.
B.OB. and the guard
Aguirre think they can trick Esme with the fake letter from Diego. (well,
Aguirre mostly thinks it because B.OB. has assured him Esme will be fooled by
it. but close enough for Kooko, at this point.)
-Esmeralda les tiende una
trampa y se escapa de la cárcel.
Esme sets a trap for them
(both of them? B.OB. too?) and escapes from the Hotel. (escapes all the way? or
just from her cell?)
-El Zorro le dará a
Montero una explosiva batalla.
Zorro will give Tinhorn
Despot an explosive battle. (i guess this means he blows more stuff up. poor
Pizza. on the one hand, Tinhorn took charge of the escort duties for his
precious guns and left Pizza back holding the fort, so it will be hard for
Tinhorn to blame Pizza for Zorro messing up the whole gun delivery thing. on
the other hand, if Esme actually does escape from the Hotel on Pizza's watch,
Tinhorn will just add his frustration with the whole foiled gun thing to his
annoyance that his hostage has escaped, which won't be at all good for Pizza. i
wonder what he'll come up with to explain Esme's escape? i guess he'll put all
the blame of Aguirre...)
-La Marquesa dará su
toque final.
MarquieMarq will give her
finishing touch. (literally, her final touch. i can't decide if LAI is trying
to say that MarquieMarq will do one last thing before one of those frustrated
with her manages to dispose of her, or if it's something more like Tinhorn
and/or Peep come to her and say, through gritted teeth, "ok, now we've
done what you ordered us to do, so give us what you promised," and she
replies, "oh, did i forget to mention...? you need to do this other thing
you won't want to do, either. because i say so.")
-Sara Kalí y el doctor
buscan la manera de escapar.
the Unmasked Miracle and
the doctor look for a way to escape. (i'm not sure i blame them, under the
circumstances. but i don't really see the UM being up for doing much clambering
around, so it'll be interesting to see what, if anything, they work out. as to
the actual wisdom of escaping right now, i'm not so sure that's such a good
idea. for one thing, between Dr Death and the UM, it's a case of the almost blind
leading the deaf/mute. for another, where could they go? they can't go to Dr
Death's, because that's the first place Pizza will look. they can't go to the
gypsies, because Peep will certainly be watching the camp, and maybe now
he'd've been joined by Tinhorn. the UM will probably want to keep looking for
Esme even if she believes she's dead (because carrying a dead body around when
you're injured and full of broken bones is the totally sensible thing to do). i
wonder... will Dr Death take her to Toborro's house looking for
"Zorro's" help...?)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #69 (last
Friday) (edited to add something i just remembered) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-21-07 17:44 PDT
RECAP FOR FRIDAY
SAME UPFRONT DISCLAIMER FOR
THURSDAY'S RECAP APPLIES TO THIS ONE, except that i was even more tired by
Friday... (sorry!!)
TEASER: Sara Kalí
muere falsamente. Esmeralda no pudo escapar. (The Unmasked Miracle dies
falsely. (as in, she fakes her death. it's all part of Dr Death's Big Plan for
them to escape from Pizza, now that the UM has convinced him it is urgent they
do so.) Esme isn't able to escape. (not that i blame her for trying, but she
really needs to learn to think faster on her feet.)
NEW TITLE:
Esmeralda entre cadenas (Esme in chains) (this is at the end of the episode.
and boy does it look ugly, and he hasn't even started whipping her yet...)
DATE: Friday, 18 May
2007
EP #69
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
-Montero encadena a
Esmeralda, por haberse intentado escapar.
Tinhorn Despot chains
Esme for having tried to escape. (HUH??!? i was REALLY tired when the episode
aired on Friday, but i'm pretty sure Aguirre went to pretty great pains to make
sure neither Pizza nor especially Tinhorn knew anything about Esme's attempted escape
and that the reason Tinhorn chains her up is because he's frustrated about
having his wings pretty ruthlessly clipped by the MarquieMarq, and then having
Zorro blow up all his lovely guns AND make him look stupid --again-- in front
of his men. LAI, were you even watching the show at all??? i don't think you
can have been, because you've COMPLETELY LEFT OUT ALL of the many scenes where
Zorro confronts Tinhorn, Zorro fights with Tinhorn, Zorro defeats Tinhorn, and
Zorro --with Bernardo lighting the fuse, though Tinhorn and his guys don't see
that part-- blows up Tinhorn's little seeekret convoy of guns, having been
alerted to its existence thanks to everyone thinking that Bernardo is deaf as
well as mute: one or two of the soldiers were discussing the convoy at the
tavern and thought they were safe from being overheard because the only person
sitting anywhere close to them was Bernardo. (ha ha, in Thursday's episode,
Pizza had been teling García something secret and when García started talking
about it in a loud voice, Pizza pointed out that it was supposed to be a secret
but it wouldn't be if he kept talking about it so loudly. and then in Friday's
episode, García, i am pretty sure, repeats the same warning to the soldier in
the tavern...) and the worst part (well, for Tinhorn) is that Tinhorn can't
even blame Pizza for this failure because not only had Pizza pointed out to him
--MANY times-- that it would be safer to bring the guns in by day, but also
because he himself had taken all responsibility for the convoy out of Pizza's
reluctant hands and left Pizza at home to guard the Hotel. hah!! as for Esme's
Great Escape, that consisted of tricking Aguirre into opening the cell door,
thwacking him on the head, and making a bolt for it. except that she didn't do
something like lock him in her cell or take his keys, with the result that he
caught up with her at the first door she runs across. which turned out to be
just as well for her, though, since he was able to stop her from being seen by
some other soldiers who might well have been surprised to see her and who
almost certainly would have raised the alarm that may (or may not, since he
spent part of the evening running around with Dr Death) have resulted in at
least Pizza finding out about her escape attempt, if not Tinhorn --and, in the
event Tinhorn found out, the almost certain deaths of anyone who knew of her
existence with the exception of Pizza. and since Esme's a Heroine, she would
have certainly felt guilty about people being put to death for no other reason
than that they'd seen her.)
-Eldoctor entierra viva a
Sara Kalí para engañar a Pizarro. Pero cuando Pizarro se va la saca
desesperado.
(sigh. LAI, remember what
i said about spaces between words? well, i guess not, since you did it again.
"eldoctor" is meant to be two different words. in English, too.) Dr
Death buries the Unmasked Miracle alive in order to trick Pizza. (he does this
after convincing Pizza that she's already died.) but after Pizza leaves (once
Dr Death has convinced him to leave him to finish making the gravesite look
like it's not what it is), he frantically digs her up again. (or at least, he
starts digging her up again. if he actually got to the coffin and got the nails
out and the top off, i don't remember it at all.)
-Mariángel sigue
intentando enamorar a Diego De la Vega.
Mugre continues trying to
romance Diego de la Vega. (yeah, she leaves a flower and a little note on his
bed, inviting him to go for a stroll "no strings" (hah!!). when she
runs into him later, she asks if he got it and he says, yes he got the note and
no on the stroll. Mugre is Not Pleased.)
-Renzo le reclama a
Suplicios su desinterés acerca de la vida y las preocupaciones de él.
Gleem gets on Sister
Untwisted's case for patent disinterest in his life and the things that worry
him. (fair enough -- he's been taking care of her, encouraging her, helping
her, and protecting her, and she's mostly been either saying she's worthless or
fussing over Camba. Gleem has even, somehow, learned Sister Untwisted's real name.
anyway, they go over and ask the landlord of the posada where they've stopped
if they can have some food. the woman says yes, but they'll have to work for
it. meanwhile, Camba is waiting outside or over by the door or something, and
the slave traders find him.)
and once again with the
Other Stuff LAI Forgot:
-the noise of the WWF
Smackdown going on in the living room reaches Blabmu and MarÍa Pía's ears.
María P decides it's better if Peep not find out she's in the house, so she
leaves while Blabmu goes down to see what's going on and to stop the fight.
which she does, mostly by fainting. Peep seems a bit non-plussed by this, while
Rat Pecs at least has the decency to feign concern. later (at least, i think
it's later, maybe it was earlier) they argue about whose fault it is that
Blabmu fainted, with Rat Pecs maintaining that Peep has a significant share
because it's partly his fault Tinhorn killed Esme. or something. i wasn't
paying a whole lot of attention.
-B.OB., en route to
somewhere, sees first a cute, fluffy, white cat, and then a carriage rolling
slowly by with this woman in it looking properly Enigmatic. B.OB. talks to
himself for our benefit, wondering what that witch can be doing here. i say, if
it's bad for B.OB. then it's probably good for us...
-if this wasn't in Friday's episode, then
it was in Thursday's, but i think Friday's: Zorro goes to see the gypsies in
their not-terribly-secret seeekret hiding camp and gives them a lot of money
--i THINK some or maybe even all of the money that was with Tinhorn (that he
was going to use to pay for his lovely big guns? i just realized i don't know
if Zorro attacked the convoy before it even got to the port to get the guns, or
after they'd been to pick the guns up. although if it was after, one would have
thought he wouldn't have any money, because he'd used it to buy his guns. argh!
in any event, it was a bunch of money and i'm pretty sure Zorro got it from
Tinhorn)-- and told them that they needed to get out of the Faux Ángeles area
because things were just too hot for the gypsies right now. he told them he had
seen signs that made him believe the Unmasked Miracle might be alive and said
he would keep looking for her, but in the meantime, they needed to make
themselves scarce. he said the money should get them to Dan Diego (?? or maybe
he told them to go to San Diego and the money was so they can afford to hang
out and wait for him? or buy their passage back to Spain?). i THINK he said he
would bring the Unmasked Miracle to join them. but he definitely said something
about they should go to San Diego.
Telenovela-World: translated AVANCES for
today (Mon 21 May) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-21-07 12:04 PDT
RECAP STATUS: my
bad for not getting #68 (last Thursday) posted in a more timely fashion, but i
was REALLY fried by the upfronts last week. today looks like being more
laid-back and i hope to get to it today. as for the recap for #69, well, as
usual, LAI has yet to post it (as of noon Pacific time), so...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Montero
maltrata a Esmeralda.
Y el Zorro va por su
amada.
Tinhorn Despot mistreats
Esme. (well, i suppose you COULD call whipping her "mistreatment."
me, i'd say it's more like "torture" or "brutalization.")
