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Y Soy Rebelde

Warning: this is going to be a hella long post. Comparing these two shows gave me a lot of shit to talk about, and if all I’ve gotten out of wasting my life recapping this show is the ability to talk at length about Rebelde Way, then dammit, I am rolling with that. Also, as previously mentioned, regular Rebelde Way posts will resume on June 6th so hopefully this will keep you entertained until then!

Rebelde is the Mexican remake of Rebelde Way, and it ran from 2004 to 2006. 11 years later, you can still find people in the comments section of both series’ videos, fighting over which one is better. I do not have the patience to watch all 440 episodes of Rebelde and do a quality comparison, so I can’t speak to that, although I’m biased towards the original, obviously.

While the Mexican remake is the obvious choice, I am a little disappointed I couldn’t find the Indian version anywhere. Apparently in that one, Manuel is secret Indian royalty and that is the greatest thing I have ever read. 

The opening: Goddamn this is a long opening. It’s not a bad song, but I can’t imagine anyone who wanted to hear the entirety of “Rebelde” by RBD every day. It seems unnecessary. It takes us through a long montage of the cast walking around, a bunch of shots of the girls putting on makeup, everyone posing in some trees somewhere, until they finally all gather on some field. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but you know, whatever. Their uniform makes them all look appropriately preppy and douchey, so points for that.

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These motherfuckers definitely look like they own a pair of khakis and some boat shoes.

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Also, random bikini shot of one of the girls. Some things never change.

The opening monologue is the exact same as the one in Rebelde Way. The entirety of the first few episodes are basically word-for-word recreations of the originals, except all dramatic shrieks of “VOS?!” have been changed to dramatic shrieks of “TU?!”

So here we go again, with feeling: who tested our parents to make sure they can make the best decisions for us? When our parents choose a high school, don’t they know it’ll change our lives forever?

Overhead shot of some fields! A parking lot! I’m amazed that their camera can go above eye level! And we zoom into the giant campus of Elite Way School.

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Most striking differences: Holy shit, Elite Way actually looks like a school! A school that rich people might go to! Yet, despite the addition of very appropriate and preppy blazers, all the girls walk around in short skirts and knee-high boots. So close yet so far, guys.

Mia Colucci is at school, getting ready for the end-of-the-year assembly. Her chubby friend Feli Celina tells her they have to go backstage, but Mia wants to make sure her father’s here. She cries that Papa C hasn’t shown up, and some rude-ass girl pops her head into the frame to snipe that Mia’s dad doesn’t care enough about her to come, but her chauffeur will probably show. Aw, Not-Belen! Mia snaps that she has to make a last-minute change and storms off. “No, Mia,” deadpans Celina, but makes no move to go after her.

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Most striking differences: A name change for Feli, who seems a little bolder than in the original (she starts stripping along with Mia in the sound booth; original flavor Feli just bobbed her head to the music). Luisana Lopilato was 15 when she was on Rebelde Way; Anahí is 21 here but looks older, and then they consistently use really heavy eye makeup on her to make her look even older. She doesn’t have Luisana Lopilato’s natural sweetness and charisma, but she is a better actress (not like that’s hard), so it sort of balances out.

Monterrey, Nuevo León. Aggressive electric guitars play as Manuel Miguel motorcycles his way down some road without a helmet, because he’s ~rebelde. Wow, an opening shot that establishes Miguel’s character and also shows us the motorcycle that will be a plot point! Points for effort, Rebelde writers.

Miguel goes to some building with his video camera and watches some home videos of him and his dad playing in the construction rubble. That doesn’t seem safe. Miguel cries all over the loose bricks all, “My dad is dead and will never take me into an unsafe construction zone ever again!” He thrashes around a bit while wailing, “PAPAAAAAAA!” Oh. Yikes. That was not good. If Felipe Colombo was worried that his weird tendency to curl up and bite his thumb while crying was the most embarrassing emotional acting of the series, he can breathe a sigh of relief.

