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Post by chase33 on Sept 11, 2010 22:50:57 GMT -5
Bad bug!!! - Go away right now!
Hope you feel better, Chrys.
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Post by chrys on Sept 12, 2010 0:42:59 GMT -5
Recap for episode 139, aired on August 18.Lesson 259. These two guys' acting is so great, and when the writing helps and both of their arguments make sense for their characters, it's just a pleasure to watch, even if it's sad. Flaco went into sensible mode and tried to make Lalo change his mind about the break-up by pointing out it's not the time to make a decision like that. Lalo, oh so in character, tried to deny that it had anything to do with his current tragedy, though he would soon contradict himself Also, his crying and tone of voice and deep sad looks were just on spot Flaco: "I want to help. I don't want to leave you alone." Lalo: "It's okay. You know what's happening? Since our relationship leaked, for me things went from bad to worse, get it? It's ok, but I don't want to keep losing. I've hit the bottom with this - I don't have anything left to lose. It's all over for me." This is instantly one of my favorites monologues by Lalo. Not only it was perfectly delivered, but it makes perfect sense for the character. Lalo is desperate and he has a point: this relationship, since it stopped being a total secret, has greatly hurt him (though it was not Flaco's fault, but of their environment). Now we know Lalo's standard reaction to bad situations is to get defensive. So, though it hurts him, he's decided to step away to protect himself, because he feels like he can't take any more losses and pain. That's what good writing does: it makes people disagree while making their different reasoning believable and understandable. Flaco pleaded with him for time, for not throwing all they have away (though the Spanish phrasing is a lot more awesome: no tires a la mierda todo que tenemos = don't throw to shit all we have) but to no avail. Then came in Lalo's mother - who, I swear to you, used to look a lot less weird the first time she's been on the show, when she didn't have that perm/babyliss/whatever-I-know-nothing-about-hair-stuff - and found them both crying, and she seems to know what's going on. Not sure in how much denial she is, though. When Lily asked Tato to help Marga, he told her that Marga is guilty and that he's known for months, because Nino told him. Why did Tato impart all this information? Who knows? Maybe it was the only way they've found to get something for Lily to do on the show. She called Ethel (Marga's mom) as soon as Tato left. Later Ethel came over and told her the whole thing. Meanwhile, Chiqui cannot believe Marga is guilty and said she's incapable of doing such a thing. Poor clueless babe He told Riganti she can't stay in jail because she's pregnant and Riganti said Laura would take special care of her. 260. Marga has a good poker face (but facts are facts). The lawyer told her to cut the bullshit and tell him what really happened so he could make up some story to get her free, but she just said she went to Laura and Giselle's, they had an argument and when she left, Giselle was alive. Then the lawyer told her the police has her fingerprint covered in Giselle's blood, so Marga finally realized she's in really deep shit. Later she told the police how she killed Giselle, and she did so with the most impassible fierce face ever Then her lawyer tried to argue that she had reacted out of violent emotion, but that was quite hard with Marga so impassible like that 261. Mercedes is a rollercoaster (even though she's also super bland). Sometimes she is supportive, sometimes she blamed Flaco for all the problems she was having due to widespread homophobia in football. During a meeting with club execs, she went first route again and said, sarcastically: "So we shouldn't renew Riveiro because of the doping thing. I'm going to pretend there are no homophobes here, right? Because that's what it's about, let's drop the masks." Good one. I just wish she could be consistent Oh the rage One exec had the gall to defend their homophobia saying Flaco chose the wrong career because it's awful to share a locker room with someone "like that" Mercedes told them they had a last chance to do right by a good person and an excellent player and put his renewal to a vote. Result: yes - 1 (Mercedes); no - 5 (5 gray-haired assholes); abstentions - 1 (Tato - yeah, the fucker). Meanwhile, lovely Anguila is outside the room creeping on the meeting, because Chiqui had asked him to follow Tato. He called Chiqui to give him an update and heard the news about Marga. Lame-ass coach showed up at Tato's and Lily decided to be useful again and pressure him about Flaco. He's so lame he quickly became visibly uneasy. 