Hello y'all!
First order of business: I changed the url and the blog name! I thought I could then grab the other url to put a notice/link to this one so people could find it, but nope! Blogger doen't let me even though the url is not in use. I'll keep trying to see if I can grab it later. I hope people can make their way here.
Anyhoo, about a week ago the
trailer for the Aparicio Movie was released and I've been meaning to
post about it.
Overall, I gotta say, I
am not impressed. I know I ripped a lot on the show (and that nutter
Julia), but it still bothered me to see that the last chance we have
to see the characters in action again was wasted like this. Maybe I'm
wrong and it will be awesome, but so far I am not impressed with what
I'm seeing.
Alma and Mercedes
THE RECASTED ALMA AND
MERCEDES!!! We will not be seeing this perfection on screen:
I know it was probably
due to some scheduling thing. I know it's not fair to compare the
older actresses to the new ones, but I can't help but do that. Ximena
Rubio and Gabriela de la Garza brought a presence and intensity to
their characters that I'm just not seeing in this trailer.
But it's not just that.
The storylines don't excite me a whole lot either.
Mercedes seems like her
old self, at least, fighting for justice or something. We see her
yelling at some dude about dead women and then we hear Claudio
telling her she's putting herself in danger or whatever. But then
later, we see having like sexual tension with some other guy? Or
something?
I don't know, like I
can get the premise of her story but I can't really tell what her
story will actually be about.
Alma's storyline
bothered me a whole lot more, however. After spending 120 episodes
seeing Alma dealing with her commitment issues with those two dudes
(I forget their names), now the story is about that again? I guess?
Alma: In this profession one shouldn't get involved.Dude: Not get involved or not fall in love? You're punishing me because of your own fears.
This new dude's penis
is going to be more magical that the other two dudes' and will get
her to love him back? Or is it NOT gonna be magical enough, and we
will have a full rehash of the previous show? Cause if I remember
correctly Alma fucking ended up single and empowered (or something)
at the end of the show, because monogamy just wasn't her thing.
But that's not all that
bothers me. There is also this:
Is Alma a prostitute
now, too? Alma NEVER FUCKED CLIENTS. That's what the manwhores, and
later Dani, were for. Remember, show? And it seems like she's even
fucking a female client, which is even more out of character for her.
Frankly, it seems like,
and this is a vibe that the whole trailer gave me, that they want to
throw sex scenes in just cause, just cause this is about empowered
women! So lots of sex for them all! So let's even show the lesbians
in bed with a dude! But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Still, meh.
Mariana and Julia
Of course, this is why
we watched the show to begin with. So of course I was fucking
disappointed when I saw that their story seems to be about BABIES.
Talk about lesbian tropes 101. Still, I'm a sucker for cute pregnancy
stories, so I would've rolled with it if not for the fact that
apparently the plan is to fuck a random dude to get pregnant.
IN 2015.
Mariana, Julia, my
darlings, did you suddenly forget to use the internet? You know, that
magical tool called google could have told let you know you can buy
sperm online. Magic, I know!
Seriously, lesbian
couples have been having babies using artificial insemination since
like the 80s. For real. Julia is a lost cause, but Mariana
But who I am kidding?
The show people obviously wanted to show them in bed with men, cause
progressive! Openness! Revolutionary!
(Julia in some acting job cause of course she couldn't be baking cookies or something, she has to be simulating sex with a dude)
You have disappointed
me, gueys.
From what I can gather
from the trailer, they want to have a baby and decide to use a dude.
Julia tells Mariana in a scene something like “Okay, but you're
sleeping with him”, which leads us to Mariana looking all
seductively at a dude and then later kissing him.
Gross! Barf! Insanity!
Not cool.
I imagine, in fact I'm
willing to bet on it, that Mariana doesn't go through with it. Also,
that there will be some angsty scenes about some unfair Mexico law
that doesn't let them adopt, and about Mariana hating that she can't
get Julia pregnant like any hetero couple.
I'm still gonna watch
it, of course, but I'm not completely sure if it will be normal
watching or hate watching. But I'll watch it if I can and I will
report back, faithful servant that I am. Oh god, Mariana am I turning
into you?
Overall, I think the
one thing that I'm somewhat looking forward to is Ileana with a gun.
I don't even know if
that is Ileana for real, it could be Rafaela telling them an old
family story? The origin of the family curse, perhaps? Whatever. She looks HAWT.
Frankly, now that I
think about it, I'm not entirely sure of what exactly the movie is
about. It seems like they are with Rafaela in some ranch and Rafaela
tells them that they can't hide or something? Are they running from
their problems (Alma from the dude, Mercedes from her lawyer
problems, Juliana from Julia's scarves?) and hiding out there , so
Rafaela tells them some family story and then they go out to face
their problems? I'm not even sure of what the plot is supposed to be
about. Here's hoping that at the end at least Marina and Julia go
take a computer class so they can learn to google shit.
But I don't know,
overall it doesn't seem too exciting, I don't know how much appeal it
would have to the general public who never saw the show. But then
again, I don't really know Mexico's public.
Today I leave you with:
UTOPIO!
How is he not dead?
It's been five years! He was dying! We saw him die! He is buried
under an Aparicio tree, isn't he? Is this a flashback? Did his
goodness raise him from the dead so he could help some more poor
people?
How is Utopio NOT
DEAD??
