Ya know, I wonder if Juls has been aware of their mutual attraction longer than Val has. Val is def more a “runs on instinct” type and during their first kiss and the almost-kiss at the party she seems to be just going with her gut while Juls seems like she realises what’s happening. Like you can SEE her thinking in the pool while Val leans in, and from her reaction at the party she knows what Guille almost walked in on. I wonder if our reserved girl was just waiting for Val to make a move.
Hmm. You’re probably right there. I think in the time leading up to Guille’s party and the almost-kiss, she’d been more aware of her own feelings and thus able to look at their whole dynamic through that lens, probably getting all kinds of confirmation while wearing that dress, lol. While Val was distracted by, to name a few things, Lucia’s kidnapping, fighting with Eva, Lucho, alcohol, drugs. And then that flipped around when Juls was distracted by her mom’s kidnapping/shooting and Val was the one who was able to concentrate on them. After Guille’s party they both had flashbacks to the almost kiss and Juls’s reaction was openly giddy while Val’s was shaken.
But you bring up an interesting point. Would Juls have never made the first move herself? Going back to her insecurities about her place in Val’s life, is this something she felt Val had to lead, to confirm her interest OR was this just her natural reluctance to put herself out there OR just the fact that they both needed to be in the same place? Perhaps all of that. A moot point, lol, since Val did indeed make a move. 😀
lucho is so dumb. he’s complained that val talks to juls the way she should talk to him (her lover), and they hang out too much. she’s literally left him to run to her side. she always picks juls over him. I know realising ur gf is into chicks can be a stretch for some guys, but damn. u have all the pieces lucho. he’s so thick. val baby what was u thinkin
Lol, yeah. I thought he was actually cluing in, unlike the other TV boyfriend/husbands. Probably just his machismo and ego thinking it’d be impossible she’d go for a girl. It’s probably for the best, he seems like he’d be homophobic too and would just go after Juls too. Which, again: HOW IS ANYONE LETTING HIM IN THE HOUSE? He keeps threatening and attacking Val! What is going on??
It is pretty sad Val dated him for as long as she did, even if there had never been Juls in the picture, but she seems to not really have anyone for her. And to lose another person (even if he is human garbage) after her father’s death must have been unbearable. She and Juls found each other at the perfect time. ;_;
Juliantina are star-crossed lovers! Happiness is a dream, not a promise. I love this storyline, I feel like I’ve been waiting for it forever. Thank you Mexico!
A dream, not a promise? A bit ominous there, anon!
It’s been lovely so far. An actual slow burn with a solid friendship before anything more and then given such romantic, organic treatment, focusing on the individual characters and their dynamic beyond being a same-sex storyline.
re: juls isolation; there’s also the fact that she’s been warned away from val several times (lucho, chavis, the detective), lacks support structures, and there is the class divide too, she must feel so out of place in val’s life it’s no wonder she is a little skittish about their relationship. I’m really curious to see if we’ll get to see juls fight for them later on, as val’s been the main “pursuant” so far even when she didn’t know it
Yeah, everything is stacked against her. It’s amazing that she’s able to be as open and confident in their relationship as she has been, when you think about it.
Actually, @dealanexmachina and I have been talking a bit about Juls’s insecurities and the imbalance it’s bringing to the relationship. On the whole, the two have been great, for sure, very mutual, very open and loving, and she’s been able to confront Val about the money issues, for example. But there are little things, not at all helped by everything and everyone around them, that show she’s still feeling their differences keenly. When she was like, I don’t want to bother you with my problems. When she was like, Silvina doesn’t like me, this situations sucks, maybe we should take a break. So far, as you said, Val has been the one who reassures her, who overall blows past Juls’s concerns. But that can’t be how their real relationship is, where she’ll always be afraid to put a step wrong or waiting for approval and reassurance.
It definitely feels like it’ll be part of her arc to break free from that. So yeah, I really hope we’ll get to see Juls have the confidence in their relationship to fight for it.
And in a way, Val has her own insecurities too, she doesn’t seem to have people in her life who she can open up to easily, Juls got through to her so easily and quickly simply by being there and by not dismissing her concerns. So they’ve both got things to work on. 🙂
Loved the scene between val and her brother but I wish Juliana also had someone she could confide in.
Same. The way Juls is isolated is insane. When she was crying in the hospital after Lupe was shot because she has nobody else, she literally has no one else. No other family, the move and the running from the cartel have made sure she has no friends, not even a job that could give her some coworkers to talk to and rely on a bit. Val is it and it’s not like she can talk to Val about…Val.
Too bad Jacobo has to hide from her on account of the whole wearing her deadbeat dad’s body ‘cause I think she and Leon would actually get along. Pragmatic, loyal, loving Val, they got things in common.