And Zorro goes for his
beloved. (is LAI trying to tell us that Diegorro has finally realized she might
be alive?? the other night i was wondering why, now that he has his memory
back, Diegorro hasn't remembered the strong impulse he felt as Mentally Impaired
Zorro to go search the prison. and why he had that feeling as MIZorro but not
as Zorro...)
TITLE: Esmeralda
entre cadenas. (Esme in chains) (and since she really doesn't seem to be the
bondage type, this can't be considered a good thing. of course, Tinhorn doesn't
care about what others want -- only his feelings matter. this is probably why
he doesn't have any real friends, never mind any women who actually care for
him. Dr Phil should stage an intervention, the guy needs serious help.)
DATE: Monday, 21 May
2007
EP #70
-Montero encadena a
Esmerlada y la maltrata para que le diga la identidad de El Zorro.
Tinhorn chains Esme (LAI:
"Esmerlada"??? the story's only been on for MONTHS. and you know, if
you would just get that spell-checker program i've been yelling at you about,
you wouldn't make this sort of stupid mistake!!) and he mistreats her (for
which you should understand, he whips her) so she will tell him Zorro's
identity. (and he's sure she knows who Zorro is because...? oh, right: Tinhorn
doesn't need more than a sliver of a suspicion to jump to a full-blown
conclusion. and you know, even a broken watch is right once or twice a day...)
-Diego siente el dolor de
Esmeralda y va a rescatarla.
Diego feels Esme's pain and
goes to rescue her. (he goes to rescue someone he thinks is dead? or he goes to
find out if she really is dead or not and if not, THEN rescue her? get it
straight, LAI!!)
-Las persecusiones de
Renzo, Dolores y el esclavo Camba no terminan.
The persecution of Gleem,
Dololes (don't you mean SUPLICIOS, LAI? i mean, pain and torment are sortof
synonymous, but Dololes and Sister Untwisted are definitely NOT the same at
all!!) and the slave Camba don't end. (LAI, LAI, LAI... even for you, this was
really sloppy. get a grip, man! hadn't you had your requisite five Cuban
coffees when you wrote this??)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #70 (Mon, 21
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-23-07
00:47 PDT
RECAP FOR MONDAY
TEASER: Le
disparan a Renzo. Mariángel se encuentra con Montero. (They shoot at Gleem.
(and "they" manage to hit him, too. then again, they shot at nearly
point-blank range. even with that flintlock pistol, it would have been hard to
miss hitting him SOMEwhere...) Mugre has a meeting with Tinhorn Despot. (who
was revoltingly interested in his baby. she kept trying to remind him it's
supposed to be Diego's baby, but he says he wants to buy a cradle for it. a
cradle!! and i'm not even sure he was kidding, which is just... just... eeeeew.
and weird.)
NEW TITLE: Diego siente
el dolor del amor (Diego feels the pain of love. (or, actually, the pain of
being whipped. again. although this time it isn't Diego that's being whipped,
it's Esme, and he feels it because he's in love. but this does rather beg the question,
if he can feel this, then how come he can't feel when she's feverish from being
left soaking wet in her cell without a fluffy towel with which to dry herself
off? how come he can't feel when she's hungry? when she's sad? enquiring minds
want to know...)
DATE: Monday, 21 May
2007
EP #70
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
-Le disparan a Renzo al
querer defender a Suplicios.
the ever-popular
"they" (actually, the slave traders) shoot at Gleem when he tries to
defend Sister Untwisted. (and how come all these people at the posada saw
Sister U being assaulted and no-one even lifted a finger to object except Gleem
and Demon Camba, who once again managed to chase off the slavers. now, i was
making dinner for most of the episode (got home late), but really, having lost
him several times now because of the demon, and given that the demon seems to
scare them so much, you'd think the slavers would just decide to cut their
losses and go find some other, less troublesome slaves. also, i can understand
--although certainly not agree with!!-- their proprietary attitude vis-à-vis
Camba, but they don't know anything about either Sister U or Gleem, yet they
just captured them anyway and decided to sell them off as slaves too. how do
they know that one or the other --or both-- don't have Powerful People who are
looking for them and who will be more than willing to Make The Slavers Pay for
their mistreatment? i'm just saying...)
-Al esclavo Camba se le
mete el diablo y quiere matar a sus enemigos para defender a Suplicios.
The devil gets into the
slave Camba and he wants to kill his enemies to defend Sister Untwisted. (yes,
yes, we already dealt with this. move it along, LAI!)
-Fernando visita a María
Pía para convencerla de que deje sus hábitos.
Peep visits María Poo to
convince her to give up being a nun. (i know churches aren't supposed to have
locks and whatnot, but in last night's episode he just strolled right into her
room. can't the convent at least be locked? and why did no-one try to stop him
just crusing around where he clearly doesn't belong? ok, yes, i grant that Peep
considers María Poo his property already and presumably by extension that means
he considers any place she's living as his as well, but i find it really
annoying that even when he's caught traipsing around where he's not supposed to
be, all anyone ever does is tell him he should be ashamed of himself. well,
clearly, he's SO not -- so what do they think they are going to accomplish?)
-Diego De la Vega va a
visitar a su tía María Pía en el convento.
Diego de la Vega (because
we have SO many Diegos in this story we need to give them last names in case we
forget who is supposedly the hero...) goes to visit his aunt María Poo (and he
has so many aunts, too, that we need to be reminded which one is which?) at the
convent. (oddly, all i remember about this scene is thinking that no REAL nuns
--let alone a mother superior!-- would wear a habit that shows that much leg
(up to mid-thigh! and on both sides, too!!), that he congratulated her on being
consecrated, and that she and Diego seemed genuinely happy to see each other,
which is nice and very affecting, but makes it seem like they have been apart
for 20 years and not a week or two. now, ok, he has had amnesia and a bunch of
stuff has happened, but still...)
-Mariángel se encuentra
con Montero y hablan de su bebé.
Mugre meets with Tinhorn
and they talk about their baby. (as mentioned above, he seems to have succumbed
to the idea of being a father, even if he was putting Mugre on when he told her
he wants to buy it a cradle. Mugre kept going on about one thing --i don't
remember what, and i don't think Tinhorn paid much attention to it, either--
but apart from the whole baby thing, what he's realized is that he has to find
"Esme's" body, although of course he didn't share even with the
future mother of his child that her half-sister and rival actually isn't dead.
he grossed Mugre out by trotting out the new party line: that Esme, after being
shot, had fallen into the sea, which was why they hadn't been able to recover
her body in the first place. he narfed about how everyone was getting on his
case wanting Esme's body, and complained that not only would it be a miracle to
find her body in the first place, but even if they did, she wouldn't be recognizeable
anyway since after being shot, falling down a cliff (and getting banged up on
the rocks en route), and several days in the water (meaning, the fish would've
been munching on her and the water would've made the body all swollen), she
wasn't going to be at all beautiful any more. and then he indulged himself by
imagining how cool it would be for Diego to have such a nasty look at Esme for
his final memory of her. even Mugre looked grossed out, and she doesn't like
Esme any more than he likes Diego. maybe the pregnancy is making her a bit
sensitive...?)
and now for the
always-popular Things LAI Forgot To Mention and that haven't already been
covered here (mostly in no particular order, though the first one happened
before the second one, and they both happened earlier in the story):
-Mugre keeps trying to
convince Diego that he wants to give her a try. she trots out all the would-be
winsome arguments she can think of and then some and Diego still says no. then
he starts feeling Esme getting whipped and starts wincing and whatnot. Mugre
gets all concerned and tries to get him to let her help him. finally, after he
practically bites her head off telling him to leave her alone, she does so.
alone in his room, he flashes back on when Esme was in the prison while Pizza
was whipping him. Mugre, meanwhile, runs into Dololes in the hall, who
immediately upon hearing that there was something wrong with Diego but he'd
said very clearly that he just wanted to be left alone, barges right in and
demands to be told what's wrong with her Dieglito. i wanted him to bite her
head off, too --and he did try to tell her to leave him alone, but she ignored
that-- but no such luck. he ends up crying in her arms. Diego: biting her head
off would have been MUCH more satisfying. really.
-Diego goes and talks to
Rat Pecs about something -- i think wanting to go in to town to get on
Tinhorn's case about Esme's missing body, now that supposedly Tinhorn has
withdrawn, on the MarquieMarq's orders, the charges against the de la Vegas. Rat
Pecs tells him to wait until the next day, because he didn't want to agree to
any truces with Tinhorn until he'd had a chance to discuss it with both Blabmu
and Diego, and get their ok. Diego wants to get going already, but then starts
wincing from Esme being beaten again, so he ends up making a rather hasty exit.
-Blabmu's been moaning
about Yummy being missing and boy she just wishes Yummy were there because she
was so soothing to have around or something. Rat Pecs keeps making some rather
condescending remarks about how Yummy just has to Be Free or whatever, when
Yummy gratifies several of the guys on this board, Rat Pecs, and Blabmu by
riding up on her horse.
-Diego has a dream (a
daydream?) about Esme. she's all laid out on a bier sort of thing with her hair
all arranged and a pretty dress on and rose petals all around. she really looks
beautiful, and like she's asleep, though clearly she's meant to be dead. Diego
stands next to the bier and as he looks down at her, she opens her eyes, sits
up, and kisses him passionately. (so passionately, in fact, there is a whole
thread about that kiss, here.)
-relatively bright and
early the next morning, Diego heads into town to talk to Tinhorn. he wants to
know where Esme's body is. Tinhorn tries out his new party line, dreamed up
because Zorro and a bunch of other people kept asking him about Esme's body and
i guess he realized that the crevasse i could have sworn he waid was the place
she originally fell after being shot just wasn't going to cut it, since people
would want to know which cravasse and then go up there expecting to at least be
able to see a body at the bottom of it. anyway, he trots out his new and
improved version of The Reason There's No Body: the momentum of being shot
caused her to fall into the sea and even though the shot killed her, her body
got washed away.
-Tinhorn was beating Esme
because Zorro's asked him about Esme so much he figures Esme actively recruited
him to help her get her mother out of the prison, which means she knows how to contact
him which means she also (well, in Tinhorn's 'if A = B then apples are Tucson'
way of reasoning, at least) knows his true identity.
