Any Feedback Would Be Nice

by Dr. Pied Piper 


********** UPDATE: Thanks for the feedback - at least I know that this is actually worth my while. Poll results showed 95% in favor, 4.5% think I suck, and 0.5% wants to obliterate this blog into oblivion because Silvia is dead, in which case I would just advise you not to visit since you will only annoy yourself. To those who think I suck, thanks for the honesty. **********

I have posted a lot of episodes and screen caps and I have NOT gotten a single comment other than "you posted the wrong episode". Dudes, any feedback would be nice - from a simple "thank you" to "you suck" - feedback would be really nice. (Jen and Vera exempted)

I don't even know if people are reading my writeups and downloading the episodes, and I spend time doing them. The comment section is set up to accept ANY comment - you don't need a blogger account to post. You can even post ANONYMOUSLY. Yes, that's right!

So - until I hear anything, ANYTHING AT ALL, I am NOT uploading any more episode or posting any writeup if it's for naught. I don't want to waste my time if no one really cares.

Also, please take the time to answer the poll - look to your right. Yeah, that one.

SERIOUSLY, if I don't get at least 25 comments and 500 votes by next week, Pepsi University is going on sabbatical. Not to stroke my ego - just to let me know if what I'm doing is worth my while.

My own comments do not count!

Silvialogy 3x10

As I said before, this is one of my favorite Silvia episodes because of 2 things: one, this is when Silvia dumps Gonzalo, and two, I have a partial translation courtesy of someone I used to know. Partial because I deleted all her emails and PMs, so I lost the full translation, and "someone I used to know" because, well. it's the first and last time I would ever fall for a 24-year old Spaniard ever again.

I still cringe when I think of the entire experience... but the irony is that I will always have a special place for her in the deepest recesses of my heart...

LHDP 3x10

Lots of Silvia screen time. It starts when Don Lorenzo invites Sara to stay over at his place since Lola is in jail. Silvia walks in and saves Sara from hanging out with grandpa.


Outside, Montoya sees a mopey Ruth and invites her to dinner. Without telling Silvia first, who is pissed he springs it out on her.

Montoya: Everything fine?
Ruth: Well, this is not my best day really..and having my ex two offices (i.e, DL) away doesn’t help much either..
Montoya: Yeah I know... well, we’re not gonna leave you here like this. Why don’t you come home tonight to dinner with us?
Ruth: Okay, okay!
Montoya: Silvia, look, I’ve invited Ruth to dinner with us today
Silvia: Right..and have you planned to invite someone else?
Ruth: Guys…if you like we can leave it for another day
Montoya: No... but what’s wrong (looking at Silvia) do I have to tell you things in advance? C’mon, don’t be so stubborn (“cuadriculada”)
Silvia (Ironically): No, I really like your surprises, it’s just that you could have thought that my sister in in jail, and I don’t feel like having a “friends dinner” (Silvia looks at Ruth) Gonzalo now seems to live “a tumba abierta” (A Spanish idiom, literally means “to live with the grave opened” to refer to a person who can’t keep private things in private and speaks about the intimate details of his life to everybody)
Montoya: Uuhh you know, Silvia lives with a parachute (paracaídas)

Later at the briefing room, Don Lorenzo announces that Paco will be on vacation for personal reasons. Silvia, still pissed at Gonzalo, says that maybe he has some surprises for the crew. Montoya talks about the case at hand about a group of thieves who robs big department stores. Silvia's perm seems to fade with each scene.

Later on, Silvia sends Montoya a SMS which says "I’m sorry, I think I have gone too far. When I see you again im gonna show you the “cuadratura” (does “squaring” make any sense?) squaring of my bed and the Artic Circle. Kiss. Silvia"

At Silvia's house, we see Sara looking at Silvia's old photos with Lucas before she goes to bed. Later, Montoya lets himself into the flat and immediately strips naked, thinking that it is Silvia on the bed, climbs up next to Sara.

Gonzalo (dirty talk): To measure everything... well I bring a big square set to measure the intensity of your moans… come here Scully cause I’m going to put your test tube at ribbon stage (does it make sense in English? It’s a very colloquial, and vulgar Spanish saying..”te voy a poner la probeta a punto de nieve” meaning, you know, he’s going to make love to her in a passionate way). Your jackal is back.

Then Sara screams and Silvia enters the room. Montoya tries to cover his hoohoo with the first thing he can find - a picture of Don Lorenzo on Silvia's night stand. (Very funny scene)

Silvia: Gonzalo!? What are you doing like this?
Montoya: I didn’t think it was you (looking at Sara) but you (looking at Silvia)…and this…(looking at his parts) because of the rubbing/friction… it... gets bigger (literally he says it “se amorcilla” meaning that it becomes like a “morcilla” which is similar to a chorizo - to describe his woody) And… well..you two have things to talk about...

