Previously on Rebelde Way: Lujan ran away, then came back after like half a day. I feel like “five minute runaways” is a tag I should add for this show. Mia talks Guido into taking Feli out again, and Feli agrees because she don’t love herself. Mama Dunoff tried to mack it with Mansilla (twice!) and they got caught twice. Maybe they should’ve picked a room that people aren’t in and out of constantly.
Opening monologue: You have to be brave to be yourself.
We pick up slightly before where we left off. The Society had just reminded Nico and Manuel (and the audience) that they exist. Scare chord! Manuel runs off to go beat them up, and finds…a boarded up door? In some hallway? I don’t know. Where are we? Who am I?
Meanwhile, the Society congratulates themselves on a job well done. The third year must be stopped! They’re becoming ~rebelde~ through the power of music! “You know this, don’t you?” one of the hooded guys asks another one. “Yes, because I am also in third year,” the other guy anvils. Gasp!
Casa Colucci. Peter gives Mia her invitation to the fashion show, and she’s appeased for half a second before demanding the rest. Peter tells her that’s the only one she’s getting: she gets to go to the show, and all her other punishments are voided, but she doesn’t get to invite anyone else this year. Mia’s like, “Compromise? What’s that?”
It’s randomly nighttime. Marizza eavesdrops on Fernanda, who’s so desperate to be a main character that she’s letting Guido hit on her. Don’t do it, Fernanda! She doesn’t break up with him even when he tells her that he can’t go out with her on Saturday, because he’s seeinge Feli. He assures her he’s just doing it as a favor to Mia; she wants him to take Feli out because after all, who’s the hottest, most popular guy in school? Fernanda: “Guido!” No one’s slick as Guido, no one’s quick as Guido, no one’s neck is incredibly thick as Guido…anyway. Marizza sums up my feelings nicely:
The next day. Everyone’s in free dress, so I guess it’s Friday. I don’t know if my eyes have been warped from seeing so much bad early 2000s fashion, but I think Mia’s top is quite cute:
Manuel tells Feli that they’re going to play Saturday, and she freaks out. Manuel’s like, “You’ll be fine, it’s not like anyone has high expectations for a high school band anyway.”
Dunoff’s on the phone with Joaquin’s Very Important Uncle again. Very Important Uncle is pissed that he had to buy Joaquin’s way into the school, and now Joaquin wants to leave because he can’t handle his douchebaggery blowing up in his face. Dunoff decides that this situation is best solved with…Pilar? For some reason?
Meanwhile, Mansilla’s asking the class’s opinion on some writing. Tomás is like, “Hey, this isn’t literature class!” and Mansilla’s like, “Well, it’s not like you guys HAVE a literature class, so close enough!” Just kidding. Across the room, Feli and Guido smile at each other (don’t do it, Feli!), and Feli trips out into one of the musical daydreams this class seems so fond of. She sings (or mouths the words to) “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” while all the boys reject her, until she comes back with some cash and then all they’re all up on her. When she comes back to reality, she’s all smiley, but that’s kind of a sad daydream? Guys won’t like her unless she’s stuffing dollar bills in their mouths? Love yourself, Feli.
I won’t pretend to understand this.
Dunoff pulls Pilar out of class to berate her for not affirming Joaquin’s heterosexuality enough. She tries to tell him that Joaquin’s gay and doesn’t want to date her — and she doesn’t want to date him for that matter. Are you new, Pilar? Dunoff does the same song-and-dance about how she has to suck it up and date a rich dude. Pilar yanks the door open to storm out and Gloria falls into the room. HEE!
Etchamendi rocks up and tells Dunoff that he has a new teacher for Elite Way. He has to start RIGHT NOW, IMMEDIATELY, for SUPER SECRET reasons. So by all means, let’s just hire him! And so we meet Blas, because this show doesn’t have enough characters already.