Most striking differences: Manuel no longer makes the trek from Mexico City to Argentina; now everyone is Mexican, and Elite Way is in Mexico City while Miguel is from Monterrey. I’m suspecting the only reason Manuel was Mexican to begin with was because they had Felipe Colombo handy. Miguel is slightly more believable as a bad boy, mostly because he’s actually wearing jeans instead of those hideous orange pants.

Back at school, Pablo Diego Bustamante argues with his parents about how he doesn’t want to go to London, he wants to go to the beach. Mama B stands around smoking (indoors!) from a fancy cigarette holder, looking a lot less motherly than her Argentinian counterpart. Diego tries to throw his bestie Tomás under the bus, but Tomás is like, “Hey, don’t drag me into your abusive family life.” Diego’s mustachioed father tells him that they’re going to London and that’s final.

Most striking differences: I don’t wanna be mean, but Mexican Pablo looks like a total mouth-breather. Tomás is still cute, but in a much dorkier way than Coco Maggio. I believe this version of Tomás gets pity dates from girls who feel bad that he got beat up last week behind the soda machine. Mexican Papa B is less overtly sleazy than Argentinian Papa B, and more “speak softly and carry a big stick.” He’s the kind of abusive dad that you thought was just really straitlaced and old-fashioned when you went over to your friend’s house. Original flavor Mama B had kind of a Lana Del Rey-ish “aloof elegant woman crushed under the heel of rich man” thing going on, while Mexican Mama B gives me “trophy wife of an Eastern European oligarch” vibes.

She also looks weirdly like Phoebe Buffay.

Miguel’s tiny lisping sister asks him why their dad committed suicide, and Miguel’s like, “Awkward.” He finally tells her that it was because a bad man played a trick on him. “So it was that man’s fault?” Tiny Lisping Sister asks. “Yes,” Miguel confirms. He pauses just long enough, and the camera lingers long enough, that I suspect that this might be the moment he decides to take revenge. If so, that’s some subtlety not seen in the original.

Some administrator whose skirt is way too short for her job (Gloria?) opens the school’s end-of-the-year presentation, and introduces Principal Dunoff Gandía. He starts making a speech about the school year, and some rando girl in the audience puts her headphones on. Because she’s ~rebelde!

Most striking differences: Gloria was far too much of a buzzkill to ever wear such a short skirt. Gandía is way younger than Dunoff. Elite Way Mexico actually has an auditorium. We might’ve seen more sets in the past ten minutes than in the entirety of Rebelde Way.

Meanwhile, at some studio, Sonia Alma is getting ready for a photoshoot. Alma worries to the photographer that she’s excited to do a shoot with her daughter, but they have to be careful with Marizza Roberta, because she’s still a child. Then…don’t do a photoshoot with her while you’re half-naked? Just a thought. Roberta comes out and throws her robe open to reveal that she has a top painted onto her torso. It’s a little more scandalous than the original, just because Netflix is higher quality than Youtube and it doesn’t just look like a bunch of blurry pixels, but you still can’t like…see anything, so it’s kinda whatever either way. (ETA: Wow, I looked up the original scene and it’s far more revealing than this. However, I maintain that the video quality is so shitty that it doesn’t make a difference.) Roberta snips that she’ll either pose like this, or she won’t pose at all. A better mother would be like, “Fine, then I’ll just pose by myself like I probably should be doing anyway,” but of course they go ahead with it. Papa Spirito Pardo shows up and threatens to take Roberta to Italy wherever he lives in Europe unless Alma sends Roberta to boarding school.

Most striking differences: Along with Mia, Roberta probably bears the most similarity to her original counterpart. This is not a good thing. With all the slight modifications they’re making to everyone’s personalities, it somehow never occurred to anyone to make Roberta less of a horrendous human being. Sonia does a lot of shrieking line deliveries and talks with her hands; Alma is far less slapsticky and over-the-top. In Rebelde Way, Marizza’s embarrassment of her mother makes more sense, while Alma is more convincing as a caring mom. Dulce María has an incredibly squeaky voice. I don’t know if it bothers me or not, but I’m just saying. Pepa always looked frumpy, while Not-Pepa dresses much more similarly to Alma’s style.

