But the Jacobo is her father is gonna pushes them away more. This is gonna make juliana leave to Costa Rica.
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For a second, while Val’s was having panic attacks and freaking out about not feeling safe,I thought “they gonna send this bitch to Costa Rica to be safe and she’s gonna run into juls and live happily ever after I just know it” asfgjdsd
Do you really think anyone’s going to Costa Rica at this point? We got like 22 eps left and soooo much plot to cover, I cannot believe that they would send anyone away, let alone people instrumental to the main story.
I cant believe we spent eons agonizing over who would tell val that juls was there and homegirl calls her and tells val herself T_T ….i really can’t predict anything with this show. Writers keep surprising me at every turn !! My mother did not prepare me for telenovas !!
They’re just breaking ALL the rules of TV here?? There is no show I’ve ever watched where things are so direct, let alone telenovelas.
i haven’t watched the new clips but i can’t remember have juliana and mateo met before? does juliana know mateo was the one who helped during lupe’s kidnapping? and does mateo know juliana is the girl val was with? (i stan mateo for standing up against Eva’s homophobic sht) i just want them to be friends!! hahaha
They haven’t, not really. They saw each other at Guille’s party but I’m pretty sure neither really noticed each other, plus, Juls looked very different. I don’t think even Eva really recognized her, and they actually spoke.
And since they don’t know the other by face, I don’t think they actually know each other’s name, even if Val talked to the other and said Mateo helped me or thanks for helping me with Juls.
And another anon:
I want Mateo to go check on Valentina and then mateo: “how’s Juliana?” Val: “we haven’t spoken” Mateo: “but…She was out there with me during the shoot off with the police. She didn’t come see you?” Val: ???♀️?❤️
I think literally all of us watching and seeing Mateo talking to the cops while Val was sitting in the back were screaming for something like that, but I don’t actually know if it’ll happen? On the one hand, surely there was a reason for the two to meet outside like that, but on the other, damn this central plot, while it’s great that we saw Juls show up (and prove to the viewers who didn’t see enough of her perspective) so worried, maybe it was to get her to see El Chino. I don’t know for how long it’ll be relevant that Juls was outside too, once the Jacobo connection comes out, even that might be cast under suspicion. 😡
Praise the amar a muerte writes. I’m not sure if they know what they’re doing but as hell that it works.
That is…the biggest question to me. If they just stumbled on this? I mean, we can see the results of a LOT of good intentions on their part, that’s definitely on them, how central they are, how much the story favors and supports them, the number of good tropes they get and bad tropes they don’t. But if it’s this easy…why can’t anybody else do it?
It’s not just that it’s a telenovela and thus allowed to lean into romance and over the top tropes that other genres refuse to, because other telenovelas don’t do this either. Across the world, shows like this exist and they haven’t been able to do this.
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Organic. Is the word Maca always used to describe juliantina’s relationship on Interviews. That word means natural. And i can’t stop thinking how accurate that is. Even the angst feels like that. Like there’s nothing rush or push to feel a plot. Every part of them as characters and the relationship works. Interesting. There’s really few ships that work like that.
Absolutely. I’ve been using that word to mainly describe their interactions, how realistic and natural they come across, the laughter, the touches. But the flow of the relationship has been just as natural. Even this latest conflict is about as in-character as it could have been, in a series where regular kidnappings and affairs and body-switching are the norm and a genre where everyone’s going to be hurt and unhappy in these last few weeks as we build to the end.
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Hi, I wish the writers, producers, etc for julaintina also got the kudos they deserve for bringing this beautiful story into being in the first place. I mean the actresses should always get their fair share of attention since for the general public they are the face of the ship, but I really really appreciate the thought process & courage to conceive the storyline.
They do, they really do. It’s easy to understand why the actresses get so much love, deservedly so, they bring a lot to this and are the face of the ship, but a lot of the great parts of this ship have been in the actual treatment of it. The dialogue, the kind of scenes they get, the focus. And the directors and editors have really helped everything show at its best.
In reference to your Ek Ladki post. I mean were we really expecting to have an all out wlw film? Hoping, yes. Expecting? We aren’t there yet unfortunately. Having a male driven film is another bag of marbles if we start talking about that in reference to South Asian culture and norms. It’s good to have expectations and be critical though. ELKDTAL is atleast a foot in the door of positive representation and subject matter.
Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. I just expected a bit more of them.
Lol, I just deleted a whole para about what I would have wanted more of even within its environment. It is what it is, and what it is is something new and important. My hype is somewhat dampened but I’ll still try to see it as soon as I can.