Aeryn, Nur - imagine me liking all the posts above and agreeing ofc.
I think we've all been high on anticipation of what exactly would make Gulaal finally turn in, and the last 2 weeks were excellent lead up. the advance between the first hug and the second had come so naturally - and as I pointed out in Kesar's dialog the other day - 'kabhi kabhi to dusra sweekar hi nahin karta - he was already getting good sense of the truth, about Gulaal loving him back but not accepting it, even if it was at a subconscious level, or his words would have been very different and more along the lines of kabhi kabhi dusra apko wapas pyar nahi kar pata!
anyway - so we've had excellent build up and so much conviction in the track - as Reemz said last week, she and I were probably topping the bunch of 'looking for scenes' people and even we loved how the track came about ... but then we get yesterday! Like Tuesday was bad for waste of space - but I could excuse them to not be out of line... yesterday was just so wrong. Now this phase of Gulaal's final calling will just be marked by too many signs and hints of what would have made sense a month ago! Again, like Reemz, and Len I think said yesterday - the CVs were probably getting all these angles cleared out before they focus on GK - if it was just about lack of space given to GK, I'd probably just be sulky about the lack in a final week... now the finale is going to be blotched for me, no matter what it seems, by this sense of ill timed and entirely not needed 'impetus' for Gulaal to break the final shackles!
It had been so apt for GK to have their DCH moment last week, when Gulaal flipped about something happening to Kesar - because it was so much in sync and flow with what was going on at that point. Even if they'd shown an accident after the mandir scene from Friday, to before the Kulli rituals - say Kesar meeting goons sent by Kunnu's dad - it would still fit in the picture, even if a tad cliche, because following Gulaal from that mandir sequence, this added sense of losing Kesar, after losing the official bond would fall in place...
Now when it happens - it will be about Gulaal having really brushed Kesar's matter under the carpet - because again, and again, I'm saying, she didn't look up once for him, if but secretly! it was like she'd forgotten his absence until he appeared! ita redundant to he wasn't even as a kid to her dude! - anyway, she wasn't just forcing wool over Kesar's eyes to not let him build hopes - from the CVs projection of it, it was like one hug back from the family had washed away a month's doing by Kesar! He just didn't matter anymore - and yes, that's not true, but that's how wrongly it was projected... so now when he gets her attention over an accident, and her revelation comes from Vasant's urge - where is Kesar's role in her awakening?! Cause we just razed all that to ground zero in a span of a single carelessly done episode!
Honestly - if they'd seen the show to upkeep quality so far to the end, they might just have managed it another handful of episodes! Yesterday does mar for good - whatever the finale has in plan. It will be hard to overlook one entire episode -which was critical because Gulaal willing came back whatever her reason - where Gulaal didn't seem one bit affected by Kesar, this way or that. Not taking him for granted in the stride of things... but actually in apparently forgetting him transiently!