He leaves the room and Sara bursts into laugher while Silvia looks aghast.

Sara: Im very happy that you are with Gonzalo, he’s the best of the police station
Silvia: Wasn’t that Lucas?
Sara: Well… the best for me is Lucas... in his way, right?
Silvia: Well, love is not only eating each other with kisses on every corner. That is ok at 16..then you look for other things... stability... (as she looks wistfully at old photos of her and Lucas)
Sara: Yeah… so you’re going to tell me that Gonzalo doesn’t drive you crazy? With that body… see? We are not so different.
(Montoya enters the room again because he forgot his undies)
Sara: Poor guy... God he’s given me such a fright (laughing)

The following morning, Montoya sees Silvia and starts apologizing but Silvia basically ignores him.

Montoya: Silvia…I wante to talk to you about yesterday..i didn’t know it was Sara who was in bed. Plus, as I got your sms… this thing about the Artic circle and…
Silvia: Gonzalo, I don’t have time for this. Uh, besides... these days that Sara is home... don’t come over... do you mind?
Montoya: Oh ok, it’s all right. But Silvia you are not upset right? Cause if I touched Sara’s leg it was because she sleeps without pyjama... she was wearing not much more than her knickers... and “that” thing you saw had the size it had because it’s a muscular reflex….
Silvia: Gonzalo, would you mind not following me all over the police station?
Montoya: Sure, but I wanted to clarify that yeah, there was contact, but nothing more, seriously. Besides, you are my favourite “peliroja”, with your circles… Sil...

This is very significant because Silvia told Lola that she actually follows Pepa all over the police station, when that very same action annoyed the heck out of her in this episode.

Silvia finds out that Lucas went to the flat to visit Sara, so she confronts him about it.

Silvia: What the hell were you doing at my place?
Lucas: You’ve taken evidence, fingerprints or what?
Silvia: No, Sara told me, and she also said that you guys were making out
Lucas: I didn’t know that I had to ask you for permission to see Sara
Silvia: No Lucas, but I don’t want you to use my house as a riding school (in Spanish a riding school “picadero” is also used colloquially to refer to the secret place somebody has to take girls/guys and make out or have sex). When she leaves you can do whatever you want do, but while she is with me, don’t come. Don’t put me in that position, please, just try to wait
Lucas: Wait? Do you know that all I do is wait? Wait till she is 18 years-old, wait till Paco understands it, wait till you guys stop judging us… wait.

Silvia: Oh I’m sorry (ironically), I forgot that it was our fault. You alone have turned your life and Sara’s into the point of attention for a lot of people. Is that the life you want to have? Picking up a minor at the school entrance and running away when her father comes?
Lucas: You’re right Silvia, but you know what? I’m crazy about her, crazy, sick, but I can’t. So I’m going to try to find somebody of my age, somebody gentle, good people, and live my own life. Isn't that what everybody does? Well, so I will be able to do it as well.
Silvia: Hey, nobody told you to do that, you can be happy with someone who is not Sara
Lucas: I know, I know. Thanks Silvia, thanks. It’s been a long time since you did not tell me off, it’s as if we were married again.

(One of the outtake scenes)

This is where my translated parts end, unfortunately...

The following day, Silvia informs Sara that Lucas told her he's going to look for someone else closer to his age, so Sara cries. You can tell that Silvia is hopeful again that she and Lucas would hook up.

Montoya sees Silvia in Don Lorenzo's office and he immediately assumes that they're talking about his naked adventure with Sara, so he butts in (pun intended) and tries to explain himself. DL didn't know what happened, but he does now. Silvia takes Montoya outside and says she needs space and basically dumps him. As she's walking away, he yells that she's "inorgasmo" - literally means someone who doesn't have orgasms. (Now we know how magical Pepa really has been!)

Later that evening, everyone is at Cachis to celebrate Lola's release from jail. Silvia sees Lucas dragging Pove to the kitchen to get him to rat on Paco.

(Back story: Paco asked Pove to safeguard the printout and to memorize a series of numbers - before the printout got wet and smudged and indecipherable).

Silvia follows them and prevents Lucas from strangling Pove. She then looks at the numbers that Pove wrote down and something catches her attention: 22 650 000. She shows it to Lucas who recognizes its significance.

