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Honestly I found the reactions after every episode was aired very entertaining. Like, I shared their sentiments but it is just so entertaining watching everyone reacts.

Lol, what did you think about the reactions to this specific episode? Were they not more muted, if anything?

And another anon:

So I get that they need time to heal and shit, but aam ends soon WE DONT HAVE TIME!!

Heh, I think they’re moving as fast as they can!

And another anon (with spoilers regarding future BTS shots):

I know the spoilers show death being in Val room what if she’s there to get her back to Juliana to go to Barbara house to know about Leon. I also wonder when death shows up if it’s bc someone is going to die and she’s warning Val that Leon/Jacobo is going to die.

I remember there originally being theories that Val might OD, but now, Death is freaking everywhere, so it could not be related to that or even Juliana. I think Val’s going to go digging into things, Leon and/or Lucho related, and Death might haunt her. As @dealanexmachina pointed out, she’s seen her dad die, in the hostage situation she saw that one bodyguard and Servando die, now Lucho. All in front of her. If anyone has an unlikely affinity with Death, it’s her.

But lol, imagine Death being (again) responsible for Juliantina happening. I’d love that.

And another anon:

Despite everything, I think that Juliana was clever in asking for them to not stop seeing each other when Val asked for time. She’s aware of her screw up but she knows what she feels and she’s not ready to let go even if she’s shite at feelings lol she made sure she could be there and Val let her. The door is still open.

Lol, it was. She’s just honest about it, right? She just wants to be in Val’s orbit. God, from the start, she’s been so…one foot in. I love her, and I say this with love, but Juls has been downright skittish. Ironically, this weird friend area is probably what she’s best at handling. She’s scared of being all in, she might not even know what that means. I don’t think she’s at all two-faced or inconsistent, I think in her strongest moments (with Val), she really does think, let’s keep the pact, if you’re in, I’m in, this is just for us, I’m in love with you. Those are all true. Juls is definitely in love with Val as much as a person can be in love. And yet, how can one maintain the actions and life that comes with that when they’re so inexperienced, when every second away from Val emphasizes how wrong they are together–and in fact, many seconds WITH Val also do the same. 

If they had the luxury of not being kidnapped all the time and not having to face homophobia, she’d be able to grow into this relationship like a normal teen does, but it’s…been a hell of a couple of weeks. 

In her mind, she really did have a one-off thing with Sergio, she didn’t like it, it proved her mom wrong, it settled any doubts she had, now she is in a better place regarding her feelings for Val. Meanwhile, Val is of course understandably freaked and hurt. To go off and do that…oh, Juls.

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Hey, you have been really good with answering asks and giving your perspectives. Just want to let my thoughts out. I understand the decision of the break up. It might be needed even though I expect more reaction from either Juls or Val on it. However, I overestimate the writers in sidelining Sergio. I mean that’s the most awkward and unnecessary hug. They didn’t even address how Sergio manipulated Juls and then have him back in the story just like that gaining sympathy from both? Idk. ?

Aw, thanks! 

Oh, man, that, I don’t get. Why is he there? Why is he like, crying about it and being the one to get sympathy when Val saw Lucho die and Juls was kidnapped and just released? I don’t get what purpose the writers have for him. 

Lol, I just saw the hug again and had to laugh for five minutes. The music’s playing like it’s supposed to be all emotional but it is the most awkward thing I’ve ever seen. And really unnecessary, given what he is to them. 

I’ve given up understanding how the show sees its men, but yeah, he’s served his purpose, can he just go? 

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Idk what happened tonite Bc I’m still on a break/ just keeping up thru Twitter but overall no one is actually saying what happened, everyone just seems very meh about it all lol. Im kinda bummed it seems like there was a mediocre resolution to a very (imo) shitty plotline. I too am ready for some good quality content that the show started out with, I can’t handle the bad and mediocre writing after all that gold we got first lol

Oh, I get that, for sure.

It was actually…really low key. Juls explained it pretty succinctly, she did actually mention leaving home and not being in a good place, Val was pretty hurt, did call her out suddenly now drinking and and did ask if Juls liked it, which she adamantly denied. Their next scene was with them returning with Sergio from Lucho’s funeral and there was this super weird and terrible hug between all three of them as Sergio kept crying, until Chivis took him away. Uh, then for some reason, Juls took Val aside to explain her dad being Beltran and the whole transmigration thing. And then there was a long talk where basically Val was like, I still need space and Juls was like but we can be friends, can’t we, and the scene ended with Val returning the handhold she’d kind of rejected before. 

