Originally posted by: Walden
A thoughtprovoking post Pari. I am very confused just like Rishi :)) I agree with most here though that there is no right or wrong way for him to act in this situation. The circumstances he has been presented with are so absurd that reason and rationality can't even come close to dealing with the dilemnas he's faced with. But can I play devil's advocate and ask a question of my own?
What if Indira (who is LW for now) was not in the state she is in now? What if she was fit and fine pre-leap Indira who had come back into Rishi's life? Would Rishi still pick Zara to move ahead in life with?
Herein lies my confusion. I would like to think that he would still have picked Zara because from his words today, it sounds like he accepted her for who she is. I would support him in this because this is what differentiated Rishi from Indira. Rishi always believed in moving on and living life and if it wouldn't have been for getting stuck with Shweta, I do believe that he would have moved on in life much sooner. If he had been given the proper time and space to grieve for Indira, he would have accepted her passing and would have been open to love again But this Shweta factor turned Rishi into someone who he never was- someone who would get stuck in one place in life. The Rishi that existed for the last 8 years was not Rishi at all.
In the end, we can analyze characters all we like but the sad truth is that the writers will make them say and do what they like for the convinience of the story so all of this has to be taken with a grain of salt.