262. Show hasn't forgotten those lessons on how to depress your viewers from episode 136. They show us Lalo's lying on his hospital bed with his back to us, his mother by his side. Then Flaco showing up at the door and sad music begins playing, which is cue for showing us long moments of Flaco crying while looking at Lalo's back from the door, in another inspired acting moment of Sancho's. Flaco then leaves, without ever being noticed, and they zoom in on Lalo's crying face. Result: sad scene is sad 263. The writers finally stopped making Laura be dumb about Mirta's murder case. She finally realized they should be asking who benefited from Mirta's death *and* that the Lalo-Flaco-Lily answer is bullshit. That she could have told the press and they could have simply denied it. What happened? With Marga's arrest, Laura realized Marga was the one who benefited from Mirta's death - because Mirta's discarded suicide letter (the one the murderer got out of the garbage and used to make it look like a suicide) said that Mirta had killed Giselle. Fernando decided to be useful and point out that it could also be Ethel. 264. Remember Lily loves recording people so that she finds out the truth? Well, that can be great as well. She put her cell phone on recording mode and taped it to Tato's table, where the coach was waiting for Tato. That was a great plan, because she had made him so uneasy by pushing him about Flaco's doping that he was sure to talk to Tato about it ;D So I suppose I'm closer to figuring out Lily, despite her wooden performance. She might actually be playing the 'keep your enemies closer' card all along. 265. Super Chiqui is super supportive. Chiqui begged Riganti to let him see Marga and she complied. He told Marga he wasn't going to question her but if she felt like talking, he would listen. [By the way, I have to compliment the show on doing such a good job of trying to make Marga a sympathetic character. Though it didn't fly with me, I had to remind myself the reasons why.] Marga told Chiqui [this time being very emotional] that she did it all to protect their family and that she ended up doing things she never thought she was capable of. She asked him to believe her that she didn't go to Giselle's with the intention to kill her, that they had a fight, and Super Chiqui replied he could understand that an argument could get really out of hand. He added that he wouldn't judge her for that, because of the thing with Nino [he could also have added the Mostaza thing, by the way]. Then Marga went back into craziness and said: "I swear it was her [Giselle's] fault. She pushed me into doing it." She then told Chiqui why and with what Giselle threatened her that day [exposing Marga's affair with Nino and the doubtful paternity of her child], all the while trying to justify it. Chiqui apparently bought her beautified version and held her hand. Meanwhile, Nino stole a taxi and kidnapped Malena. Another good episode When I left the show sucked so bad... I'm starting to fear that my judgment is clouded with how much I missed the show Tonight's question: -Is the show going to be so tricky as to make Lily save the day?
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Post by chrys on Sept 12, 2010 0:43:24 GMT -5
Thanks, Chase!
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Post by maya on Sept 12, 2010 2:15:14 GMT -5
fantastic recap as always chyrs, I hope you will feel better soon
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Post by sprinkles on Sept 12, 2010 2:49:54 GMT -5
Thank you so much for the recaps Chrys ! I am enjoying them loads!
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Post by chase33 on Sept 12, 2010 21:18:20 GMT -5
Thanks Chrys. I appreciate your work!
Now I'll just go back to my "bad-bug keep away" dance for you.
Chase
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Post by elizabeth on Sept 13, 2010 7:12:00 GMT -5
Chrys,
Reading your recaps is like reliving the episode, not just the images, but the emotions as well.
Fantastic job, as always.
Thank you, so much.
