Agreed. The two couples were set up completely differently as were the individual romantic characters, but somewhere whoever is writing this season is suddenly recycling S2 Kaira tropes, which just doesn't work. Kartik had the whole bubbly first-time-in-love fresh-faced lover boy vibe going for him, so the scenes of him and Naira giggling and flirting in the park worked. Or when he would do that 'hayee' with his hand on his heart. Yes the scenes were a bit silly then too, but they didn't come across as cringeworthy or ridiculous as they do with this couple. Initially, I thought the whole point of this pairing was to show the heat and tension between a stern mature man of the world and a sweet unworldly innocent girl (like Jane/Rochester, Max/the Girl, Colonel Brandon/Marianne etc.). It would've been really fun to see. Instead, we got this off-putting and unlikely scenario of a ruggedly built surgeon in his thirties with an aggressive personality acting all blushing and coy, like he's never had anything to do with a woman before...🤔
Also as you point out, @austen, we saw many many months of Kartik being wholesome, sweet, helpful and kind to others, and very considerate of Naira before they turned him into a scowling, angry Goenka. I'm trying to think what we've been shown to support Abhimanyu thinking beyond his own narrow mindset and his own benefit. Yes he's protective of his Maa but even there he is putting himself first by asking her to leave her household and her husband - if he had thought for one second like a mature sensible person, he would've realized how much turmoil that would create for her. Forget how he treated both Akshara and Arohi, he's not even considerate towards his patients - runs out on them on a personal whim, leaves them in the hands of interns, and if he is so incredibly rude to the recovering grandfather of his love, his professional manner with other random patients must be terrible... Yet we're expected to look on him as this upright surgeon, a defender of the weak and the perfect lover. For God's sake, he does the tandav when he feels neglected by his love interest - like the whole world needs to bow down if his romantic needs are not being met🤔🤢
These are TV characters so the only cardinal sin really is inconsistency and poor characterization, which we have been getting in spades. Make Abhimanyu dark, make him like this fabled Kabir Singh, make him a brooding tortured man - give him any logical character arc and I can totally get behind that. I would enjoy watching him as much as I enjoyed watching Sahir and Adi, both of whom were not nice men. But this constant shifting between bhola bhaala romantic innocent Abhi who can cry at the drop of a hat, and rage-filled, aggressive and rude Dr. Abhimanyu who is only out for his own interests is just unpalatable.
Originally posted by: austen-eliot
Abhimanyu IS way way different from Kartik, so logically Abhira also have to be different, the mistake they're doing is in making Abhira like Kaira.. That is what doesn't work...otherwise Abhimanyu 's character is ofc different and he isn't bothered about getting family together and stuff like that, bcz he is least concerned with family.. his selfishness, his rudeness, his violence is his own..nothing of kartik in that.. And the romance sequences that are copied are the worst..in that, yes kartik's antics weren't anything to dream about..as the fan girls probably did...But to have someone like Abhimanyu do them is horrible. Lekin Abhi's fangirls also think it's the stuff of dreams no doubt!
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