Entrelazados
Oh, man, you guys, we just finished the first season of Intertwined, and oh my goodness. That ending. All we can do is laugh. Not because it's a funny ending. And we thought it was good, and really very well done, but... Just let me explain. (And I'm going to go into other thoughts on the series, probably, so obviously there's going to be major spoilers.)
So...just...yeah. We saw it coming. In fact, we saw it coming since even before Allegra found Marco's tombstone. But they did such a good job of making us think they weren't actually going to do it, except that we still suspected because there was no body. If he had died on that stage, his body would not have been completely consumed by the flames, because the stage had not been completely consumed. The stage was singed at worst.
So for those of you who clicked on the cut because you don't care about spoilers, let me explain what's going on. Allegra, our heroine, has been traveling back and forth between 2021 and 1994 in an attempt to resolve the intergenerational trauma in her family. While she's time-traveling, she falls in love with a boy from the past, who, if he had survived, would be old enough to be her father...meanwhile she has the super adorable Felix in the present who is willing to throw away his entire future for her...but anyway.
During the course of the series, we learn that Marco apparently died in the very same year when Allegra met him. We were already thinking she was going to bring him back to the present, but then it comes out that you can only cross the time border if you're wearing the special bracelet, and if you try to cross with someone else, they will die, which is how her great-grandmother (accidentally) killed her great-grandfather. So they had this super dramatic scene, where Allegra and Marco are in the fire in the theater, and Allegra had to choose between almost definitely killing him by taking him through the time border, or maybe killing him by leaving him in the burning theater. (By the way, she knows this will be her last trip to the past, so if she lets him go, she can only see him again if he survives into the future (which she "knows" he won't).)
She chooses to only maybe kill him, but then she learns her lesson about time travel and how she can't actually change the past (but her trips through time have helped her to change herself), and she moves on with her life and repairs the relationship between her mother and grandmother, and admits that she doesn't not love Felix by kissing him in the face...
Incidentally. Sidebar here. The scene where Felix confesses his love to her is the super cutest thing ever. We may have watched it three times. (I'll let you guess how many of those times were in Spanish and how many were in French, but I will add that both actors did an amazing job.)
So we have touching finale, where Allegra was in a play with her grandmother that was adapted for stage by her mom, and everyone's clapping and Felix gives her a bouquet, and they kiss...and the theater doors open! And there's a blurry backlit figure! And Allegra looks stunned! And there's a little back and forth of that, and it was actually pretty cool to see the progression of emotions on Allegra's and Felix's faces as they realized what was happening, and then *GASPIES!!!* It's Marco!
And he's wearing the bracelet! What! ...I mean, yeah. We always suspected he was going to come to the future. It was just really cool, because it was so well done, but we just had to laugh. I'm guessing that he found the bracelet where Coco left it after her time traveling adventures, because obviously she was going to hide the bracelet in the theater somewhere. They haven't told us yet, but we also suspect that all of the Sharp women have done the time travel thing, for two reasons.
First, when Coco met Allegra for the very first time (Caterina really did not want Coco to have anything to do with her daughter's life, which really makes one wonder how Allegra knew about her grandmother to begin with...that's one of the details we just set aside), she says, "I'd recognize you anywhere." This, to us, indicated that she was aware of the whole time travel situation--she just may not have realized at first who "Laura" was.
Second, there are no fathers in the Sharp family (except for the aforementioned great-grandfather who died in a time-border crossing attempt), which has us thinking that all the fathers come from different time periods. Frankly, I'm surprised Felix was not more alarmed to learn about the great-grandfather plot twist, but maybe he hadn't yet made the connection that Allegra was repeating Lucia's history so closely. But we're sure he would have raised (will raise?) the child as his own.
So anyway. We're glad we discovered the series with season two so close on the horizon. It's supposed to hit Disney+YourSoul later this month!
