Bad episode - Page 2

Originally posted by: shona16

you took words right out of my mouth, i think i need to stop watching english crime thrillers to continue to watch arjun, i mean really they give 10 bad episodes and then one good episode and that ratio is not good for the show...how come arjun and rathod become so comfortable and cordial with each other all of a sudden where the hell is the love that turned into hatered between them...they atleast show that that other members of the etf play some role in solving the case and have dialogs but the main female protagonist has nothing useful to say in the entire 45 minutes show, i know she is a crime reporter and not a cop but she does not even do what a journalist is suppose to do...and liza is seen once in a blue moon, if they could not handle so many characters then why bring them in the show in the first place.

now this show is working and is popular just because it has a beautiful cast and because the episodes shown in the beginning were way better and logical so that people can hope that they will get to see some awesome crime solving...they really need to buck up and especially the writters.

i completely agree with you, concepts like serial killing should be shown it would be really interesting to see the etf solve such cases...speaking of which where the hell did sikandar disappear, i mean seriously no clue or anything about him is yet shown in the show, its almost been a year that this show has been aired its high time they should start revealing something about the main villain.

all in all an okay and bellow average level episode.

Originally posted by: arhifan4ever

Spot on! That wasn't the Arjun we know! I agree Arjun does have a right to be funny, but certainly not like this. He has been funny before too..(I can't exactly recollect but I think he was in some episodes...)But, this humour isn't his type. Period.

It is actually disappointing when they make things look pretty obvious and they've done it quite a lot of times. It is like you said, they sometimes assume that the audience are too dumb to understand even simplest of the facts! And in the process make a certain plot twist or a certain dialogue seem utterly stupid.

I know I'll get chappals thrown at me for this but guess that's my POV. Arjun episode finale speeches, 'sometimes' get overboard. But, it's okay. Since, those speeches are one of the plus points of the show! Plus I've had enough with women being the killers for god knows how long! Empowering women is being taken to a whole new level here. I rarely see any male criminals on Arjun! Your serial killer idea is just perfect! They should really try it!

One more thing, when we get really intellectual and interesting episodes on Arjun we get to see comments here and there as follows:

1. The episode is completely copied from a so and so English crime series.

2. It was slightly inspired from a so and so English crime series.

I guess the problem must be either with the audience or the writers think that the audience are too dumb to recognize an episode if they copy it from a foreign show and think they can get away with it. Whatever might be the case it should stop!

P.S. Pardon me for all those colours! I just like to make my point clear. I guess I can do it without the colours too, but I kind of like it this way. [:p]

AND A LOT OF THOSE POINTS I'VE WRITTEN ABOVE ARE ABOUT THE SHOW IN GENERAL AND NOT COMPLETELY ABOUT TODAY'S EPISODE IN PARTICULAR.

Originally posted by: bgargate

So true... I was laughing at Arjun's Pav-Bhaji demand and playing games during an important discussions... what was that? 😆 ...

And when Arjun told Shree to check her profile on that website, why didn't Shree hack her website then itself? Isn't he supposed to do that? it would have solved the case then and there itself... Its shree's job and not Arjun's...

Arjun is losing its charm... adding to what you said... I have observed and mentioned on Forum32 that the episode which promises a concept and a message often goes off the track... below are few examples:

Poachers in Jungle episode turned out to be a case of betrayal by wife

Murder by chain snatchers turned out to be a case of betrayal by husband

The cricket match betting episode turned out to be a case of kidnapping

Hit and Run episode turned out to be a revenge story

Domestic violence episode turned out to be a very confusing case where till the end ETF moving around everywhere with the killer and suspecting the innocent and to add to the viewers confusion, the innocent suspect was made to act like she is the culprit.

The original message is lost somewhere...

I know they have to put some twist but that very twist spoils the flavour of the episode.

And today's episode had so much scope to present the message of "Not trusting anyone you have met online without a thorough background check"

I felt that instead of adding too many suspects like caretaker, step-mother, ex-wife and ex-girlfriend... if they had concentrated on the process of finding the girl, her motive, her background, the way she operated, her past victims... This would have made a wonderful case with a clear message.

And yes, that sahi raasta and galat rasta dialgues are getting as boring and monotonous as "Chhotu hyala gheun ja" 😳 ... instead the message should have been to the guy who was marrying Namita that before trusting a girl whom he met online, she should have done a background verification on her...

Originally posted by: ---Nisha---

Was it just me or today's episode seriously sucked. Let me name a few reasons...

1) As soon as they said that the wife's body was not found I knew she was involved. So there goes the mystery from the murder mystery.

2) Arjun suddenly acting funny...what was with that? And were we supposed to believe that he always acts funny like that? Whenever other ETF members like Chottu say I'm hungry in the middle of a murder investigation, Arjun is the one to reprimand them and today he is doing the same thing others did. I am confused. Arjun's portrayal in today's episode just isn't the Arjun they have build since the beginning. I know that a person is allowed to be funny sometimes, that no one expects an individual to forever be serious but regardless today's episode just didn't have arjun's ring to it.

