@ Bold: The thing is that those shows don't need a brain. You say Vishakha is the mother to a 20-something-year-old and doesn't look a day above 30 herself, that's fine because hey she's a naagin. They age differently. Shows like Ek Bhram need you to think. If you tell me that Jhanvi is a mother to a 25-year-old, it would just be WTH moment.
But not only that. You end up investing more in a show like Ek Bhram. We are all trying to guess what will happen next. Now that Jhanvi knows her blackmailer is Manohar what will she do? But more than that, did anyone think she would find out about Manohar so easily?
And SP is notorious for letting such shows go under the axe if they don't adapt to SP's way. EHT, DSJZ, POW, PI, Gulmohar Grand, and RKC are all examples of shows that either bent to SP's whims and still got taken off air early or didn't bend and were taken off air early.
I know! I have suffered with RKC. Still feel mad about that. š