part of me is so glad the lupe kidnapping/hospital storyline is finally over bc juls has looked soo exhausted the whole time. still gorgeous obv but i love seeing her more dressed up and with her hair out of a ponytail. when she got out of the car at the party i was like val, girl i KNOW !!!

Oof, she looked sooooo good. She looks cute all the time, but in that dress? Lol at how Val could literally not stop telling her how pretty she looked, like three different times. I did have to laugh at them laughing at the previous dresses she tried on, as if Juls didn’t look amazing in all of them.

I actually like her hair in the ponytail she wore recently, and also the darker denim jacket. And not just me, apparently.

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That third gif in the right column. I don’t go here so I can’t really form an opinion regarding chemistry, but the fact that the actress continues with the character quirk even though her hands are practically off camera shows that they are really comfortable in their characters and as scene partners. Unless it was in the script and then it’s just good writing.

Okay, first of all: go here! Heh.

But yeah, there are a ton of little moments which I can’t quite decide are actress choices or written in. It’s a freaking telenovela, by which I mean, there’s so much going on and it’s designed to be very exaggerated and expansive, I can’t imagine they have the time to write in every subtle little thing, especially for non-leads. I can only imagine they’ve given the actresses considerable freedom and have some attentive directors and editors.

I know everyone is obsessed with maca and I get it but barbara, damn girl. I love the whole dark thing she has going. And her jawline and chin cleft and chocolate eyes and…lol yeah.

I get you, I get you. She is gorgeous. I was actually saying to someone that during the drawn-out hospital eps where they deliberately tried to make her plainer, less makeup, hair pulled back into a simple ponytail, increased bags under eyes, she still looked great all the time. Especially when she smiled~ They are a pair of stunners.

Hey I read somewhere that there will be a time jump and that they will be separated for a while. Juliana will become a fashion designer. Then they will meet again in one of her shows and relived their love. Idk of this is true though..

Really? …can’t say I’d be a fan of that. 

I’m not opposed to couples splitting when they have things to work through and then reconnecting when they’re in the same place but in the case of these two, it’d only be for drama, to lend a bittersweet air to all the time lost. They’ve been able to work through and compromise over so much, they’re so open and honest about everything, it’d be a blow if outside factors separated them for the tragedy of it all.

Wait I’m so confused help me out. Why was Jacob/Leon tearing up when he was talking to Val about Lucho???

Because he wasn’t actually talking about Lucho, he was talking about himself. He’d just found out that Lucia was in league with Johnny who had him murdered and he was projecting that into both the conversations he had with his younger, easily influenced kids, like the dumbass that he is.

Tbh, that realization made that whole scene far more palatable for me than it’d initially been. I’d only first gotten a summary of it which was of course appalling but there’s a big difference between characters doing bad things and the narrative endorsing them. What he said was terrible, no doubt. But it wasn’t Jacobo saying that as Val’s loving father he thought the best thing in this situation was for Val to consider Lucho’s feelings more, it was a very upset, self-centered Jacobo saying that about himself and Lucia. 

I’m especially glad he had a similar scene with Guille because the audience already knows they should be rooting for Guille/Renata as a cute m/f pair, so their feelings of “wait, Jacobo is clearly projecting and giving bad advice” will more easily be carried into the conversation about Val and, indirectly, Juls.