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Okay… I’m disappointed.

Aw, I’m sorry. I was already just happy they were even going to the effort of releasing it (obviously unless tonight’s episode is TERRIBLE and this was all just a distraction), like, people listening to us and paying attention to us is so rare. And I loved what they added, and without the sound? Whew.

Plus, how can you not love this official art??

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I always thought val would be the one to break the pact since she’s always so unapologetic in going after what she wants and she has such a sheltered life until recently. This show brings so many surprises

I thought so too. She was under so much pressure, wasn’t answering the phone calls.

But I think it kind of couldn’t be her? The romance they’re selling is so epic and so star-crossed, her caving because of pressure just wouldn’t work. Of course that would be understandable in real life but in this story, it would come across as her not loving Juls enough. Instead, it broke because Juls loves her too much.

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looking at your asks ‘post-breakup’ scene, it’s nice to see the folks here being reasonable about why juls reacted the way that she did. i feel like most people, from what i’ve noticed on twitter, are so quick to anger and blame juls for her decision and are so focused on val’s perspective since the past few episodes were mainly about her outing and the repercussions of it that they completely forget to consider from juls’ point of view and how might these events effect her.

I wanted to answer this specifically after the previous ask, lol. They arrived almost together (that one first) and I just sat there for a bit, looking at them in bemusement.

“Reasonable” is maybe not the word I’d go for, I don’t want to apply that connotation either way, but yeah, I do support a more…balanced view? 

Maybe you have a point that the show’s been showing Val suffering very obvious bullying and already going two rounds with her sister and that affects how some viewers relate to them. This goes back to the other ask about praise for their acting, where what Val gets is more clearly spelled out compared to the more subtler quieter moments for Juls.

Because I think we’ve seen enough of Juls’s side of things too, leaving that worried voicemail, that scene with Lupe in bed that I’d even commented on for being noteworthy in its inclusion. It wasn’t a loud, dramatic scene, it was just very slowly and softly painful. Juls has been suffering throughout this. She doesn’t suggest a break for the fun of it, it’s constantly in the back of her mind. When the cop warned her, twice. When Lucho insulted her at school when Juls didn’t even want to go. When Val missed her classes for her. When Silvina warned her. When Silvina woke them up, when they had to avoid Eva, when Lucho attacked them, when Val wouldn’t accept her calls, when her mom told her they were from different worlds, when Eva freaking showed up at their house, when she wasn’t even allowed in the car, and when Val showed her the bullying messages on her phone. It was all building, we saw it building. 

This…this isn’t a criticism-free zone. I don’t think everything both of them do is perfect. I just don’t see the point of shipping characters if you don’t give both of them the benefit of sympathy and understanding.

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In the instagram live Barbara said that the car scene was done 5 times and they had a ‘mega atazcon’ meaning it was too intense/heavy and she confirmed that they censored/cut a lot of it. In the Raze interview they said there was a car scene where Juls grabs Vals boob and Val gets mad and she said ‘La quitaron’ they took it away but idk if its from the script or deleted from the final cut. So fans want to see the uncut version of the car scene.

Hah, I had to go back a bunch of pages to find this one, but I did want to answer it finally to say congratulations! I guess the trend worked. And at a time when we really needed a positive distraction, lol.