Velvet 4x5 "Una decisión difícil" / "A Difficult Decision"

I think she wants to call him the day before the wedding or maybe the same day just before the wedding start just to tell him what is going to happen, that Ana is going to marry Carlos, maybe also telling him that Ana never stopped loving him, and why Ana accepted another man as her husband, she was who made that possible. . And she is already almost savouring that moment, she is enjoying herself in every scene.

She calls Silks in New York and someone tells her that someone named Lagasca Ruiz came for him and they are going back to Madrid to stop a wedding, that would a nice slap of writers to Cristina But i think is Ana who is going to save herself, Alberto can do the physical job of sending Carlos for a vacation a couple of months in a hospital.

I think that in this episode they said that Carlos convinced Petra to rent the place to them with all the Velvet budget and he is giving Ana the money for the repairs/remodeling as a gift because he wants to be her husband. The cost of a place like that, that big, in the centre of Madrid... that's a lot of money.

I agree with your interpretation of Ana and Alberto in S1 but that carried through to S3, and I think it was all due to their friendship. Ana and Alberto have been friends a long time. You can see in many scenes where they could easily talk with one another, give each other sound advice, and confront each other when the other was being an idiot. Alberto trusted Ana to tell him the truth and vice versa. Neither one of them had that with Christina or Carlos. For me that's why I loved their characters so much. The most notable example of that was when Ana and Alberto were in NY, and they had to recreate the designs for Airsa. They were sitting side by side and Alberto has a huge smile on his face. He content, stress free, happily sewing away, never better than being with the love of his life. They were just so comfortable with each other.

Christina never had that nor would she because unfortunately she was of another world completely. Alberto preferred Ana's class than of his own. There was a certain sense of being "real". And that's what Chrtina will never get. Ana and Alberto are not Enrique and Barbara, never in a million years but that"s who she associates love with. I would even go so far to suggest her father probably had a very distant relationship with her mother. Probably had affairs too. That's why Christina couldn't understand Alberto's relationship with his mother. She didn't know that kind of love. She didn't even know until Barbara told her what she should do to win over Isabel. Look at how Christina treats her own daughter, she threatens to withold, "nice dresses, visits to the park, whatever..." if she doesn't obey and stay away from Alberto Jr. in E1.

Patricia had that problem too. Everything was about scheming to get what you want. And whose side she was going to manipulate. She's learned no other way. That's why she had no idea that it was offensive to sleep with a married man. She has no moral compass because in her world everyone does it. It doesn't matter who gets hurt as long as she wins. It's shame Patricia hasn't changed. I thought she did but I was wrong. Enrique has some hold over her. Could she actually be in love with him? Enrique in love with her?

Lots of dynamics, it's what caught my attention at the very beginning. I'll add one more thing about Clara, I thought she was progressive in spirit. Wanting to be an accountant, learning to drive, doing all the things a man does and yet in turn resorts to hissy fits at a drop at a hat. On top of that and maybe that's progressive but uses sex to get what she wants. Hmm...sort of like Patricia.

Yeah, the show definitely leaves a lot up to assumption.




I agree that Alberto stripping her of her shares hurt the character. He did try to "make up for it" by telling Enzo that one of his conditions was that Patricia would stay in charge of jewelry, but the shares would have meant far, far more (especially since Joyas Velvet has fallen by the wayside and everyone working on it is now working on Raul's line instead).

We've talked here about things that went wrong in S3 -- one of the things that actually went right, far better than in the other two seasons -- was Patricia's story. In S1, her only real story was how her vote made her a pawn in the Alberto/Gloria wars. In S2, her only story was as Enrique's sex toy.

But, finally, in S3, she was firing on all cylinders...with her elevated role at Velvet and with her budding romance with Jonas. And then she showed tremendous character growth in the wake of Alberto's death and the siding with Ana over Cristina.

I wish we could get the backstory on why all of that was abandoned to return her to her S2 story as Enrique's mistress.




Exactly my take on it...I got Cristina coming unglued and wanting revenge. But then it veered into caricature territory (like the writers were going for cheap shocks: "Tune in next week to see Cristina PUSH ANA DOWN THE STAIRS!" "Tune in next week to see Cristina ATTACK ANA WITH A PAIR OF SCISSORS!"), when I think the more sophisticated writing choice would have been to start rehabbing the character after her suicide attempt.




I understand that perspective, but for me, seeing Cristina doing everything "perfectly" only underscored the strength of Alberto/Ana's love story -- it showed that even when Alberto had the seemingly "perfect" woman in front of him, doing and saying all the right things, he couldn't shake Ana...because his love for Ana was that deep, that strong.

It's for that reason that I'll always think one of the most inspired writing choices in S1 occurred when Cristina set up the video of Alberto's father for his birthday. Ana and Alberto both looked positively heartsick when they realized that Cristina was the one who set the video up, because they both knew it was, on the surface, the "perfect" gift...not the typical gift from a shallow rich girl, but something thoughtful and kind that demonstrated Cristina's insight into Alberto.

But then, later, Alberto went up to the roof and he and Ana had that joyful dance...a different gift, and a different kind of "perfect" that showed that while Cristina understood Alberto's need to mourn his father, Ana understood his need to move on and find happiness with her.

I think it was the opposite with Cristina regarding Enrique and Barbara's marriage. In the beginning Barbara was more pragmatic to Cristina's idealism. Cristina believed in the fairytale marriage and had put Alberto so high up on a pedestal that she would never even entertain jealousy with regards to Ana or Sara. She thought Alberto was different and would never cheat as she told Barbara. That's why she was so critical of Enrique's treatment of Barbara, she viewed Alberto and her marriage as superior. When she lectured him for the millionth time, Enrique finally had enough and told her to stop and look into her own marriage. In S3, she was so desperate to keep Alberto, that she said they could be like E/B. Which to me indicated that's he was willing to overlook his cheating. This was something unthinkable of S1&2 Cristina, but she was determined to preserve the marriage. 

I would tend to agree on Clara. I'm so disappointed she didn't mature and keep on with furthering her career. She could have easily stayed at Velvet as an accountant. Slapping Mateo for the lamest of reasons showed she displayed no growth.

As for Patricia and Enrique. I think he does love her 😬 Not sure how she really feels about him, there never seemed to be love coming from her, but it seems like they want to make them this big couple and end with them together.