MITSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! We haven't conversed in a while. RV kya chala gaya, Roxy ko bhool gayi? *sniff sniff* We didn't even have a chance to mourn over his exit. How have you been?!
I understand that some people look for these shows as a vessel of entertainment, but why does entertainment have to amount to illogical characters, no storylines, and downright stupidity?! Can a show not be both great, thought provoking, intellectually stimulating, AND entertaining? Why do the two have to be mutually exhaustive? Why does it have to be one or the other?
I mean, we all want stressbusters at the end of the day, but does that only amount to stupidity and characters gawking at each other's lips, trying to get a taste of their favorite mithaai? We had shows like Hum Paanch, which was both great in it's writing aspect, witty, humorous, AND entertaining. Do you know how successful the show was? IT's been ages since it was pulled off air, but it's still remembered amongst its foes and it's ardent fans.
In this sense, Remix was a very successful show, and a great one too, because it actually focused on peer pressure endured in college, the cliques, the relationships, the heartbreaks, and of course, the drama. MJHT had such an amazing opportunity to connect to the youths and sympathize with their situation. College is a stressful time, an no doubt, a pivotal point in everyone's lives. Why make a mockery out of it? Why depict it as a fairy tale, where 'students' never go to class, and the only time they do, it is to sit there and dream about their chikna body wala munda'?!?
The creatives had a ripe opportunity to display the high school rivalries, the friendships, the stress endured by keeping on top of studies, the cliques, the relationships, and the heartbreaks, but instead, they decided to depict it as a hyper-real fantasy, where the jock lands the hot chick, and life seems so hunky dory.