Back at school, Gloria announces that the incoming 4th-year students will be putting on a performance. There is no fourth year in Mexican high school. Maybe they’re at a combined junior high and high school? (I googled, and those do exist, and some of them are fancy international-style schools with really high tuition. I am blown away that something about Elite Way is actually based in reality.) Anyway, Gloria exits the stage, and some kid scuttles on to take the microphone away. “That’s not Mia!” someone in the audience yells. I only mention this because it’s a cute bit of realism. That sort of thing definitely happened at my school assemblies.

Anyway, the classic stripping scene occurs. Much like in the original, the dance they’re doing in the first place is pretty inappropriate for a school anyway. For some reason, Tomás and Diego are like, clutching their pearls in the back row, like a couple of squares.

Miguel tells his mom that he’s going to study in Mexico City, and he’s going to sell his motorcycle and get a scholarship. He says it like the one will lead to the other, which is weird. I don’t think they have scholarships for selling your motorcycle.

Gandía calls Papa C to the school and is like, “Your daughter is pretty fucked up and you should probably parent her.” Papa C’s like, “Golly, do you think?” So he tells Mia that their vacation is off, and her punishment is spending her summer in Vacance Club. With the plebes! The horror! In an actual affecting moment, Mia breaks down and says, “But I never get to see you, Dad…I prepared a dance for you and waited for you and you never came.” Wait, hold up, this scene was supposed to be sad? In the original, Luisana Lopilato says the whole thing in a whine (it’s barely comprehensible), and she sounds so bratty that I actually assumed that she was just faking tears to manipulate her dad. WE WERE SUPPOSED TO FEEL BAD FOR MIA HERE? My mind is blown, dudes. It’s not even like Anahí is going to win any awards for this scene, she just…doesn’t whine her lines and makes an effort to look sad. HOLY SHIT.

Some woman with bleach blonde hair walks through the school with Gloria Alicia and tells her that she wants to get her niece in on a scholarship. So this is Not-Sandra, and she’s all gauche and gets overexcited at seeing Mama and Papa B trolling around the school.

I really hate new formula Gloria, but I think that’s just because the actress playing Alicia really looks like this girl I hated in high school. UUUGGGH, HER FACE.

Mama and Papa B go to see Diego, but he’s in the midst of sneaking out with Tomás. They play hooky at Diego’s house — sure, because that’s not the first place anyone’s gonna look for them — and make a date to go out with some girls. You know where this is going. They promise to bring a car, and Diego peer pressures Tomás into letting them take his mom’s. Then they go swimming in a pool that actually looks like it belongs in a rich person’s house. They put so much more effort into these sets than Rebelde Way did.

Roberta tells her dad that she won’t go to boarding school, but she rocks up to Elite Way a few scenes later all the same. It’s the same scene as in Rebelde Way, just with different product placement: she chugs Red Bull and snarks about how much more mature she is than all of her classmates. Yes, I’m sure being raised in total isolation from anyone her own age has made her a master of social interaction. She kinda looks like a scenester, which cracks me up because Roberta/Marizza totally would’ve been a scene queen in a few more years. (Why is this school so lax on its students wearing spike heeled boots, though?)

It’s interesting, too (not that you can see it in this picture) that Roberta’s wearing a skirt while both incarnations of Mia, supposedly the hyperfeminine one, almost always wear jeans.

As before, Roberta proves her maturity by dumping Red Bull on Mia’s head and calling Celina “round and green like a trash can.” But I bet that once again, it will somehow be Mia’s fault and not Roberta’s that Celina has an eating disorder.

