Damn guys, Smash Mouth was right when they said the years start coming and they don’t stop coming. Happy 10 year anniversary to this blog! There’s not much to really celebrate, but I thought I’d point out how freaking old I feel right now. Who knew this silly blog would the one constant through my high school, college, and adult years? I mean, that and my love for Taylor Swift.
Anyway, previously on Rebelde Way: Feli makes up with Lalo, then breaks up with Lalo, then makes up with him again, then finds a mysterious person in her room! Truly, the fact that they think anything involving Feli is suspenseful is wild to me.
Anyway, Maxi is in Feli’s room. I’m sure you’re shocked. She rightly is freaked out, especially as Maxi starts confessing his love to her. He’s like, “I know you only ran off with that unsightly waiter because I wasn’t romantic enough for you!” He promises to be more forward from now on, even if it means doing disgusting things like letting Feli put her gross germs in his mouth and touching each other without immediately washing their hands before and after. We’re meant to think that Maxi is being ridiculous, but maybe he’s just prepared for the worldwide pandemic that will break out 17 years after this episode! Feli tells him that all the spit-swapping in the world won’t make her choose him; she’s in love with Lalo and that’s that. Maxi tells her that Lalo belongs to a different world than the two of them, and Feli sassily tells him that she’s chosen Lalo’s world. I mean, she says that now, but is she really gonna drink fake mate for the rest of her life?
Sol goes to Maxi’s aunt’s shop for the casting, but Maxi’s aunt tells her that the casting isn’t at the store, and anyway, she already sent a photographer to look at some other girls. Sol flips out and begs Maxi’s aunt to tell her where the photographer is.
Papa B meets with the education minister’s advisor, who’s like, “You know, upon actual reflection, it is pretty weird that you bought an entire school.” Papa B assures him that all his dealings re: Elite Way are on the up-and-up and are purely in the public interest. The minister’s advisor tells him that he better be, and he expects more transparency and public service funding from Papa B’s office in the future. Then he leaves. That’s it? That’s all Papa B was freaking out about? He’s not a very good evil politician if he couldn’t think of a way to weasel out of that meeting. Ines comes by and is like, “So do you have to leave the country now?” and Papa B growls that he has to stay and like, improve the hospitals and shit. The horror!
Tomás and Guido go to practice at the sports club, where they run into that random girl that Guido was cheating with. She brings up Agustina and Nicolas Cage coming by the other day to yell at her, and Guido, seeing no way out of this, says that she has him confused! He is not in fact Guido, he’s Guido’s twin Felipe, and he has no idea what she’s talking about! And Random Girl actually falls for this. I can’t remember her name, but I’m going to call her Tomasina, because she is clearly just as dumb as Tomás. Then Agustina shows up, and Guido denies flirting with Tomasina. Agustina snaps at him that she never wants him to see that girl again. Tomasina runs off to write a letter to Guido about how much she yearns for him (gross, and also WHY), which she plans to give to “Felipe” to deliver.
After being rejected by Feli, Maxi tries to go home, but finds that no one is there to drive him. He calls his driver all, “If you’re not here in five minutes, I’ll speak to your manager!” Then Sol shows up, distraught over losing out on the casting, and tells Maxi that he has to call his aunt for her. Maxi refuses because he’s all heartbroken over Feli, and Sol decides to console him while voiceovering that she’ll do anything to get the modelling job. I fail to see why she doesn’t just audition for something else, instead of expending all this energy on Maxi.
Lujan comes back to school, and Miranda tells her that he’s going to have to talk to her parents about her leaving without permission. “If you can find them,” Lujan snipes. Miranda’s like, “Say what?” because I guess nobody ever bothered to mention in Lujan’s file that she’s an orphan. He adds that, regardless, he’ll have to talk to her guardian or whoever, and Lujan just emos that she has no one and she’s totally alone in the universe.
The girls and boys have their soccer match, which is refereed by Michi, who I guess has totally just abandoned her post at school? Whatever. The girls win the match, although it’s hard to tell how any of them were playing since the entire match was shown via looping two-second clips. Whoever edited this show must have been having a field day in Windows Movie Maker. All the boys groan, and Lalo comes out of nowhere to tell them to be happy for their girlfriends. Even Feli is like, “When did you show up?!” Hee. The boys slink off in defeat, and Tomasina manages to give Guido her number before he leaves.
