This review is for both parts of this story.
The episode was framed by a "present time" story with a De La Vega descendant showing his granddaughter around the about to be torn down hacienda. It seems the Grandfather and his son lost everything in a market crash, so they couldn't pay the property taxes on the land.
That extra filler was needed, because there wasn't much meat to this story.
The ending had some fire works. Both the prison commandante's daughter and the Alcalde die. Wow.
In Disney's Zorro, anyone who discovered Zorro's identity died. This stays true to form. The Alcalde unmasks Zorro, then the Alcalde falls to his death. That is what raised this from a 1 star to a 5 star story.
At the end, the descendant finds a royal Spanish grant to the land. I don't know enough about tax law to know if it's accurate that such a grant would remove property tax obligations. Some quick research found evidence to the contrary. At least the writers had the descendant mention legal precedent, so even if that is all fictitious, it's consistent within the episode.
Oddly, the descendant walks away after leaving the land grant papers in the hands of a construction worker, who could have easily torn up the grant.
The episode was framed by a "present time" story with a De La Vega descendant showing his granddaughter around the about to be torn down hacienda. It seems the Grandfather and his son lost everything in a market crash, so they couldn't pay the property taxes on the land.
That extra filler was needed, because there wasn't much meat to this story.
The ending had some fire works. Both the prison commandante's daughter and the Alcalde die. Wow.
In Disney's Zorro, anyone who discovered Zorro's identity died. This stays true to form. The Alcalde unmasks Zorro, then the Alcalde falls to his death. That is what raised this from a 1 star to a 5 star story.
At the end, the descendant finds a royal Spanish grant to the land. I don't know enough about tax law to know if it's accurate that such a grant would remove property tax obligations. Some quick research found evidence to the contrary. At least the writers had the descendant mention legal precedent, so even if that is all fictitious, it's consistent within the episode.
Oddly, the descendant walks away after leaving the land grant papers in the hands of a construction worker, who could have easily torn up the grant.