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Moving on to tonight's episode, I was dreading it at first. But it wasn't half-bad. Actually, I'd say that the suspense was on a minimum and character interaction/progression was on a maximum. For that alone, I found the episode interesting. Being a Raghav groupie myself, I missed his presence. But at the same time, the confrontation between Sia and Viraj and the build-up to that confrontation was necessary -- story and character wise.
>> Pros:
1) Sia's control of her fear
First, I'd like to explain Sia's condition. I can understand that a lot of people are frustrated with her right now, and even I am. But considering her current circumstances, I would like to elaborate on a few important things.
Sia has just realized that V tricked her again. That everyone is in danger, including her. In addition to that, she's home alone with a child and a psychopath. Now, V is all but clinging to her, not allowing her one moment's peace to think and access the situation, what to do, how to do it. He's everywhere, stalking her, keeping an eye on her, controlling her. All she can really do is play along. To buy her time.
This is actually a clever survival technique. You play along in the psychopath's game and bide your time.
Sia controlled her fear tonight. There were no tears in her eyes. In the start, she was like a headless hen. Confused. Trying to figure out what to do. Too much going on inside her head, and no breathing space to put things together and make sense of it all. Obviously, V made sure of not giving her a moment's peace to think.
But she did well. She masked her fear. You saw her character development tonight. Yes, it's small and not entirely visible, but it's there. Now I'm just hoping for the writers to keep it there, sustain it, and allow her character some consistency.
2) V in character
That's at least what I thought. I was annoyed with the Double V drama again, but ignored it and focused on V being back in character instead. Clearly, he's still selfish. It's all about him even now.
"Viraj Dobriyal will live forever."
Like I've said before, arrogance/overconfidence was and always will be Lucifer's downfall.
V has started to make many mistakes in overconfidence. He's underestimating people. It seems that he deems himself invincible. But he forgets that he's made of flesh and blood. That everything dies. Even him.
3) Raghav wants to find Shekhawat
I hope that the CVs will hold on to this development. I've been waiting for them to write in a scene where Raghav investigates the assassination attempt on Gayatri. But now that it is out that Shekhawat was behind it all, including Krish's kidnapping, I'm hoping that we'll see him find Shekhawat and force some answers out of him.
Maybe Shekhawat will be the one to reveal V's true identity to Raghav. Because I doubt that Sia will say anything. Most probably, she'll be blackmailed by V [since he'll probably get the hands on the picture of Raghav leaning over Sundar with the bloodied knife].
4) The confrontation
I was looking forward to this. To see how Sia would handle it. So far, I'm not disappointed. She walked in there with a straight back. She called him out. She made him come to her. She didn't turn to face him. Sriti's performance was brilliant. Her expression, the revulsion at being touched by him, the determination and how she forced a calm. Well done.
Now, I see it as this: Either Sia will give him what he wants [Jahnvi] and game is over, or she will play along and tell him that Jahnvi is dead -- thus not giving V what he wants and since he said that he's only taking Jahnvi back to Manali, it'll force him to play the game, and break her resolve.
Question is: Will he play?
Point is, she's buying time. What else can she do right now?
>> Cons:
1) Gayatri faints -- ugh, not one of those mothers again...
I seriously hope that there's an actual reason for her fainting -- like, something important that makes sense. I hate it when maternal characters faint on Indian TV shows.
I have to admit that the scene was weird. She fainted right after Raghav and Komal left -- and there were no signs of her feeling unsettled/uneasy earlier on. No build-up the scene at all. Once again, writers rushed through it. Was it just for suspense? To prolong Komal and Raghav's stay at the hospital?
2) The letter switch -- again...
Didn't make sense at all. Why did V think it important to switch the letters again?
3) Singh scenes were cut and rushed...
Really, if the scenes were only shown to give us the Singhs in an episode that was meant to focus on the build-up plus confrontation between V and Sia, then it wasn't necessary. I mean, why not just have the episode focus solely on the build-up and confrontation with no interruption, so that there at least seemed to be a flow?
I felt that they just squeezed the scenes in to make sure that those of us who don't watch for V tune in. Just like they do V scenes when an episode focuses on Raghav.
4) Sia is "sexually harassed" and doesn't even sense it?
It seemed illogical to me. I'd say that a woman would sense it if a man was oggling her from behind, sniffing her hair, leaning over her like V did. Some kind of alarm would go off in her head. But Sia? They showed her so immersed in her own thoughts [with a psycho rapist right behind her] that she didn't even sense his face practically buried in her hair.
Um, okay.
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