Meanwhile, Diego and Tomás sing along to the radio (Tomás beatboxes while Diego bleats out the words. HEE!) while going to pick up their dates. The ladies are wayyyy older, but they agree to go driving with Diego and Tomás anyway. They egg Diego on to drive faster, and of course he loses control, plowing through a whole row of food stalls and eventually crashing the car.

This is your own damn fault for going out with a teenage boy. DRIVE HER TO JAIL, DIEGO.

The next opening monologue actually uses footage from the previous episode. Can you imagine if Rebelde Way had actually used their own footage instead of stock photos and horrific early 2000s computer graphics?

Mia chats on the phone with Vico, and we cut over to see Vico for the first time. She’s the girl posing in a swimsuit during the credits, and we meet her while she sits around in a corset-style top, rubbing lotion onto her legs. I will say, it’s nice that Vico in Rebelde Way got to be promiscuous without the actress having to provide all sorts of uncomfortable fanservice.

Alma meets with Gandía and of course he recognizes her from when he had an affair with her when she was a teenager and “[he] was already a man.” Ew! God! Gandía appears to be several years younger than Dunoff, so they could have reasonably taken that part out of their backstory. But since they’re just reusing the original dialogue, everyone still talks about him like he’s really old. Dude doesn’t even have a single gray hair! Anyway, he’s less of a twitchy, insecure brown-noser than Dunoff and more openly sleazy.

Miguel heads off to Mexico City. His slouchy friends — I guess we’re supposed to think they’re from the wrong side of the tracks because they have bad posture — are like, “Tell us how you’re going to get revenge and explain the plot to us, Miguel!” Miguel does so, but he’s too late, because I already recapped 139 episodes of it. Get on my level, Miguel!

Over in the poor side of town, Sandra Mayra tells Luna Lupita all about Elite Way. Lupita runs off to say goodbye to her sister, Flor Dulce, and her ice-cold mom comes in to needle Mayra about letting Lupita go to boarding school. They get into a pretty intense shouting match, which is way more dramatic than the scene really warrants. Most of the acting so far has been pretty understated, so I feel like we’re back in familiar territory!

Lupita tells Dulce that she’s leaving. Dulce is younger than Flor and looks like she might have Down syndrome? I couldn’t find any information about the actress or the character, except for a random Brazilian blog that says she does. If so, props to them for actually giving her a specific condition instead of “IDK but she can’t walk or talk except for when the plot needs her to.”

Most striking differences: Lupita’s in all 440 episodes of the show, instead of leaving after season 1. Maite Perroni’s gone on to have lead roles in several shows and win awards, and it sounds like her performance was the reason Lupita’s role was expanded so much, as well as the reason she was made a part of RBD. (RBD, by the by, has 6 members instead of Erreway’s 4, including Not-Guido.) Dulce is younger than Flor and has Down syndrome instead of telenovela-itis. Lupita actually interacts with Dulce instead of talking at her while she stares blankly. (No offense to Nadia di Cello, who I’m sure did her best with the nothing that she was given.)

Diego recovers from his car crash in the hospital. Tomás comes by and says that it’s “super chill” that he’s okay, except the subtitles translate that as “Great.” How could you fuck that up? He said it in English! Anyway, Papa B is pissed, and Tomás suggests that by the time he gets over being mad at Diego, he’ll be too old to remember their shenanigans. He offers Diego the most fantastic shit-eating grin after saying this. I love poor dumb Tomás in all his incarnations.

God, Diego’s hair is horrific.

They wrestle homoerotically, because that’s one thing you can’t leave out, obviously. Papa B rolls up to get his emotional abuse on, and then Gandía shows up to assure Diego he won’t be kicked out, as if it’s any of the school’s business anyway. He tells Diego that he’ll be doing community service near where Vacance Club’s trip will be. Shouldn’t a judge be telling Diego this? Or at least his dad? Anyway, Mama B gushes her gratitude to Gandía and gets her boobs all over him and it’s hugely uncomfortable.

