Great work here from Barbara Luna and John Loprieno. I love this type of stuff. I can't help feeling sorry for Maria here...it's not too hard to see why she went nuts.
I loved Barbara Luna as Maria - . . .she did a great job on OLTL. So sorry that she didn't stay longer with the show. Since Cord was becoming such a pivotal character I always felt it didn't make sense for them to kill her off. Such a shame because she was a good actress!
...And then the most grotesque part about Maria that made her really unique was that Maria had Cord trained to be so loyal and honest to her because she was ALWAYS lying to him. She always acted as if she had made a FEW mistakes when she was really driving his life into the ground! Maria was just mad that TIna became his new trainer. Maria even snapped on sweet Kate! Maria was WRONG! Oh man, she was good TV!
And Barbara Luna always used the set to her advantage like when she shut the two big doors behind her at Rafe and Delila's wedding pt 3, and here when uses the wall to do some pain posing! Gives new meaning to chewing the scenery. ha ha
Why did Maria's hair look almost normal here? Did they really make it so crazy later to match her character or that was just the 80's? Marrko and cord, yes, and also, that guy in the vintage '69 clip with Meredith looks like Brody. Ha Ha! Maria is that rare soap villian with an awesome backstory who will create REAL damage on whoever e sets her sights on! This is the only time I REALLY hated her. She didn't want Clint when it was inconvenient for HER, but now he has a family....
@CarlD2 True... unless you count finding more ways to make a character part of the Buchanan Clan when the family connection is totally unnecessary! Speaking of David Vickers, and potentially of Rex if they go there as so many fans seem to want (but I HATE both!) It is so pathetic, they want to expand the Buke Clan and ignore the Bukes that already exist!
I get cord is upset but his mom was only 15 & asa threatened to deport them. I'd blame asa & Maria's mom more , I'm sure she was happy to take whatever money asa shelled out so she could have a ranch all her own. Still once the cat was out of the bag , Clint would have married maria as he said & than Maria would be a legit american & clint would have wrote asa off of he had maria 's mom deported. I guess Maria fell in love w/ al & just was over it all. Still she could have told Clint at any time over the 20 years al Robert's knew he was not cords dad from the jump. Still maria was only 15 that's a baby. She was scared & terrified. They always alluded to all the " terrible things " asa did which sounded more about shady buisness deals but this was the worst thing he ever did. I was surprised when I saw the scene many years later where Clint accused asa for having Maria taken away b/c he was bigoted towards the mexicans. That whole Texas Mexico war I guess some texans had a grudge still. That had to be it b/c asa looks at his kids grandkids great grandkids like property. When he heard Becky lee was pregnant w/ bo's baby before bo did he married her so a " Buchanan " would stay in town & be raised a Buchanan. The drew thing really is bizarre. I watched as many old clips as I could find when drew was a baby & bo barely spent time w/ him. It just doesn't jive w/ the great guy bo is. Becky left town & bo never sees his son til hes a young man? I know drew came back in 88 sorased as a teen but he was gone again. When drew resurfaced in 96 again bo barely spent time w/ him. I never understood how bo was such a lousy dad. He was totally fine w/ asa raising drew til he was close to 2 & asa was calling himself dad to the child. One seen I could not believe was viki & clint had bo's new gf didi & her dad harry over for dinner & asa & becky lee came & brought drew who was asleep of course upstairs. Before didi & harry left asa was about to tell didi & harry about little drew being bo's son. Someone diverted asa & they left b4 he could say anything suddenly viki Clint bo & I think rafe were ripping asa a new one about how he was such a jerk to tell bo's new girl the truth & I was like for once asa was right ! Why hide that u have a little boy ? So asa said " if ur ashamed of ur own baby I'll adopt him " & bo just meekly says no. Like why not u never see him!! Even becky lee was like just let asa adopt him so drew isnt confused cause the kid was like a year old. If I was drew I'd be messed up too of I grew up in squalor w/o a father who's family were billionaires. So damn right that Becky lee asked bo to give her a check. It was really to pay off some blackmailer of Drew's but I would have sued bo for back child support. I dont know why she didnt back then while drew was a little kid in Tennessee.
Watching YOUNG Cordero... I can't help but compare him once again to Markko... JL and JT have some seriously similar features, don't they?? They should have cast him as CJ instead of Markko with no (prior) connections to Llanview!
@Gadomi03 OLTL doesn't want anything to do with Buchanan heirs or with writing heroic characters, unfortunately. They haven't in years. So you just get Ford and and the other Fjords.
Great work here from Barbara Luna and John Loprieno. I love this type of stuff. I can't help feeling sorry for Maria here...it's not too hard to see why she went nuts.
I loved Barbara Luna as Maria - . . .she did a great job on OLTL. So sorry that she didn't stay longer with the show. Since Cord was becoming such a pivotal character I always felt it didn't make sense for them to kill her off. Such a shame because she was a good actress!
