Originally posted by: AllThingsNice
@Walden and Maya: Honestly, I neither found today's epi interesting or entertaining. Not even frustrating. I cannot really articulate my reaction to it. Normally, I am amused at the way the scenes play out. But today, there was nothing. This post is an expression of that nothing. I am really losing the connect with the show.
Walden, the "meri ma" was perhaps the single factor that brought the epi further down by a couple of notches. (They were so much in love with it, they played it twice!!) I did not mention it because I did not have the right words to express the disgust I felt. These guys (writers, directors, and whoever else) do not understand subtlety. They go OTT with something that has to be understated and implied.
This whole misrepresentation of this Lahorewali is beyond me. The way she has been conceptualised and portrayed is childish. I know this comment will fetch me tons of brickbats, but I fail to understand how giving this character this shade is going to help the story. Had she been shown as traumatised (in a more realistic manner), it would have made a massive difference to the story. Now, the characters of Rishi and Zara can only feel pity for this character. And that pity will decide the course of action. Which is pitiable for the story. The dynamics between the three change completely.
We've had so many banal episodes that one more should not really make a difference, I suppose!