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La Antorcha Encendida

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Televisa makes it very difficult for me to take them seriously when they release chopped up versions of their best telenovelas in one disappointing DVD box set. I'm not a big fan of most of their contemporary telenovelas (especially their recent ones), but I love their period pieces and costume dramas and La Artorcha Encendida (The Lit Torch -- it has a better ring to it in Spanish) is right up there in quality and romance as Amor Real (Real Love), Corazon Salvaje (Savage Heart), Ramona, Yo Compro Esa Mujer (I Shall Buy that Woman) and Alborada (Break of Dawn) -- the latter of which is currently on the air here in the US. I loved watching this intense love story set against the backdrop of the Mexican war for independence in early nineteenth century starring a younger Leticia Calderon, Ernesto Laguardia and Humberto Zurita (who was brilliant as a villain in his most recent period piece called Los Plateados). I also got to see other heavyweights like Enrique Rocha, Carmen Salinas and Juan Ferrara. The brilliant Christian Bach is also featured in this telenovela, but most of her scenes must have been cut off or something because she scarcely appears in this DVD. The scenes are choppy and uneven, the music score is different from the one I remember when it aired on Univision and, if you can believe it, the ending is cut off. We are left high and dry when it comes to knowing what happens to the villains. All in all, this has got to be the worst DVD box set Televisa has ever released. I give five stars to the actual serialized novel because it is one of the best stories I have seen, but I give one star to the actual DVD. I'll be very wary of picking up DVD sets from the popular Mexican production company next time. I hope they will release unabridged or better edited box sets in the future because I like the idea of owning my favorite telenovelas.

Nice novela, however it apppears that it has been chopped down
to fit into 24 hours or so.
I must say that I DID NOT BUY my set from AMAZON.
One big problem with my set is that the final disk #4 ends
without the END, Even though I get the drift of how independence
is achieved, I never get to see what happens to the 2 MOST DESPICABLE characters in this novela PEDRO and LUIS.
I wonder if other people who have this DVD set have the same probledm, Also the actress CHRISTIAN BACH, who is widely advertised, onlly appears for about 5 minutes out of 24 hours.
Again a nice novela, but with my set, NO ENDING.

The final CD did not have the ending for the story. I found it odd that no credits were shown either. After investing so much time viewing the story needless to say I was a bit upset. I did email the address listed on the DVD box and I am waiting to see if I get a response. Otherwise the story is great and was really enjoying it until the incomplete ending.

Very disappointed in this production by televisa.I watched this for many hours only to find out that their is no ending.At first I thought maybe a disk was missing.This is ridiculous,how can somebody put something out that its incomplete.The acting and storyline was great that is the only reason why I give it 2 stars.

I saw this excellent novel in channel 41 (NY) many years ago,we were very interesting in saw it every night,but guess what? it finish without any warning, we were very disappointed because the tv channel never explain why they cut that novel in that way, last year i found this DVD set "La Antorcha Encendida" in Amazon and i order it very happy, because i assume we was going to see the end of this novel after many years, but the last DVD finish in the same manner than years ago, without any End!!!.
Maybe Televisa lost raiting when they do this master piece or were out of money, but the reality is they NEVER finish "La Antorcha Encendida" ,what a shame.that is my personal opinion.

Stay away until amazon eventually can get ahold of a new version. It actually lacks the ending!!!

What happened to the ending?. How can they possible do something so low as to release a product that takes 20 hrs to watch only to discover that it is imcomplete.
Five stars to the actors the director, set designers etc.
ZERO!!!!!!! to who ever decided to release it in this manner

I see comments from October 2010, I bought mine 2-3 years ago, can it be that Amazon is stil swindling people with this product!!!

Warning!!! This novella develops wonderful characters and a very interesting story the acting is great, the customs and sound tract are all outstanding but then all of the sudden it ends without closing the story. My wife and I were so disappointed - we thought we were missing the last disc or maybe there was a 2nd part. It was a total disappointment. Don't get suckered into watching this because it has a whole part of the story towards the end that seems to be missing - I can't believe they ended this novella like this - maybe the just left out the ending because they could not fit it all on the disc (?)

The novela's storyline was great. The only problem I had was with the ending. THERE WASN'T ANY. What a let down. I felt deceived. To bad I can't get my money back. Please don't buy this novela. It is a waste of time and money. I am left hanging because I don't know what happened at the end.

I was disappointed to find that this telenovela is not closed captioned like the ad says. Unfortunatley, that was the main reason I ordered it, so that I could read it in Spanish.