Maxi tells Sol that he knows it must be difficult for her to watch him pine over Feli. Sol’s like, “It is?” and Maxi’s like, “Because you’re desperately in love with me?” and Sol’s like, “Oh, right.” Heh. Sol says that she just wants Maxi to be happy, and she’ll do whatever it takes to help him be with Feli, starting with getting rid of Lalo.
Laura and Lola talk about Mari, Lola’s real mom. Apparently she’s in the hospital, and Laura thinks that Lola should tell their parents about the whole affair — that Lola’s found her real mom and has been in touch with her — so that they’ll let her go visit. Lola blows off her advice and changes the subject to Lujan. Laura muses that Lujan missed their soccer game, which is pretty weird for someone whose main character trait is being a tomboy.
Feli comes in and Lola leaves her and Laura to talk. Feli tells Laura that she missed her period, and Laura’s like, “Oh my God, you totally slept with Lalo and didn’t use a condom.” Heh. She actually more euphemistically asks Feli if she and Lalo “were careful”, and I think Feli doesn’t understand, because she’s like, “Of course, we were both careful with each other!” — like, either she thinks Laura’s asking if the sex was bad, or if she’s lying and trying to make it sound like she was also on the pill or something. Anyway, Laura says that maybe she just skipped her period because of stress or whatever, but she should go to a gynecologist and figure it out.
Lujan sneaks out of school to see Blas, and Miranda follows her. Not weird or creepy at all. At the hospital, Lujan tells Blas about the soccer competition (because I’m sure he would have cared) and says that she used some of the prize money to buy Blas flowers. Why tf did Lujan get any of the take if she didn’t even play? Although I do appreciate that the girls have spent the money right away so that Guido can’t try to steal it back from them. Anyway, then she says that she knows Blas would’ve been mad that they were betting money on the game, and says that he can punish her on behalf of all the girls if he wants. Jesus, this is fucking dark, and I don’t even know if it’s intentional. This show is so dopily earnest that I can believe that they genuinely think Lujan is seeing the good in Blas right now — on the other hand, given Blas’s behavior, it really comes off like Lujan is desperately using his nonresponsive state to project her wishes for an actual non-abusive parental figure onto him. Either way, it’s way more fucked up than the show probably thinks it is.
The next day. Having gotten Tomasina’s phone number, Guido is planning on starting a new little black book of names. Tomás is like, “Or you could just not cheat on your girlfriend.” Guido needles him for being whipped, again, some more, and Tomás tries to explain the concept of being in a monogamous relationship, again, some more. Guido whines that he and Agustina aren’t having sex, so he has to take care of his needs with other girls, but of course breaking up with Agustina is too much work on his part. Tomás is like, “So talk to Agustina about having sex?” and Guido’s like, “Using your words is for squares.” Tomás offers to talk to Agustina on his behalf, Guido’s like, “Ooh, would you really?”, totally missing that that shit-eating grin on Tomás’s face cannot mean anything good for him.
Michi and Miranda go over his plans to create a girls’ soccer team. She asks if she can be made the girls’ coach, and Miranda’s like, “Why not, that would definitely save us from having to hire anyone qualified.” Aw, Miranda. I had hopes for him, but he’s turning out to be just as stalky and laissez-faire about background checks as the rest of his coworkers. As he leaves, he asks Michi if it’s true that Lujan doesn’t have a guardian, and Michi’s like, “Oh, no, she has her mysterious tutor!” She adds that nobody’s ever like, seen this guy, or knows his name, but someone pays Lujan’s tuition every year and that’s all anyone cares about, because this school is garbage. Miranda says that he’d like to speak with Lujan’s guardian straightaway.
Laura finds Feli in the bathroom and asks how her period situation is. Feli says that it just came today and everything is totally fine, false alarm! Laura falls for this obvious lie and lends Feli a pad before she leaves. Pilar and Fernanda come in then and Feli runs out, leaving the pad behind. Pilar’s like, “Gosh, Feli is acting weird, isn’t she?” and Fernanda says she’ll get to the bottom of what’s going on. Again, I can’t believe any of them are this invested in what might be happening to Feli. Laura comes back in and sees the pad Feli left on the counter and is all like, “This is suspicious!” Ah, yes, Feli forgetting a pad is what tips her off, and not all of the obvious lies about using a condom. Oh, Laura.
Sonia and Papa C have lunch together, and Sonia tries to like, casually float the idea of her going back to show business. Papa C’s like, “The day you left that horrid tawdry world was the best day of our lives! If you were to ever go back, I would break up with you on the spot!” Not that last part exactly, but it’s implied. He blows her off and leaves, and Sonia calls the director asking for an advance on her payment.
