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Genie, high five on the merger news that seems to have plunged much of this fandom into doom and gloom. Unlike you I only started watching IB after the Mahasangam and have been keeping up with it since with generous doses of FF thru the many unbearable bits. I enjoy the OBros but maybe even more I enjoy the OBahus and I've come to look forward to the Shivaay-Gauri interaction which is utterly endearing. If we get more of that family dynamic via the merger, I'll be happy as long as I have that firm hold on the FF controls. I can understand the panic over Rikara being sidelined in the merger but at this stage even for a newbie like me it seems like suicide for the franchise and I don't think that will happen. I'm an incurable optimist and refuse to apologize for it 😉
Onto your main point - Gauri's dangerous mission to save Omkara at all costs. I do see where you're coming from - this is a terrible self-destructive lie, one with the power to crush not just Omkara but all of the Oberois. Jahnvi's touching conversation with Om on what the baby means to her drove that home. I'm not defending Gauri here but my understanding of her character is that she's willing to take any risk, pay any price to keep Om alive and this wasn't a well thought thru strategy that looked at the collateral damage or even the damage to Omkara's emotional well being. She was horrified at BuaMaa's evil intent and jumped in feet first with little thought for what lies ahead. She's well intentioned and brave but also young, impulsive and foolish. We're only just starting to see Gauri's realization and horror at the awful consequences of her impulsive move. It seems to me that she is beginning to see that her cure may almost be worse than the affliction but she's now neck deep in this mess and there's no good way to come clean and resolve it. She has to see it thru in the hope of exposing BuaMaa and letting the chips fall as they may. That the Oberois will hurt is a given, her only hope is that the monumental relief everyone will feel on Om being saved from BuaMaa will offset the hurt and betrayal caused by the terrible lie.
I do think the intent is to try to even the scales - Om is guilty of terrible prejudice and vicious stereotyping, hurting Gauri in the worst way possible by destroying her dignity and esteem and Gauri is callously plunging ahead with her ends-justify-means strategy to save Omkara's life but crushing his heart and soul in the process. Maybe they smash each other to smithereens and the point is that only each of them can put the other back together again? It seems needlessly crazy and convoluted but in this overly dramatic soap world maybe this is what the path of star-crossed lovers looks like 😃
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