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Jane the Virgin 2x06 Chapter Twenty-Eight

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Stray thoughts

1) I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned before but I really love how every episode begins with a flashback of a special moment for the Villanueva women. It’s a great reminder that in spite of the whole love triangle stuff, these three women are the show’s central characters.

2) So, Jane is grappling with having cut ties with Michael – how long is that going to last, anyway? – and all I can think of is maybe you shouldn’t have asked your former lover to be your kid’s godfather?

3) Okay, so Michael had contacted Nadine to get her to work with him and catch Sin Rostro.

4) I’m actually kind of surprised that Jane would agree to have Rafael be in charge of Mateo in case of her death. I mean, of course, Rafael has every right to raise his own child, but I think Jane just doesn’t trust him enough around Mateo, and I think that if it wasn’t just a hypothetical situation, she would definitely want her mom and grandma to take her of her child…

5) So, Mateo is worth 40 million… Interesting. 

6) I think I haven’t mentioned lately how much I love Rogelio, have I? Well, I do.

7) Why does everyone want to abuse Petra? I’m getting tired of that shit.

8) Are Magda and Petra going all Prison Break or something?

9) Oh, the guy from Roswell!

10) I think this wouldn’t have happened if she had told her professor why she needed to take the call…

11) I wasn’t expecting to feel all warm inside because of Rafael, but here I am…

12)  

RAFAEL: Let me ask you something. Do you like Mateo?

JANE: I want him to stay grounded.

RAFAEL: I just it seems pretty austere. "Money for health and education costs, with everything else left in savings - until he's 50"?

JANE: He needs to learn the value of hard work.

RAFAEL: Won't he learn that from us?

JANE: Well, yeah, but it's different.

RAFAEL: What is?

JANE: Growing up knowing that you can just buy ten backup loveys if something goes wrong.

I get where Jane is coming from and I agree that children should learn the value of hard work, but there’s a difference between teaching your kid to work hard and purposefully denying them access to certain resources in order to teach them a lesson. I think there must be a middle ground between the points of view of Rafael and Jane.

13) So… Petra wants Jane and her family to talk in favor of Magda’s release… Hmm. I still can’t get over the fact she pushed Alba down the stairs.

14) Don Juan Draper? Hombres Locos? Sign me in!

15) Oh…

DOCTOR: Mateo's got a fairly pronounced case of what we call plagiocephaly. And that sounds worse than it is. Basically, it means he's got a flat head. JANE: A flat head? RAFAEL: Why? DOCTOR: Well, he's probably spending a little too much time laying flat on his back. Because babies need to sleep on their backs, we really need to be vigilant about tummy time. Look, it's largely cosmetic. But Mateo's condition is pronounced, so there could be some visual disturbances, dental problems… Which is why some parents choose a helmet. RAFAEL: A helmet? DOCTOR: To reshape the head. It has to be custom-fitted, so Mateo would wear it 23 hours a day for about three months.

My godson had a similar issue, but he didn’t have to wear a helmet. His mom only had to make sure he wouldn’t sleep on the same side every time and she had to hold him a certain way and the head got back to its natural shape on its own.

Anyway, I hope this doesn’t mean Jane starts second-guessing her decision to go to grad school…

16) PETRA’S HAVING TWINS!

17) Magda’s out…

And she’s got her own prison tat…

18) She’s having problems writing, but…

She could definitely draw some inspiration from her own life, right? I mean, this further cements my theory that the narrator is actually Jane telling her own story.

19) What a beautiful trainwreck…

20) He makes a GREAT point…

JANE: I'm raising a rich kid. And that's just not the way I grew up. You know, and you said that your childhood was all screwed up.

RAFAEL: Yeah, but not because I had money. I was screwed up, because of my family.

But please, NOT THIS AGAIN!!!!

21) So the mommy from the mommy group wants to date Rafael, and on the one hand, Jane has no right to be jealous, but on the other hand, that mommy has some nerve! Also, I’m loving Jane’s new friend, he tells it like it is. I hope he doesn’t turn out to be evil.

22) So, she only did the telenovela so that she could make fun of Rogelio…

23) I mean, it’s nice that Jane is trying to be the bigger person by giving Rafael her “blessing” to go out with the mommy, but I think it would’ve been much healthier if they just acknowledged that yes, it is weird, but they have to find a way to deal with it.

24) And now she’s on academic probation for falling asleep in class.

25) #BIGMOOD

26) So Petra did listen to Jane and turned Milos in for committing internet scams.

27) This was nice.

28) WTF!!

WHY THE FUCK WOULD SHE GET A HOOK?! WHAT TIME OR PLACE ARE THEY LIVING IN?

29) Petra and Jane keep bonding and I’m HERE FOR IT!

30) See? It’s moments like this that make me overlook the tedious love triangle plot…

I'd like to thank my parents, of course, for instilling in me the desire to give back. Thank you to my mentors, Michelle Obama and Angelina Jolie, whose fight to make sure all girls receive an education led me to the Peace Corps and Let Girls Learn. I'm here at the UN because more than 62 million girls do not have access to an education… I'm sorry, I have to go pee-pee.

I really love how the show has found a way to organically fit social commentary into the show.

31) So Hombres Locos is going to get made. We’ve all been blessed.

32) So three months have gone by…

I guess she’s not getting back together with Michael. Yet.

33) NOT AGAIN!!

I get that “enough time had passed” in the show, but for us, it literally was just one episode when Jane was head over hills for Michael and saying how he was her forever. I’m beyond tired of this constant back and forth. Why does the show keep doing this? Is it ever going to stop? I know I’ve complained about this before, but it seriously puts me off watching the show… I LOATHE THIS STORYLINE. I just want Jane to make up her mind, EITHER WAY, I don’t really care who she chooses, but she SHOULD JUST CHOOSE SOMEONE AND STICK WITH THEM FOR A WHILE! AT LEAST TWO EPISODES, MAYBE?!

34) And of course, Michael’s back right when Jane “has moved on”…

35) Oh, you duplicitous bitch!

But this was kind of predictable considering they did the exact same thing last season when Jane befriended that girl from her writing class who turned out to be Michael’s ex. This means that no one will ever approach Jane without having some kind of ulterior motive.

36) Look at Magda, back at it again with the murdering people!

37) Will the Jane-Michael-Rafael triangle ever end? Don’t answer, it’s more of a wish than a question. BUT SERIOUSLY THOUGH.

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