Mia walks through the school, and the set looks very large and school-like — lots of wood furniture, signs written in normal fonts, white walls, inoffensive paintings and potted plants for decoration. It’s definitely a change from the one-hallway, plastic primary color monstrosity that is Elite Way Argentina. Anyway, Vico and Celina jump her in the gym and tell they’re joining Vacance Club with her. Vico complains about her dad leaving the family, and Mia and Feli talk shit about Roberta to her. Speaking of whom, Roberta comes to their room and announces that she’s staying, and stands on Mia’s bed in her shoes because she is an animal.

Most striking differences: The biggest change is Vico’s appearance. She’s much more visibly “hot”: her hair is dyed blonde and pink; she wears crop tops and short shorts (and probably also short skirts at some point), and lots of makeup. There’s no way this is acceptable dress code, but it’s an easy visual shorthand for “she’s the school sl*t” so I get where they’re coming from.

There’s a drive-by shot of the school, and they decide to throw my compliments about the set back in my face by having a sign that says “Elite wayschool” in the front. Seriously, guys? Miguel meets Lupita on the their way to take the scholarship exam, and the next thing you know, they’re exchanging sandwiches while he tells them his sob story.

I give you guys ONE COMPLIMENT.

Guido Giovanni rolls up to school in a Hummer, because he’s douchey new money. He’s somehow dressed worse than original flavor Guido, and original flavor Guido once gave us this outfit:

His mom has dyed streaks in her hair for some reason. She doesn’t seem like the kind of person to be carrying around a christening necklace, but that bit is kept in. Anyway, Giovanni is all embarrassed by his parents and is an incredible dick to them. He seems so much more unlikable here, and now I’m forced to grapple with the fact that Argentinian Guido was actually the charmer of these two.

Most striking differences: Giovanni dresses like what someone thinks douchey new money kids dress like, like he’s an antagonist on The O.C. or something. He’s less embarrassed and trying to give his parents the brush off, and more of just an outright ass to them. He’s going to end up in RBD at some point, somehow. It’s weird because I googled and he and Lupita don’t end up together, so what’s the point? They’re just third and fourth wheeling it while the main four break up and make up like ABBA?

Shot of an actual swimming pool! Shot of kids actually swimming in the pool! There’s no reason for the swim team to be meeting literally the day after school gets out, but whatever. Lujan Jose Lujan bumps into Giovanni and scares him with her aggressive handshake. To establish how tough she is, a ball flies out of the pool and hits her, but it bounces off her abs in slo-mo. HEE!

Most striking differences: Jose Lujan so far is pretty much exactly like Lujan, except she explicitly studies taekwondo. The most important thing is that they kept the bit where she grabs a fly out of midair to assert her dominance over Mia and her friends.

Miguel and Lupita get ready to take the exam, but Alicia tells Miguel that he can’t take it, because his parents aren’t here! He won’t be able to get into Elite Way! We’re gonna have 438 episodes without him! Just kidding, it’s just a cliffhanger. Fuck me, Miguel and Mia haven’t even met yet. Okay, I have to at least get there. One more episode!

The closing credits, by the way, are of all the kids kissing each other going down a chain. It results in some weird pairings, like Miguel kissing Lupita. It’s not like the kids in the original didn’t continuously swap partners, but it’s weird to have it pointed out like this. It feels like the kind of thing Skins would’ve done in their ads.

Mayra convinces Gandía to let Miguel take the exam, and in exchange asks Miguel to look after Lupita for her. I totally forgot that Sandra asked Manuel to do this, because halfway through the show she just shows up and meddles in Luna’s life herself.

Meanwhile, Roberta is pulling things off the shelves in Mia’s room and throwing them around, accompanied by crashing and breaking sound effects. It’s so weird because they clearly thought to improve on a couple of things from the original, but no one watched this and thought, “Breaking people’s shit for no reason kind of makes this girl completely unlikable.” Even at the end of season 1, Marizza could still be petty and immature, but this is just a reminder that one point she was even worse. Mia, Celina, and Vico finally get her to stop destroying all their possessions by sitting on her. Hee! That’s the kind of thing I wish would’ve happened in Rebelde Way.