As much as it did turn out to be what people were expecting, with Juls explaining, Val understanding but still hurt, I think what has some people meh about it was how it wasn’t really as direct a talk as they usually have? Val seems super hurt but Juls doesn’t really seem to be getting that, or why? Neither’s communicating well, really, and getting to the root of their feelings. Val’s not saying, actually, it hurt me that you did this because of this and Juls isn’t saying, this wasn’t a reflection of how I feel for you, my first thought after was of you and I regretted it the moment it happened. If there’s one thing we know about Juliana Valdes, it’s that she picks up on hurt Val like no one else and it’s not even that she felt she couldn’t comfort her as the cause of her hurt, she genuinely does not seem to get why Val would consider it a big deal. Which, considering the writers wrote this whole thing, at least address that!

I don’t know if they’ll take it forward or if they’ll consider this basically resolved. I think all the storylines are going to be a bit rushed now and tbh, it doesn’t ruin anything for me and I’m not particularly disappointed about it, I feel like it hit the salient points it needed to. Juls explained why, Val heard the reasons and was allowed to stay hurt even if she understood, which I thought was important, and it ended on a positive note for them. And within the show, it’s still not stretching the bounds of credulity. Juls is a total newbie at this and as @karatam pointed out, her only other experience with romantic love is her parents. Who…one of them is attacking the other in tomorrow’s episode and she breaks a bottle over his head. If anything, Juls has so far been almost too wise and adept at things, considering the total rookie she is, not just as an 18-year-old or virgin, but given that background.

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Wasn’t that explanation extremely overly simplistic…? o.O

Lol, a bit. But I guess…to her it is? From her position, as such a novice at all this, who wasn’t really waiting for her first true love and then looking to be devoted to them forever, it was an act that disproved a theory and that was that. Val, who’s honestly so much more romantic at heart, despite all her claims to the contrary, after her other experiences realizes the significance of what she feels for Juls in a way that Juls kind of…doesn’t? 

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What are your predictions about what’s going to happen with Juliantina in these next few episodes?

I get these wrong every time, partly because I always make the error of–for once–undervaluing a f/f ship in a way the writers do not. I always think, okay, now they’re going to go on the backburner as the real plot takes over. Val and Lucia have been taken hostage, this is time for the Carvajals to handle this, no way Juls will play a part. And then she shows up, running through bullets. Okay, they’ve broken up, now the dads and Lucia plots will take over while they stay separate. But no, they investigate together. Even so much of Juls’s kidnapping was about Val.

BUT. This really is the time for a lot of other plot to happen. There are 10 episodes left. The Alacran-Eva-Mateo plot has to be handled, everyone else has to find out, Lucia-Johnny, everyone else has to find out, Jacobo being Leon, and…everyone else has to find out. They’ve even split up Renata and Guille so they can presumably get back together in a big moment at the end?

Going by TV logic that they don’t just move past this in tonight’s ep so it can be drawn out more, I would say they have an inTENSE conversation today. During which Juls might bring up Beltran being Chino? I don’t know which way it’ll go, for real, Val being angry and this time the result being the opposite of the Jacobo confrontation? Or she could be like, okay, I understand but I’m hurt and disappointed and maybe we shouldn’t be together/stay on a break, like you keep saying. But then as everything piles on in the next episodes, Lucho’s aftermath and Lucia and Leon and Eva/Mateo, Val will just want some comfort?

And another anon:

I know as a fandom we have a zero percent accuracy rating at guessing what’s happening next, but do you think they’re gonna make Juliantina actually hash out everything that happened w asshole sergio? I haven’t decided if Val will be instantly forgiving Bc she’s that gone, or if she’s gonna feel betrayed & ask what Juls would’ve done if she ~had~ enjoyed sleeping w a man. Or if Juls is gonna rake herself over the coals &not accept Val’s easy forgiveness. So many possibilities & they all hurt lol

All good options, and so many more. Imagine if they got interrupted, lol. 

I mean, there’s being wrong because we underestimated (or once, overestimated >_>) the writers and then there’s thinking that this couple, or any couple, will be happy in the lead up to the finale. I would think it’s a mix of Juls being bad at explaining it (is Val never going to know she’d left Lupe??) and Val just feeling so hurt at it all. 

Whatever it is, I don’t think it’ll be something that makes either of them look too bad, since the point of this will be again the circumstances being the enemy, and I do think that it’ll be something that will be resolved before any time skip.