-Aguirre felt bad for
Esme and kept pleading with Tinhorn to remember that she's pregnant with his
child. Tinhorn didn't bother to tell Aguirre the truth, and just sent Aguirre
for a bucket of water to throw over her to wake her up so he could keep trying
to whip answers out of her. and then when she convinced him --at least for
now-- that she would die before telling him even if she did know, he told
Aguirre to soak her down again and see how she felt about things after spending
the night all wet and cold. this prompted renewed pleas from Aguirre to be more
considerate of a pregnant woman (by the way, Aguirre forgave Esme for thumping
him when she tried to escape. he told her that although he wouldn't trust her
again, as the father of several children, he well knows how women get all
hormonal when they're pregnant). Tinhorn didn't punish him for his boldness,
but did warn him not to say anything more about it or to disobey his orders.
-after finally convincing
Pizza to leave him alone to finish tidying up after burying the Unmasked
Miracle, Dr Death frantically digs up the coffin and breaks it open. he
succeeds in reviving the UM and they make plans to get her away somewhere safe
so she won't be found and can recover from her wound.
-even though B.OB. is
convinced that Stevie (the "witch" he saw riding into town) is the
same woman who cursed his mother when she was pregnant with him, he goes to see
her anyway. he wants to ask her for something, but if he said what it was in
this episode, i totally don't remember.
-Tinhorn decides if he
can just find a body he can pass off as Esme's, the de la Vegas and the
MarquieMarq and everyone else who's getting on his case about Esme will get off
his case, since all they really want is someplace they can go and grieve, the
stupid idiots. he starts trying to figure out where and how he can get his
hands on a suitable corpse. i could be mistaken, but i thought Pizza looked a
little revolted.
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for today (Tues
22 May) (corrected) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-22-07 11:06 PDT
RECAP STATUS:
LAI's already posted his recap for #70 (last night) but suddenly everyone in
the office wants to play catch-up. i'll try to get to it later today.
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: María Pía
tiene una tentación.
Diego se decide a
recuperar todo.
María Pía is tempted.
Diego decides to recover
everything. (everything ... what? i mean, it's all fine and dandy to tell
yourself something like, "i'm going to get my childhood back!" (for
instance), but i'd just like to see Diego try to turn back the clock. not that
i wouldn't put it past Kooko to try, mind you, but i think even he would have
problems with the retcon...)
TITLE: En el amor
no hay nada escrito. (In love, nothing is written.) (well, that's not strictly
true, given that Esme keeps writing notes to Diego, but LAI's probably missed
that little detail somewhere along the line. because i'd sure hate to think
that LAI is waxing poetic on us this early in the day, and especially if he
thinks that by getting all Philsophical and "Deep" (as a waffle) in
the title he's going to make up for the total Yawn that are his actual
avances...!)
DATE: Tuesday, 22 May
2007
EP #71
-María Pía podría caer en
la tentación.
María Poo could fall into
temptation. (oh spare. me! i grant she still has feelings for Peep --that's
been made more than obvious-- but have some spine, woman!! no matter how you
feel about him, you are NOT going to be able to fix him, and letting him see
that there's still something there is only encouraging him --not that he needs
it. face it: you will ONLY be miserable if you give in to him, no matter what
your excuse is. that is totally clear.)
-Alejandro y padre Tomás
se enfrentan.
Rat Pecs and Yoda Tomás
confront each other. (any excuse for a sword fight, eh, Kooko -- no matter how
inane? and as Jen Asha pointed out, LAI wrote that it's Rat Pecs and Yoda T,
but in the preview last night we saw it was Peep and Yoda T. does this mean
that Rat Pecs ALSO challenges Yoda T? why in the world would a supposedly
devout Catholic like Rat Pecs --who i have yet to see attending Mass, but i
digress-- ever even THINK of fighting with Yoda T, never mind with a sword in
his office??)
-Renzo combate para
mantenerse vivo.
Gleem fights to keep
himself alive. (cue Queen: "...But if I crossed a million rivers / And I
rode a million miles / Then I'd still be where I started / Same as when I started
// Keep yourself alive / keep yourself alive / It'll take you all your time and
a-money / Honey you'll survive" plus, you're in the main titles -- if
you're going to get killed off, it won't be until way closer to the end. (who,
me? cynical? nah!!))
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #71 (Tue 22
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-24-07
16:47 PDT
RECAP FOR TUESDAY
TEASER: Diego ve
el cadaver de Esmeralda. Sara Kalí consigue un escondite. (Diego sees Esme's
corpse. (or, "Esme's" corpse.) the Whiney Queen acquires a hiding
place. (LAI makes it sound like she found it herself, rather than having to
practically be ordered to stay there.)
NEW TITLE: El
cadáver de Esmeralda (Esme's corpse...)
DATE: Tuesday, 22 May
2007
EP #71
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
-Olmos le pide a la gran
Selenia que haga un elixir para conquistar a su amada.
B.OB. asks the Great
Stevie to make an elixir to conquer his beloved. (see my note about this below,
in the Things LAI Left Out section.)
-Encuentran el supuesto
cadáver de Esmeralda.
They find the supposed
corpse of Esme. (well, it's less a case of "finding" as one of
Tinhorn Despot paying off a fisherman to give him the corpse of his wife who
drowned a few days earlier. although i'm surprised Tinhorn didn't then have the
fisherman killed, to make sure he didn't tell anyone he sold Tinhorn a woman's
corpse that had been in the water for a couple days, even though the chance
seems remote even for someone in a novela...)
-Esmeralda decide no
mandarle más cartas a Diego De la Vega, pero si le pide a su custodio Aguirre
que le traiga pruebas que su madre esta muerta.
Esme decides not to send
any more notes to Diego de la Vega (even if she had the slightest hope of
Aguirre agreeing to deliver them...), but she does ask her guard Aguirre (just
how many guards to you think Esme has, LAI? or is it that you think there are
multiple Aguirres on this show? or is it just that you have to remind yourself?
because WE know who he is!) to bring her proof that her mother is dead. (LAI!!
Esme doesn't ask Aguirre for this! she asks Aguirre to confirm that Mugre
really is pregnant. she asks PIZZA to bring her proof her mother really is
dead.)
-Fernando le dice a María
Pía que Dios lo tiene todo, y que ella es lo único bueno que tiene él en su
vida.
Peep tells María Poo that
God has everything, and that she is the only good thing he has in his life.
(since he long ago decided not to appreciate any of the other good things in
his life, like Blabmu. what a loser.)
-Sara Kalí se esconde
donde nadie la podría buscar, en un sanatorio de leprosos.
Whiney Queen hides
herself where no-one can look for her, in a sanatorium for lepers. (ok, LAI: a)
hiding out in a leper colony wasn't Whiney Queen's plan, it was Dr Death's. and
b) someone COULD look for her there, even if it is a leper colony -- they just
would likely be as reluctant as she was about entering, in spite of Dr Death's
assurances that the inhabitants of the colony all have the non-contagious form
of leprosy.)
and now, although at
least this time LAI didn't get all his few points from the final segment
--unlike his "recap" for Ep 72...!!-- let's see what else LAI decided
wasn't worthy of mention... yesterday i made a few notes, based on what i could
remember happened (i doubt these are complete, but they are more complete than
LAI's notes, above!):
-B.OB. wants a love
potion from Stevie, one that will make Mugre to fall for him. Stevie is
flattered that people in the New World have even heard of her (makes you wonder
why she bothered to come to Faux Ángeles in the first place). Stevie claims
that her potion is very effective, but very expensive, and gives B.OB. a quote
that makes him blanch just a bit, as well as a list of very specific
ingredients he has to provide before she can make it. the list includes stuff
like a lock of Mugre's hair and some of her tears; B.OB., scanning the list,
protests that while some of the items won't be much of a problem, others are
going to be more difficult (what does he expect she's going to say? "oh,
well, we don't REALLY need the tears -- we can make do with sewer water?"
geez, B.OB.!!). Steve also reads BOB's cards (or at any rate, i thought that's
what it looked like) and tells him that she can see he's totally obsessed with
Mugre but that having her will make his life Hell on earth. B.OB. miserably
agrees with her on this, but still figures it's worth the price.
-Mugre's all pleased that
Tinhorn has expressed interest in his spawn, as evidenced by his wish to buy
the baby a cradle. eeeew.
-Tinhorn manages to
obtain the body of a woman who drowned and was lost at sea for a few days
before being fished out. he sends García to tell the de la Vegas that Esme's
body has been recovered. Diego leaves immediately to go see her. Dololes, on
the other hand, immediately dissolves in tears upon hearing the news. she tells
Mugre, who wants to know where Diego is then asks to be left alone in her
"grief" (laughter), then tells Rat Pecs, who forbids her to tell
Blabmu because it will just upset her and only the recent return of Yummy is
keeping Blabmu on her feet. unfortunately, Rat Pecs doesn't think to ask if
anyone else in the house knows, and then to go and duct tape Mugre's mouth shut
and lock her in a very small and very dark closet somewhere. too bad, because
Mugre can only barely conceal her delight at breaking the news of Esme's body
being found when she encounters Blabmu feebly creeping down the hall, supported
by Yummy. not too surprisingly, Blabmu immediately fainted dead away again. if
only looks could kill! the one Yummy shot Mugre would've done the trick.
-Peep tries to bully
María Poo into giving him the sliver of hope he needs to cling to ("just
one word of love..." except you KNOW he will immediately turn around and
use it against her) or, failing that, "convince" him she truly
doesn't love him any more, but i guess the nunnabes alerted Yoda Tomás to
Peep's unwelcome presence in the convent, because the next thing i knew, there
is Yoda T in María Poo's room as well, squaring off with Peep, swords at the
ready, while the nunnabes are all clustered in the doorway looking on and María
Poo ineffectually bleats, "no, no, you mustn't fight..." Peep claims
he doesn't have any desire to fight Yoda T, but will if Yoda T
"forces" him to (by not putting down his sword and meekly leaving
Peep and María Poo alone so he can bully María Ppp some more, presumably). Yoda
T manages to convince Peep to relent and go away, but --Peep warns María Poo as
he stalks out-- only for now. as he leaves, he tries the guilt card one last
time, "reminding" her that she has chosen to give her love to God,
who's got lots of people who have given him their love, whereas he only has her
as the potential source of happiness and love in his life, so by denying this
to him, she is condeming him to return to the misery and loneliness he's been
living through since she first broke up with him, or some such crap. i asked
myself why she didn't just retort, "oh yeah? and whose fault is that,
then, TRULY? not mine, mister! ONLY. YOU. can change that -- NOT. ME." but
Kooko's too in love with making Peep into a Tragic Anti-Hero at María Poo's
expense, so of course she can't say that. booooo!