Back in class, Mansilla tells them that the piece of writing they’re looking at was written by a gay author, and they’re going to have a lesson on discrimination. Joaquin’s immediately all defensive and Mansilla’s like, “Sit down, not everything is about you.” Hee. He lectures them that people’s actions are more important than their sexuality or appearance or what-have-you. A valuable lesson that these kids are going to forget in about half a day. Then Dunoff comes in and introduces Blas to the class, and Mia is all twitterpated. He’s so handsome! And a teacher, Mia. I guess she didn’t learn anything from Marizza and Mauro forty episodes ago.
Lujan and Luna find Marizza’s fake doctor’s notes about her panic attacks, and Lujan gushes over what a genius Marizza is. Those two need to just run away together already. Then she tells Luna that she wants to apologize to her. WHAT? Luna is as shocked as I am: “To me?” Lujan tells her that she’s been a little jealous of Luna, because she wishes she were more like her, i.e. capable of empathy. Aw! Jokes aside, it’s pretty sweet. Lujan and Luna hug and make up. Then Blas walks in and starts needling Lujan about her hair and clothes, and tells them he’s going to write them up for loitering in the classroom (for like five minutes. Come on, Blas). Lujan is not pleased.
The Society leaves notes on the scholarship students’ lockers, including Vico this time. Scare chord!
Pablo makes fun of Joaquin’s sexuality again, and Mansilla has to drag him off by his ear for a talk. Wow, when I said the class would stop being dicks for half a day, clearly I was being too optimistic. Mansilla gives Pablo another spiel about how Pablo hates his dad and yet keeps acting just like him. Pablo says that Mansilla is just like Papa B; they’re both hypocrites. He knows Mansilla is macking it with Mama Dunoff, and he is VERY DISAPPOINTED! Mansilla: “Aha, but to be disappointed in someone, they have to matter to you at least a little.” He tells Pablo that the thing with Mama Dunoff is complex (read: a bunch of adults being dysfunctional), and when Pablo is angry, he can still count on Mansilla. Pablo’s like, “Whatever.”
Dunoff brings a doctor in to evaluate Marizza’s panic attacks. He figures out that he’s faking like five seconds into their session. Wow, he’s a better psychologist than the last one. After a bit of a talk, he tells her that she does have a problem, but it doesn’t have anything to do with panic attacks. So Marizza does have some kind of mental issue? I knew it. But before the psychologist can actually get anywhere with her, Lujan texts Marizza a list of panic attack symptoms and she tricks the psychologist into believing she’s having one. Never mind, he’s not better than the last one. Marizza runs off to Lujan and Luna all triumphant, and Lujan tells her that even though she was the one who sent the text, Marcos lent her his phone. Marizza’s all surprised, because the last time she saw Marcos he was mad at her for bringing up his dead brother every time they talked.
Marizza finds Manuel emoing over the Society’s calling cards, which say “Scholarship kids, GO HOME.” (The “go home” part is in English, for some reason.) Marizza: “This is terrible!” Then she rips one up and tells Manuel that she has something more important to tell him. Heh. Oh, Marizza. She tells him that Guido’s taking Feli on a date, and Manuel’s like, “Yeah, whatever.” And Mia was the one who talked Guido into it! Manuel’s like, “Mia? Oh, well NOW this is an offense of epic proportions!” He runs off, and Marizza looks through the rest of the Society envelopes.
Mia talks Vico and Feli into going along with her wacky plan to set up Papa C and Gloria. They go to the office and hint that ~someone~ — a very important someone — is interested in Gloria. But they can’t say who! They really should, though, because Gloria immediately trips out into a daydream that Dunoff is going to ask her out. Dunoff? Love yourself, Gloria.
