There’s a part of me who’s kind of happy about the angst that is about to come – the issue of trust between V/J regarding Jacobo. It can either go with: V confronting J about whether Jacobo’s her dad. If J says yes, then 1) V freaks out, J is hurt from implication that she’s bad person, J moves to CR, Jacobo comes clean, V spends time winning J back. OR: 2) confront Jacobo together as a team, not quite back together but sneaking heart eyes; fix soul jumping, fix relationship – time jump- END

Tbh, yeah, as long as there’s a solid amount of plot-based angst, you would hope that would save them from sudden, extreme drama-injecting twists. It’s crazy that they’re managing to repeatedly shock us by doing the most straightforward thing.

I don’t really see how winning Juls back will happen if she’s in Costa Rica? There’s just so much plot that needs to happen here. The cartel people coming to take care of Chino need to be handled in some way first and then the reveals have to start.

Lupe and Juls need to find out Jacobo isn’t Chino and Beltran is, Beltran’s family needs to find out his stuff, the Carvajals need to find out Jacobo is Leon and also that Lucia is super shady and Eva is having an affair with Alacran and then probably Lucia will get some kind of redemption and maybe Jacobo and Johnny and a few others will die. That’s a lot of plot to also stuff in a move to Costa Rica and all the peripheral stuff with Mateo and Panchito and Sergio and Renata’s hanger-on and Mayela. 

And another anon:

Bruh this telenovela’s got me second guessing everything. On one hand I think Juls is going to lie to Val cause Drama, on the other hand I think Juls is gonna tell her everything Lupita and Jacobo have been trying to convince her of and then they’ll try to figure shit out together. But they just keep throwing curve balls at us wtf i don’t even know anymore 

I’m not even guessing anymore, what happens will happen. “Oh, Juls would never go to the house.” “I don’t know if Mateo will tell Val, she might never find out Juls was outside.” “They won’t talk again soon because the revelations about their fathers need to be kept for later.” I’m out of the guessing game!

And another anon:

Im highkey ready to throw some god damn hands if they keep making valentina cry for another goddamn week yall!!

Sometimes it almost feels like Juliantina are in a different soap from everyone else, they’re being treated so much more rationally and naturally and realistically. Val is clearly suffering from her experience, meanwhile Lucia’s on her fifth kidnapping of the month and so nonchalant about it. I don’t think it’s going to get any easier for our girl, all these experiences would have happened just a day or two ago for her by the time we roll into next week. And, well, some really tough reveals and events are ahead for her.

But the Jacobo is her father is gonna pushes them away more. This is gonna make juliana leave to Costa Rica.

And another anon:

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 dont mean a time jump in the middle I mean val family keeping juls away from her for awhile then maybe juls moves away and then time jump when there are only a few episodes left. I dont know I just have a bad feeling that the show will keep them apart for a while

Well…that might not be so far off. As @dealanexmachina was pointing out to me, they hold all the answers about their fathers between them, so they kind of have to be kept apart until it’s time to move to the final stage.

And another anon:

Saw someone mention that there’s like 16-17 eps left, IF so, my guess is that everyone will spill the tea tomorrow and then we’ll spend next week dealing with it until Friday when something big is probably happening (it’s been the pattern so far) and that’ll leave us with 10 more eps 5 to deal with whatever happens on Friday and 5 to wrap everything up

Well, more like 23 but that’s not so far off. We’re heading into that part of a story three-quarters in when everything starts gathering for the final climax. 

And another anon:

Time jump?? No please they have to reunite first

I would hope they do? I mean, I’ve been wrong, a lot, but that was mostly when I was being pessimistic…

And another anon:

There cant be a timejump so soon right now. Jacobo link with Juls is just getting revealed, the narcos are probably gonna target him since he killed Armenta, theres a picture of him with Beltran. Many plots to untangle right now, a timejump would only make sense in the last 2/3 episodes after everything is resolved and they show how good things are with a timejump

Right, there just seems to be too much plot to cover to just stop it all. 

And another anon:

At the end of the episode did lupe tell Juliana that Jacobo is Leon. I can’t like Juliana is going to know that he’s Leon and Valentina is going to think he’s chino and everything was a setup. This is so much drama but also laughing just thinking of what will happen when they actually communicate with one another to figure everything out.

I don’t think Juliana will believe Lupe, there is a promo where she confronts Jacobo in his hospital bed about being El Chino. But maybe then he’s able to convince her? A lot rides on tomorrow, lol! But no way will they wrap up those revelations this quickly or even next week. 

Ughhh, they’re so damn in the middle of it all, they’re the connection between everything. The cartels, the families, the companies, the billionaire and the hitman. Once they figure everything out, that’s kind of it. So everything rides on them.