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Post by tortoise on Sept 15, 2010 10:06:08 GMT -5
Hello ladies ( and gentlemen?) New member, botineras fan and former lurker here. Since I couldn't find anything else online I my own little botineras fanfic community: asylums.insanejournal.com/botinerasfanfic/Please please come, write, discuss and post there. It is my first little internet project. Thanks for all the hard work with making the storyline accessible to us outside of Argentina. I hope we can keep this fandom alive. Bye
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Post by chrys on Sept 16, 2010 23:50:04 GMT -5
Thanks Chase and Elizabeth It seems like my luck is terrible, cause now some real life shit prevented me from further recapping. Anyway, I'm going to watch the next episode now [It takes hours to recap it, so don't hold your breath]
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Post by chrys on Sept 17, 2010 3:39:08 GMT -5
Recap for episode 140, aired on August 19.Status: Done. Chiqui told Marga it's okay and promised her to stand by her side. I'm having a lot of trouble accepting so much support from him, but I suppose that if I thought Marga was a good person (and that things had happened the way she told Chiqui) and forgot how she only cared about Chiqui's money through a good part of the show (before they made her genuinely in love with him), well, that wouldn't be so crazy then, right? Lily got her phone back from under Tato's table and checked the recording. We can hear lame-ass coach getting his money and then Tato tells him they did Flaco a favor "by doing that," because now instead of being left out for being gay, he was suspended for doping. Lily looked (in a way, a bit, I guess, maybe) satisfied. Lesson 266. No, show, you're not going to make me pity Marga. Some things just can't be done The whole "all I did was out of love" thing? Also not flying, by the way. Oh show, there you go being precious again 267. Detective Anguila is priceless. Tato walking through a cemetery carrying a duffel bag and a bunch of flowers while being followed in a pseudo-subtle way by Anguila? Win And then Anguila decides to turn his coat's lapels up, so as to look more detective-like and more suspicious And he lingers in the shadows! Show I love you [But where are the police? They were supposed to be following Tato as well] And oh no, I'm lost about Lily again. Apparently she's surprised about Tato's being a son of a bitch, so maybe she wasn't playing him anyway Well, she grabbed her stuff and left his house. 268. Show provides very good crack Tato met some guys with a coffin. They put the coffin into a crypt and then they left and Tato went in. He got money out of the duffel bag and put it into one of the coffins [there was another coffin there]. Then he changed jackets, kissed the other coffin and left? Wtf!?! 269. Flaco's being sarcastic is an awesome thing we don't see nearly enough of. Flaco looked absolutely crushed sitting at Mercedes' office but then she told him it was decided not to renew his contract and he went sarcastic [by the way, the sarcastic huff? You've got it down, babe]. He said he expected it and that the doping thing was a great thing for them, because it was a lot easier to get rid of a junkie than of a f*g, much more politically correct. Mercedes wanted to make sure he knew she disagreed with the decision, but Flaco said that didn't change a thing for him. Then he asked for the result of his doping analysis and Mercedes told him it was cocaine. Flaco said she knew him and that she couldn't believe he took that, but Mercedes replied that the person who did the analysis was of her trust. He proceeds to pleading with her, accusing Tato, and finally Mercedes told him she believes him. Anguila reported to Chiqui that Tato had been to the cemetery to bring Mirta flowers, but Chiqui said Mirta couldn't be there because she was Jewish and the cemetery is Catholic. Super Chiqui got all confused and suspicious again. 270. What happens after Lalo spends some days crying over breaking up with Flaco? Answer: he turns into a 16 year-old person in love, giggling included! Oh Lalito in the room of blinding whiteness again His mom is there fawning over him and they're ready to leave the hospital. Then Flaco shows up and Lalo sends his mother away, prompting more funny expressions from her After she left, the boys immediately started smiling [maybe a bit out of nervousness on Lalo's part] and looking fondly at each other. Flaco tells him, with a flirty smile: "You can't wish I forgot all we've been through. One thing is to break up and another is to never see each other again. Or is that what you want? Is it?" Lalo's reaction: Repeatedly denying by shaking his locks, while smiling and acting all cutesy. Then he manages to look more dignified and say: " No, no, no. La verdad es que me encanta que estés acá. [= the truth is I love that you're