-Diego goes to check out
Esme's supposed corpse. to my mind, Tinhorn completely overplays the role he's
decided to assume --that of the Grieved Spurned Spouse Who Is Yet Noble Enough
To Forgive and is only sorry it happened after her death-- but although Diego
has a kind of "let's get this over with" impatience about him that
has the effect of cutting off most of Tinhorn's excess hypocracies, he
otherwise didn't seem to pick up on the fact Tinhorn was TOTALLY overdoing it,
probably because he was too busy remembering Yoda T's instructions that Diego
de la Vega always had to play the wuss. on the other hand, he remained mostly
impassive as he looked down at Esme's body, denying Tinhorn the fun of actually
getting to see Diego destroyed by the wreck that is supposedly his beloved (of
course, Tinhorn nonetheless manages to convince himself that Diego totally fell
apart...). later, in conference with Yoda T, Diego tells the priest that he's
certain that's not Esme's body, and that Tinhorn is trying to pull some kind of
trick. oddly, Yoda T doesn't look that pleased to hear this. i guess he's tired
of Diegorro's preoccupation with Esme...
-Dr Death takes Whiney
Queen to a leper's colony to hide out while she recovers. WQ balks, but he
assures her that they have "dry" leprosy, so she can't catch it. and
it's the perfect place, because apart from him the only healthy people who will
go near the place are the nunnabes. however, that does mean she will have to
dress as one of the lepers, so that no-one realizes who she is. WQ doesn't look
at all happy about this turn of events, and i bet it won't be long before she's
trying to get away. idiot.
-Pizza tells Esme that
although he tried to save her mother, she was too badly injured. Esme doesn't
believe him and demands proof. exactly what is she thinking he can bring her???
"oh, here's her head. sorry about the ragged edges there, it was a bit
tricky cutting it off her --which reminds me, i need to sharpen my sword!-- but
if you're convinced now that she's dead, i'll just go have Dr Death put this
back..." um, right.
-even though he told Yoda
T that the body wasn't Esme's, Diego tells Rat Pecs that Tinhorn's corpse is
Esme's body. Rat Pecs goes to see Dr Death in his mortician capacity and orders
the best casket Dr Death has plus all the trimmings for "Esme's"
funeral. Pizza turns up right after Rat Pecs leaves and tells Dr Death they
have to go back to WQ's grave. ruh-roh!
Telenovela-World: translated AVANCES for
today (Wed 23 May) (slightly edited) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-23-07 11:16 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as of
5.15p Pacific, LAI has yet to post his recap for Ep 71 (last night), and at
this point i think it's pretty unlikely he'll get around to it before
tomorrow....
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Montero
sigue con su juego.
Diego sabe que está viva.
Tinhorn Despot continues
with his game. (he's clearly starting to really enjoy himself. i bet it leads
him to make a mistake. but if he does, will anyone have enough intelligence to
actually catch it? except for Pizza, that is? i'd say that is definitely open
to debate...)
Diego knows that [she] is
alive. (the way this is written, it could mean Diego knows she (a woman) is
alive. or it could just as easily mean Diego knows it (some asexual object or
animal whose name is "feminine" in Spanish) is alive. but let's face
it, we all know it's Esme that's being referred to, and i haven't had enough
caffeine to take this to the lengths i could if i were actually awake.
sorry...)
TITLE: Diego está
seguro que Esmeralda vive. (Diego is sure that Esme lives.) (what. ever. we've
covered this ground -- lets get on with this story already. yeesh!!)
DATE: Wednesday, 23
May 2007
EP #72
-Diego quiere ir a la
prisión del Callao a buscar a Esmeralda.
Diego wants to go to the
Hotel California to search for Esme. (yeah. let's see who stops him this
time...)
-Montero sigue con el
juego del falso cadáver, y hasta piensa ir al entierro.
Tinhorn continues with
the game of the false corpse, and even thinks of going to the funeral. (because
that won't be the least bit suspicious!! i thought he was rather overplaying
things yesterday pretending to be all sad that Esme was "killed" and
so on. or doesn't he know that Diego got his memory back?)
-El cirujano se encuentra
entre la espada y la pared.
Dr Death finds himself
between a rock and a hard place. (literally, between the sword and the wall,
which is the Spanish version of 'rock and a hard place.' then again, given it's
Pizza he's trying to trick, LAI might be speaking literally and not
metaphorically. although, does Pizza HAVE a sword? or just guns? or maybe it's
not Pizza that LAI is referring to but Rat Pecs and his Blinding Braid, which i
would certainly feel qualifies as being in a difficult situation. or someone
else has found out that Dr Death supposedly knows the true identity of Zorro
and be on his case to reveal this information -- like Tinhorn, for instance
(remember that the merest whiff of a possible suspicion is more than enough for
him to jump to a conclusion...), who might decide that since Zorro is dashing
around making trouble for him como si nada even though he supposedly received a
bullet wound that should have been fatal, the only explanation is that Dr Death
fixed Zorro up... alternatively, the Whiner Queen might corral him on his next
visit to the leper colony and whine his ear off about being stuck there. gee,
poor Dr Death! he's just surrounded by fun people who want the best for him --
no wonder he drinks!)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #72 (Wed 23
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-24-07
16:48 PDT
i did this one first
because it was shorter. i'll get to the one for #71 in a bit...
RECAP FOR WEDNESDAY
TEASER: Montero
actúa frente a todos. Pero Almudena lo descubre. (Tinhorn Despot puts on an act
in front of everyone. (boy, does he ever!) But Blabmu calls him on it. (and it
was just SO fun!!)
NEW TITLE: La actuación
de Montero (Tinhorn's act) (and the more he played it, the more he seemed to be
digging it. to the point where he went even further over the top than he had
with Diego in the previous ep. sick, but oddly fascinating. and even more sick
to watch as no-one called him on it -- not even those who might dare to, like
Diego (who presumably didn't call him on it because he remembered his
instructions to always act like a wimp when he's being Diego). no-one, that is,
until the funeral... hee!!)
DATE: Wednesday, 23
May 2007
EP #72
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
MISC NOTES:
1.- did LAI perhaps
mistake this recap for avances? because he only seems to have written up the
final segment (as is his general habit with avances) and nothing else!!
2.- as mentioned in
my writeup of tonight's avances, Jen Asha has a pretty complete
SUMMARY covering ALL
of last night's episode and not just the last segment. interested parties can
find that summary here. and i recommend checking it out, because in the
interests of getting this "recap" that LAI seems to consider
sufficient posted in a more timely fashion than LAI apparently felt warranted
for recaps for the two most recent episodes, this time around i'm confining myself
to just LAI's remarks. plus, Jen really did a great job with her summary, which
in addition to being FAR more complete than LAI's miserable offering here, was
also posted HOURS ago and LONG before LAI got around to... this, whatever it
is. i'd say that LAI should be ashamed (and truly, he should be!!), but he is
apparently incapable of feeling any sort of shame whatsoever, as evidenced by
his idea of a recap...
-El custodio Aguirre se
entera de que existe un falso cadáver de Esmeralda.
(loosely) the guard Aguirre
finds out that there exists a cadaver falsely being passed off as Esme. (and he
actually looked pretty revolted when he learned of it.)
-Montero va al entierro
de Esmeralda y le ofrece honores militares y un discurso sentimental.
Tinhorn goes to Esme's
'funeral' and gives her military honors and a mawkish eulogy. (well, he starts
to give her a mawkish eulogy, that is, until he is summarily interrupted by
Blabmu, dressed to the nines with a mantilla and everything and TOTALLY armed
for bear. she calls him a hypocrite. loudly. and more than once. it's just
SOOOO beautiful. foristas around the country applauded and cheered.)
-Fernando se encuentra
con María Pía en el entierro.
Peep runs into María Poo
at the funeral. (the way LAI writes this, it could be read as implying that
Peep went to the funeral expressely to meet with María Poo, which actually is
not the case. it also tends to imply that Peep and María Poo haven't seen each
other in a while, when he actually accosted her earlier in the day. LAI....)
-Almudena le dice a
Montero que es un hipócrita frente a todos en el entierro.
In front of everyone at
the funeral, Blabmu tells Tinhorn he's a hypocrite. (as i said, we all cheered.
maybe you heard us...?)
and again, the list of
things that LAI chose to leave out of his recap encompases the happenings of
the first 50 minutes of the episode, and includes stuff like updates on what's
up with Gleem/Camba/Sister Untwisted; the Whiney Queen (fka the Unmasked
Miracle); B.OB.; Blabmu/Rat Pecs/Yummy; Esme; and Dr Death, among others. for
more on all this, check out Jen Asha's summary, linked above in this post.
Telenovela-World: translated AVANCES for
today (Thu 24 May) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-24-07 10:35 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as
of 2.45p Pacific, LAI has still yet to post his recap for Ep 71 (Tuesday),
never mind his recap for Ep 72 (last night). typical! however, people who are
eager for a summary of last night, at least, can check Jen Asha's "what i
remember" post, which is WAY better than my usual pathetic efforts. as for
the "official" (ha ha ha!!) recaps, i'll keep checking back. LAI
usually gets around to them. eventually.
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Diego
lucha en la cárcel del Callao.
No le queda nada a
Montero.
Diego fights in the Hotel
California.
Nothing is left to
Tinhorn Despot. (hmmmmmm, that's suggestive. but it's not like LAI to be so
forthcoming, so now i'm worried there's going to be another switcheroo going on
here...)
TITLE: Diego lucha
contra Montero. (Diego fights against Tinhorn. (LAI, this is news?? since
when???
DATE: Thursday, 24 May
2007
EP #73
-Diego va hasta la cárcel
del Callao.
Diego goes to the Hotel
California. (ahem, LAI, we have it on good authority --AND your cuate The Promo
Cretino provided proof!-- that that's not Diego, and it's not Zorro, either.
it's Random Soldier! get it straight!!)
-Montero tendrá que
luchar con sus mejores hombres.
Tinhorn will have to
fight [together] with his best men. (presumably against Random Soldier. and
maybe some others...? although i'm surprised: Tinhorn HAS best men??)
-Y Esmeralda se entera
que El Zorro viene por ella.
And Esme will find out
that Zorro is coming for her. (LAI, pay attention!! i already TOLD you!! it's
not Zorro! it's not Diego!! it's RANDOM SOLDIER!!! yeesh!)