Yes, the screencaps are getting smaller. I couldn’t find this episode in 480p.

Diego returns to school, whining about his community service on the phone with Tomás. Mia, Celina, and Vico are trolling around the campus in a golf cart and run into him, and they needle him about his short vacation. This school has a golf course? Unlikely, and yet I’ll take anything that even hints towards Elite Way having extracurriculars. Vico runs off with Diego, and Celina tries to talk shit about her, but Mia shuts it down.

Vico takes Diego back to Mia’s room under the pretense of listening to a CD. Hey, I recognize that CD! It’s Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida by La Oreja de Van Gogh, if you were interested. Anyway, Roberta is hiding under the bed and overhears Vico tell Diego that Mia is a virgin. She sneaks around after them but doesn’t really do anything besides make a bunch of stupid faces. They get busted by Alicia instead.

Mia and Gandía have a really weird conversation about how scholarship students never graduate, because of ~*~THE SOCIETY~*~! Scare chord! Gandía insists that there’s no such thing as the Society and there never has been, but anyway, that’s not what Mia is here to talk about. It’s not? Because that’s where the conversation started from. Mia wants Roberta kicked out, but she makes the mistake of insulting Alma in the process, and Gandía gets all defensive and kicks Mia out. It actually comes off much grosser than in the original, I think because Gandía is less hapless than Dunoff and so he seems like more a perv with regards to Alma, somehow.

“My love for her was PURE and NOT AT ALL illegal!”

Miguel and Lupita take the exam. Holy shit, they’re using laptops! Like a real high school that has money! Celina stares into the exam room for no real reason and gets all twitterpated over Manuel. I like how the windows in this classroom are frosted over and aren’t just random panes of glass looking out into the hall. Manuel finishes his exam, and unconvincingly bumps into Tomás in the hall. They almost rumble, but then Miguel turns and sees Mia walk down the hall. “Una canción” by RBD plays in the background as they take like thirty whole seconds to walk past each other. Real love, you guys!

Roberta stirs shit and tells Celina that Vico was gossiping about Mia. She storms out and runs into Jose Lujan, and they commiserate about how this school is full of posers and they’re the only ~real~ ones here. Giovanni rolls up and Jose Lujan complains that he’s been following her. Guido and Lujan? What a concept.

Gandía reads off who passed the exam: “Nico Huber,” who fist pumps very unconvincingly. What is that shirt he’s wearing? Nico Provenza would never be seen in public like that. Then he calls “Guadalupe Fernandez,” “Mariano Rodriguez” (Not-Diego or Not-Sebastian-Who-I-Thought-Was-Diego?), and after a shuffle of confusion, “Miguel Arango.” All of our protagonists! We’re just missing Marcos, and then we’ll have caught them all.

Most striking differences: Nico just lets his Star of David necklace hang out during the exam and never dramatically voiceovers that he has to hide his Judaism. He doesn’t deny being Jewish and his classmates are slightly less antisemitic here. His eyebrows are just as intense, though. Gandía also announces that “4th year” is equivalent to 11th grade, making everyone a year older than they are in Rebelde Way.

Celina cries over Roberta calling her fat. Miguel will never like her because of her weight! Mia comforts her and tells Celi (I see what they did there) that a boy who’s really worth it won’t care about her weight. They go off to find Celi’s dream boy. Miguel sees them and tries to talk to Mia, but she runs away when she realizes she and Celi both like him. Celi introduces herself and tells Miguel about Mia. His mind is blown that the girl he likes is the girl he came here to destroy!!! No way!!! What do you think will happen?!?!

