Telenovela Alborada 24

This is a recap of the Univision telenovela "Alborada". IN ORDER TO READ THE WHOLE POST, YOU CLICK "READ THE REST" AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS SUMMARY!If you are new, please visit the recaps in ORDER - they are listed to the right under a picture of Do~na Juana and Modesta. See the bottom of this post for more information.MONDAY: Luis offers to run away with Hip'olita and Rafael, it will work if you just give it a try, I want to be registered as Rafael's mother but that means adultery and jail, please don't take my child, I promise I won't, how about your mother, I won't let her, are you sure you can handle her, yes. But in exchange I want to see Rafael whenever I want, Antonio won't allow it, Rafael's my child, I have rights, ok. How are you? Good (lies). How are you? Bad (tells truth). We're desperate.I was glad to see the little reprise of the Cinderfella ball since I missed Friday. It doesn't hold a candle to that great ball in "Amor Real", goodness, how beautiful that was, and we saw it every night in the credits... Anyway, back to the Guevara estate: why are these decorative women standing on the driveway rotating ridiculous ribbons in the dark where only lackeys are watching? What a crummy gig!CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST!Juana says yet again, this time to the "Regidor": "Diego has only girls, Rafael is my only grandson." The "Regidor" thinks Hip'olita and Antonio will go back to Panama and start making babies of their own and Hip'olita won't mind losing just this one. He thinks Juana should "insist" on keeping Rafael.Caray, caray! What do I hear? This is what you've been complaining about, isn't it, my dear friends: the whiny low-IQ singer simpering and idiotically crooning "ahh, ahh, ahh" (and actually she's only lip-synching, and very poorly) whilst waving her scarf around, and she has a tiara! Nobody's paying any attention, no matter how much she postures and preens. Another lousy gig.The person who does music for this novela has a TIN EAR.More pointless exposition repetitions between Isabel and the Regidor's wife, notable only because they are peeing at the same time. Not convenient, peeing in those dresses! Isabel has cute legs.Diego badgers Antonio again. Is it true you boink Luis's prostitute, or is it true you are an afeminado? (There are many possibilities not covered by this bipartite question.) Antonio says the "efeminado" thing is a lie spread by Luis. Diego: women are just there to be gotten pregnant, Antonio: well whatever, but I love Hip'olita. "Too bad she cuckolded you. She did not! Luis raped her! Oh, yeah, the way I raped his wife Esperanza. I guess I avenged you." (Giggles and sneezes.)If you ask me, Diego is awfully interested in fun with boys. Surely he indulges with his staff from time to time?Ooh, the awful singer got some applause.Francisco asks Isabel: "Who is this Poderosa, she's offering my son Andres a whopping dowry to marry your protege Marina; I should take care of this personally."Victoria and Sara are fretting about Gasca ferreting out their secret. Victoria: "I have to kill him. Maybe we can rat him out to the authorities. No way, we have no proof. OK do what you want, but remember, if you kill him you'll be marked forever. I'm marked already. Tomorrow I'll see my daughter." Sara says Marina is probably embarrassed and it would be better to lie low for a while. "Why did life treat us like this? It wasn't life, it was Juana denouncing my family, if I had been able to raise you on my parents' farm, your life would have been so much different... ... and the life of my poor daughter."Antonio, in his grand salmon outfit, is leaving for the Vanilla Plantation with Andr'es. He reminds Hip'olita that Luis is forbidden to come to the house, she says "No, he gets to see his son, he's part of our lives, at least of mine. Have you slept with him again?" She wiggles out of the question.He leaves, she tells Ada about his ultimatum, Ada says I told you so, Hip'olita says she wants to tell Antonio she's had sex with Luis, Ada says don't. "I'm tired of lying, and anyway he won't dump me because he's got skeletons in his own closet."On the subject of the irascible and obstinate Antonio, Isabel queries rhetorically: "Why did this "monigote" have to show up?" "MONIGOTE:" rag doll, paper doll; ridiculous figure (painted usually by children); puppet, person without personality, humorous sketch, bad painting.Luis won't let Isabel sign the palace over to Rafael. He wants her to stop talking about it, says she's healthy as a horse and will