Telenovela-World: surprise, surprise!! LAI
posted his recap for #73 (yesterday's ep)!!! ...OR DID HE....?? (updated)
Author: B. (---) Date: 05-25-07 21:28
PDT
RECAP FOR THURSDAY
against ALL expectations,
LAI actually did post his recap for Ep #73 (Thursday) -- and on a holiday
Friday, no less!! who would have thought??!? (who, indeed? and apparently in
his rush to post avances extra-early --no doubt in the hopes he could escape
from the "office" even earlier than usual-- and then having almost
certainly been obliged to return, under duress, to post the missing recap for
#73, LAI completely messed up...*)
TEASER: Bernardo
trás pistas de Montero. Pizarro impide la muerte de Esmeralda. Bernardo on [the]
trail of Tinhorn Despot. Pizza impedes Esme's death.) (he does? my wretched
memory! i don't remember ANYthing about that...)
NEW TITLES:
Bernando de detective / Bernardo trás la pista de Montero (Bernardo the
detective / Bernardo on the trail of Tinhorn) (all well and good, except we
don't see much of his detecting -- certainly not enough to warrant it being
talked about in half the teaser and both of the new titles!! but it sure would
be fun to see...!)
oh, yeah, i have to
include the picture that accompanied the recap because it's just... well, judge
for yourselves:
um, Bernardo, i love you
-- really, i do! but what is that thing on your head??
DATE: Thursday, 24 May
2007
EP #73
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
-Pizarro logra contener a
Montero, desiste de matar a Esmeralda pero ordena no darle comida.
Pizza manages to contain
Tinhorn, he desists from killing Esme but orders she not be given food. (you
know what? i think LAI screwed up, and gave us the recap for today's (Friday's)
episode (which is airing as i type this, but so far it sure resembles this WAY
more than does yesterday's episode!! and really, my memory may be bad, but it's
not usually THIS bad when i actually have seen at least some of the episode...
see what you think. by the way, a random observation: has anyone else noticed
that the scar on Tinhorn's cheek exactly parallels Tinhorn's sideburn...?)
-Montero consigue la
marca de El Zorro en su cama.
Tinhorn finds the mark of
Zorro in his bed. (hahahahaha!!! although that means that there's likely to be
more punishment for Esme in store...)
-En el día Montero sale
solo y es seguido por Bernardo quien descubre una choza en la que guarda algo.
By day, Tinhorn goes out
alone and is followed by Bernardo who discovers a shack in which he stores
something. (it seems a bit strange Tinhorn would store his money in some random
shack, but, ok. although, maybe it's not where he's got his treasure, but where
he's stocking up on baby items for his spawn with Mugre...?)
-Diego decide investigar
qué hay allí.
Diego decides to
investigate what is there. (oh, yeah. LAI definitely screwed up. this is
definitely not the recap for last night i wonder when --if?-- he is going to
discover his mistake....? )
in the meantime, later
i'll see what i can cobble together for the REAL Ep 73 (Thursday's).
*UPDATED, NOW THAT I'VE
SEEN ALL OF EPISODE #74 (tonight, Friday night's episode): since as tonight's
episode took place all at night, Bernardo was barely in the episode, and
Tinhorn hasn't found a Z in his bed yet, it looks like none of the above
happened tonight, either. and going back and looking at the avances for today
--which also didn't apply to tonight's show-- i believe what we have here is
this: LAI posted the avances for Ep #75 (this Tuesday) as the avances for
today's episode (#74), and now he's gone and --an even bigger gaffe!-- posted
the "recap" for Ep #75 as his "recap" for last night's
episode (#73)!!
what remains to be seen
is whether LAI will move forward and continue the mistake now that he's started
it, or if he will discover his two errors, fix them, and go back to his
customary slacking off?
Telenovela-World: translated AVANCES for
today (Fri 25 May) Author: B. (---) Date:
05-25-07 10:37 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as
usual, LAI has yet to post his recap for last night's episode (#73). i'll try
to keep checking in...
12.30p Pacific - still no
sign of #73. knowing him, i bet LAI took the day off, in which case we won't
see anything until Tuesday (if then!). if there's anyone unable or unwilling to
wait so long for my lame versions of LAI's totally lame "recaps," i
checked over on the Caray, Caray! blog and whoever writes the Thursday Zorro
summaries has already posted a pretty complete recap. follow the link above on
the page, and if the Zorro May 24th recap has been moved off the main page
(where it was when i checked just now), it will be in the Zorro blog.
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: El tesoro
de Montero en peligro.
Sara Kalí tiene el poder.
Tinhorn Despot's treasure
in danger. (oh, yeah, i think i forgot to mention in either Tuesday or
Wednesday's recap --don't remember which right now-- but Diego told Bernardo to
check around and find out where Tinhorn keeps his money. which is really Esme's
money anyway, since it's from the marriage settlement... i guess LAI's trying
to tell us that Bernardo found out where it's stashed. hee!)
Whiney Queen has the
power. (the power to do what, exactly? make us kill her to shut her up?)
TITLE: En peligro
el tesoro de Montero (Tinhorn's treasure in danger. (you know, LAI,
"danger" is relative. if by "in danger" you mean that
Diegorro's about to find it and appropriate it, then i'm not sure
"danger" is the word i'd use. mind you, i'm not sure what word i
WOULD use, but clearly you're just trying to make us feel all tense and
worried, and i'm telling you now, it won't work. just let us know if we should
be bustin' out the champers to celebrate someone making a fool of Tinhorn
again...)
DATE: Friday, 25 May
2007
EP #74
-El Zorro encuentra el tesoro
de Montero.
Zorro find Tinhorn's
treasure. (let's be clear here: it's not Tinhorn's treasure except in that he
appropriated it, mostly in unlawful fashions, from others. in which case i say,
Finders, keepers! and if Zorro finds it, too bad. of course, that does mean
that Esme's likely to pay pretty heavily. and it also strongly suggests that
Random Soldier doesn't succeed in finding Esme when he breaks into the Hotel
California...)
-Montero tendrá que mover
su tesoro.
Tinhorn will have to move
his treasure. (better make it quick, Tinhorn! they can get from Spain to the
New World in a matter of hours, so just think how fast your store could be
emptied...!!)
-Pizarro y Montero
preparan la muerte de Esmerlada si no dice quién es El Zorro.
Pizza and Tinhorn prepare
Esme's death if she won't say who is Zorro. (uh, oh, nice dilemma for Pizza,
unless... does he know know for certain that Whiney Queen is alive, in which
case he doesn't necessarily "need" Esme any more...?)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for “#74” (last
Friday) -- SPOILERS FOR TONIGHT's EP!!! Author: B. (---) Date: 05-30-07 16:39 PDT
RECAP FOR FRIDAY
(WARNING: LIKELY
SPOILERS FOR TONIGHT, WED 30th MAY)
TEASER: Pizarro y
Montero esconden a Esmeralda. El Zorro cae en la trampa de Montero. (Pizza and
Tinhorn Despot hide Esme.) (which i guess means, they decide she's not safe in
the seekret dungeon at the Hotel and they move her somewhere else they feel
will be safer. which means... where, exactly? maybe the same ravine the used
for the then-Masked Miracle for a while?) Zorro falls into Tinhorn's trap. (ruh
roh, Shaggy! rouble!!)
NEW TITLE: Montero
tiende una trampa (Tinhorn sets a trap) (oooh, i'm so scared! NOT!!)
DATE: Friday, 25 May
2007
POSTED AS BEING FOR EP
#74 (aired Friday 25th)
ACTUAL EP THIS RECAP
APPLIES TO: EP #76, AIRED Wed, 30 May, except for the teasers, title, and the
second part of the last line, which i think will turn out to apply to #77)
-El Zorro encuentra en el
sótano de la choza el tesoro de Montero: joyas, documentos de propiedades,
dinero, todo lo que ha robado a la gente.
in the basement of the
shack, Zorro finds Tinhorn's treasure: jewels, deeds for property, money,
everything he's stolen from the people. (you know, that just doesn't seem right
for Tinhorn. not that he would have stolen the stuff, but that he would have
hidden it in some shack, since, prior to the arrival of Peep and company, it
seems like except for occasional incursions from Zorro that weren't necessarily
directed against him personally but more against his tyranny in general,
Tinhorn didn't feel under personal threat. in which case i would have thought
Tinhorn more the type to want his stash somewhere close by, that was already
under guard anyway so the extra guards wouldn't be suspicious. unless the shack
happens to be where Tinhorn grew up --unlikely, but knowing Kooko, anything's
possible-- it just seems odd that he would even know where it was, never mind
have gone to the trouble of having a secret cellar constructed so that he could
stash his stolen goodies. if he had guards on it, it would only draw attention
to the shack, and yet leaving it unguarded would be, in Tinhorn's mind, asking
for trouble. or did i miss something when they showed Tinhorn going over to the
shack last night, like it's on the property of the Hotel or something?)
-El Zorro es sorprendido
en la choza por los hombres de Montero encargados de cuidar el lugar. Pelea con
ellos, los engaña y escapa.
Zorro is surprised at the
shack by Tinhorn's men in charge of taking care of the place. (ok, i understand
Zorro not seeing them, because he often seems to miss the totally obvious these
days, but Bernardo...? so this whole shack thing just really isn't working for
me. or at least, not as presented so far.) he (Zorro) fights with them, tricks
them, and escapes. (see, and this is just another reason why i don't think
Tinhorn would have used a shack. whatever.)
-La Marquesa de
Santillana y La Roquet, después de acusar a Montero y a Fernardo de lo que
hicieron con Esmeralda y Sara Kalí (cosa que ellos niegan), les hace firmar un
documento de paz.
the MarquieMarq de
Santillana and la Roquet (like there are so many marquesas running around Faux
Ángeles...), after accusing Tinhorn and Ad Nauseum (formerly Peep, for those
who are losing track) of what they did with Esme and Whiney Queen (something
they deny) (geez, could you write this a little more poorly, LAI??), makes them
sign a peace treaty. (<snort> like that will really stop either one of
them. well, maybe Ad Nauseum for about two seconds, but that's about it.)
-El plan de la Marquesa
de Santillana y La Roquet es que una vez hayan firmado el documento estén bajo
sus manos.
the plan of the
Marquiemarq de Santillana y la Roquet (and again with the unnecessary
repetition, LAI! are you getting paid by the letter??) is that once they've
signed the treaty they are in her hands. (um, yeah. right. that's going to
work. <snicker>)
-Montero ordena a Leroy
que translade el tesoro a la prisión.