Feli enlists Michi to help her sneak out and see Lalo at his job. She tells him that her period is late, and she’s like, “But that’s impossible, right?” Lalo sweatdrops because I guess he finally has to confess that he forgot to wear a condom. He tells her that it’s probably nothing and they hug while he looks shiftily over her shoulder.
Fernanda tells Sol that she and Pilar have fought about Sol: Pilar thinks it’s super embarrassing that Sol is hanging around Maxi, but Fernanda totally doesn’t think someone as cool and pretty and Sol would ever give him the time of day. So what is the truth? Sol cracks like an egg and tells Fernanda all about her plan to fuck her way to the top.
Tomás gets all jealous of the photographer that Pilar and Fernanda were hanging all over the other day. Pilar tells him that it was just for a modelling job, and Tomás is all suspicious because there’s no way Pilar could be a model. Yikes! You in danger, Tomás. Pilar forces a smile and says that the photographer was here to see Fernanda. Tomás takes the opportunity to segue into talking about Agustina and whether or not she and Guido are having sex. Pilar’s like, “Ew, no.”
Meanwhile, Marcos is trying to gently tell Lujan that her abusive former guardian is probably not going to wake up from his coma. He’s like, “Even the doctors don’t think so,” and Lujan’s like, “Stop bringing science into this.” Michi rocks up then and tells Lujan that Miranda is asking about her tutor. Lujan’s like, “Why is he asking?” and Michi’s like, “Idk, you tell me why he’s asking.” Since Lujan’s mysterious tutor never communicates directly with the school — which really should’ve set off alarm bells way sooner — Michi tells her to tell her tutor to call them. Marcos is like, “Great, now what are you going to do?” Lujan snipes that she’s just not going to do anything, and Miranda will probably forget about it. I bet he won’t (and so does Marcos).
Sol meets up with Maxi and tells him that she’s spoken with Feli. Maxi’s like, “Omg, did she like my kissing technique?” Ew. Sol tells him that Feli thought his kissing was great, but he could work a little more on his friendliness. He just doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who’s willing to do favors for his friends, and that’s just not gonna cut it for Feli. Now, if Maxi showed Feli that he is the kind of guy who might, say, get a blonde friend of his a modelling job, that would really impress her. Maxi says that he’s pretty sure Feli’s beyond impressing, since she’s in love with Lalo. “Only an idiot would believe they’re really in love,” Sol says. Maxi: “Well, I believed it.” HEE! Sol backtracks and says that Feli’s a really good actress, but she’s sure Maxi can still win her over. Maxi keeps hemming and hawing that he hates Mia and Vico, so he doesn’t really want to help them. Sol has to walk him through the conversation until he finally hits on helping her, and she makes up a big story about how she and Feli are secret friends, since Mia and Vico are awfully possessive and jealous.
Fernanda has been eavesdropping on this conversation, and she comes up and tells Sol that Feli is in “the usual place” and wants to talk to Sol. Sol rushes off, leaving Fernanda and Maxi alone. When we next see Fernanda, though, she and Sol are hanging in class, so I guess Fernanda did nothing with her opportunity to talk to Maxi alone. Fernanda, this is why you haven’t been promoted to a secondary character.
Sonia’s director — did I ever mention his name? It’s Sammy, since he’s going to be around for a bit — comes by. He tells Sonia that he’s paid her in advance, as requested, which means that she can’t back out of the show now. Sonia sweatdrops.
Michi excitedly tells Miranda that she’s already found a team to play against the Elite Way girls, and she’s worked out a whole exchange — first the team will come to EW to play, then the EW girls will go over there. Yes, that’s…that’s how home and away games work, Michi. Also, how are they going to play at Elite Way if there’s no soccer field?
Carmen has busted Lujan copying on a test — literally when? — and drags her to Miranda for discipline. She says that Lujan’s guardian has to be contacted, and Miranda’s like, “An excellent opportunity!” Lujan snipes at him that she has no way of contacting her tutor either — he always calls her first. “That seems improbable,” Miranda says. And yet it’s true, because this is a telenovela. He says that if there’s no way of reaching Lujan’s guardian, he’ll have to get a judge involved, which sends Lujan into a panic. She promises to tell her guardian about this next time he calls, and then she’ll have him call Miranda. Miranda accepts this.