Manuel jumps Guido in the gym and wails on him for asking Feli out. Guido tries to defend himself all, “Dude, I’m just asking out a girl you’re not even dating anymore!” and Manuel’s like, “Talking is for squares!” Some of the kids run off and get Blas, and he hauls Manuel off while Nico shrieks about the injustice of it all. Nico, I too hate Blas already, but teachers are allowed to discipline students who pin other kids to the ground and beat them up. In the teachers’ lounge, Manuel protests that Guido should be punished too, because they were both fighting. Uh, Manuel:
That is totally not the both of you. Whatever. Mansilla comes in and takes over, because he has to do everything around here. He’s like, “Dude, how many times do I gotta tell you to stop fixing problems with your fists? What’s wrong with you?” Manuel can’t really say that he’s beating up Guido for dating a girl Manuel didn’t even like in the first place, so he starts ranting about the Society, and Mansilla tells him once more that he has to have more chill when it comes to dealing with them. This episode is just a bunch of conversations that all the characters have had before. Manuel points out, once again, that Mansilla knows a suspicious amount about the Society. Mansilla tells him that it’s good for Manuel to be suspicious of him, because he needs to be suspicious of everyone. Ooh, #18 on Things Villains Say When They Want to Throw You Off Their Trail! Play a Nancy Drew game, Manuel.
Mia, Vico, and Feli continue to fuck with Gloria by leaving a rose on her desk and note claiming to be from Franco. Gloria is all twitterpated. I feel kind of bad for her. In the lounge, Mia calls Papa C and tells him what they’ve done — she BSes that she left Gloria a rose for him, since Gloria helped Mia with something-or-other and a sending her a rose is only the gentlemanly and parental thing to do, right? Their work done for the day, Mia squeals that they should totally have a girls’ night on Saturday! Feli’s like, “Yikes, Saturday is no good.” Mia: “Are you telling me you have SOMETHING BETTER TO DO than my party?”
In Marizza’s room, they talk about how Blas dragged off Manuel but not Guido. Again: Manuel was the one who pinned Guido to the ground! Guido wasn’t fighting with him at all! I hate this episode for making me defend Guido. Ominous music plinks in the background a Marizza comes to a realization: even though Marizza and Lujan aren’t on scholarship, they hang out with the scholarship students, and that means that…they’re involved in this mess too? Somehow? What kind of realization is this?
As all the kids leave for the weekend, some rando’s sister comes in and says that she’s here for a visit. Blas shuts her down — allowing the students’ families to visit is bad for security! They should just suck it up and never see their families again! Gloria points out that Friday has always been visitors’ day, and Blas has been here for literally one day, so maybe he should listen to her. Blas stares her down and ominouses that her seniority doesn’t mean anything to him. Gloria immediately runs off to tattle to Dunoff, and he admits that he can’t fire Blas, as he’s here specifically on Etchamendi’s orders. Gloria: “Do you think he’s here to SPY?” She and Dunoff gasp in unison. Hee!
Marcos gets a note from Marizza telling him that she likes him a lot, even though she can be a dick to him sometimes. “I love you too, Marizza!” Marcos chirps. Oh, this will end well.
Mia and Vico follow Marizza out to find out what she’s up to with Feli, but then Gloria runs up and tells them that Vico’s father is calling her back. Mia and Vico have to abandon mission and take the call. Vico’s dad is all like, “Yeah, no can do on letting you leave the school, but we can hang when I come back from my trip next year.” Vico hangs up and starts crying, and Mia hugs her. It’s pretty genuinely emotional, I won’t lie.
Meanwhile, band practice is not going well. Marizza is dancing around and grinding up on Feli, and Pablo wants her to just stand there and sing. Her shenanigans are ruining his song! He lays out an ultimatum: either Marizza goes or he does. I mean, to be honest, Marizza’s really the disposable one of the two, being that Pablo writes and composes their songs and everything. But I bet neither of them will leave. In fact, Feli might leave and be replaced with Mia. Do you think that’ll happen?
Pilar talks Dunoff into letting her and Joaquin go out. They head to that one restaurant that everyone hangs out in (site of exciting things like Pablo running away for five minutes). Pilar wants to sit down and eat, but Joaquin’s like, “No, I gotta hang out here at the bar for reasons.” Some shady guy rocks up and he and Joaquin proceed to do a drug deal right in front of Pilar. Stealth!
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