Tinhorn orders Leroy
("Leroy"??) to transfer the treasure to the Hotel. (because this
Leroy person can be trusted to know he HAS this fortune in the first place? or
because this Leroy person can be disposed of once he's done the job? if it
turns out LAI is referring to Pizza, Leroy will SO be his new nick...)
-Montero llama a Pizarro,
su plan hará que Esmeralda diga todo lo que sabe y de una vez se deshará de
ella. Mariángel ve cuando él sale con Pizarro.
Tinhorn calls Pizza, his plan will be that Esme tells everything she knows and be rid of her once and for all. (LAI, you really have lost it. that was SO badly written. plus, Tinhorn clearly hasn't been consulting the credits: La Favela's right at the top -- no way you can get rid of Esme yet.) Mugre sees when he leaves with Pizza. (ah, ok, this must be how Mugre finds out that Esme is still alive: she follows them to the new hiding place. which just goes to show they should have left Esme where she was if they really didn't want anyone to know where she was. then again, the more "Z"s Tinhorn sees, the more intelligence he loses, so i suppose it's hardly surprising...)
TRANSLATIONS OF TELEMUNDO AVANCES &
SUMMARIES MAY 28, 2007-JUNE 1, 2007
MONDAY, MAY 28, 2007 -
MEMORIAL DAY - NO EPISODE BROADCAST
Telenovela-World: translated AVANCES for today
(29 May). or maybe 'today...' Author: B. (---) Date: 05-29-07 14:46 PDT
RECAP STATUS: so,
in addition to not having fixed his recap for #73 (last Thursday) --which bore
little resemblance whatsoever to any episode we have seen as yet--, LAI still hasn't
posted a recap for last Friday (#74), either. and are we surprised...? not in
the least!! and since his avances for last Friday's episode ALSO bore little
resemblance to any episode as yet seen, now to see if his avances for tonight
actually bear any resemblance to tonight's actual episode, or if, like last
Friday's, they end up being for some random future episode...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Esmeralda
yo no puede más.
El tiempo se acaba.
Esme can't take any more.
(and i'm not sure i blame her. but, and i kindof hate to bring this up, she
really should keep in mind that her mother was there for TWENTY YEARS, and in
an "iron mask" as well.)
Time is up. (time for..
what, exactly?)
TITLE: El Zorro
cae en la trampa. (Zorro falls in the trap. typical LAI, though -- he doesn't
tell us what trap. Mugre's? the Governator's? Tinhorn's? the cannibals'? LAI's?
Ríos'?? you know, so that Rat Pecs' invisible cape is the only cape in
town....)
DATE: Tuesday, 29 May
2007
POSTED EP #75
ACTUAL EP THESE AVANCES
APPLY TO: (to be advised when the appropriate episode airs; my guess: Ep #77)
-Montero tratará de
quitarle de nuevo la máscara a El Zorro.
Tinhorn Despot will again
try to unmask Zorro. (LAI, this is TOTALLY OLD NEWS. AND you've even had
several days' vacation to think about it!! we demand something better!)
-Mariángel se enfrentará
con Esmeralda.
Mugre confronts Esme.
(must be kindof a shock for Mugre, since she's actually convinced that Esme
really IS dead.)
-Aguirre quiere decir la
verdad.
Aguirre wants to tell the
truth. (uh, oh... i fear we won't have Aguirre around for too much longer if he
keeps up this telling-the-truth thing....)
Telenovela-World: comments on the RECAP for
#75 (Tue 29 May), as well as recent avances... Author: B. (---)
Date: 05-30-07 00:10 PDT
AS SUSPECTED, the avances
that LAI posted as being forlast Friday's episode (#74) were better suited to
today's, though i suspect will actually prove to be best suited to tomorrow's
episode. while the ones he posted for today would seem to be better suited to
and episode rather later this week (assuming today's are really for tomorrow,
if you're following me. which i'm not sure i am anymore...).
where he really messed
up, though, was with the recap he posted at the last minute on Friday (a
holiday Friday, at that!), supposedly for last Thursday's episode (#73) and
which, as suspected after i saw Friday's episode, would likely turn out to be
for today's episode (#75) if not for one later in the week. and today won the
toss.
of course, as usual there
is a whole mess of stuff that LAI decided wasn't worthy of mention, mostly
having to do with characters that aren't Tinhorn, Pizza, Esme, Bernardo, or
Zorro. which in the cast of tonight's episode means Tobobo, Dr Death, Gata Miau
Miau, the Fencing Master, Stevie, Peep (about to be renicked Ad Nauseum, since
he just won't stop with the María Pía whining, plus B.OB. is now the one doing
the peeping, but we can't give that nick to B.OB. because it will just be too
confusing. so i'll give that some thought and/or i welcome suggestions...),
Aguirre, Whiney Queen, Gleem, Dance Tramp, Azucena, Jonás, Camba, and the the
adopted gypsy formerly known as Sister Untwisted who i think i will now just
call Cammy (short for Chameleon but it could also work as short for Ana Camila,
which was her name before she became a nunnabe, it seems), Yummy, one or two of
the Ranch Hand Militia, María Pía, Yoda Tomás, Diego, Mugre, Rat Pecs, Dololes,
and Blabmu. if i have a chance later i'll write up something a little more
comprehensive. but just so you all can see how very much LAI DOESN'T do his
job, even when he pretends to be doing it.
also, the original
question still remains: will LAI realize his mistake with his "recap"
for #73 and post a real "recap" for the episode we actually saw? and
what will he do for #74? and tonight's episode?? we live to see...
so in summary, here's
what we seem to have:
-Avances posted as being
for Ep #74 (last Friday) would appear to actually be the avances for tomorrow's
episode (Ep #76) (here)
-Avances posted as being
for today's episode (Ep #75) are certainly not for today's at all and are
probably for Ep #77 (this Thursday) if not Ep #78 or later. (here)
-Recap posted as being
for Ep #73 (last Thursday) is actually for today's episode (#75). (here)
and the joy continues....
Telenovela-World: RECAP for “#75” (last
night) -- SPOILERS FOR LATER THIS WEEK!!! Author: B. (---) Date: 05-30-07 17:02 PDT
RECAP FOR TUESDAY
(WARNING: LIKELY SPOILERS
FOR TOMORROW, THU 31st MAY)
TEASER: El Zorro
cae en la trampa . Mariángel quiere ver a Esmeralda. (Zorro falls into the
trap. Mugre wants to see Esme.) (Zorro's an idiot. but Tinhorn's a bigger
idiot, so i'm not too worried. as for Mugre, i still want to see what she does
to her honeybunch Tinhorn now she knows he totally played her about Esme.)
NEW TITLE: Una
identidad en peligro (an identity in danger) (yawn. again.)
DATE: Tuesday, 29 May
2007
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
POSTED AS BEING FOR EP
#75 (Tue 29 May)
ACTUAL EP THIS RECAP
APPLIES TO: TBA (my guess: #77, airing Thu 31 May)
-El Zorro queda atrapado,
mientras habla con Montero se acerca y pone algo en la puerta. Montero llama a
los soldados y se alista para quitarle la máscara.
Zorro remains trapped,
while he talks to Tinhorn Despot he approaches and puts something on the door.
Tinhorn calls the soldiers and gets ready to take the mask off [Zorro]. (yeah,
that's not gonna happen. something's gonna stop it.)
-Montero le quita el
antifaz pero debajo tiene otro, y El Zorro hace explotar lo que puso en la reja
y sale en medio del humo.
Tinhorn takes off the
mask but beneath it he has another (oh, puh-leeze!), and Zorro makes the thing
he put in the bars [of the door] explode and leaves in the middle of the smoke.
(Zorro gets away using his smoke bombs so much that you'd think his enemies
ought to anticipate this and have figured out a way to counter this by now.
which means, i don't know who's the bigger moron: Zorro, for always using the
same trick, or Tinhorn, for not anticipating it by now. or the executive who
let the production buy a gross of smoke bomb effects for the discount and now
expects to get his money's worth.)
-Mariángel llega para
atormentar a su hermana: la acusa de haber perdido el amor de Santiago Michelena,
Esmeralda trata de hacerla razonar pero es en vano, el odio es mayor.
Mugre arrives to torment
her sister: she accuses her of having lost the love of Santiago Michelena
(WHO???), Esme tries to make her be reasonable but it is in vain, LAI's poor
writing skills are greater. i mean, the hatred is too great. (sorry, couldn't
stop myself. anyone who watches the rest of Telemundo's lineup, any idea which
one this Santiago Michelena guy is supposed to be? typical. in #74, it was
Leroy. now this guy...)
-Ya solos y por separado,
Diego y Esmeralda sufren por lo injusto de sus vidas. Diego está por creer que
ella si esta muerta.
Now alone and separated,
Diego and Esme suffer from the injustice of their lives. Diego is on the verge
of believing [Esme] really is dead. (boo hoo.)
-Olmos ofrece a Pizarro
la gloria si entrega a Esmeralda.
B.OB. offers glory to
Pizza if he hands over Esme. ("glory," B.OB.?? you think Pizza's
going to go for that? i mean, when he can hand Esme over to the Crown himself
and be assured of getting the glory, instead of having to settle for the chance
you'll double-cross him the way you did Esme during the Great Escape??)
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for “today” [USA,
5/30/07] (likely they actually apply to Friday or this Monday) Author: B. (---)
Date: 05-30-07 12:28 PDT
RECAP STATUS:
well, LAI has posted his recap for Ep 74, a quick skim of which makes me
strongly suspect will end up bearing a marked resemblance to tonight's episode --it
certainly bears none at all to last Friday's, which it purports to be, and
which is par for the course lately, as we've seen. in the meantime, here are
the supposed avances for today, which i believe we likely won't see until
Friday, if not next Monday. and the confusion continues...
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Montero
por fin descubrirá al Zorro
Mariángel se encuentra
con Esmeralda
Tinhorn Despot will
finally uncover Zorro (here i'm guessing in the sense of unmask. although, will
it be Diego, or will it be Tobobo, trying to do something Heroic to impress his
Gata Miau Miau and win her back from Pizza?)
Mugre meets with Esme.
(well, that's going to be something of a letdown for Mugre, since she's been so
pleased thinking that Esme really was dead. i guess the only question is, how
will she punish Tinhorn for lying to her...?)
TITLE: Montero
tiene al Zorro. (Tinhorn has Zorro.) (as i said, does he have Zorro? or
"Zorro"?)