Today I'm thankful for getting to watch a pretty cool show, having more of said show to look forward to in the fairly near future, getting to finish work early today, catching three ladybugs in Animal Crossing (we already have, like, twenty ladybug models, but still), and the K-Manga service launching tomorrow.
So...just...yeah. We saw it coming. In fact, we saw it coming since even before Allegra found Marco's tombstone. But they did such a good job of making us think they weren't actually going to do it, except that we still suspected because there was no body. If he had died on that stage, his body would not have been completely consumed by the flames, because the stage had not been completely consumed. The stage was singed at worst.
So for those of you who clicked on the cut because you don't care about spoilers, let me explain what's going on. Allegra, our heroine, has been traveling back and forth between 2021 and 1994 in an attempt to resolve the intergenerational trauma in her family. While she's time-traveling, she falls in love with a boy from the past, who, if he had survived, would be old enough to be her father...meanwhile she has the super adorable Felix in the present who is willing to throw away his entire future for her...but anyway.
During the course of the series, we learn that Marco apparently died in the very same year when Allegra met him. We were already thinking she was going to bring him back to the present, but then it comes out that you can only cross the time border if you're wearing the special bracelet, and if you try to cross with someone else, they will die, which is how her great-grandmother (accidentally) killed her great-grandfather. So they had this super dramatic scene, where Allegra and Marco are in the fire in the theater, and Allegra had to choose between almost definitely killing him by taking him through the time border, or maybe killing him by leaving him in the burning theater. (By the way, she knows this will be her last trip to the past, so if she lets him go, she can only see him again if he survives into the future (which she "knows" he won't).)
She chooses to only maybe kill him, but then she learns her lesson about time travel and how she can't actually change the past (but her trips through time have helped her to change herself), and she moves on with her life and repairs the relationship between her mother and grandmother, and admits that she doesn't not love Felix by kissing him in the face...
Incidentally. Sidebar here. The scene where Felix confesses his love to her is the super cutest thing ever. We may have watched it three times. (I'll let you guess how many of those times were in Spanish and how many were in French, but I will add that both actors did an amazing job.)
So we have touching finale, where Allegra was in a play with her grandmother that was adapted for stage by her mom, and everyone's clapping and Felix gives her a bouquet, and they kiss...and the theater doors open! And there's a blurry backlit figure! And Allegra looks stunned! And there's a little back and forth of that, and it was actually pretty cool to see the progression of emotions on Allegra's and Felix's faces as they realized what was happening, and then *GASPIES!!!* It's Marco!
And he's wearing the bracelet! What! ...I mean, yeah. We always suspected he was going to come to the future. It was just really cool, because it was so well done, but we just had to laugh. I'm guessing that he found the bracelet where Coco left it after her time traveling adventures, because obviously she was going to hide the bracelet in the theater somewhere. They haven't told us yet, but we also suspect that all of the Sharp women have done the time travel thing, for two reasons.
First, when Coco met Allegra for the very first time (Caterina really did not want Coco to have anything to do with her daughter's life, which really makes one wonder how Allegra knew about her grandmother to begin with...that's one of the details we just set aside), she says, "I'd recognize you anywhere." This, to us, indicated that she was aware of the whole time travel situation--she just may not have realized at first who "Laura" was.
Second, there are no fathers in the Sharp family (except for the aforementioned great-grandfather who died in a time-border crossing attempt), which has us thinking that all the fathers come from different time periods. Frankly, I'm surprised Felix was not more alarmed to learn about the great-grandfather plot twist, but maybe he hadn't yet made the connection that Allegra was repeating Lucia's history so closely. But we're sure he would have raised (will raise?) the child as his own.
So anyway. We're glad we discovered the series with season two so close on the horizon. It's supposed to hit Disney+YourSoul later this month!
Today I'm thankful for getting to watch a pretty cool show, having more of said show to look forward to in the fairly near future, getting to finish work early today, catching three ladybugs in Animal Crossing (we already have, like, twenty ladybug models, but still), and the K-Manga service launching tomorrow.