Diego and Vico make out, but he blows her off when she tries to imply that they’re dating. Diego and Tomás go to their room and meet Nico. He doesn’t deny being Jewish, and they’re kind of passive-aggressively racist, implying that it’s weird that a Jewish student isn’t rich enough to not be on scholarship. However, they don’t remark that it’s “lucky” that there are no other Jews in the school.

Over in Roberta’s room, Jose Lujan has retained the character trait of exercising in random places, just to remind us that she’s the athletic one. She and Roberta meet Lupita, then they all get called to the lobby. Everyone gathers outside — I don’t think this is a lobby — near yet another swimming pool. Prediction: at one point, someone’s gonna get pushed in there. Tomás points out Miguel and Diego promises to defend Tomás’s honor for him. They almost rumble, but then Nico pulls Miguel away. Miguel borrows Nico’s cell phone(!) to call his mother(!!!!!). Miguel didn’t forget about his mother the second he left the country? Crazytown.

Roberta and Jose Lujan go to see Gandía, but he’s busy talking to his daughter, Pilar. (Roberta takes that with her usual amount of grace.) Pilar doesn’t want to go on vacation, but she has to so Gandía can try to marry her off to a rich kid. She’s all, “You’re ruining my life!!” and storms out.

Most striking differences: Mexican Pilar is a little brattier, more Roberta-like. She spins around in his office chair and climbs up on the desk to yell at Gandía; original Pilar never really got up in her dad’s face like that.

Celi gushes about Miguel while Mia pretends not to like him. She’s already mocked up a big ol’ heart with his name inside, and gives to Mia for contrivance purposes while she runs off. Miguel comes up behind Mia and catches her with it. Dun dun dun!

Wow, we haven’t even met Marcos, but this post is already way too long and I can’t be fucked to watch another episode. His name is Teo and apparently he looks like this:

Everyone in this version has a much rounder face than the original actors. Is that a weird thing to notice?

It’s pretty clear that Rebelde had a larger budget than Rebelde Way; Elite Way actually looks like a school and they’ve possibly already shown more locations around the set than the entire first season of Rebelde Way combined. It seems equal in all other respects, though. Some of the acting is better (Mia, Lupita), some of it is worse (Celina, Diego). Some of the clothes are better, some of them are worse. Honestly, it was just weird to see the beginning of the show play out again. It’s been so long since I last saw the first few episodes of Rebelde Way that I had completely forgotten how some of these characters started out.

Also, it’s hilarious that I compared Luisana Lopilato to Hilary Duff in my last post, because guess who made an (incredibly awkward) appearance on Rebelde?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42YR0wOrFUI

Yup. That…happened.


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5 responses to “Y Soy Rebelde”

  1. leilana Avatar

    If you thought that the guys in Rebelde Way were creeps, in Rebelde we have two characters whose sole purpose (during the first series at least) is to peek under the girls’ short skirts and get slapped by them in response. Also, lol @ all the cameos. Lenny Kravitz and Gorillaz also make an appearance at some point. You could definitely see which series had the higher budget.

  2. gabi (@_softaehyungie) Avatar

    First things first: I love this post.
    I’ve know Rebelde since I was a child (it was a massive hit in Brazil), but only now I’m starting to watch Rebelde Way, so your reviews are truly helping me out.
    Seeing someone comparing them in a positive light is cool, I hope you make another post like this re: the pairings, the scenes or anything else
    It’s fascinating seeing people outside latin america liking this show and talking about it. And you’re really funny.

    1. Em Avatar

      Thanks so much for reading! I wasn’t intending to do more on Rebelde, but I’ll think about it for sure 🙂 Seeing the ways they tweaked the show is interesting, although a little jarring since I’ve been watching the original for so long now!

  3. nathaliad428 Avatar

    Hi I really like your blog and was wondering if you could do a recap on Rebelde the Mexican version I just loved them and wondered if you could do more?

    1. Em Avatar

      Hey, thanks for your comment! I don’t have any plans right now to do more Rebelde episodes, but it’s a possibility! I don’t intend to ever do the whole show like I’m doing with RW, though, lol.

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