#cmorena

I mean...I wouldn't put Smallville in the list of "most influential" media in my early teens but I agree with you overall.

Bahahah he hasn’t aged well but I still love him. The fact that he has stayed best friends with Cami even though she literally fucked off to the woods never to be seen again and defends her privacy like he does justifies the fact that he was my boo growing up lol. I worked at the network where all of Cris’s shows aired in my country and we had exclusive rights to them when they came to the island for concerts and performances so I got to meet them more than once and he was always the best. He’s such a solid dude.

Yesterday was sort of a heavy and shitty day so I said fuck it and watched some episodes last night before going to bed seeing as it was the 18th anniversary of the premiere.

Speaking of filled stadiums........just throwing it out there that there’s full Erreway concerts on YouTube and I may or may not have watched many of them more than once. Just gonna...in case anyone...you know...

There’s even the full hour and a half theater adaptation of Rebelde Way that Cris did to say farewell to the show I think it was??? I can’t exactly remember where it the timeline of the show this falls but I think it was definitely at the end. Anyway...YouTube is honestly a gold mine if you love RW:

HMMMMM....YESSSSSSS. GOOD MORNING TO MEEEEEE!!!!! Thanks for making me listen to them first thing in the morning.

Look at my trash kids with their trash music that continues to be iconic no matter how much time passes:

Lol...this video was uploaded to YT in 2006. This was the credit sequence for the season that aired/the album they released in 2004. We’re old as fuuuuck lmao.

Speaking of the genius that is Cris Morena...did you see the short documentary she uploaded to her IG celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first season of Chiquititas airing less than two weeks ago? It’s stitched together from an old interview with Romina and IT FUCKED ME UPPPPPP. She’s been dead for ten years now and my brain literally still can’t handle it. It’s like if you told any kid from our generation that Barney or Mickey died. They’d be like “Nope. That doesn’t sound right. Incorrect. Fake News.”. Anyway...it’s like 15 minutes or something and it’s on Cris’s IG TV. Get ready to be wrecked because that’s going to be a time capsule to your childhood while Romina talks to you like she was still alive and jklsdlhfgljksdfhgljksdfg I had to take a second after I finished it lol.

Since we’re on Chiquititas, I’ll leave you with this 20 year old banger that was SURELY the precursor to Rebelde Way because now that I thought about the documentary it’s stuck in my head again lol

Would I call them “novelas”? I certainly wouldn’t. I guess we might not have a better word for it, but I don’t think they’re novelas in the way that Televisa makes novelas. Chiquititas and Rebelde Way were my childhood. But there were also so many other things from other countries that shaped myself and the rest of my generation in Latin America. It’s a bummer to see American kids or kids in general these days miss out on that. I know I’m better off for having watched those shows and I’m certain they would be too. 

I’m watching the pilot because I found it for that anon and the trip down memory lane is SO WILD. Like...tell me if this shit doesn’t make you feel 15 again? 

Look into Cris Morena’s stuff. I don’t know if you can find full episodes of Chiquititas or Floricienta online, but you can certainly find a lot of the Rebelde Way episodes on YouTube. Depending on how old she is, Chiquititas might be better. Rebelde Way is more like 13-14 and over. Chiquititas is definitely more geared towards younger children.  

Here’s Rebelde Way’s full pilot:

Oops send with finishing, …good raw plot… But not because of that won’t enjoy other kind of works. Btw this kinda of works and targeted to completely different merch. I could you expect a child to enjoy good “raw drama”. I don’t get that

There’s good content for children/teens that isn’t cartoons. That is rooted in reality and deals with lessons they should learn without infantilizing them. They’re still “real” without being “adult”. It’s one of the things I’m most grateful about growing up in Latin America. We have a lot of that. I’m pretty sure in Europe as well. America is the only place in the world where “content for children”= dumb cartoons. That is damaging the rest of the world in terms of the content being created and it’s irritating to watch.