here] Well, what? Are you gonna take me?" Flaco: "Anywhere you want." Aw boys, ustedes me encantan I suppose a lot of people might be confused or even outraged at how we went from the breaking up scene to this. Well, we didn't. There was that scene of utmost suffering where Flaco cried while looking at Lalo's back, and Lalo was also crying. Sometimes, when you step away from someone, even when you have a lot of internal issues [which is not the boys' case here], you spend some time apart and then, when you see that person again, you simply get so happy that it all turns around. And you're not together anymore, and it all seems refreshed, like back to dating and you see yourself being silly because you missed them so much. I say that from my personal experience [though I don't do giggling, no way lol], so I understand that I might be one of the few who understood this scene this way. Also, we had already seen how Flaco eventually reacts to Lalo's stepping away by flirting until he's crazy Wait, what?!? Lily was falling for Tato?! Is that why they showed her crying on the floor and then rejecting a call from him? She's dumber than I'd thought 271. Chiqui is making me really, really mad He couldn't justify killing Nino in self-defence but now he can justify Marga's actions? Where is your conscience? Anguila tried to tell Chiqui that comparing Vanina's death to Giselle's is bullshit, but he can't actually get it out fluently. But really Chiqui, comparing a car accident to a murder with motive, even if it was in the heat of the moment? Plus, he said: "She did it out of desperation." I'm sorry, babe, I like you and all but killing someone to hide an affair and a dubious paternity case does not get in my book of nice justifications. At least you're sensible when you say that you can't be mad about the cheating because you had also cheated on her and wanted to break up with her back then. But that does not make it okay to kill someone to hide an affair, babe. It just doesn't. You guys want to know when I felt like strangling him? When he said: "[Marga] did it because she loves me. It was her way of defending that and well, it's her way of loving." NO, just no, Chiqui! This love justifies all is simply bullshit. Please stop talking like an asshole and making me want to puke Riganti questioned Ethel and Marga about Mirta's murder and Ethel said she did it. It's not clear if she's just covering for Marga, though. The flashback with Ethel and Mirta talking [making homophobic comments about Flaco and Lalo, by the way ] and drinking tea seems out of character, because those two hated each other. In the end, Marga told her mom that she didn't need to do that and told Riganti that her mom lied and that she was the one who killed Mirta. 272. I love Bad-ass Laura! Yay. Laura stomped into Tato's house all bad-ass, roughed him up and pointed a gun at him, demanding to know where Nino is. When Tato said he didn't give a shit about Malena's being kidnapped, Laura hit him hard across the face - really, it was priceless. She wasn't done though. She grabbed him off the floor by his hair! Wishes: -May I please not hear Chiqui spilling out so much bullshit about love, gratitude and Marga. I want to fast-forward him so bad now. -May things stay as they are: nothing important happens in the scenes with Nino and Malena so I don't have to pay attention. And yes, I'm still bitter with Nino for killing my dear, dear Román
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Post by elizabeth on Sept 17, 2010 7:09:09 GMT -5
Chrys,
It may be just 3/4 of the episode, but your recap is still 100% awesome.
You had me giggling with giddiness. "The room of blinding whiteness" - pure genius.
I admit, I was one who was confused how they could go from breakup and sorrow one day to happiness and flirtiness the next (not that it wasn't/isn't a joy to see that scene over and over again), but your explanation has helped clear up my confusion.
Thank you for continuing to recap the episodes.
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Post by valso on Sept 17, 2010 12:21:46 GMT -5
Chrys you're a star!! Thank you so much for posting these last recaps, thanks to you I'm enjoying even more the storyline.
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Post by flippav2 on Sept 17, 2010 13:39:18 GMT -5
Chrys, thanks so much for the recap! And I'm totally with you on the room of blinding whiteness scene Loving the recaps as always *mwah*
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Post by chrys on Sept 20, 2010 22:35:44 GMT -5
elizabeth Thanks for the compliments I love when someone comments on specific things, cause most of the time I don't even know if people understand what I'm saying And I'm glad someone enjoyed my interpretation of that scene valso Thank you so I feel honored for helping. flippav2 Thank you, sweetie Someone agrees with me on that scene? Awesome Oh. I'm gonna work on finishing the recap now.
