When "Rubi" first aired on Univision in late 2004, I didn't watch much of it at all. But it wasn't until after Rubi's mother who was played by actress Ana Martin died that I started watching this novela seriously. This was from Dec. 2004 to Mar. 2005. Although I began to watch the novela from that time, I always said to myself, "Damn, I wish I would've watched this from the very beginning." Before the summer of 2005, "Rubi" was released on DVD. I finally bought the DVD in July of that summer. Sure I was excited to buy it because I could finally see it from beginning to end and to see how the novela actually started. Although there was excitement, there was also disappointment when I bought the DVD as well. The disappointments were that the theme song "La Descarada" by Reyli was replaced with a different theme song and a lot of scenes and minor characters from episodes that I either watched seriously or took glances at weren't in the DVD at all. Hell, even the special that was aired as the continuation for Rubi that aired after the novela finished on TV and was added as a bonus feature on the DVD didn't have the ending but it was cool that the ending from the original version of Rubi from 1968 was included and also featured actor Antonio Medellin who played Alejandro's(Eduardo Santamarina)father in the 2004 version but played the original Alejandro in the 1968 version. Eventually I would noticed editted footage and characters in other telenovelas that I would buy on DVD after I bought Rubi as well. Now if a novela that I watched on TV is released on DVD, I always buy them just to see which footage was left in and which footage was editted out of the DVD version compared to the TV version of a telenovela.
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