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Originally posted by: BeyondHorizon

Exactly! How did Nishi pretend for all those years? And they were filthy rich for crying out loud. Nishi could have easily lived a lavish life till her death.

Originally posted by: BeyondHorizon

Reposting my comment from EDT. I agree with u completely and here are my thoughts:

I always wonder - why do makers ruin their own show? Even a product company does a market study to identify their target customer base, geography, current trends etc before releasing their product.

All these production houses know what kind of shows rule ITV. When you aim to make something different, you should anticipate the risks that come with it. You are making it for a niche audience and not the mass. The mass will never appreciate a sensible show. Then y can't u stay faithful to your original vision and to the audience who will be faithful to you? Those who associated themselves with your show right from its inception? In a bid to gain more viewers, why do you screw up your own story? The new audience who want to watch it for drama sake will find it hard to connect with the show since they are unfamiliar with it and the loyal viewers who were with the show from day 1 quit. At the end of it, you end up giving it a shabby end ruining whatever little memories the faithful audience had.

I don't think they know how to storyboard or plan a serial. They pick a "concept", usually done to death, and try and rope in actors who have a fan following. Of course, there's nothing new under the sun--every story has been done before, but how it's executed is what counts.

So the start is usually good, but then the pressures of keeping things interesting 5 days a week, juggling dates, accomodating main actors on leave or committed elsewhere (this is not a dig at the actors, because they've given their best in spite of), and, most significant, I think, panicking at trps and adopting some moronic 'vision' the ph has.

Main issue is this redundant trp system. Who is the trp audience? It's not you or I. Seeing what gets high trps, it's a very small number who don't actually like what we like. I'm surprised this even got the trps it did. I think this was discussed during the BP debacle too. Give those who want melodrama that, but why spoil the very few serials some of us even dare to watch? I can't think of one tv serial I didn't dump, once this maiyya trend of utter crap started.

They depend on their viewers (especially younger viewers) falling in love with the leads. It's literally a love story between the viewer and one or both leads. We've all seen rabid shipping, toxic fan wars, so much investment and engagement, so much pouring out. But history should have taught them that mess with what viewers want or expect and it's a very bitter breakup, going through all the stages of grief--denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally, because there's no choice, acceptance.

We are not the target audience. Leave alone myself, and I'm probably a generation older than most here, even my mum wouldn't want to watch trp bs for long. So you can gauge the demographic s. No offence meant to anyone who likes what I'd consider abysmal nonsense.

Those who watch outside the trp audience are just embellishing the main target. It's just that most trp viewers aren't bothered about discussing a serial online, so those on sm imagine their own voices are important.

Why destroy your own creation? I was wondering that yesterday, and I think it's not a creation at all. It's a carrot and a cash cow.