live forever anyway. After he leaves Isabel tells Aurelio to put the place in Luis's name. (One of our fans has pointed out that if Luis is really Diego, maybe this will mean the castle would revert to Diego if he were really Luis!)Marina is indeed embarrassed to hear Victoria has dangled a delicious dowry in front of Andr'es in hopes of getting him to propose to Marina. "Ever since Diego [raped me], Andr'es has changed, he isn't interested, I am sure he despises me." Victoria says: "It's not your fault. Just tell me if you love him. Yes, I do. Then I'll go talk to him." Juana asks Diego which of the prospective brides he liked. "Not a one of them. Well, there aren't any more candidates. Then I'll take the fat one. She's not as old as the others and she has twin sons." Juana says she'll make the arrangements. "Make sure the documents ensure her twins get nothing." Diego tells his mother he's sure Antonio would like to be rid of Rafael. Felipe's wife Carmela frets about Marcos, away on his trip to find Modesta's relatives; the world is a dangerous place, especially if you're in the Guevara orbit. Since her father worked for Juana's dead spouse, Felipe asks whether he'd ever told her what they were like. "Well... Juana was bossy, the husband was prudent. Did your dad ever mention Sara de Oviedo? Yes, she was a Jew, her people had lots of money, she was a dear friend of Aurora (wife of Don Carlos, previous Count of Guevara - and Luis's real mother). She died with them in the fire. Who told him so? Juana did, when she fired him, right after Don Carlos died. Not after her husband died? No, after Don Carlos died." This is obviously a clue but I don't get it. "Why did Juana fire your dad? Who knows? at first she assured him he could keep his post, but then she changed her mind." Another clue. Esperanza looks absolutely ghastly! Chalk one up to the makeup guy. Burning up with fever, she nevertheless insists on getting dressed. She's carried to the carriage and she and Mirtha drive to the capital to see the Archbishop, Fray Alvaro! Magnificent scenes! She waits at the verge of death on one of his benches till Alvaro's available and is then carried into his chambers (all this carrying being done by the handsome and stalwart Vicente).She has an audience with the archbishop. "I hear you lost your baby. Yes, it was a punishment from God. I lied - I never saw the Virgin!" (Alvaro: "You know what you're saying? Sacrilege!") She's on a roll. "I also lied about the baby being Luis's - it was Diego's baby. Diego raped and impregnated me." (Alvaro, shaking hands towards heaven, "Dear God, How Is This Possible?") She babbles on but Alvaro hears nothing further. His hard drive has crashed due to excessive information. Esperanza faints.Back at the estate, Luis greets Santiago (worst hair in the whole show) and his wife, who have come to visit Esperanza (Santiago's sister). When they're told Esperanza's gone out, Santiago and Luis set out to find her.Hip'olita and Ada and the potato-sack Rafael are watching scary marionettes in the city plaza. Hip'olita: "Luis is my rock, my comfort." Ada: "You're just saying that cause you're in love." Luis and Santiago, blasting past in search of Esperanza, stop for a moment. Rafael runs into Luis's arms. Luis tells Hip'olita he needs to see her that very night.Luis and Santiago find Esperanza in her feverish faint in Alvaro's office. Alvaro won't let her go home because she's to be charged with sacrilege. Luis says it doesn't count cause she wasn't right in the head. Alvaro: "BUT SHE ALSO BOINKED YOUR COUSIN!"Luis is stunned. He inflates and hyperventilates. Now HIS hard drive has frozen up. Then he dashes dashingly off on his horse. Alvaro's parting words: "You lied too when you said you slept with her!"At the estate, Gasco hovers menacingly while Juana chats with Diego, arranging for Eloise's entry into the family. Luis bursts in, bursting with rage! A very satisfying fight ensues: kicking, punching, skull cracking. Juana prevents Luis from choking Diego to death and then prevents Gasca from stabbing Luis to death. Good work, Juana! As Luis punches Diego he shouts: "Esperanza has just told everything to Alvaro!" Juana sobs: "She's lying!" Luis says: "Stop Defending This Dog! [Diego.]"Didn't Luis look lovely, all mussed up like that? Snaps to his hairdressers.Juana: "Luis, if you want to kill Diego, you'll have to kill me first." Luis: "OK mother - or, should I be calling you mother at all?"Diego moans and is carried away. Luis tells Juana that Esperanza is being detained by the Archbishop for sacrilege and adultery. Juana: "We can't allow that! Modesta, we're off! Get my things. We'll tell Alvaro Esperanza is demented, it's the only salvation."Intermittently, rounds of everybody spreading the sensational Esperanza gossip (sEg). Diego looks really swollen and banged-up, isn't it wonderful? "Gasca, I just want you to kill him."Modesta: "The midwife would attest that Esperanza is crazy." Juana: "Yes! Bring her to the archbishop!"Catalina kvells over her husband Cristobal, the best man in the world. "We still haven't lived together as man and woman but I think it will be soon."Asuncion is opposed to Marina as a daughter-in-law because she's no virgin. She primly tells Catalina: "Your father won't approve. And anyway, what decent woman lets people call her "La Poderosa"? What's important is that they love each other."Arrival of a toadie with the sensational Esperanza gossip (sEg) brings them all to their feet.Catalina points out the depravity of the aristocrats whose favor her craven mother curries. She says if it hadn't been for Luis and Crist'obal her brother Andr'es would have gone to jail and maybe been executed.Francisco isn't so glad to hear about all this - it's the end of his blackmail scheme. Though he does indulge in schadenfreude.Crist'obal, inspecting Esperanza: "She's very weak. The dry fever is the bad kind." Santiago (he's cute, I wouldn't have minded seing more of him through the weeks) says: "Don't give up, Esperanza."In the group audience with the archbishop, Juana - wearing a tiara to remind Alvaro of her power etc. I suppose - is desperately spinning lies without really convincing anybody. Alvaro says he must talk with Diego.Cristobal suggests to Alvaro that Esperanza be carried to the convent where his sister is abbess. "If she survives, you can bring her to trial later; if she doesn't survive, at least she'll end her days decorously."TUESDAY: Tonight everybody had to chew endlessly over the sEg (sensational Esperanza gossip).Sara asks Victoria: "Why do you insist on Andr'es marrying Marina if he doesn't want her? Because "she" wants "him". Forced marriages are torture for the woman. But if the woman has a lot of money... anyway, he can be talked around. And if not, I'll find her another one. Men don't care whose fault it is, the woman has to be a virgin, he has to be first. I'm going to try anyway, I've sent a note to his father."Asuncion is fussing away re: the sEg. Francisco: "I hope Luis kills Diego, he deserves it." Then she lays out her reasons for rejecting Andr'es's suitor: "This Marina is pretty but she's just a ward." Francisco counters: "Your daughter Hip'olita is illegitimate. But Marina had SEX with Diego. But your daughter had SEX with Luis. I don't get it! You're usually so strict!? If the Count, Luis and Juana can all behave so badly, why should "I" be a puritan, especially when there's money involved?" Francisco gets Victoria's note and announces he'll be going out tonight...On the way to the vanilla plantation, Andr'es seeks counsel from Antonio as he has nobody else to talk to. He loves Marina, she loves him, but from the first she'd warned him she'd been raised to be the protected lover of a rich man. (Rest stop at a roadside stand where quesadillas and pig's blood are sold.)Antonio takes Marina's side, saying she really could not have held out against Diego. "It's normal that an orphan without family or money would feel helpless before the Count. You were imagining the luxuries, but you better get a grip and consider her desperation, her terror. She was a lamb in front of a tiger." Andr'es gets his stupid look. Wake up, boy.Esperanza is carried to the abbey. The abbess doesn't want to allow visits from Santiago but Cristobal says have some Christian charity. Luis stares, rapt, at a candle. (Clue!)Diego shouts and whines and says Luis has to pay for what he did. Juana: "No way, you got what you deserved, and by the way Alvaro wants to see you. Alvaro believed Esperanza? We hope not - we all lied for you - but this is the last time. I'm not going to intercede for you again."Francisco goes to "La Poderosa". I never noticed the menorah before. Victoria, dressed very nicely, tells story #1 (that she got the care of Marina from a dead mother who wanted her daughter well married.) Cutting immediately to the chase, Francisco says: "Andres is my only son, I want him to marry well. How much money are we talking about? Money and properties. Properties, oh, maybe a hacienda?"Francisco then goes to find Andr'es at Antonio's house. He takes one of Antonio's cigars. Hip'olita says Andr'es is off on the vanilla plantation