Silvialogy Review 1

by Dr. Pied Piper 


** UPDATED ** Before we proceed to Episode 3x10, which happens to be one of my favorite Silvia episodes ever, it is appropriate to review all previous materials and formulate some conclusions about Silvia:

1. She went into therapy after her marriage to Lucas
2. She loved being in the lab; it's like being a fish in water
3. It is obvious that she was still in love with Lucas through most of Seasons 3/4
4. The reason why she was so involved in the Uriarte case was that Tomas Fernandez, her ex-father in law (who never learned that she and Lucas got married) WAS involved
5. Bad hair days happened in San Antonio quite often
6. She dated Gonzalo for a total of 19 episodes
7. Despite everything, Silvia loved Sara unconditionally, even when Sara was rubbing it in her face that Lucas was in love with her and not Silvia
8. She was quite the wedding planner
9. She married Lucas on "impulse"
10. Gonzalo was her rebound affair; while it's obvious that he's madly in love with her, Silvia never really felt the same way
11. She carried a pair of handcuffs in her back pocket. Always.
12. She smoked (we were never informed that she quit after Palillero asked her to)
13. Without Lucas (or Pepa, for that matter), Silvia was quite lost and had to make sure she had someone on reserve duty; she never really felt she could be alone until the end of year 3 (I'm not sure where Season 3 ended and 4 began, so for simplicity, I'd refer to calendar years)
14. She could fake a mean orgasm and had Lucas fooled on so many occasions
15. Palillero Marquez could not satisfy her in bed - he told Lucas himself while asking for some advice
16. She was qualified to conduct a lie detector test
17. She and Lucas were members of the Mile High Club
18. During their honeymoon, they stayed in bed for 3 days and 3 nights straight
19. When they were married, they spent a Holy Week in Santander
20. She likes sushi

Up to this point, the Silvia we see was confident professionally but very unsure personally. She loved Lucas but even she accepted that they could not be together. She liked Gonzalo but he was very emo. While she simply seemed to be a mess to the outside world, we can see that she was trying desperately to put all the pieces of her life together.
Maybe deep inside she knew that she always saved a big chunk of her heart for the first person she ever kissed.

Silvialogy 3x09

LHDP 3x09

Silvia confronts Paco because her forensic analyses do not conform with Paco's version of events regarding the night Tomas Fernandez died. She wants to know why Paco is lying to her, and Paco doesn't really give her an answer.

They are interrupted when the rest of the force comes in for briefing. Silvia, still perturbed, explains the case of the day about a guy who preys on old gentlemen.

Fantasy number on how Pove can propose to Rita: A MUSICAL!!!

Later on, Silvia confronts Paco again (who is now with Lola) about the inconsistencies and lies. She says it is her professional duty to tell Internal Affairs about the forensic results.

Meanwhile, the blind woman from whom Lola took the numbers printout is at the precint and identifies Lola's voice as the woman who "robbed" her. Lola is taken into custody while Paco and Silvia look on.

Silvialogy 3x08

by Dr. Pied Piper 


LHDP 3x08

(Fixed link - apparently, I uploaded 3x09)

Silvia is in the garage doing forensics on Tomas Fernandez' car - checking ballistics and angles, taking pictures, etc.

Gonzalo comes in to wish Silvia a happy anniversary - of their first kiss before Silvia went back to Marquez - and gives her a bottle of perfume. Silvia is caught by surprise as anniversaries were not in her mind.

He then asks her about what she's working on and she says she really cannot tell him anything, only that it has something to do with Caso de Uriarte.

Back in the lab, Lola comes in with the anniversary gift for Gonzalo which Silvia asked her to get. She got some shirts and Silvia was like "Shirts? He might think I'm his mother!" HAHAHA! Then Lola sees what she is working on and gets all angry when Silvia tells her that she thinks Paco lied about Tomas and Uriarte.

Gonzalo comes in right after Lola, all mad, walked out of the lab. Silvia hands him the shirts reluctantly and wishes him a happy anniversary. He opens the package and says he thinks Paco has the same shirt. So Silvia fesses up and says she hasn't had the time to go shopping and he can exchange it if he wants.

Gonzalo says it's ok, they'll have many more anniversaries to come. and gives her a hug. Silvia's face says it all.

Added scenes of Mariano and the Pacos helping him with his grief. Apparently, the Pacos heard some static and a crying baby on TV, and assumed it was the ghost of Bernarda. But it is really just some problems with the cable. Or is it?

Perfect blend of LHDP drama and comedy. Very touching arc.

Silvialogy 3x07

by Dr. Pied Piper 


LHDP 3x07

Everyone gathers at Cachis after Bernarda's funeral, all sad and worried about Mariano. Until Mariano comes in nonchalantly, carrying the urn with Bernarda's ashes, and goes into the kitchen to get some beer and food.
(Silvia and Curtis are still going to the same hairdresser who gave them matching shaggy perm).

Later on, Paco is in the Comisaria at night and trying to evade the Internal Affairs people. He sees Silvia on the 2nd floor and calls her mobile. Silvia, who seems to live in the Comisaria, helps him escape.

Episode Commentary: Even though there's not much Silvia, this episode and the one after show LHDP at its best with the Pacos trying to show how sad they are for Mariano's loss, and Mariano simply being whatever about it. I wonder if they got any complaints about killing off Bernarda?