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Post by chrys on Sept 21, 2010 0:26:35 GMT -5
Finished the recap for episode 140 [it's on page 119]. Sorry for the delay.
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Post by valso on Sept 21, 2010 9:27:05 GMT -5
Thank you Chrys! I think you'll get bored with all my thank you but frankly I couldn't help myself!!! ;D
I completely agree with what you said about Chiqui, I just can't believe that he keeps defending Marga and like you I adored seeing Mia threaten and beat up Tato!
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Post by flippav2 on Sept 21, 2010 14:30:58 GMT -5
thanks for completing the recap hun !
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Post by maya on Sept 22, 2010 12:25:01 GMT -5
Thank you for your work Chrys, I really enjoy reading your recaps and I can't wait to read your feelings about the two final episodes!
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Post by chrys on Sept 25, 2010 0:04:53 GMT -5
Thanks once more, valso, flippav2 and maya valso Nope, I never ever get bored of the thank yous. It makes me feel better and encourages me to do another recap And yes, Chiqui was really infuriating. Now, off to watch and recap 141
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Post by chrys on Sept 25, 2010 2:48:15 GMT -5
Recap for episode 141, aired on August 24.Status: Done. So Marga said it was her who killed Mirta and we got treated to yet another flashback of how Mirta was murdered. Lol the woman has been killed a thousand times in a hundred different ways by several different people by now I think it numbed us so much we don't even care and even root for the moment she dies again, no? By the way, ever since she was killed, the show has managed to make her less and less likable, so we care less about her now then when she died. 273. Marga + Mirta about Lalo and Flaco = loads of homophobic comments and "eeews" And Mirta had the gall to say: "The worst is that Riveiro has children here that could have seen them [kissing on the living room couch, in case you forgot that great scene]." Really, Mirta? The 'children would be scarred' argument? Marga, do me a favor and kill Mirta right now. Chiqui and Anguila managed to drag Laura off Tato and later Laura told Chiqui that the police has proof that Tato and Nino were the ones that stole his money [back in the beginning of the show, making it look it was Chiqui's new manager Vacari]. 274. So show was really tricky enough to make Lily save the day and help Flaco... I suppose the whole point of Lilly's scripts is that they need to keep the actress busy with something, even if it doesn't make much sense. Anyway... she showed the tape to Mercedes and looked actually indignant about those two screwing Flaco over. Thanks, Lily Tato got annoyed with Nino because he kidnapped Malena when Tato wanted him to lay low, so he told him that from now on it's each man for himself. 274b. Mercedes called Flaco over, showed him the tape and told him she was going to contact people to have his sanction suspended and his contract renewed 275. Arregui has an alcoholic tendency, and so does Riganti, so this produces great quotes. Example: Riganti: "What a shitty day." Arregui: "Yeah, you're right. And there's only one way to end a shitty day. ¿Qué te parece si salimos a emborracharnos? [What about we go out and get drunk?]" Later we got an awesome scene of them really drunk on whiskey at a bar, singing while leaning over a piano. I love you, show And later they woke up in bed together and Riganti couldn't believe her eyes 276. Show, some things are very hard to do. Try to make Lily look like an innocent woman who got fooled by Tato is one of them. Lily said: "I feel like the dumbest woman in the world, Manuel. And have you in front of me reminds me of how I was an idiot all this time." Okay, maybe going for really, really dumb might work, but still, you guys spent all that time trying to make her look sly and smart Flaco of course is his adorable, understanding, comforting self and Lily says: "Thanks for not telling me 'I told you so'." Remember those gray-haired assholes from the club managing board who made homophobic remarks and voted against Flaco's contract renewal? Yeah, now that they know about the doping scheme, they feel self-righteous enough to ignore the coach and even say "don't touch me" to him. Cause, you know, they are just great people themselves 277. Revenge at last! Mercedes takes care of the coach, and he's so lame that she's more than menacing enough for him. He was really