Cher Cher Rumor has it that she was a pain in the ass behind the scenes and that is why she was let go and Maria was killed.
I'm glad cause i hated her😤
@@travisjames3517 Really? I never heard that before. I wonder how she was a pain (if that was indeed true . . . that is why they let her go . . . )
@@rethablair6902 I am not glad she left because I liked her on the show and she played her part great.
@@auntiechercher4266 she had gotten to scary for me😥
Those cowboys really made the soap back then. Interesting family and storylines. Love love love Tina.
Barbara Luna should have won an emmy
I agree
...And then the most grotesque part about Maria that made her really unique was that Maria had Cord trained to be so loyal and honest to her because she was ALWAYS lying to him. She always acted as if she had made a FEW mistakes when she was really driving his life into the ground! Maria was just mad that TIna became his new trainer. Maria even snapped on sweet Kate! Maria was WRONG! Oh man, she was good TV!
John Loprieno is making me cry. Damn, is he good!
And Barbara Luna always used the set to her advantage like when she shut the two big doors behind her at Rafe and Delila's wedding pt 3, and here when uses the wall to do some pain posing! Gives new meaning to chewing the scenery. ha ha
Why did Maria's hair look almost normal here? Did they really make it so crazy later to match her character or that was just the 80's? Marrko and cord, yes, and also, that guy in the vintage '69 clip with Meredith looks like Brody. Ha Ha! Maria is that rare soap villian with an awesome backstory who will create REAL damage on whoever e sets her sights on! This is the only time I REALLY hated her. She didn't want Clint when it was inconvenient for HER, but now he has a family....
shrinefilms, all decades have crazy hair.
@CarlD2 True... unless you count finding more ways to make a character part of the Buchanan Clan when the family connection is totally unnecessary! Speaking of David Vickers, and potentially of Rex if they go there as so many fans seem to want (but I HATE both!) It is so pathetic, they want to expand the Buke Clan and ignore the Bukes that already exist!
4:54: No, no, that's not true! That's impossible!
If they hadn't killed Maria off I imagine Viki and Dorian teaming up against a common enemy 😁😂
I get cord is upset but his mom was only 15 & asa threatened to deport them. I'd blame asa & Maria's mom more , I'm sure she was happy to take whatever money asa shelled out so she could have a ranch all her own. Still once the cat was out of the bag , Clint would have married maria as he said & than Maria would be a legit american & clint would have wrote asa off of he had maria 's mom deported. I guess Maria fell in love w/ al & just was over it all. Still she could have told Clint at any time over the 20 years al Robert's knew he was not cords dad from the jump. Still maria was only 15 that's a baby. She was scared & terrified. They always alluded to all the " terrible things " asa did which sounded more about shady buisness deals but this was the worst thing he ever did. I was surprised when I saw the scene many years later where Clint accused asa for having Maria taken away b/c he was bigoted towards the mexicans. That whole Texas Mexico war I guess some texans had a grudge still. That had to be it b/c asa looks at his kids grandkids great grandkids like property. When he heard Becky lee was pregnant w/ bo's baby before bo did he married her so a " Buchanan " would stay in town & be raised a Buchanan. The drew thing really is bizarre. I watched as many old clips as I could find when drew was a baby & bo barely spent time w/ him. It just doesn't jive w/ the great guy bo is. Becky left town & bo never sees his son til hes a young man? I know drew came back in 88 sorased as a teen but he was gone again. When drew resurfaced in 96 again bo barely spent time w/ him. I never understood how bo was such a lousy dad. He was totally fine w/ asa raising drew til he was close to 2 & asa was calling himself dad to the child.
One seen I could not believe was viki & clint had bo's new gf didi & her dad harry over for dinner & asa & becky lee came & brought drew who was asleep of course upstairs. Before didi & harry left asa was about to tell didi & harry about little drew being bo's son. Someone diverted asa & they left b4 he could say anything suddenly viki Clint bo & I think rafe were ripping asa a new one about how he was such a jerk to tell bo's new girl the truth & I was like for once asa was right ! Why hide that u have a little boy ? So asa said " if ur ashamed of ur own baby I'll adopt him " & bo just meekly says no. Like why not u never see him!! Even becky lee was like just let asa adopt him so drew isnt confused cause the kid was like a year old. If I was drew I'd be messed up too of I grew up in squalor w/o a father who's family were billionaires. So damn right that Becky lee asked bo to give her a check. It was really to pay off some blackmailer of Drew's but I would have sued bo for back child support. I dont know why she didnt back then while drew was a little kid in Tennessee.
Watching YOUNG Cordero... I can't help but compare him once again to Markko... JL and JT have some seriously similar features, don't they?? They should have cast him as CJ instead of Markko with no (prior) connections to Llanview!
@Gadomi03 OLTL doesn't want anything to do with Buchanan heirs or with writing heroic characters, unfortunately. They haven't in years. So you just get Ford and and the other Fjords.