3) As if it was not obvious enough that the wife killed her husband for money, they made it all the more obvious when they showed the newspaper.

4) How they solved the mystery...Arjun logged onto the wife's profile and viola...mystery solved because she had accessed it yesterday. Can I say lame? I mean seriously.

5) The ending scene where the lotteri dulhan was all crying and saying her dastaan about how the man she loved betrayed her and that's why she goes around looting all bad men...seriously give me a break. What woman does not get her heart broken...the fact of our lives is that men are jerks. Yes not all of us has to go to jail but still. Boo hoo for you. I just did not sympathize with the whole crying thing she had got going on and I thought it was rather pathetic. If you can do the crime, then atleast own it.

6) And I understand that in every episode they try to show you a message at the end like in today's Arjun says the speech about the wrong path and the right path and what not. I usually like Arjun's saahi raasta dialogues but today I just wanted to laugh and tell him to shut up. It seemed quite redundant...as if we didn't already know that the wrong path is well wrong. Maybe it was because the episode was so pathetic that I simply did not connect with the final message.

7) All in all...pretty bad episode. Maybe all the CSI, NCIS, Psych, Dexter, Mentalist has ruined Indian crime shows for me. Or actually I think they haven't been doing as good a job as they used to on the storylines. If you ask me they need a lot more of subtlety and a lot less of obviousness. I don't know why but all the Indian shows I watch everything is pronounced in big bold letters as if the audience is stupid and cannot read between the lines.

If you ask me they need to blur the lines between good and bad. Explore the dark side a bit. I guess in a way they did try to blur the lines today by showing us that the lotteri dulhan had suffered thus she started committing crimes, but it was too lame and too tame. They need a serial killer in the midst to spice things up. The way they have serial killers in crime shows that stay unsolved for several seasons. That is the best way to explore the dark side and spice things up so it stays interesting.

Originally posted by: Arjunkibehen

I am Sorry. But I disagree...

1) How many times does it happen that when a person drowns in a place filled with predators like crocodiles, sharks and stuff... that the body is found? Always?

2) I guess you didn't note the sarcasm in his voice when he said "Pav Bhaji"... Before that, he said, "Vo bahut jald humare samne hogi!"... also, when others talk about food, the are distracted but ACP rawte is not! He is just shown to be Not-Caring for anyone or anything (the game scene was also showing this... He is able to focus on LOTS of things altogether...!

3) The newspaper thingy was part of Arjun's paln to bring her out of hiding as they didn't have a single clue leading to her.. he KNEW it was the wife but the court demands proof.. Not instincts..!

4) As we all know...Shree is the tech expert and he WAS asked to get the profile... He is shown to be the "BEST" and so, he got this is not at all confusing for me... Also, Technology today is so fast that a simple picture uploaded can lead you to ALL places on the WWW where that image or similar images are present..!

For this point I have to say something... I guess this Newspaper thing was a very old fashioned trick to get Namita out of her hiding for Supercop Arjun and ETF... Arjun had a doubt on her... he could have told Shree to do anything of the following:

1. Contact website helpdesk to see from which IP address did she last logged in from and this IP address would have given her location. She was not an expert like masked killer to use proxy servers.

if this was too complicated

2. Simply hack her profile and get her chat log of this another man whom she was going to marry. And then contact this man, tell him the truth and take his help to get Namita to come out in open (she was desperate to marry him, she would have definitely come out to meet him. )

if this too was not possible

3. ETF had her photo and Shree had a "Face recognition software" ... As Arjun had a doubt on her, they could have tried to search her in their criminals database. She was in jail for few years and her data had to be present in the database.

if photo thing didn't work

4. Her finger prints must be in police records and I don't think she would have removed her finger prints from that palatial house. All ETF had to do was find her finger prints from her house and match it with their database and they would have found her history.

I don't intend to offend you 😳 ... this was just what I observed.

5) True every woman gets her heart broken but all people aren't the same... Everyone has her own way of dealing and who knows, maybe in real life too... Someone did exactly the same as Namita! Life is most unpredictable..!!

5) Sweetie.. If criminals own up to their crimes, then there will hardly be a need for courts and imvestigations!

6) EVERYONE know the difference between good and bad... But some people STILL choose bad.. Our parents keep telling us time and again to be good and not do anything bad... this is exactly what the show was doing...!

7) Please don't compare Arjun with CSI, Psych, NCIS and others... They are at their own place and Arjun is at it's own... by comparing, we are not only degrading Arjun but also CSI, Psych, NCIS... I am a viewer of these too but I feel it is wrong to compare...!

These are just my views.. Sorry if I hurt you... it was completely unintended...!! I am NOT bashing you OR anyone..! Just giving what I think and ofcourse defending Arjun!😉

Sorry if I sounded rude..!