(By the way, it took me about a million years, but I finally cottoned on that they’re using “tutor” to mean “guardian”, although this show sometimes gives it an academic subtext that I’m not super sure how to describe. Anyway, I will continue to refer to Lujan’s guardian/tutor as either her “guardian” or “tutor” interchangeably because I’m in the habit of it now, but that’s what’s going on there.)
Fernanda and Pilar huddle by a tree and discuss how much they hate Sol. Hee. As you do. They resolve to do whatever it takes to stop her from getting the model job, again, some more. Fernanda mentions that they’re meant to go meet the photographer this afternoon, but Pilar suddenly has cold feet, since Tomás wouldn’t like it. Fernanda insists that Pilar come along, at least just for support, and Pilar agrees, although she refuses to model herself. And yet, somehow, I’m sure she’ll end up in front of the camera. Anyway, Pilar dons her sunglasses while “It’s Your Duty” by Lene (aka the lady from Aqua) plays in the background. HA! I haven’t heard that song in ages. I fucking loved Aqua as a kid and I downloaded Lene’s solo album from like, Limewire or something when I was eleven. I remember putting “Pretty Young Thing” in the music folder of my Sims 2 game so I could listen to it while I played. LMAO.
Tomás comes waltzing up to Agustina and Lola while they’re talking. He says he’s doing a survey for psychology class. Neither of them point out that Elite Way does not have a psychology class, or indeed any classes besides history, sometimes gym, sometimes English, and occasionally literature. Anyway, Tomás asks his question: “Would you have sex with a boy if you’re in love, and as a follow up, what would be the best way for the boy to get you to give it up?” This…doesn’t seem like what he discussed with Guido? The impression I got was that Guido was just going off about his needs and wanting to sow his gross misogynistic oats with a bunch of girls, not that he would actually be faithful to Agustina if she started putting out. Anyway, Lola and Agustina are like, “And you’re planning to turn this in for a grade?”
They keep talking to him, though, as we see when the camera moves on to Marcos and Lujan. Or this show is too lazy to show proper, in-character background activity when other students aren’t in focus. It could go either way! Anyway, Marcos thinks Lujan is in over her head, but he agrees to help her with Miranda because he has no spine. Marcos wants to know why Lujan doesn’t just tell Miranda the truth, and Lujan says that she’s sure Blas won’t want anyone to know about his totally embarrassing coma when he wakes up. Marcos tells her that he’s afraid she’s burying herself in a fantasy and that it won’t end well. Aw. That’s a really nice way of putting it and very astute on Marcos’s part. Ugh, I can feel myself getting sucked into liking Marcos/Lujan again. Anyway, Lujan says that if she doesn’t lie to Miranda, she’ll end up back in foster care.
Miranda goes back to the office to discuss the soccer tournament some more. Michi says that she’s found a hotel for the other school’s girls to stay at, and Miranda says that it might be better if the girls stay at Elite Way to foster some cross-socioeconomic bonding. Michi’s like, “Have you met the boys that go to this school? Do you really want to introduce more girls to them?” Hee. She has their number. Before Miranda can respond to this logic, he gets a call from “Lujan’s tutor”, telling him that he’s on vacation but they can talk more when he returns. Miranda hangs up the phone and tells Michi that the person on the other end of the phone was clearly a teenager. Ha! I love him. He adds that now he really wants to know what’s going on with Lujan and her guardian, and ropes Michi into helping him.
Tomás comes back to Guido and tells him that he’s done all the work for him: when surveyed, Agustina said she’d definitely have sex with her boyfriend, and she even gave Tomás a play-by-play of how she would want to be seduced. Wow, that is not something I would’ve discussed with any of my male classmates in school, especially one that wasn’t even in my class. So Guido’s path to having sex with his girlfriend is clear! Oh, Tomás, I am so disappointed in you. I really hoped the shit-eating grin he gave Guido earlier was indicative of Tomás trying to fuck things up for him.
Pilar and Fernanda arrive at the photographer’s place. Pilar is wearing a top with cutouts on the shoulders, and I am appalled to realize that this show is old enough for several of its outfits to have come back into fashion. Anyway, Pilar tells the photographer that she doesn’t want to model, and he sighs that he promised Maxi’s aunt (“Clara”) that he had a duo for her. He says he’ll just have to call that pushy blonde girl he met at Elite Way instead. Fernanda drags Pilar to the side and reminds her that they agreed to do whatever it takes to stop Sol from becoming a model. Pilar wibbles that she doesn’t want to lie to Tomás, so Fernanda suggests that Pilar just not tell him about this. That way he’ll never find out! Ah, yes, there’s no way Tomás could ever find out about his girlfriend appearing in a fashion campaign directly targeted at people their age.
