Originally posted by: ramonag
well in my opinion preleap bandini though it had its moments was an unending torture session of santu by moti particularly during RR'S frequent long absences..the leap did a lot for it as a show pushed it to the top of imagine serials where it has remained constant for the past 6 months i do not recall this happening last year..so it definitely is imagine's golden goose they will persist with it bcoz thats showbiz no matter how many pages there are or arent in live update thread..dont really think they care..also last year there were even more complaints than this when RR was missing i dont think anyone found it at all interesting from what comments they posted..of course in retrospect one may feel it was better but i can assure u that was not at all the case back then.
True, there was a lot of Moti torture last year but it is also true that the chemistry between Santo and DM back then, the SanRaj scenes and even DM's characterization was something quite else and all three are sadly lacking these days.....the tracks were much more interesting back then and the focus was on developing SanRaj relationship which was the USP of the show, there were a lot fewer non-actors in the show......these days they are focusing on anything but SanRaj relationship and when they do, they make them both look like overage teenagers, where is the maturity befitting someone of DM's stature in these scenes. There are SanRaj scenes from last year that were so memorable that they still stick in the mind, not one scene like that since the leap, even the Jun 3 scenes cannot hold a candle to those scenes. The ranking for a major part of last year was much better, it was in the 30s for the longest time and it even cracked the 20s a few times and these days it can't even cross the 40s. The rankings only went down after the Arjan track started. Yeah, sure it is top-rated show on Imagine and as long as it is, they won't scrap it but it does not take long for a top-rated show to get bottom ratings, otherwise none of the K-shows would have ended......if the CVs don't buck up and start some interesting tracks, and practise better schedule management especially with RR's time, then thats where they are headed. As for the length of threads, it is just an indication of waning interest......because this forum represents a subsection of the show's audience and if the interest in the show is waning in this forum then I beleive it represents an overall waning of interest of the general audience which can never be a good thing for a show. Maybe we had complained more back then, but then at the time we had higher standards for Bandini and expected a lot more from the show.....had we known how good we had it back then and what this show would become in the future, then we might not have. I hate what they are doing to DM's character, where is his authority, maturity, "malikness" which made him such a memorable and beloved character.....if the CVs don't realize how they are destroying the show, then I don't have much hope for it's future.
Edited by sg08 - 15 years ago