Neither is my husband my teacher nor am I his although we learn from each other ...frequently he makes mistakes and I try and help in course correction...similarly, when I make mistakes, my husband steps in to save the situation and give me clarity...this is what a partnership is about, a marriage is about...
Why are marriages and relationships on TV portrayed in such a skewed manner? Why are men such clueless idiots and women such powerhouses of intelligence, cunning, smarts and of course self-effacement?
I stayed away from TV shows just for this reason. Since this was about a King, I thought there was no way they could turn him into a desi TV beta? It appears that I have been proved spectacularly wrong!
When a beta falls, he is still a beta! But when a King falls, it just makes everything so much worse and ugly!
Why make him out into a virtuous King whose heart beat for his subjects? Even when he left for the war, one could say that he was taking the place of one of the soldiers in his army. He fought shoulder to shoulder with his men. He may have done it even if S had been alive! When he returned, he still took charge of his responsibilities. He had trusted his mother to do right by the kingdom but found she had been misled by the Kunwars. He did not rant or rave but merely told her that he would now take over and do what was right! His devotion to his dead wife was the corner stone of his personal space and he compromised on that for the sake of his kingdom and the word of his mother!
He was impulsive in reacting to G but never on matters of the State. If you describe the act of a soldier in going to fight a war, it would be both tragic and unfair! Alexander was away from his Kingdom and fighting to expand it all the time. He was not called a runaway emperor. At least RNJ had noble intentions. His idea was not to expand his kingdom but fight against evil. The war was against Hitler, and as a British colony, India was part of the British led front. So he fought the war as was his duty and also because the war was just and fair because the enemy was evil and needed to be put down!
A man like that would hand over the reins of his Kingdom to his corrupt uncle? Hardly a few days ago, he chose to leave his Kingdom in the name of his love for his wife. But he chose to leave it in the hands of his mother. Nobody questioned his act then because he was trying to do right by both his wife and the Kingdom.
With the single act of making him leave the kingdom in the hands of his uncle, the writers have butchered RNJ beyond redemption. He stood with hands folded in front of a greedy man, a man he knew to be evil and exploitative, and begged him to wear the crown for his sake and Amerkot's sake? And I am supposed to believe that this man is a hero and invest in his love story? Sure, when pigs fly!
I am disappointed and depressed beyond words! I am still hoping beyond hope that there will be a twist. That there is no way RNJ can hand over the kingdom to Kunwar Chacha! That there is no way he can just brush the incident of the drowning under the carpet and focus on his personal grief! There has been an accidental death and it is the duty of a King to order an inquiry. He cannot, simply cannot, accept explanations at face value. Even if he did at that point, how would he walk away from the Kingdom without knowing the truth!
I know people who have lost loved ones in strange circumstances and have simply not been able to rest until they knew how and why things had happened the way they had. Call it morbid but the human mind is like a dog with a bone. It is always looking for answers.
I don't know about the others, but for me RNJ can never be redeemed if they continue in this vein!
Edited by BertieWooster - 9 years ago
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