Back in Pablo’s room, Guido’s prepping to seduce Agustina. He puts on a new shirt and some cologne, which grosses Tomás out: “That cologne is gonna kill her, not make her fall in love with you.” HEE. He gives Guido the keys to Pablo’s apartment and Guido runs off. He doubles back a second later, saying that he’s forgotten something. “A condom?” Tomás suggests. “No, I’d never forget that,” Guido says. Let us all have a moment of silence for the damning realization that both Tomás and Guido are more responsible than Lalo. Anyway, Guido figures that he’s probably just being paranoid and leaves. I bet he isn’t.
Lola is looking up information about the place in Jujuy where her mom lives, and is all twitterpated by the pictures. I’m guessing that, despite her earlier denial, she’s planning to visit her mom there after all. Then Mrs. Arregui shows up, with a totally new hairstyle and manner of dress, saying that she’s here to give Lola her birthday present early. The present is two tickets for a trip to Europe, just Lola and her adoptive mom, so they can hang out and make up for all those years that Mrs. Arregui emotionally abused Lola. Lola is less than enthused, and she tells Mrs. Arregui that she’s found her real mom and doesn’t want to leave her. Because…Lola doesn’t already live nearly a 20-hour drive from her bio mom already?
Michi comes back to the office and tells Miranda that she looked for Lujan, but she appears to have left school without permission, again. It’s super wild how the teachers can jump out of the shadows the second a student so much as thinks about leaving the school when the plot requires it, but otherwise they’re completely ignorant of everyone’s comings and goings. Miranda says that he’s found out that Marcos was the one impersonating Lujan’s tutor, and he’s going to have a talk with Lujan about it. Michi reminds him that Lujan has gone out, but Miranda knows where she’s going. He storms out and Michi’s all like, “He’s kinda hot when he’s angry with the children.”
Guido takes Agustina to Pablo’s apartment, which he’s done up with flowers and with a giant teddy bear for her. Agustina’s like, “Aw, this is so nice of you,” and kisses him. Guido’s like, “Don’t I deserve sex for this?” Ah, doing something unsolicited for your girlfriend and then trying to shame her into owing you sex for it. I hate Guido. He pulls out a condom and Agustina freaks out. As any girl should at the prospect of having sex with Guido! To his credit — and I mean this in the most “bare minimum” way possible — Guido doesn’t pressure her further and says that he’ll take them back to school, although he’s probably only saying that because she’s screaming her head off. Agustina yells at him to call her dad instead, and Guido’s like, “Oh no, Nicolas Cage is gonna kill me.” Heh. Should’ve thought of that first, Guido!
Maxi comes back to school — I guess he doesn’t have a school of his own? — and tells Sol that he thought over what she said, really thought about it, and went over multiple options, thinking of what he could do for Feli…”Okay, I don’t need the details, are you going to call your aunt or not?” Sol asks. Maxi’s like, “What? No, I was gonna do something else that’s nice for Feli.” Sol scowls at him and reminds him that she is Feli’s best friend, so helping her would really help Maxi out, too. Maxi raises an eyebrow.
Lujan goes to visit Blas and tells him that she’s brought him chocolate, “[b]ecause I figured you’ll be hungry when you wake up.” Ah, yes, one piece of janky chocolate from a school vending machine. That’s all the nutrition a newly awoken coma patient needs. She tells him why she really got in trouble during literature class — she was reading stuff she’d gotten off the Internet about coma patients waking up instead of taking Carmen’s test. She totally failed the test as a result, but it’s okay as long as she’s helping Blas! LUJAN, THE MAN HAS HIT YOU MULTIPLE TIMES. HE’S NOT SUDDENLY A GOOD PERSON BECAUSE HE WAS IN A NEAR-FATAL ACCIDENT. STOP FAILING OUT OF SCHOOL FOR HIM!!!
Just then, Miranda comes in and demands to know who Blas is. Lujan is like, “None of your business!” and Miranda’s like, “You’re a minor in my class, your home life is at least partially my business!” While they yell at each other, Blas’s heart rate starts going crazy and Lujan tries to throw herself at him. Miranda tries to hold her back while Lujan flails at his body. Because manhandling and knocking around coma patients is also an excellent way to help them recover!
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