Thoughts about Sergio?
Not a fan. The cracks about Juls’s social status, his actual revulsion at her selling lottery tickets, OUTING VAL (and Juls), whatever. And he’s constantly enabling Lucho’s terrible behavior. As if it’s so great that he stops him from literally punching women when often he’s bringing Lucho to them (he was driving when they followed Val to Silvina’s house where Juls was staying) or going along with him. And then he’s surprised when Lucho goes off and does literally the same thing he’s been threatening to do for the last few days, attacking Val.
Do you think that Lupita knows about Juls & Val and was trying to tell Juls that she’s okay with it? Or was she just showing her support without actually knowing what was going on? It just kills me that Juls doesn’t have any one to talk to about this. Or at least she feels that way. Because besides Val, her mom is the only one she has. And I get that she can’t risk losing her.
Ugh, yeah, Juls is sooo isolated, it’s painful to see. To keep that all inside, no friends or family or even a random anonymous stranger online to just say it to, it’s gotta be eating her up inside. And that it’s her mom she’s keeping this from, who she’s so close to otherwise. How happily she would share with Lupe the details of each time she hung out with Val and now it’s all just silence and fear of text messages being seen.
I do think Lupe knows. Right? I can’t understand the scene otherwise. Hinting so strongly at a secret, being so soft and solicitous, like, it’s gotta be on her mind that Juls and Val could be a thing, after how they were interacting right in front of her the other day (technically, the day before). What else would she be showing her support for? If Juls comes home in a bad mood, why all the talk of sadness and secrets?
Can you believe these girls went from strangers, to besties who teach each other to dance & swim, then to stupidly adorable couple who counts pinky promises as binding pacts, and giggles way too much on a car ride … in A FEW FREAKING MONTHS? I just wanna say, i’m happy they are out there, living their best life (sshh the last eps are just for telenovela drama, they’ll be fine)
Honestly, with the instant connection they had, and the circumstances under which it was further forger under, meeting while grieving for a parent, kidnap after kidnap, I would have believed if they’d gone all through that in a few weeks!
And you know, tbh, I didn’t think the last eps were that bad. Bad, but not that bad. They were able to make it through a fight, Val stood up to her sister, and then despite being torn to shreds by her was still was able to go back to Juls and do the soft little pact reminder and then after some sudden and vicious bullying, with the help of her secret dad was able to actually come through with new fortitude on how to approach everything, including drinking.
They’re facing a bunch of bad things right now, Lucho, Eva (and her hypocrisy! EXPERIMENTED IN COLLEGE???), being outed left and right and homophobia and bullying from others (friends, I thought :/) but these are all framed as obstacles for them to overcome together. They’re not still fighting each other or feeling conflicted about their feelings, the kind of stuff we’d actually hate.
i watch aam with my mom and sister (living in mexico, still closeted) and they both immediately started commenting how eva’s on the wrong here. and, it’s been nice that for the entirety of this show, the relationship has been framed as positive and that most of those who are against it are being depicted as obviously in the wrong by the narrative. it is making some people change the way they think about thee things, so i’m very thankful for that
Awww, I love that! That must have been so great to hear. I’m glad for you, anon. 🙂 Maybe…one day…
That’s the vital thing about these kinds of stories. And, why they tend to start off so wholesome and sympathetic. You’d have to be pretty terrible to side with cheater sibling-bullyer Eva on this one, after we, the audience, have seen how sweet and genuine Juliantina are, all the things they’ve had to go through. Actually, as much as we hate watching that kind of stuff, it probably puts even more neutral people in their corner–though there is a fine line to walk before that becomes just a ton of gay pain to lecture straight people on how Tough it is. At the moment, it’s all been pretty well balanced, a lot of sweet moments in there too, we just saw their very first fight, and Val doesn’t get into any more trouble than her stepmom.
have you seen the scenes from todays episode? i dont understand spanish but it obviously didnt go well with eva. why couldnt guille stay with val during the talk as support??
Because drama. He should have been there, there was no reason for him not to be. But man, it turned out to be a good scene without him, right? Damn.
As much as I hated watching it, there’s something pretty awesome to watch basically two of the very main characters going at it and about this topic. It was just nice to see some of Eva’s screentime, which is usually taken up by Alacran and the company, be shifted aside to here, and like, in a natural way, of course Val is a major priority of hers. Ah, obviously I hope it won’t go on for too long but we’re getting the very tropey forbidden rootable love story but with two women. 😀
Omg fuck Eva, she is suuuuch a controlling asshole. She cares more about the family’s appearances than her sister’s happiness. Obvs fuck Lucho too, he’s been a dick from the start. I will say tho that I was nervous about today’s ep but it went better than I expected. There was no violence, which I hope continues. I do wish they’d had Juls and Val talk more about the outing. Juls’ response wasn’t quite what I would’ve wanted to see.
Hmm, how so? Val’s biggest issue is her unwillingness to deal with things. She chooses to hide, whether it’s in alcohol and drugs or pretending everything’s fine between Lucia and Eva or wanting to run away. She’s gotta deal with things.
I did like that despite the awkwardness at the start, they (Val) did calm down enough to acknowledge what’s really bothering her. Man, kid is messed up. Yeah, you’re probably right, Juls is right in that they can’t just run away–well, they kind of literally can, she’s an heiress and Lupe wants to leave too, but it’s more that running away from problems is a hard habit to break. BUT, despite her being right, she could have offered some more support and really, Val should come out on her own terms, especially when Juls was the one saying to hide it from people even though Val did immediately tell Guille.
I understand both of them, Juls isn’t really maybe feeling in a place where she can offer much input on Val’s life and family and of course Val is super scared. I’m just glad they were able to make up that small amount.