+* DBSK: Episode Discussions *+ - Page 11

One point - when Krishna met Prasenjit, he initially asked him to give the gem to him so that he could return it to Satrajit. The second time, after Prasenjit rebuffed him, he asked Prasenjit to hand it over and save his own family from destruction.

The purpose of the disclaimer ought to be that they're using different sources, and one of the sources used may contradict what's written elsewhere. Therefore, the disclaimer simply implies that what's shown in the serial doesn't necessarily trump what might be in a given source.

Disclaimer doesn't mean that you make up anything you feel like. 🤢

Agree w/ everything else you wrote! 👍🏼

Nice to see people back 😊

Yes, agree about the 'Disclaimer' thing, the creatives need to wake up ...

LOL! Yes, me too happy to be here after 3-4 days. 😊

For them giving disclaimer is a licence to show anything & get away from responsibalities. Hope there is something like Krishna allowing Shishupal to abuse him for 99 times & at 100th insult, his discus does the talking, there is some authority here to stop maximum mistakes.😃

I so agree with you ...😉

These scriptwriters really lack the art of weaving an interesting complex story with many threads that converge. They always treat the audience as short-attentioned fools that can only follow one thread at a time. Actually not only DBSK suffers this fate but most mythologicals, to me, seem very linear in their narratives. (I don't know about Indian serials in general since I only really bother seeing mythologicals - I lack the perseverance to continue watching social serials beyond 1 or 2 episodes!... also I'm videshi and have to preserve my Internet bandwidth😆 so I don't waste it downloading rubbish)

About weaving together threads ...

For e.g while showing Devaki's kiddie drama they should have woven in scenes of the temple jewelry being stolen, and accusations against Raman.

Perhaps introduce us to the Pandavas and their drama of the Lakshagrih interwoven with the drama of the Syamantak Mani (since immediately after marrying Satyabhama, Krishna goes to Hastinapur to mourn the Pandavas.

While Rukmini haran episodes was running, they could've had a few domestic scenes at the Kritvarma residence with Ms K heavily pregnant and gushing about looking forward to being a mum.

Having this type of suspense to wonder how the stories are related would make mythos really interesting and a predictable story unpredictable - and may attract a wide audience... If only🤔

The scriptwriters have a ready-made story to start w/ (unlike soap writers). So their focus should be on parallelizing different threads in a story & making them run together. In ASR, they did a good job of collecting different stories from different Ramayans - Shurpanakha's son Shambri from Ananda Ramayan, Rama's Durga Puja from Krittivas, maaya Sita's beheading by Meghnad from Valmiki, etc. Here, as Shan suggested, they could have run in parallel the Pandavas being sent to Varnavarta, Sishupala conducting random raids on Dwarka (he does have to start exhausting those 100 pardons), Devaki getting back her sons, and in parallel, shown some unknown man planting the temple gold in Raman's house. That might have lent some sense of anticipation to it.

Since it would have taken some weeks to get from Dwarka to Hastinapur, Krishna & Balarama could have been shown as going to meet the Pandavas, but arriving only to find out that the Pandavas had gone to Varnavarta, and gotten burned there. But the problem here - in the original story, Ugrasena was the king of Dwarka, and he had ministers like Vasudev, Satyaka, Udhav and others to help him manage the country, so Balarama could accompany Krishna anywhere. But here, since Balarama is the king of Dwaraka, I wonder how they'll justify him leaving w/ Krishna? And even if he doesn't, the original story has it that after Krishna killed Satadhandva and let Akrura keep the Syamantaka gem, Balarama went to teach Duryodhan mace fighting, while Krishna went after a while to Draupadi's swayamvara (where Balarama might have been as well since Duryodhan was). So would they just not show Balarama w/ Duryodhan, or would they vilify Balarama this time? Somewhere or the other, Duryodhan has to be woven in, or else, the pretext for Krishna to ask Arjun to abduct Subhadra would be lost. Had Duryodhan not asked for Subhadra's hand, Krishna might have been happy to let her have a swayamvara whenever they found fit.

Anyway, after Draupadi's marriage, they can show Arjun in Dwarka a lot (even b4 his exile), as he helped Krishna win Mitravindya and another princess, and found another woman who wanted to marry Krishna. They can even have the stories of Arjun & Hanuman's challenge.