DATE: Wednesday, 30
May 2007
POSTED AS BEING FOR EP
#76
ACTUAL EP THESE AVANCES
APPLY TO: (to be advised when the appropriate episode airs. my guess: Ep #78)
-Olmos tiene algo muy
importante que ofrecerle a Pizarro.
B.OB. has something very
important to offer to Pizza. (to Pizza??)
-Esmeralda sufre sola.
Esme suffers alone. (does
this mean that Aguirre is gone, or that she's suffering alone because Mugre has
reconfirmed that everyone truly believes she's dead?)
-Montero estará muy cerca
de descubrir todo.
Tinhorn will be very
close to discovering everything. (which of course means he won't. nice Friday
cliffhanger, though, LAI...)
Telenovela-World: RECAP for #76 (Wed 30
May) Author: B. (---) Date: 05-31-07
14:34 PDT
RECAP FOR WEDNESDAY
TEASER: La caza del
Zorro. Montero da su jugada. (The hunt of Zorro.) (or something. that didn't
look like a real hunt.) (loosely) Montero plays his hand. (um... yeah.
whatever.)
NEW TITLE: El
Zorro descubre algo (Zorro discovers something.) (the price of tea? the sky is
blue? LAI's been messing up the avances and recaps and has finally figured it
out, which is why today's avance and this recap are both even more lame than
usual?)
DATE: Wednesday, 30
May 2007
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
POSTED AS BEING FOR EP
#76 (Wed 30 May)
ACTUAL EP THIS RECAP
APPLIES TO: Ep #76 and maybe some of Ep #75. rats. the party's over.
SEE ALSO: this recap,
supposedly for #74, but actually for this episode. between the two, LAI kinda
sorta halfway has the whole episode covered. for a change!
-Pizarro se encuentra con
Catalina para tener un romance, pero no cuentan con que Tobías los espía.
Pizza meets with Gata
Miau Miau to have a romance, but they don't count on Tobobo spying on them. (i
can't tell if Pizza's really smitten --or, as much as Pizza can be smitten--
with Gata MM and is just really bad at expressing it, or if it's just some sort
of possessiveness thing with him, as in, "i need a woman and since i've
picked you, when i go away, you are coming with me." either way, he's
telling her that soon he will be going away and she will come with him. Gata MM
points out that she is a married woman and has no intentions of leaving her
husband, but Pizza doesn't see this as a valid objection. meanwhile, Tobobo is
hurt and furious, and it's hard to blame him, even if he should be intelligent
enough to realize that it's the woman who is supposed to be shy and retiring in
those days, not the man... it's also a shame for Gata MM, because even though
in many respects she's not fulfilled by Tobobo, she does seem to genuinely care
for him, but now that he knows about her and Pizza, he's snapping at her. i
don't think he stuck around the stable long enough to hear everything she said
to Pizza or he might be inclined to be a little bit kinder to her.)
-Tobías piensa en
dispararle a Pizarro,pero luego planea una mejor venganza.
Tobobo thinks about
shooting Pizza, but later he plans a better vengeance. (he remembers Dr Death
coming to him to rescue "the lady" that Pizza now supposedly thinks
is dead, and off he goes to pump Dr Death for details -- nearly giving the whole
thing away in the process, since even though Dr Death (like most of Faux
Ángeles, it seems) is not really on the ball, he's not compLETEly stupid,
either. Tobobo manages to cover his faux pas and Dr Death doesn't seem to
suspect he isn't the real Zorro. however, since he thinks Tobobo is the real
Zorro, he also didn't really tell Tobobo what he was hoping to learn, which was
who "the lady" is in the first place. it will also be interesting to
see if Tobobo will have the courage to go to the leper's sanatorium to see if
he can discover for himself who "the lady" is and why Zorro would
have busted her out of jail in the first place. and since at one time a great
deal was made of the whole "one look at her and everyone will Know"
thing, and Tobobo has supposedly spent time in Spain, theoretically he should
recognize her. or not. this is Kooko we're talking about here...)
-Olmos vigila a Mariángel
escondido y descubre dónde guarda el cofre por el cual llora.
B.OB. spies on Mugre and
discovers where she hides the box over which she cries. (and now we know it has
a mirror on the inside of the lid. but it is...??)
-El Zorro descubre un
lugar secreto en la choza de Montero. ¿Qué esconderá?
Zorro discovers a secret space
in Tinhorn's shack. What could it hide? (according to my hazy recollection,
this is from Ep #75, but having used up most of his creativity on the other
recap he did for this (see link above), LAI was getting desperate for something
to write. unless there is a secret space inside the secret treasure stash and i
just didn't see that part...?)
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for tonight (Thu
31). alas, the jig is up -- LAI's back 'on track'
Author: B. (---)
Date: 05-31-07 13:35 PDT
RECAP STATUS: well,
LAI has posted his recap for last night's episode (#76), and, judging by a
quick review, it seems like he's finally figured out he's been posting avances
for episodes that haven't aired yet because either the same things we saw last
night will be happening tomorrow, or he is finally back to posting his lame
recaps that leave out 3/4 the things that happened. at any rate, i'll get that
up later.
AVANCES FOR TODAY
(SUPPOSEDLY)
TEASER: El Zorro
tendrá que defenderse.
Olmos planea algo con
Pizarro.
Zorro will have to defend
himself. (because he usually never does...??)
B.OB. plans something
with Pizza. (and i think now we can all guess what it is: some sort of deal
that hands Esme over to B.OB. only whatever his faults, i don't think Pizza is
likely to hand over Esme until he is assured B.OB. has no plans to hurt her.
the question is, will he think of this possibility?)
TITLE: El Zorro en
peligro. (Zorro in danger.) (but he's supposed to be in danger. that's the
whole point!)
DATE: Thursday, 31 May
2007
POSTED AS BEING FOR EP
#77
ACTUAL EP THESE AVANCES
APPLY TO: (to be advised, but i'm thinking it might actually be tonight's,
since LAI's figured out he's been posting ahead for the recaps. maybe he's
figured out his avances have been way in advance as well...)
-El Zorro tendrá que
enfrentarse a Montero.
Zorro will have to
confront Tinhorn Despot. (again. LAI: this is NOT. NEWS.)
-Montero cree que lo
puede todo.
Tinhorn thinks he can do
anything. (this isn't news, either! the only thing that's changed is that
Tinhorn has gotten more manic and rather less subtle about it --not that he was
ever terribly subtle in the first place, but i'm talking relatively here.)
-Esmeralda ya no podrá
resistir más.
Esme will not be able to
stand any more. (she already can't stand it, so putting this in some sort of
future tense is just stupid. you don't actually know what to write, do you LAI?
so you're just babbling.)
-Mariángel sigue jugando
con los hombres.
Mugre continues playing
with the men. (yup, it's certain: LAI doesn't know what to write, since he
already did one set of avances for this episode (disguised as last Tuesday's,
here) and now that he's realized his mistake, he's trying to CYA in hopes his
bosses don't find out. obviously, he can't REPOST what he wrote before --that
would be a total giveaway-- so he's got to make something ELSE up. and this is
the result...)
Telenovela-World: RECAP (such as it is) for
#77 (Thu 31 May) Author: B. (---) Date:
06-01-07 18:25 PDT
RECAP FOR THURSDAY
TEASER: El Zorro
encuentra el tesoro de Montero.Sara Kalí tiene en sus manos la paz. (Zorro
finds Tinhorn Despot's treasure. (but even though he had to fight off guards to
get away, it doesn't seem like he did much with the information. typical.)
Whiney Queen has peace in her hands. (in the sense that she has the ability to
bring peace, not that her hands aren't fidgety. the thing is, i don't really
remember anything about WQ in last night's episode, so i'm not sure what LAI's
on about here, unless maybe he's trying to say that she's finally settled down
and stopped trying to run away all the time. or else he's using filler from
Wednesday's episode. or tonight's. because we're not confused enough.))
NEW TITLE: El
Zorro tiene un paso adelante (literally: Zorro has (as in owns) a step forward.
(??? your guess is as good as mine on this one. i'm tired and i'm sick and it's
been a long week, and even with meds, to me LAI is making even less sense than
usual. unless i'm missing something really obvious. which is totally possible,
at this point. otherwise, the only thing i can think is that LAI is trying to
say that Zorro is on the ball, that he is one step ahead of people. and if that
IS what he's trying to say, then LAI isn't paying ANY attention at all. Zorro's
been playing "catch-up" for most of the novela so far.)
DATE: Thursday, 31 May
2007
EP LENGTH: "one
hour"
EP #77
SEE ALSO: this recap, supposedly
for #75, but actually for this episode, as well as Jen Asha's EXCELLENT and
complete summary, here.
-El Zorro descubre todo
el oro que esconde Montero.
Zorro discovers all the
gold that Tinhorn Despot is hiding. (but does he do anything with it? no!)
-Montero cae en cuenta
del plan de El Zorro.
Tinhorn realizes Zorro's
plan. (more accurately, he seems to have guessed that Zorro was going to go
back to the Hotel to search again. but since Zorro seems to have spent half his
time in this novela wandering around in the Hotel, i think the idea he'd go
back was pretty much a no-brainer. no points for this one.)
-Leroy es una persona de
confianza de Montero y tendrá la difícil tarea de transladar el tesoro a la
prisión.
Leroy is a trusted man of
Tinhorn's and will have the difficult task of transferring the treasure to the
prison. (i missed some of the conversation last night, but i could have sworn i
heard Tinhorn telling Pizza that the reason it was perfect to remove Esme from
her cell behind the false wall at the Hotel to the basement of the Seeekret
Shack was because Zorro never goes back to someplace once he's already been
there. except he keeps going back to the Hotel. and since Zorro is notorious
for stealing Tinhorn's money and giving it away to poor people, why wouldn't
Tinhorn figure that Zorro might try to go back and steal the gold before it
could be moved somewhere else? and if the Hotel isn't a safe place to keep Esme
any more, then why is it a safe place to keep his hoard? did i miss something
in there that would make this make any sense to anyone except Mr Arbitrary
Kooko?? and speaking of missing something, why is a hired gun necessarily more
trustworthy than one of his soldiers? i would have thought it would be the
other way around, personally. unless that comment was a dig at Pizza...)
-El médico Agapito piensa
que Tobías es El Zorro y le cuenta todo sobre Sara Kalí.