expedition. Blah blah blah. Francisco, hearing that Esperanza has gone to the convent, says truth: "When the poor sin, they go to jail. When the rich sin, they go to convents and have dozens of servants. That's why money is necessary." He continues: "Is your husband rich? I hope he hits you once in a while. Tell Andres to come see me."For a little relief, we watch Catalina decorating the patio while Crist'obal beams at her. Isabel thinks Luis should kill Diego, or... "I know! I'll run him off the place, I'd love to! I beg you not to, it's such a scandal." She unnecessarily tells Luis that her ward Marina is not a nobody, she's the daughter of Victoria and grand-daughter of Sara. Luis is completely uninterested. After he leaves Marina worries, remembering her mother didn't want her real name getting around.Santiago and his wife worry. The abbess squeezes the truth out of Mirtha by threatening her soul. Love potions, blah blah blah.Diego tells Gasca: "I really, really want Luis dead." Gasca points out it would be awfully obvious just now. "I order it - kill him or you're fired. Consider it done."Juana is sitting at her spinning wheel but not making much progress. The Guevaras are not known for textile prowess. Modesta worries away at Luis's comment, to wit: "Should I really be calling you Mother?" Juana says, "He can't know! only Agust'in knew and he, fortunately, is dead." Modesta remembers: Sara knew that the true little count had a burned leg. (Clue!) Is it possible Sara told Isabel?Catalina is sad for Esperanza and insists that Crist'obal throw his weight into improving her situation. He likes that. They embrace and get lovey but I guess no sex again tonight.Luis visits Felipe and Carmen. They remark: you certainly are under a lot of stress! "My mother - Felipe, the other day you said I'd be better off if I weren't her son - was that because she doesn't like me, or because she prefers Diego? More. We think maybe the inheritance of Juana's husband's property might have been the motive for substituting her real baby for you." Helpful deep background: "After her husband's death, Juana fired all her servants and left Valverde, as if she wanted to leave anybody who knew her recently born son. What if her own son had died, and she scraped you up as a replacement?"Later, Luis moans to Felipe: "Then Isabel isn't my aunt, I have no family, I have nothing. You're a man, and it's not a name or a title that makes a man."Re: sEg -- Antonio casually tells Hip'olita he's known for ages that Diego did the deed. She's scandalized that he told nobody, but he asks why would he want to help out that jerk Luis? Antonio asks again: "Are you sleeping with him or not? When I came to this country hurt and alone, two people held out a helping hand - Martin, who died defending me, and Luis..." she recounts Luis's good deeds. Antonio gets angry and they run through their usual fights, somewhat escalated when she admits her affection for Luis and Antonio calls her a "cualquiera. I am not, and besides, Luis is father of my son. And besides, that's your fault." Antonio storms out and goes to Perla's house where they have lots of sex. That makes me happy because I don't have to write anything.While Hip'olita awaits Luis's promised visit, Ada is fussing that Hip'olita revealed so much to Antonio. When Luis arrives, Ada lies to him, saying his visit is not wanted and that Hip'olita is talking with her husband! Luis says he'll be back the next night. Hipolita is upset... Later she asks Antonio if he wants her to leave him. "And have you go right off to Luis's arms? No way. I want a normal life with you, wouldn't you like that?" She nods unconvincingly.Gasco discusses Luis's murder with Ramon and Arcadio. Luis is never alone, he'll have to be killed in his bed. They say no, it's too dangerous, and they're in so deep with La Poderosa, and why, Gasca, are you interested? Gasca explains that Victoria killed her husband fifteen years ago (actually Gasca himself did the deed) and she's still wanted, in fact there's quite a price on her head, and the three of them can collect it.Marcos returns from his trip - he has proof that Modesta was in Valverde with Rafael!I POST THE NEW UPDATE EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY MORNING. ALL ALBORADA RECAPS ARE NOW LISTED IN THE SIDEBAR TO THE RIGHT - BELOW THE SMALL PICTURE OF MODESTA AND DO~nA JUANA, JUST ABOVE THE ELEPHANT. CLICK ON THE NUMBERS (ONE TWO THREE... ETC) TO FIND THEM!Amor RealEntre el Amor y el Odio"Telenovela villains meet lurid, dreadful deaths"Technorati Tags: Telenovela, Alborada, Novela, Summary, Plot