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Pedro Alonso (Diego)

posted 10 years ago by lcsulla2001
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I don't know what it says about my personality, but I'm totally into Diego to no end. He has me flat on my back with lust the way most women seem to feel about Julio :) Anyone else out there with Diego-love, or is it just me? lol, he's so evil, it's probably just me!

What I'm wondering and why I'm posting is whether Pedro Alonso has an address that fan mail can be sent to, such as his agent's office or something? If anyone can help me with this, it would be much appreciated. I don't even know where to look, as most info about him is in Spanish, and I don't speak and can't read a word. Anyway, thanks for reading!

[–] wendycscott9 10 years ago

😱 I find this really hard to believe, but I suppose to each his own. 😛 Give me Julio any day. Nobody's perfect in this series, but at least he has a good heart. Having watched most of the third season, Diego becomes even more abhorrent than he was in the first two seasons. Ack! All I can think of is he has to go!

If I could get in touch with anyone on this show, it would be the producers who somehow have not yet put out a DVD set in the American region format with English subtitles. What's up with that? 😣 ¡Caramba!

[–] lcsulla2001 10 years ago

Indeed, to each his own. I'm just starting season two, so I haven't seen the extent of his evilness that you have yet, but I expect to be both repulsed and drawn at the same time, as I am now! I watch it with my mother, who thinks I'm crazy to like the character at all. And yes, what he does often disgusts me - but there's something visceral there that just hooks into me... But I have a tendency to like the wrong people! Julio has a beautiful mouth, among other things, I must say that :)

[–] wendycscott9 10 years ago

I'm not usually attracted to villains myself, but if I wanted to like a bad boy in this show, it would be Javier. 😁 Besides, Eloy Azorín is a terrific actor and must be having a whole lot of fun playing that role. But OMG, does he get into some scrapes! ¡Caramba!

[–] lantzn 10 years ago

I don't think of Javier as a villain. He was just a good for nothing character. I liked what they did with him in Season 2 (Netflix) which we are currently watching. They did some very funny stuff with him, drugging the staff (soup), having him fall in love for the first time, and the whole going to be a monk was hilarious (I forgive you). He even started caring about the hotel. I don't know if they will continue in this direction with him but I hope so.

[–] wendycscott9 10 years ago

Oh, he gets into some terrible scrapes. Just be glad you can watch season 3. We had to wait months before it was available with the subtitles, and that was online. Season 2 left us with a horrendous cliffhanger. I never said Javier was a villain, just a kind of bad boy, although some of the stuff he did was really pretty awful, especially at first.

[–] lantzn 10 years ago

Spoiler

Well he did learn from his mother but he didn't have her savvy chops. We just watched the one with the bomb and firing squad last night. I'm kind of wondering how on earth he could possibly get out of that one. It's the last part of what Netflix called Season 2.

[–] wendycscott9 10 years ago

Yeah, that's what I thought, too. You'll have to let me know what you think once you watch the next episode. I thought it was a tad far-fetched myself. LOL

[–] lantzn 10 years ago

Yeah....had it been a single shooter it would have worked, but he had 4 or 5 shooting so they are trying to convince us the others all missed. Right OK

It would have been better to not have heard the gunfire and switch to the bomb explosion making us wonder if we had also hear gunshots. Then in the next episode show a scene where the sleeping officer finds the pardon letter and runs outside to yell stop don't shoot just in time.

[–] wendycscott9 10 years ago

Yes, they definitely needed you on their writing team. ¿Habla usted español? :)

[–] guersonweb 9 years ago

In a firing squad, only one shooter has real bullets, the others shoot blanks. This is so none of them know who actually killed the person being shot. Javier would only have been shot once.

[–] wendycscott9 9 years ago

I wondered if that were the case! But no one said anything to that effect on the show so I wasn't sure. It certainly was the only way he would have survived a firing squad. Thanks for clearing this up, guerson.

[–] mec_os 9 years ago

he reminds of brain from pinky and the brain.

[–] dsdaria 9 years ago

To be honest, I never really liked any of the men in the show. But if I had to choose between Diego and Julio, it's Diego for me :P (i'm talking about looks, not character's personality)

Here's looking at you kid.

[–] wendycscott9 9 years ago

OMG, but his personality was so horrible, it really ruined any good looks he might have had. There were some very nice looking men on the show, I thought, like for example Ignacio, Alicia's childhood boyfriend. Cute guy! Some of the older guys weren't bad either. I liked Julio, most of the time, and I was rather enamored of him until I discovered Aidan Turner. It's been all about him every since. LOL However, I'll probably go back to watching Gran Hotel again just for the Spanish. It's really pretty great to hear it spoken so well if a little on the rápido side sometimes. But compared to how much I understood when I first started watching a couple of years ago and now, it's remarkable and fun to be able to pick out so many words and phrases.

Did you ever see A Time in Between? That was another good one for Spanish, and it was very interesting, taking place just before World War II mostly in Morocco. The Spanish was often slow enough I could even understand it!

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