Dr Death thinks that
Toborro is Zorro and he tells him all about the Whiney Queen. (including one
mention of her gypsy name, which apparently didn't register with Tobobo --big
surprise. the bigger WTF?? of the episode involving Tobobo, though, was that
Pizza didn't recognize his voice --which he didn't bother to disguise, so far
as i could tell-- or his accent and know him for Toborro instead of the real
Zorro. Kooko, once again making the characters fit the plot and not the other
way around. which is just pathetic.)
Telenovela-World: AVANCES for “today”
(though they seem more like for yesterday) Fri 1 Jun Author: B. (---)
Date: 06-01-07 12:01 PDT
RECAP STATUS: as might be
expected, LAI has yet to publish his "official" recap, not only because
it's a Friday but also because he is no doubt taxing his brain trying to think
up something "new" he can post for this since he's already
"recapped" it once before, in the guise of the recap for Ep #75. see
here for that post. or, if you can't wait and you want to know what actually
did happen and not just the few bits LAI deemed worthy, check out Jen Asha's
EXCELLENT and very complete summary, here.
AVANCES FOR TODAY
TEASER: Una trampa
para el Zorro.
Esmeralda tendrá nuevo
escondite.
A trap for Zorro. (yes,
we know: he walked right into it yesterday.)
Esme will have a new
hideout. (ANOTHER new hideout?? they just moved her! i think LAI's confused
again. or he is out of what little inspiration he has managed to steal from
WonderTemp and other more worthy individuals.)
TITLE: Montero
logra lo que quiere. (Tinhorn Despot achieves what he wants.) (what. ever. you
know it won't last, LAI...)
DATE: Friday, 1 June
2007
POSTED AS BEING FOR #78
MOSTLY APPLY TO: #77 (Thu
31 May)
SEE ALSO: this
post, which are the avances originally posted as being for Ep #76 (Wednesday),
but which i suspect apply more to this episode than do these
"official" avances...
-El Zorro tendrá que
tener mucho cuidado.
Zorro will have to be very
careful. (yeah, that'll be the day...)
-Mariángel visita a
Montero y le pide algo con mucha autoridad.
Mugre visits Tinhorn and,
with much authority, asks him for something. (again? or is this referring to
the questions she asked him in last night's episode, at gunpoint?)
-Para Montero, Esmeralda
no está bien escondida.
To Tinhorn, Esme is not
well hidden. (well, duh!!! either at the Hotel or now that she's at the Seekret
Shack.)
-La prisión es el sitio
más sospechoso para El Zorro.
The Hotel is the most suspicious site for Zorro. (oh, LAI, puh-leeze!!!)
SUMMARIES FROM
TELENOVELA-WORLD MAY 28, 2007 – JUNE 1, 2007
Telenovela-World: Re: summary for Thursday's eppi [USA, 5/31/07] Author: Jen Asha (---)
Date: 06-01-07 08:42 PDT
Esmeralda has awakened in her cell, and
hearing something, calls out, “Diego?” She is happy and hopeful. I think the
doors to her cell open, and she ventures forward, only to be knocked out by
Leroy, one of Montero’s Not-So-Merry Men.
In the Bat Cueva, Bernardo tells Zorro of
Montero’s latest movements. His men are moving the money in the shack to El
Callao. Z is headed back to El Callao, but to continue to search for Esme.
Zorro prepares himself to go with all of his weapons, and a newfangled
mask/do-rag Bernardo has fashioned for him [I didn’t catch what’s special about
it, but get the feeling this will be important tonight based on the promo, when
Montero tries to unmask him]. Z wants Bernardo to stay behind this time. If he
doesn’t come back, find Tornado, and then wait for news. Gloomy!
Montero meets up with Pizza and wants him
to go with him somewhere. Little do they know, they are being followed by
Little Red Riding Hood, aka Mugre. Pizza and Montero stop on a deserted road,
and Montero informs Pizza that Esmeralda has been moved – Pizza doesn’t think
this is a good idea. Mugre is pissed – Montero lied to her about Esme being
dead!
Montero’s men arrive and have Esmeralda.
Pizza is introduced to Leroy, and learns that these men are Montero’s personal
guys, ones he trusts even above Pizza. They don’t take orders from anyone but
Montero. Montero orders the unconscious Esmeralda to be installed in the
sótano, and Aguirre will be arriving soon to take care of her, and so she
doesn’t escape. Pizza is to oversee all this.
Almudena has a nightmare about Esmeralda’s
“murder.” Alehoundro comforts her, and after she goes back to sleep, he wanders
around the house and meets up with Dololes, who also can’t sleep. She feels
there’s a heavy shadow hanging over Chez Infidelity. Alehoundro has a bad
feeling about Almudena’s dream – is he being punished by God? He doesn’t want
to lose his love. God, don’t take away Almudena, take him! [Yes, God, take him,
take him!]
Yumalai has gone back to see Búfala Blanca,
having been spooked by Almudena’s dream, in which RegiPurnia advises her of her
death. BB doesn’t understand why Yumalai gives a crap about this white woman,
but she prepares a pipe for Yuma that will allow her to speak with RegiPurnia –
from the other side of the “wide river” – for a brief while. [I totally missed
their conversation – what was said?] Later, BB advises Yuma that she can’t
fight Almudena’s destiny. As Regipurnia said, Almu’s going to die.
Mugre is waiting in her undies for Montero
when he gets back to his house. He doesn’t want her just showing up (what if he
were with a woman?), he’s busy and preoccupied, and not really into whatever
she’s there for. But he’s piqued by her apparent jealousy, when he mentions
another woman, and she started coming on to him…and then disarms him. Pointing
the gun at his head, she demands to know the truth about Esme, and rails at
him, etc, etc. They kinda have a conversation about this: Mugre wants to be in
on everything, this concerns her, Esme is her rival, is Esme still pregnant,
and then she drops her bomb – she wants to go to see Esmeralda.
Esmeralda wakes up and wanders around her
new place. In the same scene, or later, don’t remember, Aguirre arrives, and
she’s happy to see him. He explains to her that she’s been moved, but he can’t
tell her where or why. He’s going to keep taking care of her, and he’s going to
talk to Olmos, though he hasn’t been able to reach him because he doesn’t live
in the city anymore – he now lives at Casa de la Vega [not remembering the rest
of this scene…]
Camba sleeps in the foreground, huddled on
a mat in the open [somebody get the dude a blanket already!] Renzo and The Nun
Formerly Known as Suplicios, aka Ana Camila, have a conversation about Renzo’s
lost love. Ana Camila wants to know more about him [making up for his regaño of
her because she didn’t ask about him before, methinks]. He tells her about his
love for Esmeralda, who AC remembers. He fell in love with her the moment he
saw her, but she didn’t return his affection. Ana Camila is convinced Esme
couldn’t have spent much time with Renzo, cuz if she had, she couldn’t help but
love him. Ah, it’s no use anyway, says Renzo – she’s dead, murdered by
Montero’s men. Laisha looks on this conversation jealously [but thankfully,
keeps her mouth shut, and her distance far].
In a long monologue over a few scenes,
Olmost examines the card in Mugre’s make-me-cry box. It’s on fine paper, the
seal has never been broken, and the card is very old. He heats up the wax with
a candle and reads the note. In it, he is shocked to discover that Mugre was in
love with a man named Santiago Michelena, back in Spain, but he repayed her
love by tossing her aside for another woman.
Tobias and Agapito continue their
conversation at Agapito’s shop, about SK, and where she is, her ties to the
Crown, and whatever Zorro’s going to do. [I had to do something else during
this scene, so somebody else fill in!]
María Pía says her goodbyes to Padre Tomás
and Sister Carola. Padre Tomás entrusts her with a letter of introduction to
Padre Casas in México, because MP is arriving before the mail will have had time
to reach him and tell him what’s up. Ad Nauseum’s (aka Peep’s) two spies see
that a nun is leaving (they don’t know who) and alert Prudencio, who tells the
Governator. Fernando’s convinced it’s MP and tells Prudencio to send pairs of
men to the southern border road, the north just in case, and the port. Ad
Nauseum also asks for his own horse – he’s going to intercept her personally.
[and I’m sure, rant and rant and rant at her ad nauseum in one of Kookoo’s
ridiculously repetitive MP scenes of late]
Aguirre goes to see Olmost and tells him of
Esmeralda’s move. Aguirre’s concerned that Montero has lost his mind, and if he
finds out Sara Kalí is dead, Esme won’t be of any use to him, and he’ll kill
her. He pleads with Olmost to do something, and Olmost concludes that he’s
going to try to make a deal with Pizza.
Tobias-as-Zorro (Toborro) comes up behind
Pizza on a street and tells him to put his hands behind his head and get on his
knees (Pizza never sees Toborro’s face). Speaking with suddenly
Castilian-accented Spanish, Toborro tells Pizza that he has SK in his
possession – she’s not dead, and he dug her up from her grave. This is Pizza’s
WTF?! moment. “Zorro” will release SK to Montero, or something like that, if
Pizza doesn’t stop messing around with married women! How dare he besmirch the
honor of Catalina, daughter of Juez Quintanilla! Pizza’s not sure why “Zorro”
cares so much about who he sleeps with. After Zorro leaves, having failed to
mark Pizza’s jacket with much of a Z, Pizza swears Zorro will pay.
María Pía is in the carriage on the road,
escorted by some indios from the mission, who are on foot, I think. She asks
the driver to hurry. Suddenly, there’s a pair of men and horses up head. Guess
who? Fernando tells MP to get down from the wagon. Cliffhanger face!
Zorro is searching through the well-lit and
clean (dungeon?) cells. He enters one to examine something, and Montero shuts
the door behind him. It was a trap! Another Cliffhanger Face!
Esmeralda is chilling in her new basement
digs, when the doorway down the stairs opens – it’s MUGRE! Surprise wars with
fear and hope on Esmeralda’s face. Mugre, looking around the furnishings, says
she never thought she’d see Esmeralda again. Esmeralda tentatively says,
“Mariángel?” - end of show!
Foristas, please fill in what I missed!
Telenovela-World: Re: Mugre/Esme Conversation [USA, 6/1/07] Author:
Enoch (---) Date: 06-02-07 13:36 PDT
Short Version:
Mug: Hace mucho a~nos you stole mi novio.
Esme: I ain't done it.
Mug: Yes you did!
Esme: No I dint.
Mug: I done saw you.
Esme: He kissed me by force. I told him to
go take a flyin' leap.