pathetic, trying to excuse himself and say it was Tato. Mercedes told him to quit and warned him that he will never coach professional football again, since the evidence was sent to the football association. Nino somehow delivered at the police station some photos of Malena kept hostage. By looking at those photos, the police officers deduced she was being kept at a sawmill. Dumb move, Nino A corrupt judge that's friends with Tato dropped by to let him know that Marga confessed to Mirta's murder. Tato got mad at Marga but he actually should be mad at himself. See now how dumb you are for mystically believing people are murderers without any proof, Tato?! Instead, he went to the cemetery again, to that crypt, and again put loads of money inside one of the coffins Then he looked at the other coffin hauntingly (creepy music included!) and said: "Mirta, my beloved, I promise you that this time you will rest in peace, because I'm going to get revenge." He means he won't fuck it up again by getting his revenge on the wrong people, but you know, he's dumb, so anything can happen. He ordered Mostaza to do the deed, so double dumbness. 278. Despite my wishes, Chiqui continues to be pathetic when it comes to Marga. So now he knows she also killed Mirta. Did he look shocked or disgusted or anything at all? No. It's just a normal thing that your wife kills innocent people to cover for having killed other innocent people, right? Wrong. You fail, Chiqui Mostaza's mother went to the police station (saying she had info on Nino) and she has a really bad attitude and a filthy mouth. No wonder Mostaza is so afraid of her. She raised hell at the station, on purpose, to get sent into a cell for the night and get access to Marga. She later put something in Marga's coffee but before Marga drank it, Chiqui (who was outside) found out Mostaza's mother was there and understood what it meant. Meanwhile, Nino demanded a plane and a safe escape in exchange for Malena but Riganti was adamant that they will not negotiate with him. 279. Show, your sad scenes are sad So you play a sad song while Flaco calls Lalo's house and hangs up, sad, without saying anything, because Lalo's mother picked it up? Yeah, sad, but you left me wondering since when Lalo does not have a cell phone. But then you show Flaco trying his cell phone and only getting voice mail, so yeah, very sad Wishes for the last episode: - Please, please Chiqui don't leave me while still being annoying as fuck. - Despite the last episodes' being good, there's still so much to be resolved that it can't possible be done well in one episode. As I can't wish for more episodes I'm going to wish against hope for the last episode not to suck really badly. - When it comes to the boys, there's really no way they can wrap it up to my satisfaction in a few scenes in one episode. So please just don't fuck it up more than you guys already did, show
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Post by maya on Sept 25, 2010 8:52:24 GMT -5
I didn't understand that Flaco's name got cleared in the end, I'm so happy! Thank you Chrys as always!
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Post by elizabeth on Sept 25, 2010 9:48:16 GMT -5
Most of the female characters on this show...I mean, seriously.
Thank goodness for Laura and Riganti - consistently strong, intelligent, caring, funny, lovely - in short, two bad-ass women who made the show a joy to watch.
Speaking of...Chrys, thank you, again, for recapping. I can't wait to read the completed version.
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Post by chrys on Sept 26, 2010 1:33:28 GMT -5
maya So glad I could help you with that ;D elizabeth I know They're the only interesting ones. But then again, it's not a problem just of Botineras, but of pretty much every single mainstream show and movie. Stereotypes of women are so ingrained in them that there are basically no female characters — only a boring, repetitive representation of someone who's sweet, obsessed with fashion, appearance and men, either manipulative or powerless, etc. I can't relate to almost any female character — it's sad, but has been true all my life. I'm gonna finish the recap now
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Post by chrys on Sept 26, 2010 2:45:54 GMT -5
Updated and finished the recap for episode 141, up there
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Post by valso on Sept 27, 2010 8:59:12 GMT -5
As you won't get bored ;D once again thank you so much for providing a new recap!
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